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His parents said they were so concerned that they called police. Officers who showed up at Rodger’s doorstep for a mental health check in April, however, found a well-mannered if shy young man whom they concluded posed no risk. They hadn’t seen the videos, and by the time law enforcement had, it was too late: Rodger had gone on a deadly rampage. The sheriff’s office “was not aware of any videos until after the shooting rampage occurred,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Kelly Hoover said. Sheriff Bill Brown has defended the officers’ actions, but the case highlights the challenges...

The spot: Oakland Internet Cat Video Festival, 3-10 p.m. May 10, Great Wall of Oakland, West Grand Avenue between Telegraph Avenue and Broadway. The vibe: It's so hard to find like-minded couple friends, isn't it? People who share your interests. Your values. Your love of cats. You might just find them on May 10, when Uptown Oakland transforms into a feline frenzy, and the funniest and cutest Internet cat videos

Being a mom or dad is one of life's greatest joys. But early on weekend mornings? We're not always feeling the joy so much. In a series of Vine videos now going viral, one bleary-eyed dad captures the truth of Saturday mornings as a parent. Tony Serafini, a 38-year-old dad from Leominster, Mass., spends Saturday mornings alone with his 4-year-old daughter after his wife and eldest daughter leave for dance class. He started shooting a series of videos showing the little girl rocking out to her favorite music in the background, while dad blearily waits for his caffeine to kick...

HAMILTON, Mo.—This tiny farm town used to be known as the home of James Cash Penney Jr., founder of the namesake department store chain. These days, it is better known in some circles as the home of Jenny Doan. Those would be quilting circles. Over the past few years, Mrs. Doan, 57 years old, has become a veritable superstar of the craft. Her YouTube tutorials on how to make quilts have drawn as many as a million viewers, some from as far away as South Africa. Her family's Missouri Star Quilt Co. gets as many as 30,000 orders a month...

Federal Judge Orders Trial Against F.B.I.

As the Walker Art Center's Internet Cat Video Film Festival returns for the second year and makes a jump to the Grandstand at the Minnesota State Fair on Wednesday night, it's clear the Internet cat video phenom can no longer be denied. People steal frequent and furtive peeks at feline films during the workday. Some spend their nights immersed in cat capers on YouTube. But what would happen if one person attempted to spend an entire eight-hour workday watching cat videos?

Those who closely follow current events may often find themselves hearing a politician making a claim, but swearing they heard them say the exact opposite a month, a year, or even a decade ago. That’s because, many times, they did. Tuesday night on TheBlaze TV, Glenn Beck aired a segment documenting a number of apparent lies and falsehoods being pushed by the current administration, though he was clear that GOP leaders have done the same. In the case of health care reform, for instance, President Barack Obama repeatedly promised that families who earn $250,000 a year or less would not...

"We have different languages for what the truth means." ---Mike Daisey, fantasy monologist. KONY 2012. This American Life. These are just the lastest incarnations of fiction trumping fact in both the mainstream media as well as in alternate news outlets. In the latest outbreaks of this condition, we found out that the emperor, or rather KONY 2012 producer, wears no clothes in more ways than one. However, prior to this "documentary," which went viral on the web, being exposed as being short on facts, it was widely hailed by a coterie of liberal celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, Justin Bieber, Rihanna,...

Dear FReepers, We're not dealing with terribly smart people committing atrocities. They might contain animal cunning, but they are not conducting very well thought out campaigns. The existence of islamic terror cells across the USA is not mere conjecture. What's stunning, is why hasn't our FBI hasn't gone over to the websites that act as official mouthpieces of the Chechen terrorists to obtain clues linking Boston to Breslan.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naccW6NJKE0&feature=player_embedded Here I found the Boston bomber hidden behind the Russian alphabet. How hard can counter-intellegence work actually be?

The videos, which aired during a federal court hearing over Orleans jail reforms, show one inmate shooting up heroin. Others freely snort drugs behind bars and chat on cell phones. Another inmate releases bullets from a long-barreled handgun onto the ground inside the jail, behind bars.

A 10-ton meteor exploded in the sky above Russia on Friday, causing a shockwave that blew out windows injuring some 400 people and sending fragments falling to the ground in the Ural Mountains.

Founders Series, preserving the statement of the 1948 generation.

Dish Network Corp plans to close 300 Blockbuster stores in the United States in the coming weeks and could lay off as many as 3,000 employees, a move that comes days after the DVD rental firm's UK unit went into administration. Dish is trying to shed unprofitable Blockbuster outlets as online retailers like Amazon.Com Inc and download sites like Apple Inc's iTunes eat away at Blockbuster's business model. The potential job cuts represent about 40 percent of Blockbuster's U.S. workforce of 7,300 people. "We continue to see value in the Blockbuster brand and we will continue to analyze store-level profitability...

My daughter had to have herself videotaped for a college assignment and now the professor wants her to email to him the video. But, at 45 min long, it is too long to email. She asked me last night if I knew of an easy way to cut the video in 2 or 3 segments.I've been reading all morning and fixounet.free.fr/avidemux keeps popping up in google. Has anybody in this board have experience using this program? How complicated is it to use? Do you have any other recommendations? As usual TIA. FReepers are the best!

America, please don't allow the media's obsession with hurricane Sandy to divert you from remembering the past four miserable years under Obama and his team of Marxist clowns! It's time we go back and look at the REALITY of Obama's presidency! Can America afford four more years of these knuckleheads, let alone Obama? It's BAD ENOUGH that America elected a foreigner with a forged birth certificate that took 3 years to present (a deceased baby's birth date and record belonging to Virginia Sunahara of Hawaii), a forged selective service card with a P.O. date stamp that has been proven to...

Are videos of the 4 sessions of Newt University from the GOP Convention Available? The Kaplan web site has the 4 past Newt University events listed, but there is no clickable path to view the videos of the 4 sessions which were held in Tampa at the Republican National Convention.

Are videos of the 4 sessions of Newt University from the GOP Convention Available? The Kaplan site that appeared to be handling the Newt University material does not work.

Minneapolis police want you to know race has nothing to do with an epidemic of violent crime in their downtown. Same for crime reporter Matt McKinney: The recent increase in what he calls “flash mob” violence and mayhem is “random” and “no other real pattern emerges” and the “motivation for the attack remains unclear.” But more and more people in Minneapolis are connecting the violence with groups of blacks marauding through the downtown; beating, hurting, destroying and stealing. Sometimes right in front of police. A lot of it on YouTube. With lots of witnesses – 15 to 20 times over...

“I have videos, this election we’re going to vet him,” new media mogul Andrew Breitbart proclaimed at this year’s CPAC event. Breitbart was, of course, referring to clips that allegedly show President Barack Obama during his college days — videos that the media leader claimed would show “why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008.” These tapes, which have inspired conspiracy theories surrounding what led to Breitbart’s death on Thursday of natural causes at the age of 43, are now purportedly going to be released (Glenn Beck has strongly cautioned viewers...

Ben Breedlove had to fight a life-threatening heart condition all his life. He finally lost that fight on Christmas night, but not before he recorded these two beautiful videos telling the stories of his near-death experiences and talking about his thoughts on death. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jpmoore/heartbreaking-videos-a-teenager-made-the-week-befo