Friday, 29 January 2010
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Fantasy Six Nations Game
Monday, 25 January 2010
Google founders to sell $5.5bn worth of shares - There is F8uck You rich and then there is F8ck Everyone rich
Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are each to sell off 5 million shares in their company over the next five years, earning them both a cool $2.75bn at today's price. The move will also cede majority control of the search giant, with their stake reduced to 48 per cent. CEO Eric Scmidt also has 9.5 per cent of the voting power, however, so the current management will remain in charge. Tom Krazit has the full story at CNET News: Google founders to sell stock, cede majority control by 2014.
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Monday, 18 January 2010
Cruise ship docks at private beach in Haiti for BBQ
The Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines' ship Independence of the Seas went ahead with its scheduled stop at a fenced-in private Haitian beach surrounded by armed guards, leaving its passengers to "cut loose" on the beach, just a few kilometers from one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the region's history. The ship's owners justified it as a humanitarian call, because the ship also delivered 40 palettes of relief supplies while its passengers frolicked on zip-lines and ate barbeque within the 12-foot-high fence's perimeter:
The Florida cruise company leases a picturesque wooded peninsula and its five pristine beaches from the government for passengers to "cut loose" with watersports, barbecues, and shopping for trinkets at a craft market before returning on board before dusk. Safety is guaranteed by armed guards at the gate.The decision to go ahead with the visit has divided passengers. The ships carry some food aid, and the cruise line has pledged to donate all proceeds from the visit to help stricken Haitians. But many passengers will stay aboard when they dock; one said he was "sickened".
"I just can't see myself sunning on the beach, playing in the water, eating a barbecue, and enjoying a cocktail while [in Port-au-Prince] there are tens of thousands of dead people being piled up on the streets, with the survivors stunned and looking for food and water," one passenger wrote on the Cruise Critic internet forum.
"It was hard enough to sit and eat a picnic lunch at Labadee before the quake, knowing how many Haitians were starving," said another. "I can't imagine having to choke down a burger there now.''
Exceptionally tasteless!
Thursday, 14 January 2010
The SCHOOL BUS
| SCHOOL BUS IN JAPAN |
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Two held after frozen canal drive - The Cops really need a better sense of humour
They were a danger to no one but themselves. Send them the bill for the rescue but last time I looked there was no law against stupidity in this country
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Southampton chap lodges todger in steel pipe - Obviously, slipped in his tool shed!
A Southampton man who somehow got his todger stuck in a three-inch length of steel pipe had to be cut free by eight firemen bearing an angle grinder, the Southern Daily Echo reports.
The drama began when the unnamed 30-something chap presented himself at Southampton General Hospital's A&E department suffering from "restricted blood flow", which had left him in "a state of arousal, and unable to remove the pipe". Staff were "so concerned" they called in a crew from Redbridge Fire Station.
The Redbridge boys, however, decided they weren't properly equipped to handle the stiff challenge, and "had to bring in backup from St Mary’s station, which has a fire truck equipped with specialist cutting gear".
After the patient was "given an anaesthetic", the experts got stuck in with the angle grinder, fitted with "a four-and-a-half-inch blade", the Echo helpfully notes.
St Mary’s crew manager Adrian Johnson explained: “It was a very delicate operation. We did not want anything heating up. The person who did it deserves a commendation for his nerve and steady hand.”
Watch manager Greg Garrett from Redbridge station admitted: “I’ve only come across this type of thing three or four times* in my 17 years as a firefighter. It’s not a daily occurrence.”
The pipe layer was left with "bruised and swollen" wedding tackle, the Echo concludes. ®
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* Garrett was evidently stationed in Wigan in 2007.
Japanese man who survived two atomic bombs dies- The luckiest or most unlucky man, I can't decide
By Julian Ryall in Tokyo
Published: 7:00AM GMT 06 Jan 2010Tsutomu Yamaguchi was on a business trip to Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Shocked at the devastation, he decided to return to his home town, Nagasaki, arriving shortly before that city was similarly levelled by the "Fat Man" bomb three days later.
Yamaguchi, who died of stomach cancer in Nagasaki on Monday, only began to speak publicly about his experiences after his second son died of cancer in 2005. He had been an infant when the second bomb was dropped.
In 2006, Yamaguchi was interviewed for a documentary titled "Niju Hibaku," ("Twice Bombed"), telling the stories of the very few people who had survived both attacks.
An outspoken critic of nuclear weapons, he told his interviewers, "The reason that I hate the atomic bomb is because of what it does to the dignity of human beings.
"I cannot understand why the world cannot understand the agony of the nuclear bombs," he added. "How can they keep developing these weapons?" In the film, which was screened at the United Nations, Yamaguchi recounts how he was stepping down from a tram around two miles from the hypocentre of the bomb that detonated above Hiroshima. He was temporarily blinded, lost the hearing in one ear and was badly burned on much of his upper body.
Upon his return to his engineering company in Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was recounting his experiences to his supervisor when the second bomb was dropped.
He later went completely bald, suffered radiation poisoning and experienced medical complications for much of the rest of his life.
Around 140,000 people died in the bombing of Hiroshima, while the figure for Nagasaki is estimated at around 80,000. Six days after the second attack, Japan announced its surrender to the Allies.
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