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iPhone : Controversy pushes girl off coed hockey team. For 12-year-old Kayla Watkins, the public humiliation was too much. After learning a parent on her coed peewee hockey team — comprised entirely of boys except for her — called for restrictions on her ice time or her removal from the team unless her skills improved, she did the only thing she thought she could: She quit. “I felt that if I went back all the parents would have been watching every move I made and always staring at me,” said the outgoing preteen, who has been playing the game since the age of four.

“To play hockey you shouldn’t have to go through what I went through. I was just looking to have friendship and play the game I love.” The controversy that seized the Toronto Ice Dogs PeeWee “A” club — minor hockey’s lowest level of competitive play — emerged last month at a parents’ meeting called by George Atis, who has a child on the team, but is not part of the coaching staff. “I lay the blame, if you must know, at the feet of Vanessa Watkins . . . “I was very upset. Firesheep developer: Facebook ignoring huge security problem | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KOMO News | Technology. SEATTLE -- On a recent afternoon, I surprised a lot of people at a coffee shop in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. I walked in, sat down, got onto the café's free Wi-Fi network and fired up a free application called Firesheep. With a minute, the names of a dozen people on the same wireless network started to appear in the Firesheep program. The users were listed along with the names of multi-billion dollar websites like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, YouTube and The New York Times.

In some cases, the person's Facebook profile picture would also appear, making it easy for me to identify them in the café. With a simple click on the user's icon in Firesheep I could log into their account on Facebook or Twitter or a variety of other websites that do not use encryption to fully protect the browsing session with their users. I could easily assume someone else's online identity and do nearly anything I wanted with their account.

"This is scary and I'm glad you showed me," she said. Legal questions. 101 Ways to be Happy. Jeremy Marks "Attempted Lynching" Case. Update: Be sure to read the reaction to the Jeremy Marks case [click here] and his mother's effort to free him for Christmas. Update: Jeremy Marks made it home on Dec. 23. Photo of him reuniting with his mom is here. On Dec. 2, Jeremy Marks, a Verdugo Hills High School special education student, was offered a new plea offer by the L.A. County District Attorney: If he pled guilty to charges of obstructing an officer, resisting arrest, criminal threats and "attempted lynching," he'd serve only 32 months in prison. That actually was an improvement from the previous offer made to the young, black high schooler — seven years in prison.

Marks, 18, has been sitting in Peter Pitchess Detention Center, a tough adult jail, since May 10. The first thing to understand is that Jeremy Marks touched no one during his "attempted lynching" of LAUSD campus police officer Erin Robles. The second is that Marks' weapon was the camera in his cell phone. She further stated that she sprayed him with pepper spray. Ichthyoallyeinotoxism. Ichthyoallyeinotoxism, or hallucinogenic fish inebriation, comes from eating certain species of fish found in several parts of the tropics, the effects of which are reputed to be similar in some aspects to LSD. Experiences may include vivid auditory and visual hallucinations.

This has given rise to the collective common name "dream fish" for ichthyoallyeinotoxic fish. The species most commonly claimed to be capable of producing this kind of toxicity include several species from the Kyphosus genus, including Kyphosus fuscus, K. cinerascens and K. vaigiensis. [citation needed] It is unclear whether the toxins are produced by the fish themselves or by marine algae in their diet, but a dietary origin may be more likely. Sarpa salpa, a species of bream, can induce LSD-like hallucinations if it is eaten.[1] These widely distributed coastal fish[2] became a recreational drug during the Roman Empire, and are called "the fish that make dreams" in Arabic.

See also[edit] References[edit] FlxfB.jpg (JPEG Image, 800x3906 pixels) BAND CHEMISTRY - So You Want To Start A Band? Starting a band is easy, that’s why almost every person you know is in one. But just because you practice every day and have an awesome logo doesn’t mean you won’t be the suckiest sucking band that ever sucked. So how do you avoid spending your life’s savings on a shitty demo that no one will ever listen to? How do you avoid being in a band that self-destructs the day before you go on tour? In short, how do put together a band that’s actually gonna BE something? All great (ie: functional) bands can be broken down into five definable elements. DESCRIPTION: Chain smoker into motorbikes and pinball.

Pretty easy to get along with, and knows how to read music because they played the clarinet in high school band. THE UPSIDE: Keeps the tempo together. THE DOWNSIDE: Can be unreliable if they have aspirations of being a lead guitar player in their own band some day. DESCRIPTION: Musically on the ball. THE UPSIDE: Their special spice turns good songs into great ones. Flying super five-star hotel | lovecoolest.com. BBC - Earth News - Snake gives 'virgin birth' to extraordinary babies. Snakes without fathers: one of the unusual baby boas A female boa constrictor snake has given birth to two litters of extraordinary offspring. Evidence suggests the mother snake has had multiple virgin births, producing 22 baby snakes that have no father. More than that, the genetic make-up of the baby snakes is unlike any previously recorded among vertebrates, the group which includes almost all animals with a backbone.

Details are published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. Virgin births do occur among animals. Many invertebrates, such as insects, can produce offspring asexually, without ever having mated. They usually do this by cloning themselves, producing genetically identical offspring. But among vertebrate animals, it remains a novelty, having been documented among less than 0.1% of vertebrate species. Then in 2007, other scientists found that captive female hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna tiburo) could also reproduce without having sex.

Novel beginnings Special babies Half clones. The Man Who Could Have Been Richer Than Bill Gates. The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket. On the flight from Delhi to Washington D.C., I spent a good two hours staring at the customs form that I was required to fill out. I had completed every section of the form, except for one. I just wasn’t quite sure if mentioning Pakistan and Afghanistan in the box that asked me to list the countries I had visited was such a good idea. As I wrote down the other countries I’d been to on this trip – Australia, Singapore, Thailand and India – I seriously wondered if I could get away with not listing the other two. (Of course, I wasn’t about to risk it and so I wrote them all down in the end.) Several hours later, on the ground in Washington D.C., I approached the Immigration Counter and handed over my form.

The Immigration Officer swiped my passport, glanced at his computer screen and almost immediately stamped me back into the country. But just before I started to walk away he asked, “So you went to Afghanistan and Pakistan. After the bullet, came the burqa. “I could arrest you right now! The 10 finest names in the National Football League - Shutdown Corner - NFL  Perl and Nuclear Weapons Don't Mix - The Perl Journal, Winter 1997. Ray F. Piodasoll About six years ago, I worked for a scientific solutions company, happily cobbling together utilities for our clients in the defense industry.

Even though I was ROTC in college, and finished my mandatory stint with the Army as a full captain, I occasionally had twinges of guilt about working, even indirectly, for the military-industrial complex. Only when I developed a regression test suite for an early-warning comet detection system did I realize that missiles aren't always a bad thing. When a comet six miles wide is about to strike Earth, as one did 65 million years ago destroying all dinosaurs and most everything else, you'll be glad we have nukes to obliterate it before arrival. Perl is used quite a bit at NORAD, which gave up ADA long ago when it became evident that ADA programmers weren't the sort of people you want creating missile guidance systems.

While (<>) { @fields = split(/\s+/, $_) if /^RIVET/; $tolerance = /TOLERANCE\s+(\. Oops. A Little Rocket Science. How to Win a Chess Game Fast : Top lists.