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It's a fascinating read... smells like bacon!

A JAPANESE company today unveiled a wearable airbag for the elderly that pops out when they fall.

The 1.1kg airbag looks like a traveller's waist pouch but inflates in one-tenth of a second when sensors detect the wearer has taken a tumble.

The Tokyo-based company, Prop, unveiled the ¥<148,000 ($1685) device at a fair of products for the elderly and people with disabilities.

It protects the back of the head and the buttocks with two inflated bags that contain 15 litres of gas each.

Elderly people are more prone to injury when they fall due to their brittle bones.

Japan has one of the world's highest life expectancy rates, which is attributed to a mix of factors including a traditional healthy diet with plenty of vegetables.

People aged 65 or older accounted for 21.5 per cent of the total population of 127 million last year, according to the Government.

More than 36,000 people are aged over 100.

But Japan is facing growing costs of caring for its elderly since fewer young people are having children.

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Ok. So, these boys ran across a field. SO WHAT? They get arrested? FOR WHAT? Thats totally stupid. It was a prank and I heard a lot laughing at it in the clip that was shown this am. Not like they streaked or anything, Which reminds me of a couple of things.
Lemme tell ya about Grand Prairie High back in the late 70's. One day, a few from one class decided to hijack the schools PA. Piped thru KZEW. No one got arrested. Maybe got detention.
Another day, I think it was for senior prom, some of the boys headed up to Kips Big Boy that used to be on Main st. (a mexican seafood place now). The took KIP! Took that huge mf'er and it showed up at prom. THEY LAUGHED. Even the teachers. It was taken back that next day. NO ONE WAS ARRESTED. Funny tho, that sucker showed up at the 10 year reunion too.
There was a pep rally too, where a guy put on shorts and covered them with balloons so you couldn't tell if he was nekkid or not. He ran thru the rally, everyone laughed and no one went to jail.
Sorry, this story just angered me..
EDIT:
 I might also mention that at that time, GPH had a smoking section. If you were 16 and had permission from your parents, you could go smoke in the lounge. It was moved outside a few years later then dumped.
I have no idea why that came to mind, but it did. LOL
 

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Palin email hack raises a question a lot of people seem to have been ignoring: what the hell is a government official doing conducting sensitive government business on an unsecured private account? Don't get me wrong, I like the woman. But that was just a dumbass and maybe an illegal thing to do.

The Daily Telegraph September 16, 2008 12:00am

A 2cm long fish apparently found it's way into the penis of a 14-year-old boy from India in a bizarre medical case.

The patient was admitted to hospital with complaints of pain, dribbling urine and acute urinary retention spanning a 24-hour period. According to the boy, the fish slipped into his penis while he was cleaning his aquarium at home.

Professor Vezhaventhan and Professor Jeyaraman, who treated the boy and later wrote a paper on the case, explained: "While he was cleaning the fish tank in his house, he was holding a fish in his hand and went to the toilet for passing urine. When he was passing urine, the fish slipped from his hand and entered his urethra and then he developed all these symptoms."

After detecting the fish in the boy's bladder, Vezhaventhan and Jeyaraman used a technique known as cystourethroscopy to insert a special set of forceps down the patient's penis. Unfortunately, the fish was just too slippery to grip, so they resorted to using a rigid ureteroscope with a tool attached that is normally used for removing bladder stones.

The fish the urologists removed, which Practical Fishkeeping believes to be a small member of the Betta genus, measured 2cm long and 1.5cm wide.

He was later admitted into counseling to help him overcome any trauma.
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Sounds fishy to me...  ;-}
Why would you go pee with a fish in yer hand?

Obama requesting the Iraqi president to hold off approving troop reductions until after the election? Done in secret while on his eurpoean BARACK-STAR tour? And at the same time publicly calling for the administration to do the exact opposite, on his stump speeches?

http://tammybruce.com/2008/09/obama_camp_confirms.php


And for those who have lost track, al queda still exists and continues to plot your demise. BUT we are much more effective at foiling their plans, though you wouldn't know it from the press coverage. Tell me if you saw or read THIS on any news broadcast or paper?

Al-Qaeda Targets Lethal Disease Research Facility on NY Island

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/al-qaeda-operative-target
s-lethal-disease-research-island-in-connecticut/ 

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Al-Jazeera aired video it said showed the moments after the attack

A car bomb and rocket attack on the US embassy in Yemen has killed at least 16 people, including civilians and Yemeni security guards, Yemen officials said.

The bomb targeted the main security gate as staff were arriving for work.

An exchange of gun and rocket fire followed between embassy security guards and militants, whom eyewitnesses said were dressed as policemen.

The White House said the attack was a reminder of continuing threats from "extremists both at home and abroad".

White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe added: "We will continue to work with the government of Yemen to increase our counter-terrorism activities to prevent more attacks from taking place."

Security sources said six members of the Yemeni security forces, six attackers, and four bystanders were killed in the attack, which occurred in the capital, Sanaa, at about 0830 (0530 GMT).

'Massive fireball'

British citizen Trev Mason described hearing explosions while in his residential compound near the embassy.

"We heard the sounds of a heavy gunbattle going on. I looked out of my window and we saw the first explosion going off, a massive fireball very close to the US embassy," he told CNN television.

The new attack is the second on the embassy in the past six months.

A group calling itself the Islamic Jihad in Yemen said it carried out the attack, and threatened to target other foreign missions in the region unless its jailed members were released.

The authenticity of the claim could not be immediately verified.

Earlier this year, the US ordered the evacuation of non-essential personnel from Yemen after mortar bombs were fired towards the embassy. They missed but hit a nearby school.

Yemen, the ancestral home of Osama Bin Laden, has long been a haven for Islamist militants.

In 2000, 17 US sailors were killed when suicide bombers with alleged links to al-Qaeda blew themselves up on an inflatable raft next to the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden.

The government of Yemen, which backs America's "war on terror", has often blamed al-Qaeda for attacks on Western targets in the country.

US special forces have been helping the government fight the Islamist militants.

But analysts say there has been only limited success in restraining the militant groups.

Yemen is a desperately poor corner of the Middle East and, like Afghanistan, there is rugged mountainous terrain, with a vast supply of weapons.

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Mickey Mouse is a corrupting influence and must die, a Muslim cleric has declared.

Photo: Reuters

Sheikh Muhammad Munajid warned that depictions of the creature in cartoons such as Disney's Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was in fact loveable. 

Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is "one of Satan's soldiers" and makes everything it touches impure.

But he warned that depictions of the creature in cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, and Disney's Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was in fact loveable.

The cleric, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, said that under Sharia, both household mice and their cartoon counterparts must be killed.

Mr Munajid was asked to give Islam's teaching on mice during a religious affairs programme broadcast on al-Majd TV, an Arab television network.

According to a translation prepared by the Middle East Media Research Institute, an American press monitoring service, he said: "The mouse is one of Satan's soldiers and is steered by him.

"If a mouse falls into a pot of food – if the food is solid, you should chuck out the mouse and the food touching it, and if it is liquid – you should chuck out the whole thing, because the mouse is impure.

"According to Islamic law, the mouse is a repulsive, corrupting creature. How do you think children view mice today – after Tom and Jerry?

"Even creatures that are repulsive by nature, by logic, and according to Islamic law have become wonderful and are loved by children. Even mice.

"Mickey Mouse has become an awesome character, even though according to Islamic law, Mickey Mouse should be killed in all cases."

Last month Mr Munajid condemned the Beijing Olympics as the "bikini Olympics", claiming that nothing made Satan happier than seeing females athletes dressed in skimpy outfits.

Labrador survives being hit by express train 'after his wounds are healed instantly by heat from engine'
By Wil Longbottom

Homer the labrador is one lucky dog after he survived horrific injuries when he was hit by an express train.

The fortunate mutt disappeared while out for a walk with his owner Ray Davis, near his home in Westbury, Wiltshire.

He was found three days later near a railway line with gaping wounds across his middle.

Lucky labrador: Homer shows off his injuries

Ray, 62, thinks his dog survived the accident because his wound was seared shut by the intense heat from the 125 mph train.

He told the BBC: 'He had collapsed in a heap in the field.

'He had a horrific wound on his side but it didn't appear as if it had been bleeding.

Relief: Ray Davis says his pet dog may have survived after heat from the train sealed his wounds before he could bleed to death
 
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This is just  WRONG! I will be checking my hair ties from now on . 
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By David Gardner and David Jones
Last updated at 2:43 PM on 02nd September 2008

The teenager expecting a baby with the 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin calls himself 'a BLEEP redneck' on his MySpace page.

Levi Johnston, 18, a high-school hockey player, is engaged to Bristol Palin, whose pregnancy was revealed to the Republican party convention just days after her 44-year-old mother was picked as John McCain's running mate.

He is the high-school sweetheart of the Alaska governor's daughter and used his home page to admit having a girlfriend, but said: 'I don't want kids.'

Proud redneck: Levi Johnston, 18, the father of Bristol Palin's unborn baby. Bristol is seen here with her five-month-old baby brother Trig

The hockey player with the Wasilla Warriors in Alaska was said to have made no secret of the pregnancy in his home town.

On the page he also says: 'But I live to play hockey. I like to go camping and hang out with the boys, do some fishing, shoot some s*** and just chillin' I guess'

He added: 'Ya f *** with me I'll kick [your] BLEEP'

Johnston has also been in trouble with the law, for taking king salmon from a lake out of season.

Bristol's pregnancy was revealed after a string of rumours suggested that Mrs Palin's five-month-old baby son was actually her grandson.

A series of internet postings circulated for up to 48 hours before the Alaskan governor announced last night that Bristol, 17, was five months pregnant and would marry the father of the child.

One blog, DailyKos, published a story headlined "Sarah Palin is NOT the mother". Blogger ArcXIX wrote: "Sarah, I'm calling you a liar. And not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better.'

The onslaught forced the Republicans into the announcement, shocking delegates at their convention in Minneapolis-St Paul, despite the political risk.

17-year-old Bristol Palin holds her brother Trig as she stands near Senator John McCain.

Aides insisted Mr McCain, 72, was aware of the daughter’s pregnancy when he picked Mrs Palin, 44, as his number two.

But Democrat critics were already questioning his vetting process after it was revealed the Arizona senator had only met the former beauty queen once before last week.

Republican officials said Mrs Palin decided to announce the pregnancy publicly to counteract ‘despicable’ Internet rumours that she faked the pregnancy of her fifth child to cover up for her daughter.

According to some ‘mud-slinging’ liberal bloggers, Mrs Palin pretended to have given birth in May to her fifth child, a son named Trig who has Down's syndrome.

The unfounded suggestion was that Trig was actually Bristol Palin's child and that Sarah Palin was the grandmother.

Although she didn’t directly address the gossip, Mrs Palin said she supported her daughter and gave no indication that the scandal would affect her new job.

'We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us,’ said Mrs Palin, a staunch pro-life supporter.

‘Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned.

‘As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.

Sarah Palin, pictured with her family, has revealed her17-year-old daughter Bristol, right, is pregnant

‘Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realise very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family.

'We ask the media, respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,’ she added.

The statement, released by the McCain campaign, doesn’t give the father’s full name.

The age of consent in Alaska is 16 and couples can marry when they are under 18 only with both parents’ consent.

The latest sensational twist emerged after a new poll suggested that Mr McCain’s gamble on wooing disgruntled Hillary Clinton voters by selecting a woman may have backfired.

More Democratic women said they were less likely to switch allegiance to the Republicans after Mrs Palin was picked as vice-presidential candidate.

A USA Today/Gallup survey also found most Americans hadn’t even heard of the her before she was plucked from the relative obscurity of Alaskan politics by Mr McCain – and just 39 per cent said they think she is ready to be president if she is called upon.

Bristol Palin, 17, holds her brother Trig during the campaign rally where Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, introduced Bristol and Trig's mother Sarah Palin, as his running mate

That’s the lowest vote of confidence in a running mate since 'Dunce' Dan Quayle’s famously rocky but ultimately successful teaming with the elder George Bush in 1988.

Among Democrat women, including those who may be disappointed that Mrs Clinton lost out in the primary race, 15 per cent said Mrs Palin’s selection makes them less likely to vote for Mr McCain, while 9 per cent said it might make them change sides.

The debate over Mr McCain’s risky gamble raged on as the party leadership fought to turn the havoc wrought on their convention plans by Hurricane Gustav to their advantage.

 

After setting aside today to a low-key business only opening session in St Paul, Minnesota, Mr McCain was pushing his new theme of ‘Country First.’

While the hurricane denied the Arizona senator the intense media coverage he was hoping for, it also helped distance him from President Bush, who cancelled his opening day speech to focus on disaster planning.

‘I have every expectation that we will not see the mistakes of Katrina repeated,’ Mr McCain said yesterday, referring to Bush administration’s botched handling of the flood mayhem in New Orleans three years ago.

The McCain camp is determined to use the storm to highlight their candidate’s much-vaunted leadership qualities.

Sarah Palin's daughters from left, Piper, Willow and Bristol are seen in December 2006 at the Governor's mansion Alaska.

‘This is a time when we have to do away with our party politics and we have to act as Americans,’ he added in a video link with supporters.

Prominent religious conservatives, many of whom have been lukewarm toward McCain's candidacy, predicted that Sarah Palin's daughter's pregnancy would not diminish conservative Christian enthusiasm over the vice presidential hopeful.

'I think it's a very private matter,' said Roberta Combs, president of the Christian Coalition of America.

'It's a matter that should stay in the family and they have to work through it together. My prayers go out to them.

'We're excited about the governor and think she's going to do well.'

Mathew Staver, dean of Liberty University School of Law, said: 'We're all sinners.

'We all make mistakes. Certainly, the ideal is not to get pregnant out of wedlock. But she made the right decision after her mistake,' he said.

Staver also criticised anyone who would seek to make it a negative campaign issue.

He said: 'It's absolutely shameful to put her child in the spotlight. She's not running for office. When someone can't face issues, they try to tear down a family.'

For 72-year- old McCain, who has already fought skin cancer, that is a major problem. It also makes it harder for his campaign to attack Obama for his lack of experience.

Back home in Alaska, however, supporters won't hear a word against their governor of just 21 months.

Ms Palin said she had her husband Todd were giving their daughter their full support.

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47-year old author of '100 Things to Do Before You Die' forgot to include "wear a helmet around the house", dies after hitting head in household fall.


By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 26, 2008 Dave Freeman, an advertising agency executive who co-wrote "100 Things to Do Before You Die," an adventure-seeking and often unconventional travel guide that personified the way he lived his life, has died. He was 47.
Freeman died Aug. 17 after falling and hitting his head at his home in Venice, said his father, Roy. Published in 1999, "100 Things" was one of the first contemporary books to create a travel agenda based on 100 sites and then market it with a title that reminded mortal readers that time was limited.
The "100 Things" approach later swept the publishing industry, said Neil Teplica, who wrote the book with Freeman.
The title meant "you should live every day like it would be your last, and there's not that many people who do," Teplica told The Times. "It's a credit to Dave -- he didn't have enough days, but he lived them like he should have."
Subtitled "Travel Events You Just Can't Miss," the book grew out of the pair's now-defunct travel website, which Freeman often said was ahead of its time. Online from 1996 to 2001, it showcased festivals and events, often in a feature called "The Coolest Place on Earth Today," which became a primary source for the book.
"This life is a short journey," the authors wrote. "How can you make sure you fill it with the most fun and that you visit all the coolest places on earth before you pack those bags for the very last time?"
Freeman had visited about half the sites in the book. He preferred to travel alone because he could cover more territory, said his aunt, Barbara Freeman.
The book's listings were adventure-based, but "it wasn't just physical adventure, it was cultural adventure and spiritual adventure, such as a voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti," Teplica said.
Together, the authors had visited almost every site in the book, which included the familiar (the Academy Awards ceremony, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain) as well as the more exotic (the National Hollerin' Contest in North Carolina, Australia's Nude Night Surfing contest).
One of Freeman's favorite lesser-known events was "land-diving on the tiny island in the Pacific called Vanuatu. . . . Tribesmen climb up homemade towers . . . and it's sort of like the original bungee-jumping," he said on National Public Radio in 2001.
Another favorite was Las Fallas, a festival in Valencia, Spain, that features huge papier-mâché and plaster statues that satirize local political figures and celebrities. "Secretly, they're full of fireworks and dynamite. . . . At the stroke of midnight, they light them all on fire in a huge, loud . . . pyromania display," he said on NPR.
Freeman brought an off-kilter sensibility to the book by insisting on irreverent graphic icons. He especially enjoyed the logos that stood for "potential to see blood," "dangerous," "down and dirty" and "religious fervor."
"We would try to have odd combinations of logos, such as 'gluttony' and 'Grandma approved' on the same thing," Teplica said. "The icons gave the book a lot of life, and people really reacted to the categories, which are kind of a snapshot into Dave's brain."
Critics said the graphics made the book fun to read.
David Stewart Freeman was born Feb. 21, 1961, in Whittier. His father worked in the packaging industry and his mother sold real estate.
After graduating from USC in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in urban planning, he joined an ad agency in Newport Beach.
In 1986, he moved to New York to work for Grey Advertising.
On Sept. 11, 2001, he was eating breakfast in his sixth-floor New York co-op when the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. From the roof of his building, he saw the second plane crash into the south tower, just blocks away.
Deeply affected by the terrorist attack, Freeman decided to move back to Los Angeles in 2002 to be near his family.
He joined the ad agency TBWA/Chiat/Day as the founder and director of "the disruption consultancy." His team tried to help clients look at existing accounts in new ways, his father said.
His friend Cyndi Yee called Freeman "amazingly fabulous at what he did, which was living big, but also as a business strategist and cultural anthropologist" who lectured on lifestyle trends.
According to his father, Freeman was famous for saying, " 'We're going to the future. Do you want to come along?' It always made everybody laugh."
In addition to his father and aunt, Freeman's survivors include his stepmother, Barbara, and a sister, Virginia Freeman Robb. His mother, Anne, died in 1995.
Memorial donations may be made to the children's charity Room 13 International in care of Barbara Overlie, TBWA/Chiat/Day, Dave Freeman Memorial Fund, 5353 Grosvenor Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90066.

The newest virus circulating is the UPS Delivery Failure. You will receive an email from UPS Packet Service along with a packet number. NOTE: The word packet is mis-spelled on this line. It will say that they were un-able to deliver a package sent to you on such and such a date. It then asks you to print out the invoice copy attached. DON'T TRY TO PRINT THIS. IT LAUNCHES THE VIRUS! Pass this warning on to all your PC operators at work and home. This virus has caused Millions of dollars in damage in the past few days.


http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp

What do you do when you decide to be a poor country folk artist?
With little money (if any) you must be creative. Use your resources.
This artist did just that.

What do you find in the mountains of Idaho?

PINE TREES.

You're thinking something made out of wood....Right?

Not even close. Check out these pictures.

These bears are made from Pine Needles!

A couple of hundred thousand of them in one large bear.

The pine needles were gathered off the ground, sorted, washed, trimmed and hand woven.

Over 8 months in making the life size bear!

The artist would love to hear from you.

Just to know where his art is being seen around the world.

He said he would reply to every email and
print every letter for his scrapbook.
You can write him here at:mntmagic@custertel.net

WASHINGTON, DC - Nestlé Prepared Foods Company, a Mt. Sterling, Ky., establishment, is recalling approximately 215,660 pounds of frozen stuffed pepperoni pizza sandwich products that may contain foreign materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Friday.

The following products are subject to recall: [View Labels]
• 54-ounce, 12-pack cartons of “HOT POCKETS PEPPERONI PIZZA” brand stuffed sandwiches. Printed on the side of each carton is “8157544614D,” “EST 7721A,” and “BEST BEFORE JAN2010.” Each carton bears the USDA mark of inspection.

The products were produced on June 5, and distributed to retail establishments nationwide.

The problem was discovered after the company received consumer complaints. The Food Safety Inspection Service has not received any consumer complaints or reports of injury at this time.

Anyone concerned about an injury from consumption of the products should contact a physician.

Consumers with questions about the recall should contact Nestlé Consumer Services Center at (800) 350-5016.

Consumers with food safety questions can “Ask Karen,” the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at AskKaren.gov. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from l0 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day

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