His name is Broadband. He is in "Kids Zone" at the website of an US government agency, FCC (Federal Communications Commission).
And he is Doraemon. Perhaps he is the most beloved Japanese manga/anime character. Its manga series was started in 1969 and is one of the most succeeded series in the Japanese character merchandising market.
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/News/2004/11/28/737807.html
Sun, November 28, 2004
Lesson backfires on dad
NEWARK, N.J. -- A father's attempt to teach his daughter a lesson about drinking backfired when the teen led police to a stash of drugs and weapons inside their home. Kevin Winston, 46, called police on Friday after his 16-year-old daughter came home drunk and unruly. When police arrived, however, the girl told them she feared for her safety because her father stored drugs and weapons in the home.
The girl led officers to a crawl space where they found four semiautomatic guns and more than 600 vials of cocaine.
http://recycling.stanford.edu/5r/recycle_stanford.html
Even though Americans account for only 5 percent of the world's population, the U.S. consumes 26% of the world's energy and create 25% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions (American Almanac, New Consumers).
It alleges that the CIA investigated alleged sexual and financial improprieties by the agent "for the sole purpose of discrediting him and retaliating against him for questioning the integrity of the WMD reporting ... and for refusing to falsify his intelligence reporting to support the politically mandated conclusion" of matters that were blacked out, according to the Washington daily.
http://www.ksat.com/news/3984041/detail.html
Convicted Sex Offender 'Santa' Accused Of Molesting Child 'Elf'
Accuser Was Playing Santa's Elf
POSTED: 7:46 am EST December 9, 2004
FOREST CITY, N.C. -- A convicted sex offender in North Carolina who was hired to play Santa is accused of taking indecent liberties with an 11-year-old girl who was portraying Santa's elf.
Authorities say 73-year-old Zay Jones was arrested at a highway rest stop after the child told a woman that Jones had touched her inappropriately in his vehicle. The woman called police.
As part of the plea agreement, 42-year-old Brian Shaw, of Wilton, Conn., will be sentenced to six years probation and is required to register as a sex offender. Shaw also surrendered his medical license to the New York State Health Department.
ラムズフェルド語録 http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/12/08/rumsfeld.troops/
長官は8日、イラクに派遣される米兵から「車両の装甲板が足りない」と質問され、「戦争には将来の望ましい兵力ではなく、今の兵力で向かわなければならない」と回答。この場面が、テレビで繰り返し放送された。
"As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want," Rumsfeld said.
He added, "You can have all the armor in the world on a tank, and it can [still] be blown up."
「いくら装甲板を重ねても死ぬ時は死ぬんだからね!」 (意図=ツベコベ言う奴はさっさと死んで来い。)
The unconventional proposals were made by the US Air Force
The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say.
Other weapons that never saw the light of day include one to make soldiers obvious by their bad breath.
The US defence department considered various non-lethal chemicals meant to disrupt enemy discipline and morale.
The 1994 plans were for a six-year project costing $7.5m, but they were never pursued.
The US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals".
The plans were obtained under the US Freedom of Information by the Sunshine Project, a group which monitors research into chemical and biological weapons.
'Who? Me?'
The plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
Scientists also reportedly considered a "sting me/attack me" chemical weapon to attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats towards enemy troops.
A substance to make the skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight was also pondered.
Another idea was to develop a chemical causing "severe and lasting halitosis", so that enemy forces would be obvious even when they tried to blend in with civilians.
In a variation on that idea, researchers pondered a "Who? Me?" bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks.
Indeed, a "Who? Me?" device had been under consideration since 1945, the government papers say.
However, researchers concluded that the premise for such a device was fatally flawed because "people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odour offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis".
Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate at the Pentagon said the defence department receives "literally hundreds" of project ideas, but that "none of the systems described in that [1994] proposal have been developed".
He told the BBC: "It's important to point out that only those proposals which are deemed appropriate, based on stringent human effects, legal, and international treaty reviews are considered fordevelopment or acquisition."
Boy Sues Math Teacher Who Assigned Summer Homework
Teen, Dad Say School Has No Authority Over Students During Summer
POSTED: 11:47 am EST January 20, 2005
MILWAUKEE -- A suburban Milwaukee teen and his dad are suing the boy's math teacher for assigning homework to be done over summer vacation.
They are seeking to bar homework assignments over the summer.
Peer Larson (pictured, left), a 17-year-old student at Whitnall High School, and his father, Bruce Larson of Hales Corners, contend in the suit which stemmed from an assignment in a math class that school officials have no legal authority to make students do homework over the summer because the state-required 180-day school year is over.
"It is poor public policy," Bruce Larson argued in the lawsuit filed last week in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. "These students are still children, yet they are subjected to increasing pressure to perform to ever-higher standards in numerous theaters. Come summer, they need a break."
The Larsons said they believe that, if teachers want to assign homework during the summer vacation, it should be voluntary and not factored into the student's grade without the student's consent.
Whitnall School Board member Mary Ann Lindberg said the board left the matter up to administrators.
"Sometimes those kinds of decisions are best made at the building level with the teachers and the principal and perhaps someone in administration, because they know best what they're trying to achieve," Lindberg said.
Whitnall School District Superintendent Karen Petric says the district tried to resolve the matter, but was unable to do so.
"I strongly believe the district acted appropriately and didn't do anything wrong," Petric said. "Court is not the place to solve it. It doesn't belong there."
Petric said the district would not have anything else to say on the matter because of concerns over student confidentiality.
..All at once you could hear the screaming ch*nks and no one was safe from the wave there were africans drowning, little chinamen swept away you could hear god laughing, "swim you b*tches swim"
So now you're screwed, it's the Tsunami
you better run or kiss your ass away, go find your mommy
I just saw her float by, a tree went through her head
and now the children will be sold to child slavery...
Four Sacramento, California firefighters who admitted to having sex while on duty have been suspended pending an investigation, a spokesman for the city's fire department said on Tuesday. The three men, including a captain, admitted to having sex with a fourth firefighter, a woman, while on duty. Superiors put all four on administrative leave on Monday, marking the second recent sex scandal to hit the sleepy state capital's fire department.
BAGHDAD, Jan 31 (IPS) - Voting in Baghdad was linked with receipt of food rations, several voters said after the Sunday poll.
Many Iraqis said Monday that their names were marked on a list provided by the government agency that provides monthly food rations before they were allowed to vote.
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"Two of the food dealers I know told me personally that our food rations would be withheld if we did not vote," said Saeed Jodhet, a 21-year-old engineering student who voted in the Hay al-Jihad district of Baghdad.
The pressure may be getting to Mr. Bush. He came up with a gem of a Freudian slip yesterday. At a signing ceremony for a $417 billion military spending bill, the president said:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
Idaho girl scalped!
BOISE, Idaho - A 16-year-old girl was allegedly tied up and
scalped by a woman in what police said may have been an act
of revenge.
"When I say this gal was scalped, she was truly scalped,"
said Chief Deputy Bill Braddock. "The top of her head, her
hair, was completely cut off."
Police are searching for Marianne Dahle, 26, who disappeared
after the Jan. 18 attack at Kirkham Hot Springs, about 70 miles
from Boise.
The girl, whose name was not released, is recovering at home.
Police said doctors could not reattach her scalp, which was
found near one of the hot springs.
Braddock said the attack may have been motivated by revenge,
but he would not elaborate.
The Associated Press
Cops: Idaho girl scalped
BOISE, Idaho - A 16-year-old girl was allegedly tied up and scalped by a woman in what police said may have been an act of revenge.
"When I say this gal was scalped, she was truly scalped," said Chief Deputy Bill Braddock. "The top of her head, her hair, was completely cut off."
Police are searching for Marianne Dahle, 26, who disappeared after the Jan. 18 attack at Kirkham Hot Springs, about 70 miles from Boise.
The girl, whose name was not released, is recovering at home. Police said doctors could not reattach her scalp, which was found near one of the hot springs.
Braddock said the attack may have been motivated by revenge, but he would not elaborate.
生徒は女子高生。 「男女が激突するポルノ」・・・これは何かの誤訳?
Coach Resigns After Porn Investigation --- Officials Say Coach Showed Porn Tape To Players
POSTED: 3:33 pm CST January 29, 2005 UPDATED: 4:58 pm CST January 29, 2005
NEW LONDON, Iowa -- A southeast Iowa high school girls basketball coach has resigned after an investigation accused him of showing a tape with pornography on it to his team.
New London school officials said coach Paul Lorber resigned out of respect to the district and the players on his team.
Officials said a school investigation showed that Lorber was showing a game tape during a practice when a pornographic scene briefly appeared.
They said the tape had been previously used, and contained material that Lorber was unaware of.
The coach stopped the tape immediately and apologized to his players.
Lorber was in his eighth season as the head coach of the New London High School girls basketball team.
Teacher and coach Gina Sisk has been named as his replacement.
During his time at New London, Lorber lead the Lady Tigers to 120-70 record. He also won the Golden Plaque award from the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
Teacher reassigned after complaints about sex education quiz
By ADRIAN BRUNE, Staff Writer
A popular Magothy River Middle School teacher has been reassigned to a "non-school-based position" after parents said he gave a sexually charged quiz to students.
Principal Charles Dunlap sent a letter to parents Friday informing them that physical education teacher Jason Madey has been moved pending an investigation.
Questions on the "Young People's Sex Quiz" ranged from the only legal sexual position in Washington, D.C., to the best method to avoid HIV infection.
"In Detroit it is only legal to have sex in a car if a.) The car is moving, b.) The car is parked on your own property, or c.) The car is broken,"
reads one of the questions.
Hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, are required by law to furnish their rooms with twin beds only. There should be a minimum of two feet between the beds, and it is illegal for a couple to make love on the floor between the beds.
The only legal sexual position in Washington D.C. is the missionary-style position
while in Nevada, sex without a condom is considered illegal.