Mitt Romney Comments At Fundraiser Outrage Palestinians

JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney told Jewish donors Monday that their culture is part of what has allowed them to be more economically successful than the Palestinians, outraging Palestinian leaders who suggested his comments were racist and out of touch with the realities of the Middle East. Romney's campaign later said his remarks were mischaracterized. "As you come here and you see the GDP per capita, for instance, in Israel which is about $21,000, ...

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Westboro Baptist Church Military Protest Countered By Zombie Demonstrators (VIDEO)

A Westboro Baptist Church protest was overshadowed Friday when demonstrators dressed as zombies gathered at a DuPont, Wash. military base to counter the radical group's efforts. After members of the controversial Kansas-based church announced plans to picket Joint Base Lewis-McChord, a military base south of Seattle, 27-year-old Melissa Neace decided to organize a counter-protest, launching a Facebook group titled ...

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Nadia Ilse, Bullied Georgia Teen, Receives Free Plastic Surgery From Little Baby Face Foundation

Nadia Ilse is looking forward to the new school year, when she will no longer be called "Dumbo" by her peers for her "elephant ears." To ward off school bullies who began taunting her in the first grade for her ears, Nadia begged her mother at the age of 10 for an otoplasty -- an operation to pin her ears back. The teen, now 14, was recently granted her wish by the Little Baby Face Foundation, a charity that provides free corrective ...

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Parents On Facebook To Blame For Stock Price Woes, Analyst Says

It was another poor showing for Facebooklast week as its stock price hit a new low Friday, dispiriting shareholders already frustrated by lower-than-anticpated profits. Billions in shareholder value was erased as the market value of Mark Zuckerberg's flagship fell to nearly half of the $104 billion target set in May when the company went public, the Mercury Newsreports. But as theories abound over what exactly ails ...

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Michel Morganella, Swiss Soccer Player, Ejected From Olympic Games For Racist Tweet About South Koreans

Switzerland's Michel Morganella runs on the pitch during the 2012 Olympic mens football match between Gabon and Switzerland at St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, north-east England on July 26, 2012. Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella could be expelled from the Olympics for allegedly sending a racist message on Twitter. Swiss media report that Michel Morganella posted an offensive message about South Korean people after the Swiss team ...

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States With The Highest College Completion Rates

According to new U.S. Census Bureau data, the number of 25-to 34-year-olds who have college degrees around the nation has gradually increased from 2009 to 2011. The current college attainment rate for the nation is 39.3 percent. However, this would have to increase by 50 percent to fulfill President Obama's goal for America to become first in the world in the percentage of population who have graduated from college by 2020. The U.S. currently ...

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Karen Klein, Bullied New York School Bus Monitor, Retiring: 'Time To Move On'

GREECE, N.Y. -- A school bus monitor who was shown in a video being relentlessly bullied by a group of boys said Friday she will retire. Karen Klein, a 68-year-old grandmother, told The Associated Press that the decision to leave the job she held for three years was tough but wasn't based on her now infamous encounter with the mean-spirited seventh-graders, who tormented her with profanity, insults and threats during a bus run as the ...

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For-Profit Colleges Pay Executives Based On Profit, Not Student Success, Report Finds

Rep. Cummings Top executives at major for-profit colleges take in millions of dollars in annual compensation -- primarily from taxpayer subsidies -– yet most of their pay is unrelated to student achievement, according to preliminary findings from a congressional investigation. The report from Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, found that publicly ...

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Randi Weingarten, AFT President, and Roy Roberts, DPS EM, Meet Over Detroit Teachers' Right To Negotiate

AFT President Randi Weingarten addresses a rowdy crowd of about 500 before meeting with DPS Emergency Manager Roy Roberts. Her speech to the gathering was interrupted by several people who called for a strike (David Sands, The Huffington Post). Against a backdrop of noisy protest, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten met with Detroit Public Schools Emergency Manager Roy RobertsFriday afternoon to discuss ...

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sort of done

Ok, the new update is up (but not entirely finished). With Thailand jail and the length of time this took, it's actually been a long while since my last update to the game. Sorry about that.The update is a new tool that you can use to trigger events during gameplay. The player rides through a trigger area, and various things are activated. Right now you can either activate an object or play a sound.In most cases, activating an object is waking it up if it's in a sleeping state. Certain special items have more useful activations. Mines will explode and boosts and fans will turn on. You ...

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