Archive | September, 2011

Barbecue restaurant sues yellow pages company over ‘Carcass Removal’ listing

30 Sep

Oh, that is one heck of a typo.

Bar 3 BBQ Bozeman MT

Barbecue restaurant sues yellow pages company over ‘Carcass Removal’ listing
www.todayonline.com | Sep 12, 2011

A barbecue restaurant in the United States listed in the phone book under “Animal Carcass Removal” became the butt of a Jay Leno joke in January. But it’s no laughing matter to the owner who is now suing the publishing company over the business he’s lost.

Mr Hunter Lacey says in his lawsuit that business at his Bar 3 Bar-B-Q restaurants in Montana has dropped off since the Dex Media Inc listing and that his reputation and years of building up his brand have gone down the tubes.

The listing first appeared in 2009 in the yellow pages of Dex’s telephone book in the “Animal Carcass Removal” section and was repeated in other printed and online telephone directories last year and this year.

In January, Mr Leno joked about the listing on his nationally-televised talkshow, The Tonight Show.

 

Mr Lacey said his restaurants had lost US$18,254 (S$22,000) from 2009 and 2010. His attorney, Mr Geoffrey Angel, is trying to reach an out-of-court settlement with Dex Media for US$417,000.

 

A Dex spokesman said that it was an “erroneous listing” and steps have been taken to ensure it would not be in future phone books.

Living Dog With World’s Longest Ears

29 Sep

Wow, those are some big ears.


Harbor, Black And Tan Coonhound, Named Living Dog With World’s Longest Ears (Exclusive Adorable Pictures)
9/5/11 | www.huffingtonpost.com

His ears hang low.

Harbor, a black and tan coonhound, has earned recognition from Guinness World Records as the living dog with the world’s longest ears.

The 8-year-old pooch has a left ear that measures 12.25 inches and a right ear that measures 13.5 inches, according to the 2012 edition of the record book, which will be released Sept. 15.

Harbor’s enormous ears have earned him plenty of fans, according to his owner Jennifer Wert, of Boulder, Colo.

But they can also be a burden. When the purebred was a pup, he used to trip over them and tumble down the stairs, a Guinness press release notes.

Today, passersby often take pictures of Harbor’s droopy ears or give them a friendly tug when he’s out for a walk.

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School Bus stop moved away from strip club

28 Sep

How many strip clubs are in this area? Trust me, the kids would have noticed strip clubs one day but a school bus stop is a little too close for comfort, especially in the bible belt. It is worth noting that Atlantic Beach is a historically black area and the district may have just not cared. I mean look at the stop sign in the video, it’s falling over.

“I had to explain to my four-year-old what topless was,” Misty Umphries said.

 


 

School district moves bus stop location from behind strip club
www.midlandsconnect.com  |  09.09.2011

ATLANTIC BEACH (WPDE) — Parents of kids having to wait at a school bus stop in the parking lot of a strip club are relieved Thursday, after learning the Horry County School District has decided to relocate the stop.

The stop was located 4th Street and 30th Avenue South in Atlantic Beach. That stop is between two parking lots and sits directly behind a strip club.

“I had to explain to my four-year-old what topless was,” Misty Umphries said.

The mother of four waits with her children at the bus stop every morning. Windy Prince, a mother of three, also says the bus stop shouldn’t be where it is.

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October 2011 WWW Guide

27 Sep

If you’ve been looking for the October 2011 WWW Guide, your search is over. Click the image below to download a letter size pdf of the guide.

Spread the word, share the link, print it at home and use your own ink!

Aussie Navy buys torpedoes — needs translators to use them

26 Sep

This is funny. Wait, taxpayers paid for these and these can blow up and hurt people. Hmm, not so funny anymore.

Random image that says something I don't understand.

Tres bomb: navy’s new toy needs translator
Dan Oakes  |  August 26, 2011 | www.smh.com.au

WHEN you buy flat-pack furniture, you can be sure the instructions will include English. But when you spend hundreds of millions of dollars on torpedoes for your navy, apparently that is not the case.

The highly classified technical documents for the European-built weapon are in Italian and French, so the defence procurement agency, Defence Materiel Organisation, has tendered for people to translate them.

The translators will be flown to Canberra and accommodated while they plough through the documentation at DMO offices. It is the latest in a series of stumbling blocks for the anti-submarine MU90 torpedo, which will be installed on two classes of warship.

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Farewell Pine Valley and All My Children

25 Sep

This writer is kind and thoughtful in her reflections on the end of the 41 year long saga of the denizens of Pine Valley, PA. Pine Valley was a comforting place on tv. It was as easy to breeze in and out of as one’s family home, complete with gossip and your favorite and not so favorite people.

The last episode was a sad, lame, pathetic cop out of a farewell. It was as much non event as the MDA not letting Jerry back to at least sing one last song and wave goodbye.

I predict the replacement show will last approximately 15 minutes and eventually be replaced by infomercials.

All My Children’: Farewell to Pine Valley
Forty-one years is a long time to spend in one town, but that’s how long I’ve been making a regular pilgrimage to Pine Valley, the setting for ‘All My Children.’ On Friday, my regular visits will end.
www.latimes.com | By Alice Hoffman | September 23, 2011

Forty-one years is a long time to spend in one town, but that’s how long I’ve been making a regular pilgrimage to Pine Valley, a fictional suburb of Philadelphia and the setting for “All My Children.” I missed days here and there — sometimes even months at a time — but I always returned.

On Friday, my regular visits will end. Although few television shows have had a more devoted fan base, the soap opera has been canceled. There are promises that the show will continue online, but fans are nevertheless mourning the end of an era.

When “All My Children” debuted in January 1970, I was a 17-year-old with no clear plan for the future. Over time, the daytime drama evolved into a touchstone, a way to chart my own life as the years passed. Viewers, myself included, rejoiced at the chance to leave mundane lives behind and enter into the sturm und drang of the show. Surely my time as a salesgirl at Bullock’s was much easier to get through on the days when I could stop into Pine Valley. And throughout my years as a student, and later as a writer, I always looked forward to a designated break, an entrance into a world in which the troubles and turmoil belonged to someone else.

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Study shows birth month affects later life

24 Sep

Wow, there some creepy trends in this study.

“I am not giving voice to astrology – it’s nonsense – but we are not immune to seasonal interference,” he said.

Random image of baby and calendar.

Month a baby is born ‘suggests what career they will have’
The time of year a baby is born can shape what profession they will embark on in later life, a new study has suggested.
05 Sep 2011  |  www.telegraph.co.uk

Being born in a certain month appears to indicate the statistical likelihood of what job a person will end up with, the study by the Office for National Statistics found.

Researchers have uncovered that the month in which babies are born could also affect everything from intelligence to length of life.

A child born December is more likely to become a dentist while someone whose birthday falls in January will tend to a debt collector, they found.

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Hawaii ranks worst in the nation for meth use at work

23 Sep

TGIF! I guess for some Hawaiians a coffee break includes more than coffee. It is amusing to see this local source try to spin the story “Local researchers say it’s not as bad as it sounds.” yeah right. Hawaii is fighting meth use, more info here www.hawaiimethproject.org


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Hawaii ranks worst in the nation for meth use at work
Manolo Morales | www.khon2.com | 9/02

A national study released Friday shows the use of crystal meth or “ice” in the workplace is up.

Hawaii ranks the worst with four times the national average.

Local researchers say it’s not as bad as it sounds.

The results were released by Quest Diagnostics. In 2010 it did a state by state analysis of more than 4.5 million urine samples across the country.

“The latest release of the Quest Drug Test Diagnostics Index reveals that Hawaii, Arkansas, and Oklahoma lead the nation in workforce positives for methamphetamine,” said Dr. Barry Sample.

Hawaii has the dubious distinction of being number one with 410 percent higher than the national average. Researchers say this should serve as an alarm to employers all around the country.

“Consider that in the last year, thousands of U.S. workers have tested positive for a highly addictive substance that can affect judgment and behavior and can quickly change the course of a life,” said Dr. Sample.

But a local lab testing service says its results are not quite as alarming as the national study. Diagnostic Laboratory Services analyzed more than 21 thousand samples in 2010. One percent tested positive, which includes amphetamine, although most of it is crystal meth. Its latest results for this year show that dropped to .4 percent, which is the lowest in seven years. Still, researchers point out that having any meth users in the workplace is potentially dangerous. And the way to get to the problem is to look at new methods of treatment.

“So that we begin to treat this problem as a brain disease, not as a problem of morals or character or bad people-ness. This is about brain disease,” said Dr. Steven Shoptaw of the Nat’l Institute on Drug Abuse.

FTC fines bogus smart phone apps that “fight acne”

22 Sep

How stupid are people?

Both apps promised treatment for acne through colored lights emitted from mobile device screens. The app marketers instructed users to hold the screen next to the area of affected skin for a few minutes each day.

FTC: No, your smartphone can’t heal acne
The agency reaches a settlement agreement with makers of two smartphone apps that promised acne treatment
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service | IT Management/Strategy | www.itworld.com

September 08, 2011, 4:16 PM — Smartphones can help you record video clips, compose music and find the nearest Ethiopian restaurant, but they can’t cure acne, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said.

The makers of two mobile applications claiming to treat acne have settled FTC complaints that the developers sold the apps without proof that they work as advertised. Under a proposed settlement, the sellers Acne Pwner and AcneApp — including a dermatologist involved with AcneApp — are prohibited from making acne treatment claims without scientific evidence, the FTC said Thursday.

“Smartphones make our lives easier in countless ways, but unfortunately when it comes to curing acne, there’s no app for that,” FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said in a statement.

Both apps promised treatment for acne through colored lights emitted from mobile device screens. The app marketers instructed users to hold the screen next to the area of affected skin for a few minutes each day.

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“Gadhafi’s Taint” headline

21 Sep

Wow, the Washington Post REALLY used this headline? This image was tweeted by Jessica Stephens @jessmstephens Warshington, D.C.


Amish men arrested for refusing to use safety triangle

20 Sep

This is harvest time. These are stubborn fellows. I can’t resist the chance to let my imagination run wild with these mug shots.

From left to right. Top row.
Number 1-he is in the dictionary under “Amish”
Number 2- has a burning shame from his arrest and hatred for the English though he covets shiny technology and really enjoyed shooting guns on his Rumspringa, overflowing with testosterone he is dissatisfied with his wife’s sewing ability and is haunted by pornographic images he saw during his Rumspringa
Number 3-by averting his eyes out of modesty while doing a dead on Gary Burghoff impression
Number 4-Rabble rousing instigator or possibly the dwarf Grumpy, also resembles Number 2

From left to right. Lower row.
Number 1-really really REALLY looks like a friend of mine of German heritage who occasionally dresses as an Amish man for fun, could be his brother
Number 2-the beard means he is married, but he looks so young, and the blush and down under stare, total hottie, who cares if he probably can’t read a big word like mayonnaise? I’ll make you a pie.
Number 3-why is the camera so far away? Does he have B.O.? A bible?
Number 4- Looks like he is sleeping, or wishing, wishing wishing he’d have never gotten wrapped up in this silly business with the English and police be treated like a criminal, although secretly he thinks this is all tremendously exciting and is stifling a grin.

These Amish men were arrested for not placing a reflective triangle on the back of their buggies.

Amish buggies shown with disputed reflective orange triangles.

Graves Amish men spend a night in jail
Peter Smith | www.courier-journal.com | Sep. 13, 2011

MAYFIELD, KY. — For Jacob Gingerich, a lifelong farmer, this was a first: waking up where he couldn’t see the sunrise.

But after his first night in the Graves County Jail, Gingerich said he and seven other Amish men were standing by their decision to go to jail rather than pay fines for refusing to put bright safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies.

They believe the law requiring the emblems on slow-moving vehicles unjustly violates their religious modesty code, which forbids using bright colors or trusting in manmade symbols for their safety.

“I feel like I’m in a place where I don’t need to be,” the 39-year-old father of 12 children said Tuesday. But “we’re going to stand up for what we believe.”

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Chunks of Defunct Satellite May Hit Earth This Week

19 Sep

Bus size? Wow, that is big.

NASA: Huge Defunct Satellite Will Fall to Earth This Week
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor | 19 September 2011

A dead climate satellite that has been circling Earth for 20 years will make a fiery death plunge this week, with some pieces of the 6 1/2 ton spacecraft expected to reach the surface of the planet, NASA officials say.

The bus-size Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, will likely plummet down to Earth sometime around Friday (Sept. 23), according to NASA’s latest projections. There is a 1-in-3,200 chance that UARS debris could hit a person, though NASA considers that scenario extremely remote.

“Re-entry is expected Sept. 23, plus or minus a day,” NASA officials wrote in an update posted Sunday (Sept. 18). That means that by Saturday (Sept. 24), the UARS satellite should slam into Earth’s atmosphere and break apart. The space agency’s space debris experts predict that at least 26 large pieces of the satellite will survive the scorching temperatures of atmospheric re-entry. But exactly where the UARS satellite debris will fall is uncertain.

NASA officials have said that the drop zone for UARS satellite debris could be anywhere between the latitudes of northern Canada and southern South America, an area that includes much of the planet.

The satellite should re-enter over a 500-mile (804-kilometer) track, according to NASA officials. Since 75 percent of Earth is covered with ocean, there is a high likelihood that the satellite will re-enter over the sea or a remote, uninhabited stretch of land, Victoria Samson, the Washington Office Director of the Secure World Foundation, an organization dedicated to the peaceful use of outer space, told SPACE.com last week.

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