Beer Burglar's Snoring Leads Police to Him A burglar who broke into a small grocery shop in northern Thailand was caught after he hid under the store owner's bed, drank a few beers and started snoring, police said. The same bed that the owner was sleeping on at the time.
"Nomtip, you're snoring again!"
"It's not me, dear! I thought it was you!"
While waiting to flee, the robber drank a few of the stolen beers, passed out and started snoring so loudly that he woke up the shop's owner, who quietly called police.
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STUART A mixed-breed dog was being placed in foster care Tuesday after being rescued from a transient Indiantown man who was allegedly having sex with the puppy. A witness called a Martin County deputy who arrived to find Junio Trenta, 31, having anal intercourse with the dog amid the woods in the 3200 block of Southeast Dixie Highway about 12:11 p.m. Monday. Upon being seen, Trenta said, "It's my dog," and, "What's the problem?" The male dog ran and hid behind the deputies, according to a report released Tuesday.
Trenta, a Mexican citizen working as a laborer, was charged with one count of felony sexual bestiality and one count of felony animal cruelty. He was also charged with one misdemeanor count each of giving a false name to deputies, exposure of sexual organs and possession of paraphernalia after a marijuana-smoking pipe was found in his pocket, according to the report. He was being held on a $13,000 bail Tuesday at the Martin County jail.
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Since 6 asked for it yesterday, here is a puppy which would NEVER tolerate that kind of sick abuse, for His vengeance would drown the world in a Sea Of Fire(tm), and punish the righteous and the wicked alike...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Three poll workers accused of casting ballots in the name of dead voters were among six people indicted on charges of violating election laws in a state Senate race, a prosecutor announced Wednesday. Prosecutor Bill Gibbons said his investigation found no evidence of a widespread conspiracy to throw the election to either candidate.
Democrat Ophelia Ford was certified the winner over Republican Terry Roland by 13 votes last September. The state Senate overturned the election this year amid allegations of irregularities. "There was an effort on the part of certain individuals ... to cast some illegal votes for Miss Ford. But I stress that there is nothing to indicate that she knew anything about that," Gibbons said.
None of those indicted worked for either of the campaigns and neither candidate has been accused of wrongdoing, officials said. The poll workers are charged with official misconduct. Three felons who cast ballots also were charged with violating election laws. All the counts are felonies.
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I was living in Knoxville when the peace-loving, law-abiding, utterly incapable of wrongdoing Democrats shot up a Republican Party office about 2 miles from where I lived. It barely made the news and about the only thing in the articles was Democrats -deploring- whoever did it. Right as if they didn't know.
The Democratic party, in my view, will be forever tarred as the party of traitors, rapists and criminals, the party of corrupt power that would sell out their families for a vote. They won't even admit to being in their own party either, all the campaign signs around here never fail to proudly proclaim their republican, but the ones without a party affiliation I've noticed all turn out to be Democrats. So even they are ashamed of their own party, which is understandable.
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The Dems have gotten themselves in such a pickle I dont think they can function cohesively for a long time, if ever. The pander to so many different and opposing special interests; Black vote, Gay vote,Union vote, Anti-War vote, Anti-Globalization vote,Big Government vote, Animal Rights, Environmental nuts, Womans Rights, and still they need to court middle America because the above mentioned people arent enough to win an election. The have been divided right down the middle on the War in Iraq, so all the factions above are split in two, doubling the complexity of the lies they have to promise. The have to be crazy to think that what they offer is what people in this country want.
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you have to know this woman's (Ophelia Ford) family. The special election was held because her brother held the seat until he was caught on tape taking thousands of dollars in bribes. Neither of them actually live in the district they represent. The Ford family has been a corrupting influence in TN politics for decades. The whole extended family is in politics and they are scum. One of them is running for Frist's U.S. Senate seat.
NEW DELHI - An earthquake measuring 5.5. on the Richter scale struck Indias Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which were badly hit by the December 2004 tsunami, an official said Wednesday. The intensity of the earthquake was moderate. It was recorded in the Nicobar Islands this evening, an official at the Indian Meteorological Department said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The US Geological Survey measured the quake, which struck at 12:34 GMT, at a magnitude of 6.0 and said its epicentre was 151 kilometres (94 miles) southwest of Misha in the Nicobar Islands.
Over to the left a ways and up a little ...
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After the massive earth movement causing the tsunami you just have to expect large earthquakes for quite awhile until pressures fall below the shear stress of the rock.
GUJRANWALA: The Garjakh police arrested Peer Muhammad Sadiq, the son of Muhammad Boota, on Wednesday in Mohalla Baghwala for claiming to be a 'prophet of God' and 'performing spiritual treatment' along with one of his disciples, Rana Shabir.
On Tuesday night a 'Qawaali' was arranged at his residence where he claimed to be the 'prophet' and asked Rana Shabir to certify his "prophet hood", who followed the instructions causing anxiety and panic among the people of the area. The residents of Baghwala lodged a complaint with the Garjakh police that arrested Sadiq. The investigator of the case, Sub-Inspector Abdul Liaquat, said that anxiety prevailed in Mohalla Baghwala and they were therefore obligated to arrest both men to avoid any disturbance. Both of them are reported to be mentally sound.
Peer Muhammad Sadiq told police that his disciples would acknowledge him a prophet for their entire lives. Peer Muhammad has been reported to redundantly maintain his claim of 'prophet hood' and is still adamant to his claim of prophet-hood.
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Boy howdy, is THIS guy insane. He could give crazy lessons.
VEHARI: A man who currently holds five records is now making the world's largest Holy Quran, expected to cost Rs 8.5 million. Haji Javed Iqbal, a Gujranwala engineer, while talking to reporters on Wednesday said, that his name had already made the Guinness Book of World Records on five counts and so far he had prepared 20 chapters (paras) of the holy book, which when ready will weigh 9000kg, is 96x48 inches with 12 millimetre page width.
He said that the exhibition of the holy Quran will take place on June 23 and that the pages of the digitalised holy book would be turned with the help of a remote control on a digital panel system. Iqbal said that the copy of the Holy Quran would be placed in the Masjid Nabwi (PBUH) in Madina. He said that he was offered help by the Saudi Arabian government in this effort, however he had decided to finish the project with his own resources. He said he has already made the world's largest pedestal fan, the world's largest lock and key, the world's largest cell phone and the world's largest motorbike respectively and now aimed to add worlds largest Holy Quran to the list.
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I think its time for the worlds largest bonfire...
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As Mr. Gromgoru said at the occasion of a past article on the exact same topic, ALL muslims should (must) carry a similar koran, ALL the time, everywhere.
The quirky animated show from "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening was canceled by Fox about two years ago, but will return with at least 13 new episodes on Comedy Central by 2008.
This is only the second time in television history that a show sent to TV's trash heap has been resurrected. Curiously, the first was "Family Guy," also an animated Fox show...
Kindergartners in Mesa may soon be learning two alphabets: one English, the other Chinese. The federal government's push to get kids to learn tough languages for economic and national security reasons is inching down into primary and middle schools. In Arizona, several schools are beginning to respond to the new demands.
Mesa Unified School District will start Mandarin Chinese classes at Dobson High School in August. The district also applied for a new federal grant to begin teaching it in elementary schools.
Middle school students at Scottsdale Basis, a charter school, already are learning Mandarin.
Phoenix Country Day School, a private school in Paradise Valley, received a donation to begin elementary Mandarin classes in the 2007-08 school year.
Federal officials are driving the effort by targeting nearly $23 million in grant money this year toward elementary schools, where primary students can begin the long road to fluency in difficult languages. The administration has requested five times that amount for next year, or $114 million.
Officials are desperate to fill government jobs with Americans who know Mandarin as well as other "critical languages" such as Arabic and Farsi, Hindi and Russian. "This is a step up in federal efforts to ensure strong language education, beginning in the earliest grades," said Valerie Smith, U.S. Department of Education spokeswoman.
In addition to grants, federal officials plan to offer incentives for critical-language teachers. In exchange for help with tuition, college graduates fluent in such languages would commit themselves to teaching in elementary and high schools for several years. It's a grand experiment in a country where less than half of high school students take a foreign language.
About a dozen students are already signed up for Mandarin at Mesa's Dobson High. The district is applying for one of the first $300,000 federal grants to help establish a Mandarin program in surrounding elementary schools. If the grant is approved in September, classes could begin as early as January and start in kindergarten.
Liana Clarkson, Mesa's world languages director, said finding Mandarin teachers in the Phoenix area is not a problem. "There is a large Chinese-American community out there, second and third generations," Clarkson said.
For years, research has concluded that younger children learn new languages quickly. In 1989, the Arizona State Board of Education required foreign-language courses in all elementary schools. The state Legislature, however, never funded the mandate, and few schools responded. Some elementary schools offer Navajo or Spanish, but most do not.
Scottsdale Basis has offered Mandarin for two years. Lee Padover, 13, tackled it this year in seventh grade. "Spanish and French would have been a little easier," Padover said. "I took Mandarin because it's a little bit of a challenge." Padover is a lover of maps, competed in the state geography bee for three years and has a fascination with cultures. In San Francisco's Chinatown, he startled his mother and a waiter by using his Mandarin in a restaurant. The waiter understood him but corrected his pronunciation. Padover said he hopes to continue in Mandarin until he is fluent.
Phoenix Country Day School has a cultural exchange program with China. This year, the school received a $225,000 endowment to begin teaching Mandarin in the 2007-08 school year. The school isn't sure at what grade it will begin, but students at the school now begin learning Spanish before they begin kindergarten.
Phoenix public schools are not teaching India's Hindi or Iran's Farsi, and only private Islamic schools are teaching courses in Arabic. Fawzia Tung, principal of Arizona Cultural Academy, a K-12 private school in Phoenix, said her main challenge is finding teachers. Many who are certified to teach can't speak Arabic well, and fluent speakers aren't always good teachers. She ended up hiring a consultant to train her teachers.
Most high schools in Arizona cannot muster enough time and money to offer more than Spanish and French, sometimes German and, occasionally, Latin. Few students are interested in taking more than the two years of language required by most universities. Enrollment drops dramatically in the third or fourth years of any high school language course.
A few districts have enough money to offer a critical language at one high school but rarely more than one, maybe two, at a time. Opening a new class often means closing another. Tempe Accelerated High School, a charter, offered Arabic two years ago to about a dozen students. But Principal Abelardo Batista said the class cost too much time and money, which he needed to help all students learn the basics.
Pat Barrett, who plans to retire in a few years as Mesa's Russian teacher, called Mandarin "the new glamour language." "Languages go in fads," Barrett said. "Once the fad wears off, you find yourself sliding back to the basic three: Spanish, French and German." Emphasize the essential Chinese expressions: "Drop all weapons!", "Hands up!", "Halt or I'll shoot!", and the ever-popular, "Freeze, motherf*cker!"
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My Gwad, they can't and won't teach effective English, what gives you any indication that those same teachers can handle Chinese?
$23 million dollar NEA pork. When the dust settles in 50 years, the sober minds that write history are going to peg GW as a Roosevelt-Truman-Kennedy Democrat.
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It's a brilliiant idea. The best age at which to start learning a foreign language is before fourth grade, that is before reading skills are totally mastered. Once a child can read, language acquisition takes place in the reading part of the brain, not the talking part of the brain. Also, the older one is when he starts learning another language, the harder to speak without the pronounciation and lilt of his native tongue, that is without a perceptible accent.
And Mandarin has the advantages of being about as far as possible from American English: it's tonal with five completely different words attaching to each syllable sequence depending on melody instead, the written language is made up of pictograms instead of letters, and the sense of time is very different (at least as far as I was able to grasp in the year I completely failed to master the language).
Key is, once a second language -- any second language -- is mastered, all subsequent languages are easier to learn... including the primary one. And the earlier the brain pathways are set up, the better.
What also pleases me is that it doesn't appear, in this article at least, that the federal grants are being used to force the littlest children in Arizona to learn Spanish. Either it's assumed they already know that language, or it hasn't occurred to them to teach the children the language of their invaders.
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WG, as a graduate of Arizona's public schools (kindergarten through AZ State...go Sun Devils!!) there are some districts there that do an excellent job in teaching languages.
My old district, Paradise Valley, isn't included in this grant, yet. But that's where I got my start learning Spanish, and yes, even some Russian (thanks Mrs Strunk, wherever you are.....and Mr Damore & Ms Quihuis, too!).
The difference with foreign languages and English classes is basically the BS factor. English classes can and will make you sit through all kinds of crap that will not make you a better speaker or writer. However, it's pretty freakin' obvious if you know your French or not when you try to converse in it.
Ironically enough, I got more and better grammar instruction in my foreign language courses than I ever did in my English courses. Those classes are the reason I don't sound like a completely ignorant git when I write (I might sound like an airhead, but that's a different problem).
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One should note that the latitude florida is at it should be a desert but our geography makes us have convection thunderstorms,Florida winters are typicaly dry.
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Darn it, bruce, is there nothing the Americans can't screw up!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A burglar who broke into a small grocery shop in northern Thailand was caught after he hid under the store owner's bed, drank a few beers and started snoring, police said. The same bed that the owner was sleeping on at the time.
STUART A mixed-breed dog was being placed in foster care Tuesday after being rescued from a transient Indiantown man who was allegedly having sex with the puppy. A witness called a Martin County deputy who arrived to find Junio Trenta, 31, having anal intercourse with the dog amid the woods in the 3200 block of Southeast Dixie Highway about 12:11 p.m. Monday. Upon being seen, Trenta said, "It's my dog," and, "What's the problem?" The male dog ran and hid behind the deputies, according to a report released Tuesday. 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Three poll workers accused of casting ballots in the name of dead voters were among six people indicted on charges of violating election laws in a state Senate race, a prosecutor announced Wednesday. Prosecutor Bill Gibbons said his investigation found no evidence of a widespread conspiracy to throw the election to either candidate.
GUJRANWALA: The Garjakh police arrested Peer Muhammad Sadiq, the son of Muhammad Boota, on Wednesday in Mohalla Baghwala for claiming to be a 'prophet of God' and 'performing spiritual treatment' along with one of his disciples, Rana Shabir. 
