3 posts tagged “the wake up show”
49th day of 2009 - 316 remaining
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Today is Pluto Day. The ninth planet, no
longer accepted as a planet by some, was discovered on this date in 1930 by astronomer
Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was named for the Roman god of the underworld,
which of course was named for Mickey Mouse's dog.
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1993:
After a train hit a baby elephant near Dhaka, Bangladesh, the mother
elephant blocked the tracks so the next train had to stop, then she
beat her head against the engine for 15 minutes. The train was so
damaged, 200 passengers were stranded for five hours.
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Railway station bans kissing
Couples have been banned from kissing at a railway station in Cheshire because it holds up other passengers.
No-kissing signs have appeared in the taxi rank at Warrington Bank Quay Station forcing lovers to use designated areas only.
The signs were erected after concerns that passionate embraces were causing delays for commuters at the station which is believed to be the first in the country to put up such signs.
Ruth Sargeant, 38, who uses the station to travel to Manchester, said: "It's ridiculous. I don't see the point of having a no-kissing area, surely people are entitled to say their goodbyes."
The no kissing signs are part of the £650,000 station refurbishment funded by Virgin Trains, Network Rail, the Northwest Regional Development Agency and the Department for Transport.
Colin Daniels, chief executive of the Warrington Chamber of Commerce who came up with the idea, said: "They may seem frivolous but there is a serious message underneath."
A Virgin spokesman said: "We are trying to tell people not to wait too long in the drop-off, but we don't mind people waiting there for a short time."
Asked how the no-kissing rule would be enforced, he added: "We will apply this sensibly."
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A Man United fan drove 400 miles to meet a woman he had been chatting to online - only to find it was a hoax set up by Liverpool fans.
Married Stuart Slann, 39, from Sheffield, made the trip to a remote farm in Scotland to meet the women he had been flirting with for weeks, reports the Daily Mail.
But when he arrived at the house 'Emma' was nowhere to be seen. Three hours later the pranksters called him and confessed it was all a trick.
They taped the conversation and put it onto video-sharing website YouTube and Facebook accompanied by an embarrassing photo.
Mr Slann's wife, Louise, 32, then discovered that he had intended to have an affair and ended their marriage.
He met the two Liverpudlians during a holiday in Cancun, Mexico, where they spent their time arguing about their teams who are bitter North-West rivals.
When the Liverpool fans returned to the UK they came up with the plan to humiliate him by setting up a false Facebook account pretending to be a Scottish woman called Emma.
Mr Slann added: "I'd been chatting to this girl on Facebook for about a month or so. I really thought she was genuine, and I had no reason to doubt it.
"On the night she asked me to Scotland I was on the road for about nine hours. And then when I got to this remote farm she sent me a text to say she was still in work.
"That's what made it worse, not only had I driven for nine hours, but I had to wait for about another three and a half hours for her to finish work. Then when I got the call to say it was all a hoax I just felt awful."
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A Norfolk woman has had woolly jumpers knitted for 1,500 balding rescued former battery hens.
Jo Eglen, 29, who runs the Little Hen Rescue Centre in Norwich, has rescued and re-homed a total of 5,750 battery hens.
But many had lost their plumage so Mrs Eglen turned to her local community asking for people willing to knit jumpers for the bedraggled birds.
The teaching assistant, a mother-of-two, began rescuing battery hens after a visit to a local farm, reports the Daily Telegraph.
She said: "Some battery farms have up to 10,000 hens of the same age. But when the birds stop or start to slow laying they are sent to the slaughterhouse - not to be used as meat, but just to be culled.
"We know that once they're out of the farms they start laying good eggs again. They get quite thin and bald because of the stress and heat. About 60% of the hens that come through are bald.
"We have patterns on our website that are straight-forward and simple. We've had 1,500 jumpers come through in just the past two months."
Mrs Eglen set up the Little Hen Rescue Centre with another volunteer David Doy, after being given free use of land by a local farmer.
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A burglar who stole a DVD player in China was arrested - when he went back for the remote.
But the thief was allowed to go free - when police officers ruled the £100 DVD player was not valuable enough for them to press charges.
Song, 25, of Chengdu, first broke into the house in December. He later realised he had forgotten the remote control so broke into the same building again a month later.
But this time he found the owner, Dai, watching television in the living room, reports Chengdu Business Daily.
Under pressure from Dai, Song admitted he had been responsible for the previous raid and Dai escorted him to the police station to report the crime.
But to Dai's amazement, police said the £100 DVD player was not worth enough to prosecute Song and he was set free.
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Italian police were called to catch a poodle that had bitten off the nose of its female owner before running into the garden.
They chased the poodle, called Vale, around owner Loredana Romano's garden before finally retrieving what was left of the nose.
Mrs Romano, 34, from Forli in northern Italy, said. "My little Vale often climbed into bed with me, I don't know why she suddenly bit off my nose."
Doctors were able to salvage the chewed nose and reattach it but say she will now have to go undergo a long course of reconstructive surgery to repair the numerous scars.
The woman has already forgiven her dog but says it will not be allowed to sleep in her bed again.
"I should have listened to my husband when he always told me he should be the only one allowed in the bed," she said.
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Two classmates were chatting in their lunch break...
"I know how to get money real quick" says one. ”Go to your dad and say, 'I know the truth' and he'll give you money."
So
the young boy went home and said "Dad, I know the truth" and his dad
gave him ten dollars and told him not to tell anyone 'the truth'.
He then went to his mother, " Mom, I know the truth” he said.
"Please don't tell your dad" she said and gave him twenty dollars.
Content with thirty dollars he went outside to go to the arcade and saw the milkman. "I know the truth,” he shouted out.
The milkman replied "Well come and hug your real father then"
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:):):):):):)
This guy pulls into a crowded parking lot and rolled down the car windows to make sure his dog had fresh air. The dog was stretched out in the back seat, and the guy wanted to impress upon the dog that he must remain there. The guy walked to the curb backward, pointing his finger at the car and saying emphatically, “Now you stay. Do you hear me? Stay!” The driver of a nearby car gave the guy a startled look and said: “I don’t know about you, man,but I usually just put my car in park.”
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Disney Bolts to top of box office
Disney animation Bolt has raced to the top of the UK and Ireland box office chart in its opening weekend.
The film, featuring the voice of John Travolta as a TV show dog who believes his fictional powers are real, took £2.8m in its first three days.
Fresh from its success at the Baftas, Slumdog Millionaire rose one place to number two, taking its total five week haul to £20 million.
Romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You fell one place to three.
Last week's box office winner, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, fell three places to four in its second week.
There were four other new entries in the top 10, including family film Hotel for Dogs at five.
UK BOX OFFICE TOP FIVE
- 1. Bolt - £2.84m
- 2. Slumdog Millionaire - £1.82m
- 3. He's Just Not That Into You - £1.78m
- 4. The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - £1.77m
- 5. Hotel for Dogs - £1.5m
Slasher re-make Friday the 13th, which smashed US box office records earlier in the week for an opening of a horror film, could only manage sixth place, bringing in £1.2m.
Biggie Smalls biopic Notorious opened at seven, with Pink Panther 2 at eight.
Penelope Cruz's Bafta win for her role in Vicky Christina Barcelona may have helped the film rise two spots to number nine.
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Alien life 'may exist among us'
By James MorganScience reporter, BBC News, Chicago
Never mind Mars, alien life may be thriving right here on Earth, a major science conference has heard.
Our planet may harbour forms of "weird life" unrelated to life as we know it, according to Professor Paul Davies, a physicist at Arizona State University.
This "shadow life" may be hidden in toxic arsenic lakes or in boiling deep sea hydrothermal vents, he says.
He has called on scientists to launch a "mission to Earth" by trawling hostile environments for signs of bio-activity.
Weird life could even be living among us, in forms which we don't yet recognise, he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Chicago.
"We don't have to go to other planets to find weird life.
"It could be right in front of our noses - or even in our noses," said the physicist.
"It is entirely reasonable to expect we will find a shadow biosphere here on Earth.
"But nobody has actually taken the trouble to look.
"The question is why? The cost is not expensive - it would be a fraction of the money we spend searching for extraterrestrial life."
'Second genesis'
Professor Davies was one of the speakers at a symposium exploring the possibility that life has evolved on Earth more than once.
"How do we know we are dealing with separate Earth genesis and not a Mars genesis?"
Professor Paul Davies,
Arizona State University
The descendants of this "second genesis" may have survived until today in a "shadow biosphere" which is beyond our radar because its inhabitants have biochemistry so different from our own.
"All our microscopes are customised for life as we know it - so it's no surprise that we haven't found microbes with different biochemistry," said Professor Davies.
"We don't quite know how weird life would look. It's as wide as the imagination and that's why it's really hard to look for."
If it exists, weird life could be based on DNA and RNA - but with a slightly different genetic code or different amino acids.
At the other end of the spectrum, we could find creatures which have more drastic differences.
"Maybe one of the elements life uses - carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus - could be replaced by something else," said Professor Davies.
"When I say that, everyone immediately thinks of silicon life - because of Star Trek. But I'm not talking about anything that drastic.
"For example, most of the jobs that can be done by phosphorus can be done by arsenic."
Arsenic may be poisonous to humans, but it has chemical properties which might make it ideal in a microbe's machinery, he said.
'Mission to Earth'
So how do we go about hunting for something we have never seen before?
"There are two possibilities," said Prof Davies, Director of the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
"One is that weird life is ecologically isolated, in niches beyond the reach of mankind."
In this case, we must begin trawling the world's most inhospitable environments - deserts, salt lakes, and areas of high pressure, temperature or UV radiation.
"We could have a 'mission to Earth'. There's a big long list of places we could be looking," observed Professor Davies.
"For example, if we are looking for arsenic life, we could head for environments which are both arsenic rich and phosphorus poor - such as deep ocean vents.
"There is also a heavily contaminated lake in California which is arsenic rich - Mono Lake - and we do find microbes in there which get their energy from arsenic.
"But they don't actually incorporate the arsenic into themselves. They spit it back out again. They smoke but they don't inhale."
On the other hand, it could be that "weird life" is actually all around us - intermingled with carbon based life.
"In that case it's going to be really hard to detect - you have to find some way of filtering everything else out."
This laborious process has been used to search for unknown organisms in seawater - by painstakingly filtering everything else away.
If we did discover something unprecedented, "we'd all start arguing" said Professor Davies, a theoretical physicist.
"The question would be whether this life was truly different, or whether there was a common precursor a deep branch on the main tree of life.
"Also, how do we know we are dealing with separate Earth genesis and not a Mars genesis?
"We know rocks do get traded between the two planets, and life could hitch a ride.
"Personally, I'm only interested in establishing whether life happened more than once. If we find it has happened twice from scratch then its going to have happened all around the universe.
"It's going to be teeming with life and there's a very good chance we are not alone."
Life in the lab
Another way to determine what alternative life might look like is to try to invent it ourselves.
If we can create new molecules which can behave in life-like way, we may then go out and look for these in the environment, says Professor Steven Benner, of the University of Florida.
His team have created perhaps the closest yet to a man-made alternative form of life.
"We are announcing the first example of an artificial synthetic chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution," he told the conference.
"Is it alive? Well, I can tell you that it is not self-sustaining.
"You have to have a graduate student stand there and feed it from time to time, but it is evolving."
The molecule is essentially a modified version of our own DNA double helix - but with six "letters" in its genetic alphabet, instead of four.
These nucleotides pair up in strands, which can replicate, though only with the help of polymerase enzymes and heat.
"Sometimes mistakes are made in pairing and these mistakes are maintained in the next generation - it is evolving," said Prof Brenner.
"The next step is to apply natural selection to it, to see if it can evolve under selective pressure.
"The accepted definition of life is a molecule capable of Darwinian evolution, so we are trying to put together molecules that are capable of doing it."
But he questioned whether our definition of "living" is perhaps too "Earth-centric".
"Remember - just because you are a
chemical system which is self-sustaining and capable of Darwinian
evolution, that doesn't mean that is the universal definition of life,"
he said.
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Pirate Bay joy at charge change
Half of the charges levelled at the founders of the Pirate Bay file-sharing site have been dropped.
Swedish prosecutors dropped charges relating to "assisting copyright infringement" leaving the lesser charges of "assisting making available copyright material" on trial day two.
Pirate Bay co-founder Frederik Neik said it showed prosecutors had misunderstood the technology.
The music industry played down the changes as "simplifying the charges".
Peter Danowsky, legal counsel for the music companies in the case, said: "It's a largely technical issue that changes nothing in terms of our compensation claims and has no bearing whatsoever on the main case against The Pirate Bay.
"In fact it simplifies the prosecutor's case by allowing him to focus on the main issue, which is the making available of copyrighted works."
The Pirate Bay was launched in 2003 and quickly established itself as the world's most high profile file-sharing website. In February 2009, it reported 22 million simultaneous users.
At the start of the trial in Stockholm, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmsioppi and Carl Lundstorm were facing a large fine and up to two years in prison, if convicted.
"This is a sensation. It is very rare to win half the target in just one and a half days and it is clear that the prosecutor took strong note of what we said yesterday," defence lawyer Per E Samuelson told the TorrentFreak website, which reports on developments in the BitTorrent file-sharing community.
BitTorrent is a legal application used by many file-shares to swap content because of the fast and efficient manner it distributes files.
No copyright content is hosted on The
Pirate Bay's web servers; instead the site hosts "torrent" links to TV,
film and music files held on its users computers.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY IF ITS YOURS ...
OTHERS WHO SHARE THE SAME BIRTHDATE AS YOU :
1898 - Enzo Ferrari
auto racer, auto manufacturer; died Aug 14, 1988
1919 - Jack Palance (Vladimir
Palahnuik)
Academy Award-winning actor: City Slickers [1991]; Requiem for a
Heavyweight, Batman, Cyborg 2, Cops and
Robbersons, Bronk, Ripley’s Believe It or Not; died Nov 10, 2006
Academy Award-winning actor: Cool Hand Luke [1967]; The Blue Knight, Earthquake!, Naked Gun series, Airplane, Dallas, Delta Force, The Dirty Dozen
1932 - Milos FormanAcademy Award-winning director: One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest [1975], Amadeus [1984]
1933 - Yoko Ono Lennon
singer: Walking on Thin Ice; artist; John Lennon’s widow
musician: keyboard, singer: group: Styx: Lady, Sweet Madame Blue, Come Sail Away, Babe, The Best of Times; solo: Desert Moon
1948 - Sinead Cusack
actress: Stealing Beauty, Cyrano de Bergerac,
Revenge; married to actor, Jeremy Irons; daughter of actor,
Cyril Cusack
1948 - Keith Knudsen
musician: drums, singer: group: The Doobie Brothers: What a Fool Believes,
Real Love
baseball: pitcher: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971, 1979], California Angels, Boston Red Sox
1950 - Cybill Shepherd
actress: Cybill, Moonlighting, The Last Picture Show,
The Long Hot Summer
1952 - Randy (Veronica)
Crawford
singer: Imagine, Nightline, One Day I’ll Fly Away,
Rainy Night in Georgia
1952 - Juice Newton (Judy
Cohen)
singer: Angel of the Morning, LPs: Juice, Quiet
Lives
1953 - Robbie Bachman
drummer: group: Bachman-Turner Overdrive: Let It Ride, Takin’
Care of Business, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, Roll on
Down the Highway
1954 - John Travolta
actor: Welcome Back Kotter, Saturday Night Fever,
Grease, Urban Cowboy, Pulp Fiction, Get
Shorty, Broken Arrow, Face/Off, Primary
Colors, The Thin Red Line, Swordfish
1957 - Vanna White (Rosich)
TV game show personality: Wheel of Fortune
1960 - Greta Scacchi
actress: White Mischief, Presumed Innocent
1964 - Matt Dillon
actor: My Bodyguard, Drugstore Cowboy, The
Outsiders, There's Something About Mary
1968 - Molly Ringwald
actress: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in
Pink, The Facts of Life, Requiem for Murder
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Kelly Clarkson: 'Of Course Celebrities Have Cellulite!'
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Think Kelly Clarkson looks too good to be true on the cover of her upcoming CD? You're right, says the singer.
"No girl is perfect," Clarkson – who joked on her blog last month that "they Photoshopped the crap out of me!" on her sexy All I Ever Wanted cover image – told a group of Girl Scouts recently. "No girl wakes up every day and is like, 'I'm awesome!'"
In fact, she told the group of about 20 pre-teens gathered in Nashville Feb. 11 for a self-esteem workshop sponsored by Dove, "just to let you know everyone in the magazines is Photoshopped! Beyoncé is one of the most beautiful girls in the world but she gets Photoshopped too. We're all human!"
Clarkson, 26, knows what it's like to have her body image picked apart. "It affected me when people were saying about me and some other artists that we were the 'thicker' ones," she tells PEOPLE. "I'd be a liar if I said I was always fine with it. But I'm wise enough by now to know that you're never going to please everyone so you may as well stop trying."
It was a lesson the American Idol champ learned when she appeared on the show seven years ago and saw her voice – and image – become fodder for gossip.
"I learned right then to stop reading press. Either you're going to get a big head or you'll get depressed and neither one is great. I don't buy magazines like that. Even if I'm not in them, it's just healthier to get away from that kind of thinking," she says. "It's horrible – they'll show celebrities with cellulite and it's like, 'Of course celebrities have cellulite! We're not fem-bots!'"
Clarkson says she's seen the effect of such body image scrutiny on friends in the public eye. "They melt down because of it," she says. "There is a lot of pressure."
But the singer, whose album All I Ever Wanted is due out March 10, says she's come to terms with it.
"When I'm on the red carpet, it's not even a question anymore," says Clarkson. "Usually people are very encouraging and tell me they love that I'm normal."
Normal was plenty good for 10-year-old Shelby Davis, one of the Girl Scouts attending the workshop.
"She has a whole bunch of self-esteem," Davis says of the Grammy-winning star. "She's someone you can look up to."
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Serious security flaw found in IE
Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.
The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.
Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it.
Internet Explorer is used by the vast majority of the world's computer users.
"It's a shame Microsoft have not been able to fix this more quickly"
Darien Graham-Smith
PC Pro magazine
"Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer," said the firm in a security advisory alert about the flaw.
Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the "underlying vulnerability" was present in all versions of the browser.
Other browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, are not vulnerable to the flaw Microsoft has identified.
Browser bait
"In this case, hackers found the hole before Microsoft did," said Rick Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro. "This is never a good thing."
As many as 10,000 websites have been compromised since the vulnerability was discovered, he said.
"What we've seen from the exploit so far is it stealing game passwords, but it's inevitable that it will be adapted by criminals," he said. "It's just a question of modifying the payload the trojan installs."
MICROSOFT SECURITY ADVICE
- Change IE security settings to high (Look under Tools/Internet Options)
- Switch to a Windows user account with limited rights to change a PC's settings
- With IE7 or 8 on Vista turn on Protected Mode
- Ensure your PC is updated
- Keep anti-virus and anti-spyware software up to date
Said Mr Ferguson: "If users can find an alternative browser, then that's good mitigation against the threat."
But Microsoft counselled against taking such action.
"I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw," said John Curran, head of Microsoft UK's Windows group.
He added: "We're trying to get this resolved as soon as possible.
"At present, this exploit only seems to affect 0.02% of internet sites," said Mr Curran. "In terms of vulnerability, it only seems to be affecting IE7 users at the moment, but could well encompass other versions in time."
Richard Cox, chief information officer of anti-spam body The Spamhaus Project and an expert on privacy and cyber security, echoed Trend Micro's warning.
"It won't be long before someone reverse engineers this exploit for more fraudulent purposes. Trend Mico's advice [of switching to an alternative web browser] is very sensible," he said.
"This could be the moment when the minnows in the browser wars finally score a significant victory"
Rory Cellan-Jones
BBC technology editor
Read the dot.life blog in full
PC Pro magazine's security editor, Darien Graham-Smith, said that there was a virtual arms race going on, with hackers always on the look out for new vulnerabilities.
"The message needs to get out that this malicious code can be planted on any web site, so simple careful browsing isn't enough."
"It's a shame Microsoft have not been able to fix this more quickly, but letting people know about this flaw was the right thing to do. If you keep flaws like this quiet, people are put at risk without knowing it."
"Every browser is susceptible to vulnerabilities from time to time. It's fine to say 'don't use Internet Explorer' for now, but other browsers may well find themselves in a similar situation," he added.
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Friday, November 21, 2008
WORLD HELLO DAY
Here’s one event that you can participate in without it costing you a dime
or even one red cent. It’s easy, and it’s good for everyone. What could
possibly be so wonderful? World Hello Day, that’s what.
This friendly annual event began on this day in 1972 and has grown enormously since. People in 180 countries have participated and the heads of state of 114 countries have given their approval.
Now here’s what you do to participate: you just say, “hello” to ten people on this day. Greet them warmly and with a smile. And you can say, “hello” in any language.
The reason: World Hello Day will put us all one step further ahead in the attempt to advance world peace through personal communication.
Say Hello to the World
The
36th Annual
World Hello Day
November
21st, 2008
Greet Ten People for Peace
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WORLD
HELLO DAY |
November 21, 2008 is the 36th annual World Hello Day. Anyone can participate in World Hello Day simply by greeting ten people. This demonstrates the importance of personal communication for preserving peace.
World Hello Day was begun in response to the conflict between Egypt and Israel in the Fall of 1973. Since then, World Hello Day has been observed by people in 180 countries.
People around the world use the occasion of World Hello Day as an opportunity to express their concern for world peace. Beginning with a simple greeting on World Hello Day, their activities send a message to leaders, encouraging them to use communication rather than force to settle conflicts.
As a global event World Hello Day joins local participation in a global expression of peace. The World Hello Day web site address is http://www.worldhelloday.org.
31 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize are among the people who have realized World Hello Day's value as an instrument for preserving peace and as an occasion that makes it possible for anyone in the world to contribute to the process of creating peace.
Brian McCormack, a Ph.D. graduate of Arizona State University, and Michael McCormack, a graduate of Harvard University, work together to promote this annual global event.
