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Fortunately, the odds are good that the next one will fall over one of our oceans, which take up more than two-thirds of the Earth’s surface, or the planet’s still-vast stretches of uninhabited lands. How much in taxpayer dollars should be invested to pinpoint such hazards is one of the toughest risk-management exercises around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA-nOeLSM7E Television's Vietnam: the Impact of Media 1 of 6 Charlton Heston Narrates

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Fort Wright, KY (AHN) -- To further illustrate the way rising gas prices are effecting people all over the world, police say a woman arrested in Northern Kentucky for soliciting prostitution was trading sex for gasoline. A sex sting operation by police was in effect at a Days Inn Hotel when Angela R. Eversole, 34, was arrested along with four other women for selling sex. After further investigation, police found that rather that trading sex for cash, Eversole bartered her body for $100 gas card and other gifts. The man with whom Eversole made the exchange, Kenneth A. Nowak, 50,...

Hollywood, CA (BANG) - Sharon Stone has been offered a free brain scan. Animal rights group PETA are determined to discover why Sharon "demonstrates a lack of empathy" towards animals by wearing fur, and so have written her a letter telling her they would be willing to pay for the scientific scan.The letter reads: "Scientific studies suggest that the prefrontal regions of the brains of people who lack empathy might be underdeveloped. Here's our offer - would you allow PETA to pay for a scan of the prefrontal region of your brain to determine if comments and actions that seem...

(Apparently still retired, he denies the story about him wanting to play another year) As of Wednesday night, there was only one public comment from Brett Favre, in a text message to his friend and Biloxi Sun Herald sports reporter, Al Jones. "It's all rumor." But what a huge rumor it is. On Wednesday afternoon, ESPN.com reported that Favre had the "itch" to be back on the field for training camp to play for an 18th NFL season. It is a dramatic turnaround for the 38-year-old Favre, who announced on March 4 that he would retire after 16 years as...

APPLETON, Wisc. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A couple telephoned police in the middle of the night after finding a man in their basement covered head to toe in barbecue sauce. "He told the officers that it was urban camouflage," said the homeowner. This happened in Wisconsin. The homeowners say they woke up to whistling sounds. The husband grabbed his shotgun and headed toward the basement where he found the sauced-up intruder. He held him at gunpoint until police arrived. The guy told officers he covered himself in barbecue sauce because he wanted to hide from the government. He now faces burglary...

Austin, TX (AHN) - Watermelon rinds could be the new natural aphrodisiac, new research has shown. Researchers from Texas A&M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center say the fruit's rind can have a Viagra-like effect.The flesh and rind of watermelons contain citrulline, which reacts with the body's enzymes when consumed in large quantities. The compound is changed into arginine, an amino acid that benefits the heart and the circulatory and immune systems. Just like the popular Viagra and other drugs meant to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), it also helps relax and dilate blood vessels. Researchers are now working on breeding watermelons...

I have been looking at Snopes to "confirm" certain things out there about Obama. For instance, quotes from his books, and Snopes comes across as very liberal, defending Obama and making excuses for what he's said. Most of the quotes, he did in fact say but Snopes likes to say it was taken out of context, etc. Anyone else have an opinion on this?

How do you keep the ice out of ice cream? Antifreeze. A UW-Madison scientist has discovered an edible antifreeze that can keep ice crystals from forming inside ice cream containers, a real turnoff to late night snackers who just want their fix of Rocky Road without digging through a layer of frost. According to the UW-Madison news service, food science professor Srinivasan Damodaran mixed gelatin with papain, a natural enzyme from fruit that cuts proteins into smaller pieces. When blended into ice cream, the antifreeze works to keep ice cream smooth. Frozen foods get crystallized because of temperature fluctuations, such...

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WASHINGTON -- Food prices could rise even more unless the mysterious decline in honey bees is solved, farmers and businessmen told lawmakers Thursday. "No bees, no crops," North Carolina grower Robert D. Edwards told a House Agriculture subcommittee. Edwards said he had to cut his cucumber acreage in half because of the lack of bees available to rent. About three-quarters of flowering plants rely on birds, bees and other pollinators to help them reproduce. Bee pollination is responsible for $15 billion annually in crop value.In 2006, beekeepers began reporting losing 30 percent to 90 percent of their hives. This phenomenon...

London, UK (AHN) - The resident of a small island off the coast of Scotland has declared its independence from the United Kingdom. Stuart Hill, the owner of the island, wants it to be a crown dependency, similar to the Channel Islands. According to a statement on his Web site, Hill, who owns Forvik, a 2.5-acre island in the Shetland Islands, declared that he no longer recognized the authority of the British government or the European Union. Hill, 65, landed on the small island in 2001 when his boat capsized there during an attempt to circumnavigate Britain. As the island's...

What happened to FM? It seems to have disappeared.

Extreme weather has virtually wiped out Door County’s cherry crop for this year, which not only means slim pickings in orchards that attract thousands of tourists each summer, but also a loss of an estimated 350 to 400 seasonal jobs for workers who harvest and process the iconic scarlet fruit. At a time when epic rains and flooding have wiped out berries and vegetables in other parts of the state, Door County’s loss may seem surprising because it is attributed to an opposite extreme: a three-month drought last summer, followed by a January that brought rain and wild temperature fluctuations....

Shawn, Al Gore, SirDriverMan, Michael and Jack Frost finally cross paths in the revealing final episode of " I Am SNowman " in season 1. Gloabal warming, global cooling and climate change are the main characters in this live action packed parody of " I Am Legend ". To see the whole movie in order of creation go to my blog site for all the links. http://community.myfoxmilwaukee.com/blogs/SirDriverMan

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Those who believe Obama is articulate, eloquent, etc. should listen to him speak without a teleprompter. The audio is here: http://genelalor.com/

Denver, CO (AHN) - With soaring gas prices, it is not surprising to hear that incidents of road rage are on the rise. A study by a Colorado State University social psychologist said there is a better predictor of road rage behavior among American motorists. According to William Szlemko, in his recent study published at the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the more a driver has bumper stickers, window decals, personalized licensed plates and other territorial markers on his vehicle, the greater is his tendency to get mad when someone cuts into his lane. The road anger may be expressed...

Watch out for the oceans.That's the lesson of an extensive study by University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor Shanan Peters published June 15 in the journal Nature. Peters looked at data gathered by scientists over many years and analyzed what they found at about 600 locations all over the continental United States and Alaska, going back more than 500 million years. Changes in ocean environments related to sea level exert a driving influence on rates of extinction, which animals and plants survive or vanish, and the composition of life in the ocean, he found. "This breakthrough speaks loudly to the future...

Obama supports killers/bombers

An ailing economy that has seen price increases at gas pumps and grocery stores now is hitting consumers where it really hurts: the Friday fish fry. Fish fry operators throughout the Milwaukee area say the rising cost of fish and other products is hurting the profitability of their wildly popular Friday night dinners. Especially hard hit are those restaurants that depend on Icelandic cod, a perennial favorite that has jumped 50% in cost because of the depressed value of the U.S. dollar.Some fish fry operators are holding down their prices for fear of losing customers, while others have tried switching...

Barack Obama speaks sweet words on the campaign trail. He speaks of national unity and worldwide peace. He tickles our ears with his words. These are words Americans want to hear. He tells 75,000 adoring fans in Oregon that Iran is not a serious threat. The very next day in Montana he says, "I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave." Which is it, Mr. Obama? The leader of Iran repeatedly and virulently states that he wants Israel and the United States destroyed.

One thing that always strikes me about so many of my "fellow" cyclists that Roenfeldt is apparently not cognizant of, is how rude and arrogant cyclists tend to be. I mostly ride the metro area's extensive trails and paths and I try to extend every courtesy to others. I rarely encounter fellow cyclists with the same view, though. Rather, I see them rocketing silently out of darkened underpasses causing elderly strollers to leap into the brush alongside the path and rushing in silence up behind unsuspecting families with pets and small children, never uttering a word of warning From my...

London, England (AHN) - The Home Office has launched advertisements to warn 18- to 24-year-olds about the consequences of binge drinking. The TV ad that says "You wouldn't start a night like this, so why end it that way?" shows a young man injuring himself, being violent, urinating on his shoes and pouring a takeaway meal on his shirt just before he was about to go out. Another ad depicts a young woman smearing her make-up, tearing her clothes and putting vomit on her hair. Advertisements in the internet also show aftermaths of a binge-drinking session where a man smashed...

Nine experienced cross-country skiers hurriedly left their tent on a Urals slope in the middle of the night, casting aside skis, food and their warm coats. Clad in their sleepwear, the young people dashed headlong down a snowy slope toward a thick forest, where they stood no chance of surviving bitter temperatures of around minus 30 degrees Celsius. Baffled investigators said the group died as a result of “a compelling unknown force” — and then abruptly closed the case and filed it as top secret. The deaths, which occurred 49 years ago on Saturday, remain one of the deepest mysteries...

Children learn many useful things from television shows and cartoon characters. They learn letters and numbers from the characters on Sesame Street; Dora the Explorer helps them hone their reasoning and problem-solving skills. Now, a cartoon character is telling them when they should die. He’s a dog in a lab coat named “Professor Schpinkee.” He is a creation of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Planet Slayer website. Kids who visit the website are invited to pay a “game” called “Professor Schpinkee’s Greenhouse Calculator.” But instead of learning letters or numbers—or even how to take a bite out of crime—they learn “how...

Bank employees said a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a pistol was thwarted in an attempt to rob the bank because the doors were locked. The man fled the scene. and he was unable to complete the heist,

Cedar Rapids, IA (AHN) - Despite the lower level of Iowa's floodwaters, Midwestern state residents could not yet rest from sandbagging operations. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have advised communities near the Mississippi River in Iowa and Missouri to continue making sandbags and placing it along the river to prevent future inundation of several areas. According to the National Weather Service forecast, more rains are on the way and it would cause the Mississippi River to rise to a point that water will spill over 26 or 27 levees between Davenport in Iowa and St. Louis in Missouri, said...

Canadian police are probing a possible link between a left foot which washed up yesterday on a beach near Vancouver and four right feet which have since last year similarly made landfall on the coast of British Columbia, the BBC reports. The mysterious spate of seaborne foot landings began last August when two right feet came ashore on small islands north of Vancouver. This was followed by another right foot discovered in February, while May saw the fourth wash up on a suburban Vancouver beach. All four were wearing trainers. While police say there is "no evidence that the feet...

Bridgeport police say they arrested a city man after he ordered his pet to attack two officers. Lucky for them that 9-foot-long pythons aren't very obedient. Rodriguez and his pet were both taken away: Rodriguez to jail on a $10,000 bond, and the albino python ...

Star Prairie, WI - Chako isn't the kind of dog that's likely to find a home through the local animal shelter. An aging Siberian husky, incontinent and partially paralyzed, he needs round-the-clock care that his owner, widowed, and with arthritis herself, can no longer manage. But Chako has a home, along with dozens of other aged or maimed or once-abandoned animals, on a 40-acre spread along the Apple River in western Wisconsin. Chako lives at the Home for Life Sanctuary near Star Prairie, the final residence for an eclectic menagerie of dogs, cats, bunnies, birds - even an African desert...

I was here day the story broke about Ted Kennedy's cancer. For the most part, members were civil. Look at this boldface LIE, the last post on the bottom. http://letters.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/06/13/russert/view/index2.html?show=all

Madrid, Spain (AHN) - Two Spanish children have been sent to a mental health institution by their parents to get treatment for addiction to their mobile phones. The children had allegedly ceased to undertake normal activities without first having their phones. The children, aged 12 and 13, were admitted to Child and Youth Mental Health Centre in Lleida, in northeastern Spain near Barcelona, three months ago. Their concerned parents brought them in after they spend an average of six hours a day on their phones, talking, texting or playing games. The children began doing badly at school and started lying...

London, England (AHN) - A British man has died from kidney failure after inhaling poisonous fungal spores. The 47-year-old died of a fungal lung infection after inhaling spore-laden dust stirred up while gardening. The symptoms started less than 24 hours after he had dispersed rotting tree and plant mulch in the garden. He died in intensive care a week later. By the time the man's doctors realized his condition was aspergillus fungal infection and began appropriate treatment, it was too late to save him. Later tests revealed he had developed acute aspergillosis, a dangerous reaction to aspergillus fumigatus spores. The...

Paris, France (BANG) - Angelina Jolie has hinted she is planning to settle in France by enrolling her son Maddox in a local school. The pregnant actress and her partner Brad Pitt, who recently splashed out $70 million on a property on the French Riviera, seem intent on staying in the country and educating their six children there after Angelina gives birth to twins. A source said: "They have enrolled Maddox at a local school in Brignoles, it's the nearest school to their chateau, and he'll carry on where he left off at his French school in New Orleans." "They...

London, England (AHN) -- Princess Eugenie, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York was caught running around naked with friends on the campus of her college late Friday night. According to reports, a school staff member was woken by "playful shrieks," and saw a group of girls romping around in a courtyard area. There were no boys, and school officials say there didn't seem to be any intoxicants involved, but a report in The Sun claimed that one student said the girls had been drinking at a pub that night. Upon being caught, the dozen or so girls...

Many years ago (I won't give the exact number) I was a college student, and for a while worked in the college radio station which at that time concentrated on jazz and instrumental music (it was a religious college and many contemporary song lyrics were problematic). Each weekday morning there was an hour of what is conventionally called "new age" music. One of the new age albums was entitled New Age Songs and was by a duo named the Frugivores ("fruit eaters"). It appeared to be a man and a woman (though the pic on the front of the album...

Check out Liberalism at its best. We get to hear the scum of Code Pink tell a U.S. Marine that he is a war criminal, that there is nothing wrong with communism, that Al Qaeda is not a threat to the U.S., that the war on terror is not real, WW2 was not justified, and my favorite line...OUT OF HAWAII NOW! What are we doing there anyway? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmdrkmtkCw4

WSJNBCNEWS POLL: Obama Opens With Edge on McCain... Obama's VP advisor resigns... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dems pound McCain for new Iraq quote... Kerry: McCain confused, 'unbelievably out of touch'... CLINTONS PUT DRUDGE ON ENEMIES LIST... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE: Obama recruits staff to fight web smears... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAGLIA: McCain reading speech is painful spectacle... DOWD: Demonizing Michelle Obama...

Finally got fed up! Sent (urged on by an email FRom the American Family Association at http://capwiz.com/afanet/issues/alert/?alertid=11479656&type=CO ) the following email to my Congressmen and both Senators: "Re: American Energy Independence Dear (Congressman or Senator, as the case may be) The rising price of gasoline is hurting nearly every family in America. My wife and I, and all of our friends and neighbors, are sick and tired of Congress kowtowing to the environmentalist lobby and scheming to keep vitally needed energy resources out of the market. It is time for Congress to develop a program which allows the exploitation of...

Nancy Nedveck loves the colorful blooms that grow on agastache and penstemon, two plants that attract tiny hummingbirds. Some varieties of these plants used to be too fragile to grow in south-central Wisconsin, but now Nedveck is happy to be able to offer them among the endless rows of perennials on display at her nursery, south of Oregon. Thanks to global warming, these and other less hardy plants are surviving and even thriving in this area, said Nedveck, who has owned the popular Flower Factory for 25 years. "The change over the past 10 years has been gradual," she said,...

GAO review of tanker deal unlikely to produce truce Both sides have ways to fight on By JOELLE TESSLER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Northrop Grumman Corp. and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. beat out The Boeing Co. to win a $35 billion order from the Air Force three months ago. Yet the contract to build 179 aerial refueling tankers is hardly a done deal. The surprise selection of a team that includes EADS -- the parent company of The Boeing Co.'s rival Airbus -- has ignited a backlash among unions representing Boeing workers, lawmakers from Washington, Kansas...

Political activists planning protest rallies at the upcoming Democratic Convention in Denver have their stomachs in knots over a rumor about a crowd control weapon - known as the “crap cannon” - that might be unleashed against them. Also called “Brown Note,” it is believed to be an infrasound frequency that debilitates a person by making them defecate involuntarily.

LAKE DELTON, WI - A 245-acre lake in this resort town overflowed Monday, virtually emptying the lake basin and washing away lakefront homes along with a chunk of the local tourism industry.Lake Delton, a key part of the Wisconsin Dells tourism area, overflowed about 10 a.m. on Monday morning after two days of rain and was dry by Monday afternoon, said Thomas Diehl, a Lake Delton village trustee. Water in the manmade lake rose until it was too much for a highway enbankment that was holding it back. The highway washed away as water drained into the nearby Wisconsin River....

GAYS MILLS, WI -- Another wave of severe thunderstorms pounded the southern half of Wisconsin Sunday, creating flash floods, forcing evacuations and dredging up nightmares of flooding not even a year past. Reports of flooding came in across a 150-mile swath of the state, from the Milwaukee suburbs of Oak Creek and Cudahy to parts of Crawford, Dane and Vernon counties. The National Guard from Fort McCoy also was called in to help Vernon County emergency personnel evacuate about 50 people from a trailer park in Ontario that was flooded, said Jane Larsen, a spokeswoman for Wisconsin Emergency Management. Residents...

PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh woman who sent Comcast Corp. a check made out for "My Right Arm and Zero Dollars" is up in arms because she says someone published a copy of the check on the Internet.

Lebanon, PA (AHN) -- A 31-year-old man had to be rescued Sunday from a Lebanon, Pennsylvania port-o-potty after getting stuck, naked and waist deep, in the holding tank. Shannon P. Hunter was drunk when firefighters arrived on the scene. According to the York Daily record, emergency crews had to cut away the toilet around Hunter because he was wedged in tightly. He told them he was drunk and fell in, but only shrugged his shoulders when they asked why he was nude. Hunter had to be decontaminated before paramedics could care for his scrapes and bruises at the spot where...

Officials at the Isle of Palms ordered everyone out of the water because of a dangerous animal. But it wasn't a shark this time. Instead, wildlife officials ended up trapping a two-metre-long American crocodile in the surf ... the crocodile likely escaped or was released by someone who illegally brought it from its normal habitat in southern Florida. But Bennett says it is possible the crocodile could have swum up the coast.

Last night's two hotel guests relaxing in a hot tub in Ouray looked up to find there was another guest in the tub- a bear. The hotel says the bear was just inches away from one guest. Both the guest and the bear got the scare of their lives, the guest screamed and the bear ran and dove into the swimming pool. The Bear made his escape after swimming across the pool The Ouray Police Department says five to six bears have roaming the streets. Even walking down Main Street during the day.