Interesting News Story of the Day

[Meemuh]

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http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/europe/story/gary-speed-may-have-killed-himself-accidentally-coroner-013012

[cbsnbiker]

 

 

[Papa Lazarou]

bring out your barbecues-new shrimp found near NZ



New shrimp named after scientist

It’s white, around 6cm long and has so far only been seen scuttling across the soft sediment floor five to six miles below the world’s deepest ocean.
 

It’s a new species of shrimp and it’s been named Princaxelia jamiesoni after the University of Aberdeen scientist who discovered it in trenches at the bottom of the North West Pacific Ocean.

And it’s almost four decades since the last ’new’ member of this shrimp family was discovered.

Dr Alan Jamieson from the University’s Oceanlab was on a ‘HADEEP’ research cruise when the shrimp - or amphipods - were filmed and caught in the Japan Trench in 2008 at 7703m deep and then again in 2009 at the nearby Izu-Bonin Trench at depths of 9316m.

The Research Fellow is Research Manager of the HADEEP Project – a collaboration involving the Universities of Aberdeen and Tokyo which is investigating life in the deepest parts of the ocean.  

Dr Jamieson said: “We caught lots of the usual animals on both research cruises however in amongst our haul were these long white creatures which no-one knew anything about.

“The samples eventually came back to Aberdeen and those unknown species sat under my desk for over two years until our next HADEEP trip took us to New Zealand where I met amphipod taxonomist Dr Anne-Nina Loerz.

“I told her about these long white spiky things that we had filmed and caught and was delighted when she said she was an expert in such creatures.”

Dr Jamieson sent the samples to Dr Loerz who then established that they were a new species.

The taxonomist then named them after Dr Jamieson saying his “dedication to trench research is greatly advancing the scientific knowledge about deep sea biology.”  

The genus Princaxelia was named after Prince Axel of Denmark (1888-1964) in 1959 after the great Danish Galathea expeditions recovered the first specimens of this kind of shrimp. The last species to be found was in 1977.

This new species, the jamiesoni, is only the fourth species of Princaxelia to be discovered.

Dr Jamieson, who is originally from Edinburgh, added: “It is an extraordinary creature with a long elongated body thought to facilitate swimming over great distances. Yet it is extremely manoeuvrable at short ranges, capable of fast predatory attacks.

“It is another example of the extraordinary creatures that inhabit the most extreme depths of the oceans and to have this one named after me is a great honour, both for me, and my family.”

Dr Jamieson and his HADEEP colleagues head off to Japan again tomorrow (March 4) where, among other things, they hope to observe and collect further specimens of Princaxelia jamiesoni.

Meanwhile Dr Leorz’s description of the new shrimphas just been published in the journal Zoologica Baetica and the specimens themselves are currently residing in the National Science Museum of Tokyo.

[cbsnbiker]

Thanks -- now I'm hungry again.  

[Mrs. DantesDame]

http://www.northjersey.com/topstories/wayne/138546444_Township_man_lies_dead_inside_home_for_over_a_year.html

WAYNE - Despite a mountain of mail left at 99 Black Oak Ridge Road nobody knew resident Donald Domsky had been inside dead for over a year.

It wasn't until a neighbor decided to ask police to conduct a welfare check on the man after she hadn't seen him for some time that the grim discovery was made on Jan 20.

Police say the incident is not suspicious and there is no criminal investigation.

"An autopsy was done and it showed no trauma so there's no need for us to be involved," said Police Capt. James Clarke. "The sad part is it took over a year to find out he was dead."

more story in link...

[CLAY]

That is just sad.  

[Frankienuckles]

A friend of mine got a very good deal on his house because the previous owner had died and went undiscovered for a couple of weeks (in the summer). Creepy? Meh...

[cbsnbiker]

A friend of mine got a very good deal on his house because the previous owner had died and went undiscovered for a couple of weeks (in the summer). Creepy? Meh...

I'd be concerned about it being noisome.  

[Scratch33]

OTOH, some people love surprises...

[miles]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/02/jack-sparrow-character-pepper-sprayed.html

'Jack Sparrow' pepper-sprayed in Hollywood action figure brawl

A brawl between several people dressed as action figures erupted in front of the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on Thursday evening, resulting in a Jack Sparrow character being pepper-sprayed by an attacker, police said.

Jack Sparrow was treated for minor injuries in the fracas that included Catwoman, an alien and a second pirate, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

[Justin]

Apparently a Hayabusa cannot outrun a plane  :lol

Wonder what the fine is for 130 over?


http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20120203/NEWS01/302030030/188-mph-motorcyclist-convicted

188-mph motorcyclist convicted
A trooper testifies that the speed likely set an Iowa record.

He had enough sense to wear a helmet.

Iowa State Patrol troopers say James Foldenauer of Council Bluffs likely set a state record for speed on a public highway when he reached 188 mph on his motorcycle while fleeing from authorities in 2009. A pilot who tracked him said Thursday that Foldenauer drove on shoulders and the centerline to pass traffic.

A Pottawattamie County jury on Wednesday found Foldenauer, 39, guilty of eluding a peace officer. District Associate Judge Craig Dreismeier convicted Foldenauer for excessive speed for driving 188 mph in a 70-mph zone.

The chase started after a trooper clocked Foldenauer and another motorcyclist traveling at 89 mph in a construction zone on Interstate Highway 29 near Missouri Valley on Aug. 5, 2009, said Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Bryan Michelsen.

The other motorcyclist, a woman, stopped, Michelsen said. Foldenauer accelerated and reached 188 near Honey Creek. Foldenauer was driving a 2003 Suzuki Hayabusa.

Two Iowa State Patrol officers on the ground and one in the air pursued Foldenauer, although the police cars couldn’t keep up with the motorcycle.

“I don’t think he knew we had a plane over him. If he had known that, he probably would have stopped,” Michelsen said.

The pilot was Scott Pigsley, a senior trooper pilot with the Iowa State Patrol. Pigsley has worked for the state patrol for almost 25 years and has been a pilot for 17 years.

On that day, Pigsley said, he was concerned about the safety of not only the motorcyclist, but also everyone else traveling on I-29 in his path.

“I not only watched him pass on the shoulders at high rates of speed, but I saw him go on the centerline between semis and cars,” Pigsley said.

Pigsley tracked his speed by using stopwatches and monitoring his time every quarter-mile.

The measurement is an average of how fast he was going, Pigsley said.

“We kind of constantly clock and recheck zone after zone, and I had multiple clocks depending on what he was doing, maneuvering,” Pigsley said.

Pigsley followed the motorcyclist to an Omaha residence, where he was arrested by Omaha police officers.

Michael Murphy, Foldenauer’s lawyer, says that the motorcyclist whom the Iowa State Patrol tracked that day was not Foldenauer.

“His motorcycle was an orange motorcycle, kind of a bright orange. Everybody identified a red motorcycle, so that was our problem we had,” Murphy said.

The jury didn’t buy it, and Foldenauer will be sentenced on March 8.

Tom Nelson, assistant Pottawattamie County attorney, said he will likely seek the maximum penalty, which is two years in prison for the eluding charge, an aggravated misdemeanor.

Murphy said that as of Thursday, Foldenauer still had his driver’s license.

Dena Gray-Fisher, a spokeswoman for the Iowa Department of Transportation, said that Foldenauer’s license will be revoked one year for excessive speeding, and that he can request a work permit.

Foldenauer has been cited previously for less serious traffic offenses, online court records show.

Michelsen said no one knows for sure why Foldenauer didn’t stop.

“I guess we’ll never know 100 percent, because he never did confess,” Michelsen said.

Michelsen said he thought the speed the motorcyclist reached that day was a state record and near a national record, although Iowa Department of Transportation officials could not confirm that.

Michelsen said the closest record he could find was the Minnesota Highway Patrol clocking a motorcycle at 205 mph.

Lee Lundstrom, the manager of Struthers Brothers Suzuki in Des Moines, said 188 mph is probably near the top speed that a Suzuki Hayabusa could reach, although an owner could modify one to go faster.

The bike retails for about $14,000, he said.

“It’s probably one of the faster bikes built from the factory,” Lundstrom said. “But they only go as fast as you ride them.”

[Justin]

This almost belongs in "you laugh you lose"  

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/132513/dirty_diaper_forces_plane_to

Dirty Diaper Forces Plane to Make Emergency Landing

Qantas flight 825 gave new meaning to the phrase "flying stinks" this week when the plane made an emergency landing because of a dirty diaper. The plane was heading from Darwin to Brisbane, Australia, but was forced to land early at an airport in the town of Mt. Isa -- an airport too small to handle the large Boeing 767, an airport that had to remove the passengers via forklift in a process that took two hours.

While the aircraft was en route, passengers started complaining about a foul smell wafting from the front cabin. Nobody could identify what it was exactly, but the staff deduced that it must be fumes of some sort -- so they emergency landed. Later on, it was discovered that the stank wasn't a real, life-threatening danger to the plane, but only a mere olfactory assault instead: It was a poopy-filled diaper. Investigators are still trying to determine what the baby ate.

Jokes aside ("this really stinks," "what a s**tty flight," "this trip has been crap"), did it really take evacuating the plane in order to figure out what was reekin' up the joint? Isn't the bathroom the first place one goes when trying to locate the origin of something foul smelling? And aren't dirty diapers, like, really specific smelling? I don't have any kids, but I think in a blind smell test, I'd be able to identify one. Here's a hint: They smell like poo!

And then there's the person who didn't speak up. The poor mom or dad who was simply too embarrassed to stop the mass hysteria by pulling an attendant aside to say, "That isn't an engine on fire, it's my kid's ass." I feel for them, really I do -- and perhaps, I, too, would have been too bashful (or oblivious) to say anything. But maybe next time they're heading for a holiday, they'll throw a travel-size bottle of Febreze in the diaper bag or something. Everybody knows that smell. Especially when it's combined with, you know, doo-doo.

Would you speak up if you were the culprit's parent?

[stevent]

Officer Pigsly?, I'd demand some ID if he stopped me

[stew71]

Officer Pigsly?, I'd demand some ID if he stopped me

Imagine what his first day at the police academy was like.  

[Papa Lazarou]

Last veteran of World War 1 died yesterday

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9066371/Last-surviving-veteran-of-First-World-War-dies-aged-110.html

Asked what it was like to be 110, she replied, much the same as being 109. Go with God, Florence.

[veefer800canuck]

Wow, that's really something. 110 and a WWI veteran. Remarkable.

[Justin]

Last veteran of World War 1 died yesterday

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9066371/Last-surviving-veteran-of-First-World-War-dies-aged-110.html

Asked what it was like to be 110, she replied, much the same as being 109. Go with God, Florence.

Great story - thanks for the share  

[Papa Lazarou]

FOOTBALL FANS in the central African state of Congo were hurling accusations of witchcraft at each other yesterday after a freak blast of lightning struck dead an entire team on the playing field while their opponents were left completely untouched.

The bizarre blow by the weather to all 11 members of the football team was reported in the daily newspaper L'Avenir in Kinshasa, the capital of Congo.

"Lightning killed at a stroke 11 young people aged between 20 and 35 years during a football match," the newspaper reported . It went on to say that 30 other people had received burns at the weekend match, held in the eastern province of Kasai. "The athletes from Basanga [the home team] curiously came out of this catastrophe unscathed."

The suspicion that the black arts might be involved arose firstly because the opposing team emerged unharmed and then again because the score at the time was a delicately balanced one all.

"The exact nature of the lightning has divided the population in this region which is known for its use of fetishes in football," the newspaper commented.

Much of the detail about the match remains obscure as the Congo - officially known as the Democratic Republic of Congo - remains stricken by civil war between the government of Laurent Kabila and rebel forces, backed by neighbouring Rwanda, in the east of the country.

Witchcraft is often blamed for adverse natural phenomena throughout western and central Africa. It is relatively frequent for football teams to hire witchdoctors to place hexes on their opponents.

In a similar, though less deadly incident in South Africa over the weekend, six players from a local team were hurt when lightning struck the playing field during a thunderstorm.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/203137.stm

[veefer800canuck]

Witchcraft is often blamed for adverse natural phenomena throughout western and central Africa. It is relatively frequent for football teams to hire witchdoctors to place hexes on their opponents.

Ooo Eee Ooo Aah Ahh, Ting-Tang Walla-Walla BingBang!

[Giaka]

You can no longer toss a football or play frisbee on LA County Beaches. Have the masters of LA county lost their freaking minds?

http://beach.orangecounty.com/2012/02/09/no-fun-on-la-county-beaches-tossing-footballs-and-frisbees-banned/54542/