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Uri Geller is already working out how to take the credit for freeing it.
Lawyers wanted her 2011 essay to be presented to a jury, but a judge decided it could not be used as evidence because it was written so long ago.
Prosecutors said the couple was stuck in ‘financial despair,’ which fueled Crampton Brophy to shoot her husband in order to receive his $1.4 million life-insurance payout.
While the culinary school had no security cameras, nearby traffic cameras caught Crampton Brophy’s car on city streets near the institution around the time of the shooting.
Prosecutors say that she followed her husband to work and shot him with a Glock 9mm handgun she’d bought at a Portland gun show, which are the type of shell casings investigators recovered at the scene of the crime.
She had also bought a ‘ghost gun’ assembly kit that investigators found at a storage facility. ‘Ghost guns’ are unregistered and untraceable firearms.
Crampton Brophy’s defense attorneys have counter that argument claiming that the couple’s finances were improving before Daniel’s death. They also say that Crampton Brophy’s gun purchases were for book research and in light of mass shootings.
FULL STORY: https://www.gawker.com/media/jumi-bellos-lithub-essay-about-plagiarism-looks-very-plagiarizedLITHUB ESSAY ABOUT PLAGIARISM LOOKS VERY PLAGIARIZED
This morning, LitHub published an essay titled “I Plagiarized Parts of My Debut Novel. Here’s Why.” The first-person account was from fiction writer Jumi Bello and detailed how her debut release, The Leaving, which was scheduled to come out July 12, was canceled by its publisher Riverhead, after they learned that sections had been plagiarized.
According to Publisher’s Lunch, which reported on the cancellation in February, the book ... had appeared on “multiple anticipated lists.” In her essay, Bello claimed she came clean about lifting lines from other writers, losing the book deal in the process.
Bello’s essay explored the origins of plagiarism, and her specific experience with it, which she tied indirectly to a history of mental illness. After a stay in a psychiatric ward and an allergic reaction to an antidepressant, Bello found herself pressed to deliver on her manuscript: “I just want to get through it, to a place where I can sleep again. Looking back on this moment, I ignored my instincts. I ignored the voice inside that said quietly, this is wrong wrong wrong.”
By mid-morning Monday, however, the article had been removed. It now loads to an error page. ...
LitHub did not immediately return Gawker’s request for comment, and neither Bello’s website nor her Twitter profile include contact information. But the writer Kristen Arnett, a fellow Riverhead author, noted on Twitter that parts of the text about plagiarism’s etymological origins appeared to closely resemble other articles on the history of plagiarism. ...
I do hope she has learned the lesson 'don't become a novelist'.A fiction author's book deal was terminated after she confessed to plagiarizing substantial content to meet her deadline. The author then published an online essay about her confessed plagiarism and why she claimed she felt compelled to do it. This essay was then removed because the author seemed to have obviously plagiarized some of the content she used to discuss plagiarism.
FULL STORY: https://www.gawker.com/media/jumi-bellos-lithub-essay-about-plagiarism-looks-very-plagiarized
Do you think it's Karma?Trenton man dies of heart attack after burying girlfriend in backyard
In a bizarre twist that some might call karma, a Trenton man died of a heart attack after burying the body of his girlfriend after he strangled her, Edgefield County authorities say.
The Edgefield County Sheriff’s Office says evidence shows Joseph McKinnon, 60, strangled Patricia Dent, 65, inside the home and was burying her in the backyard when he died of a heart attack.
While covering the pit, McKinnon set the shovel aside and tried to walk away, but experienced a heart attack and died on the spot at 102 Tanglewood Drive.
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/05...er-burying-girlfriend-he-killed-deputies-say/
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Well, it is dangerously close to 'Florida man' country. ?Do you think it's Karma?
Who is Florida man?Well, it is dangerously close to 'Florida man' country. ?
Who is Florida man?
Florida Man is an Internet meme popularized in 2013, and then re-popularized in 2020, in which the phrase "Florida Man" is taken from various unrelated news articles concerning people who hail from or live in Florida. Internet users typically submit links to news stories and articles about unusual or strange crimes or events occurring in Florida, particularly those where "Florida Man" is mentioned in a headline. The stories call attention to Florida's supposed notoriety for strange and unusual events
We have a similar thing here called 'Hertfordshire man'.Who is Florida man?
Who is 'Ronnie Jersey'?Who is Florida man?
We have a similar thing in Hertfordshire called 'Hatfield man'.We have a similar thing here called 'Hertfordshire man'.
I've often wondered...........Who is 'Ronnie Jersey'?
Also similar is 'Walmart Man'.It's a common meme referring to a stereotypical Florida resident involved in the weird (and sometimes idiotic) news stories emanating from that state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Man
Oh dear, I hope I'm not being mean - I just had to give you this site to look at -Also similar is 'Walmart Man'.
Ah, they say you can't buy class...Oh dear, I hope I'm not being mean - I just had to give you this site to look at -
(You brought it up!)
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
Please don't be mad at me.
This one is really funny:Oh dear, I hope I'm not being mean - I just had to give you this site to look at -
(You brought it up!)
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
Please don't be mad at me.