A Florida judge ruled Tuesday that a man involved in a "very, very minor" physical scuffle with his wife must take her on a date. "He's going to stop by somewhere and he's going to get some flowers," Judge John Hurley said at a hearing. "And then he's going to go home, pick up his wife, get dressed, take her to Red Lobster. And then after they have Red Lobster, they're going to go bowling." Joseph Bray, 47 and his wife Sonja, 39, also must visit a marriage counselor.
Nevine Aly Elshiekh, a Raleigh NC school administrator, is accused of paying a hit man to behead three witnesses in a terrorism case. FBI agents say the 46-year-old educator provided the informant with the names of those to be killed and a $750 down payment toward the first hit.
A videographer who has been broadcasting live video of Occupy Wall Street as a participant in the movement said he's coming under increasing abuse from other protesters when filming their actions. "I probably will get severely injured in these next coming months," said Tim Pool, creator of the Timcast. "I film what's happening around me. I do it because people need to know what's going on. ... In reality, anybody who throws a bottle should be accountable for their actions. They should be upset at themselves for being in the vicinity of cameras when they do it."
The makers of the RealTouch teledildonic sex toy are working on giving "a thousand dildos for military wives" in Afghanistan, said company manager Scott Rinaldo. Sascha Segan of PC Magazine describes the device this way: "RealTouch is a slightly terrifying, synthetic orifice that lives in a plastic tube and connects to a computer. Based on data from an Internet connection, the unit warms up, lubes up, pulses and grips any item stuck into it."
Congressional lawmakers indefinitely postponed anti-piracy legislation on Friday, two days after major Internet companies staged an online protest by blacking out their websites. The bills, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, are aimed at curbing access to overseas websites that traffic in pirated content. "We appreciate that lawmakers have listened to our community's concerns, and we stand ready to work with them on solutions to piracy and copyright infringement that will not chill free expression," a Facebook spokesman said.
We won't even discuss that the people are friendly and the traffic in Raleigh is bad but does not suck like Chicago. It is a no brianer for Cat to move to N.C.
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Cat is based in Peoria. Having grown up in Peoria and currently live close by and also living in Raleigh for 11 years, there are pluses and minuses to both.