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Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Friday, February 02, 2007
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
NYC Children
Danny Goldfield is a New York City photographer who is working on a project (New York City Children) that has him attempting to take a photograph of at least one child from every country in the world who is actually living in New York City.
For those of you doing the math:
194 Countries....1 City
For those of you doing the math:
194 Countries....1 City
Monday, October 23, 2006
Amazing Teenager!
This video is from the CBS Early Show....from an article in People Magazine.
I don't want to give too much away....you have to watch it....but he is VERY inspirational!!
I would love to meet him AND his mother!!
I don't want to give too much away....you have to watch it....but he is VERY inspirational!!
I would love to meet him AND his mother!!
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Wanna get married in Vegas?
If so....make sure you do it between the hours of 8 am and midnight!!No more 24/7 weddings in Vegas.
Although it does sound pretty sad, I mean getting married in Vegas is as much a part of Vegas as slot machines are!
City officials say that less than 4% of all license requests come in after midnight.
Monday, August 21, 2006
German Research
Secure relationships = less sex in women
This article details how researchers from Germany found that four years into a relationship, less than half of 30-year-old women wanted regular sex.
What? NO WAY!!
It took actual research to figure this out?
Some other brilliant statistics from the article include, "They found 60% of 30-year-old women wanted sex "often" at the beginning of a relationship, but within four years of the relationship this figure fell to under 50%, and after 20 years it dropped to about 20%."
"In contrast, they found the proportion of men wanting regular remained at 60-80%, regardless of how long they had been in a relationship."
Again, it took RESEARCH to figure this out??
This article details how researchers from Germany found that four years into a relationship, less than half of 30-year-old women wanted regular sex.
What? NO WAY!!
It took actual research to figure this out?
Some other brilliant statistics from the article include, "They found 60% of 30-year-old women wanted sex "often" at the beginning of a relationship, but within four years of the relationship this figure fell to under 50%, and after 20 years it dropped to about 20%."
"In contrast, they found the proportion of men wanting regular remained at 60-80%, regardless of how long they had been in a relationship."
Again, it took RESEARCH to figure this out??
Monday, July 31, 2006
Hey! That's ME!
from MSNBC.com
Waitress asks for ID, gets stolen license back
Bar server checking patron’s age is handed very familiar driver’s license
WESTLAKE, Ohio - A bar waitress checking to see if a woman was legally old enough to drink was handed her own stolen driver's license, which was reported missing weeks earlier, police said.
"The odds of this waitress recovering her own license defy calculation," police Capt. Guy Turner said Monday.
Maria Bergan, 23, of Lakewood, was charged Sunday night with identity theft and receiving stolen property. She was arrested at her home in suburban Cleveland and was jailed in Westlake to await a court appearance.
The 22-year-old waitress, whose name was not released, called police last week and said she had been handed her own stolen driver's license by a woman trying to prove she was 21. The woman, who became suspicious of the delay as the waitress went to call police, fled the Moosehead Saloon, but her companion provided her name.
The waitress said she had lost her wallet July 9 at a bar in Lakewood.
The victim also had a credit card stolen. The stolen card has been used to make $1,000 in purchases, Turner said.
Waitress asks for ID, gets stolen license back
Bar server checking patron’s age is handed very familiar driver’s license
WESTLAKE, Ohio - A bar waitress checking to see if a woman was legally old enough to drink was handed her own stolen driver's license, which was reported missing weeks earlier, police said.
"The odds of this waitress recovering her own license defy calculation," police Capt. Guy Turner said Monday.
Maria Bergan, 23, of Lakewood, was charged Sunday night with identity theft and receiving stolen property. She was arrested at her home in suburban Cleveland and was jailed in Westlake to await a court appearance.
The 22-year-old waitress, whose name was not released, called police last week and said she had been handed her own stolen driver's license by a woman trying to prove she was 21. The woman, who became suspicious of the delay as the waitress went to call police, fled the Moosehead Saloon, but her companion provided her name.
The waitress said she had lost her wallet July 9 at a bar in Lakewood.
The victim also had a credit card stolen. The stolen card has been used to make $1,000 in purchases, Turner said.
Friday, July 28, 2006
Living in Sin
I love those old archaic laws....
Until earlier this week it was illegal for a man and a woman in North Carolina to live together if they weren't married!!!
That law was on the books for 201 years!!
from CNN.com
It's legal to play house in North Carolina
Judge lifts state's cohabitation ban, calls it unconstitutional
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- A state judge has ruled that North Carolina's 201-year-old law barring unmarried couples from living together is unconstitutional.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued last year to overturn the rarely enforced law on behalf of a former sheriff's dispatcher who says she had to quit her job because she wouldn't marry her live-in boyfriend.
Deborah Hobbs, 41, says her boss, Sheriff Carson Smith of Pender County, near Wilmington, told her to get married, move out or find another job after he found out she and her boyfriend had been living together for three years. The couple did not want to get married, so Hobbs quit in 2004.
State Superior Court Judge Benjamin Alford issued the ruling late Wednesday, saying the law violated Hobbs' constitutional right to liberty. He cited a 2003 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Texas sodomy law.
That ruling showed that "the government has no business regulating relationships between two consenting adults in the privacy of their own home," Jennifer Rudinger, executive director of the ACLU of North Carolina, said in a statement.
She added that "the idea that the government would criminalize people's choice to live together out of wedlock in this day and age defies logic and common sense."
The suit named Smith, the state and Attorney General Roy Cooper as defendants. Cooper had argued that Hobbs couldn't challenge the law because she wasn't charged with a crime.
A Cooper spokeswoman said Thursday that lawyers had not decided whether to appeal.
Hobbs said Thursday she was "very happy for myself and for everyone else this law has affected." She added that she hasn't thought about applying for another job with the sheriff's office.
Rudinger said that since 1997, the law has spawned about 36 criminal cases in North Carolina. State officials have said the number of people actually convicted under the law -- formally known as the fornication and adultery statute -- is not clear.
The law also has been used to deny compensation to crime victims, child custody, health benefits, probation and parole, Rudinger said.
The law states, in part: "If any man and woman, not being married to each other, shall lewdly and lasciviously associate, bed and cohabit together, they shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor."
About 144,000 unmarried couples live together in North Carolina, according to the 2000 census. The ACLU says along with North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, Michigan, Mississippi and North Dakota have laws that prohibit cohabitation.
Until earlier this week it was illegal for a man and a woman in North Carolina to live together if they weren't married!!!
That law was on the books for 201 years!!
from CNN.com
It's legal to play house in North Carolina
Judge lifts state's cohabitation ban, calls it unconstitutional
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) -- A state judge has ruled that North Carolina's 201-year-old law barring unmarried couples from living together is unconstitutional.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued last year to overturn the rarely enforced law on behalf of a former sheriff's dispatcher who says she had to quit her job because she wouldn't marry her live-in boyfriend.
Deborah Hobbs, 41, says her boss, Sheriff Carson Smith of Pender County, near Wilmington, told her to get married, move out or find another job after he found out she and her boyfriend had been living together for three years. The couple did not want to get married, so Hobbs quit in 2004.
State Superior Court Judge Benjamin Alford issued the ruling late Wednesday, saying the law violated Hobbs' constitutional right to liberty. He cited a 2003 Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Texas sodomy law.
That ruling showed that "the government has no business regulating relationships between two consenting adults in the privacy of their own home," Jennifer Rudinger, executive director of the ACLU of North Carolina, said in a statement.
She added that "the idea that the government would criminalize people's choice to live together out of wedlock in this day and age defies logic and common sense."
The suit named Smith, the state and Attorney General Roy Cooper as defendants. Cooper had argued that Hobbs couldn't challenge the law because she wasn't charged with a crime.
A Cooper spokeswoman said Thursday that lawyers had not decided whether to appeal.
Hobbs said Thursday she was "very happy for myself and for everyone else this law has affected." She added that she hasn't thought about applying for another job with the sheriff's office.
Rudinger said that since 1997, the law has spawned about 36 criminal cases in North Carolina. State officials have said the number of people actually convicted under the law -- formally known as the fornication and adultery statute -- is not clear.
The law also has been used to deny compensation to crime victims, child custody, health benefits, probation and parole, Rudinger said.
The law states, in part: "If any man and woman, not being married to each other, shall lewdly and lasciviously associate, bed and cohabit together, they shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor."
About 144,000 unmarried couples live together in North Carolina, according to the 2000 census. The ACLU says along with North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, Michigan, Mississippi and North Dakota have laws that prohibit cohabitation.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
New York City Helicopter Crash
This is amazing video footage from NYC!
I'm not sure when this happened....but DANG!!
I'm not sure when this happened....but DANG!!
Monday, July 10, 2006
Dallas Hospital Plans to Bill Mexico
Taken from the Washington Times.com
By Hugh Aynesworth
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published July 9, 2006
DALLAS -- Parkland Memorial Hospital plans to bill Mexico and other countries to help cover the costs of health care for indigents.
The plan, which also seeks payments from adjoining counties in Texas, has brought a negative response from the Mexican government, with a diplomat terming it "an act of discrimination."
Last year, hospital officials said, Dallas County spent $76.5 million to treat people from outside Dallas. Of that, almost $27 million was not reimbursed.
Much of the cost was for treating patients from adjoining counties in Texas, which Dallas County officials claim is unfair to local taxpayers.
Collin County, just north of here and one of the state's richest counties, owed the most of any single entity, Parkland officials said -- about $7.6 million.
County Judge Margaret Keliher said she was not hopeful that other counties -- or countries -- would pay up.
But, she said, the county commission thought the matter should be made public and bills sent.
"If you're not Dallas County residents, we think where you are from should pay for your indigent health care," Judge Keliher said.
Hugo Juarez, a consul official at the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, was visibly perturbed.
He called the statements made by the judge "a strange posture, a strange reasoning." He said there had been no agreement or contract between his nation and Dallas County that would make such action legal.
Lobbyists and county officials last year tried unsuccessfully to get the Texas Legislature to come up with a law that forced counties to reimburse those hospitals that took in large numbers of indigents.
"What's wrong with sending them a bill?" commission member Maurine Dickey said. She said officials "hoped" the counties that sent their citizens to Parkland would pay something. "We owe it to taxpayers to at least try."
Mr. Juarez also was curious about how hospital officials would know where to send the bill.
"How do they know who is Mexican?" he said. "Nobody asks for your nationality nor immigration status when you go to the hospital."
Currently, Parkland is reimbursed by the federal government for treatment of illegal aliens, but Parkland officials said that agreement covers only 48 hours of emergency care and falls far short of what expenses the hospital often incurs.
The hospital has spent more than a week figuring out how many foreign nationals have been treated and how much to bill each of the nations.
An estimated 90 percent of those affected are Mexican nationals, one source told The Washington Times.
John Gates, Parkland's chief financial officer, said he was in favor of sending the bills, though he doubted anybody would pay.
I (personally) think that this is freaking hilarious....I don't know how they're gonna do it, but GOOD LUCK!
By Hugh Aynesworth
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published July 9, 2006
DALLAS -- Parkland Memorial Hospital plans to bill Mexico and other countries to help cover the costs of health care for indigents.
The plan, which also seeks payments from adjoining counties in Texas, has brought a negative response from the Mexican government, with a diplomat terming it "an act of discrimination."
Last year, hospital officials said, Dallas County spent $76.5 million to treat people from outside Dallas. Of that, almost $27 million was not reimbursed.
Much of the cost was for treating patients from adjoining counties in Texas, which Dallas County officials claim is unfair to local taxpayers.
Collin County, just north of here and one of the state's richest counties, owed the most of any single entity, Parkland officials said -- about $7.6 million.
County Judge Margaret Keliher said she was not hopeful that other counties -- or countries -- would pay up.
But, she said, the county commission thought the matter should be made public and bills sent.
"If you're not Dallas County residents, we think where you are from should pay for your indigent health care," Judge Keliher said.
Hugo Juarez, a consul official at the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, was visibly perturbed.
He called the statements made by the judge "a strange posture, a strange reasoning." He said there had been no agreement or contract between his nation and Dallas County that would make such action legal.
Lobbyists and county officials last year tried unsuccessfully to get the Texas Legislature to come up with a law that forced counties to reimburse those hospitals that took in large numbers of indigents.
"What's wrong with sending them a bill?" commission member Maurine Dickey said. She said officials "hoped" the counties that sent their citizens to Parkland would pay something. "We owe it to taxpayers to at least try."
Mr. Juarez also was curious about how hospital officials would know where to send the bill.
"How do they know who is Mexican?" he said. "Nobody asks for your nationality nor immigration status when you go to the hospital."
Currently, Parkland is reimbursed by the federal government for treatment of illegal aliens, but Parkland officials said that agreement covers only 48 hours of emergency care and falls far short of what expenses the hospital often incurs.
The hospital has spent more than a week figuring out how many foreign nationals have been treated and how much to bill each of the nations.
An estimated 90 percent of those affected are Mexican nationals, one source told The Washington Times.
John Gates, Parkland's chief financial officer, said he was in favor of sending the bills, though he doubted anybody would pay.
I (personally) think that this is freaking hilarious....I don't know how they're gonna do it, but GOOD LUCK!
Home-Alone Boy Survives 11-Story Fall
Taken from CNN.com
Child treated at unit where his mother was working, reports say
ALBANY, New York (AP) -- A 4-year-old boy survived a fall from an 11-story window after being left alone at home, bouncing off a metal awning into a concrete courtyard and then trying to stand up, officials said. He was able to chat with doctors.
"I'm amazed the kid's alive," Police Chief James Tuffey said.
Hasim Townsend remained in serious condition Saturday, a day after his fall, with a broken skull, a broken leg and other injuries.
"It's an incredibly good sign that he was talking, and I can't attribute it to anything other than good luck," said Dr. Michael Dailey, an attending physician in the emergency department.
The boy ended up in the same pediatric intensive care unit at Albany Medical Center where his mother works as a receptionist, police reports said.
Elizabeth Burciaga, 21, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. She initially told police the boy had been left with a baby sitter, officials said.
A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for her, authorities said, and an order of protection to keep her away from the boy has been filed.
The boy stood on a bed and pressed against a window screen, which gave way, police said. He hit the awning about 12 feet off the ground, and it flexed and saved him.
Police came after residents heard him crying. Paramedics had to hold the boy still.
Albany has no regulation requiring bars or other window guards in high-rise apartments, said Steve Longo, executive director of the Albany Housing Authority.
I'm just reporting the news here, folks....but I'm really trying to keep my comments to myself!!
Child treated at unit where his mother was working, reports say
ALBANY, New York (AP) -- A 4-year-old boy survived a fall from an 11-story window after being left alone at home, bouncing off a metal awning into a concrete courtyard and then trying to stand up, officials said. He was able to chat with doctors.
"I'm amazed the kid's alive," Police Chief James Tuffey said.
Hasim Townsend remained in serious condition Saturday, a day after his fall, with a broken skull, a broken leg and other injuries.
"It's an incredibly good sign that he was talking, and I can't attribute it to anything other than good luck," said Dr. Michael Dailey, an attending physician in the emergency department.
The boy ended up in the same pediatric intensive care unit at Albany Medical Center where his mother works as a receptionist, police reports said.
Elizabeth Burciaga, 21, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child. She initially told police the boy had been left with a baby sitter, officials said.
A psychiatric evaluation has been ordered for her, authorities said, and an order of protection to keep her away from the boy has been filed.
The boy stood on a bed and pressed against a window screen, which gave way, police said. He hit the awning about 12 feet off the ground, and it flexed and saved him.
Police came after residents heard him crying. Paramedics had to hold the boy still.
Albany has no regulation requiring bars or other window guards in high-rise apartments, said Steve Longo, executive director of the Albany Housing Authority.
I'm just reporting the news here, folks....but I'm really trying to keep my comments to myself!!
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