Oregon Transit Agency Disciplines Driver Over Crying Baby (Fox News)
(A bus driver who berated a mother and her crying 2-year-old into getting off a bus last month in a Portland suburb has been disciplined, the area's mass transit agency said Friday. The driver had been on leave while the Sept. 29 incident was investigated. The woman, a TriMet driver since 2001, received "appropriate discipline" but remains employed, agency spokeswoman Mary Fetsch said. Fetsch refused to identify the driver or say how she was disciplined.)
School Bus Cameras Focus on Bullying (New Canaan Patch)
(Cameras on board school buses are another tool in the battle against bullying, according to Fairfield County school districts. Part of the legislation passed last session prohibits bullying outside the school setting. That means schools can get involved when bullying occurs on the bus. Many area school districts have installed cameras on the bus to identify and prevent fighting or disorderly behavior.)
60 hurt in bus accident on NH-34 (Times of India)
(A Darjeeling-bound tourist bus overturned on NH-34 on Sunday, leaving 60 passengers injured. Twenty of the injured tourists were referred to Malda District Hospital while the rest are being treated at Gajole health centre. It has been learnt that six among those sent to Malda hospital are in serious condition.)
Roofer wrongly accused in man's death gets his job back (Vancouver Sun)
(Garnet Ford, the man wrongly accused in social media posts of killing a teenager on a bus a week ago, has his job back. Following the Facebook smear, the British Columbia man was told by his employer to take some time off. But Ford said as a roofer, he doesn't get paid if he is off work.)
Youngsters fight to save bus services for rural residents (The Northern Echo)
(TEENAGERS fighting proposed bus cuts which may leave villagers stranded aim to take their fight to Arriva’s bosses. Campaigners Caitlin Brennan, Anna Renfrew and Anisha Harris are fighting Arriva’s plans to withdraw services in Teesdale, County Durham.)
Party bus driver on wine tour charged with felony DWI (River Head Local)
(The driver of a party bus on a North Fork winery tour was arrested and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated Saturday evening. Police said Christopher Dopkins, 48, of Brookhaven had a blood alcohol content more than twice the legal limit when he was stopped on Sound Avenue in Wading River just before 7 p.m. Saturday.)
Box Office: 'Real Steel' just shimmies past 'Footloose' for No. 1 (LA Times)
(It was almost paradise for a remake of the classic '80s flick "Footloose" at the box office this weekend. After Friday ticket sales were tallied, it seemed that the dance reboot was off to a good enough start that the movie would be able to sustain the momentum needed to claim the weekend's No. 1 spot. But as the weekend progressed, the sci-fi action film "Real Steel" picked up steam.)
Shannen Doherty Marries in Malibu (People)
(Shannen Doherty may have made a name for herself on Beverly Hills, 90210, but when it came to her wedding on Saturday, the zip code of choice was Malibu. The TV actress, 40, who most notably played Brenda Walsh, said "I do" to her fiancé Kurt Iswarienko at sunset, PEOPLE has confirmed.)
American Cancer Society refuses $500,000 from atheists (Examiner)
(The American Cancer Society has turned down a donation worth $500,000 from the Foundation Beyond Belief, a secular charity funded by atheists, freethinkers, and humanists. Thursday, the Foundation Beyond Belief issued a formal statement indicating that their offer to raise up to a half million dollars through the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life program was recently tabled when the American Cancer Society declined to allow the Foundation to create a national Relay team as other non-profits have done.)
100-year-old runner breaks marathon record in Toronto (CTV)
(A 100-year-old man achieved his dream of being the world's oldest marathon runner Sunday, after he completed a 42-kilometre race along Toronto's waterfront. Indian-born Fauja Singh will likely be named the Guinness World Record holder for the world's oldest marathoner for completing the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon.)
New book claims Adolf Hitler died in Argentina, not Berlin (Herald Sun)
(A NEW book claims that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not kill himself in Berlin in 1945, but actually ended his days in Argentina. British journalist Gerrard Williams told Sky News today he and co-author Simon Dunstan found an "overwhelming amount of evidence" to suggest Hitler died an old man in South America. Most historians say the Nazi leader died in his Berlin bunker in 1945, but Williams claims their research, looking at newly declassified documents and forensic tests, challenges this.)
Assisted suicide machine for sale in Kevorkian auction (Reuters)
(The "death machine" used by the late Dr. Jack Kevorkian in assisted suicides will be among the items up for auction in an estate sale in late October, according to the sale's coordinator. Kevorkian, known as Dr. Death for helping more than 100 people end their lives, died in June at the age of 83.)
Brothers charged with stealing bridge (MB)
(Two brothers have been charged with stealing a western Pennsylvania bridge and selling the 15 1/2 tons of scrap metal for more than $5,000. Police say 24-year-old Benjamin Arthur Jones and 25-year-old Alexander Williams Jones of New Castle used a blowtorch to break up the bridge in late September or early October. They face felony charges of criminal mischief, theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy.)
FAA investigates skydiving sex stunt over California (MSNBC)
(The Federal Aviation Administration says it will look into a videotaped skydiving sex stunt to determine if the pilot might have been distracted during the incident over Kern County. FAA spokesman Ian Gregor says any activity that could distract the pilot while he's flying could be a violation of federal regulations.)
George Bush Almost Asked Clint Eastwood To Be His Vice-President (UProxx)
(Back in 1988, when future president George H.W. Bush was trailing Democrat Michael Dukakis badly in the polls, his campaign strategists considered asking Clint Eastwood — mayor of Carmel, California at the time — to be his running mate, according to audio tapes unearthed by ABC.)
Colorado says state champion goat failed drug test (ABC)
(Colorado officials have disqualified the grand champion goat from this year's State Fair because they say it tested positive for an unapproved drug. The Pueblo Chieftain reported Friday that a second goat entered by another child from the same family also was disqualified for the same drug.)
Mr. Magoo Bandit suspected of 12 bank robberies in California (LA Times)
(The bank robber dubbed the Mr. Magoo bandit by the FBI is now suspected of a dozen bank jobs from San Diego to the San Francisco Bay Area. His latest robbery was a bank in Thousand Oaks on Oct. 8, the FBI said. He also is suspected of striking a bank in Camarillo on Sept. 27.)
Lady Gaga bans Lady Goo Goo song (BBC)
(Lady Gaga has won an injunction at London's High Court to stop animated character Lady Goo Goo from releasing a single, its makers have said. Lady Goo Goo, a baby with a long blonde fringe from the Moshi Monsters online game - owned by UK firm Mind Candy - released The Moshi Dance on YouTube.)
Film review - Red State (Cath News)
(Kevin Smith has proven to be something of a sign of contradiction, enthusing his fans and irritating his definitely-not-fans. I will opt for the fan side. Smith used to portray himself in his films as a slacker, the famous Silent Bob. He has an offbeat sense of humour (uninhibited as well), belongs to the comics and graphic novels era (he turned 40 in 2010), is skilful in writing smart and sometimes tantalising dialogue, and doesn’t mind being rough and ready in his film-making, favouring some improvising.)
‘Red State’ not all horror but not bad, either (Times Leader)
(Reviews of a little film called “Red State” have been mixed. Feelings about a little filmmaker named Kevin Smith have also varied over the last year. Despite feeling batted around a bit by both the movie and its maker, I confess that I’ve still found a way to enjoy them both. As a teenager, I grew up watching Smith’s earlier movies: “Clerks,” “Mallrats,” “Chasing Amy,” “Dogma,” and “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.” While crude and hilarious, these movies also had heart, and I hold all of them near and dear as a reminder of that particular time in my life.)
Red State: the redemption of Kevin Smith (Brisbane Times)
(Every slacker loved Clerks, but with each movie that followed its writer/director Kevin Smith lost a few of his fans. Mallrats was too lowbrow, Chasing Amy too concerned with romance and Smith’s weird idea of what it’s like being a lesbian. Dogma was either too preachy or pure blasphemy, depending who you asked.)
'Batman: Arkham City' Conquers New York Comic Con! (MTV)
(New York Comic Con: The Batman: Arkham City panel members were greeted by the jam-packed hall as world-conquering rockstars. Rightly so! Since Batman: Arkham Asylum took gamers by storm (and surprise) in 2009, gamers and Batman fans alike have been waiting as patiently as a cop on stakeout for the Arkham City follow-up. Judging by the overwhelming praise already being heaped upon the title (Metacritic score of 92!) the gang at Warner and Rocksteady may have exceeded expectations.)
"Batman: Year One" Review (Crunchy Roll)
(It's rare to find a person who doesn't know the origin of Batman. He's a cultural icon, right up there with Superman and Spider-Man, with popularity that probably surpasses both those comic legends. For those who don't know the details, the fast-and-dirty of it is this: as a boy, Bruce Wayne watched his parents get murdered in front of him. Vowing to rid his city of this criminal disease, he travelled the world for over a decade, training his mind and body to their limits. Returning to Gotham City, he donned the guise of the Batman, a fearsome predator striking from the shadows to tear down Gotham's criminal hierarchy.)
Kids fly into action to fight bat disease (Record Online)
(What’s really scary about Halloween? Some fiend is killing our bats. Many are dying. Wow. That’s so creepy. No bats to twitter in the sunset of campfires? No bats to gobble insects by the ton? No looping, zooming bats to thrill us? Just think. Bats have been around for at least 35 million years. So who’s trying to turn them into cardboard bats hanging in windows?)
Yoda Language Study: New Research Shows Human Ancestors Spoke Like Star Wars Character (Huffington Post)
(Speak like Yoda, did you? Two linguists say your ancestors did. New research published in the the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the "proto-human languages" of 50,000 years ago resembled the speaking patterns of a certain wise, green Star Wars character.)
Schizophrenia Genetics Linked to Disruption in How Brain Processes Sound (Science Daily)
(Recent studies have identified many genes that may put people with schizophrenia at risk for the disease. But, what links genetic differences to changes in altered brain activity in schizophrenia is not clear. Now, three labs at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have come together using electrophysiological, anatomical, and immunohistochemical approaches -- along with a unique high-speed imaging technique -- to understand how schizophrenia works at the cellular level, especially in identifying how changes in the interaction between different types of nerve cells leads to symptoms of the disease.)
Will Climate Change Murder All the Coffee? (Gawker)
(Oh, maybe: "What we are really seeing as a company as we look 10, 20, 30 years down the road—if conditions continue as they are—is a potentially significant risk to our supply chain, which is the Arabica coffee bean," says Jim Hanna, the sustainability director at Starbucks (a bottom line-focused coffee chain whose name you might recognize).)
Boston Hospital Performs Double Hand Transplant (The Boston Channel)
(Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital will announce Friday morning that it has completed its first successful double hand transplant. The recipient is Richard Mangino, 65, a married father of three and grandfather of two from Revere.)
The science behind our amazing twins - one black, one white (Daily Mail)
(Kaydon and Layton Wood are just five yet already they are local celebrities. Dressed in identical outfits (their parents have always taken great pride in doing so), the boys are often stopped in the street by passers-by who can’t believe it when they are told the pair are not only brothers, but twins. In fact, the twins have been making headlines in regional newspapers since they were born – because one is white and the other black.)
Why do men and women talk differently? (Salon)
(Over the past few decades, linguists have shown that, when it comes to speech, many gender stereotypes hold remarkably true: Men tend to speak loudly, while women whisper; men talk over each other, while women conspire behind each other’s backs; men hold back their feelings, while women lay them out to strangers they meet on the subway. According to some critics, these differences are merely a reflection of our cultural presuppositions about gender. But, according to a new book, there’s a far simpler reason for these linguistic differences: biology.)
Filthy Phones: 1 In 6 Cell Phones Have Traces Of E. Coli Bacteria (Huffington Post)
(About one in six cellphones tested in the U.K. had traces of E. coli bacteria from fecal matter, a new study released for Global Handwashing Day suggests. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Queen Mary, University of London travelled to 12 cities in Britain, took 390 samples from cellphones and hands and then analyzed the samples in the lab to record the type and number of germs.)
Hackers add porn to Sesame Street YouTube channel (CNET)
(Sesame Street's YouTube channel was hacked today, leaving its normally family friendly content replaced with pornographic content, according to a report on the tech blog The Next Web. YouTube had the content removed in 22 minutes, according to the report, and as of this writing, the show's channel has been replaced by a message saying it is unavailable.)
Computer program to reveal who wrote the Bible (Daily Mail)
(Precisely who wrote the Bible has been debated for centuries – but now scientists have devised a computer program that sheds much more light on the sources of the various religious texts within it. Israeli computer scientists and Bible scholars have written an algorithm that analyses the writing styles found within various sections.)
'Robot Biologist' Solves Complex Problem from Scratch (Science Daily)
(First it was chess. Then it was Jeopardy. Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself. An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Vanderbilt University, Cornell University and CFD Research Corporation, Inc., has taken a major step toward this goal by demonstrating that a computer can analyze raw experimental data from a biological system and derive the basic mathematical equations that describe the way the system operates.)
Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD (Gawker)
(The Occupy Wall Street protests have been going on for a month. And it seems the FBI and NYPD have had help tracking protesters' moves thanks to a conservative computer security expert who gained access to one of the group's internal mailing lists, and then handed over information on the group's plans to authorities and corporations targeted by protesters.)
Burger King Sued over Needles in Food (Time)
(A Hawaii soldier says he got something dangerous with his burger, fries and soda when he ordered a Burger King value meal. Army Staff Sgt. Clark Bartholomew claims he was injured by needles when he bit into a Triple Stacker on Dec. 1 from a Burger King located on Schofield Barracks, a sprawling Army base in central Oahu.)
Drug Smugglers Tunnel Directly Into Arizona Parking Spaces (Time)
(Forget the high costs typically associated with getting drugs into the U.S. from Mexico. Some smugglers are sneaking their stock in for just 25 cents. International Street in Nogales, Ariz. runs directly along the border wall. It's a popular shopping district and meeting point for family members from both countries. So, it's understandable why the city of Nogales installed parking meters on the street to make an extra profit. But it turns out the drug smugglers were the ones profiting.)
Dan Wheldon dies in massive IndyCar wreck (Washington Post)
(Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon dies Sunday in a fiery 15-car wreck at Las Vegas Motor Speedway when his car flies over another on Lap 13 and smashes into the wall just outside turn 2.)
300,000 babies stolen from their parents - and sold for adoption: Haunting BBC documentary exposes 50-year scandal of baby trafficking by the Catholic church in Spain (Daily Mail)
(Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a new investigation reveals. The children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors, nurses, priests and nuns in a widespread practice that began during General Franco’s dictatorship and continued until the early Nineties.)
iPhone 4S weekend sales 'up to 4 million' (SMH)
(Apple's iPhone 4S barrelled toward unit sales of up to 4 million at the weekend, as the company's US carrier partner AT&T reported a record number of customers activating the device on its network. The latest version of Apple's best-seller, which went on sale last Friday in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK, is outpacing the iPhone 4 - a device that topped 1.7 million units in its first weekend in 2010.)
Walking Dead Comic Gets New Digital Treatment (Wired)
(As AMC’s The Walking Dead grows increasingly popular, chances are good that viewers will want to check out the original zombie mayhem unleashed in the comic book upon which the TV show was based. Now, just in time for the Sunday start of The Walking Dead’s second season, Image Comics is releasing Robert Kirkman’s comic book series through the socially minded digital platform Graphicly, which will make the acclaimed comic available on web browsers, iPad (via iOS 5 Newsstand), Nook Color and Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire.)
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