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Do plane crashes happen in threes? - yes, and sometimes in fours and fives
Post Date: 2014-08-02 23:41:34 by Tatarewicz
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24 July 2014 Note:This an updated version of an article first published in February 2009 Since AirSafe.com was launched in 1996, the site has tracked fatal events and other significant events involving airline passengers. When these events occur, especially if two occur a just a few days apart, I sometimes get the "Do bad things like plane crashes always happen in threes?" question asked by visitors to the site, by members of the media, and by others. I used to just dismiss the question out of hand because events like plane crashes, especially those involving passenger airliners, are very rare, and the circumstances are usually very different for each crash, often involving ...
Russian Duma to ban officials from marrying foreigners
Post Date: 2014-08-02 07:41:37 by Tatarewicz
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RT...After announcing possible amendments banning Russian officials from owning real estate and other property abroad, the State Duma is planning a ban on public servants marrying foreigners. The author of the bill, United Russia MP Evgeny Fyodorov has told the press that the document includes this restriction. “Wives and underage children of civil servants must also declare their property and cannot own property or real estate outside the Russian Federation. If a civil servant’s spouse is a foreigner, this person would not have the right to occupy the post. The officials will have to vacate their post if they wish to marry foreigners,” the Lifenews website quoted Fyodorov ...
Germany tops penis enlargement table
Post Date: 2014-08-02 07:21:40 by Tatarewicz
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Local de...Germany is the world’s leader in penis enlargements, with five times as many people in the country undergoing the procedure than anywhere else in the world. Globally, Germany carries out the fourth highest amount of cosmetic surgery operations. Figures released by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, showed Germany performed 2,786 of the 15,000 penis enlargements across the globe in 2013. The second highest country, Venezuela, performed 473 while Iran, at the bottom of the chart, had 12. The German Centre for Urology and Phalloplasty Surgery says it has performed more than 6,000 enlargements. They claim they can extend the organ anywhere from three to ...
Race to be scrapped from Swedish legislation
Post Date: 2014-08-02 06:23:52 by Tatarewicz
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The Swedish government announced that it plans to remove all mentions of race from Swedish legislation, saying that race is a social construct which should not be encouraged in law. 'The concept of race is a slippery slope': Ullenhag (01 Aug 14) "We know that different human races actually do not exist," Swedish Integration Minister Erik Ullenhag told Sveriges Television (SVT). "We also know that the fundamental grounds of racism are based on the belief that there are different races, and that belonging to a race makes people behave in a certain way, and that some races are better than others." SEE ALSO: The Local interviews Erik Ullenhag about removing ...
Huge Bavarian crop circle puzzles crowds
Post Date: 2014-08-02 05:47:02 by Tatarewicz
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A mysterious crop circle in Bavaria has attracted thousands of visitors since it was spotted in a wheat field last week. Police: Bremen UFO 'was a model plane' (22 Jan 14) Crop circle feud leaves farmer fuming (26 Jul 12) Holiday hot-air balloons spark UFO alarms (02 Jan 09) The circle in Raisting, upper Bavaria, has a diameter of 75 metres and is formed of three rings. It was discovered last week by hot air balloonists and word quickly spread through internet forums of the find. “They sang, danced, played guitar... and slept in the field,” a woman who lives nearby said of the area’s new visitors to the site, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported. Many visitors ...
Assault with iron pipe 'no hate crime':Swedish police
Post Date: 2014-08-02 04:20:02 by Tatarewicz
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Local se Police in southern Sweden have concluded that a man who was beaten with an iron pipe for hanging an Israeli flag in his window was not a victim of a hate crime. In early July the 38-year-old man in Seved, Malmö, was severely assaulted when he ran out into the street after his window was smashed. Police initially classified the case as a hate crime, as the man had been hanging an Israeli flag in his window. The man said the flag had been there for over a year, and suspected that the true issue behind the smashed window was his social media activism against the Iranian regime. After hearing additional witnesses, the police have a new interpretation of events. Malmö ...
Lead in Teeth Holds Secrets of Person's Origins, Research Shows
Post Date: 2014-08-01 00:13:31 by Tatarewicz
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Medscape... ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - The lead in human teeth holds clues about where a person grew up and can help criminal investigators and archeologists working with old or decomposed corpses, according to a University of Florida researcher. Because lead ore deposits around the world differ, and as young people's teeth absorb traces of the metal in the environment, the region where a person grew up can be distinguished through lead analysis of a tooth, said geologist George Kamenov. His study on the topic will appear in the August issue of Science of The Total Environment, a peer-reviewed journal. "If you were born in Europe and then came to the U.S., yes, I will be able ...
Go Here to Feel Really, Really Smart
Post Date: 2014-07-31 07:53:36 by Lod
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China vows zero tolerance for GM rice
Post Date: 2014-07-30 05:35:28 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese authorities have vowed zero tolerance and harsh punishments for illegal sales and growing of genetically modified (GM) crops days after media exposure of GM rice on sale at a supermarket in central China. "The ministry will punish any companies or individuals who illegally grow or sell GM grains, and there will be no tolerance for these practices," said a statement sent to Xinhua on Tuesday by the office in charge of GM food safety with the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA). China Central Television (CCTV) found GM rice, which is illegal to sell or grow commercially in China, on sale in a supermarket in Wuhan, capital city of central Hubei ...
Nurse struck by lightning inside her house was saved by her flip flops
Post Date: 2014-07-30 03:55:43 by Tatarewicz
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DailyMirror UK Jennifer Lyons, 49, had a lucky escape, thanks to her rubber-soled shoes A care home nurse struck by lightning inside her house was saved by her rubber-soled flip-flops. Jennifer Lyons, 49, was on the phone when a 300,000-volt strike hit a satellite dish and set her home on fire. The bolt forced plug switches from the walls and blew out the hot water, phone lines and internet. Jennifer said: "It was like a bomb. "I was knocked back. "There was debris everywhere. "A fireman said it was one of the most unusual cases he'd seen." She was left with just a bump on her forehead after the storm on Saturday. The mum, of Chippenham, Wilts, ...
Hague court orders Russia to pay $50 billion in Yukos oil case
Post Date: 2014-07-29 01:01:08 by Tatarewicz
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LA Times... The Kremlin expropriated Yukos in 2005; GML group was seeking $114 billion Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Yukos' founder, was sentenced in 2005 to 10 years; Vladimir Putin pardoned him last year 'This is a great day for the rule of law,' said Emmanuel Gaillard, New York-based attorney A court in the Netherlands has ordered Russia to pay more than $50 billion in damages to the former shareholders of the now defunct Yukos oil corporation that was dismembered in a controversial bankruptcy case nearly a decade ago. In the ruling Monday, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague said it would award GML group just under half of its $114-billion claim to help compensate for ...
International vs national law: a manufactured controversy?
Post Date: 2014-07-29 00:28:54 by Tatarewicz
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The European Convention on Human Rights guarantees the right to lead a family life with one's children The rightwing Swiss People’s Party is calling for a people’s initiative, saying that “democratically legitimised Swiss law” should take precedent over international law, despite the constitution stating the opposite. But human rights experts say the conflict is artificial. “I can’t rule out a special party conference on this topic this year,” People’s Party President Toni Brunner told swissinfo.ch. After an internal party consultation process about a possible constitutional amendment in the field of “national law versus international ...
80 Years Ago: Gangster Dillinger Helped Create the FBI
Post Date: 2014-07-28 17:22:07 by BTP Holdings
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80 Years Ago: Gangster Dillinger Helped Create the FBI Tuesday marked the 80th anniversary of the shooting death of gangster John Dillinger at the hands of law enforcement officials — an event that has been credited with helping to create the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Dillinger was the most notorious of several gangsters and bank robbers of the early 1930s. He held up at least 12 banks, took part in raids on police stations to obtain guns and ammunition, and was accused of murdering an Indiana police officer. In 1934, he became the first American to be declared "Public Enemy No. 1." Because Dillinger operated across state lines, his crimes became federal offenses. ...
Italian prison blasted over inmate 'happy hour'
Post Date: 2014-07-27 23:27:10 by Tatarewicz
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Local it...A row has erupted in Milan over prison staff allegedly organizing regular "happy hour" nights for inmates, complete with alcohol and external guests, Italian media reported on Wednesday. Female prisoners at Milan’s San Vittore have been enjoying the twice-weekly happy hour, organized by staff at the jail, Ansa reported. The events soon sparked the disapproval of Osapp, the prison guards’ union, which has sent a complaint to both the Ministry of Justice and the Senate president. According to Osapp, prison staff agreed to organize the happy hours which ran until “late at night” with “external guests”. Prisoners were provided with a ...
Top German university switches master's to English
Post Date: 2014-07-27 23:04:10 by Tatarewicz
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Local de UPDATE: One of Germany’s top universities wants to ditch German and switch almost all of its master’s programmes to English in the next six years, prompting fears that the academic standing of the German language is under serious threat. Munich's Technical University (TU), one of the highest ranked in Germany, already uses English in 30 of its 99 master's courses. Now the board of trustees has followed a recommendation by the university's president, Wolfgang Herrmann, to switch to English for most other master's modules by 2020. "English is the lingua franca in academia and of the economy," Herrmann told the Süddeutsche Zeitung on ...
Event Report: Bonham Quilt Hop/2014
Post Date: 2014-07-26 20:23:10 by X-15
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"Quilt Hop attracts quilters, quilt lovers Quilters and quilt lovers have their plans all sewn up for this weekend because the 2014 Bonham Quilt Hop began Friday, July 25 and continues Saturday, July 26. The event kicked off Friday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. with quilt displays at eight locations around Bonham, showcasing historic, antique, and contemporary quilts, including quilts from the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky." Here's the quilt I displayed. The Dresden plates were made by my Mom and the quilt was assembled by my Grandmother. The individual pieces in the 'pinwheels' are dress scraps from the 1940's that my Grandmother saved (during the war, ...
If You Need to Hurl
Post Date: 2014-07-26 14:05:02 by Lod
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German Move To Russia & BRICS Spells Obama Doom
Post Date: 2014-07-26 04:24:21 by Tatarewicz
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Sorcha Faal... A shocking new report prepared by the Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) circulating in the Kremlin today states that Germany’s Federal Foreign Office (FFO) contacted Moscow this week requesting an accelerated membership course for their joining the BRICS economic community as they plan to leave the European Union (EU), a move Russian experts said would “spell doom” to the Obama regimes “dream of empire”. BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and as of 2013, the five BRICS countries represent almost 3 billion people with a combined nominal GDP of US$16.039 ...
Dutch Mayor Apologizes for Threatening to Deport Putin's Daughter
Post Date: 2014-07-25 02:21:38 by Tatarewicz
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ght 17 One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's daughters resides in a small town in the Netherlands, but now after the disaster of Flight MH17, her neighbors are seeking her exile. Putin's two daughters, Maria and Yekaterina, are rarely in the news, in or outside of Russia. However, Maria allegedly lives in Voorschoten, just outside of the city of Hilversum. The mayor of Hilversum is none too pleased with this, and has recently suggested kicking her out of town. The mayor of Hilversum, Pieter Broertjes, made the comment in a radio interview. He was expressing his frustrations as to the handling of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash, which is believed to have been shot down ...
The Truth Behind The Malibu Underwater 'Alien Base'
Post Date: 2014-07-24 23:33:44 by Tatarewicz
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Huff-Post... A little more than 6 miles off the coast of Point Dume in Malibu, California, an unusual-looking structure sits on the sea bed floor. Based on images obtained on Google Earth, the oval-shaped object has a huge flat top and what appear to be pillars or columns that seem to reveal the entrance to a darker, inner place. The anomaly -- for the moment, we'll call it that -- is approximately 2,000 feet below the surface of the water, measuring nearly 3 miles wide. What exactly is this thing? According to the website of a California-based radio program, "Fade to Black," this may be "the Holy Grail of UFO/USO [unidentified submerged objects]" that researchers ...
Dogs can be jealous too: study
Post Date: 2014-07-24 03:45:38 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Dogs can feel jealous if they think you pay more attention to other dogs, a U.S. study said Wednesday. Scientists generally view jealousy as an emotion requiring complex cognition, but some research suggests there may be a more basic form of jealousy, which evolved to protect social bonds from interlopers. Some researchers predict that jealousy might even exist in other social species, like the cognitively sophisticated dog. Since there had been no prior experiments on dog jealousy, researchers from University of California San Diego modified a test used to assess jealousy in six-month-old human infants. Thirty-six dogs were individually tested and ...
Man sues pizzeria for thwarting robbery (TNB Alert!!)
Post Date: 2014-07-23 13:06:17 by X-15
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The first time Nigel Sykes tried to get money from the Seasons Pizza in Newport, he did it with a gun, forcing his way into the business through the back door. This time, Sykes is trying to get money from the pizzeria by suing the employees who tackled him and wrestled his gun away during the robbery. Sykes alleges assault in a federal civil complaint claiming the rough treatment was "unnecessary" and that as a result of the injuries he suffered during his attempted hold-up, he is due over $260,000. Sykes also claims in his suit, filed without an attorney, that after employees subdued him, two Newport police officers improperly used stun guns on him and denied him access to ...
Woman who stopped to save ducklings on highway gets $100 ticket
Post Date: 2014-07-23 08:18:43 by Tatarewicz
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A woman who stopped on a New Hampshire highway to help a group of ducklings whose mother had been struck and killed by a car should've been commended by police for her compassion. Instead, she was given a ticket. Hallie Bibeau, a 33-year-old from Newfields, N.H., was driving east on Route 101 in Brentwood on Friday when she saw the ducklings. "I could hear them peeping, and I looked over ... the right-hand side of the road, and I saw that their mom had been hit and was dead on the side," Bibeau told WMUR-TV. "I couldn't just continue on." Bibeau called 911 and waited for police to arrive. "While I was sitting there, I saw a few of them try to go to the ...
Red Sox ball girl has priceless reaction after fielding Eric Hosmer's fair ball
Post Date: 2014-07-22 17:54:18 by BTP Holdings
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Red Sox ball girl has priceless reaction after fielding Eric Hosmer's fair ball By Mark Townsend July 19, 2014 5:06 PM Big League Stew It was the best and the worst of life as a major league ball girl all wrapped up in one play. On one hand, the ball girl stationed along the right field line at Fenway Park on Friday night got to be part of the action, impressively fielding Kansas City Royals slugger Eric Hosmer's well hit grounder with millions of people watching. On the other hand, she somehow missed the fact that the ball crossed over first base in fair territory, meaning she had just interfered with a live play. Based on her priceless reaction, she seemed at least hopeful ...
The Tree of 40 Fruit Is Exactly as Awesome as It Sounds
Post Date: 2014-07-22 05:08:33 by Tatarewicz
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DcienceAlert... A ward-winning contemporary artist and Syracuse University art professor Sam Van Aken grew up on a family farm in Reading, Pennsylvania, but he spent his college years and much of his early career focused on art rather than agriculture. While Van Aken says that his work has always been "inspired by nature and our relationship to nature," it wasn't until recently that the artist's farming background became such a clear and significant influence, first in 2008 when he grafted vegetables together to create strange plants for his Eden exhibition, and then shortly after that when he started to work on the hybridized fruit trees that would become the Tree of 40 ...
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