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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 15, 2009 16:22:17 GMT -5
I found this line from a recent story going on hilarious...its the Jews living high on the hog in the prison story. Read whats in bold..."were entertained by clowns" - LOL! LMAO!!! Clowns coming into the jail! LOL! Jews jailed at the Tombs were welcomed in the chaplain's office, where they would shoot craps, use his secure phone line to place sports bets and eat "like kings," former inmates told The Post yesterday.
Rabbi Leib Glanz also would throw parties several times each year for Jewish prisoners on Rikers Island, where they dined on tasty kosher meals, were entertained by clowns, played basketball and ducked into bathrooms to have sex with female prisoners. www.nypost.com/seven/06132009/news/regionalnews/cons_living_lchaim_life_with_sex_174053.htm
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Post by elliejay21 on Jun 15, 2009 20:22:06 GMT -5
I need to look into this... lots of my clients were formerly guests at Rikers, as matter of fact, we get lots of referrals from the KEEP program over there...
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 20, 2009 11:05:23 GMT -5
Alonzo Mourning beats Janet Reno as school name
USA TODAY - Education - MIAMI (AP) — A new North Miami high school will be named after former NBA star Alonzo Mourning, rather than the first female U.S. Attorney General, Janet Reno.
A naming committee had earlier settled on the Alonzo and Tracy Mourning Senior High School Biscayne Bay Campus.
The Miami-Dade School Board on Wednesday gave it the final OK.
Mourning was a star for the Miami Heat, but it was the work he and his wife have done in local schools, including mentoring, that spurred the nomination.
Reno was a longtime Miami-Dade state attorney before serving as the country's attorney general from 1993 to 2001.
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Post by MSBNYY on Jun 22, 2009 13:22:38 GMT -5
I'm actually pretty surprised at this whole Iranian protest thing. Usually, these sham elections go 95 percent the way of the incumbent, and that's that. I can't believe the people are actually standing up to the government.
I wonder how this affects the US interests. It can't be that bad, given that the people in charge are filth. The other side may not be better, but I doubt they are worse.
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Post by thecaptain15 on Jun 22, 2009 15:08:36 GMT -5
I am thinking the Iron Shiek can make an in ring comeback with all this swirling around.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 22, 2009 19:54:26 GMT -5
The thing with the Iranian issue is it was SO blatant, it was made a joke. They gave the results only 2 hours after the election. They were also completely out of wack, the biggest victory in the history of Iranian voting. If you are going to sham people, do it less obviously.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 30, 2009 12:34:58 GMT -5
Oregon Man's Wallet Found After 63 Years
BAKER CITY, Ore. — Bill Fulton doesn't remember losing his wallet, but getting it back more than 60 years later helped him remember the past.
The leather stayed smooth and the zipper moved as easily as it did in 1946, when he apparently dropped the wallet behind the balcony bleachers in the Baker Middle School gym while cheering for the Baker High basketball team.
Fulton's Social Security card and a bicycle license for his job as a drugstore delivery boy were positioned in their respective compartments, apparently untouched since the year after World War II ended.
"After that long, my gosh, it stayed in good shape," Fulton, 78, told the Baker City Herald. "It's hard to believe."
A worker found the wallet — along with old homework, lost library books and a 1964 talent show program — while removing the bleachers for renovations on June 17. It was brought to Fulton's door the following day by Melanie Trindle, the Baker Middle School secretary.
"He was pretty much amazed," Trindle said. "He just kept saying, 'Thank you. Thank you so much. Let me buy you a beer' "
The brown pine bleachers had been in place since the school opened in 1936.
Fulton said the recovery has led him to reflect on a life that took him to the Korean War and Berlin before a return to Baker City. He worked at Ellingson Lumber Company for 30 years until 1994.
"Where did all the time go?" Fulton said with a deep sigh. "It's hard to believe that the times have gone so fast."
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 1, 2009 9:31:43 GMT -5
LOL. Critics Cringe at Ad for Burger King's Latest SandwichAn advertisement for Burger King's latest sandwich leaves little to the imagination and should be discontinued due to "distasteful" and unappetizing references to oral sex, advertising experts told FOXNews.com.
The print ad for the "BK Super Seven Incher" — a limited time promotion in Singapore, a society known around the world for its strict government controls of social conduct — shows the "mind-blowing" sandwich near the open mouth of a wide-eyed, red-lipsticked woman accompanied by the suggestive tagline: "It'll blow your mind away."
"Fill your desire for something long, juicy and flame-grilled," the ad continues.
Mark Duffy, a blogger and an advertising copywriter at a major New York City firm, said the advertisement is among the "worst" he's ever seen in more than 17 years of industry experience.
"I've seen a lot of sexual innuendo ads and this is about the worst, especially for something as mainstream as Burger King," Duffy told FOXNews.com. "I was a little repulsed by it. It's really misogynistic to women and it's also unappetizing."
Duffy said it appeared the woman's face in the advertisement had been retouched to make it look like a doll and that the American cheese on the sandwich seemed a little too white.
"It's outlandish," he said. "They obviously didn’t hire a top-notch food photographer."
Duffy, who called on Burger King to terminate the ad, said there's little else marketers could have left to the imagination.
"It's really distasteful on the appetite level and on the social level," Duffy said. "The ad pretty much speaks for itself. How much more do they have to spell it out for you?"
Lauren Kuziner, a spokeswoman for Burger King, said the campaign was produced by a local Singaporean agency and not by the company's U.S. advertising firm, Crispin Porter + Bogusky.
"Burger King Corp. values and respects all of its guests," Kuziner said in a statement to FOXNews.com. "This print ad is running to support a limited time promotion in the Singapore market and is not running in the U.S. or any other markets. The campaign is supported by the franchisee in Singapore and has generated positive consumer sales around this limited time product offer in that market."
Kuziner declined to identify the Singapore-based firm and did not respond to requests for comment on whether Burger King had received complaints in connection to the advertisement.
Meanwhile, Scott Purvis, president of Gallup & Robinson, a marketing and advertising research firm in New Jersey, said the print pitch went "too far" and seemed unusual for a global brand like Burger King.
"This would be the kind of ad you might see for a smaller brand trying to get itself noticed," Purvis said. "It's probably something that wouldn't see the light of day in this country."
Purvis praised Burger King for its advertising "edginess" and he said sex in ads is an effective way to get consumer attention, but he noted that advertisements on average are recalled at a 20 percent higher rate if they contain sexually explicit images or messages.
"But the problem is, the advertisements, as a group are not as persuasive as all advertising," he said. 'It stops and gets people's attention, but they generally don't go further and get any kind of motivation of interest in the product itself."
Previous marketing campaigns by Burger King have included its award-wining "Subservient Chicken" viral video, spots featuring "Whopper virgins" and most recently, an appearance by rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot and SpongeBob SquarePants. Other slogans previously used by the fast food giant include "Have It Your Way" and "It Takes Two Hands to Handle a Whopper."
"They've done some good stuff in terms of helping to break out of the stereotypical type of advertising you often see, but occasionally they seem to go too far and other times they get it exactly right," Purvis said. "And that's what happens with edgy advertising — you just don't know where to draw the line."
Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of media studies at New York University and author of a forthcoming book on the marketing campaign behind the "Marlboro Man," said the ad reeked of a "certain desperation" just to make an impression.
"This is really straining to be dirty," Miller told FOXNews.com. "This is objectionable because it's outrageously exaggerating the pleasure of Burger King. It's not that good, even as food, and therefore nowhere near as gratifying as an orgasm. There's no doubt they intended a double entrendre."
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Post by Lindsey on Jul 1, 2009 9:53:25 GMT -5
That's the greatest thing I've ever seen! but is seven inches supposed to blow my mind? I think not!
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Post by crazilyz on Jul 1, 2009 10:40:48 GMT -5
the American cheese on the sandwich seemed a little too white.
The chicken sandwich doesn't come with cheese, that white stuff is mayo.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 10, 2009 8:19:58 GMT -5
Another one of those feel-good stories hit yesterdays POST...
WORKER DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
CAMDEN, NJ - A man died after falling into a vat of chocolate in a processing plant yesterday.
Vincent Smith, 29, a temp worker at the Cocoa Services Inc plant in Camden, fell after a blade used to mix raw chocolate hit him, a spokesman for the prosecuters office said.
The accident happened yesterday morning as the worker was loading chocolate into the vat where its melted and mixed.
Prosecuter spokesman Jason Laughlin said a co-worker tried to shut off the machine but did not know how, and two others tried to pull the man out of the 8-foot vat, but were not strong enough.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 10, 2009 12:23:08 GMT -5
Ok, this was bound to happen again at some point -
Man Gored to Death During Pamplona Bull Run
PAMPLONA, Spain — A charging bull gored a young man to death Friday at Pamplona's San Fermin festival, the first such fatality in nearly 15 years. Nine others were injured in a particularly dangerous and chaotic chapter of the running of the bulls.
The San Fermin festival Web site said the unidentified man was gored in the neck and lung during a run in which a rogue bull separated from the pack, which is among the worst things that can happen at Spain's most popular fiesta.
Photographs showed the man lying on a stretcher moments after the goring, his face and neck stained with blood and his eyes only half-open. An emergency medical worker is leaning over him, applying what appears to be gauze to his neck wound.
Three other people were gored, and six people suffered bumps, bruises and other lesser injuries, said Fernando Boneta, director of Virgen del Camino Hospital.
The last fatal goring at the running of the bulls claimed the life of 22-year-old American Matthew Tassio in 1995. In 2003, a 63-year-old Spanish man, Fermin Etxeberri, was trampled in the head by a bull and died after spending months in a coma.
Friday's death raises to 15 the toll since record-keeping began in 1924.
Fatalities are relatively rare and when one occurs, it serves as a reminder that amid all the street parties and revelry associated with San Fermin, running with fighting bulls weighing 1,300 pounds (600 kilos) or more on cobblestone streets packed with humanity is a life-risking exercise.
The man killed was carrying no identification, but he might be Spanish, judging from a Spanish-language inscription on a ring he was wearing, Pamplona mayor Yolanda Barcina said.
This run, the fourth of eight held at San Fermin, was by far the most perilous of this year's festival. The last three runs were comparatively placid affairs, with no serious injuries.
The six bulls covering the half-mile (850-meter) course with six accompanying steers tend to mind their own business and keep running as long as they stay in a pack. A bull that gets separated is more likely to get frightened and aggressive, and that is what happened Friday.
A brown, 1,130-pound bull named Cappuccino fell early in the run and ended up on its own.
When it reached a stretch right outside the bullring that marks the end of the course, it started charging right and left, and even ran back the wrong way several times. Runners scurried for safety to wooden barriers along the route as the bull attacked. Herders waving sticks tried in vain to guide it into the ring, even yanking on the animal's tail to turn it around.
This went on for a minute and a half, which is a long time at San Fermin.
At one point the bull picked one man up with its horns and flipped him into the air, then kept going after him as he lay curled up on the ground, covering his face. But this man got up and ran away, and was apparently not seriously hurt.
Cappuccino is the bull behind Friday's fatality, although this happened in a slightly earlier stretch of the route, said one of the herders, Humberto Miguel.
"It was a light bull. Its charges were not particularly strong but it moved very fast from left to right," he told The Associated Press. "Of the whole pack, it was the one that gave us the most trouble."
The bulls used in Friday's run, from a ranch called Jandilla, have a reputation for being fierce at San Fermin. They hold the record for the most gorings in a single run — eight, one day in 2004.
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Post by Chris on Jul 15, 2009 12:10:21 GMT -5
Now that's a flagrant foul.
Former New Jersey Net star Richard Jefferson bailed on his stunning fiancée -- pulling the plug on his posh Manhattan wedding at the 11th hour without even alerting some of the guests, The Post has learned.
The cold-footed forward's decision to ditch onetime Net dancer Kesha Ni'Cole Nichols was so last-minute that some of his oblivious friends had already shown up last Saturday at the swank Mandarin Oriental in Columbus Circle for the $2 million wedding that never happened.
Jefferson -- who was traded in June to the San Antonio Spurs -- dumped Nichols just before the weekend, according to sources.
She immediately called her family and friends to say the ceremony was off.
But Jefferson waited much longer, his friends told The Post.
"He called about two hours before the wedding. It was nuts," said one Jefferson pal.
He never showed up at the hotel, but "all his boys were there," the friend said. "He gave his best friend the Black Amex [credit card] for the night."
Jefferson's guests made good use of the credit card to party on their pal's dime.
Nichols did check in to the hotel on what was to have been her wedding day, and was upgraded to a suite on the 45th floor with a king-sized bed and a Central Park view, according to a source at the Mandarin.
The would-be bride was stunned, but "not entirely caught off-guard," by Jefferson's unsportsmanlike conduct, according to a family friend.
"She just wants to keep this as quiet as possible and move on. She's doing just fine," a Nichols family insider said.
Neither Jefferson nor Nichols responded to requests for comment.
Additional reporting by Amber Sutherland and Lachlan Cartwright
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 16, 2009 6:42:31 GMT -5
Yeah, saw a big spread on that in this weekends POST. Nice to know he will be using that really as his crash-pad "during spring training." Nice mansion for a month a year!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jul 18, 2009 20:32:54 GMT -5
Ok, this story has like, the funniest paragraph ever in it, which I bolded below. LOLOL!
HARRIED POTTER PRANK CALLERS DRIVE WIZ-KID NAMESAKE NUTS
What's the spell for casting off drunken frat boys?
Every time a new Harry Potter flick comes out, an upstate mailman with the same name has to fight off the forces of evil -- in this case prank callers obsessed with his famed name.
"It's a pain right in the butt," the 64-year-old Scotia man told The Post yesterday. "I think that woman [Potter author J.K.] Rowling owes me big time for what I've been put through. I would like half a percent of the royalties. That's chump change to her."
Potter says that college kids from local schools such as Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are constantly downing beers, finding his phone number and making obscene calls early in the a.m.
" "They are drunker than skunks, and they call up and they are harassing. They call at 2, 3, 4 in the morning," he said. "When you say to them 'Do you know what time it is?' they start calling you an eff-ing a--hole.'
Potter said that he has filed complaints against several of the callers but that none of the cases have ever been pursued by authorities.
"I have filed reports, and the DA doesn't want to do anything about it," he said.
Not everything has been bad about Potter's recent magical notoriety.
The widowed mailman once got a free meal at Outback Steakhouse when workers learned his name and were apologetic because they though it was a joke when he called for reservations.
The veteran letter carrier also becomes a celebrity every time one of Rowling's new Potter books is shipped, and it becomes his job to deliver it to children in the Scotia area.
"When the book came out, I don't know how many I autographed for kids on my route," he said. "I don't know whether Rowling would take offense to that or not."
Potter uses the nickname "Skip" on his answering machine message.
He said that he is not a fan of the books or movies.
"I saw the first movie on television," he said. "It's not my thing."
He admits that he could stop the harassing calls if he got an unlisted number, but he doesn't want to pay the phone company.
"I don't think it's fair," he said.
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Post by sean on Jul 20, 2009 10:02:53 GMT -5
wow, so some crazy stalker must have found out where ESPN mega babe Erin Andrews was staying, down to what room she was in. Looks like he cut a peephole in the wall, and shot some video of her butt ass naked. As much as i'd love to see her naked, not so much in this way. Probably a hotel employee weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/2009/07/blogospheres_erin_andrews_obse.htmlTo this point, the blogosphere's endless fascination with Erin Andrews mostly has been harmless, semi-wholesome fun. But that changed this week with the surfacing of video somehow taken of Ms. Andrews through a hotel peephole, when she was in a state of extreme undress. Not cool. The video has been deleted from most sites by now, but not all. Via PRNewsire: With respect to recent Internet postings of Erin Andrews, she has authorized her attorney, Marshall B. Grossman of Bingham McCutchen LLP, to issue the following statement: "While alone in the privacy of her hotel room, Erin Andrews was surreptitiously videotaped without her knowledge or consent. She was the victim of a crime and is taking action to protect herself and help ensure that others are not similarly violated in the future. Although the perpetrator or perpetrators of this criminal act have not yet been identified, when they are identified she intends to bring both civil and criminal charges against them and against anyone who has published the material. We request respect of Erin's privacy at this time, while she and her representatives are working with the authorities."
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Post by sean on Jul 20, 2009 11:40:24 GMT -5
I'm reading now that the Erin Andrews video, which is legit, is being used to dpread a computer virus
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 3, 2009 13:05:43 GMT -5
Two Rail Passengers Killed After Complaining of Humming
Two passengers have been stabbed to death after they complained about a man humming on a train, say reports in China.
The knifeman was humming along to his CD player when three people in the carriage complained about the noise.
A fight began and the trio wrestled the man to the floor and began beating him, said the state-run Xinhua news agency.
The man — identified only by his surname Yan — then pulled out a blade and stabbed all three of them.
One died on the train, while another died later in hospital.
The third man was taken to hospital and is recovering from his injuries.
Yan was arrested by police on the train, which was travelling from Kunming to Chengdu.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 6, 2009 22:22:41 GMT -5
Who knew there was a "Jewish humor magazine?" Roseanne Barr Poses as Adolf Hitler in Shocking Photo Spreadfoxnews.com Comedian Roseanne Barr has seriously pushed the bar with a new photo spread that depicts her as a domesticated version of Adolf Hitler for Jewish humor magazine Heeb.
At her request, Heeb photographed Barr wearing the infamous Hitler moustache and a swastika, holding and preparing to take a bite of what the article refers to as “burnt Jew cookies.”
The shocking photos and interview are the first time the comedian has been seen after a “self-imposed” exile.
The article describes Barr – who is Jewish – as nailing the “Fuehrer’s facial expressions with twisted glee.”
Later, the 55-year-old actress put the “swastika armband, one of the gingerbread victims and a Polaroid of herself in the costume in a Ziploc bag, making it look like evidence from some bizarre crime scene.”
Barr told the magazine she planned to bring the twisted souvenirs to her 13-year-old son when she picked him up from school.
“Maybe this will make my kid like me,” she said.
Barr is best known for her self-titled series on ABC “Roseanne,” which ran from 1988 to 1997. She briefly hosted her own talk show, “The Roseanne Show” before debuting a cooking program entitled “Domestic Goddess.” Most recently, she co-hosted a one hour show on KPFK, Pacifica Radio.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 10, 2009 14:58:53 GMT -5
Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Monday, August 10, 2009
MINSK, Belarus — Belarusian officials says that a massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man who was hanging from it, killing him on the spot.
The Emergency Situations ministry said Monday that the 21-year-old man was drunk when he climbed onto the five-meter (16-feet)-high plaster monument early Monday and hung from its arm. It then broke into pieces and he was crushed.
The statue in the southeastern Belarus town of Uvarovichi was built in 1939.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is a staunch admirer of the Soviet Union, and the nation still has numerous Soviet-era monuments to the revolutionary leader.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 26, 2009 7:38:05 GMT -5
These stories are always a hoot. Busted! Microsoft Edits Black Man Out of Photo, ApologizesLOS ANGELES — Software giant Microsoft Corp. is apologizing for altering a photo on its Web site to change the race of one of the people shown in the picture.
A photo on the Seattle-based company's U.S. Web site shows two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at a conference room table. But on the Web site of Microsoft's Polish business unit, the black man's head has been replaced with that of a white man. The color of his hand remains unchanged.
The photo editing sparked criticism online. Some bloggers said Poland's ethnic homogeneity may have played a role in changing the photo.
"We are looking into the details of this situation," Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos said in a statement Tuesday. "We apologize and are in the process of pulling down the image."
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Post by Chris on Sept 5, 2009 23:20:22 GMT -5
Read this in the Post:
World's (alleged) tiniest dog has a fatal fall before the Guinness Book of Records folks could come verify.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 6, 2009 1:04:03 GMT -5
Yeah, read that too. Stupid dog jumped out of the owners hands and broke its leg. From there, medication killed the thing. Dog jumping out of hand sounds like they were parading him around like a trophy. The idea that they had such a hankering to get into the Guiness book instead of just enjoying their pet is sorta amusing.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 17, 2009 15:23:41 GMT -5
Notre Dame Sues Caterer Mistakenly Given $29G Gratuity
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The University of Notre Dame has a new tip for a catering employee they mistakenly gave a $29,000 gratuity check: Give it back.
A lawsuit filed by the Indiana university claims Sara Gaspar used the accidental check to pay bills and buy a new car, MyFOX Chicago reported.
Notre Dame claims the check, which was supposed to be for $29.87, not $29,387, was issued on April 17 and alleges caterer Gaspar never notified university officials about the blunder.
Gaspar claims when messages she left regarding the check went unreturned, she assumed the amount wasn't a mistake. She also said her supervisors told her the check was legitimate and they would pass on her messages to the human resources department, MyFOX Chicago reported.
"I guess because it was there and I was in a bad situation, I went out and spent it," Gaspar told the South Bend Tribune. "I was so excited ... I thought, I could pay some of these bills."
Her attorney claims that because the funds were listed as "gratuity" and not "wages," Gaspar did nothing wrong.
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 18, 2009 11:54:00 GMT -5
I wish someone got a picture of the owner's face when the dog hit the ground. Oh well, at least they could get in the record book for the world's tiniest DEAD dog.
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Post by crazilyz on Sept 18, 2009 13:30:21 GMT -5
Speaking of that Guinness dog, what about all that shit with Jessica Simpson waiting for the return of her dog that got snatched by the coyote? Face it, the dog has been consumed and digested...the closest you will get to having that dog back is in the form of the coyote's turd.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 21, 2009 18:35:10 GMT -5
Man Appeals Ruling His Firing Over Visits to Adult Chat Rooms
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- A former IBM employee who was fired for visiting an adult chat room while at work has appealed a court decision against him. James Pacenza, 60, of Montgomery, had claimed that post-traumatic stress stemming from combat in Vietnam had turned him into a sex-and-Internet addict who should have been treated rather than dismissed. But IBM said Pacenza was discharged simply because ``he visited an Internet chat room for a sexual experience during work after he had been previously warned.'' Federal Judge Paul Gardephe agreed that IBM Corp. policy was consistent and granted the company summary judgment in April. He said Pacenza had never told IBM about his stress disorder, so he couldn't have expected the company to make any special accommodation for him. He also said there was no evidence that IBM had used the chat-room incident as a pretext to fire him for other reasons including his age. Pacenza's lawyer, Michael Diederich, said Monday he had appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ``The district court did not consider all the varying and contradictory explanations that IBM had for terminating Pacenza, including that he had the right of an internal appeal that they flatly refused to him,'' Diederich said. Calls to Diana Bernard, a spokeswoman for Armonk-based IBM, were not immediately returned. The case, filed in 2004, prompted discussions of how employers regulate Internet use that is not work-related and how Internet overuse is categorized medically. Internet addiction is not recognized as a separate disorder by the American Psychiatric Association, and treatment is not generally covered by insurance. Some experts say it can be a symptom of other mental illness, such as depression. In 2006, a Stanford University study found that up to 14 percent of computer users reported neglecting work, school, families, food and sleep to use the Internet. Pacenza, a 19-year IBM veteran, was making $65,000 a year operating a machine at a plant in East Fishkill that makes computer chips. During some down time on May 28, 2003, he logged onto an adult chat room from a computer at his work station. ``I felt I needed the interactive engagement of chat talk to divert my attention from my thoughts of Vietnam and death,'' he said in court papers. ``I was tempting myself to perhaps become involved in some titillating conversation.'' He said the stress from Vietnam had caused him to become ``a sex addict, and with the development of the Internet, an Internet addict.'' Another worker saw some chat entries on Pacenza's station, including a vulgar reference to a sexual act. He reported his discovery to his boss, and Pacenza was fired the next day. Pacenza, who has a wife and two children, is still working in computers at another company but making less money, his lawyer said Monday.
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Post by Lindsey on Sept 23, 2009 9:08:25 GMT -5
Short-handed Bulls win Triple-A crown
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Durham lost 10 of its top players to the big league club or Team USA since Aug. 31, but the Bulls still managed to take home the Triple-A Baseball National Championship trophy.
The International League-champion Bulls beat the Pacific Coast League champs from Memphis, 5-4, in 11 innings in the fourth annual Triple-A Baseball National Championship Game in front of 6,777 fans at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark.
Durham ended the Pacific Coast League's three-game winning streak in the Triple-A title game and also kept Memphis from sweeping all seven of its postseason games.
In the bottom of the 11th, Michel Hernandez doubled to left-center field. He was replaced by pinch-runner Rashad Eldridge, the only player in the game who had played for the host city.
Eldridge took third on Royce Ring's wild pitch and then crossed the plate when reliever Oneli Perez's only pitch of the game also was wild.
"We hung together," said starting pitcher Jeremy Hellickson, who was awarded the Bobby Murcer MVP trophy. "We didn't lose too much offense when we lost all those players (since Aug. 31), and we were never out of any ballgame."
Since the final week of the regular season, the Bulls had lost their only International League All-Star, outfielder Jon Weber, and relief pitcher Jason Childers (9-6, five saves), to the USA's World Cup team.
Tampa Bay has called up seven Durham players since Aug. 31, including home run and RBI leader Chris Richard, wins leader Wade Davis and saves leader Dale Thayer. And in the Bulls' run to the International League's Governors' Cup, they lost Thayer's successor, Winston Abreu, to an aneurysm in his pitching arm.
"It's a compliment to the whole team that the guys that stayed back did a helluva job," said Durham manager Charlie Montoyo.
"Because I played so many years in Triple-A, I made sure everybody played. So whenever somebody was called up, somebody else was ready to play. Nobody goes two days without playing. I did that all year, and I almost got everybody to play in this game."
Hellickson allowed two hits and a walk and fanned two over five shutout innings. He left with a 4-0 lead.
"This is definitely an honor, but anybody could have got it today," the right-hander said. "We played great, we played as a team. We went 11 innings, so everybody contributed."
Hellickson split time between Double-A Montgomery and Durham in the regular season. He posted a 9-2 record and 2.45 ERA overall. Batters hit only .178 against him and he averaged 10.4 strikeouts per nine innings pitched.
"Hellickson pitched lights-out tonight and all year," Montoyo said. "He did his job for five innings and that was good enough."
Memphis, the top farm club of the St. Louis Cardinals, tied the game with four runs in the first two innings after Hellickson left the game.
Durham's Ray Olmedo had two doubles, two walks, scored twice and drove in a run, Desmond Jennings was 3-for-5 with an RBI and Elliot Johnson had two hits and scored once.
The only player with more than one hit for the Redbirds was Allen Craig, who smacked a two-run homer.
Durham took a 1-0 lead on inning-opening doubles by Olmedo and Jennings in the third. The Bulls pounded Memphis starter P.J. Walters for three more runs on five hits to go up 4-0 in the fourth.
Memphis pitchers had allowed only 10 runs -- six earned -- in the Redbirds' six wins over Albuquerque and Sacramento en route to the Pacific Coast League title.
Memphis came back with three quick runs in the sixth inning when Jon Jay and Craig sandwiched home runs around a Tyler Greene single. The Redbirds tied the game on David Freese's bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the seventh.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Oct 2, 2009 14:47:38 GMT -5
Ohio Woman Who Beat Baby Deer to Death Gets Community Service
EUCLID, Ohio — A woman accused of beating a baby deer to death with a shovel after finding it in her flower garden has been sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
Seventy-six-year-old Dorothy Richardson of the Cleveland suburb of Euclid pleaded no contest Thursday to one misdemeanor count of animal abuse and was found guilty by a municipal court judge, who also ordered Richardson to pay a $500 fine.
Richardson says she became frightened when she saw the fawn in her garden on June 15 and had meant to shoo it away with the shovel.
Earlier, she pleaded not guilty to two animal abuse counts. One charge was dropped in exchange for her new, no contest plea.
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