Dragon Ball Z Uncensored

[L Ron Butterfly]

Oh, you!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article6990013.ece

[Big Fagot]

PORTLAND, Ore. - A man set himself on fire after pouring gasoline on himself outside Nicholas Ungar Furs at 12th and Yamhill Wednesday morning before police used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. He later died from his injuries at the hospital, police said.

The man was identified as 26-year-old Daniel Shaull from Kansas, according to the Multnomah County medical examiner.

It was not immediately clear whether Shaull was protesting against the store, which has had problem with animal rights activists in the past, but witnesses said he was screaming about the treatment of animals.

“There are animals dying! Animals dying!” witnesses said Shaull was screaming as flames engulfed his body and shot above his head.

“He tried to run into the building,” said witness Mike Cheema who owns a food cart a few feet from where the incident occurred. “The door was locked. He couldn’t get in. He came right out screaming, ‘the world is ending, animals dying!’”

“I looked over … flames, burning. I thought he was crazy,” said another witness L.C. “It was traumatizing. It was horrible.”

“I saw a guy that was running around with his arms waving, and he was completely on fire,” said Julie Sies who was walking to a dentist appointment at the time. “He was just screaming and asking for help.”

Witnesses gave different accounts of the path Shaull took while he was on fire. The fire blackened the sidewalk and charred remains were scattered about the area, including what appeared to be a footprint.

Shaull was taken to Legacy Emanuel Hospital where he later died.

No one at Nicholas Ungar Furs wanted to comment on the incident.

[Big Fagot]

http://www.katu.com/news/local/82841752.html

The pics are pretty boss.

[Servbot]

Looking at the photos and then the local news advertisment to the right basically put me in a fit of laughter.

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Social networking is going to the dogs.

In its first-ever toy created for the canine community, Mattel is introducing a product called "Puppy Tweets" that meshes the hugely popular Twitter with consumers' love of pets.

Puppy Tweets is a plastic tag with a sound and motion sensor that you attach to your pet's dog collar and connect its USB receiver to your computer. Then you create a Twitter account for your dog and enjoy updates all day from Sparky or whatever its name is on your computer or smartphone.

The tag is set with several pre-recorded tweets that are triggered by the dog's activities. So if he's running around, you might get a tweet that says "I finally caught that tail I've been chasing and...OOUUUCHH!"

If Sparky is napping, he'll tweet "Somedays it feels like my paw is permanently on the snooze button!" If he's making a ruckus, his tweet will let you know that as well, saying"YAHOOOOOOO! Somedays you just gotta get your bark on."

"Puppy Tweets capitalizes on two popular trends - the use of social media and real time communication, as well as peoples' extreme love for their dogs," said Susan Russo, Mattel's director of marketing.
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[Derek Payne]

Somedays you just gotta get your bark on.

[Fagzilla]

They're making a mockery of Twitter.

[Sporkism]

"or whatever its name is"
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[Sporkism]

That would have to be the most boring Twitter feed ever.

I mean, how many other possible dog activities can there be? It would just be the same shit over and over again.
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[Action Hank]

"What is this lady doing with that knife? My neck hurts. Pain."

[L Ron Butterfly]

Does anybody else find it depressing that nobody has updated the Gay News thread title in apparently two years?

[Vinny]

A police officer accidentally used pepper spray instead of a fire extinguisher on a man who set himself on fire Wednesday in downtown Portland, police said.

The officer happened to be nearby when she saw the man go up in flames near Southwest 12th Avenue and Yamhill Street. She scrambled out of her patrol car and grabbed what she believed to be the extinguisher, according to Police Chief Rosie Sizer.

It wasn't until after the incident that the officer realized she grabbed a large pepper spray canister used for crowd control, Sizer said.

Shaull later died at Legacy Emanuel Hospital.
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[Vinny]

Bond was set at $20,000 Monday for the Beatrice teen accused of duct-taping a toddler to a wall.

The child belonged to Honea’s 17-year-old live-in girlfriend. Upon making the arrests at Honea’s residence, officers also found stolen weapons and drug paraphernalia.

According to the police report, images were obtained that were taken on Dec. 31, 2009, of the child’s mother and Honea taunting the child by duct-taping his Sippy cup just out of reach.

Other images showed the child duct-taped to the wall with pieces of duct tape at the wrist and strips across his torso and legs preventing any movement.

The mother admitted that she pinned the child against the wall while Honea duct-taped him so his back was against the wall.

A few images show Honea physically instructing the child to put up his middle finger.
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[Vinny]

A motivational speaker from Long Island, bent on suicide, drives to East Harlem, announces, "I want to do a Kevorkian," and is stabbed to death in his car by a helpful passer-by.

But in a stunning turnaround, prosecutors now think the admitted stabber's wacky explanation for the July 16 death of tragic Jeffrey Locker may actually be what happened.

The account is substantiated by Locker's huge debts and recent life-insurance purchases and computer searches for funeral arrangements, Manhattan prosecutors said in a dramatic filing made public yesterday.

"It makes sense now," said one law-enforcement source, speaking on condition he not be named.

"[Locker] was deeply in debt. The guy had bought like $18 million worth of life insurance. He was researching Jewish funerals and cemeteries."

Still, ex-con and admitted stabber Kenneth Minor remains on the hook, facing at least a charge of manslaughter if not outright murder.

He remains, for now, accused of brutally stabbing and robbing Locker as the Valley Stream, LI., dad of three sat in his 2007 Dodge sedan at First and Paladino avenues on a Wednesday night, shortly after stopping at a deli to buy condoms. Minor insists Locker gave him his ATM card in payment for the suicide assistance.

Yesterday, his lawyer, Daniel Gotlin, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Berkman that he wants the top charge -- first-degree murder, carrying a maximum of life without parole -- dropped. He also asked that a second grand jury be impaneled to vote a lesser charge of manslaughter, which carries a maximum of up to 15 years.

The revelations shook loose some previously sealed court documents -- including the gripping police notes from Minor's confession.

"I tried to choke him with the wire, but it was old and kept breaking," Minor told cops. "He told me to use the knife. He said to hold it against the steering wheel with the blade facing him. I did that, and he leaned forward into the knife three to four times while I held it . . . He then told me to move the knife over to the other side where his heart is.

"I moved the knife over and he leaned forward into it a couple of more times. At that point, he was alive and breathing heavily. I got out of the car and threw the knife."

Locker had no luck with money -- telling Minor that he'd lost $400,000 in a "Ponzi scheme" and had even been swindled by the first "Kevorkian" he tried to hire.

"He told me that he had no cash on him because he paid a guy on the West Side to kill him, but the guy beat him."
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[Theldorrin]

I hate Christians.
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[Action Hank]

He remains, for now, accused of brutally stabbing and robbing Locker as the Valley Stream, LI., dad of three sat in his 2007 Dodge sedan at First and Paladino avenues on a Wednesday night, shortly after stopping at a deli to buy condoms.

[YES]

African Americans and Caucasians viewing African American faces display extremely similar changes in the activity of brain structures that respond to emotional events, a new UCLA study finds.

The changes occur in the amygdala, a region of the brain that serves as an "alarm" to activate a cascade of other biological systems to protect the body in times of danger, said Matthew D. Lieberman, assistant professor of psychology at UCLA and lead author of the study.

The findings will be published May 8 in the online version of Nature Neuroscience, and later in the print version.

Five out of eight African Americans (63 percent) responded with significantly more amygdala activity when presented with expressionless photographs of African Americans than when they were shown expressionless photographs of Caucasians, Lieberman and his colleagues found. Seven of 11 Caucasians (64 percent) in thestudy also responded with greater activity in the amygdala when viewing the African American photographs.

Although a third of participants in each race did not show this effect, no participant in the study responded with greater amygdala activity to the Caucasian photographs than to the African American photographs, Lieberman said.

"We didn't see any differences in amygdala activity between the racial groups," Lieberman said. "From looking at the amygdala, you couldn't tell if the scans were fromAfrican American or Caucasian participants.

"Many people of either race may not be happy to find out that a part of their brain involved in responding to potential threats responds more to African Americans than Caucasians," Lieberman said. "Even people who believe to their core that they do not have prejudices may still have negative associations that are not conscious."

Why do African Americans have this amygdala response?

"One theory," Lieberman said, "is that people are likely to pick up the stereotypes prevalent in a society regardless of whether their family or community agrees with those stereotypes. Several social psychologists have found evidence for this view. From an early age, cultural views, media portrayals and even the body language of authority figures may train our brains, whether we consciously agree or not."

Previous research has shown that Caucasians show an increased amygdala response to African American photos to the extent that they hold nonconscious negative attitudes towards African Americans, Lieberman said.

Co-authors on the study are Johanna Jarcho, a UCLA graduate student in Lieberman's laboratory; UCLA graduate student Naomi Eisenberger; Susan Bookheimer, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine; and Ahmad Hariri, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a former UCLA graduate student.

The researchers also studied whether adding a verbal label (such as "African American") when viewing African American photos changes the amygdala response, and found it does.

"When people look at an African American and think of the word 'African American,' we no longer see the amygdala response," Lieberman said. Instead, the researchers found changes in a second region of the brain: the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. This region of the brain is located behind the forehead and eyes, and has been associated with thinking in words about emotional experiences; it also is associated with inhibiting behavior, impulses and emotions.

"This region is especially active when you add the verbal label to the face," Lieberman said. "The people who show the most activity in the right ventrolateralprefrontal cortex show the least activity in the amygdala.

"We found that when the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex gets turned on, the amygdala does not," he added. "When you engage in verbal labeling, that partially turns off or disrupts the amygdala response. The right ventrolateralprefrontal cortex was significantly active only when people were looking at African Americans and choosing the word 'African American.'"

These results suggest that "thinking about the race of others in words may regulate some of the threat experienced when confronting unfamiliar or feared others," Lieberman said. "It is possible this emotional 'benefit' of using race-related words may have inadvertently contributed to the widespread use of race-related words and stereotypes."

Lieberman and his colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain activity for this study, conducted at UCLA's Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center.

The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health.

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[Sporkism]

I got extra credit in an online discussion for my Anthropology class for quoting/linking to that article about black people terrifying everyone.

Thanks, Outland!!!!!
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[Servbot]

Weird, when most people look at me they think "white dude" or "fucking hipster".