thedailywhat:

What The Hell of the Day: A full-scale investigation has been launched by Gwinnett County Schools in Georgia into controversial math homework, which asked third-grade students to calculate the amount of cotton a slave would collect and the number of beatings he would receive in a week.

“Who would think of such questions to ask third-grade children?” asked parent Nicole Thompson, whose 8-year-old brought the questions to her attention.

According to the school district, the questionable questioned were penned by a teacher who sought to “reinforce social studies lessons through math.” It has since come to light that the homework was seen and approved by all nine third-grade teachers.

“We are looking at what human resources actions may be taken so I do believe that is a hard stance trying to determine what does that situation warrant,” said district spokeswoman Sloan Roach.

NAACP of Georgia has called on the school to fire the teacher responsible and reprimand all other parties involved in approving the lesson.

“To trivialize the suffering of slavery, and to put in a word game in math work sheet is unconscionable,” community activist Jennifer Falk is quoted as saying.

[wsbtv.]

herochan:

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(Created & submitted by axelryan)

thedailywhat:

One More Thing To Worry About of the Day: 41-year-old Y&R advertising exec Suzanne Hart suffered a gruesome, Final Destination-esque death today, when she was crushed by an elevator after it suddenly shot up while she was getting in.

The incident, which occurred at the company’s 285 Madison Avenue HQ, was described by an NYFD official as follows:

Her foot or her leg are heading into the elevator while the door is open. Her one foot is in the car; but then, the doors close on her leg and the elevator shoots upward. And she is just kind of yanked up with it. Then, the elevator car becomes pinned between the first and second floor. It seems like her body is what stops the elevator’s movement.

Two passengers already inside the elevator car were not physically injured, but were described as victims of trauma.

Department of Buildings spokesman Tony Sclafani said the elevator in question was inspected this past June, and “no safety issues were found at that time and no conditions were found that would be related to this accident.” 

[cityroom / image: cbsnews.]

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meghantalasco:

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It that guy his body guard?!?!? 

(via michaelbubledaily)

thedailywhat:

RIP: Bil Keane, creator of the long-running comic strip The Family Circus, passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

His syndicated strip, which debuted in 1960 as The Family Circle, now appears in over 1,500 publications nationwide. Jeff Keane, who has been helping his dad with inking and coloring, said the cartoonist died of congestive heart failure.

“We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment,” Keane said in a 1995 interview. “On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.”

[ap.]

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thedailywhat:

Follow Up of the Day: Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril announced a short while ago that Muammar Gaddafi was in fact killed while attempting to flee from anti-loyalist forces flooding into Sirte. The State Department and NATO have yet to independently confirm the claim.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Gaddafi’s convoy was struck with a bomb from a NATO aircraft, causing the deposed leader to flee into a nearby drain where he was eventually captured. NATO has confirmed the airstrike, but said it was targeting pro-Gaddafi forces engaging in military operations and could not confirm Gaddafi’s presence in the convoy.

Gaddafi’s spokesman Moussa Ibrahim was also captured in Sirte, according to a National Transitional Council official, and Gaddafi’s son Mutassim and former defense minister Abu Bakr Yunis were both killed. Al Arabiya says it has confirmed reports that Seif al-Islam, another of Gaddafi’s sons, was killed as well.

Questions surrounding the exact nature of Gaddafi’s demise continue to emerge. Though the NTC alleges that the tyrant had succumb to wounds suffered during the attack, just-obtained footage shows Gaddafi alive and mobile in the immediate aftermath of his capture (warning: graphic):

Video of later scenes released by Al Arabiya shows an unresponsive Gaddafi being aggressively manhandled by unidentified men, while footage aired on Al Jazeera shows Gaddafi’s body being shoved around while strewn about on the street.

Global reaction to Gaddafi’s death has been swift. ”This is only the end of the beginning,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Other world leaders such as British PM David Cameron and French President Nicolas Sarkozy expressed optimism and hope in their official statements. President Obama is set to address Gaddafi’s death at 2 PM ET from the White House’s Rose Garden.

CBS News aired a behind-the-scenes video from a press interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during which she receives word of Gaddafi’s death via BlackBerry. Her initial reaction was “wow.” 

Further Reading/Viewing: Why Qaddafi’s Death Matters; a 1987 sitcom starring Matthew Perry predicted the year of Gaddafi’s death; Below: Meet Mohammed: The Yankees fan who found Gaddafi: 

Live Updates: The Lede; Reuters; BBC News; The Guardian.

[tdb: 1,2 / telegraph / thelede / @alarabiya / bbc / abcnews / cbsnews / photo: msnbc.]