Katrina Tisdale (pictured) was arrested and charged on Monday with misusing 911, when she reportedly called twice so she could get a refund from her drug dealer, reports the Smoking Gun.
When St. Petersburg, Fla., resident allegedly purchased drugs from her unnamed female drug dealer, she spent her last $50 on cocaine and marijuana only to realize that she’d be penniless until her next social security disability check arrived.
According to published reports, Tisdale tried to get her last $50 back, but was entirely unsuccessful, so she allegedly resorted to calling police to see if they could exercise some form of bully tactics to get her money back.
But when Tisdale revealed her whereabouts to the 911 dispatcher, officers arrived at her location and put cuffs on her. The 47-year-old woman was then taken to the Pinellas County jail, where she is currently being held on a $100 bond.
Meanwhile, Tisdale’s latest scrape with the law isn’t the first. She has been arrested on numerous occasions over the last few years, with six of them being cocaine possession-related.
Apparently, Tisdale has a peculiar affinity for using 911 to report incidents that could be categorized as idiotic. Case in point, in a mid-2011 conviction, she told police that she had been robbed by her drug dealer.
“Let defence be your best offence.” That was said by Walt Clyde Frazier during the fourth quarter of the Knicks/Boston playoff game tonight, as New York scored a three off a steals from Boston. The three pointer in the final 10 minutes of the game extended the Knicks lead by 21 points, paving the way for what would eventually be a commanding win by New York.
Game 3 of the first round against Boston was played in Boston. But having the home court advantage turned out to be no advantage for Boston, as New York played one of the best defensive games they’ve played in a long time. The game ended with the Knicks stealing the ball from Boston a total of 14 times, and their suffocating defense caused Boston to turn the ball over 17 times.
The final score was Knicks 90, Boston 76. The game really wasn’t as close as the score suggests.
Carmelo Anthony led the scoring for the Knicks with another great effort, putting up 26 points in 37 minutes. Point guard Felton had an all round productive game, scoring 15 points in 35 minutes of play. He also had 2 rebounds, 10 assists and just 3 turnovers. J. Smith also had 15 points, but received a flagrant Type 2 foul and received an automatic ejection after throwing an elbow at Boston’s Jason Terry. Smith’s absence resulted in a four point play for Boston, but shots by Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler kept Boston at bay.
For Boston, J. Green led the team with 21 points in 44 minutes. Paul Pierce had 17 followed by J. Terry with 14.
New York now leads the series 3-0, with game 4 scheduled for Sunday. In the history of the NBA, no team has ever come back from being down 3 games to win a series, so chances that the Knicks will win this series are very high. Game 4 will be played in Boston at 1PM Eastern.
START TIME: 26th April 7:15pm
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He was talking about a gay teacher who was fired by her Catholic employer
after her sexual orientation was revealed. Pastor Fischer, head if the AFA – The American Family Association – said that “we should reclaim the word discrimination.”
“The school discriminated against this teacher, yes they absolutely did and they should have. They were absolutely right to do it…. It is right to discriminate against people who engage in aberrant sexual behavior, we should discriminate against people like that.”
Fischer went on to suggest that someone’s sexual preference should be equated to shoplifters, and stated that we discriminate against shoplifters, so its okay to discriminate against gays.
Comedian Kevin Hart has been charged with DUI — not unexpected … after he allegedly drove drunk and nearly slammed into a tanker truck and then confessed to his wastedness.
TMZ broke the story … Hart was arrested for DUI almost two weeks ago after CHP spotted him speeding and driving erratically on an L.A. freeway. We’re told cops clocked Kev at 90 MPH and watched as he almost collided with a gas tanker truck.
Our sources say Hart blew almost DOUBLE the legal limit — .15.
The L.A. City Attorney has charged Hart with two misdemeanor counts of DUI. If convicted, he faces up to a year in jail, but the reality is … first offenders almost never get sentenced to the pokey.
As for his defense, let’s hope this isn’t his opening statement …
5-year-old Gus Dorman has already memorized the periodic table of elements. (Photo courtesy of Robert Dorman)
Most parents believe their child is the smartest kid in the class, but when Robert Dorman says this, he’s likely right.
His son, 5-year-old Gus Dorman, with an IQ of 147, became one of the youngest members admitted to Mensa, the exclusive high IQ society.
Now in kindergarten, Gus is already reading such books as “Charlotte’s Web,” while his classmates work on mastering the ABCs.
For fun, Gus memorizes the periodic table and a world map. And sometimes he corrects his father on geography.
“He got into an argument with me because I told him that the capital of Alaska is Anchorage,” said Dorman. “But it’s not, it’s Juneau.”
Dorman first noticed Gus’ advanced intelligence when he started to potty train his son at 18-months. Gus started to bring a newspaper to read on the toilet, and was also reading his father’s copies of “Wired” magazine.
Since Gus was their first child, Dorman and his wife, Kotomi, simply thought this was how all children acted.
“We didn’t realize he was gifted,” said Dorman. “We just thought he was like all kids.”
On a camping trip with another family, Gus read the slogan off a fellow camper’s clothing. The family friend was stunned that at age 4 Gus could read, even though her 5-year-old daughter was still learning the alphabet.
“She said, ‘He can read?’ He shouldn’t be able to read,” recalled Dorman of the family friend’s reaction. “I said, ‘He reads all the time. We brought books [on the trip.]‘”
Dorman decided it was time to take his son to get an IQ test, hoping that he might qualify for an out-of-state gifted program.
Gus scored within the 99th percentile in nearly all categories of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, which qualified him for Mensa, whose members must have an IQ of at least 135; Gus’ IQ was 12 points higher than that.
Despite Gus’ high IQ, his father said his son had problems when he started school. Gus would get restless when it came to learning addition or the alphabet. According to Dorman, Gus was already on multiplication and long division.
“He goes to kindergarten, and he likes going to school [but] he gets in trouble,” said Dorman. “He really has a hard time sitting there and listening to low-concept stories, because he’s used to being able to ask questions and do research.”
Dorman has lobbied his school district to provide special advanced education for his son. But Dorman said it’s unlikely Gus would receive special treatment.
“I know there’s no money for gifted programs in Illinois,” he said.
Dorman hopes that Gus will at least qualify for a school for the gifted that provides supplemental online courses through the eighth grade.
“As parents we’re lost,” said Dorman of Gus’ school options. “I don’t think homeschooling is the way to go. He needs the camaraderie in the social portion of school. The books are one thing, but you have to have the social part too.”
For now Dorman said he’s happy to teach his son what he can about Gus’ newest interests, black holes and astrophysics.
Did you all read the fine print? Yea, I’m talking to all you folks who switched network when T-Mobile came out with their new “un-carrier” plan. Did you read the fine print?
Well I didn’t. When they advertised the end of the “two-year contract,” I was one of many who left my carrier and switched to T-Mobile. My contract with my old carrier (Verizon), was already over and I was actively shopping around. T-Mobile’s new no contract program was all I needed to sign up. And I’m happy.
Verizon is known for its service. And for the most part, I was able to get that service whenever I travelled nationwide. But for that service, you’re going to dish out some cash. And I quite frankly got tired of all those years of dishing. The un-carrier, no contract plans offered by T-Mobile got me.
T-Mobile USA’s “radical” service plans promising no annual contracts aren’t quite as radical as consumers might think, and the mobile operator will change its advertising and offer refunds in a settlement with the state of Washington.
On March 26, the fourth-largest U.S. carrier introduced a series of new service offerings, including no-contract monthly plans and a program that let customers pay for a new phone over the course of 24 months. In unveiling the plans, T-Mobile thumbed its nose at rival mobile operators, calling the new offerings “uncarrier” plans that would free the company and its customers from the constraints of conventional service agreements.
Now the company has agreed to clarify a few things in that pitch after an investigation by the Washington Attorney General’s Office. Specifically, T-Mobile didn’t tell potential customers who bought phones on time that they would have to keep T-Mobile service for 24 months or pay off the rest of the phone’s full price when they canceled the service, said Paula Sellis, an attorney who handled the case in the Attorney General’s Office. The fine-print disclosures that T-Mobile did offer were hard to understand, she said.
“You had to dig very deeply to understand what the terms of the program were, and you had to put two and two together,” Sellis said on a conference call on Thursday.
T-Mobile ads that promised “no restrictions,” “no annual contract”, and no requirement to “serve a two-year sentence” actually only covered plans with no phone included, the Attorney General’s Office said. To get those plans, consumers would have to bring their own phone or pay full price at the time of purchase.
“In our view, those advertisements were quite deceptive,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson said.
In a statement on Thursday, T-Mobile stood by its ads.
“As America’s Un-carrier, our goal is to increase transparency with our customers, unleashing them from restrictive long-term service contracts — this kind of simple, straightforward approach is core to the new company we are building. While we believe our advertising was truthful and appropriate, we voluntarily agreed to this arrangement with the Washington AG in this spirit,” T-Mobile said.
It’s kool. I’m okay with this. My monthly bill is half of what I paid with Verizon and I have a great phone. I am not upset with the fine print. I will save some money each month and I will use it to pay off for my phone before the two years are up.
A fourth grade teacher posted this note on Reddit. The note was written by one of her students and she did us all a favor by sharing this note with the world. “One of my fourth grade students chose gay marriage as his topic for a persuasive essay,” she said. “This is the result. More sense than some adults.”
NEW HAVEN — A screening test performed on a newborn’s placenta can help determine the risk of that child developing autism, according to research at the Yale School of Medicine reported today.
Knowing that there is a high risk of autism in a newborn child gives the parents a chance to watch for signs of the disorder and to use techniques that could reduce symptoms, according to Dr. Harvey Kliman, the senior author of the study, which is published in today’s online issue of Biological Psychiatry.
“We know that early intervention has a very significant impact on these children,” Kliman said. “From my point of view, because the prevalence (of autism) is one in 50 now … I think that everybody should be screened.”
Kliman, research scientist in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the medical school, had studied a phenomenon of abnormal folding of placental cells, and saw a connection to disorders of the brain. The latest study confirms more strongly than ever that the cellular abnormalities are a marker for autism, and possibly other brain-related disorders, such as obsessive-compulsive and attention-deficit disorders.
“This is an abnormal structure that only can be seen at the microscopic level. It can only be done after delivery,” Kliman said. “The brain is extremely sensitive to abnormal folding. It’s the most folded organ in the body.”
Since the placenta is discarded, there is no harm in studying its cells, but any abnormalities would appear in every cell, Kliman said.
In the study reported today, researchers from Yale and the MIND Institute at the University of California at Davis examined placentas of 117 newborns whose families already had a child with autism, putting them at higher risk of having a second such child, and compared them with 100 placentas from newborns in families without such a risk.
The results were dramatic: the at-risk placentas were likely to have as many as 15 of the abnormal folds, while the control placentas had no more than two. More than four such abnormalities indicates that the child is almost certainly in the at-risk group, meaning he or she is nine times more likely to have autism, Kliman said. “The actual outcomes of the children won’t be known for at least a year from now,” he said.
Now, family history is the only way to determine whether there is a chance of a child developing autism, Kliman said. Testing placental cells “gives us a tool to identify those children who are at risk at birth, way before any other modality. … I view this as the check-engine light for pregnancy.”
When Chris Sullivan became pregnant with her daughter, Dania, she was a counselor in Moorsville, N.C., who saw families with autistic children. Her clients would ask if there were a way to detect the disorder early. Continued…
The brothers Tsarnaev had plans to drive to New York in their carjacked Mercedes and explode their remaining bombs last Thursday, but their plans went off track when the owner of the car they stole made an escape, the New York City mayor said Thursday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the information came to the attention of investigators during the interrogation of 19-year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who had at first said the plan was to go to New York to “party” but then changed his story in an interview 24 hours later. At that time Tsarnaev allegedly acknowledged that he and his brother planned a follow-up attack. The brothers had six unexploded devices with them as they tried to flee, Boston Police sources said.
“We were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that NYC was next on the list of targets he told the FBI apparently that he and his brother had planned to drive to NY and detonate additional explosives in Time Square, they had built these additional explosives and we know they had the capacity to carry out the attacks,” Bloomberg said at a press conference Thursday.
“The fact is NYC remains a prime target for those who hate America and want to kill Americans the attacks in boston and the news that NYC was next on the list shows just how critical it is for the federal government to devote high risk areas,” he said.
Bloomberg and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the brothers had a pressure cooker bomb similar to those detonating during the attacks on the Boston Marathon, as well as five pipe bombs.
Law enforcement officials also tell ABC News they are preparing to move the accused Boston Marathon bomber from his hospital room to a secured medical facility in one of the region’s prisons, sources tell ABC News.
Spring is officially here and with spring come different vegetables to eat, cook and enjoy.
I want to share one of my absolute favorite vegetarian dishes with you. It’s fairly easy to make, but after tasting it, your friends and family will think you are a gourmet cook- it is that good.
But first, a story.
My beloved grandfather, Grandpa H, was a cook in the navy during World War 2. He cooked for an enormous amount of people day in and day out. As a little girl I loved listening to the stories about the grueling schedule, the massive quantities of food made and the different meals he made as a navy cook, like roasting 100 turkeys for Christmas dinner or making dozens of cinnamon rolls (from scratch!)
The experience in the navy combined with working in high end restaurants in San Francisco, CA gave him an edge and special knowledge of working with food for the rest of his life.
Grandpa H. could go to a restaurant, eat a meal and figure out the cook made it. He could discern what spices were used. He figured out the method and the ingredients.
Grandpa didn’t tell anyone his insight into a restaurant meal; if he liked something he went home and made it. If he didn’t like something, he would just change it. And it would taste great, better than the restaurant.
The following recipe was developed in just this manner. The restaurant serving Baked Zucchini has long since closed its doors- probably several decades ago. And to be honest, I don’t know the name of the restaurant.
So now I call this recipe, “Ed’s Baked Zucchini” in honor of my grandpa.
Ed’s Baked Zucchini
Budget Friendly: Yes, especially if the vegetables can be bought at a Farmer’s Market
Complicated: Medium, but doable for the novice home cook
Dishes Required: Medium
Time: An hour plus baked time. However, once you make it a few times, it’s a fairly easy to put together and I’m confident you can do the prep work in about 25 minutes. (my time to do it now).
First, you want to gather all your ingredients. It’s easy to forget something as the mixing, sautéing and preparing begin.
Ingredients
4 Large Zucchini (the bigger the better)
6 slices of bread (whole wheat bread works really well) cubed into small pieces
1 onion
2 heads of garlic
2 Tbs. butter or olive oil
2 eggs
¼ salt for sauté
½ Tsp. Salt
¼ Tsp. Pepper for sauté
2 Tsp. (heaping) Italian Seasoning
½ cup Monterey Jack Cheese
Parmesan cheese
Paprika
Instructions
Cut the ends of the zucchini and slice them lengthwise, like a loaf of bread. Set a large pot of water (Dutch oven size) on the stove to boil. Add the zucchini and put the lid on. Wait for the water to boil and then stick a fork into one of the spears of zucchini. It should be firm but easily pierced. (It takes about 25 minutes for this. Another way to know the zucchini are almost done – the whole kitchen will fill with the fresh aroma of zucchini, much like fresh corn when it is boiled).
While the zucchini is boiling, chop the onion and garlic until they are in very small pieces. In a small sauté pan, place 2 Tbs. of butter or olive oil and the onion and garlic. Add the salt and pepper. Allow the mixture to sauté for about 7 to 9 minutes. The onions will become light brown and quite fragrant.
Preheat the oven to 350 F.
In a large mixing bowl, add the cubed pieces of bread, the cheese, the Italian seasoning, ½ tsp of salt. Add the sautéed onions and garlic.
By this time, the zucchini should be done. Drain the water and have a 9×13 baking dish ready (you may need an additional 8×8 depending how long the zucchini are).
Take the zucchini and scoop out their soft fleshy insides and add it to the mixing bowl. The zucchini are HOT. I typically hold the hot zucchini with one hand wrapped in a hot pad (just toss the hot pad into the wash when done).
Place the shells of the zucchini in the 9×13 baking dish.
Mix together everything in the mixing bowl. Add in the eggs.
Spoon the mix into the zucchini shells. Top with crumbled parmesan cheese. (My family used Kraft Parmesan Cheese for years). Lightly sprinkle paprika on top. (optional- it is nice for color)
Bake for 25 minutes.
Enjoy!
This is one of my all-time favorite spring and summer recipes. The process sounds complicated but it is more labor intensive (chopping an mixing) than difficult in technique. To cut down on the work, grab a friend or family member for help. Between two people, the chopping, mixing and dishes will be done in no time!
And then you can get on to the best part- the eating!
Don’t let the “vegetarian” aspect of this meal fool you. It’s a fairly filling dish. All that is needed is a lovely side salad. Add a strawberry shortcake for dessert and it’s the perfect menu for a weekend meal.
Melissa AuClair works by day as a skin care and cosmetic consultant and a blogger and writer moving towards a location independent lifestyle by night. You can follow her on Twitter @melissaauclair or on her blog http://www.launchyourcreativelife.com/blog
A man in Michigan convicted of having sex with his pet pit bull faces a 15-year jail sentence for the crime. 37-year-old Kurtis Peterson, who was convicted of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct in 1996, was caught having sex with the dog on two separate occasions. The same (unfortunate) person caught Peterson each time.
In April 2010, Joyce Yeaw, who was attempting to return keys she’d borrowed from Peterson’s roommate, caught a naked Peterson having sex with his dog on his bed. She called police but, somehow, Peterson was able to convince her or the responding officer that he was “just hugging his dog,” and no arrest was made. Then, two months later Yeaw again walked in on Peterson mid-dog sex, this time on his living room floor. She called the police again and Peterson was arrested.
“He was having sex with the dog, it was disgusting,” Yeaw said of the encounter.
In his courtroom testimony, Peterson admitted to being “sexually aroused from accidental contact with the animal’s rear,” but claims that occurred as he was “just playing with the dog.”
He was sentenced on Monday to one to 15 years in prison. Judge Timothy Hicks went above state sentencing guidelines in his ruling, say Peterson posed a high risk of reoffending. “I fear for what he might do in the community,” the judge said.
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