Kara Vandereyk, Las Vegas Woman, Had Sex With Pit Bull: Police

What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas; if it did, we wouldn’t be reporting on a 23-year-old woman who was arrested Tuesday for allegedly having sex with a pit bull in the notoriously sinful city.

According to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police report, local authorities were responding to a call when they encountered the woman, Kara Vandereyk, having sex with the pit bull in her backyard “in full view of the neighbors,” KVVU reports.

The Las Vegas Review Journal, citing the same police report, said the woman told police she was bipolar and was unable to remember her name. The station writes that “Vandereyk was naked and on the ground when officers arrived.” She was given a blanket to cover herself and brought to the Clark County Jail.

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Arne Duncan: ‘There Is No Fix’ To Sequestration For Ailing Schools

WASHINGTON — While sequestration is not a sure thing yet, school districts are already asking for help dealing with the massive, imminent cuts, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Thursday morning.

“I was on a call yesterday, people are starting to give RIF [reduction in force] notes,” Duncan said in a meeting with reporters at the U.S. Education Department. “The sequestration stuff is very very worrying to me. I’m increasingly concerned that’s going to happen. Schools are already starting to give teachers notices.”

Decisions would be made on a district-by-district level, and cuts could include things like slashing after-school programs, firing teachers, curtailing pre-school and shortening the school day or school year — simply because money has run out sooner.

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Why the Word ‘Panties’ Is So Awful (And What To Do About It)

Every month or so, I receive a glossy coupon from Victoria’s Secret in my mailbox. “Free panty!” it beckons. “No purchase necessary!”

Reading those words, I cringe a little bit. Not because I hate underwear—I’m an ardent lover of underwear. It’s because I hate the word “panty.” I hate the plural form of “panty” as well. “Panties” creeps me out.

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Tom Hanks, Broadway’s New Kid

Tom Hanks swears. Not a blue streak, no, but it’s bracing to hear profanity from the man who has defined decency for three decades in Hollywood, playing white knights in “Splash,” “Forrest Gump,” “Apollo 13” and the “Toy Story” series. If he is grandma-friendly on screen, he is looser and less predictable in person — as his old friend Nora Ephron was reminded several years ago when she sent him the screenplay for a biopic, “Lucky Guy.” Mr. Hanks took an instant dislike to his character, Mike McAlary, the muckraking columnist of New York City tabloids in the 1980s and ’90s.

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Quit Smoking — The Benefits Are Huge For Older Adults, Study Says

Good news for older people who smoke: If you quit smoking, you will reap the benefits in a fairly short period of time.

A new study by researchers at the German Cancer Research Center of 8,807 people between 50 and 74 found that a person slashes their risk of heart attack and stroke by more than 40 percent within the first five years after the last cigarette.

“We were able to show that the risk of smokers for cardiovascular diseases is more than twice that of non-smokers,” Professor Hermann Brenner said in a press release. “However, former smokers are affected at almost the same low rate as people of the same age who never smoked.

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Configure This Table Like a Caterpillar Toy

The Itisy table looks like one of these Very Hungry Caterpillar toys, and it can be configured however you like. Forget putting stuff on it; I just want to play with it. More »

Sony preps extra-low power mobile GPS chips, draws on motion sensors for help

Sony preps extralow power positioning chip that draws on motion sensors

Many of us can vouch for smartphone navigation being something of a battery hog. Sony would like us to navigate relatively guilt-free: its D5600 and flash-equipped D5601 chips chew no more than 10mW of power for everything they do. Most of their peers demand more than that just for the RF side of the equation, Sony says. They also won’t lean on outside help for their location fix. Both chips talk to GPS, GLONASS and similar systems, but they further share the increasingly common ability to use an accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer to get a more reliable position lock. Don’t expect thrifty GPS just yet, when Sony ships the basic D5600 in June and D5601 in September; that doesn’t even include the time spent to build a phone or tablet around either of the new parts. We’ll be patient if they reduce that anxiety over battery life whenever we’re getting directions.

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Five-O Takes The Electric Motorcycle Route

Five O Takes The Electric Motorcycle RouteA police officer on a high powered motorcycle is a deadly combination, even more so when the police officer is the T-1000 in disguise. Well, a motorcycle is a whole lot more useful during peak traffic hours, as one can weave through traffic while boasting of quick acceleration to capture those who are on the run. Five-O has introduced another benefit – which would be stealth, thanks to the efforts of Zero Motorcycles.

John Lloyd, Vice President of global sales, said, “After seeing the success the 2012 model had in the field, we decided to expand our 2013 police and security offerings. To have the support of so many different law enforcement agencies and security organizations is an incredible honor.” The most recent law-enforcement models will receive crash bars, the relevant number of lights, a Whelen siren, and of course, a shotgun rack. There will be other options such as hard cases, a detachable windscreen, and a quick-charge kit. Since these are electric motorcycles, they’re quiet, allowing the long arm of the law to be a whole lot more sneaky.

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Billboard Incorporates YouTube Viewership

Billboard Incorporates YouTube ViewershipYouTube views are now more valuable than ever before, as they have been incorporated into Billboard charts. This ought to see musicians take a more serious approach in seeing just how technology does wield a rather strong influence in the future of the music industry. To put it in a nutshell, YouTube views of a song will be placed on the same pedestal as that of digital downloads, physical sales, and streaming, amidst other metrics, in order to make sure just which song will rise up to the top in the US. If one were to apply this sort of metrics retro-actively, does this mean that Psy’s Gangnam Style would come up tops, with over 1 billion views?

Billboard, however, has its own strict rules where YouTube data is concerned, limiting it to “all official videos,” Vevo clips, and user-generated videos which use “authorized audio.” In plain English, legitimately used songs are the only ones to be included in the charts. I am quite sure that many a tech-savvy music enthusiast will finally heave a sigh of relief, as YouTube has turned into a place where more and more folks listen to music.

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Pac Seat is the Best Seat in the House, Unless You’re a Ghost

This Pac-Man chair named the Pac Seat would look perfect in my living room. I’m a sucker for retro Pac-Man stuff. This seat, designed by Bruno Marques is great. I love the clean and simple design. Plus, when you are seated, it looks like Pac-Man is eating you.
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Anyone can sit on this chair safely, unless you are a ghost. If you are a ghost, this Pac-Man seat will eat you and then probably belch. Also, I don’t advise sitting on one if you are a cherry, strawberry, orange, apple, melon, bell, key or a Galaxian spaceship.

Bruno designed this chair for kids, but let’s be honest, this is for us geeks who are old enough to have played the game back in the 80′s. Give me some ghost tables now, and I would be completely happy.

[via Albotas]