omg what crazy days!!!

 http://www.womples.com/

at the site above you can see what people put in the paper. i think my favorite was the "tooter" that was needed to speak and write fluently. what one did u find funny?




on a serious note-

Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- The death toll from a Russian coal mine accident has reached 52, with 38 people still missing, the RuProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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ian Emergency Situations Ministry said Tuesday.
"The rescue operation to locate and recover the missing people is being carried out around the clock," Veronica Smolskaya, spokeswoman for the ministry, told CNN.
More than 80 survivors are currently in hospitals, according to the Russian State Health authorities.
Emergency Situation Minister Sergei Shoigu said more than 700 rescue workers are now combing numerous underground tunnels of the mine, and the plan is to complete the operation within the next 24 hours, according to the ministry's website.
He was speaking at a special meeting of the rescue headquarters in Kemerovo region, which was also attended by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who traveled to the region Tuesday.
Russian officials are still displaying hope and optimism in public, but several sources at the mine told Russian reporters on conditions of anonymity that finding anyone underground who survived the explosions would be a miracle.
"Hope is always the last one to die, but there is indeed little hope left," Sergei Cheremnov, spokesman for the local regional Kemerovo governor, told CNN on the phone from the site of the accident.
Cheremnov also said the first six funerals took place Tuesday. Five miners were buried in the town of Mezhdurechensk itself, where the accident took place, and one was buried in the town of Tashtagol, also in Kemerovo region.
The gas explosion in the Raspadskaya mine occurred around 8:55 p.m. Saturday (12:55 p.m. ET), when 359 people were working at the time. The mine is located near the western Siberian town of Mezhdurechensk, more than 2,300 miles east of Moscow, Russia. Almost 300 people were evacuated shortly after the explosion.
More than 50 rescue workers had gone into the mine to recover the rest of the victims when a second gas explosion rocked the structure about four-and-a-half hours later, officials said, causing more fatalities and destruction. Dozens of miners and rescue workers were trapped as a result of that second, much more powerful explosion, and all communications with them were disrupted.
Thick smoke and high methane concentrations in the mine prevented active rescue operations underground on Sunday and most of Monday morning, Russian officials said.
The operation was further complicated by the very size of the mine: Raspadskaya is one of the largest in Russia's mining industry. It has dozens of underground tunnels with a total length of almost 200 miles, according to Kemerovo Gov. Aman Tuleyev.
Putin said on Russian state television Tuesday the investigation is closely analyzing all possible clues to determine the cause of the blasts.
"When such disasters are investigated, attention is always given to studying all aspects of the problem, including the so-called human factor, which means unsafe handling of fire," Putin said while talking to victims' families.
But once the groups of rescuers entered the mine after the first blast, he said, "there could have not been any unsafe handling of fire or equipment. It's simply out of the question," he said. "The second blast was the hardest."
The victims' families will be paid 1 million rubles (more than $33,000) in moral damages, and underage children of those killed in the accident will be paid a pension of 10,000 rubles (more than $330) every month until they reach the age of 18, the Russian government decided Tuesday.
The injured will receive 400,000 rubles (more than $13,300), and miners sustaining light injuries will receive 200,000 rubles (more than $6,600). Local authorities and the management of Raspadskaya mine will also allocate money to those affected, in addition to the federal government.

On Tuesday, the first working day in Russia following three days of the May 9 Victory Day holidays, the shares of Raspadskaya mine plummeted by 15 percent at the Moscow stock exchange.

Are Smart Meters Really Smart?

Smart meters sound like a really good idea in theory. They are electric meters that can be read electronically. This means that the electric guy no longer has to trek around to every house in the area to read the meter. The meter can simply be read by computer at the headquarters of the utility company. It should save time and money for everyone.
Sounds, good, right? However, Dave Moore over at the Norman Transcript makes a pretty good case for why smart meters are actually a really stupid idea. Why this might actually be a stupid idea:

• Your home’s electricity will be able to be turned off remotely. The idea here is that the electric company can shut off electricity as needed in case of an emergency or suspicious overuse at the home. However, the reality is that this could end up meaning your electricity goes out frequently for no reason. The electric company is bound to make mistakes in this area and consumers will have to deal with those mistakes.
• Hackers could get into your electricity. The way that smart meters work is through computers located on site. Hackers could break into the electric meters in an area and shut off the electricity or turn it up to increase your rates. There probably aren’t enough security measures in place to prevent this from happening.

So, what do you think? Are smart meters a good idea? Or do their drawbacks actually make them a really stupid product that we aren’t ready to endure just yet?

the tornados are back

follow the link to see the video
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/weather/05/10/severe.storms/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

(CNN) -- At least four people were killed in Oklahoma on Monday after a severe storm system spawned multiple tornadoes across the state, the director of the state emergency management department said.
The state medical examiner's office confirmed three of the deaths as a result of the storm, spokeswoman Cherokee Ballard said. One person died in southeastern Oklahoma City and another in Cleveland County. Ballard did not know the location of the third death.
Brenda Finkle, director of corporate communications for Norman Regional Health System, said the company's hospital in Norman admitted eight patients Monday night in critical condition with crush injuries and head trauma.
At least 25 other people filled the waiting room of Norman Regional Hospital with lacerations and head wounds, Finkle said, adding hospital staff expected more patients to continue to seek treatment.
Another 20 people were either getting medical care or awaiting treatment at Moore Medical Center, just north of Norman, according to Finkle.
OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, received two patients with broken bones, according to spokesman Allen Poston.
The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management reported seven injuries.
Video out of Norman showed overturned cars, snapped utility poles, downed trees and severely damaged homes. Several mobile homes were blown to pieces in one neighborhood where debris littered yards and streets alongside large trees ripped straight from the ground.
A truck stop east of Oklahoma City was demolished, taking a direct hit from one of the tornadoes, according to a spokeswoman for Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores.
Motorists pulled off Interstate 40 and sought shelter in the truck stop's large coolers and restrooms before the tornado tore the roof off the building, blew out car windows and overturned tractor-trailers, spokeswoman Christina Dukeman said.
Video showed people outside the truck stop receiving treatment for minor injuries. Laura O'Leary, a spokeswoman for the Emergency Medical Services Authority, said seven people were transported from around the immediate area to local hospitals in good and fair condition, "a miraculously low number ... considering the volume of area the tornado covered."
Love's employee Charlescie Greenway said she and two other women made it to one cooler before the twister tore through the building.
"The three of us were kind of trapped in there, holding the door shut, praying to God that we don't die and that everybody else was safe," Greenway told CNN affiliate KWTV, adding, "it was really scary -- the wind was like trying to pull the door off the latch."
Sammy Ward and his partner rode the twister out in their truck in the parking lot.
"It started hailing and then it quit hailing and then all of a sudden the wind hit and it just went dark and here went everything," Ward told KWTV. "Trucks went to rocking ... and next thing we know the whole roof and everything was gone."
Ward, who said he felt "very lucky," said the event lasted two to three minutes.
Albert Ashwood, director of the state emergency management department, said crews were working to assess the damages in at least 13 counties, adding "numerous" homes had been affected.
The American Red Cross opened at least two shelters in McCloud, Oklahoma, and Tecumseh, Oklahoma, and continued to assess needs across the state.
More than 31,000 homes were without power in the metro Oklahoma City area -- nearly 15,000 in Norman alone, according to Oklahoma Gas & Electric.
Ashwood said preliminary reports out of Norman indicate the damages are "similar to what you would see with an EF3" tornado, referring to the Enhanced Fujita Scale for measuring the strength of tornadoes. An EF3 is capable of producing winds up to 165 mph.
CNN iReporter Rebecca Barbato said tornado sirens were going off in her neighborhood in Moore, just north of Norman, when tennis-ball-sized hail began raining down on her roof.
Other tornadoes were reported in Yukon, Medford and Shawnee in Oklahoma, and in Wichita, Kansas.
The storms struck around 5 p.m. CT (6 p.m. ET).

Meteorologists warned throughout the day Monday of the potential for tornadoes.

happy mothers day? i think.....

CNN) -- For one group of women in Chicago on Sunday, Mother's Day was marked not with flowers, but with a stark reminder of their loss.
One by one, they filed toward a newly unveiled sculpture at the city's St. Sabina Church, placing small white cards emblazoned with names such as Blair Holt and Matthew Michael Rodriguez at the foot of the two figures in the sculpture.
For some of the women, the realistic work of a faceless, gun-wielding assailant killing a young girl was too much to bear, CNN affiliate WGN reported.
Instead of being celebrated by their children this holiday, these mothers were mourning the deaths of their children -- all victims of gun violence on Chicago's streets.
"Today, as I woke up, instead of what a lot of mothers get, which are flowers or Happy Mom's Day or a kiss, I didn't get any of that," said Maria Ramirez, whose son, Matthew, was killed at 16. "I don't even get to hear anybody say 'Mama' anymore. I'll never hear that again."
The sculpture's artist, J.S. Kenar, said he was trying to "show the pain, to show that something unhuman is going on here."
The city has been plagued by bloodshed on its streets this year, including a particularly deadly stretch last month in which seven people were killed and 18 wounded in a 12-hour period.
Statistics released Sunday by Chicago police show that while the overall violent crime rate has decreased by 11 percent this year, the city's homicide rate has risen 8 percent. As of Saturday, 127 killings have been recorded this year -- three more homicides than the 2008 yearly total.
"We cannot ignore the destructive nature of guns, and how their presence can escalate a volatile situation into a tragic one," police Superintendent Jody Weis said in a statement announcing the statistics.
Annette Holt knows firsthand how destructive gun violence can be to a family. Her son, Blair, an honor student at Chicago's Percy L. Julian high school, was shot on a city bus in 2007. He was killed in a hail of gang bullets when he jumped into the line of fire to save the life of a teenage girl. He was 16.
At Sunday's unveiling, Holt implored other mothers to do all they can to stop the cycle of violence.

"Do something to make a difference now before you're like us (and) your child is either in the cemetery for Mother's Day or birthdays, or your child is in jail for 100 years," she said.

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Happy mothers day! i guess. i tried to find something for mothers day in the news but this is all i could find. sorry its a sad story.

kid tasered at a philli game!?!

 

Philadelphia police say an officer appears to have acted appropriately when he used a Taser to subdue a teenager who ran onto the field during a Phillies game.

Lt. Frank Vanore, a police spokesman, says Commissioner Charles Ramsey reviewed the tape and felt the officer had acted within the department’s guidelines, which allow officers to use Tasers to arrest fleeing suspects. Vanore says internal affairs is still investigating.

The teen ran on the field at the top of the eighth inning of Monday night’s game against St. Louis. He dodged two security officers and ran around the outfield before the officer subdued him.

Police say the teen is charged with defiant trespass, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. 

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Lawsuits? public apology's? what do you see coming out of this

this lady is crazy

A Christian nurse moved to a desk job after refusing to remove her crucifix at work has lost a discrimination claim against her employers.

Shirley Chaplin, from Exeter, had argued the cross "ban" prevented her from expressing her religious beliefs.
But an employment tribunal ruled that the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospitals NHS Trust, where she worked, had acted in a reasonable manner.
Mrs Chaplin said it was a "very poor day" for Christians in the workplace.

The law doesn't appear to be on the Christian side Shirley Chaplin Crucifix case - have your say

Jane Viner, the trust's Acting Director of Nursing, said it was "absolutely satisfied" with the tribunal's decision.
She said: "These were very serious allegations of direct and indirect discrimination and we're satisfied that the tribunal has completely dismissed them."
She said Mrs Chaplin, 54, was a respected nurse and had a future at the hospital.
Mrs Chaplin, who is intending to appeal against the decision, said: "The law doesn't appear to be on the Christian side."
She said Christians in the workplace would feel "quite persecuted" by the ruling.

hand and arm as a touch screen?!?

more about it here->  http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/19/microsoft.skinput/index.html




Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- In Chris Harrison's ideal world, mobile phones would be the size of matchbooks. They'd have full-size keyboards. They'd browse the Web. They'd play videos.
And, most importantly, you'd never have to touch them.
Sound like too much to ask? Maybe not.
Harrison, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a former intern at Microsoft Research, has developed a working prototype of a system called Skinput that does just that, essentially by turning a person's hand and forearm into a keyboard and screen.
"People don't love the iPhone keyboard. They use them. But they don't love them," Harrison said in a interview at the recent Computer-Human Interaction conference. "If you could make the iPhone keyboard as big as an arm -- that would be huge."
Using Skinput, a person could tap their thumb and middle finger together to answer a call; touch their forearm to go to the next track on a music player; or flick the center of their palm to select a menu item.
All of these sign-language-like movements, which are customizable, would control a gadget in a person's pocket through a Bluetooth connection.
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g his or her arm in certain places -- without pulling the phone out of a pocket or purse.
"You could pretty much do a lot of what you do on your iPhone," said Harrison, who says Skinput "is [like having] your iPhone on your palm."
The system, which has been under development for eight months, won't be commercially available for two to seven years, said Dan Morris, a Microsoft researcher who is working with Harrison on Skinput.
Before that can happen, Skinput's sensors need to get more accurate, he said. In a 13-person trial in Seattle, Washington, Skinput was found to be 96 percent accurate. But that test only used five buttons. The system would have to improve for people to make use of a full keyboard, which would be the "holy grail," Morris said.
"The accuracy is good, but it's not quite consumer-level yet," he said.
Skinput is one of a number of prototypes, ideas and near-products aiming to make computing more natural.
These devices seek to move beyond the mouse and physical keyboard, letting people communicate with their gadgets by gesturing, using sign language or, in the case of Skinput, tapping on their hands, fingers and forearms.

High Holy Day for Potheads 4/20

April has two days when many Americans, en masse, engage in something that's plainly illegal but is, they swear, OK to do anyway because everyone does it and it doesn't hurt a soul and it makes you feel just so very happy.
The first of these days has already passed: April 15, tax day, when millions of Americans, according to the latest research, fail to pay billions in taxes. The other day is April 20 -- Saturday -- a day when thousands, if not millions, will "mow the grass." That's a polite way of saying that these folks get baked, blitzed, paggered, blazed, obliterated, perved, shmacked ... in other words, they get high, as 4/20 is recognized by many as "national smokers day."
The term "420" and its attendant traditions date back to the 1970s, but at least some evidence exists -- enough to convince any stoner, at least -- that the term has experienced something of a resurgence in our electronic times.
On message boards and community sites across the Web, it's possible to find people who are "420 friendly," meaning that they'd love to meet you and smoke your dope.
And for such people, 4/20 is the recognized day to get your smoke on. And especially at 4:20 a.m. or p.m. on 4/20, and especially while listening to Phish. This year, dozens of celebrations are planned across the globe.
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"Once again we have scheduled the conference to coincide with '4/20,' that date that has become associated in the popular culture as a special day for marijuana smokers -- sort of what 'It's Miller time' has become to beer drinkers," the group said on its site. "We hope to build on that tradition and encourage supporters from across the country to joinProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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s in San Francisco as a way to celebrate 4/20."
The event comes after a week of attention focused on NORML, which spent half a million dollars to run ads (PDF) in New York City asking Mayor Michael Bloomberg to fine and ticket -- rather than arrest -- people caught smoking marijuana in the street. The ads feature Bloomberg's response to a New York magazine reporter's query about whether he'd ever used marijuana. The mayor said, "You bet I did. And I enjoyed it."
Given the nature of the celebration, of course, not all of the scheduled events are so political. Most, it seems, are music festivals that might have been going on anyway, but which promise to have some added pep in honor of the day.
The Web is rife with speculation regarding the origin of the term "420." An old yarn has it that 420 was a California police code cops used when they'd spotted someone getting high, and that drug users co-opted the word. Some think it has to do with Hitler's birthday, April 20th -- which is, not entirely coincidentally, also the day in 1999 that Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 people, and themselves, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
But the consensus opinion has come to rest on a theory put forth by Steven Hager, the editor of High Times, in the magazine in 1998. Hager told the story of the Waldos, a group of San Rafael High School kids who gave Hager evidence -- letters, and so on -- to show they had created the term 420.
This is how the term began, according to Hager's article: "One day, while (the Waldos) were sitting on the wall, a friend gave them a treasure map to a pot patch on nearby Point Reyes Peninsula. 'His brother grew the patch,' said Steve (one of the Waldos).
"The Waldos decided to meet after school and pick the patch. Since school got out at 3:10, and since some of the Waldos had after-school activities that lasted approximately one hour, someone decided they should meet at exactly 4:20 p.m., at the statue of Louis Pasteur, which was located near the entrance to the school parking lot."
After that, the Waldos -- who have their own site at Waldo420.com -- naturally began using 420 as shorthand for cannabis. The Waldos were big fans of the Grateful Dead, and, as Hager explains in his article, "the 420 expression leaked into the Deadhead community and spread from there."
In an e-mail message, Hager said that the Internet further aided the spread of the term, as "Deadheads were the first big group of Internet users."
Asked what he would be doing to celebrate this year's 4/20, Hager wrote that he will be "in Magic Meadow, near the top of Overlook Mountain, which is just above Woodstock, New York."
And what will people do after 4/20, when pot day is over? They'll smoke more, according to one post on the Bay Area Community site, Craigslist.
"A bunch of 420 worshipers who didn't get enough on 4/20 are meeting at Raleigh's in Berkeley on Telegraph (Avenue at) 5:30 on Sunday," it said. "Come burn in summer with us."

Read More http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/04/51986#ixzz0ledqBG8D


PT- when people smoke every day i dont get why one day has to be called pot day? can some one explain?

Air planes go night night?!

LONDON — A cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano shut down much of air travel to and from Northern Europe for a third straight day and flights were likely to be disrupted through Monday morning as a massive transportation gridlock spread around the world.

 Europe’s major airports — crucial hubs for international travelers and cargo — were closed. Eurocontrol, the European organization for the safety of air navigation, said that about 16,000 flights were canceled on the continent on Saturday.

France’s Prime Minister, François Fillion, who held an emergency meeting on Saturday, announced that Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports in Paris, among others in northern France, would be closed until 8 a.m. Monday. Airports in Northern Italy, including Milan’s Malpensa, were also ordered shut until 8 a.m.,

Actual evidence of the ash was being detected in Britain, where British Airways also canceled all of its short-haul flights until Monday morning.

In addition to shutdowns in Germany, where one Lufthansa official questioned the government’s use of British data for guidance, airports were closed in Belarus and Ukraine as the cloud spread eastward. Adding to the confusion was that scientists were uncertain when the plume, which presents a severe threat to aircraft, would dissipate. Volcanic ash is primarily made up of silicates, akin to glass fibers, which when ingested into a jet engine can melt, causing the engine to flame out and stall.

And one German meteorologist noted that the fine spring weather that reigned much of Europe — perfect flying weather under other circumstances — prolonged the ban on air traffic. The high pressure zone that delivered the sunny skies also helped hold the ash cloud in place, said Helmut Malewski, a meteorologist at the German Weather Service in Offenbach near Frankfurt.

One Icelandic geologist, Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson of the University of Iceland, told The Associated Press early Saturday that activity was increasing at the volcano Eyjafjallajokull (pronounced EY-ya-fyat-lah-YO-kut), whose eruption on Wednesday began disrupting air travel the next day. But in a statement released shortly after noon, a spokesman for Iceland’s Foreign Ministry, Urdur Gunnarsdottir, said that the force of the volcanic eruption under the glacier had been constant during the night until 4 a.m., when it appeared to decrease.

In extending its ban on flights to and from Britain until at least 7 a.m. Sunday, the National Air Traffic Services said that the cloud was “moving around and changing shape.” The British organization said that it had hoped that the cloud would move southward to open some air space, but instead new ash was coming from Iceland.

Britain’s Met Office, the national weather service, said on Saturday that the volcano is still erupting in pulses and evidence of ash dust over the country were now being detected. It said European air travel could be disrupted as a result for several days.

“The volcano has become rather more active this morning,” Barry Gromett, a spokesman for the Met office said Saturday. “We’re getting reports about thin ash deposits from all over the country. People expect to throw back the curtains and to see an apocalyptic cloud but that’s not the case. It’s more like a thin layer on cars.”

The Met Office in London said that a strong westerly wind forecast for the next 12 hours would move the ash initially away from Britain, but it then “curves around” and affect Britain, Scandinavia and Russia. “There’s not much that would indicate a change,” Mr. Gromett said. As Germany entered a second day when every airport in the country was closed to air traffic, the airline Lufthansa expressed impatience with what it suggested was excessive caution by authorities.

Instead of accepting data from British authorities, “it would help to look at other parameters,” said Amelie Schwierholz, a Lufthansa spokeswoman in Frankfurt. German authorities should do their own measurements of the density of volcanic particles, she said.

Ms. Schwierholz noted that a Lufthansa long-distance passenger jet with only a flight crew on board flew from Munich to Frankfurt on Saturday without incident, albeit at a much lower altitude than usual. Lufthansa plans other such “positioning flights,” which are allowed by regulations, so that aircraft will be where the airline needs them when commercial service resumes, she said.

But German officials defended their decision to close the skies. “What’s more important, the safety of passengers or business?” asked Mr. Malewski of the German Weather Service

Cat v.s. iPad!

The recently released iPad is, in the words of Apple cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs, a "magical and revolutionary product." That may be true from the human perspective, but how does the feline species feel about the touch-screen device?

One cat owner aimed to find out. He placed his iPad in front his cat, Iggy, to see just how user-friendly the device really is. Watch below for the results...

why cant the kids stay OUT of rivers!?!

Omg guys the worst day has come. i was on my way to school today and i get in an accident. i mean it was a tad above a fender bender but I'm okay and so was the other person. Idk if anyone has been in an accident before but it is scary as all get out!

any way off to some news

A slip, a scary splash, then a scream. It took just seconds for a two-year-old girl to fall 20 feet into New York's East River waters.

Many reacted quickly to rescue 2-year-old Bridgette Sheriden, but two men reacted even faster: Bridgette's father David Anderson and a still unknown French tourist who, after helping in the rescue, walked way and took a cab to destinations unknown.

Part of the rescue was captured on film by a freelance TV producer, himself visiting the South Street Seaport with his family. The video and a glimpse of the mystery man:

video of the hero

The Good Samaritans
The slip and fall happened on Easter weekend: The little girl and her parents were walking up the gangplank on Saturday, April 3, to board the Peking ship docked at the South Street Seaport. Bridgette slipped through the guardrail and into 48-degree waters.

According to one eyewitness, Anderson emptied his pockets as he ran down the steps, scanned the waters, then dropped feet first after her. He emerged with Bridgette's head resting on his chest. With his right hand, Anderson held onto the dock, resisting the strong East River currents.

Meanwhile, the Frenchman—who onlookers say rushed toward the scene without hesitation—leapt in after him into the cold waters. He apparently helped to keep the father maintain a hold over his daughter. By then, others had formed what the New York Daily News described as a "'human chain' of good Samaritan rescuers." The Frenchmen lifted Bridgette to onlookers, who passed her to her mother.

Two heroes and an Easter miracle
Emergency rescue workers were at hand, and a checkup at Bellevue Hospital established that Bridgette had survived the drop without injury. People have been referring to her rescue as the Easter miracle, especially given what NBC News calls the rule of 50: The average adult has a 50/50 change of surviving a 50-yard swim or 50 minutes in 50-degree water.

Paternal instincts may have accounted for much of Anderson's quick reflexes, but Anderson also had trained as a ski patrol rescue worker in Colorado's Vail Ski Resort, according to former colleagues who spoke to the New York Daily News. Anderson himself broke his three-day silenceon Monday, to talk about those stomach-churning moments. "It was just instant. I knew what I had to do," he recalled. "I just got in. I know I had to get down there."

As for the French gentleman who leapt in, he can claim some personal thanks from Bridgette's mother. "I'd like to offer him my congratulations and best wishes, and I want to talk to him personally," she told the paper.

This man tried to revive dead opossum

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) - Police say they charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a long-dead opossum along a highway. State police Trooper Jamie Levier says several witnesses saw 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville, near the animal Thursday along Route 36 in Oliver Township, about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

The trooper says one person saw Wolfe kneeling before the animal and gesturing as though he were conducting a seance. He says another saw Wolfe attempting to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Levier says the animal already had been dead a while.

The Associated Press could not locate a home telephone number for Wolfe.

this is one drunk tale the cop wont forget. but really people? 

he is an old man why is he getting plastered with no kind of id on him?

If it were me (not that i would try to save a dead thing. Im saying if i was that drunk) i would have some kind of contact Id if i were found somewhere. ha-ha

what about you? would u carry some kind of info on you? Do you have any crazy drunk stories to share?

phone companies are greedy and bored

We have just learned from Engadget that AT&T are suing Verizon over its “There’s a map for that” ads, which they claim is false advertising. AT&T is asking for the ads to be stopped as they feel that the ads can mislead their users to think that they do not offer any wireless service in the U.S.

AT&T state that their network covers the same amount of people that Verizon does, so they are confused why Verizon would make such claims. Engadget have been updating the news as it comes in, they have now learned that the lawsuit is very narrow.

Engadget know that Verizon are trying to convince viewers into thinking that AT&T customers are unable to use the service outside of the 3G coverage areas on the map that they have created. The map was split into red and blue, the former represents Verizon while the latter represents AT&T.

The maps are misleading as Verizon’s entire network is 3G, which is why it shows so many service gaps when it comes to AT&T’s map. They fail to say that the service gaps on AT&T may well be covered by its 2G network.

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Apperently at&t has nothign better to do than to sue another company fro promoting them selfs. well we all know that verizon isn't the best service out there and everyone is going to at&t because they want the Iphone or another network for better service.

Well guess what that will be no more follow this link and see what great news verizon has to share with us!

Wait she wants to weigh how much? 1000 pounds!!! oh well as long as she does it in a healthy way i guess its ok..... right?

Meet Donna Simpson. She's going to cost you. A lot.

Simpson, of Old Bridge, N.J., is 42 years old, has two kids and a boyfriend, and she weighs 602 pounds. That's right ... 602 pounds.

She's on a diet, of course, because she has a goal in mind:

She wants to weigh 1,000 pounds.

That's right ... 1,000 pounds. It's a nice, extra-round figure — almost as big as what her unhealthy choices will ultimately cost taxpayers.

Simpson claims she is normal and healthy, and she has a right to eat what she wants and weigh what she wants.

“I love eating and people love watching me eat,” she says. “It makes people happy, and I’m not harming anyone.”

But she needs to use a motor scooter when she goes grocery shopping, because she can't walk more than 20 feet. The human body, after all, is not designed to scarf down 12,000 calories a day in the quest to weigh half a ton.

Simpson is definitely harming someone — herself, says Dr. Carla Wolper, a registered dietitian and research faculty member at the New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York.

And you, the taxpayer, could wind up paying for it.

“We don’t know her medical history, but one of the most dangerous health issues she faces is an increased risk of sudden death from having a heart attack due to electrical problems in the heart,” Wolper said.

Other possible causes of death for Simpson include stroke, immobility, breathing problems, congestive heart failure, diabetes, and inflammation of heart tissue. Each year, nearly 300,000 Americans die from heart failure. Simpson, experts say, is putting herself at risk for all these medical conditions, and those conditions have a hefty pricetag.

“The baseline cost for someone like to go to the emergency room is $993 for one visit,” Daniel Emmer, public relations manager of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, the largest health insurance provider in New Jersey, told FOXNews.com.

Simpson’s main source of income to support herself financially is by appearing on a Web site where men pay to watch videos of her gorging on food and showing off her hundreds of pounds of extra bulge in a bikini.

(um does that sound gross to anyone else?)

But it's anyone's guess whether her revenue from Web videos will cover the cost of her inevitable health risks.

“Someone with diabetes costs $11,744 more per year to provide health care, which is twice as much as the average person,” Emmer said.

It is unclear what type of insurance Simpson has, if any. But there is no question that whatever her health care position is, it could come at a high cost.

“Obesity causes a minimum $1,429 increase, or 42 percent in medical costs,” Emmer said. “Research shows lifestyle choices and behaviors drive 87.5 percent of the cost for health care claims.”

“When people are very, very overweight, they are at an increased risk for a condition called prolonged QT syndrome,” Wolper told FoxNews.com.

Prolonged QT syndrome is a heart rhythm disorder that can potentially cause fast, chaotic heartbeats, the Mayo Clinic says on its Web site. In some cases, the heart may beat erratically for so long that it can cause sudden death.

"Another problem this woman faces is related to the circulatory system,” Wolper said. “When people are that big, circulation is often impaired in the legs. This can cause blood to pool in the legs leading to formation of blood clots. This leaves morbidly obese people at an increased risk for a pulmonary embolism.”

A pulmonary embolism occurs when one or more arteries in the lungs become blocked. In most cases, pulmonary embolism is caused by blood clots that travel to your lungs from another part of your body — most commonly, your legs, according to the Mayo Clinic. One of the major risk factors is excess weight, which increases the risk of blood clots, especially in women who smoke or have high blood pressure.

“The work of the heart is tremendously increased when someone is that big because there’s so much more blood in the body,” Wolper said. “When this happens, the heart has to pump against the pressure of all that fat that is pressing against the blood vessels, and as a result the heart enlarges, and not in a good way.”

As Simpson’s appetite increases, so will the cost of health care for the severe medical conditions that she is likely to have — conditions that are preventable by healthier lifestyle choices. Whereas her $750-a-week grocery bill is merely gastronomical, her hospital bills will be astronomical — and the taxpayers of New Jersey may well have to pay her tab.

Meanwhile, in her effort to boldly go where no woman has gone before, Simpson says she tries to stay sedentary, so she burns as few calories as necessary.

She consumes five times more than the recommended daily calories for a woman her age.

“My favorite food is sushi. But unlike others I can sit and eat 70 big pieces of sushi in one go,” she told the Daily Mail.

“I do love cakes and sweet things, doughnuts are my favorite.”

The current record for fattest woman is held by a woman also from New Jersey, who weighed an unbelievable 1,800 pounds when she died in 2008. She was 49 years old.

(That is just sad. a woman dies at 49, thats a young age, from being over weight. i think 200 is too much as is.)

Simpson is proud of the Guinness World Record she holds now for the world’s fattest mother, and her boyfriend is proud of her too.

Philippe, 49, supports her thousand-pound goal, even if that is nearly seven times his own weight of 150 pounds.

“I think he’d like it if I was bigger,” Simpson said. “He’s a real belly man, and completely supports me.”

Someday, the experts say, we all may support her.

PIckles Thoughts- (btw if in the articles you see bold green text that is me :) )

Ok now the woman claims she is going to dot his the healthy way. And she thinks the bigger she is the more attractive she is. um not to be mean but did this woman fall and hit her head? Women these days are doing anything to be like a size 0 and this woman is doing all she can to be a size 54 (if that even exists) i dont know about bout yal but this is gross and the web thing needs to stop. i understand the whole its her life and she is happy and blah blah. Is she thinking about her kids? How are they gonna feel when they lose their mom because she wanted to be fatter. To make things worse there are so many risks to what she is doing and she already has diabetes.

I wanna hear your opinions on this woman. am I the only one who thinks this is gross?

teacher writes 'loser'

The mother of a sixth grade student in Buncombe County, North Carolina says her daughter's teacher wrote 'loser' on the girl's class assignments and she's speaking out about the discouraging comments.


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I think this is ridiculous. no one especially a teacher shouldn't call a young kid a loser.

NJ Police Dog Escapes During Weekend Storms

Authorities in Atlantic County are searching for a police dog who escaped during Saturday's wild weather.

The Atlantic County Sheriff's Office said a 2-year-old Belgian Malinois named Dillinger escaped from his outdoor kennel in Egg Harbor Township over the weekend.

The dog's handler, Sherrif's Officer Ron DeMoulin, discovered an empty cage while going to check on the dog at about 7 a.m. Saturday.

Police believe Dillinger scaled a five-foot tall fence and squeezed through a six-inch gap. He was last spotted on the shoulder of the Atlantic City Expressway. 

If you spot the police dog, do not attempt to secure him and instead contact police at 609-909-7200.


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Please help. i no most of u are not in Atlantic County but if u see the pup please call he is only 2 and is probably lost and scared. thanks

fast food meal paid with pot????

VERO BEACH, Fla. – A McDonald’s cashier called 911 after a Vero Beach drive-thru customer allegedly offered to pay for his meal with marijuana. The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office said the cashier called Monday with a description of the vehicle the suspect had been riding in.

A deputy spotted the vehicle, found marijuana in the car and arrested its occupant, 27-year-old Shawn Alexander Pannullo.

Pannullo was charged with possession of cannabis and posted $500 bail. It was unclear if he had an attorney.

A Sheriff’s report did not say what the suspect ordered at McDonald’s or if he ultimately purchased the meal using something other than marijuana.

Don’t Steal from the Cops

A man stole a couple of candy bars and a toboggan hat .. from a police station.

 Who goes into a police station and tries to take the things that are there? How could he think that this might even remotely be a place where he would not get caught? And as if that isn’t bad enough, the guy also stole two syringes that had already been used. So not only is he trying to take stuff from the cops; he’s taking drug paraphernalia that has probably been used by someone that he shouldn’t be using it after.

The man, a guy named Derek Kidd who lives in Ohio, wasn’t even in any real trouble before the theft occurred. He and his girlfriend had been taken in to the police station on disorderly conduct charges but they had been released. Kidd needed to make a phone call when he was released so the officers allowed him to use a phone in the building. Sometime during the process of using the phone, Kidd decided to pocket the two syringes, two candy bars and a hat. He might have even gotten away with it except that the hat, which he was wearing underneath his own hat, had a police logo on it that wasn’t covered by his own cap. The police patted him down and found the other stuff on him.

Of course, Kidd ended up being booked and could get into some serious trouble. It doesn’t really look good to be stealing something immediately after being released from another charge. And the cops are never too happy when they’re the ones that get stolen from. Dumb!

Laundromat Bust!

"Police said David Cabral, 39, of Taunton wanted to steal money from a coin machine.

So he backed his car right through a Taunton Laundromat Sunday morning.
But Cabral didn’t get away with much because it seems the machine was out-of-order.

Police said a Raynham car wash might have suffered the same fate had a police officer not noticed what he believed to be Cabral’s car, awfully close to a coin machine and told him to leave."



PICKLES THOUGHTS-

Wow what is the world coming to? 
I cant tell if this is more funny or stupid. I get that robbing a bank = jail time. but a laundry mat? really? But its funnier if you picture an officer seeing this and telling him to leave. I know if i was the cop id be laughing to hard when the man explained what he was doing. 
I wasn't aware that people either wanna be in the news this bad or money was that scarce.





Link to article.

America's Worst French Fries

America's Worst French Fries (and What You Should Eat Instead!)

Worst Curly Fries!Arby’s Curly Fries (Large)
640 calories
34 g fat (5 g saturated, 0 g trans)
1,460 mg sodium

Eat This Instead!Homestyle Fries (Small)
350 calories
15 g fat (2 g saturated)
720 mg sodium
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Worst Wedge Fries
Jack in the Box Bacon Cheddar Wedges
715 calories
45 g fat (13 g saturated, 1 g trans)
905 mg sodium

Eat This Instead!Grilled Chicken Strips (4) with Fire Roasted Salsa
185 calories
2 g fat (0.5 g saturated)
805 mg sodium
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Worst Fries for Your Blood Pressure
Dairy Queen Chili Cheese Fries
1,240 calories
71 g fat (28 g saturated, 0.5 g trans)
2,550 milligrams sodium

Eat This Instead!French Fries (regular)
310 calories
13 g fat (2 g saturated)
640 mg sodium
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Worst Regular Order of Fries
Five Guys Fries (large)
1,464 calories
71 g fat (14 g saturated)
213 mg sodiumProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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Eat This Instead!Regular Fries (1/2 serving)
310 calories
15 g fat (3 g saturated)
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Now I dont know about you guess but to me french fries are like deep fired crack. I love them (but its not like i eat them every day. it makes them better to eat them on occasion ) and now i see that just looking at them could make you gain 5lbs. This is the funny part, they ae claiming the fires mentioned above are bad for you and make it should like all french fries are bad and to stay away. well according to this article they say McDonald's fries are good or well better for you.

Best Fast Food Fries in AmericaMcDonald’s Small French Fries
230 calories
11 g fat (1.5 g saturated)
160 mg sodium
Out of the big three fast food joints (Mickey D’s, Wendy’s, and BK), you’ll find the least caloric, least salty fries underneath the golden arches. The key to ordering a smart side dish is portion sizing—and McDonald’s has that under control.

Now I don't know how true this is. i thought fast food was bad for you period. and I would have thought that McDonald's would have been on the top of the worst thing to eat list. 
What do you guys think?

Link to the fries and sadness.

Olymics are awesome!!!

Here is an update on the Olympics. They are all over the news mainly because the US is kicking but and taking names.
As of right now the numbers look like this

US- 25
7- gold
8-silver
10-bronze

Germany- 21
7-gold
9-silver
5-bronze

Norway- 14
6- gold
3 silver
5 bronze



Like I said the US is kicking butt and taken names so far. Last night in the free dance (couples ice skating) The US lost to Canada by 5.83 points giving them the gold bumping us to silver. personally i thought the US free skate was a lot better than Canada's but because their first run score was higher they got the gold.
Today and into tonight they are showing more teams giving the US more chances to kick butt. the link below will show you the full TV schedule.

Link to Olympic schedule

People Need to Learn to Drive!!!!

i just wanna rant about something.

there was an accident outside of the school today, involving a truck and a smaller car. The back break light was broken but it didn't look like anyone was hurt.

I bring this up because I was on my way to work and was almost hit twice. You no what the excuse is that you hear after something like this "oh im sorry i dint see you" i dont know what anyone else drives but im in a bright blue car. how do you not see me?

Have any of you been in an accident and heard the other person tell you they didnt see you? Or did they blame you for the crash?

Myspace needs to be shut down?

This an article I found on the press of atlantic city website posted on February 16, 2010.

The authors name was not published.

This is a story about a man that is accused of talking underage girls to send him nude photos on MYSPACE! The accused man, 32 year old Joshua Threlkeld, is going to trial with 112 counts against him on tuesday. The judge ordered him to stand trial on 23 additional counts. His hearing is being arranged for March 24th.

He is also charged with kidnaping and aggravated sexual assault involving one of the alleged victims

Really I thought the whole myspace pedophiles thing was over. It has to been at least a year or so since this was a big thing.

Joshua is facing multiple life sentences IF convicted.

If why if there should not be an if. He id talking to minors, This is gross and sad because he ages of the men is going down. When this all started it was men that were 50 than 40 now they catch one who is 32. It's a disgusting shame. I dont think people like him can ever change no matter what they do to him. I think of it as if it was my kid he was talking to, these girls were only 11 to 17.

Question for you-

After reading about this guy how should he be punished? Jail? Death-Row? Crazy house?

Would love to hear your opinions. I think death, what he did was wrong. But Id like to hear what you think. there are 2 links below. the first is a short article about what's going on. The second is a longer more explained article of every thing the man has done. That article is from 2009.

(how true this all is can not be held against me, i have found a few articles saying the same thing)

Links

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/ap/nation/article_27332d02-0cdf-5388-94d5-f6869830f880.html

http://a11news.com/1876/joshua-threlkeld/

Pickles frist post

this is my first post on my blog. I have decided to have my blog be on either serious topics or even odd topics in the news and let you all know what i think. by the way my name is becca but on here im gonna go by pickles. its an old nickname =)

I hope yal enjoy the topic i choose and also leave your thoughts on the "Topic of the Day"