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Group home's therapy sessions will no longer involve mini-horses
(Fon du Lac Reporter and the Obscure Store))
Well, thank God for that.
Well, guess he finally has an answer to his question. It's, "No we can't."
It's been reported that Rodney King, famous for a videotaped beating from Los Angeles police back in 1991, was shot and wounded on a San Bernardino street corner late Wednesday.
King called Rialto police just before midnight to report the shooting. According to Sgt. Don Lewis, King was struck in the face and arm -- with what appeared to be pellets or birdshot. When police arrived at King's home, they reported that King and others inside appeared drunk. The man got shot in the face -- he deserves a drink!
King was taken to a local hospital, and his wounds were not believed to be life-threatening.
Really? So does that make it normal but not natural or natural but not normal?
Pedophilia May Be The Result Of Faulty Brain Wiring
ScienceDaily (Nov. 29, 2007) — Pedophilia might be the result of faulty connections in the brain, according to new research released by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). The study used MRIs and a sophisticated computer analysis technique to compare a group of pedophiles with a group of non-sexual criminals. The pedophiles had significantly less of a substance called "white matter" which is responsible for wiring the different parts of the brain together.
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The study, published in the Journal of Psychiatry Research, challenges the commonly held belief that pedophilia is brought on by childhood trauma or abuse. This finding is the strongest evidence yet that pedophilia is instead the result of a problem in brain development.
Previous research from this team has strongly hinted that the key to understanding pedophilia might be in how the brain develops. Pedophiles have lower IQs, are three times more likely to be left-handed, and even tend to be physically shorter than non-pedophiles.
"There is nothing in this research that says pedophiles shouldn't be held criminally responsible for their actions," said Dr. James Cantor, CAMH Psychologist and lead scientist of the study, "Not being able to choose your sexual interests doesn't mean you can't choose what you do."
total of 127 men participated in the study; approximately equal numbers of pedophiles and non-sexual offenders.
We understand how one would want to make sweeping generalizations about human behavior based on a study of 127 men.
What tipped you off? The fact they were moody and had acne?
Discovering Teenage Galaxies Billions Of Light Years Away
ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2007) — Staring for the equivalent of every night for two weeks at the same little patch of sky with ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has found the extremely faint light from teenage galaxies billions of light years away. These galaxies, which the research team believes are the building blocks of normal galaxies like our Milky Way, had eluded detection for three decades, despite intensive searches.
The team, led by Martin Haehnelt of the University of Cambridge, UK, Michael Rauch and George Becker of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution, USA, and Andy Bunker of the Anglo-Australian Observatory, reports their results in the 1 March 2008 issue of the Astrophysical Journal.
"The farther we look back into space the farther we see back in time," explained Rauch." We were actually trying to measure a faint signal from intergalactic gas caused by the cosmic ultraviolet background radiation. But as often happens in science, we got a surprise and found something we weren't looking for--dozens of faint, discrete objects emitting radiation from neutral hydrogen in the so-called Lyman alpha line, a fundamental signature of protogalaxies."
Call us dreamers, but don't you think the evidence has been destroyed by now?
Police hunt for stolen Guinness
By Diarmaid Fleming
BBC NI Dublin correspondent
More than 400 kegs were stolen in what is likely to be the largest carry-out of drink this Christmas.
A man drove a truck into the yard on Wednesday, and left with a trailer containing 180 Guinness kegs, 180 Budweiser kegs, and 90 Carslberg kegs.
Police estimated the haul to be worth at least 64,000 euros (£46,000), at wholesale prices.
However, this figure would be considerably more if Dublin pub prices were charged.
The robbery occurred the same day as a special Garda operation known as Freeflow was launched to ease traffic congestion and combat drink-driving over Christmas.
Freeflow officers manning many checkpoints across the city are expected now also to be on the look out for any large quantity of stolen drink flowing through Dublin's traffic.
The stolen trailer has since been found at Slane Hill in County Meath. It was empty.
News we've all been waiting for
Adobe And Yahoo Partner To Put Ads In PDFs
Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo allows publishers to generate ad revenue from their digital content.
By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
November 29, 2007 06:00 AM
Adobe and Yahoo are bringing advertising to electronic documents.
The two companies plan on Thursday to announce Ads for Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) PDF Powered by Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), a new service for publishers interested in generating ad revenue from their digital content.
The opt-in service will be available initially as a limited beta test, open only to select partners including IDG InfoWorld, Wired, Pearson's Education, Meredith Corp., and Reed Elsevier. Neither Adobe nor Yahoo has committed to a date for general availability.
But eventually anyone with an Adobe account and a Yahoo Publisher Network account will be able to participate.
Publishers first upload PDF files to Adobe. Once digital content gets associated with the publisher for purposes of payment, it gets analyzed so that Yahoo knows what type of ads to place in the document. The files then get ad-enabled and e-mailed back to the publisher to be distributed as the publisher chooses. Thereafter, when opened, ad-enabled documents will call out to Yahoo to fetch dynamic ads for display, provided the PDFs are being read on an Internet-connected device.
As with ads on Web pages, publishers get paid per valid click.
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