Cleaning up after a Lego session can be an intricate task. Often there will be a piece or two hiding somewhere you least expect. But one place I haven’t looked for Lego is in a child’s nose:
Isaak Lasson can finally breathe easy after three years of sinus problems.
The cause? A single wheel-shaped Lego piece that he got stuck up his nose back when he was 3.
At least that’s what his dad, Craig Lasson, said he thinks. His son started having a hard time breathing back then.
“I felt so bad,” the father told KSL-TV. Isaak “was sleeping with his mouth open, trying to breathe.”
Numerous doctors looked at isaak’s nose and prescribed antibiotics.
But last week, a new doctor noticed that Isaak seemed to have something foreign stuck up his schnozz and asked what it might be.
“I put some spaghetti up there, but that was a long time ago,” Isaak told the doctor, according to KTLA-TV.
But it wasn’t pasta that was up Isaak’s nose, just a ball of fungus encasing a Lego wheel.
“We think he bent it in half — it’s pretty flexible — and that it opened up once it got into his sinuses,” Isaak’s father told reporters.
Although Craig Lasson momentarily worried he was a bad parent for needing three years to figure out the Lego problem plaguing his son’s sinuses, he said he is happy that Isaak is eating and sleeping better than he has in years.
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Teachers are losing their cool, and while it’s inexcusable, it comes from the lack of respect our teachers are treated with:
Pat Frost, an English as a second language teacher for Anson High School in North Carolina, may lose her job after admitting to slapping a student during a dispute over saggy pants.
Frost was suspended after the incident occurred in June, and the district is still investigating the charges. At the time, she reportedly stopped 18-year-old Johnathan Smith to tell him to pull up his sagging pants. But Smith didn’t comply, allegedly telling the teacher to “get the [expletive] out of his way” and shoved past her, WBTV reports.
When Frost followed him outside, reportedly to record his name, the teen began to charge at her, yelling that he would “[expletive] her up.”
Smith told WSOC-TV, however, that he did pick up his pants and told the teacher his name — but Frost didn’t believe him.
“I never thought a teacher would lay her hands on me,” Smith told the station.
Frost’s attorney argues that Smith refused to give his real name and repeatedly threatened to assault her. Frost says her blow was out of self defense.
“Fearing she was about to be hit, Pat tried to create distance with the student and slapped him in the face in that effort,” according to a letter from Frost’s attorney. “He responded by striking Pat in the head. He then took off his shirt and started pounding on nearby cars in the parking lot yelling that he was going to get her fired and hoped that she would be killed.”
I am afraid that episodes like this will become extremely frequent if something isn’t done to improve teacher/student relations.
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After what I put my students through last term, I’m sure they would love to see me sit for some exams. They would be more than happy to preside over the testing and ensure I don’t try to cheat from the teacher sitting next to me:
The Indonesian Government’s been forced to defend its attempt to test the country’s one-million teachers, after the first run was plagued with problems and allegations of corruption.
In an attempt to improve education, Indonesia has begun testing the performance of teachers, instead of students.
This week it launched the first online exam to assess the abilities of those who are educating the country’s children.
One million teachers will be tested in 3,500 locations across 33 provinces.
But the head of the Education Ministry admits that on the first day, only 10 per cent of the teachers who attempted were able to log on and sit the test.
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I realise that this ad was aiming for controversy, but I can guarantee that kids will be bullied because of it:
An advertising campaign from a New Zealand company telling customers to swap their “ginger children” for ginger beer has been criticised on social media.
A media release from Hakanoa Handmade Ginger Beer yesterday gave “unfortunate” parents with red-haired children the opportunity to exchange them for ginger beer, starting today and running until the end of August.
“Parents with ginger spawn will be able to bring them into The Little Grocer on Richmond Road, Grey Lynn, where they will be able to swap them for a six-pack of ginger beer.”
However, people on the company’s Facebook page said the campaign was offensive.
Ross Ronald said: “Awful – who’s next? Kids with glasses? You’ve totally missed the point and have maybe created the world’s most un-inclusive ad campaign. Humour is best left to those who have some.”
“This is a disgusting but of bullying – towards children – and I hope you have some human rights complaints coming your way,” said William Robertson.
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I would have loved having Ricky Gervais as my English teacher:
RICKY Gervais is bypassing the TV networks for his new series, Learn English with Ricky Gervais.
The comedian announced on his website that he had just finished editing the pilot for the show, which will be distributed on the web.
He gave few details about the show besides saying he might charge viewers a small fee to cover production costs and that it would be subtitled into as many languages as possible.
The first episode, he said, would be free.
“I’m thinking of making a clean version of the pilot available for download so people can put their own subtitles on it and repost it,” Gervais wrote on his blog. “You can do a Klingon version if you want.”
Web series are swiftly gaining in popularity. Last month Jerry Seinfeld premiered Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, in which he drives around town in vintage cars, yaks about nothing in particular with fellow comics, then stops off for a coffee.
Gervais is also working on a comedy series for British TV, titled Derek, in which he plays a middle-aged assistant in a retirement home.
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The moral of the story is never let your children play in your illegal drug lab:
Five children, the youngest just two years old, have tested positive for illegal drugs after playing in their father’s kitchen lab, a court has heard.
The man, who cannot be named, is the first person in Australia to face court for the offence of exposing an individual under 14 years to danger from unlawful manufacturing.
He pleaded guilty on Tuesday in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to five counts of the offence, and will be sentenced on Wednesday.
He faces a maximum sentence of nine years in jail.
The court heard the man, 32, ran a drug lab at his home at Loganlea, south of Brisbane.
When police raided the address in April 2010 they found him in the kitchen using caustic soda to extract ephedrine from cold and flu tablets.
The court heard his five children, aged between two and eight, were at home at the time and were not prevented from entering the kitchen.
Police found chemicals on the floor next to one of the children’s teddy bears and discovered acids were stored on low shelves within reach of small hands.
The five children had samples of their hair analysed and all tested positive for methylamphetamine, the court was told.
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I am a little absent-minded myself, but this is slightly more serious than misplacing your car keys.
Doing those blasted standardised tests once is bad enough. Imagine having to go through the whole process again!
More than a dozen New York City students will have to retake state mandated standardized exams after the city lost their answer sheets.
Students at Brooklyn’s Franklin D. Roosevelt High School’s night school are already considered at risk of dropping out. The program helps struggling students work toward graduation, but the mix-up is affecting 17 students, whose answer sheets were not included in a packing list to be scored, NY1 reports.
The city doesn’t know what happened to the U.S. history exams, which disappeared as they were being transferred to another school as part of an effort to curb cheating by having teachers grade exams for students at other schools. About 107,000 tests from 162 schools were exchanged for grading, according to The Wall Street Journal, and are required for graduation.
Four students were not able to graduate on time as a direct result of the missing answer sheets, while the other students still had other requirements to meet. They must retake the exam during the August test administration.
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How did milk suddenly become public enemy number 1?
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a national vegan and physician group based out of D.C., has filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking for milk to be banned from school lunches, according parenting site BabyCenter.
According to the report, PCRM claims that the beverage is “…high in sugar, high in fat and high in animal protein that is harmful to, rather than protective of, bone health.”
Despite the American Heart Association’s recommendation that children between ages 1 and 8 drink around two cups of reduced-fat milk a day, the PCRM asserts in its petition there are better ways for youngsters to get their calcium.
“Children can get the calcium they need from beans, green leafy vegetables (e.g., broccoli, kale, collard greens), tofu products, breads and cereals. Additionally, a wide variety of non-dairy, calcium-fortified beverages is available today including soy milk, rice milk and fruit juice, all of which provide greater health and nutritional benefits compared with dairy milk.”
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How can we trust Facebook to help us fight cyberbullying if they can’t even ban tribute pages to a murderer? How can we trust Facebook to protect our children from online predators when they can’t stop online propaganda championing a sick murderer? How can we trust Facebook when they claim to be enforcing their age restriction policy when they can’t even take a common sense approach to getting rid of James Holmes tribute pages?
I have no trust in Facebook!
While Facebook pages paying tribute to James Holmes — the alleged shooter in the attacks in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., last week during the premiere showing of The Dark Knight Rises— may violate all standards of common decency, they apparently do not violate Facebook’s terms of service.
CNN reported that a “few-dozen” such pages have sprung up over the past week, including one with more than 800 likes.
The social network is caught in a no-win situation in cases such as this: If it removes the pages, it is accused of violating free-speech rights. And if it allows the pages to exist, users complain that it allows distasteful, hateful content on its network.
Facebook Spokesman Fred Wolens told CNN that the pages, “while incredibly distasteful, don’t violate our terms,” adding that “credible threats” against specific people or content with the potential to incite violence would be grounds for the deletion of pages.
The free speech argument must be used only within the confines of common sense. Facebook should be ashamed of themselves!
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