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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, August 18/08′ Emergency officials have been warning South Floridians to seek shelter during Tropical Storm Fay but a man in Fort Lauderdale seeking some thrills on the rough surf didn’t heed that warning and ended up in the hospital after being hurt in an astonishing kite boarding accident that was caught on camera.
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JERUSALEM - An Israeli couple going on a European vacation remembered to take their duty-free shopping and their 18 suitcases, but forgot their 3-year-old daughter at the airport, police said Monday.The couple and their five children were late for a charter flight to Paris Sunday and made a mad dash to the gate. In the confusion, their daughter got lost.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a policeman found her wandering in the duty-free area at Ben-Gurion airport, Israel's bustling main international air portal. He said the officer alerted airline staff, but the flight had already taken off.(read more)
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Two British women caused panic on a holiday flight from Greece when they attacked cabin staff with a vodka bottle and fought to open the emergency exit at 30,000ft, one screaming: 'I want some fresh air.'
The drunken pair had to be wrestled to the ground and restrained with plastic handcuffs as astonished passengers looked on. The XL Airways Boeing 737 charter flight from the Greek island of Kos to Manchester was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany where heavily armed police hauled away the women, aged 26 and 27, to cheers from other travellers.
They had been on a package holiday. On the return flight both were refused more alcohol because they were drunk, prompting one to take a bottle of vodka from her hand luggage. Passengers screamed as the women fought with flight attendants. 'It was a hell of a scene,' said a holidaymaker. 'It was a nightmare. The crew were brilliant, wrestling them to the ground and slapping plastic cuffs on them. We all thought we had had our chips.'
As a safety precaution the pilot put out a Mayday alert and diverted to Frankfurt-Main, Germany's biggest airport. The plane continued to Manchester after two hours. The 26-year-old is likely to face charges of interference in air traffic and attempted assault and the pair will probably face a bill of thousands of pounds from the airline for costs incurred during the landing. Both have been allowed to return to the UK.
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I'm not much of a MMA fan but I love to watch Fedor and the greatness that he is.
36 seconds of baddness.
Post-fight Interview - Tim Sylvia
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If you want to keep me away from your house, get this.
By artist Alan Dickinson. If this doesn’t scare your neighbors, nothing will!We challenged noted British artist Alan Dickinson to create his most haunting image exclusively for Toscano—and he certainly delivered! Not for the faint of heart, Dickinson’s life-sized, gray-toned zombie will claw his way out of your garden plot or family room corner, pleading for assistance with the most lifelike eyes you’ve ever seen. His macabre expression is captured in such great detail in quality designer resin and finished so realistically that you’ll swear you can hear him breathing! Arrives in 3 pcs.
1. Great boy picking the colors to prepare the PEPSI
2. Men at work - washing the bottles
3. Men at work washing the bottles Fully
4. Boys placing the bottles in the tray
5. Boy filling the PEPSI Soooooo… called
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Pictured: The chunky monkeys who have been put on a diet after being overfed by tourists
Happy tourists visiting the wildlife park in Japan might have thought they were treating the monkeys.But they have left many of them so overweight they can hardly get around.
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DON'T 'ave a banana: Macaca mulatta monkeys at Ohama park in Japan are grossly overweight
This chunky monkey is among about 50 that have alarmed the park's overseers
About 50 Macaca mulatta monkeys at Ohama park in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture have been so overfed by tourists they are now massively overweight.
A local report in April said that about 30 per cent of the animals are so huge they struggle to get around their 420-square-meter enclosure.
Officials have been forced to put them on a strict diet.
A healthy Macaca mulatta monkey weighs about 20lbs, but one of these chunkies is over 4st.
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The monkeys usually weigh around 20lbs, but one at the park is a whopping 4 1/2 stone
Don't feed the animals: Visitors to the park are being asked not to throw bananas to the obese monkeys
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian air force planes dropped a 25-kg (55-lb) sack of cement on a suburban Moscow home last week while seeding clouds to prevent rain from spoiling a holiday, Russian media said on Tuesday.
"A pack of cement used in creating ... good weather in the capital region ... failed to pulverize completely at high altitude and fell on the roof of a house, making a hole about 80-100 cm (2.5-3 ft)," police in Naro-Fominsk told agency RIA-Novosti.
Ahead of major public holidays the Russian Air Force often dispatches up to 12 cargo planes carrying loads of silver iodide, liquid nitrogen and cement powder to seed clouds above Moscow and empty the skies of moisture.
A spokesman for the Russian Air Force refused to comment.
June 12 was Russia Day, a patriotic holiday celebrating the country's independence after the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Weather specialists said the cement's failure to turn to powder was the first hiccup in 20 years.
The homeowner was not injured, but refused an offer of 50,000 roubles ($2,100) from the air force, saying she would sue for damages and compensation for moral suffering, Interfax said.
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It actually happened on June 6th but it's ironic that the story came out on Friday the 13th.
Fri Jun 13, 8:47 PM ET
BLANCHARD, Mich. - No one quite understands the term "striking it lucky" better than 16-year-old BreAnna Helsel. The Michigan teen survived being struck by lightning and went on to win $20 in the lottery the next day.
Helsel was at her home in Blanchard, about 50 miles northeast of Grand Rapids, watching thunderstorms roll by on June 6 when she noticed rain entering an open kitchen window.
"She went to close the window and the lightning came through and hit her," her mother, Linda Johnson, told The Daily News of Greenville. "We think it must have hit the house or something."
Helsel struggled to describe the sensation she felt as the electricity passed through her body.
"It felt like when your foot falls asleep," she said.
Helsel said she saw the electricity shoot out of her fingers and into the overhead lights, immediately knocking out the house's power.
At first, the teenager didn't want to be checked out at a hospital, but when she started complaining about a tingling sensation in her arm, she and her mother drove through the rain to get to Spectrum Health Kelsey Hospital in Lakeview.
Helsel was checked out and the only signs of the lightning strike were some darkened fingertips on her right hand and a shaking arm from damaged muscles that will require some therapy. A full recovery is expected.
"Everyone said I'm really lucky," she said.
Hospital employees suggested that Helsel was on such a lucky streak, she should immediately play the lottery. She's too young, so her mother went out the next day and bought a Michigan lottery ticket for her.
"And we won $20," Johnson said, laughing. "What a way to start the summer."
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High food ant gas prices kill towns only store.
High Food and Gas Prices Force the Only Store in Weed To Close
WEED — It's at least 80 miles of gravel, dirt and some pavement between the far southern parts of the Lincoln National Forest and the nearest gas station. Trips into the mountains around here have gotten trickier over the years for residents and campers and hunters, as gas stations in Hope, Piñon and Sacramento have shut.
Now, the one gas station/general store in the village of Weed closed the weekend after the recent Memorial Day holiday. It was one of the few stations anywhere in the Sacramento district of the forest, and the closest to the remote Guadalupe district.
“I feel so low, like we let everybody down,” said Suzy Cleve, co-owner of the Weed Store. “It's hard for people to understand.”
She blamed the ever-increasing prices of gas and food, problems aggravated when the U.S. Forest Service closed all of Lincoln on May 1 because of drought and fire danger.
“It was everything. It's all going to hit the little, independent people first,” she said. “It went up so fast and so much,” she said, as she drew “Out of Gasoline” on a poster-size sheet of paper. “If we'd had rain …”
She took the poster outside and taped it to one of the two pumps in the gravel lot next to N.M. 24. She pointed out that the pumps could register prices up to only $3.99.(read more)
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...don't let my son be one of the stupid kids I laugh at on the Internet.
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If "Big Brother" is living strong in the US then Canada is the home of "Little Brother".
Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers
Vito Pilieci, Canwest News Service
Published: Monday, May 26, 2008OTTAWA - The federal government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.
The deal could also impose strict regulations on Internet service providers, forcing those companies to hand over customer information without a court order.
Called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the new plan would see Canada join other countries, including the United States and members of the European Union, to form an international coalition against copyright infringement.
The agreement is being structured much like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) except it will create rules and regulations regarding private copying and copyright laws.
Federal trade agreements do not require parliamentary approval.
The deal would create a international regulator that could turn border guards and other public security personnel into copyright police. The security officials would be charged with checking laptops, iPods and even cellular phones for content that "infringes" on copyright laws, such as ripped CDs and movies.
The guards would also be responsible for determining what is infringing content and what is not.
The agreement proposes any content that may have been copied from a DVD or digital video recorder would be open for scrutiny by officials - even if the content was copied legally.
"If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas what would they look like? This is pretty close," said David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa's Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic. "The process on ACTA so far has been cloak and dagger. This certainly raises concerns."(read more)
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Al Seib / Los Angeles Times
Zac Sunderland, 16, prepares his 36-foot sailboat in Marina del Rey for an attempt to solo-sail around the world that begins May 31. Rafael Ochoa, right, a boat builder and rigger, is helping Sunderland prepare the rigging.
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NASA moves to save computers from swarming ants
Attack of the (computer) killer ants: Pests taking out machines along Texas Gulf Coast
May 15, 2008 (Computerworld) A flood of voracious ants is heading straight for Houston, taking out computers, radios and even vehicles in their path.
Even the Johnson Space Center has called in extermination experts to keep the pests out of their sensitive and critical systems.
The ants have been causing all kinds of trouble in five Texas counties in the Gulf Coast area. Because of their sheer numbers, the ants are short-circuiting computers in homes and offices, and knocking systems offline in major businesses. When IT personnel pry the affected computers open, they find the machines loaded with thousands of ant bodies.(read more)
Houston Suffers Attack of ‘Crazy Rasberry’ Ants
Tom Rasberry and his eponymous ants in Deer Park, Texas on Tuesday. (Photo: Associated Press)Crazy Rasberry Ants: They’re voracious eaters, hairy and just about unstoppable. Could they be trouble for Houston’s relatively sunny housing market?
Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported that these flea-sized ants, which were first spotted in Texas in 2002 and are believed to have been transported to the state via cargo ship from an unknown location, are swarming by the billions in five Houston-area counties.
The ants — named after exterminator Tom Rasberry, who dealt early on with the little beasts — are cousins to crazy ants, found in the Southeast and the Caribbean, the AP says.
The pests are messing up computers, have damaged at least one resident’s gas meter and are causing fire alarms to malfunction. They are reportedly resistant to conventional over-the-counter ant killers. Also, they are so hardy that exterminators want the Environmental Protection Agency to lighten its restrictions on stronger pesticides, according to the AP.
“At this point, it would be nearly impossible to eradicate the ant because it is so widely dispersed,” the AP quotes one Texas A&M University entomologist in the story.
The Houston housing market has been relatively stable, according to first quarter housing data released Monday by the National Association of Realtors. But, I would think an ant infestation could spell trouble for Houston-area home sellers, should these critters descend on their properties. I know I would think twice about buying a house where those pesky ants have taken up residence. Wouldn’t you?
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