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A Laugh A Day Can Keep The Doctor Away :-)
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NYPD's Controversial Stop-and-Frisk Policy: Racial Profiling or 'Proactive Polic
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Anonymous writes "NYPD's Controversial Stop-and-Frisk Policy: Racial Profiling or 'Proactive Policing'?
Comissioner Ray Kelly Says Racial Breakdowns of Stop-and-Frisk Stats Are Misleading
Talk to a teenager of color living in Harlem or the Bronx and chances are they will have a story to tell about life under "stop and frisk."
Known as a "250" within the New York Police "
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Judge Fines Himself for Breaking No-Cellphone Rule
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Fair is fair, even if you’re the one enforcing the rules, according to a Michigan judge who fined himself $25 after his smartphone interrupted a prosecutor’s closing argument.
Judge Raymond Voet has posted his policy in Ionia County District Court, letting all who enter his courtroom know that if their phones go off during proceedings, they’ll be confiscated and returned only after a $25 fine has been paid.
Voet told ABCNews.com today that he has taken phones from prosecutors, defendants and police officers, but he never expected he’d ever have to enforce the policy on himself.
“I detest the distraction in the courtroom, and here it happened to me,” he said.
The judge said he had his new Windows smartphone in his pocket during court on Friday but forgot to lock the touch screen, setting off the voice command function.
“The phone is saying, ‘Say a command,’” Voet said.
“The prosecutor was in the middle of his closing arguments. … He lost his train of thought and looked at me. I felt my face starting to burn red,” the judge said.
Voet said he turned off his phone, allowed the prosecutor to finish, and at the next recess, went and paid a $25 fine.
“I like my phones just like anyone else,” he said. “But it’s very distracting when a phone goes off.”"
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Posted by Rodney on Monday, April 15 @ 14:04:07 CDT (18 reads)
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If Men Aren't So Bad, Thank Testosterone
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Men aren't as bad as you think. Testosterone actually works to make men less likely to cheat with a friend's wife or girlfriend.
Hey brother, feel sexually drawn to your best friend's wife? Testosterone, the bad boy among male sex hormones, is supposed to make it easier for you to ignore your friendship and make your move."
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Family Allegedly Gets Brain In Bag From Funeral Home; Court Says They Can't Sue
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A New Mexico family that was outraged to receive their dead relative's brain in a bag wants to give a funeral home a piece of their minds.
The brain was inside a plastic bag labeled "brain," which was shipped in a container filled with the deceased's personal effects, according to News New Mexico.
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NYC Subway Shoving Suspect: I Was Having a Bad Day
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Anonymous writes "A disturbed woman accused of shoving a man in front of a New York City subway train to his death last month says she did it because she was having a bad day.
Erika Menendez spoke to The New York Post on Friday at the city jail where she is awaiting trial in the killing.
Menendez tells the newspaper her "mind was just racing" the day of the attack.
She says, "I was homeless. I was hungry. I was fighting with my boyfriend. He came running up the stairs, and I just got up and pushed him."
Menendez says she picked her victim because of his ethnicity.
Slain 46-year-old Indian immigrant Sunando Sen was Hindu. Menendez says she has "been beating up Muslims and Hindus for a long time."
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A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip By GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
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Anonymous writes "Giffords Sums Up Her Disgust With Congress "Shame on Them."
SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The fear that those children who survived the massacre must feel every time they remember their teachers stacking them into closets and bathrooms, whispering that they loved them, so that love would be the last thing the students heard if the gunman found them.
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Good Jobs, No College Required
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Anonymous writes "Does Homer Simpson hold a four-year college degree? And is that what qualifies him to run Springfield's nuclear reactor? "The Simpsons" doesn't say. But in the real world you don't need a B.A. to run a nuclear reactor, work as an air traffic controller or registered nurse, manage a construction site or hold down dozens of other good-paying jobs.
According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data, nuke operators make a median annual wage of just over $75,600. Air traffic controllers do even better--$108,000. For both jobs, applicants need more than just a high school diploma. But "more" does not include a B.A. or B.S. degree.
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A Laugh A Day Can Keep The Doctor Away :-)
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Anonymous writes "Have a Laugh, Boost Your Health
A good chuckle can temporarily alter your biology and boost your well-being. Here, how laughter affects your body.
Your Brain
As you hear a punch line, your brain ignites its centers for higher thought, muscle function, and emotion. Their conclusion: What a riot! The muscles around your eyes and cheeks start spontaneously contracting.
Your noggin shoots a signal to your brain stem, the body's HQ for lung functions like breathing and laughter. .
Your Lungs
Your diaphragm and chest muscles tighten, forcing air out of your lungs. That air rushes through your windpipe, blowing over your larynx. Your vocal cords vibrate and emit short, unfettered vowel sounds like ha-ha or ho-ho.
Your Eyes
If what has you going is really funny, your eyes start to water.
Your Heart
The sudden exit of air from your lungs creates an urgent call for oxygen. Your heart rate and blood pressure ramp up to help ferry more O2 to your organs.
Your Muscles
While facial and core muscles tense, the rest of your muscles become weaker or less coordinated. Hence, it can feel impossible to walk straight while laughing hard.
Your obliques are also working to help expel air. You may burn a few extra calories.
Your Hormones
A side-splitting laugh can help release endorphins, those natural opiates often triggered by exercise. Your pain threshold might shoot up, at least temporarily.
Loads of chuckling may also dial down production of the stress hormone cortisol—a happy thing, since too much cortisol has been linked to exhaustion and depression.
Your Emotions
It's true: Laughter is contagious. Some scientists speculate it evolved as an early bonding mechanism. If they're right, sharing a laugh with someone could help the two of you connect emotionally.
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Posted by Rodney on Monday, April 01 @ 02:04:35 CDT (18 reads)
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Man Doesn't Recognize Wife in Coffin, Wrong Woman Buried Anyway
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Evan Davidson lived with his wife for 51 years. But when he told morticians that the woman in the open casket wasn't Darlene Davidson, they politely told him he was mistaken.
"I looked at her and said, 'Well this don't look like my wife at all,'" Davidson, 73, told KABC-TV. "They kept telling me it was, but it's just because she had been embalmed and she was sick."
They were wrong.
Simpson Family Mortuary of Inglewood acknowledged Monday that the woman it buried on March 1 was not Davidson's 82-year-old wife.
Three days after the funeral, an employee called and asked Davidson to come and identify a body.
The worker said a woman was "jumping up and down" and claiming that a body on view wasn't her departed mother's, Davidson said.
He went to the mortuary.
"I saw my wife, and the shock just knocked me down," he said.
The mortuary has offered to exhume the body and to pay the costs of burying both women. Davidson's wife was scheduled to be reburied on Wednesday.
"Our main concern is for these people to receive the dignity and respect they deserve, and put the individual to rest. We are not sweeping it under the rug," mortuary spokesman Reginald Black said in a statement. "We made an error and we want to rectify our error and do whatever we can do to make them feel better."
Davidson has obtained an attorney to ask the state Cemetery and Funeral Bureau to investigate.
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Posted by Rodney on Sunday, March 17 @ 05:40:23 CDT (32 reads)
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Brother and Sister Reunite After 65 Years
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A brother and sister were reunited after 65 years apart, thanks to the online sleuthing of a 7-year-old boy.
For Betty Billadeau and her brother, Clifford Boyson, the reunion was a lifetime in the making after they were sent to separate foster homes around the time Betty was 5 years old and Clifford was 3.
Despite decades of searching for each other, it took the online detective work of a 7-year-old boy to bring the long lost siblings together.
“Nobody would help me until I came and met little Eddie,” Boyson said, referring to his landlord’s son, Eddie Hanzelin.
The 7-year-old said he was touched by his neighbor’s story and wanted to help him.
“Family is important,” Eddie said.
Using his mother’s Facebook account, Eddie got to work.
“I went on Facebook and I typed in Boyson,” he said. “There were a whole bunch of pictures that showed up. One of them kind of looked like Clifford and I zoomed in on it and it started to really look like Clifford, [so] I showed it to my mom and dad.”
Eddie’s father, Glenn Hanzelin, contacted Billadeau’s daughter over Facebook to help arrange the reunion.
On Saturday, the two siblings embraced for the first time in 65 years at a hotel near Boyson’s home in Davenport, Iowa.
“You’re about the same height mom was!” Boyson said when he saw his sister, who traveled from Missouri with her daughter and granddaughter for the reunion.
He presented her with pink roses. The three generations of Billadeau women gave him a suitcase so he would have “no excuses” for not visiting them in Missouri.
“The one thing he said is he has someone to send a Christmas card to now,” Billadeau said.
The two siblings plan to get together in Missouri soon to make up for all of those missing years.
And after that, 7-year-old Eddie has another hope for his good friend Clifford.
“He’s never been on vacation, ” he said. “And I want him to go on vacation to Disney World with me.”
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Posted by Rodney on Sunday, January 13 @ 16:14:35 CST (46 reads)
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