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Superstar Taylor Swift is releasing a Taylor Swift Baby Taylor guitar,
similar to the one she wrote songs on while on her radio tour a few
years ago. Pre-orders are now being taken: http://j.mp/35RgtZ
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In Michigan a pet store employee likely set a world record after he
stuff 16 Madagascar hissing cockroaches into his mouth. The old record
was 11.
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MAY THERE BE LOTS'A THOSAI AND CHICKEN CURRY AND PATATOES
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Gas mask bra wins science award
The designer of a bra that turns into two gas masks was among the winners of the 2009 Ig Nobel prizes.
The aim of the awards is to honour achievements that "first make people laugh and then make them think".
Dr Elena Bodnar won the public health prize for the bra that, in an emergency, can be converted into two gas masks.
She demonstrated her invention and gave one to each of the Nobel laureates as a gift, reports the BBC.
The only British winners were Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson who found that cows with names produce more milk.
Dr Douglas, from the agriculture, food and rural development department of Newcastle University, said she was "thrilled" to have been selected and was a "big fan of the Ig Nobel awards".
She dedicated the award to Purslane, Wendy and Tina - "the nicest cows I have ever known".
The peace prize went to a Swiss research team who determined whether it is better to be hit over the head with a full or empty bottle of beer.
The prize for economics went to the executives of four Icelandic banks.
And the governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank received the prize for mathematics for printing bank notes with such a wide range of denominations.
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Women drivers pay lip service to safety
Nearly half a million road accidents a year are caused by women drivers applying make-up, according to a new survey.
One in five female motorists admit touched up their make-up on the move - and three per cent had caused an accident while applying cosmetics.
Young women, aged between 17 and 21, were found to be the most likely to put beauty before safety in the poll of 4,000 women drivers by motor insurer Diamond.
Twenty-seven per cent confessed to putting on make-up and nine per cent of those aged 18 or younger have had a crash while doing so - three times the average.
Diamond managing director Sian Lewis said it was "worrying" that so many women put themselves and other road users at risk.
"We all have busy lives but applying your make-up when you're driving means your full attention is not on the road ahead," she said.
"Is your mascara more important than yours and other road users' safety? Even if you're lucky enough to arrive at your destination safely, you could be charged with careless driving if spotted by the police.
"Women are generally great at doing more than one thing at once but this is definitely one area where multitasking should not be practised."
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Fisher-dog catches attention
A Chinese man says his dog has become something of a local celebrity - after taking up fishing.
Mr Lin, of Wuchang in central China's Hubei province, told the Wuhan Evening Post that Ding Ding had always loved water.
"I often swim in Donghu Lake, and used to leave him on the bank to take care of my clothes and valuables. But he couldn't stop jumping into the water and swimming with me," he said.
"When he was swimming, he would bite anything floating in the water, like bottles, foam rubber, or dead fish, and bring them back to the bank.
"But several days ago he suddenly started catching live fish from the lake. Within 10 minutes he had brought back three big fish, weighing more than 3kg."
Lin says Ding Ding now regularly leaps into the lake and comes back with a live fish in his mouth - to the amazement of passers-by.
"He can tell where the fish are located by seeing the bubbles coming from the water," he added.
Shocked local angler Mr Zhao commented: "I've been fishing in Donghu Lake for decades but this is the first time I've ever seen a fishing dog."
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
1984 - Ghostbusters, by Ray Parker, Jr., started week #3 at the top of the pop music charts. The hit song was from the movie of the same name starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis and Harold Ramis.
2002: Petri Valta of Finland bested over 90 contestants from seven countries when he hurled a Nokia 5510 handset over 66 meters, setting a new world record at the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championships in Savonlinna, Finland.
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birthdays
actor Sean Connery is 79;
singer-dad Billy Ray Cyrus 48;
singer-actor Gene Simmons 60;
Q: Was Sir Sean Connery discharged from the British Navy in 1950 because of:
(a) chronic seasickness; (b) ulcers;
or (c) an enlarged heart?
answer : ulcers
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Q: The female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone. In order for her ovaries to function, she must be able to see another pigeon. If you have no other pigeon, should you:
(a) fatten up a
morning dove; (b) try a photo of another pigeon; or (c) let her see her own reflection in
a mirror?
Answer : Pigeonologists say the mirror will work.
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Tarantino strikes box office gold
Quentin Tarantino's World War II movie Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt, has entered the North American box office chart at number one.
The film took $37.6m (£22.2m) in its opening weekend, replacing low-budget alien saga District 9 at the top.
It gives Tarantino the best opening weekend of his career, beating the mark set by Kill Bill: Vol 2 in 2004.
His latest outing also scored big debuts in other countries including France and Germany.
The movie tells the story of a group of Jewish-American commandos who plot to take violent revenge against the Nazis.
Big hitters
Its performance provides a success for movie moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who have failed to make an impact at the box office and the Oscars since the launch of their new company in 2005.
US BOX OFFICE TOP FIVE
- 1 Inglourious Basterds - $37.6m
- 2 District 9 - $18.9m
- 3 GI Joe - $12.5m
- 4 The Time Traveler's Wife - $10m
- 5 Julie & Julia - $9m
The pair were previously behind a string of big hitters including Shakespeare In Love, Chicago and Tarantino's 1994 hit Pulp Fiction.
The weekend's box office showed little change, with last week's hits including GI Joe and The Time Traveler's Wife remaining in the top five.
District 9, produced by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, is on course to surpass the $100m mark.
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Police investigate Lohan break-in
Los Angeles police are investigating after Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan's home was broken into for the second time in three months.
Police said the Hollywood Hills home was burgled on Sunday morning while the 23-year-old and her younger sister, Ali Lohan, were out.
A statement from her publicist said many of Lohan's personal belongings were taken "without remorse".
No arrests have yet been made in connection with either incident.
Publicist Leslie Sloane-Zelnik added that police had been given the security surveillance video from Lohan's home.
Celebrity news website TMZ reported that the actress found the house had been broken into after coming home at about 0300 local time and called her father, Michael Lohan, who called the police.
Mr Lohan told TMZ that a safe was ripped off a wall in the home and that a couple of watches had been taken.
Police said a previous burglary attempt was reported at Lohan's home in May.
It
had been reported the suspects in that incident were apparently
frightened off by the alarm, but were captured on videotape trying to
gain entry.
Pitt criticizes Cruise's 'Valkyrie'
Brad Pitt has declared battle against Tom Cruise for the title of best World War II movie, branding the Hollywood actor's recent film "Valkyrie" "ridiculous."
Pitt teamed up with director Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds," which was released less than a year after Cruise's 2008 drama about a plot to kill Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
However, the actor insists his portrayal of Nazi hunter Aldo Raine in Tarantino's violent film is no comparison to Cruise's character.
He tells German magazine Stern, "The second World War could still deliver more stories and films, but I believe that Quentin put a cover on that pot. With 'Basterds,' everything that can be said to this genre has been said. The film destroys every symbol. The work is done, end of story ... ('Valkyrie') was a ridiculous movie."
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Cyrus' father downplays pole dance
Miley at the Teen Choice Awards.
Miley Cyrus' father has brushed off the controversy surrounding the teen sensation's pole dancing exploits at the recent Teen Choice Awards, insisting the pop star is simply trying to entertain.
Cyrus' provocative performance prompted family values groups to criticize the 16-year-old for bringing strip club dancing to the stage of the year's most wholesome awards show.
But Billy Ray Cyrus insists his daughter's critics always go too far.
He says, "I just think that Miley loves entertaining people."
And he has urged his daughter not to pay attention to the negative comments being leveled at her.
He tells "Access Hollywood," "I always tell her to love what you're doing and stay focused for the love of the art and not worry so much about opinion."
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Ferrigno shocked over 'Dancing with the Stars' snub
"The Incredible Hulk" star Lou Ferrigno is angry after learning he won't be among the celebrities talking part in the new season of hit "Dancing with the Stars."
The bodybuilder-turned-actor, who recently hit the headlines when it was revealed he was Michael Jackson's personal trainer up to the King of Pop's death in June, originally auditioned for the show in 2007, and had been in talks to appear in the new series.
But he was surprised to find out he had not been selected as a contestant once again after holding promising talks with TV executives just a week before the 16 celebrities were announced on Monday.
Ferrigno's wife, Carla, has blasted producers for the snub and criticized them for not even letting her husband know they had decided against picking him.
She tells RadarOnline.com, "They never even had the class to give Lou a call and tell him that he was not going to be chosen -- this is the second time they haven't selected him but it will be the last. Lou is an American icon and we had a lot of fans contacting us who were excited about him appearing on 'Dancing with the Stars.'
"The producers told us he would have made an excellent contestant and when you compare him to some of the 'so-called' celebrities they picked it just does not make any sense at all.
"We couldn't believe some of the people they picked. ... I mean Tom Delay, a corrupt politician, a skateboarder (Louie Vito) who nobody has ever heard of and what exactly has Ashley (Hamilton) ever done?"
The other celebrities picked include pop stars Macy Gray and Aaron
Carter, reality TV star Kelly Osbourne and model Joanna Krupa.
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Diaz spotted on date with Reeves?
Cameron Diaz has been spotted enjoying a date with Keanu Reeves a month after she was seen out with both Leonardo DiCaprio and Jude Law on separate nights.
The beauty, who previously dated Justin Timberlake and Matt Dillon, split from British model Paul Sculfor earlier this year.
In July she was seen enjoying an evening out with her "Gangs of New York" co-star DiCaprio in London before heading out with Law to party at the British capital's Boujis nightclub a few days later.
And now Diaz has been seen dining at a restaurant with the "Matrix" star in Los Angeles, before heading to watch a movie together.
During the date the actress was seen making Reeves laugh by fitting a whole hamburger into her mouth. The pair then left arm in arm, according to Britain's The Sun newspaper.
A source tells the publication, "Cameron was stuffing her burger in her mouth and playing up the fact that she has that wide mouth. Keanu was laughing -- it was strange to see him giggling like that as he's regarded as a bit serious."
The pair appeared together as lovers in the 1996 film "Feeling Minnesota."
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Ashanti and Nelly reportedly split
R&B star Ashanti and rapper Nelly have reportedly called off their romance.
The hip-hop supercouple managed to keep their four-year romance secret until Nelly confirmed in November they are in fact a couple.
Ashanti even admitted in March that a wedding was "absolutely in the cards" for the pair
.But now the twosome has split amid claims the "Hot in Herre" rapper wasn't ready to settle down with Ashanti, reports the New York Daily News.
The publication alleges Nelly has recently been spotted spending time with Canadian beauty Melyssa Ford, a model who has starred in music videos for R. Kelly and Usher.
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Washington thrills Tokyo commuters at train conductor
Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington gave commuters in Tokyo a thrill on Thursday after taking command of a Japanese train station
.The star plays a train dispatcher forced to negotiate with hijacker John Travolta in the movie remake "Taking of Pelham 1 2 3," and he conducted traffic at the Kokuritsu Kyogijo station as a train departed mid-afternoon to promote the movie.
Commanding the airwaves Washington told passengers in Japanese, "The train is leaving now."
However, the actor has laughed of the idea of switching careers, and admits he should have warned passengers before taking over. He says, "To be a train dispatcher for one day... Be very careful... if I'm in charge."
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quirkie news bits
A new restaurant has opened in China - and is serving meals cooked by robot chefs.
The 'I Robot' restaurant, in Nanning, Guangxi province, bought two robots from a Shenzen-based technology company for more than £50,000.
Huang Xianghao, the restaurant manager, says his robot chefs can make hundreds of traditional Chinese dishes, each of which takes just two or three minutes.
"We charge exactly the same price as other local restaurants, even though the robot chefs' dishes probably taste better," he told the Wuzhou Daily.
"Chinese cuisine is known for its delicacy and deliciousness. It's amazing to many customers that robots can make such good dishes.
"Our robot chefs are more efficient and hygienic. And they don't complain."
Hundreds of recipes have been stored in the databases of the computers which control the robots' movements.
However, the robots still need human assistant to help them prepare the ingredients, like washing and chopping the vegetables.
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Rhyming slang for cash machine
A cash machine operator has introduced Cockney rhyming slang to a number of its ATMs.
People wanting cash out of Bank Machine's ATMs in East London can choose to have their instruction given to them in rhyming slang, reports BBC online.
Customers will be asked to enter their Huckleberry Finn, rather than their Pin, and will have to select how much sausage and mash or cash they want.
The company plan to trial the rhyming slang in five cash machines for three months.
Ron Delnevo, managing director of Bank Machine, said: "We wanted to introduce something fun and of local interest to our London machines.
"Whilst we expect some residents will visit the machine to just have a look, most will be genuinely pleased as this is the first time a financial services provider will have recognised the Cockney language in such a manner."
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Magician provokes riot
An Indian conjuror needed an armed guard out of town after his 'magic' provoked a riot.
Rajeev Patel had been performing on the street in Berhampur, eastern India, when he asked a young boy to join him for a special magic trick.
Witnesses said he then pulled down the boy's pants and asked him to hold a piece of clay before saying he would change it into a sweet.
One man in the crowd said: "We were all shocked when he just pulled the boy's pants down but if that wasn't enough he didn't even manage to do the spell and a lot of people though he was just putting it on so he could look at the boy's backside.
"They got furious and started shouting at him and then when he said he would try it again they just went mad."
"He failed and the crowd turned violent," added a police spokesman, after officers took two hours to quell a riot and give the hapless magician an armed guard out of town.
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Sleepwalker survives 55ft fall
A Romanian man escaped with only minor injuries after he fell from a fourth floor window while he was asleep.
Marius Purcariu, 32, from Arad, was found wrapped in a curtain on the bonnet of a car parked under his bedroom window.
He told doctors he could not remember how he got there.
He said: "I remember turning off the TV and going to sleep around 2am. Then I heard noises and my wife was calling my name from the window. I was very lucky I guess."
Doctors said it was a miracle he suffered nothing worse than a leg fracture and a broken rib in the fall.
They believe it was a clear case of sleepwalking and say the fact his body was relaxed during the fall because he was still asleep may have saved his life.
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Sultan's £15,000 haircut
The Sultan of Brunei has spent an incredible £15,000 on getting a haircut.
The wealthy royal paid the massive fee to fly his favourite barber, Ken Modestu, from London to Brunei earlier this month.
But the Sultan was so worried about catching swine flu that he paid £11,000 for a private luxury cabin for the hairdresser - so that he didn't mix with other passengers on the plane.
Modestou runs a barber's at the Dorchester hotel in Mayfair, central London, and usually charges £30 for a trim, reports The Sun.
But the 63-year-old Sultan - one of the richest men in the world - pays the barber thousands every time he makes the 7,000 mile round trip to Brunei.
George Kadi, who works with Modestou at the Dorchester, told a client yesterday: "Ken has been cutting the hair of the sultan for 16 years.
"He goes regularly, sometimes every three or four weeks. The sultan flies him first-class at a cost of about £9,000. Everything is paid for, hotel, luxury food. It's a case of 'just keep signing, that's all'.
"Kadi said that the Sultan - whose fortune is estimated at £12billion pays Modestou with a "thick envelope" full of cash.
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Man uses live mortars as dumbells
A man from China decided to keep fit using two old mortars before a friend noticed the devices were still live.
Former army officer Xie Long, 87, said: "A colleague told me they were defused and because they were heavy and in the right shape I took two home to use as dumbbells. "Even my two sons used to use them as well for training. I can't believe we trained with them for 30 years with nothing happening." The mortars were discovered by chance when a friend from the local police force who also specialised in explosives visited Long at his home in the Hechuan district of Chongqing. "When I saw one of the mortars, I was sweating. The firing pin was in the position of readiness, and can explode if violently hit or shaken," said police officer Li Guangkui. Li said: "Once exploded, the result is beyond imagination."
Police have defused the mortars, and they will now be put on display in a military museum.
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Shuttle to deliver 'hot and cold'
By Jonathan AmosScience reporter, BBC News
The US shuttle Discovery is all set for its latest mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The 13-day flight will deliver science equipment to the platform, including a new freezer to store biological samples and a furnace for baking materials.
The lab equipment was made in Europe, which is represented in Discovery's crew by Swede Christer Fuglesang.
The mission will be the 30th shuttle flight dedicated to station assembly and maintenance.
The current plan is for a further six sorties to be made to the ISS before America's re-useable spaceship fleet is retired at the end of next year or early in 2011.
The lift-off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is timed for 0136 local time (0536 GMT) on Tuesday.
The latest mission has a strong European focus.
European Space Agency (Esa) astronaut Christer Fuglesang will conduct two of the three spacewalks planned during Discovery's stay at the ISS.
On one of these walks, the Swede will move cabling on the exterior of the station in readiness for the arrival next year of a connecting unit, called Node 3 or "Tranquility", and a huge window referred to as the Cupola.
The two modules will be Europe's final large-scale contributions to the assembly of the ISS.
Discovery's payload bay is taken up with the Italian-built Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM), which acts as a giant packing box on shuttle logistics missions.
For this flight, the MPLM contains almost seven tonnes of cargo. This mass includes two more important European donations to the ISS project.
One is a Melfi (Minus Eighty Laboratory Freezer for ISS), which can store biological samples.
"This is the second such freezer," explained Martin Zell, Esa's head of ISS Utilisation.
"This first one is already up there since three years and working extremely well.
"It's the main freezer element on the station and can operate between plus-4C, at the upper temperature, down to minus-80 degrees; and even in different temperatures in its four cold volumes, or compartments," he told BBC News.
The additional Melfi will facilitate the increased science workload taking place on the station now that its resident crew has been raised from three to six.
All manner of biological samples will be stored in the new facility, including blood taken from the astronauts.
This is routinely drawn for study, to further scientists' understanding of the impacts of long-duration spaceflight on the human body.
Growing issue
The other notable European cargo item is the Materials Science Laboratory.
This contains a safe furnace (up to 1,400C) in which astronauts can first melt and then solidify a range of samples, such as metal alloys.
The weightless conditions on the station mean the fine-scale structures in these cooling samples will grow in a different way from how they would at the surface of the Earth.
Scientists expect these experiments to provide novel information that can be applied to everyday industrial manufacturing processes.
With MSL and the Melfi units, Europe is providing both the coldest and the hottest conditions for science on the station.
As well as preparing the platform for the arrival of Tranquility and the Cupola, the mission's spacewalks will replace experiments that currently live on the outside of Esa's Columbus laboratory.
They will also exchange one of the tanks for storing ammonia, which is used to move excess heat from inside the station to the radiators located outside.
Discovery will also drop off US
astronaut Nicole Stott for a three-month stay on the ISS, and pick up
colleague Tim Kopra for the ride home. Kopra has been living on the
platform for the past five weeks.
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THE WAKE UP DUDES WILL BE IN KUCHING THIS WEEKEND AND WORKING HAND IN HAND WITH THE BEST OF THE BEST ...THE HILTON KUCHING !
THERES A CHARITY RUN HAPPENING ....
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Today is Women and Children Day in Mongolia and Children's Day in China.
June is Adopt a Shelter Cat Month...so be nice to them lil critters....hmmmm...navvy looks like a cat at work today...but no ! ...no nicey nicey for him !
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152nd day of 2009 - 213 remaining
Monday, June 1, 2009
1967 - The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. One of the first critically-acclaimed rock albums, Sgt. Pepper’s became the number one album in the world and was at the top of the U.S. album list for 15 weeks
1991 - Former Temptations lead singer David Ruffin died in Philadelphia of a cocaine overdose at age 50. He was the lead singer on such Temptations hits as My Girl (1965) and Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (1966). Ruffin had hits on his own with My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) (1969) and Walk Away from Love (1976).
1985: Weird Al Yankovic released "Dare to Be Stupid," an album featuring the title song, plus "Like a Surgeon," "I Want a New Duck," "George of the Jungle," and "Yoda."
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Toyota: An end to rumours of us withdrawing
BMW duo looking forward to Turkey
Domenicali: We haven't submitted to cap
Turkish Grand Prix - team and driver preview quotes
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Rip off' mayor elected
A Croatian politician has been swept to power after promising voters he would rip them off at every opportunity.
Bare-faced Josko Risa was voted in as mayor in Prolozac with a landslide victory using the slogan: "All for me - nothing for you."
"I just told them the truth. This town will be like my family business. If I get a little something, so do they," he explained.
Locals who backed Risa said they would be happy to have him as mayor, despite his bizarre campaign pledge.
Ivan Vjisnic, 57, said: "We know what we're letting ourselves in for.
"We're going to get ripped off no matter who takes over. At least he's being honest and up front about it. And he has said that if things get better for him then they will get better for us."
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Dad called police after son refused to clean his room
A US man called police because his 28-year-old son wouldn't clean his bedroom.
Andrew Mizsak, of Cleveland, Ohio, called 911 after a domestic argument got out of hand.
His son, also called Andrew, had thrown a plate of food across the kitchen table and clinched his fist at his dad when told to clean his room.
Andrew junior, who serves on the local school board, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I know this looks bad."
Mr Mizsak, who lives with his parents and also works as an independent political consultant, was "crying uncontrollably" after being told to clean his room, according to a police report.
His 63-year-old father decided against pressing charges and told police: "I don't want to ruin his political career."
He later told reporters: "I overreacted. No big deal."
His son said he was embarrassed to have taken police away from more important work.
"My dad and I love each other very much," he said, promising to keep his basement room clean. "I'm lucky to be living in their house."
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Spider-cat climbs walls
A cat has amazed its owner by learning to climb up the walls of her house to get back in when he's locked out.
Charlie scales the walls of his master's home in Denny, near Falkirk, to sneak indoors via an upstairs balcony.
The ginger and white tomcat's gravity-defying skills have earned him the nickname 'Spider-cat', reports the Daily Telegraph.
His owner Hannah Smith discovered his talent when she let him out of the front door, only for him to reappear indoors moments later.
Miss Smith said: "Charlie miaows at the front door to be let out. So we let him out but no sooner is he let out than he wants back in.
"But if no one hears him at the front door, he wanders round to the back of the buildings to find the balcony. He then climbs up to the balcony to get back in.
"So Charlie really goes out the front door and in the back door."
She added: "I got him as a wee kitten and out of the litter Charlie was the one that looked most mischievous and I liked that about him. He's certainly lived up to his reputation.
"I think it is totally incredible how Charlie is able to climb up a roughcast wall. I've seen cats climb trees but I've never seen a cat climb a wall. It's amazing."
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Schoolgirl goalkeeper claims a record
A schoolgirl goalkeeper is set for the record books after scoring twice in a single match from her own penalty box.
Emily Dickson, 14, stunned her team-mates and the opposition with two huge drop kicks down the full-sized pitch.
With both attempts, the ball bounced over the opposing keeper and into the net during the under-15s match, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Emily, from Broxbourne, Herts, is now awaiting confirmation from FA officials, who believe her effort is a record.
The Hoddesdon Owls Girls player said: "I'd never scored a goal from my goal before. So it was totally brilliant to get two in one match."
By scoring two goals, Emily, a pupil at Broxbourne School, helped her side to defeat the Stevenage Vixens 3-2.
The FA's official historian David Barber believes that Emily, could be the first keeper in the country to have scored twice on a full-sized pitch in a competitive match.
Emily said: "I was in a really bad mood because I'd just let in a goal. I took the ball and smashed it as hard as I could when it came to me. It bounced over the keeper and went in. I couldn't believe it."
Her manager came onto the pitch afterwards and told her 'double or quits', priming her for a second attempt.
Emily said: "So when the ball came to me next, everyone shouted 'shoot', so I did and in it bounced."
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Ball and chain forces children to revise
Parents can now help their children revise - by buying a ball and chain that only unlocks when they have studied for long enough.
Concerned mums and dads set the desired study time on the Study Ball and attach it to their child's ankle, reports the Daily Telegraph.
A red digital display counts down the 'Study Time Left' and the device beeps and unlocks when the time expires.
The prison-style device weighs 9.5 kg (21 pounds), making it difficult to move while wearing it.
It cannot be locked for more than four hours and comes with a safety key that allows the manacle to be opened at anytime.
The ball and chain costs £75 and is sold online at curiosite.com.
The website says: "Quite often, students who are having problems concentrating tend to get up every ten minutes to watch TV, talk on the phone, take something out of the fridge, and a long list of other distractions.
"Were they to dedicate all this wasted time to studying, they would optimise their performance and have more free time available."
Designer Emilio Alarcon said: "The project was born of a conversation I had with a friend who was studying for a civil service exam. He said: "I haven't left the house in a week, this is like being in jail"."
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Nurse stranded after dog ate car key
A nurse was left stranded after her cocker spaniel ate her car key.
Alfie pounced after Charlotte Hanson, 27, dropped the Peugeot key at home in Leeds, reports the Yorkshire Evening Post.
The mother of one said: "I tried to prise the key out of his mouth, but he thought it was a game and refused to let go.
"I grabbed a piece of sausage to tempt him to open his mouth. But he just swallowed the keys and the sausage in one gulp."
Charlotte hoped nature would take its course. But next day there was no sign of the key and Alfie appeared ill, so he was taken to the vet's for an op to remove it.
Alfie had already had a trip to the vets after eating socks belonging to Charlotte's seven-week-old baby son Victor.
The dog loving mum also revealed that they had been forced to cancel an appointment with an obedience class which had been arranged to help Alfie's jealousy problems since the arrival of little Victor.
She said: "Ever since Victor was born he's been a bit more naughty than usual so we had a training session booked for him to help him get used to the new member of the family.
"He'll do anything for attention at the moment so I can't help but wonder if swallowing the car key was another ploy by him."
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Sex theme park bulldozed
China's communist leaders have called in the bulldozers to demolish what would have been the country's first sex theme park.
Love Land had been set to open in October in the southwestern city of Chongqing, reports The Times.
Within hours of a nationwide blaze of publicity for the park and its over-sized statues of naked genitalia and sex workshops, the bulldozers moved in.
Among the first displays to fall victim to the wreckers ball was a rotating signboard with the park's name straddled by a giant pair of women's legs topped by a red thong.
The park's manager, Lu Xiaoqing, had defended the venture, saying: "Sex is a taboo subject in China but people really need to have more access to information about it.
"We are building the park for the good of the public. I have found that the majority of people support my idea, but I have to pay attention and not make the park look vulgar and nasty."
But he failed to win the support of city propaganda officials. A hasty weekend inspection tour after pictures of the theme park appeared in the media spelled its demise.
One city propaganda official said: "The investigation determined the park's content was vulgar and that it was neither healthy nor educational. It had an evil influence on society and had to be torn down immediately."
He Shizhong, head of the municipal publicity department, said the company behind the park had "ignored its social responsibility and was interested only in profiting from sensationalism".
A project manager for developers, the Mexin Group, said: "It's a pity the park had to close, but we accept the decision. We apologise if we upset any members of the public."
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Teen held up shop with banana
A US teenager tried to rob an internet cafe with a banana - then ate the 'weapon' before he was arrested.
Police say John Szwalla entered the shop in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with the banana concealed under his T-shirt and demanded money, reports the BBC.
The shop's owner and customers overcame the thief and called for help, but the teenager ate his banana before police arrived.
Officers joked they may charge the 17-year-old with destroying evidence.
Bobby Ray Mabe, the owner of store, said police officials took pictures of the banana skin instead.
"f he had had a gun he would've shot me," Mr Mabe told the Winston-Salem Journal newspaper. "But he had a banana."
Mr Szwalla has been charged with attempted armed robbery.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 LIMERICK DAY |
Edward Lear was born on this day in 1812 in Highgate, England. Lear was a poet and a talented illustrator.A big champion of the limerick (which dates back to the early 18th century), Lear wrote Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense and other such amusing pieces. The Nonsense book especially helped the limerick to become very popular. The limerick is the only fixed-verse form indigenous to the English language.
So, what are you waiting for? Write a limerick today! Here’s one to get you started:
There once was a man named Nation,
Who worked for a radio station.
Although he was tall,
His hands were too small,
Wee paws for station identification.
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Hubble fix mission set for launch
By Paul RinconScience reporter, BBC News
The Hubble Space Telescope is set to receive its final overhaul when a space shuttle mission launches from Florida.
The shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to blast off on Monday in an attempt to repair the stricken space observatory.
Hubble has been hit by failures to its science instruments and to its onboard gyroscopes.
Engineers hope the challenging flight will give a new lease of life to one of the most important scientific tools ever built.
A successful mission would make Hubble up to 90 times more powerful than it was in its original guise and extend its operating lifetime until at least 2014.
Shuttle Atlantis is due to lift off at 1901 BST (1401 EDT) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The seven crew have arrived at the pad and have begun boarding the vehicle.
Nasa said the weather remained favourable, with a 90% chance of good conditions at the time of launch.
The fifth and final servicing flight was delayed last year, when a critical component of the telescope failed. No more such missions are planned because of the space shuttle's impending retirement in 2010.
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
- Named after the great US astronomer Edwin Hubble
- Launched in 1990 into a 600km-high circular orbit
- Equipped with a 2.4m primary mirror and five instruments
- Length: 15.9m; diameter: 4.2m; Mass: 11,110kg
"Our workload is going to be very high," the mission's lead spacewalker John Grunsfeld told BBC News.
"There's no time to take a breather and look around, it's just going to be work, work, work."
He added: "It's going to be a marathon at a sprint pace for 11 days on orbit."
But if all goes well, it could trigger a magnificent renaissance for the much-loved space telescope.
Martin Barstow, professor of astrophysics and space science at the University of Leicester, UK, has been closely involved in planning for the mission.
He told BBC News: "If (the mission) is successful, as we all hope, it will not just return Hubble to health but increase its capability tremendously with the addition of two new, even more powerful instruments.
"It is a testament to the ingenuity and commitment of many scientists and engineers. I have no doubt that we will continue to be amazed by Hubble's new discoveries during the next few years."
After launch, Atlantis will rendezvous with Hubble, grab the telescope with its robotic arm and pull it on to a work platform to give astronauts easy access to its interior.
Crew members will install new instruments and thermal blankets, repair two existing instruments, replace gyroscopes, batteries and a unit that stores and transmits science data to Earth.
The overhaul will be carried out over five spacewalks. Astronauts will remove the existing Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 instrument to make way for the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
WFC3 will be Hubble's first "panchromatic" camera with a wide field of view and is able to take amazingly sharp images over a broad range of colours.
"Wide Field Camera 3 is just going to blow people away with the pictures it is going to be able to take across a very wide wavelength spectrum, from the infrared to the ultraviolet," Mr Grunsfeld said.
It will enable astronomers to carry out new studies of dark energy and dark matter and search for remote galaxies previously beyond Hubble's vision.
"People
have devoted their lives, their hearts, their souls, their blood in
some cases to building, operating and servicing Hubble"
John Grunsfeld, shuttle astronaut
In pictures: The best of Hubble
Spacewalkers will also take out the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) device, installed during Hubble's first servicing mission to correct the telescope's flawed mirror.
This is no longer needed as instruments installed since have been designed individually to correct for the faults.
In COSTAR's place, astronauts will install the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), designed to help researchers probe galaxy evolution, the formation of planets, the elements required for life and the web of gas between galaxies.
Repairs will be made to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), which suffered a power failure in 2004, and to the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was hit by an electrical short in 2007.
"Personally, I'm hoping that the astronauts will have time to repair the ACS camera. It may not get done because there are higher priorities on the schedule," said Dr Richard Massey, a fellow in astronomy at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.
The WFC3 will seek out even earlier galaxies
Referring to the two European Space Agency satellites, Herschel and Planck, which launch on Thursday, Dr Massey said it was a "make-or-break week for astronomy".
Astronauts will also replace a worn-out fine guidance sensor, helping to maintain a robust ability to point the telescope.
After the work to Hubble is complete, Atlantis will boost the telescope to a higher altitude, ensuring that it survives the tug of Earth's gravity for the remainder of its operating lifetime.
Professor Barstow commented: "I have to say that it has been a nail biting time waiting for this with all the problems that have got in the way, the most recent being the failure of the command and data handling module just about a week before the mission was due to launch last October.
"I think the team have done an amazing job of solving the problem of adding that repair to the programme and I wish them well for the mission."
'Unique beast'
Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is now regarded as one of the most important instruments in the history of astronomy. It has made a remarkable contribution to our understanding of the origin and evolution of the Universe.
Hubble has obtained the deepest views of the cosmos, finding high-interest objects for other observatories to investigate in detail. Its studies of the Universe's expansion also dramatically refined the best estimates for the age of the cosmos.
Its pictures have produced hard evidence for the existence of black holes and confirmed theories of planetary formation.
Three of the seven shuttle crew are veterans of previous Hubble servicing missions. This will be Mr Grunsfeld's third consecutive flight to the orbiting observatory.
Speaking to me at a conference last year, he said: "Hubble is something that has a huge family here on planet Earth. People have devoted their lives, their hearts, their souls, their blood in some cases to building, operating and servicing Hubble.
"The results that we get - the science - are a bit like the love you would get from a pet. Hubble is this unique beast. When we go up into orbit, I really do feel this kinship with it. Even more so after spending five days up close and personal working on it.
"When it's time to leave, I do feel a little bit of sadness... but my big goal is not to break it, and to send it off so it can do new science."
Following the Columbia disaster in 2003, which claimed the lives of seven astronauts, another mission to service Hubble was considered too hazardous.
The reason was astronauts would not be able to use the International Space Station (ISS) as a safe haven if the shuttle sustained damage on launch.
Nasa has now accepted the risk of the mission, but will have the shuttle Endeavour ready to launch immediately to bring the crew home if the servicing mission is endangered.
This unprecedented measure comes at a cost, however: a shuttle mission costs upwards of $450m (£298m; 333m euros).
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Web murderer given life sentence
Heiss became angry when his obsessive messages were blocked
Murder reveals hidden online life
A man from Germany has been jailed for life for stabbing a Nottingham student 86 times after stalking his girlfriend.
David Heiss, 21, from Limburg, became infatuated with 20-year-old Matthew Pyke's girlfriend Joanna Witton, 21, during repeated internet exchanges.
Heiss, who denied the murder charge and said he was acting in self defence, was found guilty at Nottingham Crown Court.
The judge described Heiss's motive as "bizarre" and ordered him to serve at least 18 years for the 2008 attack.
During the trial the jury heard that on 18 September, 2008, Heiss flew from Frankfurt to Birmingham with a knife and made his way to the flat Mr Pyke shared with Miss Witton on North Sherwood Street in Nottingham.
He waited until Miss Witton left for work the following morning and confronted Mr Pyke, originally from Stowmarket in Suffolk.
Heiss had claimed he was acting in self defence after Mr Pyke charged at him with a knife.
The court heard Miss Witton, who was originally from Selby in North Yorkshire, met Heiss through a website she ran with Mr Pyke.
Heiss spent six months pestering her with declarations of love and visited the couple twice in Nottingham before the attack.
He became infuriated when the couple, who conducted their entire social life online, blocked Heiss from their website, preventing him from sending further messages to Miss Witton.
'Wonderful man'
Mr Justice Keith said Heiss had remained in denial about the murder.
He told Heiss: "The law permits only one punishment for the crime of murder and the sentence I pass on you is one of imprisonment for life.
"The fact that your motive for murder was so bizarre doesn't make your killing of Matthew any the less serious."
Speaking after the trial, Mr Pyke's brother Adam said: "All it takes is one stab wound and somebody dies.
"He was a great brother to have and it's still difficult to come to terms with the fact that he's not going to be here any more."
A statement issued on behalf of Mr Pyke's family and Miss Witton said: "We will never truly come to terms with what happened to Matthew that morning.
"While we have wanted justice throughout the course of this trial, all we really want is Matthew back with us.
"There will always be a massive part of our family missing and not a day goes by without us thinking about Matthew and what might have been.
"It's not fair that we should all have to live like this for the rest of our lives because of one man's actions. He has taken a wonderful, caring, loving young man from all of us."
Det Ch Insp Tony Heydon from Nottinghamshire Police warned people about the dangers of the internet.
"It is the worst case I have dealt with. It is a horrific incident, a very pre-planned premeditated murder.
"The scene we found on the day was horrific and what happened to Matthew was a terrible act, everyone is shocked about what happened.
Web warning
"David Heiss was very clever on the internet, and he learned a lot of information about Joanna Witton and Matthew Pyke and others.
"It is very, very interesting that he could do that.
"One of the things that's important here is that people need to realise that on their computers there is a lot of personal information that other people can gather.
"We know that Heiss found out a lot of information about where they lived and where they worked and all sorts of things about their social network that perhaps now with hindsight they wouldn't want him to know.
"So people need to bear that in mind when they are on their own systems using Facebook, people need to be careful."
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on this date :
1971 - The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger married Bianca Perez Morena de Macias. Mick couldn’t remember her whole name very well, so she became known as Bianca the world over.
1977 - The Eagles earned a gold
record for the hit, Hotel California. The award was the
second of three gold record singles for the group. The other million sellers
were New Kid in Town and Heartache Tonight. Two number one
songs by The Eagles -- Best of My Love and One of These Nights
-- didn’t quite make the million-seller mark.
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Pupils at a Chinese school are being encouraged to attack punchbag dummies of their teachers to relieve stress.
Lichang 1st Middle School in Jinan attached pictures of teachers to sandbags and gave pupils boxing gloves to work off their frustrations.
Vice principal Meng Fanxiang said: "Adolescent students may have a lot of problems and be under great pressure from studies. It's better for them to release it within the school than other places."
Meng's own picture, as well as those of other teachers and admin staff, has been attached to the sandbags.
But the vice principal told the Qilu Evening Post: "I don't care if they beat up my dummy."
The 'physical release' room is part of a new programme of support services for students which also include a private chatroom and a consultation room.
The school says that most boys prefer the physical release room for the release of stress, while the majority of girls prefer the private chatroom
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Police are hunting a crook who got clean away with more than £10,000 after robbing a bank dressed as a little old lady.
The bandit shuffled into the bank in Hamburg, Germany, wearing a headscarf, thick glasses and a long coat before pulling a gun on cashiers.
More than 100 police officers took part in a chaotic city-wide search for the cross-dressing blagger - and arrested five real-life old ladies as suspects before letting them go.
A police spokesman said: "A cashier said they saw a smiling little old lady come up to the cash desk, but then she suddenly whipped out a gun, roared in a deep male voice to hand over the cash and then fled like as quickly as an Olympic athlete.
"A lot of bank robbers just
put a balaclava over their heads to hide their face, but this
particular disguise was very well thought out and makes catching them
especially hard."
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Brits use wallabies as lawnmowers
British gardeners are increasingly buying wallabies as pets to trim their lawns.
Private orders for the marsupials have jumped in recent years as landowners seek new ways of keeping their grass neat, reports The Times.
Wallaby enthusiasts say the animal is a cuter, friendlier and more exotic alternative than sheep.
A pair of wallabies are not cheap, with males costing £150 and females around £650, in addition to food and bedding costs.
But Waveney Wildlife, Britain's biggest private supplier, reports a doubling in wallaby orders in five years, driven by growing interest from individuals.
Trevor Lay, who runs the centre in Bungay, Suffolk, now sells 35 a year and says he could find homes for three times as many.
"It's crazy. To be honest, if I had 100 I could easily get rid of them," he said.
Quintin Spratt, a breeder from near Diss in Norfolk, also told the newspaper that he had received a surge of inquiries from would-be owners.
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Man sues over sex ban
A Kenyan man is suing the organisers of a politically motivated sex ban for causing him "anxiety and sleepless nights".
James Kimondo is seeking damages for the ban which was called by women's groups in a bid to force political leaders to put their rivalries aside, reports the Daily Telegraph.
"Since the women called for the sex boycott, my wife has denied me my conjugal rights. This has caused me anxiety and sleepless nights," he said.
"I have been suffering mental anguish, stress, back aches, lack of concentration," Mr Kimondo told reporters outside the Nairobi High Court.
The strike ended on Wednesday with the organisers claiming it had been a success.
The leaders of the G10, a coalition of women's groups, argued that the country's male leaders should not have time for matters of the flesh when the country is ensnared in economic and political turmoil.
President Mwai Kibaki and his rival Raila Odinga, pictured, were pressured into a power-sharing deal by international mediators following violence which accompanied December 2007 polls.
But lingering tensions have crippled the coalition government and fuelled widespread discontent.
The two, who have hardly met recently, held brief talks last Monday and
held a cabinet meeting on Thursday, the first in a month.
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