INYOKERN, Calif. (AP) - A group of suspected thieves in Kern County may need to learn the concept of "unmarked bills." A restaurant known as The Homestead in the high desert town of Inyokern had a tradition of customers hanging dollar bills on its walls, usually inscribing them with messages and other distinguishing details.
Last week a man used 10 of the bills, some with the word "Homestead" on them, to pay a court fine, and a clerk immediately recognized them, Sheriff's Sgt. Tyson Davis said Monday.
Donald Dejarnette, 34, and four others have been arrested on suspicion of lifting $8,000 worth of the bills from the restaurant's walls, authorities said.
About $1,000 from the now-closed restaurant has been recovered, some of it from banks where the bills were traded in for larger currency.
A sheriff's deputy reached early Tuesday did not know whether any of the suspects has hired an attorney.
The restaurant has been shuttered and for sale for over a year, but the owner has kept it intact with the remaining bills still on the wall.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Calif. lapdogs can stay just that in moving cars
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Hollywood celebrities can continue to drive with animals nestled in their laps.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is vetoing a bill to fine motorists $35 for sharing the driver's seat with lapdogs or other animals.
Republican Assemblyman Bill Maze says the practice is distracting. He introduced the bill after seeing a woman driving with three dogs on her lap.
Schwarzenegger says he's signing only bills that are "the highest priority for California." And a lapdog ban isn't one of them.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is vetoing a bill to fine motorists $35 for sharing the driver's seat with lapdogs or other animals.
Republican Assemblyman Bill Maze says the practice is distracting. He introduced the bill after seeing a woman driving with three dogs on her lap.
Schwarzenegger says he's signing only bills that are "the highest priority for California." And a lapdog ban isn't one of them.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83
Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died. He was 83.
Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.
In May, Newman he had dropped plans to direct a fall production of "Of Mice and Men," citing unspecified health issues.
He got his start in theater and on television during the 1950s, and went on to become one of the world's most enduring and popular film stars, a legend held in awe by his peers. He was nominated for Oscars 10 times, winning one regular award and two honorary ones, and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including "Exodus," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Verdict," "The Sting" and "Absence of Malice."
Newman worked with some of the greatest directors of the past half century, from Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. His co-stars included Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and, most famously, Robert Redford, his sidekick in "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting."
He sometimes teamed with his wife and fellow Oscar winner, Joanne Woodward, with whom he had one of Hollywood's rare long-term marriages. "I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?" Newman told Playboy magazine when asked if he was tempted to stray. They wed in 1958, around the same time they both appeared in "The Long Hot Summer," and Newman directed her in several films, including "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Glass Menagerie."
With his strong, classically handsome face and piercing blue eyes, Newman was a heartthrob just as likely to play against his looks, becoming a favorite with critics for his convincing portrayals of rebels, tough guys and losers. "I was always a character actor," he once said. "I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."
Newman had a soft spot for underdogs in real life, giving tens of millions to charities through his food company and setting up camps for severely ill children. Passionately opposed to the Vietnam War, and in favor of civil rights, he was so famously liberal that he ended up on President Nixon's "enemies list," one of the actor's proudest achievements, he liked to say.
A screen legend by his mid-40s, he waited a long time for his first competitive Oscar, winning in 1987 for "The Color of Money," a reprise of the role of pool shark "Fast" Eddie Felson, whom Newman portrayed in the 1961 film "The Hustler."
Newman delivered a magnetic performance in "The Hustler," playing a smooth-talking, whiskey-chugging pool shark who takes on Minnesota Fats played by Jackie Gleason and becomes entangled with a gambler played by George C. Scott. In the sequel directed by Scorsese "Fast Eddie" is no longer the high-stakes hustler he once was, but rather an aging liquor salesman who takes a young pool player (Cruise) under his wing before making a comeback.
He won an honorary Oscar in 1986 "in recognition of his many and memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft." In 1994, he won a third Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, for his charitable work.
His most recent academy nod was a supporting actor nomination for the 2002 film "Road to Perdition." One of Newman's nominations was as a producer; the other nine were in acting categories. (Jack Nicholson holds the record among actors for Oscar nominations, with 12; actress Meryl Streep has had 14.)
As he passed his 80th birthday, he remained in demand, winning an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the 2005 HBO drama "Empire Falls" and providing the voice of a crusty 1951 car in the 2006 Disney-Pixar hit, "Cars."
But in May 2007, he told ABC's "Good Morning America" he had given up acting, though he intended to remain active in charity projects. "I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to," he said. "You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me."
He received his first Oscar nomination for playing a bitter, alcoholic former star athlete in the 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Elizabeth Taylor played his unhappy wife and Burl Ives his wealthy, domineering father in Tennessee Williams' harrowing drama, which was given an upbeat ending for the screen.
In "Cool Hand Luke," he was nominated for his gritty role as a rebellious inmate in a brutal Southern prison. The movie was one of the biggest hits of 1967 and included a tagline, delivered one time by Newman and one time by prison warden Strother Martin, that helped define the generation gap, "What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate."
Newman's hair was graying, but he was as gourgeous as ever and on the verge of his greatest popular success. In 1969, Newman teamed with Redford for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a comic Western about two outlaws running out of time. Newman paired with Redford again in 1973 in "The Sting," a comedy about two Depression-era con men. Both were multiple Oscar winners and huge hits, irreverent, unforgettable pairings of two of the best-looking actors of their time.
Newman also turned to producing and directing. In 1968, he directed "Rachel, Rachel," a film about a lonely spinster's rebirth. The movie received four Oscar nominations, including Newman, for producer of a best motion picture, and Woodward, for best actress. The film earned Newman the best director award from the New York Film Critics.
In the 1970s, Newman, admittedly bored with acting, became fascinated with auto racing, a sport he studied when he starred in the 1972 film, "Winning." After turning professional in 1977, Newman and his driving team made strong showings in several major races, including fifth place in Daytona in 1977 and second place in the Le Mans in 1979.
"Racing is the best way I know to get away from all the rubbish of Hollywood," he told People magazine in 1979.
Despite his love of race cars, Newman continued to make movies and continued to pile up Oscar nominations, his looks remarkably intact, his acting becoming more subtle, nothing like the mannered method performances of his early years, when he was sometimes dismissed as a Brando imitator. "It takes a long time for an actor to develop the assurance that the trim, silver-haired Paul Newman has acquired," Pauline Kael wrote of him in the early 1980s.
In 1982, he got his Oscar fifth nomination for his portrayal of an honest businessman persecuted by an irresponsible reporter in "Absence of Malice." The following year, he got his sixth for playing a down-and-out alcoholic attorney in "The Verdict."
In 1995, he was nominated for his slyest, most understated work yet, the town curmudgeon and deadbeat in "Nobody's Fool." New York Times critic Caryn James found his acting "without cheap sentiment and self-pity," and observed, "It says everything about Mr. Newman's performance, the single best of this year and among the finest he has ever given, that you never stop to wonder how a guy as good-looking as Paul Newman ended up this way."
Newman, who shunned Hollywood life, was reluctant to give interviews and usually refused to sign autographs because he found the majesty of the act offensive, according to one friend.
He also claimed that he never read reviews of his movies.
"If they're good you get a fat head and if they're bad you're depressed for three weeks," he said.
Off the screen, Newman had a taste for beer and was known for his practical jokes. He once had a Porsche installed in Redford's hallway crushed and covered with ribbons.
"I think that my sense of humor is the only thing that keeps me sane," he told Newsweek magazine in a 1994 interview.
In 1982, Newman and his Westport neighbor, writer A.E. Hotchner, started a company to market Newman's original oil-and-vinegar dressing. Newman's Own, which began as a joke, grew into a multimillion-dollar business selling popcorn, salad dressing, spaghetti sauce and other foods. All of the company's profits are donated to charities. By 2007, the company had donated more than $175 million, according to its Web site.
In 1988, Newman founded a camp in northeastern Connecticut for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. He went on to establish similar camps in several other states and in Europe.
He and Woodward bought an 18th century farmhouse in Westport, where they raised their three daughters, Elinor "Nell," Melissa and Clea.
Newman had two daughters, Susan and Stephanie, and a son, Scott, from a previous marriage to Jacqueline Witte.
Scott died in 1978 of an accidental overdose of alcohol and Valium. After his only son's death, Newman established the Scott Newman Foundation to finance the production of anti-drug films for children.
Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the second of two boys of Arthur S. Newman, a partner in a sporting goods store, and Theresa Fetzer Newman.
He was raised in the affluent suburb of Shaker Heights, where he was encouraged him to pursue his interest in the arts by his mother and his uncle Joseph Newman, a well-known Ohio poet and journalist.
Following World War II service in the Navy, he enrolled at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he got a degree in English and was active in student productions.
He later studied at Yale University's School of Drama, then headed to New York to work in theater and television, his classmates at the famed Actor's Studio including Brando, James Dean and Karl Malden. His breakthrough was enabled by tragedy: Dean, scheduled to star as the disfigured boxer in a television adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Battler," died in a car crash in 1955. His role was taken by Newman, then a little-known performer.
Newman started in movies the year before, in "The Silver Chalice," a costume film he so despised that he took out an ad in Variety to apologize. By 1958, he had won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for the shiftless Ben Quick in "The Long Hot Summer."
In December 1994, about a month before his 70th birthday, he told Newsweek magazine he had changed little with age.
"I'm not mellower, I'm not less angry, I'm not less self-critical, I'm not less tenacious," he said. "Maybe the best part is that your liver can't handle those beers at noon anymore," he said.
Newman is survived by his wife, five children, two grandsons and his older brother Arthur.
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On the Net:
http://www.newmansown.com/
Newman died Friday after a long battle with cancer at his farmhouse near Westport, publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and close friends.
In May, Newman he had dropped plans to direct a fall production of "Of Mice and Men," citing unspecified health issues.
He got his start in theater and on television during the 1950s, and went on to become one of the world's most enduring and popular film stars, a legend held in awe by his peers. He was nominated for Oscars 10 times, winning one regular award and two honorary ones, and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including "Exodus," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Verdict," "The Sting" and "Absence of Malice."
Newman worked with some of the greatest directors of the past half century, from Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. His co-stars included Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and, most famously, Robert Redford, his sidekick in "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting."
He sometimes teamed with his wife and fellow Oscar winner, Joanne Woodward, with whom he had one of Hollywood's rare long-term marriages. "I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?" Newman told Playboy magazine when asked if he was tempted to stray. They wed in 1958, around the same time they both appeared in "The Long Hot Summer," and Newman directed her in several films, including "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Glass Menagerie."
With his strong, classically handsome face and piercing blue eyes, Newman was a heartthrob just as likely to play against his looks, becoming a favorite with critics for his convincing portrayals of rebels, tough guys and losers. "I was always a character actor," he once said. "I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."
Newman had a soft spot for underdogs in real life, giving tens of millions to charities through his food company and setting up camps for severely ill children. Passionately opposed to the Vietnam War, and in favor of civil rights, he was so famously liberal that he ended up on President Nixon's "enemies list," one of the actor's proudest achievements, he liked to say.
A screen legend by his mid-40s, he waited a long time for his first competitive Oscar, winning in 1987 for "The Color of Money," a reprise of the role of pool shark "Fast" Eddie Felson, whom Newman portrayed in the 1961 film "The Hustler."
Newman delivered a magnetic performance in "The Hustler," playing a smooth-talking, whiskey-chugging pool shark who takes on Minnesota Fats played by Jackie Gleason and becomes entangled with a gambler played by George C. Scott. In the sequel directed by Scorsese "Fast Eddie" is no longer the high-stakes hustler he once was, but rather an aging liquor salesman who takes a young pool player (Cruise) under his wing before making a comeback.
He won an honorary Oscar in 1986 "in recognition of his many and memorable compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft." In 1994, he won a third Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, for his charitable work.
His most recent academy nod was a supporting actor nomination for the 2002 film "Road to Perdition." One of Newman's nominations was as a producer; the other nine were in acting categories. (Jack Nicholson holds the record among actors for Oscar nominations, with 12; actress Meryl Streep has had 14.)
As he passed his 80th birthday, he remained in demand, winning an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the 2005 HBO drama "Empire Falls" and providing the voice of a crusty 1951 car in the 2006 Disney-Pixar hit, "Cars."
But in May 2007, he told ABC's "Good Morning America" he had given up acting, though he intended to remain active in charity projects. "I'm not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to," he said. "You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me."
He received his first Oscar nomination for playing a bitter, alcoholic former star athlete in the 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Elizabeth Taylor played his unhappy wife and Burl Ives his wealthy, domineering father in Tennessee Williams' harrowing drama, which was given an upbeat ending for the screen.
In "Cool Hand Luke," he was nominated for his gritty role as a rebellious inmate in a brutal Southern prison. The movie was one of the biggest hits of 1967 and included a tagline, delivered one time by Newman and one time by prison warden Strother Martin, that helped define the generation gap, "What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate."
Newman's hair was graying, but he was as gourgeous as ever and on the verge of his greatest popular success. In 1969, Newman teamed with Redford for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," a comic Western about two outlaws running out of time. Newman paired with Redford again in 1973 in "The Sting," a comedy about two Depression-era con men. Both were multiple Oscar winners and huge hits, irreverent, unforgettable pairings of two of the best-looking actors of their time.
Newman also turned to producing and directing. In 1968, he directed "Rachel, Rachel," a film about a lonely spinster's rebirth. The movie received four Oscar nominations, including Newman, for producer of a best motion picture, and Woodward, for best actress. The film earned Newman the best director award from the New York Film Critics.
In the 1970s, Newman, admittedly bored with acting, became fascinated with auto racing, a sport he studied when he starred in the 1972 film, "Winning." After turning professional in 1977, Newman and his driving team made strong showings in several major races, including fifth place in Daytona in 1977 and second place in the Le Mans in 1979.
"Racing is the best way I know to get away from all the rubbish of Hollywood," he told People magazine in 1979.
Despite his love of race cars, Newman continued to make movies and continued to pile up Oscar nominations, his looks remarkably intact, his acting becoming more subtle, nothing like the mannered method performances of his early years, when he was sometimes dismissed as a Brando imitator. "It takes a long time for an actor to develop the assurance that the trim, silver-haired Paul Newman has acquired," Pauline Kael wrote of him in the early 1980s.
In 1982, he got his Oscar fifth nomination for his portrayal of an honest businessman persecuted by an irresponsible reporter in "Absence of Malice." The following year, he got his sixth for playing a down-and-out alcoholic attorney in "The Verdict."
In 1995, he was nominated for his slyest, most understated work yet, the town curmudgeon and deadbeat in "Nobody's Fool." New York Times critic Caryn James found his acting "without cheap sentiment and self-pity," and observed, "It says everything about Mr. Newman's performance, the single best of this year and among the finest he has ever given, that you never stop to wonder how a guy as good-looking as Paul Newman ended up this way."
Newman, who shunned Hollywood life, was reluctant to give interviews and usually refused to sign autographs because he found the majesty of the act offensive, according to one friend.
He also claimed that he never read reviews of his movies.
"If they're good you get a fat head and if they're bad you're depressed for three weeks," he said.
Off the screen, Newman had a taste for beer and was known for his practical jokes. He once had a Porsche installed in Redford's hallway crushed and covered with ribbons.
"I think that my sense of humor is the only thing that keeps me sane," he told Newsweek magazine in a 1994 interview.
In 1982, Newman and his Westport neighbor, writer A.E. Hotchner, started a company to market Newman's original oil-and-vinegar dressing. Newman's Own, which began as a joke, grew into a multimillion-dollar business selling popcorn, salad dressing, spaghetti sauce and other foods. All of the company's profits are donated to charities. By 2007, the company had donated more than $175 million, according to its Web site.
In 1988, Newman founded a camp in northeastern Connecticut for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. He went on to establish similar camps in several other states and in Europe.
He and Woodward bought an 18th century farmhouse in Westport, where they raised their three daughters, Elinor "Nell," Melissa and Clea.
Newman had two daughters, Susan and Stephanie, and a son, Scott, from a previous marriage to Jacqueline Witte.
Scott died in 1978 of an accidental overdose of alcohol and Valium. After his only son's death, Newman established the Scott Newman Foundation to finance the production of anti-drug films for children.
Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the second of two boys of Arthur S. Newman, a partner in a sporting goods store, and Theresa Fetzer Newman.
He was raised in the affluent suburb of Shaker Heights, where he was encouraged him to pursue his interest in the arts by his mother and his uncle Joseph Newman, a well-known Ohio poet and journalist.
Following World War II service in the Navy, he enrolled at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he got a degree in English and was active in student productions.
He later studied at Yale University's School of Drama, then headed to New York to work in theater and television, his classmates at the famed Actor's Studio including Brando, James Dean and Karl Malden. His breakthrough was enabled by tragedy: Dean, scheduled to star as the disfigured boxer in a television adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Battler," died in a car crash in 1955. His role was taken by Newman, then a little-known performer.
Newman started in movies the year before, in "The Silver Chalice," a costume film he so despised that he took out an ad in Variety to apologize. By 1958, he had won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for the shiftless Ben Quick in "The Long Hot Summer."
In December 1994, about a month before his 70th birthday, he told Newsweek magazine he had changed little with age.
"I'm not mellower, I'm not less angry, I'm not less self-critical, I'm not less tenacious," he said. "Maybe the best part is that your liver can't handle those beers at noon anymore," he said.
Newman is survived by his wife, five children, two grandsons and his older brother Arthur.
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On the Net:
http://www.newmansown.com/
Friday, September 26, 2008
Light Up Your Life
Take a look around your home, in the yard, and look at the lighting. Wouldn't it be nice to light up your home a little better, a little classier, a lot safer? of course it would. And you can do this with outdoor lighting from light outlet.
I don't know about you, but I hate coming home to a dimly lit front door. I just do not feel safe. I like the place well lit, just in case there are p[rowlers about. Maybe having been robbed more than once has instilled this in me. Maybe it is because I want my wife and daughter to be safe. Whatever the reason, outdoor lighting is a must. But, that doesn't mean it cannot be classy looking!
I rather like this one
It not only looks very fashionable, it can be used with a 150 watt light bulb, plenty of light to let you see your way and see anything that might be lurking about! The price is reasonable and it comes with Free Shipping
So, go out past your front door and look around the yard. Isn't it time you changed the lighting for your own well-being and safety? Check out all the great lighting available at light outlet today.
I don't know about you, but I hate coming home to a dimly lit front door. I just do not feel safe. I like the place well lit, just in case there are p[rowlers about. Maybe having been robbed more than once has instilled this in me. Maybe it is because I want my wife and daughter to be safe. Whatever the reason, outdoor lighting is a must. But, that doesn't mean it cannot be classy looking!
I rather like this one
It not only looks very fashionable, it can be used with a 150 watt light bulb, plenty of light to let you see your way and see anything that might be lurking about! The price is reasonable and it comes with Free Shipping
So, go out past your front door and look around the yard. Isn't it time you changed the lighting for your own well-being and safety? Check out all the great lighting available at light outlet today.
Philadelphia Is Safe Again
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - After a bomb scare at the Philadelphia Phillies' ballpark, authorities pointed the finger at a fuzzy green suspect - The Phillie Phanatic.
Hours before the Phillies-Atlanta Braves' game on Wednesday night, a film crew shot a commercial of the mascot shooting heavily wrapped hot dogs from a launcher.
But someone inadvertently left three of the duct taped hot dogs outside the ballpark, sparking security fears. Stadium employees were evacuated and the bomb squad was called in.
Only after the packages were blown up did authorities realize they'd just exploded some sausages.
"We saw something that looked suspicious," said Michael Stiles, Phillies senior vice president, administration and operations. "We did the right thing. It turned out to be nothing. We could have gone over and picked it up and thrown it in the trash and been done with it. But if we had been wrong, somebody might have lost an arm."
After the detonation, the game went on as scheduled.
"I'd rather them blow up some hot dogs or some ketchup and mustard and relish than have it be a real bomb," reliever Chad Durbin said. "Better safe than sorry."
Hours before the Phillies-Atlanta Braves' game on Wednesday night, a film crew shot a commercial of the mascot shooting heavily wrapped hot dogs from a launcher.
But someone inadvertently left three of the duct taped hot dogs outside the ballpark, sparking security fears. Stadium employees were evacuated and the bomb squad was called in.
Only after the packages were blown up did authorities realize they'd just exploded some sausages.
"We saw something that looked suspicious," said Michael Stiles, Phillies senior vice president, administration and operations. "We did the right thing. It turned out to be nothing. We could have gone over and picked it up and thrown it in the trash and been done with it. But if we had been wrong, somebody might have lost an arm."
After the detonation, the game went on as scheduled.
"I'd rather them blow up some hot dogs or some ketchup and mustard and relish than have it be a real bomb," reliever Chad Durbin said. "Better safe than sorry."
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Where Did Daddy Go?
By TIMBERLY ROSS, Associated Press Writer
OMAHA, Neb. – Ten children ranging in age from 1 to 17 were left at hospitals Wednesday under Nebraska's unique safe haven law, which allows caregivers to abandon not only infants but also teenagers without fear of prosecution.
Nine of the children came from one family. The six boys and three girls were left by their father, who was not identified, at Creighton University Medical Center's emergency room. An unrelated 11-year-old boy also was surrendered Wednesday.
The law, which went into effect in July, was initially intended to protect infants, but was amended to include the word "child," which some have interpreted under Nebraska law to mean anyone under the age of 19.
At least 14 children have been abandoned since the state's new safe haven law took effect.
The children are OK, said Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Kathie Osterman said. She didn't know why their father had left them.
More information will be available at a late morning news conference, Osterman said.
Nebraska was the last state in the nation to adopt a safe-haven law. Under previous law, a parent who abandoned a baby could have been charged with child neglect or abandonment, both misdemeanors, or child abuse, a felony.
State Sen. Arnie Stuthman said he introduced the bill intending to protect infants. In a compromise with senators worried about arbitrary age limits, the measure was expanded.
Abandoning teenagers was not the original intent of the law, Stuthman said Thursday.
"People are leaving them off just because they can't control them," he said. "They're probably in no real danger, so it's an easy way out for the caretaker."
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On the Net:
Nebraska Legislature: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/web/public/home
Department of Health and Human Services: http://www.hhs.state.ne.us
Now, I know teens are hard to put up with, but this is ridiculous at best! They better fix that law and quick!
OMAHA, Neb. – Ten children ranging in age from 1 to 17 were left at hospitals Wednesday under Nebraska's unique safe haven law, which allows caregivers to abandon not only infants but also teenagers without fear of prosecution.
Nine of the children came from one family. The six boys and three girls were left by their father, who was not identified, at Creighton University Medical Center's emergency room. An unrelated 11-year-old boy also was surrendered Wednesday.
The law, which went into effect in July, was initially intended to protect infants, but was amended to include the word "child," which some have interpreted under Nebraska law to mean anyone under the age of 19.
At least 14 children have been abandoned since the state's new safe haven law took effect.
The children are OK, said Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Kathie Osterman said. She didn't know why their father had left them.
More information will be available at a late morning news conference, Osterman said.
Nebraska was the last state in the nation to adopt a safe-haven law. Under previous law, a parent who abandoned a baby could have been charged with child neglect or abandonment, both misdemeanors, or child abuse, a felony.
State Sen. Arnie Stuthman said he introduced the bill intending to protect infants. In a compromise with senators worried about arbitrary age limits, the measure was expanded.
Abandoning teenagers was not the original intent of the law, Stuthman said Thursday.
"People are leaving them off just because they can't control them," he said. "They're probably in no real danger, so it's an easy way out for the caretaker."
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On the Net:
Nebraska Legislature: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/web/public/home
Department of Health and Human Services: http://www.hhs.state.ne.us
Now, I know teens are hard to put up with, but this is ridiculous at best! They better fix that law and quick!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Vacation or moving
One thing is for certain, whether you are on vacation or moving away, or, come to think of it, just an overnight stay, we all need luggage. And, of course, when luggage is mentioned my mind immediately goes to Samsonite luggage.
I remember, years ago, their commercials with a gorilla manhandling their fine luggage and the luggage taking it all in stride. I suppose the thought was that if it could handle the gorilla it can handle anything any baggage handler would do to it. And, I have no doubt that that is the truth. In my travels, my luggage has been mistreated fairly badly, being thrown around like there was nothing of value in it. I wonder, how do these guys know if there is something valuable or not? So, for me, Samsonite luggage is the only way to go.
When I board a plane, a train or a Greyhound, I don't worry about my luggage being destroyed. I only have to worry about whether or not it will arrive at the same destination as myself! And, frankly, that's the way it should be. Travel that is a lot less worrisome. That gives you plenty of time to enjoy the trip and the scenery :)
So, if a trip is in your future, check out the bargains at luggage universe by clicking the link above. And, by all means, enjoy your traveling experience!
I remember, years ago, their commercials with a gorilla manhandling their fine luggage and the luggage taking it all in stride. I suppose the thought was that if it could handle the gorilla it can handle anything any baggage handler would do to it. And, I have no doubt that that is the truth. In my travels, my luggage has been mistreated fairly badly, being thrown around like there was nothing of value in it. I wonder, how do these guys know if there is something valuable or not? So, for me, Samsonite luggage is the only way to go.
When I board a plane, a train or a Greyhound, I don't worry about my luggage being destroyed. I only have to worry about whether or not it will arrive at the same destination as myself! And, frankly, that's the way it should be. Travel that is a lot less worrisome. That gives you plenty of time to enjoy the trip and the scenery :)
So, if a trip is in your future, check out the bargains at luggage universe by clicking the link above. And, by all means, enjoy your traveling experience!
What the heck?
I looked at a variety of sites today and none of them had any really strange news to post. What's up with that? Where all the weirdos when I need them? LOL
So, today you just get randomness from this old blogger.
The teenager is driving my poor wife crazy. I thought the boys did a good job of things with my first wife, but this one really is taking the cake. She's seventeen and acts like she has the mental capacity of a five year old more often than not. I can hardly wait to see what sort of adult she's going to make. My wife can hardly wait until she is eighteen and no longer a major Life concern LOL
I have been lethargic today. Maybe that should read downright lazy. I just cannot seem to get my mind in order to do much of anything, even though I know I have some paid writing to do :( It's frustrating at best. I did manage to sit and watch one of my favorite television shows, called A Haunting, so that's something I suppose.
Now, the house is quiet, just me and the computer and a nosy fly that keeps buzzing around the computer. Shelly is out to the grocery store and the kid is still at school. Guess I should stop procrastinating and write the paid post.
First off though, more coffee! Have a great day, dear readers! Feel free to leave me a comment, would ya?
So, today you just get randomness from this old blogger.
The teenager is driving my poor wife crazy. I thought the boys did a good job of things with my first wife, but this one really is taking the cake. She's seventeen and acts like she has the mental capacity of a five year old more often than not. I can hardly wait to see what sort of adult she's going to make. My wife can hardly wait until she is eighteen and no longer a major Life concern LOL
I have been lethargic today. Maybe that should read downright lazy. I just cannot seem to get my mind in order to do much of anything, even though I know I have some paid writing to do :( It's frustrating at best. I did manage to sit and watch one of my favorite television shows, called A Haunting, so that's something I suppose.
Now, the house is quiet, just me and the computer and a nosy fly that keeps buzzing around the computer. Shelly is out to the grocery store and the kid is still at school. Guess I should stop procrastinating and write the paid post.
First off though, more coffee! Have a great day, dear readers! Feel free to leave me a comment, would ya?
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Get A Move On
Time to move? You have so much stuff to pack up from your old house that you are really going to need some moving trucks. It is amazing how much stuff accumulates when you're just living your life day to day.
But, you can only toss out so much when you move, there's too much good stuff that you absolutely have to keep. That's where the moving trucks come in.
U-Pack Moving has a simple three step process for you. First, you pack up the belongings you are keeping and load them into the truck or the ReloCube that they deliver to your home. Secondly, they drive the stuff to your new location, so you don't need to worry about driving a big truck full of stuff. Third, you avoid unknown costs, paying only for the space that you use.
U-Pack offers you not only a free quote, they also have a free DVD so you can see for yourself how they work. Can't get much simpler than that! Why make moving a stressful, painful experience? Let the folks at U-Pack Moving help you reduce the stress and save you money as well. Want to talk to a real person rather than get that quote online? That's easy too. Just call 800-355-1696 Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Central time.
Time to get moving!
But, you can only toss out so much when you move, there's too much good stuff that you absolutely have to keep. That's where the moving trucks come in.
U-Pack Moving has a simple three step process for you. First, you pack up the belongings you are keeping and load them into the truck or the ReloCube that they deliver to your home. Secondly, they drive the stuff to your new location, so you don't need to worry about driving a big truck full of stuff. Third, you avoid unknown costs, paying only for the space that you use.
U-Pack offers you not only a free quote, they also have a free DVD so you can see for yourself how they work. Can't get much simpler than that! Why make moving a stressful, painful experience? Let the folks at U-Pack Moving help you reduce the stress and save you money as well. Want to talk to a real person rather than get that quote online? That's easy too. Just call 800-355-1696 Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Central time.
Time to get moving!
Safety Hazard?
This does not sound like any construction workers I've ever known LOL
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Portland Police took a waterfront Lady Godiva down a notch this week. Barely. They were getting calls about a nude skater whizzing past tourists and rush-hour commuters.
But you can do that in Oregon, where occasional nude bike rides draw police only for crowd control and shows featuring live sex acts are protected as free speech.
The skater, Gennifer Moss, aka Earth Friend Gen, asked organizers for permission this summer to skate naked in the city of Ashland's Fourth of July parade. She didn't get it.
Police told her to tone it down after construction workers complained.
Moss donned a string bikini bottom for the nonce and skated on.
Police say most callers are concerned about her safety.
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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Portland Police took a waterfront Lady Godiva down a notch this week. Barely. They were getting calls about a nude skater whizzing past tourists and rush-hour commuters.
But you can do that in Oregon, where occasional nude bike rides draw police only for crowd control and shows featuring live sex acts are protected as free speech.
The skater, Gennifer Moss, aka Earth Friend Gen, asked organizers for permission this summer to skate naked in the city of Ashland's Fourth of July parade. She didn't get it.
Police told her to tone it down after construction workers complained.
Moss donned a string bikini bottom for the nonce and skated on.
Police say most callers are concerned about her safety.
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Information from: The Oregonian, http://www.oregonlive.com
Monday, September 22, 2008
Got Wine?
For years, doctors have said that drinking wine is good for your body, helps promote good blood and all kinds of things like that. Of course, they are not promoting that people go out and become winos or anything of that nature, but they say a glass of wine per day is healthy. And, many fine restaurants serve wine with their expensive dinners, so I think it's safe to assume that your one glass per day should probably be at dinner time.
But, what if you're not an expert at wine selection, then what? Well you can get some help by joining the wine of the month club.
They will send you two bottles of wine per month, and these are not just ordinary wines either. The wines they feature in each of their four wine clubs have earned top medals at the major wine competitions or have been highly rated by a national wine publication. So, you can look like an expert without actually being one. Serve these wines to your dinner guests and keep that secret to yourself.
According to their website, There are no wine club sign up fees, no monthly dues, no minimum obligation. You may cancel at any time for any reason. And they have three different categories to let you choose what is best for you and your pocketbook. So, click on the link above and start enjoying a great glass of wine and becoming healthier.
But, what if you're not an expert at wine selection, then what? Well you can get some help by joining the wine of the month club.
They will send you two bottles of wine per month, and these are not just ordinary wines either. The wines they feature in each of their four wine clubs have earned top medals at the major wine competitions or have been highly rated by a national wine publication. So, you can look like an expert without actually being one. Serve these wines to your dinner guests and keep that secret to yourself.
According to their website, There are no wine club sign up fees, no monthly dues, no minimum obligation. You may cancel at any time for any reason. And they have three different categories to let you choose what is best for you and your pocketbook. So, click on the link above and start enjoying a great glass of wine and becoming healthier.
Maybe A Diet Would Help?
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) -- Police in Knoxville, Tenn., say a man has been arrested for burglary after he phoned authorities and told them he was stuck in a museum ventilation shaft.
Knoxville police said Anthony Smith, 25, called 911 shortly before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday and told the dispatcher he was wedged in the ventilation system at the Knoxville Museum of Art, WBIR-TV in Knoxville reported.
Police and firefighters arrived at the museum to find Smith wedged 40 feet down a ventilator shaft but investigators said they are unsure of how he could have gotten onto the building's roof.
Authorities said nothing was disturbed inside the museum. However, Smith was arrested on the burglary charge after being extracted from the tight space.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
Knoxville police said Anthony Smith, 25, called 911 shortly before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday and told the dispatcher he was wedged in the ventilation system at the Knoxville Museum of Art, WBIR-TV in Knoxville reported.
Police and firefighters arrived at the museum to find Smith wedged 40 feet down a ventilator shaft but investigators said they are unsure of how he could have gotten onto the building's roof.
Authorities said nothing was disturbed inside the museum. However, Smith was arrested on the burglary charge after being extracted from the tight space.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Technology Strikes. Back LOL
NEW YORK (AP) - Police arrested a man accused of taking a cell phone picture under a subway rider's skirt after the victim said she used her own phone to snap back. The 28-year-old woman said she was victimized last month while climbing stairs to an elevated station in upper Manhattan. A passer-by confirmed her suspicion that he had taken a photo up her skirt, she said.
She followed the suspect onto a train, took his picture, then e-mailed it to police and filed a report. "I told him 'smile' because I am going to the police," the woman told The New York Times.
Aaron Olivieri was arrested Tuesday on misdemeanor charges of attempted unlawful surveillance, attempted sexual abuse and harassment. He was nabbed in a Manhattan subway station by an officer who said he matched the person in the photo the woman had taken, authorities said.
His lawyer, Rigodis Appling, did not immediately return a call for comment on Friday.
She followed the suspect onto a train, took his picture, then e-mailed it to police and filed a report. "I told him 'smile' because I am going to the police," the woman told The New York Times.
Aaron Olivieri was arrested Tuesday on misdemeanor charges of attempted unlawful surveillance, attempted sexual abuse and harassment. He was nabbed in a Manhattan subway station by an officer who said he matched the person in the photo the woman had taken, authorities said.
His lawyer, Rigodis Appling, did not immediately return a call for comment on Friday.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Woman finds 'Goldilocks' snoring in her son's bed
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A man was charged with burglary after he allegedly broke into a home, ate cheese from the refrigerator, made a mess in a bathroom and fell asleep on a child's bed. Tracy Mullins, 47, of Billings, was arraigned in District Court on Thursday by video from the county jail.
Mullins pleaded not guilty to burglary. Judge Susan Watters set bail at $5,000 after rejecting a request that he be released without bail. Public defender Richard Phillips, who made the request, said Mullins had been receiving mental-health counseling.
Court records indicate a woman awoke in her home Monday at 8:30 a.m. to the sound of snoring coming from her 2-year-old son's bedroom. Her son had slept that night with her and her husband.
The woman said she found a strange man sleeping in her son's bed. She woke her husband and left to call police from a neighbor's house. The husband confronted the man with an unloaded shotgun and held him until police arrived.
Mullins pleaded not guilty to burglary. Judge Susan Watters set bail at $5,000 after rejecting a request that he be released without bail. Public defender Richard Phillips, who made the request, said Mullins had been receiving mental-health counseling.
Court records indicate a woman awoke in her home Monday at 8:30 a.m. to the sound of snoring coming from her 2-year-old son's bedroom. Her son had slept that night with her and her husband.
The woman said she found a strange man sleeping in her son's bed. She woke her husband and left to call police from a neighbor's house. The husband confronted the man with an unloaded shotgun and held him until police arrived.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Let's Go Shoe Shopping!
Anybody that knows me knows that I love to shop for shoes. Even if I don't buy any right at that moment I love to scour the net looking for great shoes to buy. So, imagine my delight when I found this website about Dansko shoes.
Dansko’s styles embody the all-day comfort and support that Dansko is famous for. Dansko’s famous stapled outsole carries the seal of acceptance from the APMA (American Podiatric Medical Association). Dansko Shoes, Clogs & Sandals are crafted from high quality materials and are designed to be comfortable, supportive and shock absorbent. Now, how could anybody go wrong with shoes and clogs like those? I know when I wear my shoes I want them to be comfortable, not hurt my feet! And, I also expect my shoes to last a while. I may like shopping for shoes but I also expect to get my money's worth, you know.
So, give your feet a treat and head on over to Footwear etc. and check out all the great styles on Dansko clogs and shoes as well as the other great brands they have. Come on, you know that shoe shopping is great fun! Let's head over there right now :)
Dansko’s styles embody the all-day comfort and support that Dansko is famous for. Dansko’s famous stapled outsole carries the seal of acceptance from the APMA (American Podiatric Medical Association). Dansko Shoes, Clogs & Sandals are crafted from high quality materials and are designed to be comfortable, supportive and shock absorbent. Now, how could anybody go wrong with shoes and clogs like those? I know when I wear my shoes I want them to be comfortable, not hurt my feet! And, I also expect my shoes to last a while. I may like shopping for shoes but I also expect to get my money's worth, you know.
So, give your feet a treat and head on over to Footwear etc. and check out all the great styles on Dansko clogs and shoes as well as the other great brands they have. Come on, you know that shoe shopping is great fun! Let's head over there right now :)
TGIF
I'm glad it's Friday. That means I survived Thursday LOL I bowled back to back leagues yesterday for the first time this year and my body has been screaming at me since I finished. My entire right side hurts like hell and now the left side of the body is starting to complain as well. But, I'm sure all will be well in a day or two so long as I don't overdo things in that time. I went walking today and that was a struggle, but it went okay :)
I hope your weekend plans include having a little bit of fun. One of us sitting around the house doing little besides mylotting and blogging and whatever else I can find online is enough. You play, I'll stay home :)
I hope your weekend plans include having a little bit of fun. One of us sitting around the house doing little besides mylotting and blogging and whatever else I can find online is enough. You play, I'll stay home :)
Pimples Be Gone!
Seems like, when you are a teenager there is nothing worse in life than acne pimples. It is just too traumatic for kids to deal with, even though if they'd just look around, they'd see that they are not the only face in school with that problem. But, sometimes, it isn't just teenagers. Lots of adults still have acne and wonder if they will ever get rid of this problem to their face.
If you are one of those suffering from this terrible attack to your face, zip on over to the acne treatments site and find the solution that is best for you. You can not only combat these pimples, you can get rid of them and keep them gone and under control. There have been many advances in science and medicines since the days of "soap and water should do the trick" and more advances are made every year. So, don't just resign yourself to a life of acne suffering, do something about them today!
Imagine looking at your reflection in a mirror and smiling at what you see. Pimples be gone!
If you are one of those suffering from this terrible attack to your face, zip on over to the acne treatments site and find the solution that is best for you. You can not only combat these pimples, you can get rid of them and keep them gone and under control. There have been many advances in science and medicines since the days of "soap and water should do the trick" and more advances are made every year. So, don't just resign yourself to a life of acne suffering, do something about them today!
Imagine looking at your reflection in a mirror and smiling at what you see. Pimples be gone!
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Busy Man
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) - A man acquitted a month ago of robbing a bank has been arrested in another robbery at the same bank. The man, 35, was accused of robbing Liberty Bank on Tuesday, police say.
The man was acquitted Aug. 21 of robbing the bank last October after employees could not positively identify him during his trial.
In another case, the man faces charges of aggravated assault and aggravated robbery in the beating of an elderly woman inside the downtown post office last fall. Police said he stole the woman's purse and her car.
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Information from: The Jonesboro Sun, http://www.jonesborosun.com
The man was acquitted Aug. 21 of robbing the bank last October after employees could not positively identify him during his trial.
In another case, the man faces charges of aggravated assault and aggravated robbery in the beating of an elderly woman inside the downtown post office last fall. Police said he stole the woman's purse and her car.
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Information from: The Jonesboro Sun, http://www.jonesborosun.com
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Got Problems?
Have a problem with drugs? Thinking that you have had enough and you just want to get clean and stay that way? It's about time!
What you need is drug rehabilitation that works. Many programs get you started off on the right path but, unfortunately, those programs may leave you with those old desires and make it easier for you to fall of the wagon and return to the drug lifestyle. You cannot get cured of your problems that way.
Sunset Malibu has the right program for you, to help you get off those drugs and stay off those drugs. This is the program that you need. Take back control of your life!
The nice part of the Sunset Malibu program is that they don't just have treatments for drugs. they also can help you with alcohol addiction as well as depression. Heck, they can even help you if you have an eating disorder. So, as you can see, whatever problems you may have, Sunset Malibu may have the solution that you've been looking for.
So, if you need drug rehab, alcohol help, eating help, or simply Life in general help, you seriously need to look into the programs at Sunset Malibu. Sunset Malibu's trained staff will offer the treatment center that is right for your needs. Click on either of the links in this entry or call them today at 1-800-332-9202 to start your recovery. Get control of your life today!
What you need is drug rehabilitation that works. Many programs get you started off on the right path but, unfortunately, those programs may leave you with those old desires and make it easier for you to fall of the wagon and return to the drug lifestyle. You cannot get cured of your problems that way.
Sunset Malibu has the right program for you, to help you get off those drugs and stay off those drugs. This is the program that you need. Take back control of your life!
The nice part of the Sunset Malibu program is that they don't just have treatments for drugs. they also can help you with alcohol addiction as well as depression. Heck, they can even help you if you have an eating disorder. So, as you can see, whatever problems you may have, Sunset Malibu may have the solution that you've been looking for.
So, if you need drug rehab, alcohol help, eating help, or simply Life in general help, you seriously need to look into the programs at Sunset Malibu. Sunset Malibu's trained staff will offer the treatment center that is right for your needs. Click on either of the links in this entry or call them today at 1-800-332-9202 to start your recovery. Get control of your life today!
Woman mistakes elk's call for a fight, calls cops
PHOENIX (AP) - It's a haunting, high-pitched scream that is commonly misunderstood by newcomers to Arizona's high country and the state's city dwellers. It's called bugling, and male elk do it to attract females and scare off other males so they can mate. The season just began and usually runs through the beginning of October.
Those who've never heard an elk bugle often get confused and call authorities. A woman who lives in Mesa Del, a subdivision just northeast of Payson, called the Gila County Sheriff's Office early Monday morning to report a fight, saying she heard a lot of screaming.
Lt. Tim Scott said responding deputies quickly realized the woman was really hearing elk.
Scott said he's heard bugling at his home just south of Payson for the past five nights.
Those who've never heard an elk bugle often get confused and call authorities. A woman who lives in Mesa Del, a subdivision just northeast of Payson, called the Gila County Sheriff's Office early Monday morning to report a fight, saying she heard a lot of screaming.
Lt. Tim Scott said responding deputies quickly realized the woman was really hearing elk.
Scott said he's heard bugling at his home just south of Payson for the past five nights.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
I Need A Break
It's been a rough month and it's only half over! I started bowling, that was nice, but my moneymaking online has fallen apart. It would have been nicer I suppose if I had had a clue that my blog site was going to go into the toilet. A little warning of some kind, you know? But, no warnings, no whistles, no bells, no nothing! So, I need a break!
Maybe I could sneak away for a few days and enjoy myself at one of the fine laughlin hotels. Laughlin is a lovely place, more peaceful than Vegas, with more enjoyable things close by, like the river. And, like Vegas, you can gamble to your hearts content, or at least as long as your pocketbook will allow.
Just imagine, a day spent on the Colorado River, or even in the rooftop pool at the Aquarius Hotel. Then some fine dining in a large variety of dining rooms and then a night of fun spent winning money at the casino. Sure beats the routine of the working week, doesn't it? Of course, if you don't feel like gambling there is always some live entertainment to enjoy.
So, if you are feeling like you need a break, click on the link above that says laughlin hotels and check out all of the hotels that are available in Laughlin. Pack up your stuff and head on over to Nevada's great city on the river. Give yourself a break!
Maybe I could sneak away for a few days and enjoy myself at one of the fine laughlin hotels. Laughlin is a lovely place, more peaceful than Vegas, with more enjoyable things close by, like the river. And, like Vegas, you can gamble to your hearts content, or at least as long as your pocketbook will allow.
Just imagine, a day spent on the Colorado River, or even in the rooftop pool at the Aquarius Hotel. Then some fine dining in a large variety of dining rooms and then a night of fun spent winning money at the casino. Sure beats the routine of the working week, doesn't it? Of course, if you don't feel like gambling there is always some live entertainment to enjoy.
So, if you are feeling like you need a break, click on the link above that says laughlin hotels and check out all of the hotels that are available in Laughlin. Pack up your stuff and head on over to Nevada's great city on the river. Give yourself a break!
Police get call over non-floppy rabbit ears
STIRLING, Scotland (AP) - Your rabbit's ears aren't floppy? Sorry, that's not an emergency. So said police in Scotland when a woman rang the emergency 999 number to discuss her concerns about her new pet. She said the newspaper ad promised floppy ears, but flop they would not.
Central Scotland Police said Monday they were equally unimpressed by another caller who complained that a passing car had splashed water on him, and by someone else inquiring about the postal code for a town's post office.
"Whilst officers and staff are dealing with these frivolous matters that a member of the public has deemed so serious as to call 999, they are not dealing with genuine emergency calls," said Chief Inspector Alan Stewart.
Central Scotland Police said Monday they were equally unimpressed by another caller who complained that a passing car had splashed water on him, and by someone else inquiring about the postal code for a town's post office.
"Whilst officers and staff are dealing with these frivolous matters that a member of the public has deemed so serious as to call 999, they are not dealing with genuine emergency calls," said Chief Inspector Alan Stewart.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Back To School
The new school year has started and kids are no longer sitting around the house watching television but are wishing they were. A new school year means new teachers, and new ways to torture students with more homework.
Many students are facing the reality of doing research papers and the like. How better to perform these tasks than with a Sony Vaio notebook?
Buy dot com offers many varieties of notebook computers and you are sure to find one that will help your student get all their work done and also will fit your budget. And, when the kids are done with their school work there is lots of more enjoyable things for them to do on these computers from watching their favorite videos to playing games. These notebooks have some serious power!
So, take advantage of the free shipping and get your student the help they need to compete in their scholastic endeavors. Grab a new notebook and let them soar to new heights of achievement today! Click the Sony Vaio link above. Your hard working student will thank you!
Many students are facing the reality of doing research papers and the like. How better to perform these tasks than with a Sony Vaio notebook?
Buy dot com offers many varieties of notebook computers and you are sure to find one that will help your student get all their work done and also will fit your budget. And, when the kids are done with their school work there is lots of more enjoyable things for them to do on these computers from watching their favorite videos to playing games. These notebooks have some serious power!
So, take advantage of the free shipping and get your student the help they need to compete in their scholastic endeavors. Grab a new notebook and let them soar to new heights of achievement today! Click the Sony Vaio link above. Your hard working student will thank you!
Woman faces charge after dishwashing dispute
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - Police say a 20-year-old woman faces an aggravated assault charge after she bit her boyfriend, broke a picture frame across his face and swung at him with a sword during an argument about him not doing the dishes.
The woman was arrested Thursday afternoon at the couple's apartment, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported on its Web site.
The 21-year-old man told police that he became involved in an argument because the woman was upset that the dishes were not clean. Police Lt. Paul Henderson said the woman told the man to leave the apartment, but he refused.
Henderson said the woman then tried to physically remove the man. During the ensuing struggle, the woman bit the man's right shoulder and broke a picture frame across his face, causing visible cuts, Henderson said.
The woman then grabbed an approximately 2-foot sword and swung it at him, but missed, police said.
The woman was released from a Mansfield jail after posting a $10,000 bond, jail officials said.
Henderson said the man and woman had lived together for four months.
The woman was arrested Thursday afternoon at the couple's apartment, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported on its Web site.
The 21-year-old man told police that he became involved in an argument because the woman was upset that the dishes were not clean. Police Lt. Paul Henderson said the woman told the man to leave the apartment, but he refused.
Henderson said the woman then tried to physically remove the man. During the ensuing struggle, the woman bit the man's right shoulder and broke a picture frame across his face, causing visible cuts, Henderson said.
The woman then grabbed an approximately 2-foot sword and swung it at him, but missed, police said.
The woman was released from a Mansfield jail after posting a $10,000 bond, jail officials said.
Henderson said the man and woman had lived together for four months.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Kentucky Home
Thinking about a move? Why not give Kentucky a look? See what sorts of homes are available in the great Bluegrass State.
Louisville Real Estate will be happy to help you with your new home in Kentucky. For instance, If you've been thinking about buying a new home, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 has given you a powerful incentive to make your move now. This legislation creates a tax credit for eligible home buyers who have not owned a home in the past three years. So, as you can see, this is a great time to quit renting and own your own home.
Ball Homes can help you select your new home in a variety of communities within Kentucky. They even have a program where they could take you current home in trade! Trading in your home can erase the hassles and expense of selling your home while waiting to move into your brand new home. Let the experts at Ball Homes take care of those hassles for you.
Make the Bluegrass State your new home. Give the folks at Ball Homes the opportunity to show you how simple and pain free buying a new home can be. Louisville Real Estate can answer all your home buying questions. So, click the link and be on your way to a brand new life.
Louisville Real Estate will be happy to help you with your new home in Kentucky. For instance, If you've been thinking about buying a new home, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 has given you a powerful incentive to make your move now. This legislation creates a tax credit for eligible home buyers who have not owned a home in the past three years. So, as you can see, this is a great time to quit renting and own your own home.
Ball Homes can help you select your new home in a variety of communities within Kentucky. They even have a program where they could take you current home in trade! Trading in your home can erase the hassles and expense of selling your home while waiting to move into your brand new home. Let the experts at Ball Homes take care of those hassles for you.
Make the Bluegrass State your new home. Give the folks at Ball Homes the opportunity to show you how simple and pain free buying a new home can be. Louisville Real Estate can answer all your home buying questions. So, click the link and be on your way to a brand new life.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Wedding Plans
No, not for me. One of my sons is getting married in November. Although he and his bride are legally married they want to do it in their church so they will be having a traditional church wedding. So, I am making plans to get to Seattle for that. I am going to travel by Amtrack and will be gone for a week as it is a day and a half by train to get there, then three days to visit my son and get to know his new wife then another day and a half to get back home. The only real details to work out now is where they are going to put me to stay so that someone can get me to the wedding and also back to the train station. I am very excited! I really will miss being here with my two girls but it will be nice to see some of my sons and their families, just to let them know how I am, health-wise :)
So, my weekend is going very, very well. I hope that you can say the same :)
So, my weekend is going very, very well. I hope that you can say the same :)
Friday, September 12, 2008
Moving Forward!
One of the companies I have written for in the past has accepted this blog so that I can continue to not only torture you with my babblings about what's going on in Life, but also tempt you with posts that I write for pay.
I love writing paid posts, it is always a creative challenge. What to say, how to get your attention and make you want to visit the site, these are important things and I strive to do my utmost to get them correct :)
Speaking of writing and making a little cash on the side, have you gone and checked out the mylot site yet? If not, why not? It is a fun place to socialize with people all over the world and see and learn new things about how the rest of the world lives, what is important to their lives, great things like that! So, don't delay, head on over to mylot and click where it says discussions. Read a few and then join in the fun! When you join, I will know right away and I can come and help you have fun :)
I love writing paid posts, it is always a creative challenge. What to say, how to get your attention and make you want to visit the site, these are important things and I strive to do my utmost to get them correct :)
Speaking of writing and making a little cash on the side, have you gone and checked out the mylot site yet? If not, why not? It is a fun place to socialize with people all over the world and see and learn new things about how the rest of the world lives, what is important to their lives, great things like that! So, don't delay, head on over to mylot and click where it says discussions. Read a few and then join in the fun! When you join, I will know right away and I can come and help you have fun :)
Winter Is Coming Soon
It's time to start thinking about Winter, with all its dreariness and cold, wet, weather. Take a good look at those boots you wore last winter. Are they starting to crack? Minor holes here and there? Then it is time to get yourself some new boots, to ensure that whatever winter tosses your way your feet will be protected.
Timberland Boots has all the boots you'll need, no matter what the circumstances are. Timberland, known not only for their safety and durability but also their comfort. You can wear these boots and shoes to work or out running around town without discomfort. They have boots that are very safety minded with steel toes to ensure if their is an accident your feet will be safer than in an ordinary pair of work boots. Aren't your feet worth protecting? Of course they are!
So, head on over to the Timberland shoe and boot site now, before that nasty Winter weather sets in and catches you unprepared. Your feet will thank you all Winter long!
Timberland Boots has all the boots you'll need, no matter what the circumstances are. Timberland, known not only for their safety and durability but also their comfort. You can wear these boots and shoes to work or out running around town without discomfort. They have boots that are very safety minded with steel toes to ensure if their is an accident your feet will be safer than in an ordinary pair of work boots. Aren't your feet worth protecting? Of course they are!
So, head on over to the Timberland shoe and boot site now, before that nasty Winter weather sets in and catches you unprepared. Your feet will thank you all Winter long!
Left Behind
Looks like my normal blog at blogono has left me stuck between a rock and a hard place :( I have some writing assignments that I would love to do but the entire blogono website has been suspended for an unknown reason. I have started the process of moving things to this blog so that I may continue to work in between blog entries and I hope that the companies involved will allow this move. I like blogging for fun, but I also enjoy the challenge of writing a great paid post now and then. In the meantime I will continue to check back with blogono and see what's what there. I hate to lose eight months worth of blog entries!
Hope all of you have a great weekend!
Hope all of you have a great weekend!
Good For Dad!
DELTONA, Fla. (AP) - An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter's boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter's room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn't even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year.
When he heard noises coming from his daughter's bedroom Thursday morning and saw a stranger standing naked on the girl's bed, he swung a metal pipe. He then chased the teen out the front door and called police.
The boy was taken to the hospital where doctors closed a head wound with staples.
The father was charged with aggravated battery on a child and bonded out on $10,000.
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Information from: Daytona Beach News-Journal, http://www.news-journalonline.com
When he heard noises coming from his daughter's bedroom Thursday morning and saw a stranger standing naked on the girl's bed, he swung a metal pipe. He then chased the teen out the front door and called police.
The boy was taken to the hospital where doctors closed a head wound with staples.
The father was charged with aggravated battery on a child and bonded out on $10,000.
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Information from: Daytona Beach News-Journal, http://www.news-journalonline.com
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
He Did What???
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say they've arrested a man who broke into the home of two California farmworkers, stole money, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.
Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.
He says deputies arrested Vasquez after finding a wallet containing his ID in the ransacked house.
The farmworkers told deputies the suspect woke them Saturday morning by rubbing spices on one of them and smacking the other with an 8-inch sausage.
Burrimond says money allegedly stolen was recovered.
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Information from: The Fresno Bee, http://www.fresnobee.com
Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.
He says deputies arrested Vasquez after finding a wallet containing his ID in the ransacked house.
The farmworkers told deputies the suspect woke them Saturday morning by rubbing spices on one of them and smacking the other with an 8-inch sausage.
Burrimond says money allegedly stolen was recovered.
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Information from: The Fresno Bee, http://www.fresnobee.com
Monday, September 8, 2008
Fish flies out of lake, breaks Arkansas teen's jaw
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - It's a fishing tale that packs a wallop so strong it broke the jaw of a southeastern Arkansas teen and covered him in fish blood and guts.
Seth Russell, 15, of Crossett, was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp leaped from the water and smacked him in the face. Seth was knocked unconscious.
"He doesn't remember anything at all," the boy's mother, Linda Russell, said last week. "He was laughing, and the next thing he remembers, he is waking in a hospital."
The teen has had oral surgery to wire several teeth together and still experiences back pain that doctors attribute to whiplash from the high-speed collision, his mother said.
He's not the only one who's has a run-in with the "flying" Silver Asian carp.
"They do not fly, but they are quite good jumpers," said Carole Engle, director of aquaculture and the fisheries center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. "Over the past year, we have had some calls about fish jumping and causing injuries on Lake Chicot.
"Their jumping behavior is a problem, and their population appears to be growing there," Engle said.
Silver Asian carp were first imported to the United States in the 1970s. Catfish farmers brought them here to remove algae and other suspended matter from their ponds. The Environmental Protection Agency started a program allowing cities to use the fish to help clean the water in sewer treatment plant ponds.
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Information from: The Morning News, http://www.nwaonline.net/
Seth Russell, 15, of Crossett, was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp leaped from the water and smacked him in the face. Seth was knocked unconscious.
"He doesn't remember anything at all," the boy's mother, Linda Russell, said last week. "He was laughing, and the next thing he remembers, he is waking in a hospital."
The teen has had oral surgery to wire several teeth together and still experiences back pain that doctors attribute to whiplash from the high-speed collision, his mother said.
He's not the only one who's has a run-in with the "flying" Silver Asian carp.
"They do not fly, but they are quite good jumpers," said Carole Engle, director of aquaculture and the fisheries center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. "Over the past year, we have had some calls about fish jumping and causing injuries on Lake Chicot.
"Their jumping behavior is a problem, and their population appears to be growing there," Engle said.
Silver Asian carp were first imported to the United States in the 1970s. Catfish farmers brought them here to remove algae and other suspended matter from their ponds. The Environmental Protection Agency started a program allowing cities to use the fish to help clean the water in sewer treatment plant ponds.
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Information from: The Morning News, http://www.nwaonline.net/
Friday, September 5, 2008
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Suspected car burglar gets a dirty dumping
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A 22-year-old suspected truck burglar made a dirty mistake after he tried to hide inside a portable toilet on Saturday. Tampa police said the man broke into two pickup trucks at a parking lot and the owner of the second truck fought the suspect and chased him to a nearby construction site.
The suspect tried to hide in the Port-O-Let, but the victim found him and turned it over, covering him in huge amounts of human waste.
The man was been charged with auto burglary and possession of burglary tools.
The suspect tried to hide in the Port-O-Let, but the victim found him and turned it over, covering him in huge amounts of human waste.
The man was been charged with auto burglary and possession of burglary tools.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Baggy pants trip up fleeing suspect
ATLANTA (UPI) -- An Atlanta man trying to escape from police tripped and fell as he tried to hold his baggy pants up, officers said.
Emmanuel Uzowihe, 21, allegedly pointed a gun at the police officers as he lay on the ground, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. He was shot and wounded.
The incident near the Fulton County Courthouse began when police tried to pull Uzowihe over because of a traffic violation. He allegedly stopped his white Toyota sedan but jumped out and ran away.
Anthony Gentile, a police investigator, said an officer followed Uzowihe, ordering him several times to stop.
Darrell Jackson said he saw Uzowihe run past, cursing. Other witnesses and police said Uzowihe already allegedly had his gun out while he was running.
"He was running pretty fast," Jackson said. "The only thing that messed him up is he was trying to pull his pants up."
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
Emmanuel Uzowihe, 21, allegedly pointed a gun at the police officers as he lay on the ground, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. He was shot and wounded.
The incident near the Fulton County Courthouse began when police tried to pull Uzowihe over because of a traffic violation. He allegedly stopped his white Toyota sedan but jumped out and ran away.
Anthony Gentile, a police investigator, said an officer followed Uzowihe, ordering him several times to stop.
Darrell Jackson said he saw Uzowihe run past, cursing. Other witnesses and police said Uzowihe already allegedly had his gun out while he was running.
"He was running pretty fast," Jackson said. "The only thing that messed him up is he was trying to pull his pants up."
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
Monday, September 1, 2008
Dead man's visit to doctor scuttles insurance scam
LONDON (AP) - As a dead man, Ahmad Akhtary shouldn't have needed a doctor's appointment.
Akhtary's checkup, six months after he allegedly died in Afghanistan, scuttled his ex-wife's attempt to collect 300,000 pounds (US$550,000) on a life insurance policy.
At a court hearing last week in Gloucester, a judge sentenced 34-year-old Akhtary to 60 hours of community service and his former wife, Anne Akhtary, to 40 hours of community service but suspended prison sentences of nine months each.
Anne Akhtary, 43, admitted trying to claim the payout from the Norwich Union insurance company by using a forged death certificate from Afghanistan claiming that her husband had died of brain trauma in an accident.
Within weeks, however, Norwich Union investigators were tipped off about the doctor's appointment.
"They were told that Mr. Akhtary's GP had seen him at his practice and he had attended hospital so it was not the most sophisticated way of going about making a false claim," said prosecutor James Cranfield.
Akhtary had continued to live openly in Gloucester after his supposed death, working and paying taxes, Cranfield said.
Passing sentence on Friday, Judge Mark Horton said fake insurance claims were serious but that the couple had been less than sophisticated in their attempt and that no money had been lost.
Akhtary's checkup, six months after he allegedly died in Afghanistan, scuttled his ex-wife's attempt to collect 300,000 pounds (US$550,000) on a life insurance policy.
At a court hearing last week in Gloucester, a judge sentenced 34-year-old Akhtary to 60 hours of community service and his former wife, Anne Akhtary, to 40 hours of community service but suspended prison sentences of nine months each.
Anne Akhtary, 43, admitted trying to claim the payout from the Norwich Union insurance company by using a forged death certificate from Afghanistan claiming that her husband had died of brain trauma in an accident.
Within weeks, however, Norwich Union investigators were tipped off about the doctor's appointment.
"They were told that Mr. Akhtary's GP had seen him at his practice and he had attended hospital so it was not the most sophisticated way of going about making a false claim," said prosecutor James Cranfield.
Akhtary had continued to live openly in Gloucester after his supposed death, working and paying taxes, Cranfield said.
Passing sentence on Friday, Judge Mark Horton said fake insurance claims were serious but that the couple had been less than sophisticated in their attempt and that no money had been lost.
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