quote [ Deyoung said she felt a growing lump in her breast last June and called in sick.

She was then ordered to go to a military hospital on Canadian Forces Base Stadacona in Halifax. She said she followed orders, but it took her two hours to get there.

A month later, she was told she was being charged with two counts of disobeying a lawful command and one count of absence without leave. ]

quote [ Bunker is now in another building with a less-than perfect vantage point. But Bunker said the person who let him into the building just came up to him and said, “You didn’t throw anything off the balcony, did you?”

Down below, Scientology operatives are trying to convince Portland PD that Bunker has dangerously thrown something off the balcony so they can get him arrested. “There are a lot of cops and Scientologists down there, all looking up at me.” ]

quote [ Advance voting is held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (local time) on the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the week preceding General Voting Day. Advance voting is available to any voter and all advance voting places are wheelchair accessible.

View a list of advance and general voting places for the 2013 General Election here. ]

quote [ A group of Iowa State House Republicans have filed a measure in the legislature to cut the pay of state Supreme Court Justices by 80%. The catch is that it only applies to the justices that ruled to legalize same-sex marriage in 2009. ]

quote [ The Marketplace Fairness Act is set to be voted upon within the next several days. It empowers states to compel retailers outside their borders to collect sales tax for online purchases. In other words, an Illinois retailer shipping to a Californian would now be required to collect California sales tax then send that money back to the Golden State. At present, states can only require this of companies that have an in-state physical presence. ]

quote [ If a monopolist did what the wireless carriers did as a group, neither the public nor government would stand for it. But when three or four firms pursue identical practices, we say that the market is “competitive” and everything is fine. To state the obvious, when companies act in parallel, the consumer is in the same position as if he were dealing with just one big firm. There is, in short, a major blind spot in our nation’s oversight of private power, one that affects both consumers and competition. ]

quote [ Endangered rhinos in South Africa are being hunted for their horns, which are smuggled to Asia and ground into powder for cooking and medicinal use. In an effort to deter poachers, the Sabi Sand game reserve in South Africa has injected a mix of parasiticides and indelible pink dye into more than 100 rhinos’ horns over the past 18 months. ]

quote [ Now Virginia attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli is asking the full 4th Circuit to reconsider the case. Cuccinelli wants the court to revive the prohibition on consensual anal and oral sex, for both gay and straight people. (The case at hand involves consensual, heterosexual oral sex.) ]

quote [ To many a casual internet surfer it was simply a soft-focused doodle celebrating the life of labour leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez.

But to a small minority of conservatives thumping away at their keyboards on Easter Sunday it was something more sinister. It was a slight on Jesus. Worse still, it was a slight on Jesus directed by the White House, and in particular Barack Obama, America's Kenyan-born Muslim leader, probably. ]

quote [ India's Aakash 2 project is facing a multitude of issues including manufacturing delays, a faulty processor, and low memory. These have prompted the country's new human resource and development minister, Pallam Raju, to announce the decision to shut down the initiative if it fails to meet the target of delivering 100,000 Aakash 2 tablets by March 31. ]