Archive for January, 2009
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Teachers may want to act when teenagers use technology to make life miserable for classmates, but resources to combat the escalating problem have been few and far between.
The Seattle school district is working to change that.
Just what drives adolescents to post humiliating photos and hurtful comments online, even to set ...
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
I know this will be hard to believe. A part of Google went down this morning, around 9:00am CST on Saturday Jan 31, 2009
The message, "This site may harm your computer" was coming up on every computer we tried a Google search on. We thought it was our location, so ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Cyber Crime, Cyber Culture, Cyber News, Online Predators, Teen Issues
Here are some interesting stats from the folks at the NCMEC. These are the the good people who have done so much great work fighting child pornography and warning about online predators.
For some reason, I feel compelled to tone things down ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Military will Pledge Oath To Obama, instead of the Constitution
Michele Chang
The White House, Obama, is contemplating orders that have the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates extremely frustrated. The Obama Administration may break with a centuries-old tradition, according to sources at the Pentagon. This will include all branches of the armed ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Another family destroyed by suicide this week. Fox news reported “A family of four, including two small children, were found dead in their Ohio home in what police believe was a murder-suicide. … the father left behind a suicide note. …. Police identified the victims as Mark ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Jan. 30--A Police Dog tracked a Fayetteville man police say robbed a bank on Bragg Boulevard on Thursday.
Tyrone Ernell Hinton, 29, of the 2100 block of Elvira St., was charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon.
According to a news release, Hinton was tracked to his home by a Fayetteville police ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Food Friends Football, Bacon explosion? What do all these have in common you say.
The bacon explosion is sweeping the nation as the hottest super bowl snack.
I really don’t think its because it sounds so tasty, but rather it sounds like a dare.
As in I dare you to eat this and ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Father Kills Family and Self Over Personal Economy
Ervin Lupoe, A medical technician fatally shot his wife, five young children and himself Monday after claiming in a note to a TV station that he and his wife both had just been fired. Police urged those facing tough economic times to get ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Retiring police dog corners last man
Var, a police dog on the last night of the job before retirement cornered a teenager sought for investigation of murder, officers said.
A tip led officers to a Spokane house Sunday night, and searching the premises - with the owners permission - Officer Dan Lesser and the ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
John Thain and Barack Obama have something in common, their interior decorator, Michael Smith. This is the same guy who John Thain was excoriated for paying multiple thousands of dollars to decorate his Bank of America office, while his company slid into the worst financial trouble in its long existence.
I ...
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