Keri Shyrock Is A Fallen Angel Whose Death Will Return Her To Heaven For Chrismas

A Christmas Angel has fallen from the sky. She shall return to the heavens for Christmas.

Our deepest sympathy goes out to the friends and family of 23 year-old Keri Shyrock. (Reported in the media as Keri Shyrock.) Keri was acting in a Christmas pageant, suspended 25 feet in the air by an overhead rope, when she fell headfirst onto a concrete church floor. She died shortly thereafter at the hospital. Keri and two other performers were playing wise men on their way to Bethlehem at Crossroads Community Church when she fell. Approximately 2,000 parishioners were in attendance watching the play according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.
Keri died at University Hospital on Thursday morning. Police are investigating the cause of the accident. Shyrock graduated from Bowling Green State University. She is a former gymnast at Bowling Green. She worked as an assistant in the Office of Commuter Services and Off Campus Living at Xavier.

Church spokesman Matt Chandler, described the play as a "figurative and artistic version of the Christmas story found in the book of Luke." The mega-church was founded in 1996. It's membership is around 10,000. Keri will be missed by family and friends.

Not All News Coming Out of the Florida Reform School is Bad

No one said reform school was a nice place. Bryant Middleton pointed out to reporters thirty-one crosses on the grounds of a reform school in Marianna, Florida. When boys disappeared from the school, administrators explained it away according to former student Roger Kiser.
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On the orders of Gov. Charlie Crist, the Florida Dept. of Law enforcement began investigating the burial site. Former students allege that the graves will contain the bodies of former students beat to death by school employees. Right now, it's just allegations. Nothing has been proven. Most of the administrators and employees of the reform school are dead. Former students describe beatings with a strap. Yet not all of the news coming out of the reform school was bad. One of the former students is an electrician. He learned his trade at the school and now owns a multimillion-dollar company in Baltimore, Maryland. Dick Colon even created a scholarship fund for high achievers at the very same reform school called the Arthur Dozier School for Boys.

Ottis Toole Revealed As Murder of Adam Walsh. Meanwhile, Padres Outfielder Brian Giles Accused of Being More than Just a Batter?

John Walsh sought justice. Finally, his 6-year old son's murder has been solved. It only took 27 years to discover that a serial killer who died more than a decade ago is the murderer. Ottis Toole decapitated Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh, in 1981.This closes a case that has haunted the Walsh family for over 20 years. It inspired the television show about the nation's most notorious criminals. "Who could take a 6-year-old and murder and decapitate him? Who?" an emotional John Walsh inquired. We know know that it was pedophile and convicted sex offender, Ottis Toole

Speaking of losing a child. Padres outfielder Brian Giles is being sued by his former girlfriend for more than $10 million. His ex-girlfriend alleges that he battered her which cause her to have a miscarriage. According to the San Diego Tribune, the law suit has been filed in the San Diego Superior Court. Keep in mind, civil defendants do not have the burden of proof. It is the plaintiff that must prove that her allegations are true.

Rao Devi Gives Birth At Age 70 While A Texas 4 Year Old Enjoys Toys At 3:00 a.m.

Christmas is a time when children make news. Afterall, over 2000 years ago a child named Jesus was born. His birthday makes headlines each year around this time of year. Another child is also making headlines. Rao Devi just had a baby daughter. What makes this birth different is that Rao Devi is 70 years old. She underwent invitro fertilization at the Hisar fertility clinic in India. This daughter was her first child. She was born on November 28, 2008. She and her husband had been childless during their 50 years of marriage.

Mean while, another child makes headlines in Texas. A Family Dollar Store in Beaumont, Texas was recently the subject of a burglar alarm. Police responded to the store's alarm only to find a 4-year-old boy playing with toys. "When the officers got there, he was showing them his toys." The boy apparently unlocked the front door of his family home at 3:00 a.m and walked across a highway to the store. Surveilance video shows the child rattling the locked door and entering the store through a second door which was not locked. A family member who discovered out looking for the little boy. Child Protective Services took custody of the child, but he will be allowed to stay with relatives until their investigation is complete.

For those wanting even more dirt, a story about a YouTube video allegedly of a parent swinging a baby can be located here: http://www.parentdish.com/2008/12/16/man-arrested-for-posting-baby-swinging-video/?icid=200100397x1215571860x1201010051

New Hampshire, President Bush and Homayoon Ziqar Are All In The Dark

There is a mass black out in New Hampshire because of severe ice storms. New England church's serve as shelters for those without power and food. While power lines snapped by New England's devastating ice storm leave many New Englanders in the dark, some say our President has been in the dark of years. Winter Weather

President Bush was in the middle of telling the Iraqi journalists just how well the war on terror was going when his apparent ignorance was illustrated by an Iraqi reporter who threw both of his shoes at our President. As the Iraqi journalist flung his shoes at President Bush, he called our leader a "dog." (Throwing shoes is a sign of disapproval in Iraq and in most marital homes!)

Finally, India has considered creating its own darkness in retaliation for the Thanksgiving terrorism courtesy of Pakistan radicals. The response was for India's air force to go on alert. What does that mean in such a tense region? Business as usual according to Pakistan. While the two nuclear powers may have been close to conflict in the days after the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan is probably right, it is business as usual. Apparently, U.S. officials take credit for encouraging India to exercise restraint. One would suspect that India was smart enough to figure that one out by itself. (After all, think of all the impact on the Indian economy of losing all those outsourced telephone support jobs for business in the U.S. like Dell and AOL...) Air Commodore Homayoon Ziqar, a spokesman for the Pakistan Air Force, had no comment other than saying, "Everything is normal." (Sounds like Pakistan is also lobbying for outsourced customer service jobs.)

Suleman Ali and Lannie Haszard Demonstrate That Timing Can Be Everything... Update 9-11-09

Timing is everything! Suleman Ali, a 26 year old former Microsoft employee, sold Esgut, his portfolio of Facebook applications, for seven figures in April of 2008. He founded Esgut within months of Facebook's developer platform being launched. In April, Ali sold Esgut to the Social Gaming Network, a Silicon Valley company for seven figures.

Facebook has taken off! What started as a networking site for students at elite universities has expanded as a legitimate adult network. Millions of people have joined. MySpace, Friendster, and Hi5 have also improved their developer platforms. Fast forward a few months and the market for such innovations is over saturated with entrepreneurs with very few buyers. Ali suspects that Facebook is still a winner. He thinks it will be an IPO in 2011. But then again, timing is everything. For example take paramedics...

Paramedics can save lives and ease discomfort if they arrive "just in time." In fact, timeliness is so important, the law allows them to speed and break traffic laws. but there are limits! Over the past 18 months, at least 129 ambulance attendants across the U.S. have been accused of sex-related crimes many of which have allegedly occurred while on duty according to The Associated Press. Alleged molestations have occurred in the back of ambulances.
'A Dream Job for a Sexual Predator'?

Lannie Haszard, age 62, is serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to inappropriately touching female patients in the backs of ambulances. According to the A.P., Haszard is one of 129 ambulance attendants across the country have been accused of sex-related crimes in the past 18 months.This Oregon paramedic is serving a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to charges that he inappropriately touched four female patients while they were being taken by ambulance to hospitals. But Lannie Haszard, 62, is not a unique kind of criminal. An Associated Press investigation finds that at least 129 ambulance attendants across the country have been accused of sex-related crimes in the past 18 months, some while on duty. Greg Kafoury, a Portland, Ore., lawyer who represents three women allegedly groped by a paramedic thinks the job may attract improper applicants. "Everything is there: Women who are incapacitated, so they're hugely distracted. Medical cover to put your hands in places where, in any other context, a predator would be immediately recognized as such."
But how many of these EMTs were only doing there job? From convictions of a Standish, Mich., paramedic, a Pinellas County, Fla., paramedic, and a Chester County, Pa., paramedic, it's clear that not every one thinks these health care providers are just doing their job. 23 states have received sex-related complaints involving EMS workers. New York reported 17 of which 13 claims were believed to have been substatiated. Texas was next in frequency with 13 complaints. However, not all complaints arose from conduct that occurred while on the job. There are nearly 900,000 EMTs in the U.S. Statistically speaking, there are bound to be a few bad apples among such a vast number. "That number in and of itself doesn't shock me, knowing the number of providers we have in the country," said Steve Blessing, state EMS director in Delaware. Lannie Haszard was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to five counts of attempted sexual abuse. Three of the four women who accused Haszard of sexual abuse have sued American Medical Response, Haszard's employer at the time. The lawsuits contend that the company failed to react to previous complaints involving Haszard. One of the allegations is that Haszard touched a 28-year-old single mother's genitals while she was en route to the hospital for a gastrointestinal condition. As stated earlier, timing is every thing.

Update 9-11-09: A Multnomah County Circuit Court jury let AMR know their version of justice by awarding Royshekka Herring $2.25 million arising from allegations that Lannie Haszard sexually assaulted her while she was being transported in an AMR ambulance. Haszard, the former EMT, is currently in prison on sexual assault charges. Greg Kafoury, the plaintiff’s attorney, argued in closing that this case was about “corporate responsibility” and that AMR should have firedd Haszard. (There were three previous sexual-assault accusations against Haszard before he allegedly assaulted Herring.) Paula Price has also filed a report with Portland Police alleging she had been molested by Haszard.

Kafoury told the jury they “set the standard” for the community’s response to how corporations behave. He reminded them that Haszard had three complaints against him in 14 months while working for AMR but kept his job. He also argued that AMR kept information about previous accusations reported to them from the police police. (AMR serves the greater Portland area for 911 calls.) James Dumas represented AMR.

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3-24-11: The timing of unwanted touching is always wrong! Especially wrong when the target is underage. Otis Magee, a 54-year-old substitute teacher at a Phoenix high school has been arrested for allegedly inappropriately touching a minor. (He was apparently charged with two counts of assault arising out of an alleged 2008 incident, and one count of sexual abuse and one count of kidnapping arising out of an alleged incident in the 2011.)

While Magee teaches at Pinnacle High, none of the alleged conduct occurred at the school or involved any of its students. However, according to police, Magee was teaching at Precision High School last December when he allegedly inappropriately touched a 15-year-old girl while giving her a ride home from a restaurant. During the investigation, police allegedly learned that Magee may have inappropriately touched a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old girl in 2008. Those girls were students of Precision and the alleged occurrences appear to have happened at the high school. If convicted, unwanted touching constitutes an assault.

Like all suspects, Magee is presumed innocent of all allegations unless proven in a court of law.

Teen Age Nude Texting (Sexting) Steals Headlines And Diverts Attention

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