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      <title>US man held after pocket-dialing 911 while plotting murder</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:13:38 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>HOUSTON: Dial M for murder! A US man has been held for murder after he accidentally pocket-dialed emergency services number 911 while planning the slaying and the sinister plot was recorded.

Scott Simon, 24, from Pompano Beach, Florida, mistakenly pocket-dialed 911 as he planned a killing earlier this month, enabling an emergency dispatch system to record his conversation and link him to the slaying, authorities said on Wednesday.

Simon was heard talking with another person on a recorded 911 line on May 5, saying he's going to follow Nicholas Romondo Walker, 33, of Lauderhill, home and kill him, according to a Broward sheriff's office statement.

Broward sheriff's homicide detectives on Tuesday arrested Simon on a charge of first-degree murder in the killing of Walker, 33, the Broward sheriff's office (BSO) said. The call took place just minutes before the fatal shooting.

Nicholas Walker's mother, Joyce Walker of Lauderhill, said she's &quot;very happy. I want them to catch them all,&quot; Joyce Walker said.

It was around 6.30am (local time), when deputies and the Florida Highway Patrol responded to a report of shots fired. Investigators said Walker was entering Interstate 95 south at Commercial Boulevard when he was shot multiple times, the Sun Sentinel reported.

Walker's Buick then crashed into a guard rail. When deputies and Oakland Park fire rescue came to the on-ramp about 10 minutes later, they found flames shooting out of the car's engine compartment. Fire rescue put out the flames.

BSO spokeswoman Dani Moschella said Walker died at the scene from gunshot wounds.

BSO investigators say they don't think Simon pulled the trigger in the shooting, but believe he orchestrated the attack.

The South Florida case isn't the only pocket-dialing incident in recent weeks. Four days after Simon's flub, two 20-year-old men, Nathan Teklemariam and Carson Rinehart, ran into the same problem in Fresno, California.

One of the men accidentally called 911 from his pocket, saying that they &quot;need weed.&quot;

The dispatcher listened as the duo shattered glass to break into a car. It was after they were arrested that an officer finally took the phone and ended the call, according to television reports.</description>
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      <title>Indian American 18 year old invents 20 second battery charger</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 03:53:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Some immigrants are welcome... like Indian Americans.

Indian American households earn double than White American households. With significantly (more than triple) number of college graduates and an almost non-existent crime rate, Indian Americans are the most well integrated, respected and ideal minority in the US.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXHoSfUjfEE

Funny thing, on the other hand, people from right next door - Pakistan and Bangladesh are considered the MOST undesirable of immigrants. Only difference : these 2 have islam. LOL.</description>
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      <title>World Face-Pulling Championship </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 01:16:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>LOL</description>
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      <title>How To Wash Your Dog </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:45:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>woof woof!!</description>
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      <title>Tough guy Vs. Lazy Russian. Guess who wins?</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:44:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>lol,</description>
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      <title>Fake eggs from China. WTF!</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:24 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>After killer baby milk, puppy food, filtering oil from restaurant drains... now the latest Chinese export is &quot;Fake eggs&quot; made from gelatin,calcium carbonate, artificial colors. 

NEVER eat or feed anything made in China. And try to cut back on trade with those little buggers.</description>
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      <title>Sweden riots &amp;amp; the Islamic world</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 05:02:33 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Islam is a psychotic cult of evil and lies. On one hand while 50 year old religious and community leaders are cutting open vaginas of 8 year old girls they married and bleeding them to death, (http://patdollard.com/2013/05/8-yr-old-afghan-bride-who-was-brutally-killed-by-her-mullah-husband-on-the-first-night-of-her-wedding/), on the other hand moslem &quot;immigrants&quot; are busy &quot;Islamizing&quot; different parts of the world to further propagate their neanderthal'ish ways. 

 The latest riots in Stockholm are case and point. 

However there is NOT ONE mention of the riots in the Islamic world. It is business as usual there with their usual women slayings, child rapes, sectarian killings. Honestly, riots must seem rather tame to them, after their day to day lives. But even their outward facing media, which projects the image of the Islamic world, media like Al Gore's best buddy Al Jazeera, is completely complicit in this shameful cover up.

Attached are the images of the front page of Al Jazeera's website and the page dedicated to Europe. There is no mention of the stockholm riots in either.

Islam relies on conspiracy theories as expounded by illiterate mullahs from minarets during Friday prayers for its primary news source. And such a cult usually shies away from self-effacing truth.

A shameful state of affairs.</description>
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      <title>Best name for a baby boy Poll</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 13:11:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Please help us decide. :) Click to choose your favorite name, and leave your comments as to why you like it. If you don't like any of the names, then leave one that you like in the comments.

Background : Indian dad &amp;amp; Lithuanian Mom, living in Los Angeles.

Kid is guaranteed to be tall (6'1&quot;), smart as hell (Mom has PhD, Dad has Masters), not big (meaning large frame / muscles) since mom and dad are pretty slim, medium bone structure. 

If its a girl the name is &quot;Freya&quot;. (Already Decided).

But if it is a guy, then having problem deciding the name.Your input is appreciated. :)</description>
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      <title>Parents &amp;amp; technology</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 21:35:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>These past couple of years, I hate certain &quot;statements / comments&quot; ... most of them are used by women, and all of these are from the &quot;Twilight&quot; movie series. I actually liked the first twilight movie, but then the series became &quot;Twat-light&quot;. Bunch of twats running around and flying with super powers, with 30+ year California blondes cheering for them with panties soaked to the bone.

One particular line I hated was when &quot;Bella&quot; calls her mom, and mom says &quot;I literally repel technology now.&quot; First time I heard my friendly over weight California blonde friend say it, I gave her a look (Some thing like this :  o.0 ) and moved on. 

But when several people started repeating that....

Anyway, need to focus away from ranting at Twat... errrr Twilight and Chubby Blondes.

Being a MSEE and working with technology all my life, I abhor people who don't take the time to understand basics. Its not complicated, and saying &quot;Math is tough!&quot; is NEVER cool! If a 10 year old can do it, then so can you. 

So when the time came for my parents to try the new gifts I sent them, I was a bit apprehensive, but overall a little confident that Dad could figure it out. 

A bit of a background : Dad holds a MSEE too, and worked as a Navy officer then a Senior Director for a Defense company. The guy has the Macguyver touch towards fixing everything. Yes, it was never polished and finely done, but he knew how to use every tool, fix everything. Right from shoes to refrigerators to complicated Nuclear submarines. 

Ergo, the &quot;high expectations&quot;.

So it starts off with them getting the gifts, which include computing, home entertainment, communication, and cooking products - all electronic. All purchased in the US, consequently 110V rated. I purchased them a AC to AC transformer and wrote down the operation on paper and made an instructional video (look up my channel) on how to use it.

So first night the gifts come in, Dad is missing the only component : a plug adapter : which converts an American Male plug to an Indian Male, so it can fit the Indian female wall socket. I calmly explain that ONLY the laptop's power cord can be directly fitted to the wall socket, since it is rated from 100v to 250V and all the rest need to be plugged to a power strip which is sourced from the AC to AC transformer.

I know Dad. If you cross  the thought process of a mule with a heavy load climbing a steep slope and a 100 lb German Shepherd being taken to a bath and mix in the emotions of 50,000 sheep being taught the alphabet at MIT's space research laboratory, you will get to around 1/100th part of the obstinacy that my dad was inherently born with. And that obstinacy has exponentially grown over time. It is now to the extent, that if he visits a hospital, all women in labor need to have C-Sections since his mere presence affects the babies and makes them obstinate enough to not come out on their own. 

Dad got the power adapter, which they call &quot;China plug&quot; in India, and then did not call me. He wanted to prove to Mom he could do it all by himself, and he started his engineering efforts brilliantly.

Literally.

He plugged in a D-Link wireless router (Priced at $55) directly to the wall, and made sparks to fly, as the 240V power fried the innards mercilessly. He was proceeding to test certain theories on the Cordless home phone system with multiple hand sets, when unluckily I called.

What could have been an interesting series of pops, crackles and a nice smell of ozone in the air was cut short, since I demanded he cease and desist.

Of course his comment was I had sent garbage, which was already damaged on arrival. And he proceeded to prove his theory by throwing an expensive piece of electronic equipment to the wall.

As per my Dad, violence always serves as a statement of truth. It was nary a week I had welts on my back where he had severely thrashed me, since I was playing cricket in the apartment grounds, instead of studying for my 4th grade exams. But thats a different story.

Mom was a nervous wreck, and there was a happy yelling match in progression when I interrupted. Now the funniest thing was: since we were on video chat on skype, and they were sharing one head set, it escaped their angry minds that if I am saying some thing, then it is being heard by only the person with the head set on his/hear ears. So naturally every time either assumed that the other MUST have heard what I said and proceeded to rant loudly at the other when the other goofed and did not follow the instructions given by me.

They made things a bit more interesting by putting things down and then promptly forgetting where they had put it. And with the tempers flaring, they rapidly forget the statements I had said, or jumbled them up. 

This went on through three 45 minute skype calls, and I kid you not, even as a healthy young man, I had chest pains after every call!

Finally on the 4th call, I asked mom to put everything aside and write down what ever I said. I went through some basic electrical engineering, explaining DC and AC electricity, transformers, switches, etc.

In so far, 3 pieces of rather expensive electronic items have been destroyed. And I shudder to think what will happen next when we finish the first step of connecting the damn pre configured IBM Laptop to the internet and move to the home phone system or the entertainment system.

Bottom line : Don't give your parents technology, give them cash!</description>
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      <title>Review of Cohiba double torch flame butane lighter </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 23:08:50 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>As title. Comparison with Xikar and Ronson. Refueling a butane cigar lighter, merits of different fuels.</description>
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      <title>Parking meter 'Robin Hoods' provoke New Hampshire city's ire</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:50:29 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>LITTLETON (New Hampshire, US): In December James Cleaveland made an unusual New Year's resolution: to do all he could to keep police in the city of Keene, New Hampshire, from issuing parking tickets.

Cleaveland and a group of friends took to the streets with pocketfuls of change and began shadowing the city's three parking enforcement officers, stuffing coins in expired meters before they could issue $5 tickets.

They call their practice &quot;Robin Hooding,&quot; and in just over four months, the group claims to have spared motorists more than 2,000 tickets in the city of some 23,000.

&quot;It's my philosophy,&quot; said Cleaveland, 26, a member of a group called Free Keene, which subscribes to the libertarian principle of smaller government.

&quot;I could go talk to the city council at every meeting but to me, actions speak louder than words. I can go out and try to save people and reduce the number of tickets.&quot;

The southern New Hampshire city's government does not share Cleaveland's view. This month it filed suit in state court against him and five others seeking a restraining order to keep them at least 50 feet from parking enforcement officers.

The suit accuses Cleaveland and five others of videotaping, taunting and intimidating its parking meter personnel.

The alleged behavior includes chasing officers on bicycles, shouting insults and accusing them of stealing people's money. One officer became so stressed that he complained of heart palpitations and began having nightmares about the group, according to court papers.

&quot;It's affecting the employees and it's taking a lot of time and energy to deal with it, and so the city's intent was to try to establish some clear boundaries and a little breathing room,&quot; said James Duffy, a member of the Keene City Council.

&quot;We're not saying you can't complain about the meters or plug them, it's just how that's done.&quot;

Cleaveland has vowed to continue. He said he knows each parking attendant by name.

&quot;I don't follow them home or try to find them off duty,&quot; he said. &quot;They always use the excuse 'I'm just doing my job.' I always say 'I'm just doing my activity too.'&quot;

Calling card

The Free Keene movement is part of the Free State Project, a group that has sought to get 20,000 libertarians to settle in New Hampshire, a state already known for its limited government and which has no sales or income tax.

The Keene chapter's prior actions included publicly smoking marijuana in the city's central square to protest drug laws, and holding a protest against gun restrictions that featured a half-nude woman armed with a holstered handgun walking through downtown.

Cleaveland's compatriot Garrett Ean, 24, said he feeds meters up to five days a week in three- to four-hour shifts during the 8am to 5pm period when motorists must pay to park downtown.

He said he spends less than $15 a day since some of Keene's meters cost as little as 10 cents for 30 minutes of parking.

Like Cleaveland, he leaves a card on the windshield of each &quot;saved&quot; car that says: &quot;Your Meter Expired! However we saved you from the king's tariff! - Robin Hood &amp;amp; The Merry Men.&quot;

The card leaves an address for an activists' center and encourages motorists to send a donation.

The group sometimes receives handwritten thank-you notes in addition to donations, which are sometimes enough not only to cover the costs of feeding meters but also to allow the group to pay the activists a small amount, said Cleaveland.

City councilor Duffy said the city, home to Keene State College, is a progressive community whose tolerance is sometimes stretched by the group's scrutiny of even the most minor actions of local government. &quot;In many ways this is a progressive community and also a tolerant one, but it's been going on long enough,&quot; he said. &quot;This won't be the last issue.&quot;</description>
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      <title>Life-saving drugs' prices set to fall by up to 80 per cent in India</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:37:36 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Note: For a country which doesn't get things right very often, India is taking steps to make universal health care affordable to all.

THIS is something that all of us would like to see our tax dollars and elected representatives working on, instead of making laws (e.g.) to regulate the size of sodas being sold in restaurants at NYC. 

We need politicians with testicles in the US, not just money guzzling pigs, who wouldn't know their asses from their elbows unless their lobby groups told them what was what.

NEW DELHI: Prices of 348 medicines, including life-saving drugs, will be cheaper soon by up to 80 per cent as the new drug price control order (DPCO) has come into effect. Industry experts said the implementation of the new drug policy will lead to slashing of prices of many anti-cancer and anti-infective drugs by 50-80 per cent.

According to the website of department of pharmaceuticals, the government has notified the drug prices control order (DPCO), 2013, with effect from May 15, replacing the 1995 order. The new order will give power to the national pharmaceutical pricing policy (NPPP) 2012 to regulate prices of 348 essential drugs.

Drug prices control order, 1995, regulated prices of only 74 bulk drugs. The NPPP 2012 was approved by the Cabinet on November 22, 2012 and later it was notified on December 7, 2012. As per the new drugs policy, all strengths and dosages specified in the national list of essential medicines (NLEM) 2011 will be under price control.

According to the approved policy, prices of medicines will now be capped by taking simple average of all brands which have more than one per cent market share instead of input costs. The DPCO 2013, issued under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, will lay the framework of the drug policy and mechanism of regulating prices.

According to it, the National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) will be the implementation authority for the new policy and the new DPCO. NPPP-2012 took long to finalize due to differences between ministries of health and chemicals and fertilizers. Other stakeholders, industry and NGOs had also expressed their concerns on the pricing model which was suggested.</description>
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