Midget team involved in bus crash returns home to relieved parents (Global)
(It was an emotional return for parents of the hockey players involved in a bus crash west of Edmonton Sunday. The players, all part of the South Side Athletic Club’s Lakewood Chevrolet Midget AA hockey team, returned Monday afternoon after a harrowing ordeal in which their charter bus rolled on the Yellowhead Highway near Hinton. They were on their way to a game when the driver lost control of the bus, hit the ditch, causing the bus to roll over ending with the bus on it’s roof.)
Bus driver wants attacker to get stiff sentence (CKNW)
(A bus driver who suffered a beating at the hands of passenger who didn't pay is hoping his attacker spends some time behind bars, "I think he should get a minimum of two years less a day." Charles Dixon says he hasn't worked since he was assaulted February 15th by Del Louie, "Sucker-punched me into my right side of my face, my cheek area. I have permanent mild to moderate brain damage, back injuries. I still cannot feel my right side of my nose or my upper right lip. A message has to be sent to the general public, it's not their God-given right to come onto (the) bus and assault us.")
Tulsa Public Schools bus driver praised for heroism (KRMG)
(A first-year Tulsa Public Schools bus driver gets credit for getting 15 students off a burning school bus. Yolanda Palmer handled the situation last week as she was driving the kids to Penn Elementary School. "I seen the flames, so I get up out of my seat and I turned around in front of the flames and I said we gotta evacuate the bus and had them get out through the front door," Palmer said.)
Mum sentenced for lesbian sex lies (Stuff)
(A Queenstown woman who claimed her daughter's rival for a place at a boarding school had a sexually transmitted disease has been sentenced. The woman, 53, a cleaner, was given permanent name suppression to protect her daughter, when she appeared before Judge Raoul Neave in the Queenstown District Court yesterday. She was sentenced to 300 hours community work, ordered to pay $500 emotional harm reparation and was given two years' intensive supervision including undertaking mental health programmes and counselling.)
Christmas Ornament Used As Weapon: Ruth Wagner Arrested For Allegedly Stabbing Conn. Shopper (Huffington Post)
(Guess if this woman is landing on Santa's naughty or nice list for allegedly stabbing a shopper with a Christmas ornament? Police in Southington, Conn. claim that Ruth Wagner used a holiday decoration to slash another woman while fleeing from a craft fair vendor that accused her of shoplifting. The vendor became suspicious of Wagner, because a piece of jewelry went missing near where the 55-year-old browsed on Sunday, The Hartford Courant reports.)
Alleged Andover hazing gets camp kicked off campus (Eagle Tribune)
(The director of the summer basketball camp where two Andover High basketball players were allegedly hazed by older teammates described the incident as "disturbing and reprehensible." "Your blood just boils. It's very upsetting to say the least," said Steve Gibbs, director of Hoop Mountain basketball camp, based in Beverly. Hoop Mountain has been tossed from the Stonehill College campus in Easton, Mass., where police are investigating claims two underclassmen were urged by older teammates — two in particular — into playing a game called "wet biscuit" at the camp in early July. The loser of the game was forced to eat an Oreo cookie covered in a bodily fluid.)
Alleged Andover hazing gets camp kicked off campusMan Accidentally Gives Away Cash-Stuffed Suit to Goodwill In Illinois (My Fox DC)
(An elderly Illinois man who accidentally donated a suit stuffed with $13,000 in bills to Goodwill appealed for the money's return so that he can care for his cancer-stricken wife, WQAD reported. The 80 year old, from Moline, decided to keep his life savings in his closet rather than in a bank because he thought the money would be safer there. But his plan backfired when he absentmindedly donated the cash-stuffed suit -- leaving him unable to pay medical bills for his wife, a Stage 4 cancer sufferer.)
UK's Durham Crematorium May Sell Body Heat To Great Britain's National Grid (Huffington Post)
(Bringing new meaning to the term "body heat," a UK crematorium is hoping to make some extra cash by selling energy produced during the cremation process. If all goes as planned, the Durham Crematorium will install turbines in two of its burners and sell the excess energy to Great Britain's National Grid, The Telegraph reports. A third burner will continue to warm the site's chapel and offices. Engineers estimate that each turbine can generate 250 kilowatt-hours, enough electricity to power 1,500 televisions, according to The Daily Mail.)
WORLD'S BIGGEST GUMMY BEARS (Short List)
(Think about 32,000 calories. That's the equivalent of 140 Big Macs. All in one gummy bear. Behold the world's biggest bouncy bear chew. Weighing in at more than 6,200 times bigger than the puny normal gummies, it's 17 inches in height and costs $149 (about £100). It also has a 34 fl oz tummy to store other gummy bears. Not booze. Definitely not booze. You can buy one here. You can, but you won't. Oh and there's a video, because why wouldn't there be...)
Neighborhood Bans Colored Christmas Lights (My Fox DC)
(Doylestown Station, Pennsylvania bans anything but white lights during the holidays. Neighbors hoped the homeowner's association would lighten up - but the board mailed out its own survey. Only 38 of more than 200 homes responded - 19 in favor of the current rule of only white lights, non blinking - 14 for colored with blinking - and only 5 for steady colored lights.)
Video Shows Pepper-Spray Suspect; Was It Self-Defense? (Encino Patch)
(The woman who pepper-sprayed Porter Ranch Wal-Mart shoppers Thanksgiving night may have sprayed in self-defense, police said Monday. "What am I going to charge her with?" Detective Michael Fesperman of the LAPD Devonshire Division police station told Dana Bartholomew of the Daily News. Detectives reviewed YouTube and Wal-Mart security videos and now say the 32-year-old woman may have feared for her life in the crush for discounted Xbox video game consoles.)
Vampire fantasy can spark real-life dialog (Sun Times)
(The fourth movie in the “Twilight” franchise, “Breaking Dawn — Part One,” just opened to sold-out audiences across the country. Although the series is built on vampire lore, the true impetus behind the plot is the love of vampire Edward and human Bella. Twi-hards everywhere will tell you that Edward and Bella are this generation’s Romeo and Juliet. Their love is forbidden and even life-threatening, and much like Shakespeare’s original lovers, Edward and Bella seem to be characters from a different era. Moms and daughters alike are flooding the theaters bonding over a dose of fairy-tale love.)
Man Returns Money He Stole In The 1940s (Huffington Post)
(The manager of the Sears store in downtown Seattle says an elderly man has repaid – with interest – cash the man says he stole in the late 1940s. The note said the man stole $20 to $30 from a cash register decades ago and wanted to pay back $100. Manager Gary Lorentson says he thinks the man's conscience "has been bothering him for the past 60 years."Store security cameras recorded the man, but Sears officials said they don't know who he is and they won't release the video.)
Camera returned to owner after year beneath sea (News Lite)
(A camera which spent a year at the bottom of the ocean has been returned to its owner after being discovered by a scuba diving wildlife photographer. Markus Thompson had been diving Vancouver, British Columbia when he came across the submerged Canon EOS 1000D camera. Despite the apparent state of the camera, Thompson was able to recover 50 images of a family vacation from the memory card.)
Kansas Hostage-Taker Sues Victims (My Fox NY)
(In one of the more audacious – and head-spinning – lawsuits to hit the courts lately, a fugitive facing a murder charge who took a Kansas couple hostage is now suing his victims for not hiding him from police. Jesse Dimmick is seeking $235,000 from Jared and Lindsay Rowley in a breach of contract suit involving his 2009 invasion of their home, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported.)
Kevin Smith brings live podcast to theaters (Inland Socal)
(For years director Kevin Smith goes to Comic-Con, walks out on stage and just talks. And people show up in droves. It’s always a must-see event for many convention attendees.Now people everywhere will get a chance to see what the fuss is all about when Smith brings his podcast “Jay and Silent Bob Get Old” to Inland movie theaters Feb. 2. Smith will be joined by “Jay and Silent Bob” partner Jason Mewes as they host a podcast and take questions from the audience. And that means everyone sitting in any theater. During the live show people can submit questions by text message or various social media networks and Smith will answer them.)
Neil Gaiman Twitter-Agrees To Star In Kevin Smith’s Bluntman And Chronic (Bleeding Cool)
(Bluntman & Chronic, stoner analogues of Batman and Robin first appeared as a fictional comic in Smith’s Chasing Amy, and was intended to be the obligatory appearance of the Jay And Silent Bob characters, until they invaded the main plot later in the movie. Since then the comic has appeared for real, drawn by the likes of Mike Allred. Well, now it appears we are getting a cartoon…)
What's next for Batman? (TG Daily)
(The recent news that The Dark Knight Rises has finished filming is both exciting and rather depressing. Sure, we're all looking forward to finally watching the next Dark Knight movie, but it's also a downer because Rises is probably the last of a great series. Of course, this isn't exactly news, as we've known for some time that Rises is the final Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale Batman flick.)
Occupy movement calls on Batman (Katu)
( Has Commissioner Gordon joined the Occupy movement? The Occupy Portland protesters turned on a new signal to display their message on a downtown building Monday night. Protesters set up a Batman-themed projection on a building on SW 4th Avenue near Clay Street downtown. The signal was up for a few hours, but protesters say you can expect to see their new signal in other parts of Portland in the near future.)
Study debunks stereotype that men think about sex all day long (Eurekalert)
(Men may think about sex more often than women do, but a new study suggests that men also think about other biological needs, such as eating and sleep, more frequently than women do, as well. And the research discredits the persistent stereotype that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would amount to more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours. In the study, the median number of young men's thought about sex stood at almost 19 times per day. Young women in the study reported a median of nearly 10 thoughts about sex per day. As a group, the men also thought about food almost 18 times per day and sleep almost 11 times per day, compared to women's median number of thoughts about eating and sleep, at nearly 15 times and about 8 1/2 times, respectively.)
Scientists propose rating system for retouched celebrity photos (MNN)
(Proposed system would identify when a photo has been altered to adjust a person's skin tone, leg size and wrinkle removal. Intuitively, we know the images we see of celebrities and models are too beautiful to be true. And now two researchers are proposing a system intended to offer a reality check for images photoshopped to super-human perfection.)
Archaeologists make new Stonehenge 'sun worship' find (BBC)
(Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones were erected. The pits are positioned on celestial alignment at the site and may have contained stones, posts or fires to mark the rising and setting of the sun. An international archaeological survey team found the pits as part of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project.)
Iran bans US video game showing Tehran invasion (Yahoo)
(Iran has banned a popular computer game, "Battlefield 3", depicting US armour and aircraft launching an assault on Tehran, an Iranian IT magazine reported. "All computer stores are prohibited from selling this illegal game," an unnamed deputy with the security and intelligence division of Iran's police said in a statement carried by the Asr-e Ertebat weekly. A Tehran-based IT union warned all shops to abide by the ban.)
Millions of printers open to devastating hack attack, researchers say (MSNBC)
(Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions so frantic that it could eventually catch fire? Or use a hijacked printer as a copy machine for criminals, making it easy to commit identity theft or even take control of entire networks that would otherwise be secure? It’s not only possible, but likely, say researchers at Columbia University, who claim they've discovered a new class of computer security flaws that could impact millions of businesses, consumers, and even government agencies.)
Pirated software hard drive on display as art (The Register)
(A New York gallery is displaying a piece of “art” that consists of a one-terabyte portable hard drive chock-full of pirated code. Manuel Palou’s “5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte”, currently on display at the Art 404 gallery in New York, consists of a single drive placed on a plinth, containing stolen code from Adobe, Nintendo, and others. Pedantically speaking - given its name - the drive actually contains 1,016GB of data, and the estimated cost of the data is just $4,971,760.)
Man builds girlfriend $125 iPad (CNET)
(Which is why this tale of amorous electronic ingenuity far beyond using pepper spray on Black Friday, brings us to a state close to stinging tears of wonderment. The way China Daily hums it, Wei Xinlong, a college student at the Northeast Normal University in Changchun, really wanted to make his girlfriend, Sun Shasha, very happy. He knew she would love to be in possession of the world's No. 1 passion possession, the iPad. However, he didn't have the money to effect that love. So he set about building an iPad from scratch.)
The Items in ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ Will Cost You More Than $100,000 (Time)
(It’s officially Christmas shopping season, and that means the iPads and Kindle Fires are being plucked off the shelves in droves. These gifts come with some hefty price tags – but the presents are staunchly from the present. If you’re seeking a more vintage gift-giving routine this holiday season, might we remind you of the centuries-old song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas?” The song highlights 12 gifts for 12 days to give to your true love. And though the gifts are rather old-school, be prepared to shell out as well, to the tune of $101,119.84.)
Fired College Band Head Warned of Hazing (Time)
(The fired director of Florida A&M's famed "Marching 100" band said he repeatedly warned university leaders over two decades about the dangers of hazing and that he's been made the scapegoat for a band member's death in which the practice is suspected. Julian White, 71, said he suspended 26 band members for hazing two weeks before drum major Robert Champion's death on Nov. 19. He reported his actions to university administrators, he said. Hazing has been "rampant on university campuses," and the suspensions would serve notice it wouldn't be tolerated at A&M, he said.)
Tearjerker Alert: Former Lab Beagles See the Sun for the First Time (Time)
(Dog videos never fail to conjure up some sort of emotion. And this one really brings the waterworks. The above footage shows male beagles that were rescued from a lab in Spain seeing sunlight and stepping on grass for the first time. The rescue mission is the largest yet for the group that undertook the cause, Animal Rescue Media Education (ARME). A total of 72 dogs were rescued in the effort, 32 of them having already been adopted in Europe, according to NBC Los Angeles.)
NY Film Critics Name 'The Artist' Best Film (Time)
(The New York Film Critics Circle has named "The Artist" the year's best film. The black-and-white ode to silent film, which itself is silent, also earned best director for Michel Hazanavicius. The nods for "The Artist" are likely to give a boost to its already promising Oscars prospects as the fall award season begins in earnest.)
U.S. to Pay $2.5M in 2001 Anthrax Death (Time)
(More than a decade after tabloid photo editor Robert Stevens became the first victim of the 2001 anthrax attacks, the U.S. government has agreed to pay his widow and family $2.5 million to settle their lawsuit, according to documents released Tuesday.
Stevens, 63, died on Oct. 5, 2001 when a letter containing deadly anthrax spores was opened at the then-headquarters in Boca Raton of American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, Sun and Globe tabloids. Eventually four other people would die and 17 others would be sickened in similar letter attacks, which the FBI blames on a lone government scientist who committed suicide.)
PATRICE O'NEAL Dead at 41 (TMZ)
(Comedian Patrice O'Neal died Monday night ... after suffering a stroke back in October ... this according to his friends at the "Opie and Anthony" radio show. O'Neal had been a staple in the comedy world for years -- and performed at the "Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen" back in September. O'Neal was a regular guest on the "Opie and Anthony" radio show -- and appeared on several TV shows such as "Chappelle Show," "The Office," and "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.")
Natalie Wood clung to dinghy after going overboard, says harbormaster (MSNBC)
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