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Her teen committed suicide over ‘sexting’ - Parenting & Family

The image was blurred and the voice distorted, but the words spoken by a young Ohio woman are haunting. She had sent nude pictures of herself to a boyfriend. When they broke up, he sent them to other high school girls. The girls were harassing her, calling her a slut and a whore. She was miserable and depressed, afraid even to go to school.

And now Jesse Logan was going on a Cincinnati television station to tell her story. Her purpose was simple: “I just want to make sure no one else will have to go through this again.”

The interview was in May 2008. Two months later, Jessica Logan hanged herself in her bedroom. She was 18.

via www.msnbc.msn.com

  What's worse is that this literally JUST happened again.  What's the lesson to be learned from these incidents?  Maybe, just maybe that people need to realize that their children may be participating in the sort of teasing and heckling that leads to tragedies like this.  Believe it or not, from my own personal high school experience, I would say about 75% of children are incessantly and needlessly cruel to one another.  Perhaps it's always been that way, but there HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY.  What's wrong with our country, where things like this are even allowed to happen in the first place?

Racial Divides Online: MySpace is seen as “black,” while Facebook is “white.”

Racial Divides Online: MySpace is seen as “black,” while Facebook is “white.”.

MySpace is no longer cool. As a matter of fact, its number of users is now one-half the size of rival Facebook. Is this because MySpace is too black for the rest of America? Teenage Internet users may hold the answer. High-schoolers report their use of the social-networking giants along racial lines—MySpace is seen as “black,” while Facebook is “white.”

Net Hoax Convinces Germany of Fake U.S. Suicide Bombing Attempt | Threat Level | Wired.com

Net Hoax Convinces Germany of Fake U.S. Suicide Bombing Attempt | Threat Level | Wired.com.

All of Germany was bamboozled Thursday by a bizarre scheme that tricked the country’s main wire service into reporting an attempted suicide bombing in a California town — an attack supposedly perpetrated by a non-existent rap group called the “Berlin Boys.”

Killer escapes on trip to county fair - Crime & courts- msnbc.com

Killer escapes on trip to county fair - Crime & courts- msnbc.com.

Authorities have put out a statewide alert for a mentally ill killer who escaped during a hospital field trip to a county fair, leading to fears that he'll become more unstable and potentially dangerous the longer he is on the loose with no medication.

BBC NEWS | UK | Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved'

BBC NEWS | UK | Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved'.

Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved. Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico.

Poll: Doctors Among Public Option's Biggest Fans : NPR

Poll: Doctors Among Public Option's Biggest Fans : NPR.

Doctors, by a large majority, support adding a government run health insurance program that would compete with private insurance. That's according to a new survey. What's been called the public option continues to be one of the most contentious issues in the health care debate, but the survey shows that doctors are already used to dealing with government run insurance.

Dailymotion - Patrick Swayze - Chippendale - une vidéo Expression Libre

Patrick Swayze - Chippendale

Ohio teen killed attempting to stop fight - UPI.com

Ohio teen killed attempting to stop fight - UPI.com.

15-year-old girl in West Chester Township, Ohio, was fatally stabbed while trying to stop a fight involving dozens of teens, neighbors say. Neighbors said Amber Robinson had been acting as a peacemaker in the clash between as many as 40 young people from West Chester and Hamilton County when she was stabbed once in the back by an assailant, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Friday.

If only we could just send people there to mine for water...

NASA's LCROSS Mission - The Merits of NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water - Popular Mechanics.

NASA today announced the site of a mission that aims to send an empty fuel tank into a lunar crater to assess the amount of frozen water that is kicked up by the impact. On October 9, a kamikaze spacecraft will crash into the moon's Cabeus-A crater, kicking up a 6-mile-high debris cloud that a follow-on craft will surf through, using infrared spectrometers and video cameras to determine how much—if any—water ice exists. A series of space-based and terrestrial telescopes will also examine the plume.

When Not to Strive for a Perfect Credit Score - Credit Cards - Lifehacker

When Not to Strive for a Perfect Credit Score - Credit Cards - Lifehacker.

We recently highlighted a video dispelling ten credit score myths in 60 seconds. Now the Wall Street Journal has chimed in with some other myths you should know, including why gunning for that oft-elusive perfect credit score is a waste of time.

Just how much do you believe in traditional marriage?

John Marcotte, Author of the 2010 California Protection of Marriage Act.

  For all of those.... people.... who wanted to 'protect' marriage by not letting gay people tie the knot, here's the next logical step; protect marriage from divorce.  NO MORE DIVORCE.  Now THAT'S how you can protect said sacred institution from the evils of the world.  I'd vote for it.  *chuckles evil-like*

Could you? HUH?! COULD YOU!? Prolly not!

COULD YOU SURVIVE WITHOUT MONEY?MEET THE GUY WHO DOES: DETAILS Article on men.style.com.

DANIEL SUELO LIVES IN A CAVE. UNLIKE THE average American—wallowing in credit-card debt, clinging to a mortgage, terrified of the next downsizing at the office—he isn't worried about the economic crisis. That's because he figured out that the best way to stay solvent is to never be solvent in the first place. Nine years ago, in the autumn of 2000, Suelo decided to stop using money. He just quit it, like a bad drug habit.

Media Cos.' Best Customers: P2P Users - Advertising Age - Digital: Columns

Media Cos.' Best Customers: P2P Users - Advertising Age - Digital: Columns.

We compared a random set of Vuze users with a national sample of internet users ages 18 to 44, and results revealed that users of P2P technology spend considerable money on traditional media and entertainment. They are, in fact, important and valued customers of the traditional media companies. Our survey shows that the P2P user attends 34% more movies in theaters, purchases 34% more DVDs and rents 24% more movies than the average internet user. The P2P user owns more HDTVs and is more likely to own a high-def-DVD player, too.

Here's to wishing weight wasn't everything.

Lizzie Miller Glamour plus size model nude photo.

Lizzie Miller is a plus size model who is in the September issue of Glamour magazine nude. The photo is one that people can’t stop talking about and Lizzie is amazing by this comment. In an interview this morning on the Today Show Lizzie Miller said that she can’t believe that people actually like the photo. She expected to hear a lot of negative comments about her body.

Lizzie Miller, 20 is a size 12, and in the modeling world where an 8 is considered a plus size…she looks fantastic.

Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices - NYTimes.com

Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices - NYTimes.com.

The smell of death was overpowering the moment a relief worker cracked open one of the hospital chapel’s wooden doors. Inside, more than a dozen bodies lay motionless on low cots and on the ground, shrouded in white sheets. Here, a wisp of gray hair peeked out. There, a knee was flung akimbo. A pallid hand reached across a blue gown.

Test all them moon rocks.

BBC NEWS | Europe | Fake Dutch 'moon rock' revealed.

A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing - is nothing more than petrified wood, curators say. It was given to former Prime Minister Willem Drees during a goodwill tour by the three Apollo-11 astronauts shortly after their moon mission in 1969.

Jaycee Lee Dugard Found: Family Says Missing Girl Located After 18 Years - ABC News

Jaycee Lee Dugard Found: Family Says Missing Girl Located After 18 Years - ABC News.

A California stepfather who heard his little girl scream as she was abducted 18 years ago said she has been found alive and well and her captors are in custody. Share Kidnapping mystery that has affected Calif. town since 1991 may come to an end.

A woman claiming to be Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29, walked into a police station in tiny Antioch, Calif., Wednesday, her stepfather Carl Probyn told ABCNews.com today. Based on conversations his wife has had with police, the FBI and the woman herself, Probyn said the family is convinced Jaycee has been found.

Ted Kennedy Dies of Brain Cancer at Age 77

Ted Kennedy Dies of Brain Cancer at Age 77 - ABC News.

Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.

Lowering the Bar: Defendant Gone Wild

Lowering the Bar: Defendant Gone Wild.

"He has put a lot of this foolish behavior behind him," said Joe Francis's lawyer in 2007, but guess what? He had plenty left. Back then, Mr. Francis, who some of you may know as the purveyor of "Girls Gone Wild" videos, was about to do a month in jail on contempt charges for yelling obscenities during a mediation. His lawyer was suggesting that Francis had turned over a new leaf, but that has now been called into question.

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show - NYTimes.com

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show - NYTimes.com.

Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA evidence, undermining the credibility of what has been considered the gold standard of proof in criminal cases.

Creeeeeeepy.  How many people have gone to jail based on DNA alone?  I would hate to find out that the science behind it has been wrong the whole time.

Cancer is HILARIOUS.

Cancer kills more young people than any other disease, and survival rates have not improved in more than 30 years for people in their 20s and 30s. How some patients are using humor to fight back.

Bully

Let's say you find out that your child is being bullied by a schoolmate. Naturally, you want to do something right now to make it stop. Depending on your temperament and experience, one or more of four widely attempted common-sense solutions will occur to you: telling your child to stand up to the bully, telling your child to try to ignore and avoid the bully, taking matters into your own hands by calling the bully's parents or confronting the bully yourself, or asking your child's teacher to put a stop to it.

  Great article on how to take on bullies, mostly aimed at parents who have to deal with their kids getting teased or tormented at school (I remember those days unfortunately well). 

Obama's birthday cake delivery

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Obama's birthday cake delivery.

US President Barack Obama surprised a reporter on her 89th birthday by walking into a press briefing carrying cupcakes and singing Happy Birthday.

Mr Obama, who shares the same birthday date as veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas, turned 48 on Tuesday.

(probably the most honest, awesome reporter of all time)

Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder

Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder.

A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," and that Prince's companies "encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life."

This guy is AWESOME.

Pricey lunch lands free trip to Rome - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

A Japanese couple has turned down a free trip to Italy after they were hit with a $1,200 lunch bill at a Roman restaurant. The Italian government extended the all-expenses paid holiday to Yasuyuki Yamada and his fiancee after they were hit with the bill at Rome's famous Il Pasetto restaurant. They were charged $350 for a single pasta dish and $200 just for service. After paying the tab, the couple complained to police. In a bid to repair the damage caused by the debacle, Italy's government offered the Japanese couple an all-expenses paid return holiday to Rome.

But Mr Yamada turned it down, describing it as a useless way to spend Italian taxpayers' money.

Baltimore EMTs 'Reassigned' After Mistakenly Declaring Man Dead - Incredible Health - FOXNews.com

Baltimore EMTs 'Reassigned' After Mistakenly Declaring Man Dead - Incredible Health - FOXNews.com.

Baltimore police say a burglary suspect laid on the floor of a convenience store for about a half-hour with a gunshot wound to the head before officers noticed he was still alive. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says 51-year-old Michael Quarles was shot by an officer after he lunged at the officer with a long screwdriver early Saturday. The officer initially thought Quarles was wielding a knife.

JOBLESS GRAD SUES COLLEGE FOR 70G TUITION - New York Post

JOBLESS GRAD SUES COLLEGE FOR 70G TUITION - New York Post.

She has given new meaning to a class-action lawsuit. Trina Thompson gave it the old college try, but couldn't find work. Now she thinks her sheepskin wasn't worth her time, and is suing her alma mater for her money back. The Monroe College grad wants the $70,000 she spent on tuition because she hasn't found gainful employment since earning her bachelor's degree in April, according to a suit filed in Bronx Supreme Court on July 24. The 27-year-old alleges the business-oriented Bronx school hasn't lived up to its end of the bargain, and has not done enough to find her a job.

Sailor charged with murder commits suicide

Sailor charged with murder commits suicide.

A sailor charged with murder who committed suicide in the brig at Camp Pendleton asphyxiated himself by stuffing toilet paper in his mouth, according to a U.S. Navy spokesman. Petty Officer Jonathan Campos was found unresponsive in his cell about 12:20 p.m. Friday, said Navy spokesman Doug Sayers. He was rushed to the base hospital where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.

Americans reportedly arrested in Iran for illegally crossing border - CNN.com

Americans reportedly arrested in Iran for illegally crossing border - CNN.com.

Iranian security forces arrested three Americans for illegally entering the country from Iraq's Kurdish region, Iran's state-run media reported Saturday. A fourth member of the group of hikers stayed behind in Iraq.

My type of living

Fla. highrise has 32 stories, but just 1 tenant - Yahoo! News.

The Vangelakos' southwest Florida condominium has marble floors, a large pool overlooking a river and modern furnishings that speak of affluence and luxury. What they don't have in the 32-story building is a single neighbor. The New Jersey family of five purchased their unit four years ago, when Fort Myers was in the midst of a housing boom and any hints of an impending financial crisis were buried in lofty dreams of expansion and development. They made a $10,000 down payment and eagerly watched as builders transformed an empty lot into an opulent high rise, one that now symbolizes the foreclosure crisis.