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MYFOXNY.COM -- The NYPD's Harbor Unit, patrolling the East River near the United Nations as a part of security operations for the Pope's visit, rescued an apparently sick beaver from the water. The ever-vigilant harbor cops spotted the animal, which appeared to be having trouble breathing and struggled to swim, not far from the U.N., where the Pope was speaking. >>VIDEO: SCUBA COPS BRING BEAVER ASHORE >>VIDEO: OFFICER DESCRIBES BEAVER RESCUE Police Officer John Angus caught the beaver in a safety noose, pulled it aboard, and placed it in a bucket with water. Officers brought the beaver to shore for...

Oh, those crazy Australians! Only they could turn a feminine-hygiene ad into a controversy over a euphemism for the vagina. Despite a number of complaints, the Advertising Standards Bureau will not immediately bar television stations from running a tampon commercial that features a woman carrying a pet beaver everywhere she goes: Campaign spokeswoman Penny Warneford told ninemsn they had only received seven complaints from the ASB and they are a normal part of “fem care” advertising. …Ms Warneford said their research found that 94 percent of women aged 18 to 24 said they used euphemisms for the word “vagina”.“They feel...

MOON TWP. — A Moon Area High School physical education teacher and girls volleyball coach who has admitted to having sex with a 14-year-old male Moon Township freshman could face additional charges, Moon Police Chief Leo McCarthy said Monday. Beth Ann Chester, 26, of 2034 Swallow Hill Road, Scott Township, already is charged with unlawful contact with a minor, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal use of a communication facility, sexual abuse of children, corruption of minors and criminal solicitation. Charges were filed Friday, and she is being held in the Allegheny County Jail on $50,000 bond. McCarthy said...

MARTINEZ - A disoriented and possibly injured beaver was taken from Alhambra Creek to the Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Walnut Creek this afternoon.| Marie Woods, an employee at the Contra Costa County Community Services Department, said she saw a beaver behaving strangely at about 1:25 p.m. in the area where beavers have built a dam. "The beaver was just swimming around in the water and he looked so tired or sick," Woods said, adding it bumped into the concrete walls of the creekbed. "He would topple over in the water and then swim away again." Woods said a bystander jumped...

Bakersfield plans to spare the life of a bothersome beaver blamed for gnawing down nine cottonwood trees along a popular bike path. Thursday, the California Department of Fish and Game announced it planned to exterminate the beaver, which lives near a path along the Kern River. Bakersfield Recreation and Parks Department Director Dianne Hoover says she's asking the state wildlife agency to rescind a permit to kill the beaver. Instead, the city wants to relocate the animal or find another alternative solution. An animal welfare researcher at Indiana University is also talking with local officials to try to find a...

Bringing back animals which were hunted to extinction in Britain - including the wolf, lynx, beaver and wild boar - would not be difficult, according to a new report. The animals could be brought back to live free in the wild without posing any great threat to people, crops or the environment, it is claimed. A report from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University (WCRU) said while further work needed to be done on their impact, there was no obvious reason to block their return. The animals roaming free in remote areas would enhance the natural environment and...

'Beaver’ gets all the blame British driver pins Grand Prix loss on wrong rodent Randy Boswell CanWest News Service Tuesday, June 12, 2007 Davidson blamed the wrong rodent for ruining his race when it wandered into the path of his car. It turns out a poor groundhog got in the way of the car. What, exactly, was that buck-toothed blur? The final, unfortunate act in the life of an unwitting Canadian rodent has grabbed headlines around the world after British Formula One driver Anthony Davidson blamed a "beaver" for wandering into the path of his car and ruining his race...

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, he is best known for his role as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver in the classic sitcom "Leave it to Beaver." Actor Jerry Mathers is 59...

NEW YORK - Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents have not been seen in the flesh here for as many as 200 years — until this week. Biologists videotaped a beaver swimming up the Bronx River on Wednesday. Its twig-and-mud lodge had been spotted earlier on the riverbank, but the tape confirmed the presence of the animal itself. "It had to happen because beaver populations are expanding, and their habitats are shrinking," said Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. "We're probably...

In these last days, the Bible says it will be a time of mass hybridization and the mixture and corruption of human DNA by fallen angels, also known as "Aliens." The government is and has been, conditioning the existence of aliens through Hollywood, science fiction, cartoons, and other sources. However, they are not telling you the whole truth. These Aliens are not ascended masters, or enlightened ones, or beings from galaxies millions of miles away, nor are they our forefathers or original creators. They are fallen angels who were kicked out of heaven for their rebellion against the headship...

DURHAM, N.C. — A man who pleaded guilty to lobbing a homemade bomb at his girlfriend said he was actually aiming for a beaver dam. In the end, he was the only person injured, and he now faces 10 months in prison as well. Otis Cecil Wilkins, 45, pleaded guilty Wednesday to assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to 300 days in jail. He had been charged with attempted first-degree murder. According to sheriff's deputies, Wilkins had threatened the ex-girlfriend, then threw the bottle bomb at her car as she drove into her yard in Rougemont, N.C., about...

Beaver shot in downtown Larvik A man who called police to help rescue a beaver watched in horror as the animal was gunned down instead. ------------------------- Joakim Moltzau was delivering newspapers early in the morning when he found a somewhat worn out beaver wandering in downtown Larvik. After failing to lead the animal down to the local river, he called police for assistance to move the beaver to safety. Police arrived, before getting a handgun and shooting the animal three times. "Two men came out, one went over to the beaver, the other got the pistol and loaded it. They...

The William F. Clinton Foundation has posted an Internet job listing for unpaid interns. Seriously. The president that is now the butt of jokes anytime anyone claims they did not have sex with 'that woman' is brought forward apparently would again like to have a gal Friday around to help out. One item on the web site promises hands-on experience and says the interns have the responsibility of interacting directly with the staff. (Insert any joke you would like here). No - I'm not making it up. Page Six gives this account: It's been 10 years since the ex-president faced...

Beavers can introduce the parasite Giardia into the water, with diarrhea and vomiting a result, an intestinal ailment known as 'Beaver fever' (Giardiasis) in the USA. Now the City of Oslo's Department of Water and Sanitation is concerned that the revival of the beaver population in the woods around the capital can mean trouble. "We have increased the frequency of taking test samples and we are keeping an eye on where the beaver are. In North America the parasite the beaver carries makes the water undrinkable. We are not worried but are taking a safety first approach," said Terje Wold...

Hans Island, the tiny Arctic island at the centre of Canada's war of words with Denmark over its sovereignty, is so barren that even the rocks used by soldiers to erect an Inukshuk needed to be flown in by helicopter, military documents show. When a small contingent of the Canadian Forces landed on the island in July on a sovereignty patrol, they also erected a 12-foot pole topped by a metal Canadian flag that had been specially designed and built at a cost of almost $2,000. Details of the secret three-hour mission -- code-named Exercise Frozen Beaver -- are contained...

TheOneNetwork.com has posted six new clips from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Scenes include Lucy stepping through the wardrobe (little new material there), the Pevensies finding "a TALKING beaver!", Edmund with the White Witch, the beavers and the three Pevensies eluding murderous wolves, and the White Witch declaring victory (either before or after killing Aslan). I'm blown away by the performance of Tilda Swinton. Her behavior with Edmund is so motherly, so seemingly kind and sincere...entirely believable and congruent with the book.

Leave It to Beaver - Universal Announces 1st Season, Including Limited Lunchbox Package! Posted by David Lambert 8/25/2005   Last Christmas we gave our readers a present and told them that Leave It To Beaver would be out in 2005. We've been biting our tongue for a long time about the release timeframe, but now Universal has finally announced a November 22nd release date! This will be a set of 3 double-sided DVDs, with video in the original black-and-white full screen and audio in English mono, with English and Spanish subtitles. There were 39 half-hour episodes in the first...

SCHODACK -- Vince Gramuglia got what he wanted Monday, though Betty Beaver got pelted. The town Planning Board took no action to block a racy sign showing a chesty cartoon beaver that Gramuglia plans to install when he reopens the old Northeast Truck Stop. "The sign stays the way that it is," Gramuglia said. "Betty's going to hang." The truck stop impresario handed out free T-shirts showing the buxom beaver to supporters who turned out at the board meeting. The Planning Board still must decide whether the reopened truck stop will meet town noise limits and other quality-of-life concerns, but...

<p>DRAKESBAD -- An experiment at Dream Lake in Lassen Volcanic National Park may demonstrate how eager beavers really are -- and how smart.</p> <p>Park officials recently installed three flexible pipes in a spillway at the half-acre lake near Drakesbad Guest Ranch, at the park's southern entrance through Warner Valley.</p>

And the jokes just write themselves!

SHANNONDALE, W.Va. (AP) -- An 8-year-old girl had reconstructive surgery on her hand after being attacked by a rabid beaver in Jefferson County earlier this month. Robin Hays' said her daughter, Maddison, was playing along the Shenandoah River behind their Shannondale home on July 11 when the attack occurred. "We were getting ready for a pig roast, and she was down there playing,'' Hays told The Journal in Martinsburg. "Suddenly, I heard a blood-curdling scream.'' Hays saw the beaver clamped onto her daughter's hand, then shook her arm to get it free, grabbed her daughter and ran. The beaver chased...

<p>STURBRIDGE -- When she bought her property 20 years ago, Patricia Jeffries could walk clear across the swampy 25 acres of land that stretched behind her house. Today, to cover that same ground, she'd have to swim.</p> <p>Over the last decade, beavers have built a dam almost as tall as she is, creating a pond where there used to be a puddle.</p>

KNOWLTON, N.J. - After 15 years of persecution, beavers suddenly have won exalted status here in the shadow of the Kittatinny Mountains. Children sing beaver songs and write essays on ways Knowlton's beavers and humans can live in harmony. At town hall, a beaver that had the ill fortune to be stuffed and mounted before this golden age nevertheless holds court. A smaller beaver watches over the council chambers. Another is pinned to the shirt of the mayor, the man at the center of this benevolent madness. "The state actually told us we've got some of the smartest beavers in...

<p>GLENSIDE, Pa. (AP) --  Beaver College's decision to change its much-maligned name to Arcadia University has apparently boosted enrollment.</p> <p>The school changed its name a year ago to end years of abuse from the likes of David Letterman and "Saturday Night Live." Derogatory jokes often referred to the animal, "Leave it to Beaver" and the female anatomy.</p>