Trailer Park Boys the Movie suppose to be released sometime this summer.

Chattanooga Major Crimes detectives have charged Dathan “Dookie Butt” Mitchell in the stabbing of Jeramie Johnson on Saturday.

Police said the stabbing occurred around 10 p.m.

Officers were dispatched to 2718 4th Avenue where they discovered the 19-year-old victim lying on the ground with a stab wound to his right side.

He was taken to Erlanger Medical Center by Hamilton County Ambulance and underwent emergency surgery.

He is now listed in stable condition.

Major Crimes detectives later determined that the stabbing occurred on the parking lot of the Discount Food Mart located at 2413 4th Ave.

They said the victim ran from the convenience store before collapsing at the residence at 2718 4th Ave.

Witnesses and the victim identified Mitchell, 19, as the suspect who committed the stabbing.

Mitchell is charged with one count of attempted first degree murder and one count of aggravated assault.

The suspect has not been arrested at this time.

The motive for the stabbing is still under investigation.

Dookie Butt?
I really dont want to know.

Apr 23, 10:56 AM (ET)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - Del Mar College students now have to use computers outside the school’s system if they want to visit the popular Web site MySpace.com.

The community college has blocked the site in response to complaints about sluggish Internet speed on campus computers.

An investigation found that heavy traffic at MySpace.com was eating up too much bandwidth, said August Alfonso, the school’s chief of information and technology. Forty percent of daily Internet traffic at the college involved the site, he said.

“This was more about us being able to offer Web-based instruction, and MySpace.com was slowing everything down,” President Carlos Garcia said.

MySpace.com - a social networking hub with more 72 million members - allow users to post searchable profiles that can include photos of themselves and such details as where they live and what music they like.

Paul Martinez, 20, is a frequent visitor to MySpace.com and finds the site to be addictive. Restricting access to the site could be a good idea, he said.

“The library is pretty much full with people on MySpace, and with them banning it you won’t have anything to distract you,” he said.

Some though, disagree with Del Mar College’s decision.

“We pay for school and the resources that are used,” said Zeke Santos, 20. “It’s our choice, we’re the ones paying for our classes. If we pass or fail, it’s up to us.”

Thats nothing a simple packet shaper wouldn’t fix.
I am curious though where they got the stat that 40% of the bandwidth was myspace related, how they are actually blocking it and what their internet connection speed is. Our packet shaper gives us those stats and we could easily give myspace lowest priority so it wouldn’t interfere with college related traffic.

Quintuplet babies all laughing together.
The cuteness is just too much.

Robin Lloyd
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.com Thu Apr 20, 10:00 AM ET

Men and women are actually from the same planet, but scientists now have the first strong evidence that the emotional wiring of the sexes is fundamentally different.

An almond-shaped cluster of neurons that processes experiences such as fear and aggression hooks up to contrasting brain functions in men and women at rest, the new research shows.

For men, the cluster “talks with” brain regions that help them respond to sensors for what’s going on outside the body, such as the visual cortex and an area that coordinates motor actions.

For women, the cluster communicates with brain regions that help them respond to sensors inside the body, such as the insular cortex and hypothalamus. These areas tune in to and regulate women’s hormones, heart rate, blood pressure, digestion and respiration.

“Throughout evolution, women have had to deal with a number of internal stressors, such as childbirth, that men haven’t had to experience,” said study co-author Larry Cahill of the University of California Irvine. “What is fascinating about this is the brain seems to have evolved to be in tune with those different stressors.”

The finding, published in the recent issue of the journal NeuroImage, could help researchers learn more about sex-related differences in anxiety, autism, depression, irritable bowel syndrome, phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder.

The new study focused on activity in the amygdala, a cluster of neurons found on both sides of the brain and involved for both sexes in hormone and other involuntary functions, as well as emotions and perception. Cahill already knew that the sexes use different sides of their brains to process and store long-term memories, based on his earlier work. He also has shown that a particular drug, Propranolol, can block memory differently in men and women.

Cahill and his co-author Lisa Kilpatrick, scanned the brains of 36 healthy men and 36 healthy women. The subjects were told to relax with their eyes closed during the scan, so that differences between the sexes could be studied at rest rather than during heavy lifting like accessing memories.

The scans also showed that men’s and women’s amygdalas are polar opposites in terms of connections with other parts of the brain. In men, the right amygdala is more active and shows more connections with other brain regions. In women, the same is true of the left amygdala.

Scientists still have to find out if one’s sex also affects the wiring of other regions of the brain. It could be that while men and women have basically the same hardware, it’s the software instructions and how they are put to use that makes the sexes seem different.

Another study stating the obvious, than men and women are different!
Imagine that!

NASA plans to send a two-tonne probe crashing into a crater on the moon in hopes of discovering if it harbours water that could be used for manned missions, the US space agency said on Monday.

The $US73 million ($NZ120 million) probe, to be built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, is set to be launched in 2008 aboard a rocket also carrying a sophisticated lunar mapper.

“We’re going to learn a lot from this,” said program manager Dan Andrews of NASA’s Ames Research Centre in Moffett Field, California. “It’s going to give us a real definitive understanding of what we have up there.”

NASA astronauts visited the moon during the late 1960s and early 1970s under the Apollo program but have not returned.

In the aftermath of the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster, US President George W Bush instructed NASA to retire the shuttle fleet in 2010 and return humans to the moon by 2020 and then aim for Mars.

First, though, NASA plans a series of robotic precursor missions including the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, which will plough into the crater, and the mapper, called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

When LCROSS strikes the crater, it is expected to create a hole 5 metres (16 feet) deep and send up a 998,000 kilogram (2.2 million-pound) plume of debris for sensors and cameras stationed on a second spacecraft to monitor.

Dozens of ground-based telescopes, as well as possibly space observatories, such as the Hubble telescope, will be trained on the plume as well.

A monitoring satellite that is part of LCROSS, but separate from the reconnaissance orbiter, will then fly through the plume to collect and relay data back to Earth. It will have just 15 minutes before it too crashes into the moon, sending up a second, smaller plume for additional studies.

Two previous missions, the military’s Clementine spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Prospector, determined the moon’s south pole is particularly rich in hydrogen, which scientists suspect is bound with oxygen to form water.

But there are other theories to explain the hydrogen readings as well.

“What this mission buys us is an early attempt to get to know what the resources are,” said Scott Horowitz, head of NASA’s lunar exploration program. “We know for sure that for human exploration to succeed we’re going to have to eventually live off the land.”

Water ice could be used to make oxygen for astronauts to breathe, as well as an oxidiser for rocket fuel.

The new guy made me post this.

A member of the Russian State Duma has blamed computer games and the Internet for the rise in violent crime in Russia, especially for the sharp surge in racist attacks and killings.

The Rosbalt news agency quoted Alexander Gurov, a member of the parliamentary security commission as saying that the Russian crime rate has risen to become the highest in the world, with 21 murders per 100 thousand population committed in 2005.

“The spread of violence into all the pores of social life is evident,” Gurov said. “The Internet is awash with violence and computer games have gangsters and killers, Nazis and Japanese militarists as main characters,” he said.

The MP said that the spread of such information technologies was one of the causes of the rise of nationalist and extremist tendencies in Russian society.

“In Russia, only games where the Nazis always lose should be available, but so far the opposite is happening,” Gurov said.

Yes, if only the games had Nazis losing all the time then the murder rate would be lower. Could it possibly be that people playing these video games are well, too busy playing games to kill anyone? Especially if they are playing a game like Civilization 4. Russia’s social problems run much deeper than video games.

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SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) - A controversial Texas program to send undercover agents into bars to arrest drunks has been halted after a firestorm of protest from the public.

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has “temporarily suspended” what it called “Operation Last Call” even though it still believes it was worthwhile, commission spokeswoman Carolyn Beck said on Thursday.

“We understand that everything has room for improvement, this included,” she said.

She said most of those arrested in the sting operations had been “dangerously drunk” and might have tried to drive if TABC agents had not busted them.

The TABC has launched an internal investigation of Operation Last Call and a Texas Legislature committee will hold hearings on the program on Monday.

The TABC announced the program in late August but it received little attention at the time.

But recent media reports that drunks were being arrested in bars provoked both ridicule and anger around the world and, perhaps more importantly, complaints from hotels, restaurants and bars in Texas who said it could hurt business.

The program drew support from groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

The Houston Chronicle found that 1,740 people across the state had been arrested for public intoxication in Operation Last Call.

It seems the media has brought some common sense to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.

“most of those arrested in the sting operations had been “dangerously drunk” and might have tried to drive if TABC agents had not busted them.”

Most? Might? So arrest all the legally drunk people because some might want to drive? How insane is that? What if they have a designated driver, was going to walk, or catch a cab?
Why not just hang out in the parking lot and test individuals that get in the drivers seat of a vehicle? Doesn’t that make more sense then lurking about in the bar?