Saturday, August 24, 2013 A transgender woman attacked in Harlem, New York last week died on Thursday after being declared brain dead and taken off life support. Police are treating the death of Islan Nettles, 21, as a hate crime. They were called faggots, they were called he-shes, she-males, things of that nature Nettles was walking with transgender friends early on August 17 when they met a group of men opposite a local police building. Police say a fight ensued after the men discovered the group was transgender and local…
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The Feeling Of Being Hit By A Taser
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Real Estate Adamstown By Joseph Pressley It is part of your instinct to protect yourself especially if someone tries to hurt you. Safety is considered a top priority. A lot of people have considered different ways to protect the self. There are various methods that you can choose from like learning the art of taekwondo or the purchase of self defense tools. These methods will somehow give you assurance and confidence for your protection. More and more people try to purchase self defense…
Driftwood crucifix listed on eBay for $25,000
Monday, March 21, 2005A piece of driftwood in the shape of a crucifix is listed for sale on eBay with a starting bid price of $25,000. The seller, known as “Marzipanda,” from Scottsdale, Arizona lists its description as a “Natural Found Wood Jesus Christ Crucifix Cross Easter.” Maripanda describes the discovery of the piece as, “My very dear friend found this amazing natural driftwood while hiking a few years ago. So striking because it clearly resembles the Lord and all the details.” Expensive found art Christiana made international headlines in…
Let’s Get Busy Saving The Public Schools
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Visual Design Course Sydney By Bruce Deitrick Price Many pundits note that our public schools are sunk in mediocrity. Bill Gates concluded the schools are so bad they threaten the country’s economic future. Less often noted is the obtuseness of so much that goes on in the schools. Professors of education seem to prefer flimsy theories and counter-productive methods. Then, to excuse the pervasive failure, the elite educators blame parents, kids, teachers, TV, popular culture, computers, and everything but their theories. Rooting out…
Boston College defeats NC State in double overtime
Sunday, February 26, 2006 The Boston College men’s basketball team defeated the North Carolina State Wolfpack at home in a 74-72 double-overtime thriller on Feb. 25. The BC Eagles, ranked #11 going in to the contest, left with a 22-6, 9-5 record in the Atlantic Coast Conference, while the NC State Wolfpack dropped to #19 after the game with a 21-7, 10-5 record. Boston College star Sean Marshall finished with 22 points, including three 3-point shots, while Craig Smith had 18 points, 14 rebounds and six assists for the Eagles.…
Parts of internet break as ‘512k day’ reached by routers
Thursday, August 14, 2014 On Tuesday many internet routers, used to find the pathways to different parts of the web, reached their memory limit of 512,000 entries in the tables they use to store the routes, causing problems for many users. A router is used to direct a user towards the area of the internet where they will find the content they are looking for, e.g. a web page. The recent problem was caused by the arbitrary memory limit built into the design of many aging routers. A limit was…
As/400 And I Series Job System Demystified
By John Andersen One of the most essential items every system administrator and operator must understand on the AS/400, iSeries and System i power system platforms is the job and batch systems. These two portions of the system are key for performing any task in a timely manner. The job system on the midrange platform is both robust and elegant in design. At a very basic level jobs are first submitted into job queues for immediate or later processing by subsystems. By default the job queues are FIFO based, that…
The Woodcraft Folk loses subsidy
Thursday, March 17, 2005 London – The Woodcraft Folk, a British socialist inspired youth organisation, lost its government subsidy of GBP 52 000. The Department for Education and Skills said the organisation’s claim for a grant lacked detail and that they did not have “sufficiently robust outcome indicators”, meaning that it did not represent a “good value for money”. This is the first time in 40 years the group was denied funding by the department. Loss of the grant puts the future of the organisation in doubt. The grant money…
Students in Rhode Island school attacked by wasps
Monday, September 21, 2009 Dozens of students and teachers were stung by yellow jacket wasps Monday at a middle school in Cranston. The attack occurred around 10:45 a.m., according to Ray Votto, the chief operating officer for Cranston Public Schools. It is suspected that during a routine fire drill, students exiting the building disturbed the wasps’ nest in a field behind the school. Votto said, “When kids exited towards the back of the school building near our portable classrooms, they walked into a field and may have disrupted a nest”.…
Brain Entrainment: What’s Your Financial Thermostat?
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Air Conditioner Maintenance Maitland Brain Entrainment: What’s Your Financial Thermostat? by johnfassaraf Before you start brain entrainment, the neural reconditioning process designed to program your brain with the right information, there are two systems you must master and command if you truly want to achieve business success. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3TEkCqw-64[/youtube] One is called your psycho-cybernetic trigger or mechanism and the other is known as you reticular activation system. Both are critical to your financial success. Let’s start with your psycho-cybernetic trigger. Let’s assume you have…