JUSTICE: SERVED!

VANSVILLE, Indiana (AP) -- An inmate serving a life sentence for molesting and murdering a 10-year-old girl named Katie was apparently forcibly tattooed across the forehead by a fellow prisoner with the words "KATIE'S REVENGE," authorities say.

Anthony Ray Stockelman, 39, was removed from the general prison population for his own safety last weekend after authorities discovered the tattoo, officials said.

Prison officials said an inmate has been identified as a suspect.

A photo of what is identified as Stockelman's forehead appeared this week on a crime blog called "Lost In Lima Ohio" that focuses on news reports about crimes against children and women.

Two prison guards suspected of supplying the picture were fired for making unauthorized copies of an evidence photo, said Rich Larsen, a spokesman for the Wabash Valley state prison in Carlisle, about 70 miles north of Evansville.

Child molesters rank near the bottom of the prison hierarchy and are often brutalized by other inmates. Tattoos are against prison regulations, but inmates often fashion crude tattoo instruments with plastic utensils and needles.

Stockelman's tattoo covers nearly his entire forehead.

"If I had to guess I'd say it's a statement from the inmates," said Collman's father, John Neace.

Stockelman pleaded guilty to abducting, molesting and drowning Katlyn "Katie" Collman, whose body was found in 2005 in a creek about 15 miles from her home in the town of Crothersville.

Police initially believed Katie was abducted and slain because she had stumbled onto a methamphetamine operation in the neighborhood, but that theory was later discarded.

Another man confessed to the killing at one point but was cleared after DNA and other evidence connected Stockelman to the crime.

Thats right, GET THE FUCK OUT!

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Ex-Nazi Guard's Citizenship Revoked
By DAN NEPHIN, Associated Press Writer

5 hours ago

PITTSBURGH - A former Nazi concentration camp guard who has lived in western Pennsylvania for more than 40 years had his American citizenship revoked by a federal judge. His attorneys plan to appeal.

The Department of Justice had wanted Anton Geiser deported, saying he hid his service in the Waffen SS from U.S. officials when he immigrated in 1956.

U.S. District Court Judge David S. Cercone on Friday canceled Geiser's certificate of naturalization. He ordered Geiser, 81, of Sharon, to surrender any documents pertaining to citizenship.

"Individuals like Anton Geiser, who assisted the Nazis in their quest to extinguish the lives of millions of innocent men, women and children, do not deserve the benefits of U.S. citizenship," U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said in a statement.

Eli M. Rosenbaum, director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, said the government will work to remove Geiser from the country "as swiftly as possible."

Geiser's attorneys said in a statement they planned to appeal.

"We understand that Judge Cercone has issued an opinion in the case that is adverse to our client. We have not had the opportunity to fully evaluate Judge Cercone's opinion, however we do expect to file an appeal to the 3rd Circuit on behalf of Mr. Geiser," wrote his attorneys, Jay K. Reisinger and Samuel J. Reich.

Geiser, an ethnic German born in what is now Croatia, became an American citizen in 1962. The retired steelworker has lived in Sharon, about 60 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, since June 1960.

Geiser, who does not deny he was a guard at the camps, has said the U.S. visa application did not ask him to reveal his service and that the law did not require him to volunteer information.

He served as an armed SS Death Head guard at the Sachsenhausen camp near Berlin for much of 1943 and then was transferred to an SS officer training camp at Arolsen. There, he escorted prisoners to and from the Buchenwald camp, where tens of thousands of Jews and others were killed. He was at Arolsen until April 1945.

Geiser told federal officials he was drafted into the German military. He denied harming prisoners even though he said he had orders to shoot prisoners who tried to escape, according to court documents.

What the hell is wrong with the Thai???

Know a better way to boost recruitment?



BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai coup leaders have banned go-go girls from dancing near tanks and troops on Bangkok streets as a distraction from the serious business of power, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

"It is not appropriate to entertain soldiers while they are on duty," Colonel Acra Tiprote told Reuters after a troupe of 10 women in tight camouflage vests and shorts posed with soldiers and tanks while making a music video.

"People should differentiate between entertainment and seriousness. A coup is not entertaining," Acra said, although the tanks sent in to lead Thailand's first coup in 15 years had turned Bangkok into a carnival-type attraction.

Thais and foreign tourists flocked to the Army Headquarters to take picture with tanks and soldiers. Many gave soldiers flowers or food and drink.

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I say those girls need to substantialy rewarded for their patriotic ferver!

Ya know what they say about women with long fingers...

Finger length linked to female sporting potential

Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:54am ET168

LONDON (Reuters) - The length of a girl's ring finger could be an indicator of her future sporting potential, researchers at King's College London said on Thursday.

In the largest study of its kind, hand measurements of 607 female twins aged 25-79 from the UK were compared with the women's lifetime sporting achievements.

The findings, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that women with ring fingers longer than their index fingers had performed better at running and associated running sports such as soccer and tennis.

In women the ring finger is commonly shorter or the same length as the index finger, while in men the ring finger is generally longer.

The report said detection of sporting potential by examining the ratio between the index and ring fingers "could help identify talented individuals at a pre-competitive stage."

The reasons for the findings were unclear, said one of the report's authors, Professor Tim Spector from the Twins Research Unit at King's College, who said he was originally skeptical about the link to sporting ability.

"Previous studies have suggested the change in finger length was due to changes in testosterone levels in the womb," he said.

But he said the unit had found in a separate study of twins that finger length was largely inherited, possibly explaining why sporting parents often have sporting children.

"We found that finger length was 70 percent heritable with little influence of the womb environment," he said.

"This suggests that genes are the main factor and that finger length is a marker of your genes."

He said no specific candidate genes had been identified for the link and that multiple genes were probably responsible.

Previous studies looking at the link between finger length and sporting ability have mainly focused on men.

A study published in 2001 of 304 English professional soccer players found they had a significantly larger ring-to-index-finger ratio than a control group of 533 other men.

Other studies in men have shown the ratio of the ring finger to the index finger can be associated with varied traits such as sexuality, musical ability and vulnerability to certain diseases.

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The Accomodator

Easily the strangest thing they sell...

Now, I COULD post an article about it here, but I happen to think it would SO much more fun for people to Google this for themselves.

Coolest Invention Evah...

This guy could sell thoose for a bundle! Looks freakin fantastic.

For the love of a...

Car manufactures repeatedly re-tool there entire productionline to meet California emmisions requirements. Requirements, duh, set by the state. YOU CAN'T SUE SOMEONE FOR FOLLOWING STATE GUIDELINES!!! Nor can you sue someone for completely legal use of their property!

California sues carmakers over global warming

Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:54pm ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - California sued six of the world's largest automakers over global warming on Wednesday, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have caused billions of dollars in damages.

The lawsuit is the first of its kind to seek to hold manufacturers liable for the damages caused by their vehicles' emissions, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer said.

It comes less than a month after California lawmakers adopted the nation's first global warming law mandating a cut in greenhouse gas emissions.

California has also targeted the auto industry with first-in-the-nation rules adopted in 2004 requiring carmakers to force cuts in tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks.

Automakers, however, have so far blocked those rules with their own legal action -- prompting one analyst to say California's lawsuit represents a way for California to pressure car manufacturers to accept the rules.

"That's the objective," said David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit organization that provides public research and forecasts about the industry. "They want to get the automakers basically to bow down and pay homage to the (emissions) law."

The complaint, which an auto industry trade group called a "nuisance" suit, names General Motors Corp. (GM.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Ford Motor Co. (F.N: Quote, Profile, Research), Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T: Quote, Profile, Research), the U.S. arm of Germany's DaimlerChrysler AG (DCXGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) and the North American units of Japan's Honda Motor Co. (7267.T: Quote, Profile, Research) and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (7201.T: Quote, Profile, Research).

Lockyer told Reuters he would seek "tens or hundreds of millions of dollars" from the automakers in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California.

Environmental groups hailed the lawsuit, saying it represented another weapon for the state as it seeks to curb greenhouse gas emissions and spur the auto industry to build vehicles that pollute less.

"(California) just passed a new law to cut global warming emissions by 25 percent and that's a good start and this lawsuit is a good next step," said Dan Becker, director of the Sierra Club's Global Warming Program.

Ford deferred comment to the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which said the lawsuit was similar to one a New York court dismissed that is now on appeal.

"Automakers will need time to review this legal complaint, however, a similar nuisance suit that was brought by attorneys- general against utilities was dismissed by a federal court in New York," the industry group said in a statement.

Toyota declined to comment as the company evaluates the lawsuit, while Honda said in a statement it was committed to developing environmentally responsible technology.

The other automakers had no immediate comment.

But Sean Hecht, executive director of the Environmental Law Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the lawsuit has a "reasonable" chance of succeeding.

He also noted the judge in the New York lawsuit cited rarely-used legal doctrine in ruling that the question at issue was political rather than legal and should therefore be addressed by the legislature and not the court.

"I was surprised that the court in that case did that," he said. "I think it is a straight forward legal question. My impression is this is a very legitimate case to bring."

The lawsuit seeks monetary damages for past and ongoing contributions to global warming and asks that the companies be held liable for future monetary damages to California.

It said California is spending millions to deal with reduced snow pack, beach erosion, ozone pollution and the impact on endangered animals and fish.

"The injuries have caused the people to suffer billions of dollars in damages, including millions of dollars of funds expended to determine the extent, location and nature of future harm and to prepare for and mitigate those harms, and billions of dollars of current harm to the value of flood control infrastructure and natural resources," it said.

The Center for Automotive Research's Cole said it would be tough for the industry to immediately meet demands from some critics and predicted other states would quickly follow suit should California succeed with the legal action.

Adoption of diesel engine emissions technology or gasoline- electric hybrids comes at great cost and improving gas mileage also likely means smaller lighter vehicles, trade-offs that are not attractive to consumers, he added.

"These are not free technologies, they are very expensive," Cole said. "Most people are price sensitive."

In the complaint, Lockyer charges that vehicle emissions have contributed significantly to global warming and have harmed the resources, infrastructure and environmental health of the most populous state in the United States.

Lockyer -- a Democratic candidate for state treasurer in the November election -- said the lawsuit states that under federal and state common law the automakers have created a public nuisance by producing "millions of vehicles that collectively emit massive quantities of carbon dioxide."

Carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases have been linked to global warming.

Better idea: Just leave the grenade be

Brazilian man dies opening rocket-propelled grenade with sledgehammer

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A Brazilian man died Tuesday when he tried to open what police believe was a rocket-propelled grenade with a sledgehammer in a mechanical workshop on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Another man who was in the workshop at the time of the explosion was rushed to a hospital with severe burns, a police officer told Reuters. The workshop was destroyed and several cars parked outside caught fire.

Police found several unexploded army issue rocket-propelled grenades in the workshop. They believe the ammunition had been brought there by scavengers wanting to sell them as scrap metal, but they also are investigating a possible link to Rio's heavily armed drug gangs who often raid military bases.

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And Jack Thompson will somehow blame this on GTA

Three-year-old buys pink convertible on Internet

Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:34am ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on the Internet despite being only three years old.

Jack's mother told the BBC she had left her password for the eBay auction site in her computer and her son used the "buy it now" option to complete the purchase.

"Jack's a whizz on the PC and just pressed all the right buttons," Rachel Neal said.

The seller of the second-hand car, a dealer from Worcestershire, central England, was amused by the bid and agreed not to force the sale through.

"Luckily he saw the funny side and said he would re-advertise," Neal said.

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Why did it have to be Americans?

First we couldn't follow simple instructions and fell into a vat of radioactive water... Now we're illiterate and can't grasp basic arithmetic. Jesus fucking Christ on a goddamn pogostick...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most Americans read food labels to help them decide what to buy but few people actually understand what they're reading or consuming, according to two

U.S. studies published on Tuesday.

An online poll of 2,706 adults found half of Americans -- or 51 percent -- regularly read food labels to help them make informed choices about food with particular interested in fat, calorie and sugar content.

The poll, conducted jointly by Harris Interactive and the Wall Street Journal, found another third said they read food labels "sometimes" while 17 percent almost never read labels.

But while people read labels regularly, a study by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, published in the November issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found most people lacked the skills to understand them.

"Overall, we found that pretty much everybody had some difficulty with at least some of the labels," one of the study's authors, Russell Rothman, from the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research, told Reuters.

"People who had particular trouble were people who had low literacy or math skills."

The Vanderbilt study was based on a survey of 200 primary care patients from a wide socioeconomic range, giving them standardized reading and math tests before quizzing them on how they understood food labels.

Overall, patients correctly answered 69 percent of the questions, but they had problems understanding serving sizes and extraneous information and completing simple calculations.

For instance, only 32 percent of patients could correctly calculate the amount of carbohydrates in a 20-ounce bottle of soda that had 2.5 servings in the bottle, and only 23 percent could determine the amount of net carbohydrates in a serving of low-carbohydrate spaghetti.

"We also found, I think, of concern that patients who were overweight and who had chronic illnesses where understanding labels might be particularly important, actually had a harder time reading labels than other people," said Rothman.

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Dear Hollywood Directors!

Are you involved in filming a remake of a classic Film/TV Show or other nostalgia filled media? Well, I've got it. That's right, the secret of a successful remake! Are you ready to hear it?

WE DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOUR VISION!

We want to see the vision of the creator. That's where are memories are, that's what your cashing in with the remake. You are not more talented than the creator! You do not know what is best for his/her film/show, etc. Bay, Boll, I'm looking at you. Lack the talent to write new stuff? Not creative enough to come up with your own works? Need to "borrow" the works of others? Fine. Whatever. There is plenty of stuff out there that could HONESTLY use a remake. But, please keep this in mind, if you lack the talent to write it yourself, you also lack the talent to rewrite it to fit "your" vision.

Further, if you want to remake an old work that no one has ever heard of before, fine, take whatever "artistic license" you feel is necessary to keep it fresh. It can work. If your remaking something, and marketing it on its cult following and nostalgia appeal, FOR FUCKS SAKE GIVE US OUR GOD DAMN NOSTALGIA!!! For ever thing you change to fit "your vision", is one less thing people are going to feel nostalgic about when they see your film. And since nostalgia is what your banking the entire piece on, that's one less thing people our going to like about your film.

One last note... If you are going to make a historical film... PLEASE try and make an effort to actually make it historical. I know, reading those so called "books" may seem beneath you, but seriously, it will add some depth to your films. Want to do a fictional piece in Period setting, great, fantastic even, but just SAY so. If you've got "Based on historical events" ANYWHERE in your trailer or marketing racket, best live up to that statement. Don't want to be "artistically constrained" by what ACTUALLY happened? Fine, don't call it historical and all is well.

Thank you for your time.

Remember that story...

Ya know... the one about the dog, the bone, and seeing his reflection in the water....

IAEA commissioner falls into water tank at Czech nuclear plant

Jihlava, South Moravia, Sept 23 (CTK) - A US commissioner from the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emerged unharmed after falling into a water tank at the Dukovany nuclear power plant on Friday.

The daily Mlada fronta Dnes reported Friday that commissioners training at the facility were moving around the plant in a group. One of them, however, left the group and fell into the tank. The water in the tank was not radioactive.

A spokesman for the plant told MfD that the commissioner admitted he had made a mistake. "The rules say that no one is allowed to leave the group," the spokesman said.

The water tank is used in the process of loading and unloading nuclear fuel. Although the water was not in contact with any nuclear fuel during the training, the commissioner was examined to make sure he was not contaminated with radioactivity.

This story copyright 2006 CTK Czech News Agency.