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A grandmother has been banned from giving sweets to her grandchildren after a court heard they had suffered dental problems. The grandmother, known as EM, launched a legal battle against her own daughter over access to the four children.
Perth Sheriff Court was told EM would often bring two carrier bags of sweets with her on visits.
Sheriff Daniel Kelly QC granted the grandmother one visit a month on the condition she did not give them sweets.
The grandmother took her daughter to court after contact with the four children was cut off in March 2006.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...al/7109480.stm
Death by Internet --
any time you hear warnings about how parents should strictly monitor their children's Internet sessions, believe it.
In the midwest US, a teenage girl went to a online website in which a user presenting himself as a boy her age made "friends" with her. After a few weeks, though, he suddenly turned on her, and started blasting and insulting her. Other aquaintances soon joined the bandwagon and
sent her flaming emails.
One afternoon, her mother went to her bedroom and found that her daugher had hung herself.
But that's not the rest of the story though. It turns out that the boy wasn't a dude at all, but the PARENTS of another girl, the victim's classmate, who lived a few doors up the block. According to the msnbc website, where I first saw this story, there's no law against what those parents did.
Officials in a central Indian state have stopped a text messaging service giving out drivers' contact details after men used it to pester women.
The facility, launched a year ago, was withdrawn after women complained to the Madhya Pradesh transport department that they were being harassed by men.
Under the scheme, anyone could send a text to access a vehicle owner's name, address and phone number.
Officials say most of the information being sought pertained to young women.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7103585.stm
the lead singer of Quiot Riot died.
Late author Norman Mailer has been announced as the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the most awkward description of an intimate encounter. The US writer, who died earlier this year at the age of 84, won for his novel The Castle in the Forest.
Jeanette Winterston and Harry Potter actor David Thewlis were also among those in the running for crude and tasteless literary depictions of sex.
Four hundred guests toasted Mailer's memory at a ceremony in London.
The occasion was also used to pay homage to the renowned American literary figure and the rich variety of his work.
"We sure he would have taken the prize in good humour," said the judges.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7115451.stm
Here is a story that hits home...and by home, I mean the forums.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/...igital_library
A judge in India has summoned two Hindu gods, Ram and Hanuman, to help resolve a property dispute. Judge Sunil Kumar Singh in the eastern state of Jharkhand has issued adverts in newspapers asking the gods to "appear before the court personally".
The gods have been asked to appear before the court on Tuesday, after the judge said that letters addressed to them had gone unanswered.
Ram and Hanuman are among the most popular Indian Hindu gods.
Judge Singh presides in a "fast track" court - designed to resolve disputes quickly - in the city of Dhanbad.
The dispute is now 20 years old and revolves around the ownership of a 1.4 acre plot of land housing two temples.
The deities of Ram and Hanuman, the monkey god, are worshipped at the two temples on the land.
Temple priest Manmohan Pathak claims the land belongs to him. Locals say it belongs to the two deities.
The two sides first went to court in 1987.
A few years ago, the dispute was settled in favour of the locals. Then Mr Pathak challenged the verdict in a fast track court.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7132124.stm
Humans have moved into the evolutionary fast lane and are becoming increasing different, a genetic study suggests.
In the past 5,000 years, genetic change has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period, say scientists in the US.
This is in contrast with the widely-held belief that recent human evolution has halted.
The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Professor Henry Harpending, an author of the study from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, US, said: "The dogma has been these [differences] are cultural fluctuations, but almost any temperament trait you look at is under strong genetic influences.
"Genes are evolving fast in Europe, Asia and Africa, but almost all of these are unique to their continent of origin," he added. "We are getting less alike, not merging into a single, mixed humanity."
This is happening, he said, because "there has not been much flow" between different regions since modern humans left Africa to colonise the rest of the world. And there is no evidence that it is slowing down, he added.
"The technology can't detect anything beyond about 2,000 years ago, but we see no sign of [human evolution] slowing down. So I would suspect it is continuing," he told BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7132794.stm
newsflash: yes it's been confirmed. alex rodriguez's "hah" at the rogers center
cost the yankees the 2007 world series as baseball will no longer
tolerate gamesmanship of any kind whatsoever to which an
anonymous yankee fan cum baseball historian grumbled, "ty cobbs,
your days are numbered."
:lol: :lol: :lol: Hilarious!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12...tt_alzheimers/
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Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's
An embuggerance
Terry Pratchett has been diagnosed with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, as he announced yesterday with a post to the web. The best-selling author of the Discworld fantasy books is 59 years-old.
"I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news," Pratchett wrote on the web site run by Paul Kidby, who has provided Discworld cover art in recent years. "We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism."
According to The Guardian, Pratchett underwent some medical tests earlier this year after "having problems with hand-eye coordination and dexterity." At the time, it was suggested that he'd had a mild stroke, but Pratchett now says the culprit was Alzheimer's.
Pratchett calls his diagnosis "an embuggerance," but he says that he expects "to meet most current and, as far as possible, future commitments." He aims to complete his next novel, "Nation," and is beginning to lay down notes for another, "Unseen Academicals."
"Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there's time for at least a few more books yet," Prachett wrote.
"Nation" and "Unseen Academicals" are not part of the Discworld series. The latest Discworld instalment, "Making Money," arrived earlier this year. In all, Pratchett has sold 55 million books, according to The Guardian, and in 1998, he was awarded an OBE for services to British Literature.
After announcing his diagnosis, Pratchett added a post script: "I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should be interpreted as 'I am not dead'. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think - it's too soon to tell. I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do,' but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry."
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Woman jailed for testicle attack A woman who ripped off her ex-boyfriend's testicle with her bare hands has been sent to prison. Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage when Geoffrey Jones, 37, rejected her advances at the end of a house party, Liverpool Crown Court heard. She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: "That's yours." Monti admitted wounding and was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...de/4253849.stm
ouch indeed. the poor little testicle. what a cruel woman!
:lol: :lol: :lol: what a neat way of saying the couldn't sew the balls back on :)Quote:
Doctors were unable to re-attach the organ.
OWWEEEE!!!! I guess there's one less nut in the world!!!!
:lol: :bawling: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by pussnboots
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
I love you guys!!! Those last few posts made me have an annuerism because I laughed so hard...
This is the time where I REALLY need a ROTFL smiley.
FROM:
http://sports.aol.com/story/_a/skate...27043409990001
Skater Proposes to Partner on Ice
By NANCY ARMOUR,
AP
Posted: 2008-01-27 10:57:47
ST. PAUL, Minn. (Jan. 26) - Keauna McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker got the title, John Baldwin Jr. got the girl.
John Baldwin shocked his skating partner and longtime girlfriend Rena Inoue with a marriage proposal after the pair had completed their routine at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
McLaughlin and Brubaker, last year's junior world champions, served notice they're going to be a threat on the senior stage as well, winning the pairs title at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Saturday. Their overall score of 190.74 was more than seven points ahead of Baldwin and Rena Inoue, two-time U.S. champions. Brooke Castile and Ben Okolski, last year's champions, were third.
"I can't believe we're national champions," McLaughlin said, her eyes wide.
Inoue and Baldwin have plenty to celebrate, too. As they took their bows, Baldwin dropped to his knees and asked his longtime girlfriend to marry him. Stunned, she could only stare at him at first.
"I didn't know. He didn't tell me and I don't think he told anybody," Inoue said. "At first I was just so shocked. I didn't know what was going on here."
Said Baldwin, "I told her she's the person I want to spend the rest of my life with, how much respect I have for her and that everything I've accomplished in my career and on the ice is because of her."
As the crowd cheered, Baldwin asked again. With tears rolling down her face, Inoue said yes.
There were no such surprises in ice dance, just more surpassing excellence from Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto. The Olympic silver medalists won their record-tying fifth title with a technically ambitious and beautifully executed performance to music by Chopin. They scored 216.07 points, easily beating training partners Meryl Davis and Charlie White.
"I said to Ben at the end, `This is the best in years,"' Belbin said.
The only thing tarnishing McLaughlin and Brubaker's win is the knowledge that they can't take on the world - yet. She only turned 15 in September, missing the age cutoff for the world championships in March by two months.
Still, you can bet the Germans and Chinese will be keeping an eye on these two.
"We want to be the first American team to win the Olympics, that's our big goal," McLaughlin said. "That's my dream."
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awwwwwwwwwww
eeeeeee, so sweet!
Britons are losing a grip on fact and fiction - with nearly one in four believing Winston Churchill and Florence Nightingale are myths and more than half thinking Sherlock Holmes actually existed.
A very real figureIn a new survey, 47% of people thought that Richard the Lionheart, the 12th-century English king, was a myth.
They were also under the impression that Charles Dickens, one of the most famous writers in English literature, was a fictional character himself.
Indian political leader Gandhi; Cleopatra, ruler of ancient Egypt; adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh; British military leader Bernard Montgomery; and Boudica, famous for leading a major uprising against occupying Roman forces, were all thought to be characters dreamt up for films and books.
Britons thought fictional characters like Sherlock Holmes and pilot Biggles were real, according to the survey of 3,000 people commissioned to celebrate UKTV Gold's forthcoming Robin Hood season.
Over half of those questioned (58%) believe that the detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his novels of the late 1880s actually lived in Baker Street, with sidekick Watson.
:: Historical figures and the percentage of Britons who believe they are myths:
1. Richard the Lionheart (47%)
2. Winston Churchill (23%)
3. Florence Nightingale (23%)
4. Bernard Montgomery (6%)
5. Boudica (5%)
6. Sir Walter Raleigh (4%)
7. Duke of Wellington (4%)
8. Cleopatra (4%)
9. Gandhi (3%)
10. Charles Dickens (3%)
:: Fictional figures and the percentage of Britons who believe they are real:
Sherlock Holmes (58%)
Biggles (33%)
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...303814,00.html
i think they need to make history compulsory in ALL UK schools. Thats just shocking!:p
Mother sacrificed her life by refusing cancer treatment so her premature baby would live
Four months into her pregnancy, Lorraine Allard was devastated to learn she was in the advanced stages of cancer.
Doctors advised her to have an abortion and start chemotherapy straight away.
Instead, with steadfast courage, she insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive, telling her husband Martyn: "If I am going to die, my baby is going to live."
A caesarean delivery was scheduled at 26 weeks, but Mrs Allard went into premature labour a week before and Liam was born on November 18.
She then started chemotherapy, but died on January 18 - having left her bed a handful of times to cuddle her son beside his incubator.
"Lorraine was positive all the way through - she had strength for both of us," Mr Allard said yesterday.
"Towards the end we knew things weren't going well, but she was overjoyed that she had given life to Liam."
The 34-year-old oilfield technician from St Olaves, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and his 33-year-old wife already had three daughters - Leah, ten, Amy, eight, and Courtney, 20 months - when they learned they were expecting their first boy.
"We were going to have the full set and didn't plan to have any more children after that," said Mr Allard.
But in October last year, his wife started suffering stomach cramps and tests at James Paget Hospital in Gorleston revealed tumours on her liver.
It is believed the disease spread from bowel cancer that had been growing unnoticed for years.
"The doctors said they couldn't do anything because she was pregnant," said Mr Allard.
"She told them straight away they were not going to get rid of the baby. She'd have lost the will to fight."
Mrs Allard went into labour a couple of weeks after the diagnosis and gave birth at the Norfolk and Norwich University NHS Hospital in Norwich.
"Liam was so tiny, just 1lb 11oz, so the nurse picked him up and allowed Lorraine to give him a little kiss before he was taken to an incubator," said Mr Allard.
"She was so emotional. She had been so determined to give him the best chance and was happy that he had been born naturally, which meant she wouldn't have to recover for a couple of weeks after a caesarean before beginning the chemotherapy."
The treatment began almost immediately and Mrs Allard spent her time recuperating at home, apart from four visits to her newborn son.
The first was when he was two weeks old, during which a treasured photo of her cuddling him was taken.
Liam has responded well to his care and it is hoped he will be sent home from hospital in early March.
But his mother's health started to deteriorate just before Christmas and a scan on January 17 revealed the tumours were still growing.
She died the following day. Mr Allard said: "The doctors had said the cancer was no longer curable, although they were trying to shrink the tumours - which they thought might give her a couple of years.
"On the day Lorraine died, she hadn't eaten for two weeks and couldn't drink.
"I laid beside her and she was gripping my hand quite tight.
"We were like that for about half an hour. I could feel against my chest that her heart was slowing down. She just slipped away after that. It was very peaceful.
"When Liam is old enough, I won't tell him that Lorraine gave her life for him, but I will say she made sure he had a good chance of life.
"She told me she didn't want him to feel bad about it."
Mrs Allard's father, Tom Berry, said: "I was overwhelmed by the way Lorraine took it.
"She lived for her husband and children. She was a big personality with a heart of gold."
Babies born at 25 weeks have a 50 per cent chance of survival.
This goes down to 39 per cent at 24 weeks and 17 per cent - or a one in six chance - at 23 weeks.
Wow, but mothers just seem to be like this...Quote:
Originally Posted by Wizard272002
A Japanese equestrian competitor looks set to take part in the Beijing Olympics - four decades after first appearing in the Tokyo Games. Hiroshi Hoketsu, now 66, is aiming to be in Japan's Beijing dressage team later this year.
He came 40th in the show-jumping at the Tokyo Games of 1964 - the last time he took part in an Olympic event.
If all goes according to plan, he will become the oldest Olympic representative in Japanese history.
...
The oldest ever Olympic competitor was the Swedish shooter, Oscar Swahn, who took part in the Antwerp Games of 1920 at the age of 72.
He won silver - his sixth Olympic medal - in the running deer double-shot team event.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/7232686.stm
I saw this on the internet this morning. How sad!
DAVIE, Fla. - Kim Sjostrom wanted a real-life version of the film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," which played in the background as friends fixed her hair and makeup before her own marriage ceremony.
But less than an hour after she and Teddy Efkarpides were wed, Sjostrom crumpled in her husband's arms during a Greek song that means "Love Me."
At 36, Sjostrom was dead from heart disease.
The wedding had became a project at Davie Elementary School, where Sjostrom taught first grade. Fellow teachers provided the wedding gown, the flowers and decorations. One of them, an ordained minister, performed the ceremony.
"It was perfect for her," said Dominic Church, the minister friend.
Please let us be part of Scotland again:p Proof undeniable that the english really wish they were Scottish:D
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...ne/7248529.stm
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Residents in the Northumberland town of Berwick-upon-Tweed have "voted" in favour of becoming part of Scotland.
According to a poll by a TV company, 60% of those who responded wanted the town to be administered by Scotland.
Better financed public services, including free personal health care for the elderly, were the main reasons.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7254555.stmQuote:
Even the shortest of catnaps may be enough to improve performance in memory tests, say German scientists. Just six minutes "shut-eye" for volunteers was followed by significantly better recall of words, New Scientist magazine reported.
Now we can all nap at work and claim to be "refreshing" our memories! :D
see hereQuote:
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a house three times in a week to lift a 45-stone man.
Crews of 10 firefighters were involved in shifting Robert Marsden around his home.
On one occasion, they helped him move from one side of bed to the other.
how many pounds is 45 stones. this happened to my co-worker at my last job. she somehow got down on the ground and couldn't get herself back up. we didn't have to call the fire department, but several people had to come up and help. We had a trained nurse who was trained in lifting patients, but when you're dealing with 500 pounds there's not much that training can doQuote:
Originally Posted by kilted exile
45 stone is 630 lbs
Take a look at this link http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23646684/ to read about the explosion in Albania.A very sad situation...
MOREQuote:
A woman has been rescued from the jaws of a saltwater crocodile in Australia after her husband jumped onto its back and forced it to flee.
OK, how many husbands you know would do this? ;)
Not sure what my husband would doQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
English students at Cambridge University have been asked to analyse lyrics by singer Amy Winehouse in a final-year exam.
They were told to compare Winehouse's Love is a Losing Game to songs by Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday and 16th century explorer Sir Walter Raleigh.
Winehouse recently won a prestigious Ivor Novello award for the song.
A university spokesman said English students had always been asked to compare writers of different times.
He said the question was "interesting, but not news".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7422730.stm
Kiss Of Deaf: L.I. Woman Loses Hearing From Smooch
4-Year-Old Daughter's Show Of Affection Turns Woman's Life Upside Down
Expert Says Sucking Action Damaged Ear Drum
Reporting
Jennifer McLogan HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (CBS) ― Medical experts say a kiss on the ear by a 4-year-old girl has caused a unique chain of events that has severely damaged her mother's hearing.
And has CBS 2 HD has learned in this exclusive report, the unusual case has catapulted the family from Hicksville into the pages of medical history.
It was a kiss from a child. She is her mother's joy. It was an expression of unconditional love.
But for one Long Island mom, who we are not identifying because, of her concerns for her daughter's emotional scars, a big, suctioning squeaky smooch on her left ear from her then-4-year-old has left shocking permanent damage.
"It was a long sucking kiss in my ear. I couldn't push her away. I was almost frozen. When she stopped, and the kiss ended, I realized I had no hearing in that ear. Nothing," the mother told CBS 2 HD.
"I got very upset and yelled for my husband, 'I can't hear out of this ear! I can't hear!'"
Her daughter was devastated.
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http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/play...up/?cl=8277206
check this out - its quite amazing