Taco Bell Worker Jason Dean Allegedly Handcuffed Himself To Woman Who Refused Dates
August 14, 2011 No Comment
Oh, the things we’ll do for love. A Ringgold, Ga., Taco Bell employee came on a bit too strongly when he allegedly handcuffed himself to a co-worker who’d rejected his romantic advances for weeks, according to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun. For more than a month, Dalton resident Jason Dean’s overtures were met with repeated rejection from his would-be sweetheart, identified only as Rebecca. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that Rebecca, 18, even scheduled her work hours to deliberately avoid overlapping shifts. But on Monday, the 24-year-old decided to decided to take the matter into his own — and her — hands. According to the incident report, “Rebecca states that as she was trying to get to her car Jason handcuffed himself to Rebecca’s wrist. Jason did let Rebecca go after co-workers went over to where they were at after Rebecca had yelled for them.” As the bad date came to an abrupt end with Rebecca free, the suspect fled in a green Nissan. He was arrested at his home two days later by Dalton State College campus police. Authorities detained Dean at the Catoosa County jail, where he was charged with false imprisonment and held on a $2,500 bond. WATCH:
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What’s more frightening than a swarm of robots ? An award-winning swarm of robots trained to raid your library — that’s what. This SciFi-worthy outfit of mechanized literature swindlers, known as the “Swarmanoid,” landed themselves the Best Video Award at this week’s AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) conference in San Francisco. The video in question features the mixed bag of eye-bots, hand-bots and foot-bots in an Oceans 11 -style bookcase heist. Of course, there are probably easier ways to reach the top shelf (e.g. a ladder), but none that get us thinking about the end times quite like this. The full video awaits you after the break. Continue reading Swarm robots attack your bookshelf, win AAAI Oscar Swarm robots attack your bookshelf, win AAAI Oscar originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The Huffington Post has come across this fascinating five-minute interview of Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s Palo Alto office in June 2005. The clip is apparently part of a longer 40-minute-interview from a documentary about millennials shot by Ray Hafner and Derek Franzese. That interview apparently has never been shown in full, and if I were Hafner and Franzese I’d be figuring out a way to do that… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : TechCrunch Discovery Date : 14/08/2011 01:44 Number of articles : 2
Continue reading …Eduardo Marmolejo, 17-Year-Old Student, Charged With Murdering School Principal Suzette York
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A 17-year-old student charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of a Christian school principal told investigators he had planned to stab the woman on the third day of classes, when he knew he’d be alone with her in a classroom, police said Thursday. Eduardo Marmolejo was held without bond and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation by a Juvenile Court judge during a hearing Thursday. State law allows police to release the names of juveniles charged with first-degree murder. Marmolejo has been charged with planning the killing of 49-year-old Suzette York for months. York’s body was found by a teacher in a classroom on Wednesday at Memphis Junior Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school of less than 100 students. The thin teenager with short brown hair appeared before Judge Sheldon McCall, wearing a bright orange jail jumpsuit. Marmolejo was joined by his parents, who both wore black shirts and blue jeans. Prosecutor Chris Lareau said the killing was premeditated and asked McCall to detain Marmolejo. Both Lareau and the two defense attorneys appointed by the court asked for mental evaluations of the teenager. The judge appointed the two attorneys after Marmolejo’s mother said the private lawyer she hired did not make it to the hearing. She said she could not remember the attorney’s name. During a break, Marmolejo asked for his glasses, which a court officer provided. Marmolejo’s mother, whose name was not made available, asked for tissues. The judge then returned to the courtroom and ordered the mental evaluation. “Our main concern is to determine if he is a danger to himself and a danger to the community,” McCall said. After the hearing, the parents were shuttled away in a van and were not available for comment. The killing shocked current and former students of the school, located next to a church and a cemetery in a residential section of east Memphis. They described York as a caring person who taught science and math before becoming principal in 2008. York’s body was found at about 11:20 a.m. Wednesday. Parents were called and students were sent home after the body was discovered. Police said Marmolejo told investigators he planned to kill York because he did not like her and she had made him angry. Marmolejo told authorities he knew that he was going to be alone with York in a classroom, police said. Marmolejo was one of the oldest students at the school, which has students in pre-kindergarten through high school. York is survived by her husband, who lived with her in an apartment in suburban Memphis. About 30 friends and current and former students attended a tear-filled prayer service for York on Wednesday at Mullins United Methodist Church, located next to the school. Peter Hunter, a former student who also has a cousin currently attending the school, said York tried hard to nurture a family atmosphere at the school. “She was a person who was very much involved with the students,” said Hunter, 25. “She cared deeply about the development of her students.”
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• Hit F5 for all of the latest updates from the match • Stats centre: league tables, top scorers and much more • And you can email jacob.steinberg.casual@guardian.co.uk 3 min: Pennant curls it into the six-yard box, but the whistle blows for a foul on Cech. 2 min: The first Rory Delap long throw of the season. The first of many. He hurls it in from the right and with some difficulty, Cech, flapping slightly, punches clear. Ramires hooks it out of the box, but Stoke keep the pressure up, Walters winning a corner on the left. 1 min: At a very loud Britannia Stadium – as if that needed saying – we’re off. Chelsea, kicking from right to left, get us going. Fernando Torres doesn’t mess up the kick-off, so he’s already looking better than he did last season. “Going by the success of debutants so far I reckon Villas-Boas’ll get manhandled by Shawcross and get red-carded,” offers Oliver Lewis. Or he’ll nick Tony Pulis’s baseball cap. These youngsters get up to all sorts. Ray Wilkins, in the commentary box, makes a very good point about Drogba’s absence from the starting line-up meaning Chelsea will be weaker when defending set-pieces. Good old Raymondo. The first email. “Did he?” asks Benjamin List of Adrian Mole. “He quoted from it in his impassioned argument about the Falklands, he must’ve had some knowledge, even if it was only an inkling, as to it’s intended meaning. Anyway, 1-1. Lampard with Chelsea’s, Woodgate for Stoke. But he’ll injure himself in the process and it’ll turn from triumph to tragedy.” Chelsea won’t have fond memories of Jonathan Woodgate as well. Everyone’s been asking about what to expect from Villas-Boas. I’ve got no idea to be honest, having not followed the Portuguese league last season. I do know that he’s 33 and worked for Jose Mourinho though. Stoke (4-4-2): Begovic; Huth, Shawcross, Woodgate, Wilson; Pennant, Delap, Whelan, Etherington; Jones, Walters. Subs: Sorensen, Collins, Pugh, Diao, Whitehead, Wilkinson, Shotton. Chelsea (4-3-3): Cech; Bosingwa, Alex, Terry, Cole; Ramires, Mikel, Lampard; Kalou, Torres, Malouda. Subs: Hilario, Ivanovic, Benayoun, Drogba, Ferreira, McEachran, Anelka. Referee: Mark Halsey (Lancashire) Some early team news for you. Fernando Torres starts for Chelsea. He suffered concussion during Spain’s defeat to Italy on Wednesday, but is deemed fit to play. Well. That’s a big vote of confidence in the Spaniard from Villas-Boas. Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka are apparently left on the bench. So can Andre Villas-Boas do it on a dry, warm Sunday afternoon in Stoke? There are probably better places than the Britannia Stadium for the manager – who is 33 years old and used to work for Jose Mourinho – to get acquainted with English football. In this fixture last season, Stoke gave Chelsea a good going over and were desperately unlucky not to come away with all three points, the match ending in a 1-1 draw. There shouldn’t be too many surprises from Stoke: no-nonsense defending, set-pieces, a reliance on Matthew Etherington to provide the creativity, plenty of long balls and no end of endeavour from their two attackers. It sounds simple, but then Adrian Mole thought Animal Farm was a pleasant novel about a group of animals on a farm. Although Chelsea have a new look in the dug-out, not much has changed on the pitch. In fact, three years after Sir Alex Ferguson suggested that Chelsea were too old to win the title, there squad largely remains the same from then, barring a few tweaks here and there. The days of big spending at Stamford Bridge increasingly appear to be over, the splurge on Fernando Torres and David Luiz in January the exception rather than the rule. From 2003 to 2006, Chelsea bought the likes of Hernan Crespo, Juan Sebastian Veron, Didier Drogba, Arjen Robben, Michael Essien, Petr Cech, Ricardo Carvalho, Michael Ballack and, er, Andriy Shevchenko. This summer, they’ve bought Oriol Romeu and Thibault Courtois, with Romelu Lukaku on the way. Not quite the same, is it? The problem for Villas-Boas’s predecessor, Carlo Ancelotti, during Chelsea’s dodgy spell last season was a thin squad and that problem hasn’t been rectified. Today Chelsea are likely to have a clutch of youngsters, squad players and Fernando Torres on the bench. Perhaps Luka Modric will be signed. Wesley Sneijder’s available as well. Hint, hint. Right now, Chelsea do not have a team capable of keeping up with the Manchester clubs, let alone one that can harbour realistic hopes of winning the Champions League, the holy grail for Roman Abramovich. No pressure, AVB. Premier League 2011-12 Stoke City Chelsea Premier League Jacob Steinberg guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …On Morning After the Republican Debate, CBS Skips GOP, Interviews Only Obama Spokesman
August 14, 2011 No CommentCBS's Early Show had a strange way of picking guests around the Republican presidential debate on Fox News. On Thursday morning, they interviewed former candidate Steve Forbes about the economy, but had no current candidates. On the day after the debate, CBS brought on Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod to denounce the GOP candidates — but didn't invite any actual GOP candidates. Correspondent Rebecca Jarvis began by letting Axelrod just launch, but did conclude by asking about how Obama can win considering dissatisfaction among Democrats: JARVIS: So, I want to start where Norah [O'Donnell] and Chris [Wragge] left off, and is with Rick Perry. He has called the President's job creation record abysmal. Now, he's in the GOP race. What is your reaction to that? AXELROD: Well, he's also called for secession from the United States of America and all kinds of other things. So, I'm not going to respond specifically to things that Rick Perry has to say. We'll see when he becomes a candidate what specifically he has to propose, what he has to say. His record will get scrutinized, his record on things like education and health care, and some very key issues in Texas. He's been the beneficiary down there of the boom in oil prices, and, obviously, that, in a state like Texas, is going to benefit from that, and increased military spending because of the wars, because Texas is home to many military bases . But- JARVIS: Do you think that's why that Texas- AXELROD: His leadership will get — excuse me? JARVIS [skeptically]: Is that what you attribute, then- Texas's unemployment rate being about a percent lower than the national unemployment rate? To the war and to oil? AXELROD: Well, I don't think there's any question that those were major contributors to it. I don't think very many people would attribute it to the leadership of the governor down there. But, look, there will be plenty of time for that debate and that back and forth. He isn't a candidate yet. We really don't know what kind of candidate he'll be. We don't know how he'll perform when he gets out there, how he'll answer some of the tough questions facing this country. And so, that will unfold in the days to come. JARVIS: When you look at what did unfold last night, it's one thing to get slammed by all of the GOP candidates in the running, to say that this president is a one-term president by them. But then, also David, to have the base, the Democratic base, come out against President Obama in such a significant way. How does the President win re-election under these terms? AXELROD: Well, Rebecca, first of all, let's be clear. Every poll that I've seen, including the most recent this week, show very, very strong support among Democrats for President Obama, almost historically high levels of support. But let's talk about the debate last night, because that's going to help frame this discussion. What we saw- what was surprising was not that all of them attacked Barack Obama, or even that they attacked each other. What was stunning was when they were asked, when you look at the problem of the debt of this country, would you accept any more revenues, any higher taxes, even if it were ten parts cut and one part taxes. And they all raised their hand and said, no, essentially pledging allegiance to the Tea Party, instead of resolving the problems of this country — not one more dime from corporate special interests and loopholes, not one more dime from the wealthiest Americans, just shifting the burden to the middle class. And on that subject, Rebecca, what was also stunning was, an entire debate, two hours, the two words you never heard from one Republican candidate for president was middle class. They didn't address the problems that are facing people in their lives in this country — JARVIS: Okay — AXELROD: And that is what this election is going to be about: who has a vision that's going to move this country forward and restore security for the middle class? JARVIS: David, we have to end it there. Thanks for being with us this morning. David Axelrod.
Continue reading …Orange UK’s official HP Pre 3 support page goes live, still not available to purchase
August 14, 2011 No Comment
If you haven’t been paying close enough attention to the matter, you’d think the HP Pre 3 had already been released. After all, it’s been myriad months since it was originally announced and the Veer and TouchPad were both pushed out to store shelves (arguably a little too early ). Sadly, it’s still sitting on deck, waiting to try its luck when the time is right. Orange’s UK branch, however, is wasting no time making sure it’s ready for the mystery launch date, as the Pre 3′s support page is live on the carrier’s site and awaiting your perusing eyes. The listed specs confirm that the smartphone’s running with a 1.2GHz dual-core CPU (as opposed to its originally-announced 1.4GHz ) and using webOS 2.2 , as well as 512MB of RAM and a 3.6-inch 800 x 480 WVGA resolution display. Though we’re still waiting on word of the phone’s release from HP or Orange, sightings of a finalized page on the carrier’s site are awfully hard to ignore. Given the length of time it’s taken to hit the market, however, will it even feel fresh once daylight hits it for the first time? Orange UK’s official HP Pre 3 support page goes live, still not available to purchase originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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At least 4 dead, 24 injured following stage collapse at Sugarland show Sugarland Stage Collapses at Indiana State Fair – Dozens Hurt Sugarland Show Interrupted by Devastating Stage Collapse devotedmemorial says: Four Dead After Stage Collapses at Sugarland Show in Indiana: http://t.co/LWepBhr via @ HarveyLevinTMZ
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Ron Paul – The Only Anti-War Candidate in the 2012 election! Thad McCotter at Ames Straw Poll Fox News’ Rich Johnson at Ames Straw Poll MsTerryMcMillan says: Ames Straw Poll History Shows It Has Little Effect On Candidates’ Iowa Caucus Performance http://t.co/pQPTsJ6 via @ huffingtonpost READ IT!
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