`A Florida high school teacher who refused to let a student go to the restroom has been recommended for suspension.
The student instead used a trash can to relieve himself in a classroom closet.
The Pinellas County school system said Lesley Campbell violated school policy in November by unnecessarily embarrassing the high school junior.’
`A man accused of stealing a car was arrested after stopping to ask for directions at the car owner’s father’s house, authorities said.
Michael Chapman, 54, is accused of stealing a car Wednesday morning in Hopedale, about 130 miles east of Columbus near the West Virginia state line.
Chapman drove east for three miles, then pulled off state Route 151 needing directions to a nearby town. He stopped randomly at the home of Thomas Eltringham.’
`Most high school students eagerly await the day they pass driver’s education class. But 16-year-old Mayra Ramirez is indifferent about it.
Ramirez is blind, yet she and dozens of other visually impaired sophomores in Chicago schools are required to pass a written rules-of-the-road exam in order to graduate — a rule they say takes time away from subjects they might actually use.
“In other classes, you don’t really feel different because you can do the work other people do,” Ramirez said. “But in driver’s ed, it does give us the feeling we’re different. In a way, it brought me down, because it reminds me of something I can’t do.”’
`A Cleveland woman is charged with dragging her two daughters back inside their burning home after the girls ran for help. [..]
The girls told police that their mother was upset because the older girl had a boyfriend. Mason says the mother interrogated the older girl while applying lighted incense to parts of her body.
Investigators say when the mother didn’t get answers, she set the house on fire and forced the girls back inside after they ran out.’
`A burglar was spared a stiff prison term — after a judge heard he was permanently aroused down below.
Maurice Baumann, 32, was given a year in a German jail for robbing homes in a British Army garrison town.
But he avoided the cells when he was admitted to hospital with an emergency case of priapism — a condition which keeps the manhood ever-ready for sex.
A clinical report showed he suffered from either “semi” or “maximum rigidity” at all times.
Baumann has been prescribed drugs, acupuncture and even wide trousers to hide his embarrassment.’
`In 2005, Web Pages That Suck featured 293 Daily Suckers. Of that total, I considered 117 bad enough to be possible candidates for the “Worst Web Design Techniques Featured on Web Pages That Suck in 2005.” The short list consisted of 57 sites.
After viewing the “winners” you’ll probably say to yourself, “I’ve seen worse web site car wrecks than what’s here.” Contrary to public perception, Web Pages That Suck (WPTS) does not just feature web design car-wrecks. If I just wanted car wrecks, I’d put up only sites created with Microsoft FrontPage. These sites have at least one major problem that’s seen over and over again. Now that you’ve seen them, don’t make the same mistakes.’
`A motorist drove for 60 miles at speeds of 135mph after the accelerator on his BMW car jammed and his brakes failed.
Kevin Nicolle, 26, was on the A1 near Thirsk in North Yorkshire when the car started to accelerate.
“I was in tears most of the time on the phone to the police – I really could see myself dying,” he told the BBC. [..]
“I hit the brakes. They were braking ok, they were keeping me at about 70mph.
“So I phoned up the police after I called the AA and they said straight away ‘stick your hazard lights on and headlights on – we’ve got a helicopter en route to you’.”‘
`A wrecking crew in New York City punched a hole in the wrong building, forcing startled tenants to evacuate, city officials said.
A crane operator Saturday put a 10-foot gash in the foundation of a three-story building in Queens that had not been scheduled for any work, the New York Daily News reported Sunday.
“As soon as I heard a big bang, I woke up,” said Andrew Albarracin, who lives on the second floor of the building. “I hear the banging every day, so I went back to sleep. But this was louder than before. Next thing I knew, I woke up to a fireman at my door telling me I have to evacuate.”‘
`An anti-abortion activist is posting Internet pictures of women entering an abortion clinic here.
Martin Wishnatsky, who is banned from going within 150 feet of the Red River Women’s Clinic, said he usually stands on a street corner to take the photos.
“I have a little zoom lens,” he said.
“I felt it would really give the average person who doesn’t visit there a firsthand view of what it looks like to someone who is there,” Wishnatsky said. “I hope this might contribute to turning people’s hearts back to life.”‘
`A granny has been told to take off her hat in a pub – because it posed a security risk.
Betty Willbraham, 82, was told to take off her hat if she wanted to be served at the Hereward pub in Ely, Cambs.
Staff insisted everyone in the pub is asked to remove their hats so their faces are visible to CCTV cameras in the event of trouble.’
`A computer controlled by the power of thought alone has been demonstrated at CEBIT in Germany. As we have speculated here, rapid advances in cybernetics are now ocurring, which will eventually change how consumers interface with computers, while the substructure of how people inter-relate online has continued to evolve quickly. Imagine reaction time that is constrained only by the power and speed of thought without any mechanical components. It would seem we are headed towards an always-connected global brain. With complete integration of components, what is the difference between telepathy and let’s say, a WiFi/Bluetooth connection between your computer and your brain, with the computer/device acting as a filter and transceiver?’
`A Gallup report released today reveals that more than half of all Americans, rejecting evolution theory and scientific evidence, agree with the statement, “God created man exactly how Bible describes it.”
Another 31% says that man did evolve, but “God guided.” Only 12% back evolution and say “God had no part.”
Gallup summarized it this way: “Surveys repeatedly show that a substantial portion of Americans do not believe that the theory of evolution best explains where life came from.” They are “not so quick to agree with the preponderance of scientific evidence.”‘
`The Archdiocese of Dublin says 102 of its priests are suspected of having abused more than 350 children since 1940, in a shocking new report by the Catholic Church in Ireland.
The revelation comes a week before the Irish government launches a massive inquiry into abuse in the Church and the role government agencies played. It’s expected to last more than a year.’
`A German man playing with his brother’s Jack Russell was hospitalised after the dog sunk its teeth into his penis.
Daniel Dietmaier, from Dueren, said the dog nearly bit it off and after his brother’s girlfriend told it to “attack” as a joke.
He is demanding substantial damages, saying the woman did not even helped him as he lay on the floor in agony after beating off the dog – because she had collapsed on the floor laughing.’
`A retired salesman alleged a stripper and her friend beat and robbed him in his home. John Skinner, 54, said he was on his way to Bible study on Jan. 23 when exotic dancer Maureen Murphy, 25, knocked on his door and offered him a free strip-o-gram.
Murphy said a friend had already paid for the show, police said.
When Skinner agreed to let her perform, knife wielding Richard Adam, 23, allegedly forced his way inside and told Skinner he owed Murphy, owner of Bikini Assassins, and another woman money for earlier services.’
`The war on terror will not have a definitive end, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told about 200 people gathered Thursday night for Mercer University’s Executive Forum.
“We’re not going to have a ‘VT Day’ over terrorism because terrorism has been around for centuries,” Ridge said.
But that does not mean the United States will be defeated, he said.
“We’ll prevail for one basic reason,” said the former two-term governor of Pennsylvania. “Because America is an idea, not a place. And that idea is freedom.”‘
`She is 52 years old, married, grew up in the Kansas City suburbs and now lives in Virginia, in a new three-bedroom house.
Anyone who can qualify for a subscription to one of the online services that compile public information also can learn that she is a CIA employee who, over the past decade, has been assigned to several American embassies in Europe.
The CIA asked the Tribune not to publish her name because she is a covert operative, and the newspaper agreed. But unbeknown to the CIA, her affiliation and those of hundreds of men and women like her have somehow become a matter of public record, thanks to the Internet.’
`The UK supplied Israel with quantities of plutonium while Harold Wilson was prime minister, BBC Newsnight can reveal.
The sale was made despite a warning from British intelligence that it might “make a material contribution to an Israeli weapons programme”.
Under Wilson, Britain also sold Israel tons of chemicals used to make boosted atom bombs 20 times more powerful than Hiroshima or even Hydrogen Bombs.’
`An Alaska high school violated a student’s free speech rights by suspending him after he unfurled a banner reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” across the street from the school, a federal court ruled Friday.
Joseph Frederick, a student at Juneau-Douglas High School in Alaska, displayed the banner — which refers to smoking marijuana — in January 2002 to try to get on television as the Olympic torch relay was passing the school.’
`Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has died in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal.
The tribunal said he had been found dead in his cell on Saturday morning. The cause of death is not yet clear. [..]
The tribunal last month rejected a request by Mr Milosevic to go to Russia for medical treatment. He had high blood pressure and a heart condition.’
‘News reports that the U.S. military intends to close Abu Ghraib within the next few months and to transfer its prisoners to other jails are inaccurate, officials said.
There’s no specific timetable for that transfer or for closure of the Baghdad prison, they said. Decisions regarding Abu Ghraib and other detention facilities in Iraq will be based largely on two factors: the readiness of Iraq’s security forces to assume control of them and infrastructure improvements at the facilities.’
`Michael Jackson has been ordered to shut down his Neverland Valley Ranch by California authorities who have fined the pop star ,000 (,700) for failing to pay his employees or maintain proper insurance. [..]
Fryer said local animal welfare officials had been asked to care for the inhabitants of Neverland’s zoo.
He said that Jackson could reopen the ranch if he obtains workers compensation insurance but may face legal action by the state if he fails to pay the back wages.’
`It’s bad enough that they overcharge domestic customers but we have alternatives. The soldiers don’t because, according to The Prepaid Press, AT&T has an EXCLUSIVE contract to put payphones in PXes in Iraq and Afghanistan. But, you ask, can’t the soldiers get cheap calling cards to call the US? No! Because AT&T is using (abusing!) its position as monopoly supplier of payphones to block the 800 numbers necessary to use nonAT&T calling cards.
This blocking is illegal in the US but, AT&T told our friend Gene Retske, editor of The Prepaid Press, the rules are different in Iraq. Right.’
`The Nigerian Government has warned citizens they may suffer “psychological discomfort” during a new eclipse this month but urged them not to panic.
Information Minister Frank Nweke says an eclipse in 2001 caused riots in northern Borno state because people did not know why it happened.
“Some people even felt some evil people in their communities were responsible for the eclipse,” he said in a statement aimed at reassuring Nigerians the eclipse is expected to darken parts of the country on March 29.’
`We work in the IT department of the college, and were inventorying equipment in the closet. We ran across a box of USB floppy drives that were just sitting there…looking very sad and lonely. We blew off the dust from them and decided to give them a second life. We also had to test the drives, and rather than waste the time to test each drive individually we thought it would just be easier to RAID them all together and test them all at once. So that’s exactly what we did.’
‘A two-year probe into the Madrid train bombings concludes the Islamic terrorists who carried out the blasts were homegrown radicals acting on their own rather than at the behest of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network, two senior intelligence officials said.
Spain still remains home to a web of radical Algerian, Moroccan and Syrian groups bent on carrying out attacks — and aiding the insurgency against U.S. troops in Iraq — the Spanish intelligence chief and a Western official intimately involved in counterterrorism measures in Spain told The Associated Press.’
`Computer technicans are threatening chaos at fast-food outlets, supermarkets, banks and airports unless they get a pay rise.
More than 100 staff from NCR – a company responsible for repairing computer breakdowns at KFC outlets, Aldi supermarkets and Sydney Airport’s baggage handling systems – are planning to to walk off the job on Monday morning.
“In terms of industrial action in the IT industry this is easily the most significant one we’ve had in Australia,” said Australian Services Union secretary Sally McManus. If the strike goes ahead, it might last up to a week, she said.’
`Meet BigDog, a mechanical mutt that does more than snare Frisbees and irrigate fire hydrants. It totes hundreds of pounds of gear so soldiers won’t have to, and it will never spook under fire. Developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the U.S. military, the BigDog prototype is arguably the world’s most ambitious legged robot. Its stability and awareness of its own orientation make it the first robot that can handle the unknown challenges of the battlefield. The Great Dane–size ’bot can trot more than three miles an hour, climb inclines of up to 45 degrees, and carry up to 120 pounds—even in rough terrain impenetrable to wheeled or tracked vehicles. But this one is just a puppy; Boston Dynamics expects the next iteration, ready this summer, to be at least twice as fast and carry more than twice as much.’
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