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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Jan 07 - 12:38 PM On Africa's Great Peaks, Glaciers Are In Retreat Recent Report Blames Loss of Equatorial Ice On Post-'70s Warming Associated Press Sunday, December 31, 2006; Washington Post, A18 NARO MORU, Kenya -- Rivers of ice at the Equator -- foretold in the 2nd century, found in the 19th -- are melting away in this new century, returning to the realm of lore and fading photographs. From mile-high Naro Moru, villagers have watched year by year as the great glaciers of Mount Kenya, glinting in the equatorial sun high above them, shrank to white stains on the rocky shoulders of the 17,000-foot peak. Climbing up, "you can hear the water running down beneath Diamond and Darwin," mountain guide Paul Nditiru said, speaking of two of 10 surviving glaciers. About 200 miles due south, the storied snows of Mount Kilimanjaro, the tropical glaciers first seen by disbelieving Europeans in 1848, are vanishing. And to the west, in the heart of equatorial Africa, the ice caps are shrinking fast atop Uganda's Rwenzoris -- the "Mountains of the Moon" that the ancient Greeks surmised were the source of the Nile River. The total loss of ice masses ringing Africa's three highest peaks, projected by scientists to happen sometime in the next two to five decades, fits a global pattern playing out in South America's Andes Mountains, Europe's Alps, the Himalayas and beyond. Almost every one of more than 300 large glaciers studied worldwide is in retreat, international glaciologists reported in October in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. This is "essentially a response to post-1970 global warming," they said. Even such strong evidence may not sway every climate skeptic. Some say it's lower humidity, not higher temperatures, that is depleting Kilimanjaro's snows, for example. Stefan Hastenrath of the University of Wisconsin, who has climbed, poked, photographed and measured East Africa's glaciers for four decades, says what's happening is complex and needs more study. But on a continent where climatologists say temperatures have risen an average 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century, global warming does play a role, he says. "The onset of glacier recession in East Africa has causes different from other equatorial regions. It's a complicated sort of affair," he said by telephone from Madison. But "that is not something to be taken as an argument against the global warming notions." In Kampala, Uganda's capital, veteran meteorologist Abushen Majugu agreed. "There's generally been a constant rise in temperatures. To some degree, the reduction of the glaciers must be connected to warming," he said. It was 10 years ago, on the 100th anniversary of the first expedition to the Rwenzoris, an Italian effort, that Majugu and his colleagues were struck by a gift from Italy to Uganda: photographs from 1896 showing extensive glaciers atop the spectacular, remote, three-mile-high mountains. In a scientific paper this May, Majugu and British and Ugandan co-authors reported that this ice, which covered 2.5 square miles a century ago, is less than a half-square-mile today. The glaciers are "expected to disappear within the next two decades," they concluded. And because the 2nd century Greeks were at least partly right, that means a secondary source of Nile River waters will also disappear. At Mount Kenya, too, "it's a dying glacier," Hastenrath said, referring to the mountain's big Lewis Glacier, once a mile-long tongue of ice draped over a saddle between peaks. "At the rate at which it goes, the end could come soon," he said. In a meticulous new summary, the Wisconsin scientist, who first investigated Mount Kenya in 1971, shows that its ice fields have shrunk from an estimated 400 acres to less than one-fifth that area in the past century. After decades of work, he has concluded that several interrelated phenomena were responsible. In the early years, sparser clouds and precipitation in East Africa allowed solar radiation to evaporate exposed areas of ice, which then wasn't adequately replenished, Hastenrath said. But more recently, the reduction in ice thickness has been uniform, pointing to general warmth, not limited sun exposure, as the cause. Eight of 18 glaciers have disappeared. "Northey's gone. Gregory's about finished," said John Maina, as if mourning old friends. The 56-year-old guide knows Mount Kenya's glaciers and peaks well, having led climbers up its face since he was a teenager. As he prepared for yet another trek from Naro Moru, he recalled how it once was. "We used to be able to ski on Lewis, but now it's all crevasses," he said. "We would climb all the way up Lewis on ice to Lenana peak, but now it's climbing on rocks. And the ice is weak. We're seeing blue ice, weak ice." Up at 10,000 feet, where he mans a weather station in the clouds, another longtime guide, Joseph Mwangi, 45, makes his own projections. "In five years, Lewis Glacier will be gone," he said. Mwangi worries that the water loss may unravel the unique ecosystem that surrounds him, with its high-altitude trees and bamboo groves, blue monkeys and giant forest hogs. "The lobelia trees might die," he said. Animals are already dying in the foothills and plains below. Glaciologists say "terminal" glaciers often discharge -- and waste -- large amounts of water in the early years, then release increasingly less as they shrink. Villagers here seem to confirm that: The Naro Moru River and other streams off Mount Kenya ran very high some years back, they say, but are now growing thin. A years-long drought magnifies the problem. "The more the snow goes down, the lower the rivers," said Roy Mwangi, the area water officer here. The trouble has already begun, he said. Miles downstream on the Naro Moru, where the river now vanishes in the dry season, livestock are dying of thirst. Desperate nomadic herdsmen have raided points upriver, blocking intakes for farm irrigation systems, he said. "There's a lot of suffering on the lower side. These are armed men. I'm afraid there will be conflict," Mwangi said. Hardship may spread even to Nairobi, Kenya's capital. Most of the country's shaky electric grid relies on hydropower, and much of that is drawn from water streaming off Mount Kenya. In a U.N. study issued in early November, scientists predicted that the glacial rivers of Mount Kenya and the rest of East Africa may dry up in 15 years. "The repercussions on people living down the slopes will be terrible," said Grace Akumu, a Kenyan environmentalist. Many scientists say similar repercussions could follow wherever human settlements depend on steady runoffs from healthy glaciers -- in Peru and Bolivia, India and China. It could also extend beyond that to coastal settlements, they say, as oceans rise because of the melting of land ice. The October report by European and North American glaciologists in Geophysical Research Letters estimates that glacier melt contributed up to one-third of the one- to two-inch rise in global sea levels in the past decade. And that contribution is accelerating. Since 2001, they report, dying glaciers apparently have doubled their runoff into the world's rising seas. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 01 Jan 07 - 11:12 PM UFO at O'Hare KXAN-TV similar report Nearly identical reports on what must have been a slow day in the news room. Air Traffic Control confirmed that "someone asked" if they'd seen something. Radar and visual checks showed nothing unusual. The FAA is assuming "weather phenomena" due to a fairly clear day with low cloud ceilings and lots of ground lights. At least one O'Hare controller, union official Craig Burzych, was amused by it all: "To fly 7 million light years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable," he said. Some commercial pilots might say "but not unusual." John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Jan 07 - 01:45 AM I heard about that on the radio today. Real interesting! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 03 Jan 07 - 06:11 AM UFOs has some additional comment on the reported sightings at O'Hare airport (01 Jan 07 - 11:12 PM above); but the more interesting thing is a link in the article to a web site/page devoted to some really gorgeous clouds (including kinds that could maybe be mistaken for UFOs(?)) Take a peek at Strange Clouds John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 03 Jan 07 - 06:21 AM And then there's those Beautiful People of New York: [quote] Associated Press: 9:33 p.m. CT Jan 2, 2007 NEW YORK - Sick subway passengers, most of them dieters who faint from dizziness, are among the top causes of train delays, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. After track work and signal problems, ill passengers rated among the main reasons for subway disruptions between October 2005 and October 2006, according to an analysis of MTA statistics, AM New York reported Tuesday. Asim Nelson, a transit emergency medical technician, told the paper that fainting dieters topped the "sick customer" list. "Not eating for three or four days, you are going to go down," Nelson said. "If you don't eat for 12 hours, you are going to get weak." Although the agency doesn't keep an official record of the nature of each rider's illness, the paper said that an average 395 delays each month are caused by sick customers. Fainting spells caused by missed meals topped other "sick customer" causes, including flu symptoms, anxiety attacks, hangovers and heat exhaustion, according to Nelson. Nelson is part of the MTA's "sick Customer Response Program," which consists of emergency medical technicians and registered nurses. When a rider becomes sick, the train conductor must stay with the passenger until emergency responders arrive. [endquote] John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Amos Date: 03 Jan 07 - 11:59 AM Oiled prisoner slips out of Norway jailAssociated Press OSLO, Norway - A Lithuanian held on suspicion of theft in an Arctic Norway jail slipped out of custody - literally - by stripping naked, smearing himself with vegetable oil and sliding through the prison bars, police said Wednesday. "He slipped through the bars on Christmas Eve," said Svein-Erik Jacobsen, operation leader for the Oest-Finnmark Police District. The unusual escape made national news in Norway on Wednesday. [snip] A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Amos Date: 03 Jan 07 - 12:07 PM Man saved from garbage truck after callAssociated Press OAK PARK, Mich. - A man who awoke inside a garbage truck that was about to compact its load was rescued after making a frantic cell phone call to police, authorities say. The man, who is unemployed but not homeless, was scavenging for bottles Thursday when he fell asleep in a Dumpster, said police Lt. Mike Pousak. He awoke when the container was unloaded into a truck. He told police he didn't know which truck he was in but gave a dispatcher the location of the Dumpster he fell asleep in, Pousak said. He had tried yelling for help but no one heard him. Police soon lost contact with the man when his cell phone battery became dislodged, Pousak said. Police checked several trucks, including one in a parking lot. "An officer went and pounded on the side of the truck and somebody pounded back," Pousak said. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Jan 07 - 01:28 PM Here's an interesting and tidy little obit from today's paper: Gertrude Sparks Sept. 3, 1904 -Dec. 15, 2006 After 102 years of healthy good living Gertrude Sparks has gone on to be with the Lord. Born in Idaho in a town called White Bird. The Harrah family comprised about 14% of the population. There were eight girls and four boys. They had a typical family farm with wheat, garden crops, chickens, cows, cats, horse or two. Gertrude became Mrs. L. Sparks and raised a son, Richard Sparks, and daughter, Maxine Sparks Murray. She now has seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Gertrude worked as a House Mother to student Nurses at Everett General Hospital in Washington. She worked there for 19 years until the last class of Nurses graduated. She retired and spent the winter season of 1967 as a guest of Mary Fonken and liked Ramon Park so much she bought her place on Loganita Drive in 1968. Playing Bridge was a SPECIAL favorite of hers, but she liked most card games and always enjoyed Bingo. Gertrude was seldom idle. She was a knitter and liked to go fishing. Her trophy fish was caught in Powell River B.C. Canada where she caught a 60-pound salmon. Gertrude moved into Merrill Gardens in Seattle in the late l990's. Gertrude had been struggling with mobility the last couple months and in December she fell and ended up in Providence Hospital where she was able to see all of her grandchildren before her passing on December 15, 2006. A celebration of her Life will be at 11 a.m., Friday, January 5, 2006, at Washington Memorial Funeral Home in SeaTac, Washington. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Amos Date: 03 Jan 07 - 01:34 PM Well, it's funny. It is interesting, as she lived to be 102, and as there is so much left unsaid in the obituary. A placid and uneventful surface, probably rich with events not mentioned, naughtinesses and affections and adventures we will not know. Those student nurses, for example. What tales Mrs. Sparks could have told, had she been so inclined! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Jan 07 - 06:35 PM I was quite impressed by that fish, also! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Adrianel Date: 03 Jan 07 - 10:15 PM Amos: That oiled Lithuanian must have been mighty cold, naked on Christmas Eve in the Arctic. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Amos Date: 03 Jan 07 - 10:33 PM Yes, but when your covered with bear-fat the windchill factor is less noticeable. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 05 Jan 07 - 11:51 PM Amos - I've heard that being covered with bare fat makes people more sensitive to the cold. IS THIS A NEW TERRORIST WEAPON? Flour-filled condoms case finally laid to rest Philadelphia to pay $180,000 to woman jailed 21 days in misunderstanding The Associated Press Updated: 8:45 p.m. CT Jan 5, 2007 PHILADELPHIA - A woman who was arrested and jailed for three weeks on drug charges for what turned out to be flour-filled condoms has settled a lawsuit against the city for $180,000. "Under the circumstances, something went terribly wrong," Janet H. Lee's attorney, Jeffrey Ibrahim, said Wednesday. "We're trying to ensure that nothing like that ever happens again." Lee was a freshman at Bryn Mawr College in 2003 when she tried to take three condoms filled with flour in her carry-on bag on a flight to Los Angeles. They were discovered by airport screeners, and authorities said initial tests showed they contained drugs. Lee was held for 21 days on drug trafficking charges until later tests showed she was telling the truth. Lee said the flour-filled condoms were a phallic toy students would squeeze to deal with exam stress, and she thought they were funny and packed them to show friends at home. Lee, now a 21-year-old senior, said she did not know that drug dealers often carry drugs in condoms. A trial had been scheduled to begin Thursday in Lee's lawsuit. Lynne Sitarski, a lawyer for the city, said the city was not admitting wrongdoing or liability. © 2006 The Associated Press. URL: AP via MSNBC John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 06 Jan 07 - 12:09 AM Hogzilla was a Runt Hog wild! Hunter kills 1,100-pound beast Behemoth of a hog killed in Atlanta suburub, weighed at truck station The Associated Press Updated: 8:38 p.m. CT Jan 5, 2007 FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. - A giant wild hog boasted to be bigger than the near-mythical "Hogzilla" caught in southern Georgia a few years ago has been killed in a suburban Atlanta neighborhood. The hog hung snout down from a tree Friday in William Coursey's front yard, not far from where the avid hunter said he shot the beast. He said he hauled it to a truck weight station, which recorded the hairy hog at 1,100 pounds. The Department of Natural Resources did not know whether the hog was a record for the state. "We don't keep records on hogs," said Melissa Cummings of the DNR's public affairs department. But Coursey believes his behemoth surpasses the famed super swine shot and killed in 2004 that weighed in at half a ton on the farm's scales. A team of National Geographic experts later confirmed "Hogzilla" didn't quite live up to the 1,000-pound, 12-foot hype, saying the beast was probably 7 1/2 to 8 feet long, and weighed about 800 pounds. The news of Coursey's kill got people talking about the enormous beasts that roam the state. "Nobody keeps official records," said Daryl Kirby, an editor with Georgia Outdoor News. "But it's one heck of a hog." © 2006 The Associated Press. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Jan 07 - 12:19 AM Two Passers-By Catch Toddler From Falling From Four-Story Building January 5, 2007 (link) New York, NY (AHN) - The timely arrival of two passers-by saved a 3-year-old toddler from certain harm when they caught the boy as he fell four-stories from a fire escape in the Bronx. Police said that Julio Gonzales, 43, and Pedro Nevarez, 40, were passing by the neighborhood when they saw the toddler, Timothy Addo, dangling from a four-story building on Thursday. Apparently, the boy's babysitter took off her eyes from him and he was able to crawl out of the window. Gonzales said, "He was hanging on for dear life." The two men scrambled to position themselves under the fire escape to catch Addo when they heard people in the building scream for help as the boy slowly loosened his grip. Nevarez adds, "No one came. We knew it was up to us." The boy tumbled and hit the chest of Nevares so hard that knocked him off balance, but Gonzales was quick to catch him. Timothy was treated at the hospital for a cut on his forehead. Katrina Cosme, the 26-year-old mother of Timothy, who was at work when the incident happened said, "He's fine. He's happy. He's smiling." Detective John Sweeney said they had questioned the babysitter and investigation is still on going. The crucial catch came two days after a bystander threw himself onto a Manhattan subway track to save a man who had fallen, and a day after three police officers delivered a baby on a Brooklyn subway platform. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, "This is the week of heroes in New York." |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Jan 07 - 12:23 AM This is what I was originally looking for a minute ago when I was distracted by the last headline. Photo of hog. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 06 Jan 07 - 12:41 AM Gosh Stilly - at least the killer's better lookin' than the hog. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 06 Jan 07 - 12:53 AM Army urged dead soldiers to re-enlist [Who says the volunteer Army is enough. Sounds desparate to me.] Recruitment letters mistakenly sent to 275 dead, wounded officers The Associated Press Updated: 11:08 p.m. CT Jan 5, 2007 WASHINGTON - The Army said Friday it would apologize to the families of about 275 officers killed or wounded in action who were mistakenly sent letters urging them to return to active duty. The letters were sent a few days after Christmas to more than 5,100 Army officers who had recently left the service. Included were letters to about 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in action. The 75 represent more than one-third of all Army officers who have died in Iraq since the war began. "Army personnel officials are contacting those officers' families now to personally apologize for erroneously sending the letters," the Army said in a brief news release issued Friday night. The Army did not say how or when the mistake was discovered. It said the database normally used for such correspondence with former officers had been "thoroughly reviewed" to remove the names of wounded or dead soldiers. "But an earlier list was used inadvertently for the December mailings," the Army statement said, adding that the Army is apologizing to those officers and families affected and "regrets any confusion." The total number of Army officers who have died in Iraq since the war began stood at 217 as of Dec. 2, according to the latest available Pentagon statistics. In all, the Army has had 1,552 soldiers — combining officers and enlisted — killed in action in Iraq since the war began in March 2003, plus 409 who died of non-hostile causes. The number of Army officers wounded in action in Iraq stood at 894 as of Dec. 2, out of an Army total — for both officers and enlisted — of 14,165, according to the latest Pentagon figures. Altogether, at least 3,006 members of the U.S. military have died in Iraq since the war began, according to an Associated Press count. © 2006 The Associated Press. URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16493727/ John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 06 Jan 07 - 12:58 AM Having a kid in the house makes you fatter "Adults living with young children eat equivalent of an extra pizza a week" I think the headline says it all. You can check out the article if you want the details. "Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids." John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 07 Jan 07 - 01:47 AM Not exactly "newspaper" but: The Great Chair Heist on YouTube (3:42), purports to be an actual surveillance video from an apartment complex lobby in New York City - edited for YouTube of course. The story at The Internet Finds Its Purpose affirms that this is indeed the apartment complex where a "product reviews coordinator," known as "PJ" at PC Magazine resides. "… PJ had just directed me to the incredible YouTube video of a man casually stealing two full-sized arm chairs from PJ's co-op building lobby. It was originally taken by a surveillance camera and then edited for the viral video site. The video's "director," Tcement, added the title "The Great Chair Heist" and some funny captions throughout the 3-minute 42-second video. …" Maybe someone knows this guy? (the thief, that is). John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Jan 07 - 02:00 AM Poor guy, had to "settle" for the smaller chairs. :-/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: freda underhill Date: 07 Jan 07 - 02:13 AM W Pushes Envelope on US Spying New postal law lets Bush peek through your mail by James Gordon Meek WASHINGTON - President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans' mail without a judge's warrant, the Daily News has learned. The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on Dec. 20. Bush then issued a "signing statement" that declared his right to open people's mail under emergency conditions. That claim is contrary to existing law and contradicted the bill he had just signed, say experts who have reviewed it. Bush's move came during the winter congressional recess and a year after his secret domestic electronic eavesdropping program was first revealed. It caught Capitol Hill by surprise. "Despite the President's statement that he may be able to circumvent a basic privacy protection, the new postal law continues to prohibit the government from snooping into people's mail without a warrant," said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the incoming House Government Reform Committee chairman, who co-sponsored the bill. Experts said the new powers could be easily abused and used to vacuum up large amounts of mail. "The [Bush] signing statement claims authority to open domestic mail without a warrant, and that would be new and quite alarming," said Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies in Washington. "The danger is they're reading Americans' mail," she said. "You have to be concerned," agreed a career senior U.S. official who reviewed the legal underpinnings of Bush's claim. "It takes Executive Branch authority beyond anything we've ever known." A top Senate Intelligence Committee aide promised, "It's something we're going to look into." Martin said that Bush is "using the same legal reasoning to justify warrantless opening of domestic mail" as he did with warrantless eavesdropping. Published on Thursday, January 4, 2007 by the New York Daily News |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Amos Date: 07 Jan 07 - 11:44 AM As through this world you wander, You'll meet lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. Woody A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 07 Jan 07 - 01:48 PM How right he was! I dare say that there are more occurrences of the later than the former. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Wesley S Date: 10 Jan 07 - 10:34 AM According to the associated press today 1/10/07: JAMES BROWN STILL NOT BURIED: COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- The body of soul singer James Brown has yet to be buried as attorneys and his children work to settle issues surrounding his estate, including where he will be laid to rest. For now, his body lies in a sealed casket in his home on Beech Island, said Charles Reid, manager of the C.A. Reid Funeral Home in Augusta, Georgia, which handled the services. Brown died of heart failure December 25 at age 73. His will has yet to be filed, said Buddy Dallas, an attorney for the singer. The room where Brown's body lies is being kept at a controlled temperature, and security guards keep watch, Reid said. The funeral home delivered Brown's body after services December 30, Reid said. Brown's home has been locked since hours after his death to protect his memorabilia, furnishing, clothes and other personal items, Dallas said. "Just imagine what would have happened," Dallas said. "Items of James Brown would have left there like items off the shelves of Macy's in an after-Christmas sale." The trustees for his will, along with Brown's children, will determine the burial site, Dallas said. Tomi Rae Hynie, Brown's partner, said shortly after his death that she encountered locked gates as she tried to get into the home she says she shared with the singer and their 5-year-old son. She wouldn't discuss the incident Tuesday, but her lawyer said Hynie should be granted access to the home. The attorney would not say whether Hynie would take legal action. "The hope is that all parties can sit down and figure out what the problem is and what the challenges are," attorney Thornton Morris said. "And once we figure out what the challenges are we'll see if we can't resolve something that's a win for everybody." Meanwhile, a woman who claims Brown raped her nearly 20 years ago said Tuesday she will continue her lawsuit. Jacque Hollander has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her sexual harassment suit, which a lower court ruled last year she had waited too long to file. A Supreme Court decision on whether to hear the case is pending. She argues that the two-year statute of limitations in such cases does not provide equal protection to women. "This has been a long road that ended tragically Christmas morning," Hollander said in a phone interview with the Associated Press. "As a rape victim, I will never get to face him in court, and it hurts," she said. "But we are moving forward. We filed against his organization, as well as him. So now his organization stands in front of him." In her lawsuit, Hollander said Brown raped her at gunpoint in 1988 while she was his publicist. She seeks $106 million in damages. A federal appeals court tossed out Hollander's lawsuit in August. "There was nothing to it 20 years ago and nothing to it 20 years later," Dallas said. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 10 Jan 07 - 08:31 PM 'Butt-printing' art teacher fired The Associated Press Updated: 4:21 a.m. CT Jan 10, 2007 RICHMOND, Va. - An art teacher whose off-hours work as a so-called "butt-printing artist" became widely circulated among high school students has been fired. The Chesterfield County School Board, in a unanimous voice vote, fired Stephen Murmer at a meeting Tuesday night, spokeswoman Debra Marlow said. In its decision, the board reasoned that students have a right to receive their education in an environment free from distractions and disruptions, Marlow said. The decision also is in keeping with court rulings that hold that teachers are expected to lead by example and be role models, she said. Jason Anthony, Murmer's attorney, called the vote "a bad day for the First Amendment." - "Chesterfield lost a tremendous asset today," he said. Murmer, a teacher at Monacan High School, was suspended in December after objections were raised about his private abstract artwork, much of which includes smearing his posterior and genitals with paint and pressing them against canvas. His paintings sell for as much as $900 each on his Web site. The unique approach to art became a topic when a clip showing Murmer, wearing a fake nose and glasses, a towel on his head and black thong, turned up on YouTube.com and became the talk of the high school. ********************** A quick search did not find the alleged website of the artist, however one "report" on the school firing also claims that he posted a video "demonstrating how he paints with his butt." There are s.o.o.o. many levels on which one could comment that I think I'll refrain. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 10 Jan 07 - 11:15 PM It seems his name is Stan, not Stephen, and here is a video of him in action. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:26 AM I almost posted that I'd leave it for Stilly to find his page, but ... Good hit. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 11 Jan 07 - 12:32 AM Explanation for innocent bystanders: Stilly River Sage is much better informed than I am about more "modern" kinds of art. Although I have some familiarity with older, more conventional stuff, I didn't find this artist; but I was sure that Stilly would know how to locate his page if she had any interest in doing so. Not that I thought seriously that there would be any particular interest. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: GUEST,saulgoldie Date: 11 Jan 07 - 10:55 AM http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2541133,00.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:22 PM ... File this to read later Foot-dragging is worse than ever — and makes us poorer and fatter The Associated Press Updated: 5:48 p.m. CT Jan 11, 2007 Procrastination in society is getting worse and scientists are finally getting around to figuring out how and why. Too many tempting diversions are to blame, but more on that later. After 10 years of research on a project that was only supposed to take five years, a Canadian industrial psychologist found in a giant study that not only is procrastination on the rise, it makes people poorer, fatter and unhappier. ... ... ... ... In 1978, only about 5 percent of the American public thought of themselves as chronic procrastinators. Now it's 26 percent, Steel said. ... ... ... ... Early studies looking at U.S. and Canadian cultures didn't find any differences in the two countries' procrastination problem, but Steel said when he has more time he'll get around to more cross-cultural studies. Studying procrastination as a field has a benefit, said the professor. The more he knows about the problem and the causes, the less he procrastinates — even though he sheepishly acknowledges his study was completed five years late. The good thing about studying procrastination, he said: "If you take a day off from it, you can always say it's field research." My kinda job. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Jan 07 - 12:37 AM Goodness, Saulgouldie--what a story! [snip] "The professor had hoped to spend the afternoon listening to his fellows discoursing on arcane topics. Instead, he was handcuffed to another suspect in a "filthy paddywagon" and fingerprinted in a detention centre, where his peppermints were confiscated. His bail was set at £720 and he remained behind bars for eight hours. When he told a judge his side of the story in court the next morning the case was dropped." His peppermints were confiscated? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 12 Jan 07 - 01:18 AM There were some "interesting(?)" comments from readers at Saulgoldie's link too, although I don't know that they added much to the story. Of course his peppermints were confiscated. How would the police know that a dangerous criminal wouldn't have cyanide embedded in them to avoid being tortured for vital information? John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Jan 07 - 02:15 PM Boat washed off freighter found on Washington coast THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ABERDEEN, Wash. -- A 25-foot boat that apparently was knocked off a freighter in a storm washed ashore about two miles south of the Queets River on the Washington coast. The Grays Harbor County sheriff's office says the boat was part of a shipment of four boats made in Port Townsend [Washington] for the Chilean Navy. The boat found yesterday near Cape Elizabeth had "Armada de Chile" painted on it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 12 Jan 07 - 02:24 PM And the Bush propaganda machine will soon tell us it's an invasion by Chilean radical extremists? (Not too unbelievable, perhaps.) John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 12 Jan 07 - 02:32 PM I seem to have stumbled into the shipping news today. This story begs the question--why did this oil tanker go from Alaska to Long Beach, CA, then BACK to Washington to unload the last of it's cargo? Why not unload at Cherry Point on the way there and have less to haul and expend less energy in the second leg of the trip? I can't believe the harbor at Anacortes is too shallow to accept the full ship--they've been in and out of there for decades. Anyway. . . Anchors fall off two oil tankers from Alaska THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE -- Anchors fell off two oil tankers during heavy weather as they were carrying crude oil from Alaska to Long Beach, California. The anchors were discovered missing when the tankers were being unloaded at Long Beach. The ships were allowed to continue to Washington where they finished unloading at a refinery at Cherry point. Now they are waiting -- one at Port Angeles and one at Seattle -- for new anchors. The Coast Guard, the state Ecology Department and the Alaska Tanker Company of Beaverton, Oregon, are investigating what went wrong. The company C-E-O Anil Mathur (ahn-HEEL' MAHTH'ur) says one anchor was lost from each ship -- Alaskan Frontier and Alaskan Navigator, in storms late last month. Each ship has a total of two anchors and the remaining anchor on each ship is cracked. He says the company is flying four anchors -- 15 tons each -- from Holland to be installed next week. Officials say there was no harm to the environment. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 12 Jan 07 - 06:15 PM First Bloggers, now Floggers Sponsored blogs stir controversy The curtain has been pulled on a deceptive new advertising tactic in which companies camouflage ads as product praise in online postings masquerading as independent blogs. Several companies have been exposed for launching fake blogs - known as "flogs" - in a practice that coincides with an increase in the number of real bloggers secretly paid to endorse products. Blogs, a term derived from "web logs," are rampant on the Internet and are considered online journals in which people post personal opinions, musings, rants and more. Online firm Technorati reported on last week it was tracking more than 63 suspicious blogs. Wily marketers have infiltrated the blogging world, paying for favourable commentary on products. However posting product commentary without alerting readers that bloggers were compensated for their opinions is unethical and potential illegal, according to US Federal Trade Commission rules. Sony Computer Entertainment America, a subsidiary of Japan-based Sony, admitted last week that it created a bogus blog baptised "All I want for Christmas is a PlayStation Portable." The blog was passed off as the work of an amateur hip-hop musician named "Charlie," who enthusiastically praised the PlayStation. In a short message on the Charlie blog, Sony apologised for being "a little too clever." The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, came under fire in October for a blog portrayed as an online journal kept by a typical US couple, named Laura and Jim, as they travelled across the country in a motor home. The couple's blog praised Wal-Mart for letting them park their hulking recreational vehicle overnight in store parking lots and told of encountering Wal-Mart workers nationwide that praised their jobs and their employer. Business Week magazine revealed that the couple's cross-country trip was sponsored by Wal-Mart - a fact unmentioned in the online postings. Companies such as PayPerPost and ReviewMe, which link bloggers and advertisers, are fueling the phenomenon. PayPerPost, a five-month-old pioneer in the practice, is true to its name regarding favourable online blog postings. On ReviewMe, bloggers in any language can offer to post their thoughts on products for $US500 a review. ReviewMe explains on its site that it cannot guarantee favourable reviews, but that most of the posted opinions are positive. "We do not allow advertisers to require a positive review," the company said in a statement. "The vast majority of reviews are measurably positive, although many do contain constructive criticism." Blog-for-hire publicity campaigns can be comprised of thousands of postings, according to a PayPerPost spokesman that wished not to be identified. Fake "independent" blogs by companies or secretly manipulated by advertisers break US law by misleading consumers, according to federal regulators. The FTC warned this month that "such connection must be fully disclosed" and that its staff "will determine on a case by case basis whether to recommend law enforcement actions to the commission." Faced with the FTC threat, PayPerPost announced this week it would change it service agreement to require bloggers who were being paid to say so in their postings. Previously they had left it to the blogger's discretion. Many PayPerPost competitors have yet to adopt such a rule, and the torrent of user-generated videos, images, and text flooding the internet has aspiring advertisers navigating uncharted waters. Attention seekers from fledgling music bands to major corporations have seen clever online content "go viral" - lingo for being spread for free worldwide by people using email and online links. Both video-sharing website YouTube and teen-oriented social networking MySpace, for example, have become venues for companies to establish promotional pages. (just kidding) John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 13 Jan 07 - 04:02 AM Spas soothe pain in the 'tech neck' 'BlackBerry thumb,' other workplace maladies prompt new therapies Reuters Updated: 6:08 p.m. CT Jan 12, 2007 NEW YORK - When massage therapist Grace Macnow first heard the term "BlackBerry thumb," she didn't know what it meant. Now, treating it is a new and booming part of her spa business. Therapies to treat workplace woes such as a sore thumb from tapping on a hand-held computer, the aches of "tech neck" from typing on a laptop or even skin irritation from chatting on a cell phone are the latest rage to hit high-end spas, where the weary can seek relief at the end of an arduous workday. "It's huge," said Cindy Barshop, the founder of Completely Bare salons in New York, who has introduced Purity Plus facials to help clean clogged pores and breakouts tied to cell phone use. "I'm pretty shocked," she said about the popularity of the new service. "Everybody's calling me about it. I think a lot of people have that problem." The Purity Plus facial at Completely Bare, complete with herbal mask, steam treatment and massage, costs $185 and takes roughly an hour. Joe Silverman, 31, was one of the first clients to sign up for the new tech neck massage at the Dorit Baxter New York Day Spa in midtown Manhattan. "I've been feeling such pain with keyboards and BlackBerry typing and always being on the go," said Silverman, who owns technology company New York Computer Help. "We don't take care of ourselves, whether it's our posture or just pressure. "You go home and you go to sleep, and you start to turn over or you are trying to move, you definitely feel it," he added. "It definitely takes a toll." Macnow, at her spa Graceful Services, started offering specialized massages for BlackBerry thumb and tech neck last month after getting requests from clients. They've proved to be among her most sought-after services. "When they first called me, I didn't know what BlackBerry thumb was," she said. "Now I know." Her massages feature deep muscle pressure intended to relax the shoulders, neck and arms. Named after Ontario-based Research In Motion Ltd's popular personal digital assistant, the stress-related injury BlackBerry thumb was recently recognized by the American Physical Therapy Association as an official workplace malady. Aida Bicaj, who offers cell phone facials at $225 a session in a townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side, says she has found a wealth of clients among stressed-out professionals and office employees who are overworked in competitive jobs. "With that, you have a lack of sleep and you have stress," she said. "It's identified in your face right away." Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Charley Noble Date: 13 Jan 07 - 09:39 PM BlackBerry thumb, BlackBerry thumb, It's so dumb to get BlackBerry thumb! BlackBerry thumb, BlackBerry thumb, I'd rather strum than get BlackBerry thumb! Anyone want the tune? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 14 Jan 07 - 08:29 PM WomanDiesDrinkingWater Woman in water-drinking contest dies Water intoxication eyed in 'Hold Your Wee for a Wii' contest death The Associated Press Updated: 9:24 p.m. CT Jan 13, 2007 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A woman who competed in a radio station's contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday. Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner. "She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad," said Laura Rios, one of Strange's co-workers at Radiological Associates of Sacramento. "She was crying and that was the last that anyone had heard from her." It was not immediately know how much water Strange consumed. A preliminary investigation found evidence "consistent with a water intoxication death," said assistant Coroner Ed Smith. John Geary, vice president and marketing manager for Entercom Sacramento, the station's owner, said station personnel were stunned when they heard of Strange's death. "We are awaiting information that will help explain how this tragic event occurred," he said. Initially, contestants were handed eight-ounce bottles of water to drink every 15 minutes. "They were small little half-pint bottles, so we thought it was going to be easy," said fellow contestant James Ybarra of Woodland. "They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk." Ybarra said he quit after drinking five bottles. "My bladder couldn't handle it anymore," he added. After he quit, he said, the remaining contestants, including Strange, were given even bigger bottles to drink. "I was talking to her and she was a nice lady," Ybarra said. "She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for kids." © 2007 The Associated Press. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Jan 07 - 10:16 PM What a sad, idiotic way to die. How many people at that radio station had to work to promote a contest like that, and did no one say to them that this could be dangerous? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 16 Jan 07 - 06:06 AM Man's cell phone ignites in pocket [quote] Fire burned his hotel room and caused severe burns over half his body The Associated Press Updated: 9:11 p.m. CT Jan 15, 2007 VALLEJO, California - A cell phone apparently ignited in a man's pocket and started a fire that burned his hotel room and caused severe burns over half his body, fire department officials said. Luis Picaso, 59, was in stable condition Monday with second- and third-degree burns to his upper body, back, right arm and right leg, Vallejo Fire Department assistant chief Kurt Henke said. Firefighters arrived at the residential hotel Saturday night to find Picaso lying on the bathroom floor after a malfunctioning cell phone in his pants pocket set fire to his nylon and polyester clothes, Henke said. The flames spread to a plastic chair, setting off a sprinkler that held the fire in check, he said. Authorities declined to name the phone's manufacturer and model. The fire and water caused $75,000 damage to the room and a business on the ground floor, Henke said. © 2007 The Associated Press. [endquote] While the article doesn't specifically say so, most cell phones, and many other kinds of small portable devices, use the same general kind of Lithium batteries recently recalled by nearly every laptop computer maker in the world due to some "spontaneously flaming computers". There is a substantial history of other similar smaller recalls by makers of computers and of several kinds of other devices. The problem is not apparent in the majority of batteries sold; but is at least "disconcerting" when it appears, and does not appear to have been completely solved. Wearing polyester(?). John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JohnInKansas Date: 16 Jan 07 - 07:59 AM Pardon for U.K.'s last convicted witch? Woman was jailed for 9 months during World War II as threat to Britain Reuters Updated: 8:56 a.m. CT Jan 15, 2007 LONDON - The granddaughter of Britain's last convicted witch has launched a fresh campaign to gain a posthumous pardon for Helen Duncan, jailed at the height of World War Two as a threat to the nation. "I will carry on fighting to clear her name," said Mary Martin who still vividly remembers being taunted in the playground in 1944 as "witch spawn." "The memories are still fresh. It was so unfair. She was totally innocent. It was ludicrous she was ever taken to court," the 72-year-old told Reuters. Duncan, a medium who conducted seances across Britain, was arrested at a time when officials feared details of the upcoming D-Day landings in France could be revealed. She disclosed -- allegedly through contacts in the spirit world -- the sinking of two British warships long before the news was officially made public. She also told the parents of a missing sailor that his ship, HMS Barham, had sunk. That was true, but to preserve morale, the sinking was not announced. Found guilty of witchcraft, Duncan was jailed for nine months. Martin said wartime leader Winston Churchill called the conviction "tomfoolery." When re-elected in 1951, Churchill repealed the 1735 witchcraft act but Duncan's conviction was never quashed. She died in 1956. 'A real stigma' Martin petitioned Britain's Home Secretary (Interior Minister) in vain in 1999. Now she is determined to try again, bolstered by support from Gordon Prestoungrange, holder of a medieval Scottish barony. In 2004 he used his position as the local baron in the coastal town of Prestonpans to pardon 81 women and men executed for witchcraft in the 16th and 17th centuries. "When Mary Martin was growing up as a youngster, it was a real stigma," he told Reuters. "The wound is still open today." He said the campaign on www.prestoungrange.org/helenduncan/ had taken on an international dimension with backing from the Witch Museum in the Massachusetts town of Salem, where in 1692 20 girls, men and women were executed for witchcraft. Prestoungrange says the time is right for a pardon in Britain: "The 300 soldiers executed for cowardice in the First World War have been pardoned... we are now also apologizing for the slave trade... "This was a bizarre decision. They were looking at some way of silencing the lady. They actually thought she was on the inside as a spy with information from somewhere. They were fearful she had access to official secrets. The case was ridiculous." Copyright 2007 Reuters Limited. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Amos Date: 16 Jan 07 - 09:33 AM This raises some interesting questions, dunnit? actually thought she was on the inside as a spy with information from somewhere. They were fearful she had access to official secrets. The case was ridiculous.", quotha. Well it WAS ridiculous, but I would like to know -- if it was not witchcraft -- by what means she was able to announce unknown events that turned out to be correct, such as the sinking of the Barham. If it occurred by ordinary means (gossip, for example), then the accusations are even more ridiculous. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Jan 07 - 10:11 AM It was certainly a missed opportunity to discover what else she could divine through the ether. I originally read that story some months ago, and thought they'd gotten around to pardoning her. I guess not. For any bean counters in the audience, this post is number 547. I think there are only a few Mudcat threads that have the numbers scrambled, those I regularly participate on are this one and the MOAB. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: JennyO Date: 16 Jan 07 - 11:07 AM SRS - the thread "You must leave now" has also been affected showing 2587 posts when it should be 2956. Jenny (another bean counter) |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Jan 07 - 11:41 AM I don't think I'll post this on the James Brown obit thread, it's really a side issue. It has been my understanding that major events like marriage and divorce tend to make some wills void. There was an ancient one at my Dad's house, written before all of us were born and naming some man I had never heard of as our guardian if both parents died. Birth, divorce, lots of things made that obsolete. Brown's was more recent, but it seems logical that the spouse (whether married or common law) and the child have a good case to be included in the estate. Huff seems to be trying to set up the playing field to suit the adult children heirs--another thing I was told was that if you actually intend to disinherit someone, you should name them and say so in your will, because otherwise they have a case for having been missed or excluded by accident. The result in Dad's case was that he died intestate because there was nothing to work from on the old one. It would be a shame if that is the case for Brown--because the majority of his intentions could be ignored and a fight ensue. Estates are hard to work on, even WITH a will. Brown's will drawn up before marriage Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. - James Brown's will, which was read last week and excludes his partner, Tomi Rae Hynie, and their 5-year-old son, was drawn up 10 months before the child's birth and more than a year before their marriage, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The will was signed Aug. 1, 2000, Strom Thurmond Jr., Brown's probate attorney in Aiken, S.C., told The Augusta Chronicle. Brown, who died last month in Atlanta at age 73, married Hynie in December 2001. James Brown Jr. had been born six months earlier, on June 11. The exclusion has added to a dispute about the soul singer's legacy. Brown's attorneys contend that Hynie is not Brown's widow because she was still married to another man when they said their vows. They have said Hynie later annulled her previous marriage, but she and Brown never remarried. Hynie says she was legally married to Brown. The will calls for Brown's personal effects to be divided equally among the singer's six adult children. North Augusta, S.C., lawyer James Huff said that if a will specifically names some children but excludes others, the excluded children have no claim to the parent's assets, regardless of when they were born. Huff represented Brown when he sought to annul his marriage to Hynie in 2004, a petition the singer later dismissed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Jan 07 - 01:18 PM Labradoodle Awakens Owner During Fire From Associated Press January 16, 2007 SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - A savvy Labradoodle has one lucky owner. Firefighters said Bella, a mix of poodle and Labrador retriever, saved the life of her owner Matt Carcerano on Monday, waking him before his Santa Cruz cottage went up in flames. At 3:30 a.m. Bella woke Carcerano, a 32-year-old welder, with a combination of growling, whimpering and barking. "It was weird. I was sound asleep and she made noises I'd never heard before," Carcerano said. "I opened my eyes and it was just orange." The floor-to-ceiling wall heater in the 50-year-old, two-room cottage was on fire, and Carcerano rushed out in socks and pajamas just as the entire place went up in flames. All of his belongings were destroyed except for a few photo albums he was able to grab. The cottage had no smoke detectors. Fire department battalion chief Mike Venezio called Bella a lifesaver. Carcerano said he planned to take Bella for a two-hour romp on her favorite local beach, once he took care of some personal issues. "I gotta go buy shoes," he said. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Jan 07 - 01:45 PM Runaway, 9, Sneaks on Flight to Texas From Associated Press January 17, 2007 LAKEWOOD, Wash. - A 9-year-old boy with a history of stealing cars and running away sneaked onto a plane bound for Texas, getting caught after flubbing an airport connection, officials said. Semaj Booker apparently found a Southwest Airlines boarding card and made it through airport security Tuesday, hopping two separate flights but landing in San Antonio, Texas - short of his Dallas destination, police said. "The only thing I have to offer on that is that were looking into it," Southwest spokeswoman Beth Harbin said. The fourth-grader remained Wednesday in juvenile custody in San Antonio. He had been trying to get to his grandfather in Dallas, where he used to live. The boy was unhappy after his family moved to Lakewood, outside Tacoma. His odyssey began Sunday when he stole a car that was left running outside a neighbor's house, only to be spotted by police near the interchange of Interstate 5 and State Route 512. Police pursued Semaj at speeds up to 90 mph until he took an exit and the engine blew, after which the car went over a curb and coasted into a tree. He refused to come out of the car, so officers broke a window to unlock a door and immediately recognized him as a frequent runaway and car thief, Lakewood police Lt. David B. Guttu said. Last month he also crashed a stolen car before being caught by police in Tacoma, and more recently he was caught in Seattle in a stolen car that had run out of gas, said his mother, Sakinah Booker. She believes he learned to drive from playing video games on a PlayStation. Booker said she had hoped to soon move her four sons back to Dallas, but Semaj grew tired of waiting. Semaj was "incredibly motivated to get to Texas," Guttu said. "He doesn't want to live in Washington state." Booker said her son dislikes the neighborhood where the family lives and is afraid of a sex offender who lives nearby. "He does not like it here at all," she said. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I Read it in the Newspaper From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:37 PM Mom has the numbers right at MOAB but this one is still low. Printer friendly shows the last message was number 551, not 380, but clearly someone is in the Mudcat workshop tinkering with the software. Thank you, whoever it is! SRS |