Month: February 2014

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This Teenager Kills Himself After His Favorite Cartoon Character died

Leonid Hmelev, 14, jumped to his death from an apartment block after his favourite TV character died

A 14-year-old boy leapt more than 100ft to his death from the top of an apartment block in Chaikovsky, Russia, after seeing his favourite manga character killed in a cartoon.

Police say Leonid Hmelev died instantly.

The boy was reportedly devastated after seeing the death of the character Itachi Uchiha in the animated movie ‘Naruto – Hurricane Chronicle’.

He left home after posting a message on a social networking site saying he was also ‘planning an ending’.

His worried parents raised the alarm after he did not return home and a search was organised together with neighbours.

After being missing for two days his body was found yesterday and he was identified by his devastated father Ivan, 38.

He said: ‘I always told him he spent too much time watching the TV – he didn’t know what was reality and what was fiction anymore.’

Teenage suicide in Russia is endemic. It has the third-highest teenage suicide rate in the world, just behind its neighbours Belarus and Kazakhstan and more than three times that of the United States. 

On an average day, about five Russians younger than 20 kill themselves.

Popular Naruto character Itachi Uchiha. The teen was distraught when the character died. His father says his son struggled to separate reality from fiction

Psychiatrists and health experts in Russia blame alcohol abuse, domestic violence, rigid rules and high expectations from parents.

Itachi Uchiha is a character in the popular Naruto comics and animated TV series. He is treated as an antagonist for much of the series, but was much-loved by Japanese TV and comic enthusiasts.

Chaikovsky is a town in Perm Krai, Russia. It is named after the composer Tchaikovsky, who was born in nearby Votkinsk.

Read more: DailyMail

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Politics

Another of Chris Christie’s Friends with Ties to Bridge-Gate Scandal

A Port Authority police officer with personal ties to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was at the George Washington Bridge when access lanes were closed last September and personally drove David Wildstein, the Christie appointee who supervised the closings, on a tour of the area as traffic brought it to a standstill.

Documents submitted to a New Jersey legislative committee by Wildstein also show that the officer,  Lieutenant Thomas “Chip” Michaels, appears to have sent periodic text messages to Wildstein updating him on the effects of the lane closures and their crippling impact on the town of Fort Lee. In one message, on the first day of the lane closures, Michaels told Wildstein he might have an idea to “make this better.” It is not clear what he meant

Michaels, who joined the Port Authority Police Department in 1998 according to payroll records, grew up in Christie and Wildstein’s hometown of Livingston, N.J. In recent years, he coached Christie’s son at little league hockey. Michael’s brother, Jeffrey Michaels is among the most powerful Republicans in New Jersey politics – a lobbyist whose practice has soared in value during the Christie years and who has donated heavily to pro-Christie organizations.

Michaels’ presence at the lane closures with Wildstein is an important new detail because it places another person with long-time ties to the governor, this time in the Port Authority Police Department, at the scene witnessing the traffic surge that has since come to engulf Chrstie’s administration in legal inquires.

The revelation is also important because Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich had earlier questioned the Port Authority Police Department’s actions during the closures. In a September 12 letter, Sokolich wrote to Port Authority deputy executive director Bill Baroni, a Christie appointee who has since resigned, that residents had told him that “Port Authority Police Officers are advising commuters in response to their complaints that this recent traffic debacle is the result of a decision that I, as the Mayor, recently made.” There is no evidence that Michaels was one of these officers.

Christie emphatically denies taking part in or having any knowledge of the decision to close the lanes leading onto one of the busiest bridge in the world. He has said he doesn’t know why members of his inner circle would have ordered the lanes closed.

Video at MSNBC

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Health

How to save yourself if you’re choking

Hope you never need this but this video might save your life one day.

Also check out this clever approach to remove a ring from a swollen finger:http://bit.ly/1kLX0Do

h/t – sciencedump
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Health

7 Things Your Hands Say About You

• Blotchy Red Palms

If your palm is getting red and remain so for a long period of time this can indicate palmar erythema, a sign of liver disease. This is a sign of nonalcoholic fatty liver. It should be noted that if you are pregnant its normal to have red palms due to increased blood flow. Show your hands to your doctor if you have red palms.

• Swollen Fingers

If you notice swelling on your fingers and your rings won’t fit even after you shun the salt shaker and your period is not due this may indicate hypothyroidism, the underproduction of hormones by thyroid glands. These hormones help regulate your metabolism and keep your body functioning properly. See your doctor for a simple blood test.

Bony Outgrowths On Finger Joints

Bony outgrowths on finger joints can make it tough for your hands to function and make your fingers look deformed, it’s a sign of osteoarthritis. These are the nodules on the joint closest to your fingertips. As the side bones grow in size, the ends of bones rub together which stimulates growth of bone spurs. Physical therapy, heat or ice, rest, pain, and in severe cases surgery, can be done to treat it.

Finger Length

The length of your fingers can tell a lot about your condition. After a study conducted in 2008, it was published in Arthritis and Rheumatism that women who have ring fingers longer than their index finger are most likely to suffer from osteoarthritis, this physical indication is more prevalent in males. Long index fingers indicate higher chances of breast cancer in women and lower chances of prostate cancer in men.

Thick & Rounded Fingertips

If your fingertips are thick and rounded, or clubbed, this is telling you about health issues of your heart and lungs. The level of oxygen in your body can drop if the circulatory system is impaired. With time it causes the soft tissues of the fingertip pads to grow resulting in thick fingertips. Make sure to discuss it with your doctor.

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Craigslist Murder: Real Life ‘Dexter’ Claims More than 22 Satanic Murders


It’s insane, scary and believable … a 19-year-old girl admits to not only killing a guy who hired her for sex on Craigslist, she says she killed so many others, “When I hit 22, I stopped counting.”

Miranda Barbour is in a Pennsylvania jail, awaiting trial for allegedly stabbing Troy LaFerrara 20 times, because she tested him and said she was only 16 and he responded by saying he’d still have sex with her.  And — as a molestation victim herself — that set her off.

Barbour said in a jailhouse interview over the weekend she’s been killing people since she was 13.  She insists she only kills bad people, claiming, “I did this to people who did bad things and didn’t deserve to be here anymore.”

In an interview with the Daily Item … Barbour says the first murder coincides with joining a satanic cult in Alaska.

As for the LaFerrara murder, Barbour says she and her husband of 3 weeks killed him in their car.

Barbour says she has no remorse but does not want to be sprung from jail because, “If I were to be released I would do this again.”

Read more: TMZ

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Mitt Romney Politics

It’s Possible – Yet Another Mitt Romney Presidential Run in 2016

Ask Mitt Romney if he would run for president a third time, and he will deny it every which way.

“I’ve had my turn,” he told CNN.

“We’re so ready to watch the next person step up and take that nomination,” his wife told Fox News. “Oh, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no,” Romney told The New York Times.

But in recent weeks, a strange thing has happened: Some supporters and donors, pollsters and pundits are starting to suggest — without irony — that the former Massachusetts governor run for president in 2016.

“Once a month, someone would e-mail or call and say he should run again,” said Ron Kaufman, a longtime Romney adviser. “Now I get it every day — from the grass roots, and from donors. I get it every day.”

Kaufman made clear that there was no behind-the-scenes maneuvering to persuade Romney to run again. A second Romney adviser said he was also approached frequently by former supporters and donors, asking him to persuade Romney to run again in 2016.

Those close to Romney say he is giving the talk little thought, and party operatives in key states and some of his former advisers say they cannot imagine a scenario in which he would run.

“He’s made it pretty clear he will strongly support whoever the 2016 nominee is,” Romney’s oldest son, Tagg, said in an e-mail to the Globe. “This isn’t something we are spending any time thinking about. Chatter is just chatter.”

And yet the former candidate who rarely gave interviews during the 2012 campaign and laid low for the year following his defeat is now suddenly everywhere.

There’s the new “MITT” documentary on Netflix, which was a well-received portrayal of the candidate and inner workings of his losing campaign.

He did a “slow jam” of the news with late-night comedian Jimmy Fallon, displaying a looseness and a wry humor he rarely let show in public. He showed up at the Super Bowl (“It’s great to . . . come in here and celebrate a great sport,” he said). He was recently on CNN discussing the Olympics, and on Fox News talking about health care.

And on Sunday he’ll be on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” his second appearance on the show in the past three months.

Romney’s public relations makeover and higher profile have come at a time when mainstream Republicans are searching for a strong party patriarch. Some party activists blanch at the prospect of a presidential field dominated by Tea Party movement favorites like Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Rand Paul of Kentucky.

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Politics

Vice President Joe Biden – “There Isn’t a Republican Party, I Wish There Were”

You think RRReince Priebus will demand an apology from the Vice President the way he did with MSNBC?

I think not!

Vice President Joe Biden seized on disorganization in the GOP to rally House Democrats on Friday at a policy conference in Maryland.

“There isn’t a Republican Party. I wish there were, I wish there was a Republican Party,” Biden said. “I wish there was one person we could sit across the table from, make a deal, make a compromise and know when you got up from that table it was done.”

“All you had to do was look at the response to the State of the Union, what were there, three or four?” he added. “I’m not being facetious.”

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA) gave the official GOP response to President Barack Obama’s address last month, but Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) all gave individual responses that bore few similarities to the vision laid out Rogers’ address.

Biden was also optimistic about Democrats’ prospects in midterm elections, assuring the House Democratic caucus that middle class voters prefer their party over the GOP on almost every major issue.

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murder News shooting

Jordan Davis’ Killer Found Guilty on 4 Counts, Mistrial on First Degree Murder

Michael Dunn

The Florida jury in the case of Michael Dunn found him guilty on four charges, including three for attempted second-degree murder, but they couldn’t reach a verdict on the most significant charge — first-degree murder in the death of Jordan Davis.

After the decisions were read out around 7 p.m. Saturday in court, Judge Russell Healey — who moments before had said that the jury had reached a verdict on all counts — declared a mistrial on the murder count.

That possibility had floated around since 4:45 p.m. Saturday, when the 12 jurors sent a note saying they’d decided on four of the five counts that Dunn faces. But they hadn’t unanimously reached a verdict “on count 1 or any of the lesser included offenses related to it.”

Count 1 is first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Davis.

Jurors could have decided not to convict Dunn on that charge but instead find him guilty on lesser charges such as manslaughter. Or they could have acquitted him altogether on this count.

With the hung jury, prosecutors could press for a new trial on the murder charge.

Regardless — and pending defense appeals — Dunn appears set to face a lengthy prison term.

h/t CNN

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Tennessee Volkswagen Auto Workers Reject UAW Union Representation

You knew something was terribly wrong when Republican Senator Bob Corker interjected himself as part of the government into the decision-making process of a private corporation and their employees. The “small government” Republican went as far as lying to the employees of the Volkswagen plant, telling them that if they went ahead an joined the UAW union, Volkswagen was prepared to take their business elsewhere.

Of course Volkswagen denied the Republican’s claim because, he made it up, but by then it was already too late. Corker’s lie worked, and the employees rejected the union.

Republicans rejoice. Lies, cheat, no matter what it takes. A win to these people is still a win.

In a stunning defeat that could accelerate the decades-long decline of the United Auto Workers, employees voted against union representation at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn., plant — a factory seen as organized labor’s best chance to expand in the South.

An official overseeing the vote, retired Tennessee Circuit Court Judge Sam Payne, said that a majority had voted against UAW representation by 712 to 626 — 53 percent to 47 percent.

“Needless to say, I am thrilled for the employees at Volkswagen and for our community and its future,” Republican Sen. Bob Corker, who had been vociferous in opposition to unionization at the plant, said in a statement on his website.

The plant’s workers voted by paper ballot over the past three days, with individual votes hand-counted after the election closed at 8:30 p.m. on Friday. The vote was announced around 10 p.m.

The Volkswagen plant has 1,570 hourly workers. If the UAW had won, it would have marked the first time in nearly 30 years of efforts that the union had successfully organized a plant for a foreign brand in the United States.

The German-based Volkswagen, which has a history of working with unions, did not interfere with the union’s organizing effort.

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10-Year-Old Steals Car, Crashes It & Tells Police He’s A Dwarf (DETAILS)

There’s a kid in Dokka, Norway who is taking this lying thing to levels we never expected from a 10-year-old.The boy, who has not been named, stole his parents’ vehicle while they were sleeping, crashed it into a snowy ditch, and told police that he was a dwarf who forgot his license.

Really, dude?

According to the Daily Mail:

The boy – who lives near Dokka, a town 110kms (68 miles) north of Oslo – put his 18-month old sister into the car sometime before 6am, while his parents were still sleeping and set off to visit his grandparents in Valdres, about 60 kilometers away.

“The parents woke up and discovered that the children were missing and that someone had taken off with their car. They were pretty upset, as you can imagine,” said Baard Christiansen, a spokesman for the Vest Oppland police district.

When authorities finally found him (with the help of a snowplow who saw the boy in the ditch) he offered up that ridiculous explanation:

“The boy told the snowplow driver that he was a dwarf and that he had forgotten his driver’s license at home.”

Which is both clever and alarming for a 10-year-old to conjure up.

Thankfully, the kids and the car were uninjured. We do not, however, have details on what happened when his parents got ahold of him. But we’re guessing nothing good.

SOURCE: Daily Mail | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty

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PIC – Jordan Davis’ Family Praying Outside the Courthouse

It took less than 20 minutes for a Florida jury to convict Marissa Alexander for shooting at a ceiling while she tried to scare off her attacker. She was convicted and sent to prison to serve a 20 year sentence. No one died in Marissa’s case but her claim that she was scared for her life and stood her ground did not work.

Marissa is black.

Fast forward to today, where a white man approached a black teen, confronted that black teen, then murdered that black teen. No, I’m not talking about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, although after killing Trayvon, Zimmerman is now a free man planning a boxing match. I’m talking about Michael Dunn who murdered another 17-year-old black child. Dunn demanded that Jordan turn down his music and then killed Jordan when he refused.

Dunn is now awaiting a jury’s decision. Unlike Marissa’s jury who again, took less than 20 minutes to convict her, Dunn’s jury is presently in day 4 of apparently trying to figure out if a crime was committed.

Meanwhile, the family of the murdered victim Jordan Davis, was seen outside the courtroom… praying.

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Politics

President’s Weekly Address – Calling on Congress to Raise the Minimum Wage

Earlier this week, President Obama took the initiative by signing an order requiring that federal contractors pay their employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour. In this week’s weekly address, the president once again called on Congress to do their part for the American people and the economy, by raising the minimum wage.

But to finish the job, Congress needs to act.  In the year since I first asked Congress to raise the minimum wage, six states have passed laws to raise theirs.  More states, cities, counties, and companies are taking steps to join them.  An overwhelming majority of Americans support raising a minimum wage that’s worth about 20% less than when Ronald Reagan took office.

Right now, there’s a bill in Congress that would boost America’s minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.  That’s easy to remember: ten-ten.  And remember, the average worker who would get a raise if Congress acts is about 35 years old.  Most lower-wage jobs are held by women.  And raising the minimum wage wouldn’t just raise their wages – its effect would lift wages for about 28 million Americans.  It would lift millions of Americans out of poverty, and help millions more work their way out of poverty – without requiring a single dollar in new taxes or spending.  It will give more businesses more customers with more money to spend – and that means growing the economy for everyone.

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