If you have not seen the show, I highly recommend it. James Spader and William Shatner are brilliant.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Merseyside | Woman jailed for testicle attack
Woman jailed for testicle attack A woman who ripped off her ex-boyfriend’s testicle with her bare hands has been sent to prison.
Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage when Geoffrey Jones, 37, rejected her advances at the end of a house party, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: “That’s yours.”
Monti admitted wounding and was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Two and a half years? That should be life!
Television’s ‘Mr. Wizard’ dies at 89 - CNN.com
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Don Herbert, who as television’s “Mr. Wizard” introduced generations of young viewers to the joys of science, died Tuesday. He was 89.
Herbert, who had bone cancer, died at his suburban Bell Canyon home, said his son-in-law, Tom Nikosey.
“He really taught kids how to use the thinking skills of a scientist,” said former colleague Steve Jacobs. He worked with Herbert on a 1980s show that echoed the original 1950s “Watch Mr. Wizard” series, which became a fond baby boomer memory.
In “Watch Mr. Wizard,” which was produced from 1951 to 1964 and received a Peabody Award in 1954, Herbert turned TV into an entertaining classroom. On a simple, workshop-like set, he demonstrated experiments using household items.
Herbert encouraged children to duplicate experiments at home, said Jacobs, who recounted serving as a behind-the-scenes “science sidekick” to Herbert on the ’80s “Mr. Wizard’s World,” which aired on the Nickelodeon channel.
Born in Waconia, Minnesota, Herbert was a 1940 graduate of LaCrosse State Teachers College and was an Army Air Corps pilot during World War II. He worked as an actor, model and radio writer before starting “Watch Mr. Wizard” in Chicago on NBC.
I used to /love/ that show. I remember being jealous of the kids that were on it.
Teachers stage fake gunman attack on sixth graders - CNN.com
Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
Because if my son went to that school, I would be kicking somebody’s ass!
I am /all/ for being prepared for any type of situation, but to include the children like that is absolutely ridiculous. Heads will roll.
Sky News - Machine Means End To Sleepless Nights
A new discovery could make it possible to take a “power nap” at the flick of a switch.Scientists have found a way to turn on deep sleep at will using a machine that magnetically stimulates the brain.
A device worn on the head could in squeeze the benefit of eight hours’ sleep into just two or three hours.
sign me up!!
Veto the ‘Squito is a nonpartisan, nonsectarian, youth-led campaign protecting children and families from malaria. Veto the ‘Squito S.W.A.T. T.E.A.M.s (Students Working As Teammates To Engage Against Malaria) are learning about the cause, educating others, contributing, and volunteering. SWAT TEAM members are raising funds with their families, schools, clubs, teams, places of worship and local media outlets to provide bed nets treated with insecticide and repellent to children and their families in sub-Saharan Africa. Veto the ‘Squito’s partners include Americans for Informed Democracy, Children for Children, and LOVE, HALLIE Foundation as well as students and schools around the country and the world.
Nothing but Nets is a global, grassroots campaign to save lives by preventing malaria, a leading killer of children in Africa. Inspired by Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly, who challenged each of his readers to donate at least $10 for the purchase and distribution of an anti-malaria bed net, thousands of people have joined the campaign. Founding campaign partners include the National Basketball Association’s NBA Cares, The People of the United Methodist Church, Malaria no More, and Sports Illustrated. Active partners such as VH-1, AOL Black Voices and Rotarian’s Action Group on Malaria are joining the fight. Nothing but Nets just completed distributing the first round of 150,000 nets to Nigeria through the Measles Initiative – a partnership of the United Nations Foundation, American Red Cross, U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, UNICEF and local country governments and ministries of health.
Send a Net – Save a Life. www.NothingbutNets.net
The world is mobilizing for the fight of our generation against malaria in Africa, the killer and destroyer of life. Canadians can be front and center.There is no more effective tool to fight disease-carrying mosquitos than treated bed nets. The Canadian national campaign Spread the Net, in partnership with UNICEF Canada, will cover Africans in both Liberia and Rwanda with 500,000 mosquito bed nets over the next two years, saving countless lives. Each net costs only $10, the price of a couple of lattes.
$10, one net, save lives.
Check out www.spreadthenet.org for how to participate.
Against Malaria is a global focus for mosquito net fundraising. Every US$5 buys a long-lasting insecticidal mosquito net and then our partners fund the shipping, distribution, education and evaluation costs. 100% of the money you donate buys the nets themselves and they are put over heads and beds by our partners and we demonstrate that has happened. Our aim is to show there is global mass support for beating malaria. We aim to get millions of people to participate.Definitely worth a read…
www.kansascity.com | 04/11/2007 | Imus isn’t the real bad guy
Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.
You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.
Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.
The bigots win again.
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and ho’s.
