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The Pair
Running Pair
He and she
Coats of white
They live to be
A matched set
Mates for life
Across frozen creeks
And fields of white
They fear no creature
Great or small
Side by side
They defeat them all
Love and devotion
Bonded together
in this life or the next
Always forever
Not just bodies
But hearts mated too
A pair of White Wolves
Me...........and you
Robert Ellis
Morning News
Argentina telecoms regulator opens net censorship Pandora's Box
The telecoms regulator in Argentina, CNC - National Telecommunications Commission - officially opened the Pandora's Box of internet censorship by caving in to a Federal Judge's order and issuing a notice that instructs all local ISPs to block access to a pair of web sites.
Blocking the .com domain might be easier, but blocking a particular .blogspot.com address - if you do it by IP address router rule - means you also block the whole of Blogger (*.blogspot.com).
Like the result, but the reasoning....?
US judges rule for teacher who called creationism 'superstitious nonsense'
A three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the lawsuit against an advanced placement history teacher at Capistrano Valley High School in Mission Viejo must be thrown out of court because the teacher was entitled to immunity.
Dogs Sniff Out Lung Cancer in Humans
German researchers say that highly trained dogs are able to reliably sniff out lung cancer in human breath.
Jerry Buell, Florida High School Teacher, Suspended For Anti-Gay Facebook Posts
A Florida high school's "Teacher of the Year" has been suspended for an anti-gay post he wrote on his Facebook page last month.
Jerry Buell, a history teacher at Mount Dora High School in Mount Dora, Fla. wrote on his Facebook page that he "almost threw up" when he was having dinner and news came on of New York's decision to allow same-sex marriage showed up July 25.
Hmm, smells like...schadenfreude....
Crank who targeted science writers lured into threatening police
A strange case of online harassment, complete with the usual police who would do nothing, may finally be coming to a close. A Montreal citizen who went by the online handle of Dave Mabus has been targeting the atheist and skeptic communities with threats and harassment for years. But Mabus' ability to target his threat was pretty limited (he often went after scientific journalists, including me), and that proved to be his downfall. Some clever Twitter users managed to redirect his rage-filled missives, first to a journalist in his home town of Montreal, and ultimately to the Montreal police department.