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Huffington Post – by Gerry Smith

The Washington Post – by Fred Barbash

Here’s a title you can’t help but read, even though it’s in a highly technical scholarly journal: “A case of musical preference for Johnny Cash following deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens.”

It’s published in the May issue of Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience.

And it’s one of the more unusual tales recently from the field of neuroscience, already famous for stories so fantastic that not even the authors can fully explain them, which is the case here.   Continue reading “How a brain treatment for OCD turned a man into a Johnny Cash fanatic”

ABC News – by  STEFANIE TUDER

Not many restaurants have the chance to respond to a customer’s review in a smart, effective and cheeky way. Atomic Grill in Morgantown, West Virginia, however, managed to do just that.

After a customer posted a review on UrbanSpoon — which has since been deleted — requesting that the servers show more skin, owner Daniel McCawley took matters into his own hands.   Continue reading “Restaurant Responds to Review Requesting Servers ‘Show Some Skin’ In Clever Way”

Press Herald – by David Hench and Jessica Hall

A tractor trailer that spilled its load of 16 to 20 million honeybees when it rolled over in Delaware was headed for blueberry fields in Washington County.

The bee shipment of 460 crated hives originated in Florida and was intended to pollinate fields owned by Allen’s Blueberry Freezer Inc. of Ellsworth. The tractor-trailer overturned on the sharp curve of an on-ramp to Interstate 95 near Newark, Delaware just after 6 p.m. Tuesday.   Continue reading “Crashed truck with millions of bees was headed to Maine blueberry fields”

Huffington Post – by Kim Bellware & Jillian Berman

OAK BROOK, Ill. — Police arrested a rabbi and others who took part in a protest on the campus of McDonald’s headquarters on Wednesday afternoon.

After protesters passed through a security kiosk onto McDonald’s property, police issued an order to disperse and began arresting protesters lined up behind a barrier erected in front of a headquarters building. Despite the arrests, the atmosphere seemed collegial. “We’re all on the same team,” a police officer told the unnamed rabbi.   Continue reading “McDonald’s Protesters Arrested Outside Corporate Headquarters”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Angry demonstrators took to the streets Wednesday demanding a halt to the city’s plans to remove a row of 30-year-old pear trees to build a controversial garbage dump.

In their latest attempt to derail the building of the garbage transfer station at Asphalt Green, angry Upper East Side residents hit the city with charges of arboricide because the Department of Sanitation is going to remove a row of eight pear trees as part of the construction, CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reported.   Continue reading “Fight Over Pear Trees Is Latest Front In War Over UES Garbage Transfer Station”

Huffington Post – by Pauline Jelinek

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of Americans would no longer get mail delivered to their door but would have to go to communal or curbside boxes instead under a proposal advancing through Congress.

The Republican-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on an 18-13 party-line vote, approved a bill Wednesday to direct the U.S. Postal Service to convert 15 million addresses over the next decade to the less costly, but also less convenient delivery method.   Continue reading “Door-To-Door Mail Would Stop For Millions Under Proposed Law”

Huffington Post

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) – The United States has deployed about 80 military personnel to Chad as part of its effort to help find and return more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militant group Boko Haram, President Barack Obama said in a letter to Congress on Wednesday.

“These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area,” Obama said in the letter.
Continue reading “U.S. Marines To Join Search For Nigeria’s Missing Girls: White House”

Huffington Post

Seven borrowers who had been paying their Sallie Mae student loans on time for years were unexpectedly threatened with asset seizures after a Sallie Mae contractor demanded they immediately repay tens of thousands of dollars simply because a family member had died.

Regina Kibler, a retiree who lives off payments from her late husband’s life insurance policy, spent days agonizing over how to help her son, Christopher, pay back nearly $22,000 neither had. Samantha Flora hired a lawyer to fight attempts to recoup some $20,000 from her dead grandmother’s estate that have turned members of her family against one another.   Continue reading “Sallie Mae Torments Faithful Student Borrowers After Co-Signers Die”

Fox News

It might be the first order U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi doesn’t obey.

The mother of the reservist, who is being held in a Mexican jail after mistakenly crossing the border with registered guns, told FoxNews.com her son just got an “Order to Muster” letter from the Marines telling Tahmooressi to report to the 4th Civil Affairs Group in Hialeah, Fla., on June 14. Although a Marine spokeswoman later told FoxNews.com that the corps is aware of Tahmooressi’s current circumstances and does not expect him to report, failure typically can result in “other than honorable discharge” and affect Veterans Administration benefits.   Continue reading “Marine jailed in Mexico receives order to report to USMC superiors”

Examiner – by Dave Workman

Billionaire anti-gunner Michael Bloomberg may have entered a new phase of selling gun control yesterday when, during a conversationwith Bob Schieffer on CBS’ “Face The Nation,” he introduced a new term regarding background checks and also suggested that gun control, by any other name, is not gun control.

At about three and a half minutes into the interview, Bloomberg told Schieffer, “We’ve got to make sure that the Congressmen understand the vast bulk of Americans want them to vote for sensible gun regulation, not control, not banning, just regulation.”   Continue reading “Bloomberg sets new tone for disingenuous anti-gun semantics”

AmmoLand – by Michelle Malkin

Los Angeles, CA – -(Ammoland.com)- At least 40 American veterans are dead thanks to bureaucratic delays at Veterans Affairs clinics.

But you wouldn’t know it from VA Secretary Gen. Eric Shinseki’s bland and bloodless demeanor at a Senate hearing Thursday.  

Continue reading “The VA’s Deadly Bureaucratic Drones”

AmmoLand

Gilbert, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- Last week, Knife Rights filed an appeal of a U.S. District Court’s absurd ruling in its ongoing Federal Civil Rights lawsuit against New York City and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.

The 62-page legal brief can be viewed at: www.KnifeRights.org/Knife_Rights_Appeal_Brief.pdf   Continue reading “Knife Rights Files Appeal in New York City Lawsuit”

ABC News – by STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press

Residents in a southwest Oregon county voted emphatically to ban genetically engineered crops following a campaign that attracted a bushel of out-of-state money.

With most of the ballots counted in Tuesday’s all-mail election, Jackson County voters approved the measure by a 2-to-1 margin. A similar, lower-profile measure in neighboring Josephine County led 58 percent to 42 percent with nearly two-thirds of expected ballots counted.   Continue reading “Jackson County, Oregon, Approves GMO Ban”

Reuters – by AMY SAWITTA LEFEVRE

Thailand’s army declared martial law nationwide on Tuesday to restore order after six months of street protests that have left the country without a proper functioning government, but insisted the surprise intervention was not a military coup.

While troops patrolled parts of Bangkok and army spokesmen took to the airwaves, the caretaker government led by supporters of self-exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra said it was still running the country.   Continue reading “Thai army chief urges rivals to talk after declaring martial law”

Huffington Post

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The wild world of professional wrestling is heading to North Korea.

The authoritarian nation locked in a long standoff with its neighbors and the United States over its nuclear bomb ambitions announced plans Monday for an international pro-wrestling match in the capital, Pyongyang, in late August.   Continue reading “North Korea Wants Pro Wrestlers From U.S. For Summer Tournament”

News Observer – by LARRY NEUMEISTER AND TOBY STERLING

NEW YORK — More than a half-million computers in over 100 countries were infected by sophisticated malware that lets cybercriminals remotely hijack a computer and its webcam, authorities said as charges were announced Monday against nearly 100 people worldwide.

Authorities said 97 people suspected of using or distributing the malicious software called BlackShades have been arrested in 16 countries, including the software’s owner, a 24-year-old Swedish man.   Continue reading “FBI: BlackShades infected half-million computers”