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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:34 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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"Fires during surgeries a bigger risk than thought," headlined a November Boston Globe article, citing data from hospitals in Pennsylvania (28 operating-room fires a year for the last three years) and Massachusetts. [Boston Globe, 11-7-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:40 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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In October, the singer Donovan, 61, announced plans to open the Invincible Donovan University in his native Scotland to advance Transcendental Meditation teachings, which assert that a critical mass of practitioners, concentrating in unison, can cause society to reduce its crime, violence and stress (and, he said, the critical mass for improving a small country like Scotland would be only 250 meditators). [Google News-AP, 10-31-07]
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:52 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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TROY, Ohio - Jail administrator Dee Sandy thought the sheriff was joking when he mentioned painting cellblocks pink. He wasn't.
Inmates at the Miami County Jail are putting color on the jail's once cream-colored walls after Sheriff Charles Cox entered the academic debate over the color pink's calming abilities.
After Sandy realized Cox was serious, she said she picked purple for the jail bars, which had been blue.
The jail, about 20 miles north of Dayton, houses up to 111 inmates, both men and women.
Researchers have documented the ability of certain colors to evoke emotional and physical responses, and many jails around the nation have been painted pink as a pacifying measure.
County jails in Arizona, Tennessee and Texas have had similar makeovers, but last year, the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department abandoned pink for institutional gray. Jail officials there said the pink hue had no discernible effect on prisoners but annoyed the jail staff.
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:54 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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OBERLIN, Kan. - A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas.
The Christmas card was dated Dec. 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Neb.
It's a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said. "It's surprising that it never got thrown away," he said. "How someone found it, I don't know."
Ethel Martin is deceased, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative.
That's how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel's sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois.
"That's all we know," she said. "But it is kind of curious. We'd like to know how it got down there."
The card was placed inside another envelope with modern postage for the trip to Oberlin — the one-cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn't have covered it, Martin said.
"We don't know much about it," she said. "But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape."
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| Dec 16, 2007 @ 4:56 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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MONTREAL (AFP) - After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get "Guitar Hero III" video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars.
The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard.
"So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn't wait to spread the jubilance to my son," the father wrote on the eBay website.
"Then, yesterday, I came home from work early and what do I find? My innocent little boy smoking pot in the back yard with two of his delinquent friends."
The man, a school teacher, who kept his identity private, said he sold the coveted video game to punish his son and discourage him from smoking dope.
The sale was a boon for the family's bank account, since the game the father purchased for 90 dollars (US) was finally sold to an Australian who plunked down 9,100 dollars for it.
The naughty son, however, will not go without a present on Christmas.
"I am still considering getting him a game for his Nintendo. Maybe something like Barbie as the Island Princess or Dancing with the Stars ... I know he will just love them," the father said, tongue-in-cheek.
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| Dec 18, 2007 @ 12:34 AM |
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tassie1
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I knew about the chinese condoms and the prison walls being painted pink.
we actuall yhad a pink prison here in Tasmania for years until just recently.
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| Dec 22, 2007 @ 1:22 PM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Check this site out....
http://www.gingerbreadghetto.com/
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| Dec 22, 2007 @ 6:09 PM |
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MamMan
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but last year, the Kansas City, Mo., Police Department abandoned pink for institutional gray. Jail officials there said the pink hue had no discernible effect on prisoners but annoyed the jail staff.
What can I say, Frenzy...... 
KC may love to do pink.... 
But, the jail ain't going pink..... 
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| Dec 22, 2007 @ 6:12 PM |
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RevDocLove
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Come join us in the Mediteranean Dave.. 
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:13 AM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Two major pieces of art at galleries in London and New York City were basically holes in the floors of the buildings, yet were the subjects of glowing reviews. Doris Salcedo's "Shibboleth," a large crack in the floor of a hall at London's Tate Modern (on which at least 15 people have suffered minor injuries after tripping) is said to symbolize racial and class divisions in society. [The Times (London), 10-10-07]
Urs Fischer's "You" at New York's Gavin Brown Enterprise is actually just a crater, 38 feet by 30 feet by 8 feet deep, that, according to one reviewer, meshes "themes of transparency, transformation, disruption and destruction." [New York magazine, 11-26-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:17 AM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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Psychologist Susan Young was paid the equivalent of about $1,000 a day to counsel convicted murderer Barry George during his recent retrial in London, and among her duties, she said, was to massage his head periodically so that he could concentrate better, to assist his lawyers. [Daily Mail (London), 11-9-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 10:19 AM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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In January 2007, the town of Herouxville, Quebec (pop. 1,300), famously enacted a "code" of expectations for immigrants, seemingly aimed at Islamic laws and rituals (for example, requiring gender equality, permitting alcohol, rejecting special diets for prisoners and reaffirming laws against stoning and female genital mutilation). In October, a town spokesman complained that the code had caused Herouxville residents to be called "(m)orons, liars, xenophobes, fascists ... dictators, Nazis, racists ... idiots ... mentally deficient, intolerant, stupid, retarded." Nonetheless, the town said it would campaign to have the code adopted nationally. [CanWest News Service, 10-24-07]
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 12:27 PM |
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paradox110
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Damn! And here I was thinking I'd had some bad dates.
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| Dec 23, 2007 @ 12:31 PM |
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paradox110
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They had to outlaw sex with pork pines? I guess my life has been better than some.
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| Dec 26, 2007 @ 1:14 AM |
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tassie1
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sounds like that susan young needed a shrink
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| Dec 29, 2007 @ 10:20 AM |
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canuhelpme258
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My cigs are not yucky?
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| Dec 29, 2007 @ 2:38 PM |
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tassie1
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thats easy fixed,try a differant brand.
I have to get my act together,frenzy's out doing me on weird info.
real world work sucks sometimes...there should be a law agains't it taken up all your computer time 
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| Dec 29, 2007 @ 5:13 PM |
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SpunkyRed
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She's wayyyyyy ahead of you Sully 
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| Dec 29, 2007 @ 6:25 PM |
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RevDocLove
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Weirdest thing??? That's easy..I'm still alive after all these years
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| Dec 30, 2007 @ 12:55 AM |
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In_a_Frenzy
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i'll update in a few hours 
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