Dad’s A Real Stunner Florida man arrested for using shocking discipline on son, 14 JANUARY 27–Meet Douglas Dycus. The 40-year-old Florida man was charged yesterday with felony child abuse and domestic battery for allegedly using a stun gun to discipline his 14-year-old son. Dycus, an engineer with a Palm Beach firm, admitted to cops that [...]
Trainers Hope Skill Will Help Keep Facility CleanCHIANG MAI, Thailand — Where does a 2-ton elephant go to the bathroom? The answer to that question used to be ‘anywhere they want to,’ but a group of animal trainers in Thailand are hoping to change that. They’re training their elephants to use several specially constructed toilets. [...]
Online financial service PayPal has warned a small number of customers that they should be extra-vigilant against online scams, after their e-mail addresses were leaked on the Internet. The subsidiary of Web auctioneer eBay said this week that BenchmarkPortal had not properly secured an online form for customers to opt out of a recent survey [...]
Blog Relavent Update Google will introduce new technology controls to thwart people using blogs to manipulate rankings in its search results. Otherwise known as ‘link’ or ‘comment spam,’ the ruse is as old as Web marketing. Such Web site promoters use the comment form on forums, blogs or any Web page to place or gain [...]
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Side note: My friend in thailand mentioned the death toll would rise above a half million… Jan 19, 9:55 AM (ET) By Jerry Norton and Dean Yates BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) – The global death toll from the Asian tsunami shot above 226,000 Wednesday after Indonesia’s Health Ministry confirmed the deaths of tens of thousands [...]
Love works in mysterious ways. A Romanian couple named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitude for meeting over the Internet, a Bucharest, Romania, newspaper said Thursday. The Daily Libertatea said Cornelia and Nonu Dragoman, both from Transylvania, met and decided that they were meant for each other following a three-month relationship over the [...]
Halfassitis strikes ABC ABC has the bloggers as people of the year and it’s fitting. MSM’s newly found respect or appreciation for bloggers is interesting BUT leave it to just another MSM–ABC–to get it all wrong. ABC basically says that the left column blogs are the people of the year. I wonder though what news [...]
Report: U.S. Lost 1.5 Mln Jobs to China in 1989-2003 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States lost nearly 1.5 million jobs between 1989 and 2003 because of increased trade with China, according to a report released on Tuesday by a government watchdog committee. My Way News
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States is moving on several fronts toward a global tsunami warning system following the Asian catastrophe. A design is emerging from the State Department’s Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN) for protecting huge populations in coastal areas, and will be presented to the United Nations-sponsored World Conference on Disaster Reduction this [...]
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