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Archive for February, 2008
Reason 616 to Homeschool: 4th Grade Teacher Won’t Terrorize School
Feb 1st
Meet Susan Romanyszyn. She used to be a 4th Grade Teacher at Longstreth Elementary School in Warminster, PA until she was denied a request to teach the 5th grade.
Most teachers who are angry about a missed promotion would apply to another school, file a grievance through the union, or simply try harder next year for the position. But Romanyszyn took a “special” route to get the job. She planted terrorizing bomb threats and fake anthrax in hopes of chasing out a 5th grade teacher so she could get the job. And she tried to pin it on the students.
From PhillyBurbs here. Video here.
A former finalist for a national teaching award is now accused of igniting an eight-day reign of terror at a Warminster elementary school because she was frustrated that she had to teach the fourth grade.
In just over one week in October, Susan Romanyszyn, a 45-year-old teacher at Longstreth Elementary School, placed 15 separate threatening messages around the school, placed nails in the school’s parking lot and put a suspected explosive device in a student’s desk.
Romanyszyn, who was charged Thursday with 17 counts of making terroristic threats and faces up to 10 years in jail, scribbled messages on school walls and sheets of paper that threatened bomb and gun violence because she had been assigned to teach fourth grade, Henry said. Romanyszyn had requested to teach the fifth grade this school year, Henry said.
The messages, which police said Romanyszyn left, were designed to look like they were created by a student and were written in sloppy handwriting, with numerous misspellings and some with crudely drawn cartoons depicting gun violence.
“Your so stuped I have to kill you,” read one message on a folded up piece of notebook paper that was found by a lunch monitor. “I won’t stop til you all die,” read another that was found by a teacher in the school gym.
Romanyszyn put a water bottle with a suspicious white power and screws into a student’s desk and scattered nails around the lot where teachers parked.
By threatening the school’s teachers and leaving a suspected bomb in a fifth-grade classroom, Romanyszyn figured a fifth-grade teacher would quit and she could become the replacement.
After turning herself in to Warminster police Tuesday afternoon, Romanyszyn was released after posting $100,000 of a $1 million bail.
Every kid was damn near strip-searched when they went to school. All because this bitch didn’t like her assignment. She was probably pissed off because she wasn’t getting as much child-love from 4th graders as she would get from 5th graders.
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Loading ...Earth to Polaris: Incoming!
Feb 1st
NASA is beaming a Beatles song toward the North Star. The song is Across the Universe.
From the AP here:
NASA on Monday will broadcast the Beatles’ song “Across the Universe” across the galaxy to Polaris, the North Star.
This first-ever beaming of a radio song by the space agency directly into deep space is nostalgia-driven. It celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song, the 45th anniversary of NASA’s Deep Space Network, which communicates with its distant probes, and the 50th anniversary of NASA.
But it will take 431 years to reach its final destination. That’s because Polaris is 2.5 quadrillion miles away.
NASA loaded an MP3 of the song, just under four minutes in its original version, and will transmit it digitally at 7 p.m. EST Monday from its giant antenna in Madrid, Spain.
This is pretty cool. Some of the lyrics say:
Sounds of laughter shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
exciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe
And on Tuesday, the movie Across the Universe comes to DVD. You can get it here. My wife already ordered it and I expect it will be on continuous loop for at least a week.
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Feb 1st
This is a big market consolidation for search engine/portal/content companies. Wow. It could really shake up Google and drive more innovation through competition.
From the AP here via Drudge:
Microsoft Corp. has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo Inc. with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest bid yet to challenge Google Inc.’s dominance of the lucrative online search and advertising markets.
The surprise offer of $31 per share, made late Thursday and announced Friday, seizes on Yahoo’s weakness while Microsoft tries to muscle up in a high-stakes battle with Google likely to define the technology landscape for years to come.
In a statement Friday, Yahoo said it will “carefully and promptly” study Microsoft’s bid.
With its profits steadily sliding, Yahoo’s stock slipped to a four-year low earlier this week and a new management team has been trying to steer a turnaround but sees more turbulence through 2008.
The announcement lifted Yahoo’s share price by almost 50 percent in morning trading, while Google fell almost 8 percent, dragged down by a fourth-quarter earnings report that missed Wall Street expectations.
So is Microsoft’s bid an admission of its own inferiority in the ad/portal/content space? Or are they acknowledging the superiority of many of Yahoo!’s features? Probably. I hope the Yahoo! items that I’ve come to love won’t change like their email, their homepage portal and their news feeds.
Update! I like Yahoo! Google is Whack.
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