Man robs bank to get medical care in jail. James Verone Some people who need medical care but can't afford it go to the emergency room.
Others just hope they'll get better. James Richard Verone robbed a bank. Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk, walked into a Gastonia, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $1 and medical attention. Then he waited calmly for police to show up. He's now in jail and has an appointment with a doctor this week. Verone's problems started when he lost the job he'd held for 17 years as a Coca Cola deliveryman, amid the economic downturn. Cousin Marriage Vs. Gay Marriage: Pics, Videos, Links, News. 10 Signs Your Child May Be Gifted - Parenting on Shine. Sarah Palin Fans Try to Rewrite Wikipedia on Paul Revere - Tuned In - TIME.com.
This weekend, Tuned In Jr., who is studying Boston and the American Revolution in school, mentioned that he was getting a “locked” error message while trying to load a Wikipedia page on Paul Revere.
I know! As a father and a journalist, I should know better than to let my son use Wikipedia as a primary source. Fortunately, the news cycle intervened to give us a perfect object lesson, by providing a possible reason Revere’s page may have been in limbo: over the weekend, there was a war between Wikipedia editors and supporters of Sarah Palin who were trying to “fix” the entry to make it conform with Palin’s flubbed description of Revere’s ride. Palin fumbled her elementary-school history on camera while visiting the Old North Church in Boston (see video above), rendering it as a ride in which Revere “warned the British” by “ringing those bells” and “send[ing] those warning shots and bells.”
What is truth, anyway? Like-button-follows-users-wsj: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance. Internet users tap Facebook Inc.'s "Like" and Twitter Inc.'s "Tweet" buttons to share content with friends.
But these tools also let their makers collect data about the websites people are visiting. These so-called social widgets, which appear atop stories on news sites or alongside products on retail sites, notify Facebook and Twitter that a person visited those sites even when users don't click on the buttons, according to a study done for The Wall Street Journal. These widgets are prolific. [More from WSJ.com: TV's Next Wave: Tuning In to You] The widgets, which were created to make it easy to share content with friends and to help websites attract visitors, are a potentially powerful way to track Internet users. For example, Facebook or Twitter know when one of their members reads an article about filing for bankruptcy on MSNBC.com or goes to a blog about depression called Fighting the Darkness, even if the user doesn't click the "Like" or "Tweet" buttons on those sites.
Mr. When-the-customer-is-wrong-restaurants: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance. It's one of the oldest adages of the retail world: "The customer is always right.
" Of course, very often the customer is wrong. Every day customers behave in ways that make the lives of waiters, cashiers, customer service reps and other retail workers miserable. And in many cases, these customers don't even realize how annoying they're being. To rectify this, we've decided to talk to the people on the other side of the cash register to find out what sort of customer behavior gets on their nerves. To kick things off, we got some veterans of the restaurant industry to dish on their secret pet peeves and give some advice to diners. Great Expectations Think about the last time you cooked dinner.
ESPN - OTL: Why You Should Care About Cricket - E-ticket. What Does The Bible Really Say About Homosexuality? : Opinion : Smile Politely. There is a bill in the Illinois House (HB 1826) that, if passed, will give same-sex couples the right to be joined together in a civil union.
This bill has a dozen or so sponsors including our very own 103rd District Representative, Naomi Jakobsson. According to it’s synopsis, this bill does the following: _“Creates the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act…. Provides that 2 persons may form a civil union if they: are not related by adoption or blood in any manner that would bar a civil union; are not in another civil union or marriage with any other living person; and are not under 18 years of age. Provides that: protections, benefits, and responsibilities of partners in a civil union are the same as those granted to spouses in a marriage…. and a civil union between 2 persons of either the same sex or the opposite sex licensed, officiated, and registered under the Act is valid in this State But does the Bible really state this?
Now, Hebrew is a funny language. Study: Violent video games provide brain boost. 5 tips for bonding with her better. Printer.php from menshealth.com. Eating 10 hot dogs in 6 minutes and belching the national anthem may impress your friends, but neither of those feats will do much for your body—at least not much good. Instead, why not train yourself to do something that may actually pay off? We're not talking bench presses and interval training (though those do help). You can teach your body to cure itself from everyday health ailments—side stitches, first-date jitters, even hands that have fallen asleep. Just study this list, and the next time your friends challenge you to an ice cream eating contest, chow down: You know how to thaw a brain freeze—and 17 other tricks that'll make everyone think you're the next David Blaine.
But without all that "hold your breath for 17 minutes" mess.