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Freaky And Bizarre News Weblog

vrijdag 5 maart 2010
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Federal drug brokers aren't laughing about marijuana packaged in yellow, smiley-confronted gumballs.
The "Greenades" gumballs have been present in January at Howard High Faculty in Ellicott Metropolis. The federal Drug Enforcement Company recently released an intelligence bulletin about them.
"It is a new thought and it's new to the DEA," Gregory Lee, a retired supervisory special agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency, advised The Baltimore Examiner. "With regards to drug dealing, you're solely limited by your creativeness.
Police charged three 17-year-outdated college students after a teacher alerted a faculty useful resource officer. She informed the officer that she saw a student give a plastic bag that the teacher believed contained drugs to another scholar.
The officer seized the bag, which contained two "sweet balls" wrapped in foil, police said. Instructions on the foil informed customers to chew for 30 minutes to 1 hour earlier than they wished to be excessive and to "chew for as long as attainable, then swallow."
Officers charged two students with distribution of medication on school property and a third with possession of marijuana.
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A russian thief did not get far after he stole a automotive from a restore shop in southern Moscow with out realising the automobile had no brakes.
When the 24-yr-old thief tried to get away with the broken Nissan Primera, he seen the automotive had no brakes. After sailing trough a set of visitors lights he smashed into one other car.
A Moscow police spokesman stated: "He informed us he had seen mechanics do a paint job on the automotive and saw them depart the keys within the ignition so he determined to take his likelihood."
"However what he did not know was that the automotive was also getting new brakes fitted."
The thief was arrested and charged with theft.
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A suburban Philadelphia college district used college-issued laptop computer webcams to spy on students at house, doubtlessly catching them and their families in compromising situations, a household claims in a federal lawsuit.
Officers at the college district can activate webcams on the computer systems without college students' information or permission, the lawsuit alleges. Plaintiffs Michael and Holly Robbins suspect the cameras captured college students and members of the family as they undressed and in different embarrassing situations, according to the suit.
Decrease Merion College District officials stated the laptops "include a security function intended to trace misplaced, stolen and lacking laptops," and that the characteristic was deactivated Thursday.
"We will categorically state that we are and have always been committed to defending the privateness of our college students," he stated.
Tom Halpern, a 15-year-old sophomore from Wynnewood, said college students are "fairly disgusted" and have began placing masking tape over their computer webcams and microphones.
"This is simply bogus," Halpern mentioned. "I just suppose it's really despicable that they have the ability to just watch me all the time."
The accusations amount to probably illegal digital wiretapping, said Witold J. Walczak, authorized director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, which is not concerned in the case.
"College officials can't, any more than police, enter into the house both electronically or physically without an invite or a warrant," Walczak stated.
A college district statement launched late Thursday said the tracking function wouldn't be reactivated "with out categorical written notification to all college students and families."
The affluent district prides itself on its know-how initiatives, which embrace giving laptops to every of the approximately 2,300 students at its two excessive faculties.
Superintendent Christopher W. McGinley didn't instantly return a message left Thursday by The Associated Press.
The Robbinses said they realized of the alleged webcam photographs when Lindy Matsko, an assistant highschool principal, informed their son that school officers thought he had engaged in improper conduct at home. The conduct was not specified within the swimsuit.
Matsko "cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in minor plaintiff's private laptop computer issued by the college district," the lawsuit states.
Matsko later confirmed to Michael Robbins that the varsity had the flexibility to activate the webcams remotely, according to the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday and which seeks class-motion standing.
The Robbinses declined to speak with an Associated Press reporter at their home Thursday. Their lawyer, Mark S. Haltzman, didn't return messages.
The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the privacy of the house when it dominated in 2001 that police could not, with no warrant, use thermal imaging tools exterior a house to see if heat lamps were getting used inside to grow marijuana. Know-how or no, Supreme Court docket precedents draw "a agency line on the entrance to the home," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, quoting an earlier case.
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Scientists plan to use satellite tv for pc pictures to depend Giant Kangaroo Rats, the primary-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space.
Scientists will examine photos taken from the identical satellite utilized by Israeli protection forces to seek out the circular patches of earth denuded by the rats as they gather food round their burrows. From that they plan to get the primary-ever accurate population count of the rodents, a bellwether for the health of a parched plains atmosphere.
By comparing the images to 30 years of satellite tv for pc photographs being released this month by the U.S. Geological Survey, researchers hope to raised perceive how the population has fluctuated in response to local weather change and because the arrival of state and federal canal water turned the arid San Joaquin Valley into a patchwork of intensely cultivated farms and forced Giant Kangaroo Rats to concentrate on higher ground.
The data will help scientists decide when cattle is likely to be used to reduce nonnative grasses, permitting the rats to extra easily discover food.
This research utilizing satellite expertise is going down on the huge Carrizo Plain, a 390-sq.-mile desert grassland one hundred fifty miles southwest of here that is house to probably the most concentrated remaining populations of kangaroo rats.
The technology replaces trapping and tedious airplane fly-overs as a means of taking census.
"It allows us to extra rapidly recognize whether or not populations are declining where we wish them to exist," mentioned Scott Butterfield, a biologist with of The Nature Conservancy. "In the event that they go beneath a threshold, that's after we would think about intervening."
Big Kangaroo Rats, nocturnal rodents so named because they hop on back legs, adapted to their desert setting by extracting moisture from seeds and of their nasal passages from the humid air they exhale. For food, they pile seeds from native grasses in circles outdoors their burrows, which give shelter for the endangered San Joaquin antelope squirrel and blunt-nosed lizards. Their fats 5-inch our bodies are a well-liked source of food for the endangered kit fox.
High rainfall encourages the growth of taller nonnative grasses, which overrun the shorter grasses that kangaroo rats depend on for meals. Less meals means fewer offspring. When kangaroo rats decline, so do the endangered native plant and animal species that depend upon them for survival, the researchers say.
Determining at what point rainfall affects foraging will help the U.S. Bureau of Land Management establish grazing policy to manage nonnative grasses and encourage a healthy kangaroo rat population.
"With out them the entire ecosystem would go out of whack," mentioned Tim Bean, a doctoral student with the division of environmental coverage and administration on the College of California, Berkeley. "It's fairly uncommon for something so small to be a keystone species. It is simpler to trace, say, bison."
Farming has taken ninety percent of the kangaroo rat habitat for the reason that center of the final century.
The Carrizo Plain National Monument is California's largest remaining undisturbed tract of grasslands similar in biology and geography to the San Joaquin Valley, and it supports many plant and animal species that when thrived on the valley flooring.
"Carrizo is sort of a Yosemite for grasslands, and there are decisions people are studying to make to manage it in a manner that preserves its pure state," Bean mentioned. "Since the kangaroo rat is so vital to its perform, we have to get a deal with on it."
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"How would you like beer companies to acknowledge you?" beer enthusiast and educator Ginger Johnson requested a room full of ladies gathered for the primary Ladies Having fun with Beer event at Standing Stone Brewing Company in Ashland.
"Not in a bikini," referred to as out Standing Stone Co-owner Danielle Amarotico, referring to ubiquitous beer advertisements that feature scantily clad girls.
Ashland resident Sheila Jarvis criticized a business she saw where a girl finished enjoying tennis and then reached for a lite beer.
"I find it distasteful when they suggest that each one active women need a low-carb beer," Jarvis stated. "I'm like, 'Who is that woman?' As a result of I don't know any!"
Women at the Thursday evening event at Standing Stone said they drink beer for its style, as a break from wine, as a result of it could actually pair properly with meals, for the social side and to get a beer "buzz."
"I do not know many women who drink PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon) or Bud Gentle. Life's too short to drink dangerous beer," stated Daly Bull-Germo of Medford.
Johnson mentioned when she discovered that only 25 p.c of women drink beer, she saw an opening to launch her Girls Having fun with Beer organization a yr and a half ago. She hopes the kickoff event at Standing Stone will mark the creation of an area chapter that may have regular get-togethers to learn extra about beer.
Johnson recently settled in Ashland after finishing a 15,000-plus mile cross nation tour of breweries along with her husband, new Standing Stone Head Brewer Larry Chase.
Johnson mentioned the lads she met in the brewing community aren't those doing the marketing that demeans ladies.
"They do not care about your gender," she stated. "They are not the ones saying, 'Here, honey. Have a light beer.'"
Johnson mentioned girls must let the beer business know what they want, whether or not the issue is style or the use of organic components.
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RUSSIAN police arrested a prankster who beamed a porn film onto a giant billboard in central Moscow.
The Solar reported the 2-minute clip was played on an advertising board subsequent to the Kremlin last month, after the joker hacked into an internet firm's pc server.
The impromptu intercourse present brought on midnight visitors jams around the Russian capital, and reportedly triggered one elderly motorist to undergo a coronary heart attack at the wheel of his automotive.
The hacker, who broke into the computer mainframe to "give individuals amusing," faced two years in jail if convicted.
"He's a highly-educated, temporarily unemployed and intensely advanced web person," a police spokesperson mentioned.
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