The Asphole: 08/20/06

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MUM FEEDS SON, 9, COKE AND HEROIN

A MOTHER who gave her nine-year-old son heroin and crack cocaine was told yesterday she faces a lengthy jail term. unkie Emma Kelly, 31, plied her child with the drugs for more than two years. She also drove him around as she went in search of a fix for herself, a court heard. But social workers took no action despite visiting her home seven times - even though the boy looked extremely ill. When Kelly and her son were arrested for shoplifting in January 2005 police found their home was littered with drug-taking materials. Spoons and burnt foil with traces of the drugs had been left on the floor of the child's room in the two-bedroom house. The lad, then 11, was underdeveloped, physically and emotionally, and "dependent on opiates". Prosecutor Ibitayo Adebayo said: "His pupils were enlarged, which showed he was going through withdrawal for the drugs. "He was treated for anxiety and opiate withdrawal in hospital." Kelly admitted giving her son heroin and cocaine and two counts of cruelty to a child.
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Ozone layer recovery will take longer

The atmosphere will take up to 15 years longer than previously expected to recover from pollution and repair its ozone hole over the southern hemisphere, the United Nations' weather organization said Friday.

Thinning in the ozone layer -- due to chemical compounds leaked from refrigerators, air conditioners and other devices -- exposes the Earth to harmful solar rays. Too much ultraviolet radiation can cause skin cancer and destroy tiny plants at the beginning of the food chain.

Scientists said Friday it would take until 2065, instead of 2050 as previously expected, for the ozone layer to recover and the hole over the Antarctic to close.

"The Antarctic ozone hole has not become more severe since the late 1990s, but large ozone holes are expected to occur for decades to come," ozone specialist Geir Braathen told reporters in summarizing a new report by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.N. Environment Program. The report will be released next year.

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Voodoo killer gets 28 years in prison

A man who built a voodoo shrine using his ex-girlfriend's underwear, then killed her mother and a dog and slashed her cousin, was sentenced Thursday to 28 years to life in prison.

Pierre Carrenard was sentenced to consecutive terms of 25 years to life for killing the woman, two years for killing the dog and one year for assaulting the 16-year-old girl on August 9, 2005, prosecutor Charles Hynes said.

The ex-girlfriend, Francois MacDaly, told police Carrenard, 36, harassed her after she broke up with him. On the day of the crimes, she said, Carrenard called her at work and threatened her mother, Esperance Labidou, a Haitian immigrant who worked at a bus company.

Carrenard testified in court that he believed Labidou had turned her daughter against him.
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Boeing grounds in-flight Web surfing

The prospects of surfing the Internet and receiving e-mail at 35,000 feet took a knock on Thursday as Boeing Co. said it will wind down its service for offering Internet access on board planes.

Although the market may get a boost with newcomers LiveTV LLC and AirCell Inc. developing offerings, cost pressures on airlines make it unlikely that on-board Internet access will be widely available soon.

"We've been looking for ways to connect the cabin, but it has to make sense financially," said Billy Sanez, a spokesman for American Airlines. "It's going to be a bit until we see something feasible."

Upgrading an airplane for Internet service is a complex task, and with fuel prices high, airlines are more focused on keeping costs down rather than offering new, expensive perks.

"It's kind of like rewiring your office," said airline consultant Robert Mann. "It creates a lot of downtime and it's very expensive."
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This is how they grow it in Tennessee .

This grow was underneath a house in a cave. The entrance was through a secret hydraulic door in the garage that led to a concrete ramp that went about 50 yards into the ground. Inside the cave was living quarters and a secret escape hatch that led you through a tunnel that exited via another hydraulic door that opened up a rock on the outside. It was very elaborate. The set up allowed them to harvest every 60 days which resulted in multi-million dollar sales. One of the guys busted was living in a house on the water in FL and had a nice yacht. One of the agents here in Nashville worked on this for 5 years before the warrant was finally served in December.
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Authorities search yard for 6 bodies

The remains of at least two people were found in a rural Missouri yard, where the bodies of as many as six people might have been dumped, sheriff's officials said Saturday.

Officials planned to resume the search early Sunday. Bone fragments from two sets of remains were found Friday on the three-acre wooded property northeast of Drexel in western Missouri, Cass County Sheriff's Cpl. Kevin Tieman said.

"They have not started digging at all so far," he said. "What's on the surface is what they have found so far."

The deaths appeared to be drug-related and were not "random acts," Tieman said. He estimated the deaths occurred over five years and said the most recent remains were several months old.

The remains did not appear to be related to any ongoing investigations, he said. Deputies working an unrelated theft case received a tip about the remains, Tieman said.

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Former Youth Minister Admits To Fondling Girls For 37 Years

Police in Franklin County said a former Bath Township youth minister has admitted to investigators that he fondled girls for the past 37 years.

David H. Waser is also facing federal charges after police said he ordered 11 tapes in June from an Internet site that offers child pornography, NewsChannel5 reported.

Waser was a pastor at Ghent Christian Church in Bath Township.

The Rev. William Meyer said he will help anyone in his congregation who was harmed by Waser.

Admitted killer donates kidney

The former nurse who admitted killing 29 patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has donated a kidney to a dying New York man.

Surgery on Charles Cullen was performed early Saturday, his court-appointed attorney Johnnie Mask told The Star-Ledger of Newark.

Mask said the surgery went well and the kidney is a perfect size because Cullen is so healthy.

The kidney is expected to be brought by helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island where it will be donated to a relative of Cullen's friend.

Cullen has been waiting about a year to give the organ. He said last year he would skip his sentencing hearing unless he was allowed to donate the organ. In February, a judge agreed to allow the transplant and Cullen appeared before the victims' families the next month.

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Teen guilty of assault after penis stunt

A Waterloo teenager was sentenced to 60 days in custody yesterday after admitting in a Guelph court he tried to hit two other boys at a youth treatment centre in the face with his penis.

It's a manoeuvre known around the facility as "a helicopter."

The 16-year-old had been charged with two counts of sexual assault, but pleaded guilty to the reduced charges of common assault.

Last Dec. 19, the two victims were lying on their beds at the Portage centre near Elora when the teen came in. He removed his penis from his pants and, while holding it, tried to strike the victims. He did not make contact with either boy.

Defence counsel Terence MacKean said one of the victims told police helicopters "are a normal thing" at the treatment centre, and reported the accused was laughing during the incident.

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Earth's moon could become a planet

If astronomers approve a newly proposed planet definition next week, things could get really strange. Sure, asteroid Ceres will become a planet. Pluto's moon Charon will become a planet.

But we're talking really strange.

Eventually, if Earth and its moon survive long enough, the moon will have to be reclassified as a planet, said Gregory Laughlin, an extrasolar planet researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The new definition, proposed this week by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), basically says every round object orbiting the sun is a planet, unless it orbits another planet. But there is a big caveat: If the center of gravity, called the barycenter, is outside the larger object, then the smaller object is a planet. That wording elevates Pluto's moon Charon to planethood, an idea some astronomers have criticized.

But here's the thing. Earth's moon was born in a catastrophic collision more than 4 billion years ago. It started out very close to the planet but has been moving away ever since. It's currently drifting away about 1.5 inches (3.74 centimeters) every year.
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