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UK: 60% of Teens 'Addicted' to Cellphones

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© Daniel Law/PAOfcom says one in three adults and most teenagers classify themselves as highly addicted to their smartphones such as iPhones, Blackberrys and Androids.
Britons' appetite for Facebook and social networks on the go is driving a huge demand for smartphones - with 60% of teenagers describing themselves as "highly addicted" to their device - according to new research by the media regulator, Ofcom.

Almost half of teenagers and more than a quarter of adults now own a smartphone, with most using their iPhone or BlackBerry to browse Facebook and email.

The study, published on Thursday, also shows that smartphones have begun to intrude on our most private moments, with 47% of teenagers admitting to using their device in the toilet. Only 22% of adults confessed to the same habit. Unsurprisingly, mobile-addicted teens are more likely than adults to be distracted by their phones over dinner and in the cinema - and more would answer their phone if it woke them up.

Separate figures shared exclusively with the Guardian show that, for the first time, smartphone sales outstripped sales of regular mobiles in the first half of this year as the enormous demand continues to rise. Just over half of the total 13.6m mobile sales from January to June 2011 were smartphones, according to research by GfK Retail and Technology UK.

Sun

US, Texas: Elderly Woman Dies From Heat After A/C Stolen


A 79-year-old Oak Cliff woman succumbs to the North Texas heat and dies in her home just two days after reporting to police that her central air conditioner had been stolen.

Dolores Grissom's home sits on a corner with the air conditioning unit is completely exposed; only protected by a cage with a lock.

On July 14 Grissom reported that her $2,500 unit was stolen. On July 16 she was found dead. Just this week the Dallas County Medical Examiner's Office completed their report that stated Grissom's death was heat-related.

Grissom, who was buried last week, lived with her son and unfortunately this wasn't the first time the home had been burglarized. On at least two other occasions, in previous years, the air condition was also the target of thieves.

Pistol

US: New Hampshire Mom Charged With Using Gun To Steal Teen's Bike

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© unknownKelley Feeley is charged with robbing a teenager.
A 40-year-old New Hampshire woman has been charged with robbing a 14-year-old girl at gunpoint in a dispute over a bicycle.

Officers say the teenager was riding a friend's bike on Ash Street in Manchester, NH.

At one point, the friend's neighbor, 40-year-old Kelley Feeley came out of her apartment and accused the girl of stealing the bike from her daughter.

Witnesses told police that Feeley demanded she be allowed to inspect bicycle.

When the girl denied that she stole the bike and refused to hand it over, police say Feeley pulled a gun, pointed it at the girl's neck, and took the bike.

Officers later seized the disputed bicycle from Feeley's apartment along with several guns.

Feeley is charged with robbery.

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UK: Lib Dems Move to Decriminalise ALL Personal Drug Use and to Allow Controlled Use of Cannabis

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© AlamyMPs and campaigners say decriminalising cannabis will drag young people into a life of drug use
Liberal Democrats will vote to legalise cannabis and decriminalise all other personal drug use under plans put forward for approval at their party conference.

Nick Clegg's party bosses have given the green light for a debate on the controversial proposal which would mean a 'regulated market' in marijuana overseen by the Government.

The Deputy Prime Minister's aides expect party members to adopt the plan, making it official Lib Dem policy and creating tensions with Mr Clegg's Tory partners in the Coalition.

MPs and drugs campaigners yesterday denounced the idea as likely to drag young people into a life of drug abuse.

Wolf

UK: Shaking Hands in Celebration on a Bus, Thugs Who Had Just Hunted Down a Schoolboy, 16, Like a Pack of Animals and Stabbed Him to Death

Leaning across the bus seat, these teenage killers shake hands in a sickening moment of self-congratulation.

One is heard to say to another: 'You're the new young boss.'

Just half an hour earlier they had been among a vicious gang who hunted down a schoolboy 'like a pack of wild dogs' before knifing him to death.

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Triumphant: Lamarr Gordon and Dale Green shake hands on a bus after the stabbing of Nicholas Pearton, with Gordon heard to call Green 'the new young boss'

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© PASauntering off: Dale Green casually looks back at the murder scene after fleeing following the stabbing of Nicholas Pearton

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US: F-16s Intercept Plane During Obama's Chicago Visit

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© EPARestricted airspace: A Kitfox Model 2 being flown by Myrtle Rose was intercepted by two F-16 fighter jets during Barack Obama's visit to Chicago
Two F-16 fighter jets intercepted a plane flown by a 75-year-old woman after it entered restricted airspace during President Barack Obama's recent visit to Chicago, federal officials said Thursday.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command told The Daily Herald that the jets were summoned when air traffic controllers couldn't contact the pilot Wednesday afternoon. The president was in Chicago for a fundraiser celebrating his 50th birthday.

The jets intercepted the Kitfox Model 2, a kit airplane, piloted by Myrtle Rose of South Barrington, a Chicago suburb. Rose turned the plane around and returned to Mill Rose Farm Airport, NORAD spokesman Lt. Michael Humphreys said.

Rose's plane didn't have a radio, which forced NORAD to use the jets to identify and intercept the plane, Humphreys said.

Pistol

Mexico Town's Entire Police Force Quits After Officers Gunned Down

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© Daniel Aguilar/ReutersThe drug trade in Mexico has left many police forces powerless due to corruption or intimidation.
Drug gangs blamed as 20-strong squad resigns in Ascension after series of targeted attacks on new force

An entire 20-man police force has resigned in a northern Mexican town after a series of attacks that killed the police chief and five officers over the last three months, state officials confirmed.

The officers' resignation on Thursday night left the 13,000 people of Ascension without local police services, Chihuahua state chief prosecutor Carlos Manuel Salas said. State and federal police have moved in to take over police work, he said.

The mass resignation appeared to be connected to a Tuesday attack by gunmen that killed three of the town's officers, Salas said. But it wasn't the first deadly attack on the police department this year.

In mid-May, police chief Manuel Martínez, who had been in office just seven months, was gunned down with two other officers on a nearby highway. The three had been kidnapped a day before police found their bodies riddled with bullets in the back seat of a sedan.

No Entry

Canada: Swarming Bees Close Alberta Highway

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© RCMPA beekeeper walks through the remains of more than 100 beehives after a highway crash southeast of Edmonton Thursday.
Police closed a rural Alberta highway Thursday morning after a truck carrying a shipment of honeybees skidded off the road, spilling its load.

The truck was headed west on Highway 13 between Camrose and Killam, southeast of Edmonton, when the driver rolled the flatbed truck onto its side, strewing 104 beehives across the road.

As bees swarmed the highway, RCMP rerouted traffic around the scene.

However, the swarming bees made the cleanup all but impossible.

Alarm Clock

Polygamist Warren Jeffs guilty of sexual assaults on girls

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© The Associated Press / The Canadian Press / Tony GutierrezTexas Attorney General Greg Abbott, second from left, arrives at Tom Green County Courthouse for the sexual assault trial against Polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs Thursday Aug. 4, 2011, in San Angelo, Texas. Jeffs, 55, is accused of sexually assaulting two girls he took as brides during so-called "spiritual marriages."
Warren Jeffs, the leader of a polygamist sect whose radical private life put him for a brief time on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, was facing the prospect of life imprisonment last night, after a jury in Texas found him guilty of sexually assaulting two under-age girls.

The self-proclaimed prophet, who has entered into "spiritual marriages" with more than 100 women, was convicted of fathering a child with one "wife" who was 15, and of abusing a different girl, who was 12, on a ranch owned by his Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in rural west Texas.

Jeffs, 55, stood silently when the verdict was read out, leaving him facing up to 119 years behind bars. It capped a bizarre trial at which he conducted his own defence, refused to cross-examine prosecution witnesses, and repeatedly told the judge that God intended to punish him with death for the manner in which he was overseeing the case.

Prosecutors used DNA evidence to show that Jeffs was the father of a girl born to a 15-year-old member of his sect, which has roughly 10,000 members. And they played the court in San Angelo several audio recordings in which he instructed young women how to gratify him sexually.

In one of the tapes, which was made by surveillance officers at the Texas ranch, Jeffs made a reference to "drawing close" or "being close", which authorities testified is how church members refer to sex. After two female voices said "OK", he added: "A good wife is trained for her husband and follows the spirit of peace."

Eye 2

Best of the Web: French Deviance? Outrage over shocking images of the 10-YEAR-OLD model who has graced the pages of Vogue

She reclines among leopard print pillows, her rouged lips pouting at the camera. But shockingly the model in these highly sexualised pictures is only 10 years old.
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© VogueThylane Loubry Blondeau
The provocative images of Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau, who is tipped as the next big thing on the fashion scene, are causing a storm of controversy with campaigners furious that a child so young should be displaying the sexual allure of someone twice her age.

Thylane has appeared in numerous campaigns and her image is all over the internet. To date she has an impressive portfolio - the French girl has graced the cover of Vogue Enfants and posed for high-end editorials.

Born in the Ivory Coast, she has already been compared to Sixties siren Brigitte Bardot - who at the age of 15 appeared in ELLE.

But these latest images, complete with heavy make-up and stiletto heels, which appear in French magazine Cadeaux, have brought the issue to a head.

Comment: Notice that she is French and it is the French that are behind this trend. Do we wonder why they have recently gone after SOTT and it's founder via the actions of a sexual pervert and pedophile for our exposure of psychopathology in power? The French Connection Redux - Cult Accusations and The Deviant Mind