Hope You Saved…
| November 6, 2011
Month: November 2011
Daylight Savings Time Ends: Time to Fall Back
| November 5, 2011
It’s time to “fall back” again this weekend and to set your clocks back one hour when you go to bed tonight. Daylight saving time ends for most of the country, as standard time officially begins at 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
The seven-month period of daylight saving time is mandated by governments, which began implementing the time switch during World Wars I and II to save energy and resources for the war effort. From World War II until recently, daylight saving in the U.S. ran from April until mid-October. In 2007, Congress adjusted daylight saving time to begin three weeks earlier and end one week later — a move they hoped would help save energy.
For $10, He’ll Find the Guys Who Didn’t Do It
| November 5, 2011
For some 15 years, Mr. Weston has been providing the New York Police Department with “fillers” — the five decoys who accompany the suspect in police lineups.
Detectives often find fillers on their own, combing homeless shelters and street corners for willing participants. In a pinch, police officers can shed their uniforms and fill in. But in the Bronx, detectives often pay Mr. Weston $10 to find fillers for them.
A short man with a pencil-thin beard, Mr. Weston seems a rather unlikely candidate for having a working relationship with the Police Department, even an informal one. He is frequently profane, talks of beating up anyone who crosses him, and spends quite a bit of his money on coconut-flavored liquor.
Procrastination – Video
| November 5, 2011
I have to read that book!! Maybe tomorrow…
Conjoined Twin Girls Successfully Separated
| November 5, 2011
Angelica and Angelina Sabuco, the two-year-old twin girls born connected at the chest and abdomen, successfully underwent a 10-hour separation surgery on Tuesday at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.
“We are very pleased,” said one of the surgeons, Dr. Gary Hartman, according to the hospital. “It could not have gone better.”
Whopping fine in Italy on parked car dating back to 208 AD
| November 5, 2011
The interest due was calculated from the year 208 A.D. after a policeman dated the fine back to the year 208 instead of 2008.
“When she opened the envelope with the parking fine, the owner of the vehicle had a dizzy turn and had to be taken to hospital,” the paper said on its website.
The police later acknowledged the error and the woman’s husband stumped up the 102 euros actually due.
