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Florida cat found in CO.

Florida man reunites with lost kitty in Colorado.

GOLDEN, Colo. — A cat who wandered away from his new home in Florida has been reunited with his owner after being found nearly 2,000 miles away in Colorado.

Waylon, an orange-striped tabby cat, was reunited with Daniel Johns on Wednesday at the Foothills Animal Shelter in Golden.

The cat went missing from the Naples, Fla., area in June, disappearing within an hour after Johns adopted the stray. Waylon apparently fled through a hole in a dryer vent.

Last month, a woman in a Denver suburb noticed him hanging around as she walked her dog and brought him to the shelter. A microchip linked the cat to Johns.

It's not known how the cat made its way to Colorado. One of the shelter's theories is that snowbirds may have taken the cat home with them.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
 
Maybe Criss knows something about this???

Aussie police: 'Stolen car' proves to be a runaway


ADELAIDE, Australia — Police say a car reported stolen from an Australian shopping center parking lot has been found more than two weeks later in the closed garage of a nearby home where it had apparently rolled unaided.

Police said in a statement Friday that the owner of the station wagon had reported it stolen from outside a shop in a suburb of Adelaide city on Dec. 18. The car was found parked in the home's garage Wednesday when the residents returned from vacation.

Police concluded that the car's owner had failed to leave its gear in park. The car then rolled across the parking lot, across a street and then down a driveway. It then bumped under the garage door by knocking it off its tracks. The door then closed behind it.
 
Wally the Walmart horse

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Horse left at Ohio Amish-area Walmart needs home


Christian Courtwright, the Humane Officer of the Geauga County Humane Societ...

SOUTH RUSSELL, Ohio — Wally the Walmart horse is looking for a new home.

That's the nickname given to a 9-year-old standardbred horse that a humane society says was left at a northeast Ohio store by an Amish teenager more than two months ago. Humane Officer Christian Courtwright in Geauga County says the teen apparently unhooked the horse from a buggy, tied it to a rail at the Walmart in Middlefield and never came back for it.

He says store employees noticed the horse the next day and tended to it until police took it to a caregiver.

He says the humane society now has control of the horse and expects it to be available for adoption soon.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
 
Alaska town tries to dig out from huge snow dump
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In this Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012 photo provided by the Alaska Division of Home...Buried-in-Snow AS.jpg

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Dozens of National Guard troops have arrived in Cordova to help the Alaska fishing town dig out from massive snows that have collapsed roofs, trapped some people in homes and triggered avalanches.

The city is used to snow, but not like this season's blanketing.

The Guard reported more than 18 feet of snow has fallen in the past weeks, although the National Weather Service did not immediately have a measurement.

"There's nowhere to go with the snow because it's piled up so high," said Wendy Rainney, who owns the Orca Adventure Lodge. A storage building for the lodge — which offers fishing trips, hiking, kayaking and glacier tours — partially collapsed under the weight of the snow, she said.

"This is more quantity than can be handled."

At least three buildings have collapsed or partially collapsed and six homes are deemed severely stressed by heavy wet snow, officials said.

The drifts are 12 to 14 feet high, but most roofs in town have been shoveled, said Chris Dunlap, a Cordova resident who was manning an empty Red Cross shelter early Monday.

"It's a lot of snow. I've lived here 33 years and this is the most snow I've ever seen," she said by phone. "The thing I'm impressed most with is we haven't had any injuries. Maybe a few back strains from all of the shoveling. But we have a very, very efficient, professional emergency staff here."

The city has set up a shelter at a local recreation center but said people leaving homes in avalanche-risky areas have been staying with other residents. Cordova spokesman Allen Marquette said the town also was ready to set up a pet shelter if necessary.

The town issued a disaster proclamation last week after three weeks of relentless snow overwhelmed local crews working around the clock and filled snow dump sites.

"We had no alternative but to declare an emergency," Cordova Mayor Jim Kallander said. "It became a life-safety issue."

Responders said Sunday that rain fell overnight, making for a slippery, treacherous mess in the Prince William Sound community of 2,000 year-round residents. The region has been pummeled by snow, but Cordova is of particular concern because there is no road access to the town, only boat and plane passage, said Maj. Gen. Thomas Katkus, adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard.

There have been no reported injuries, but bad weather has prevented the Guard from flying to the town, 150 miles southeast of Anchorage.

More than 70 Guard members arrived in Cordova via state ferry Sunday. About 50 of them will help clear roofs, roads, boats. The rest will provide other assistance. Three state emergency workers were already in town to help with emergency response planning. The state also is working on bringing in more heavy equipment to Cordova.

Katkus said Guard members will be on hand for up to two weeks. "This is an ongoing operation," he told reporters Sunday.

An avalanche brought snow and debris down on a section of the Copper River Highway, the 12-mile link from the town to the local airport. State transportation officials said a secondary road was opened to two-lane traffic while crews cleared the highway Sunday.

Another storm that started Saturday also brought rain, which soaked into the snow, weighing it down.

Classes were to begin later than usual Monday, but officials said students should go only if parents are comfortable with them venturing out.

Some roads have been cleared, but residents also are being creative, traveling on foot and by skis and snowshoes, officials said.

The National Weather Service said the snow depth at the airport measured 59 inches before the rain fell, weighing the level down to 47 inches. Monday was supposed to be clear before another system moves in Tuesday, bringing more snow and rain, as well as winds as strong as 40 mph.

"This break in the weather is very critical and very fortunate," meteorologist Don Moore said.
Associated Press radio reporter Ed Donahue in Washington contributed to this story.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
 
Darn, I missed it. We have a Wonder bread plant here, but no news about it yet.
I'll keep on top of it, thanks.
 
Portable heaters being recalled!!!
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Federal officials have launched a voluntary recall of a portable space heater sold at Meijer stores, Best Buys and Walmarts across the country.

It's called the Honeywell Surround Select Portable Electric Heater.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the internal housing in the heater including the fan, and heating element can detach and burn customers. The product is manufactured by KAZ U.S.A., and the company is cooperating with the recall.

The action involves about 19,000 heaters sold from July 2011 through December 2011 for between $50 and $70.

The model numbers involved in the recall are HZ-420, HZ-430, and HZ-440 and five-digit date codes that have 11 as the last two digits.

The heaters are black or white cylinders with a handle on top.

The model number is stamped into the plastic on the bottom of the heater.

The date code is located on the metal prongs of the heater's electrical plug. "Honeywell" and "Surround Heat" are printed on the front of the heaters. This heater was distributed by Kaz USAunder license from Honeywell.

If you have one of the heaters, you should unplug it, and stop using it immediately.

You can contact KAZ for a full refund at 800-370-8137 from 8:30 a.m.to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's website at www.KAZ.com
 
does he get like a dwi or dui or...what happens to ship captains??

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/italian-cruise-ship-captain-arrested-dozens-still-missing-4687863

hey, just goes to show, all them life boats, no matter how many, if any of the monstrous floating city's TIP over, all them life boats, some of which can carry over 200 people each, are USELESS!!

we took a 7 day carribean cruise this past november, first and probably only one. it can often be scarey, but for the most part, fun. my thinking on these mammoth cruise ships, and some are over 5 football fields in lenght, thats 1500ft long, and from the water line to the top, some are 15 stories high. my thinking is that, no matter how big they ever make them, their size brings those on board, a feeling of safety and security (they are floating cities for real), no matter how big, the ocean will ALWAYS be bigger and unforgiving.
 
I read in the paper over the weekend that according to the laws of Italy, a ship cap't who leaves his ship B4 the passengers can receive 15 yrs in jail.

:ban: the cap't forever......
 
Utah man gets lost class ring back 45 years later

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah man who lost his class ring six months after he bought it is getting the keepsake back 45 years later, thanks to some Facebook detective work.

Brent Aguirre said his mother was disappointed when the 1966 Bonneville High School graduate lost the ring, which is gold toned with a deep blue stone.

"It's a beautiful ring," he told KSL-TV ( http://bit.ly/zT8f9o). "I remember mom and dad forked out pretty good money for it."

He assumed the ring was at the bottom of Pineview Reservoir, not far from the Great Salt Lake, and wrote it off when he left to fight in Vietnam.

The military service turned into an Air Force career that led him through nine different moves across the world and finally back to his hometown of Ogden. It wasn't until the fall that Aguirre received a Facebook message from a couple in nearby Sandy, saying they wanted to get in touch with him.

He brushed it off, but they contacted him again, telling him they'd found a ring with his name inscribed in cursive script.

The couple still isn't sure where the ring came from. The husband said he can't remember where he originally found it, and the wife said the keepsake turned up when she was cleaning out a desk drawer.

"It was unbelievable," Aguirre said. "I had written it off, and it was hard to believe they actually had my ring."

Aguirre met up with the couple just after Christmas. More than four decades older, the ring no longer fits on his ring finger, but Aguirre said he's happy to have it on his pinky.

He said he only has one regret: That his mother, once upset that her teenage son lost the valuable so quickly, was not around to see that he'd found it at last.
 
brent ??????? u sure this is not vanderlays maiden name ????? sis just nuged me on the side ... the search continues
 
Large Oarfish found in Florida.....

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The strange fish discovered by Harry Furrevig and his wife

A Florida couple was out strolling alongside the ocean when they discovered a strange and unidentified sea creature that had washed ashore on Delray Beach.

"It just rolled up on the beach in front of us," Carolyn Hoffman told the Palm Beach Post. "I've never seen anything shaped like that."

The fish in question, long and ribbon shaped, is most likely an oarfish, according to Palm Beach Atlantic University biology professor Ray Waldner. The oarfish is the longest of the bony fishes, commonly reaching 26 feet in length. Others have reported recovering oarfish that are as much as 56 feet in length.

Oarfish live in oceans around the world but are rarely seen in the wild, except when they are dying and swimming near the ocean's surface--or, as with the Hoffmans, when they wash ashore.

They typically live in deeper ocean waters, feeding off of plankton, jelly fish and squid. In July 2008, scientists captured video of a live oarfish. That footage recorded what experts believe had been the first confirmed sighting of a living, healthy oarfish swimming in the ocean.

Historically, the oarfish have been labeled as "sea serpents." S some historians speculate that they may be behind some of the early myths about monsters roaming the seas.

In the video below, a diver swims up to an oarfish, estimated to be 15 to 20 feet in length: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/strange-fish-found-florida-beach-likely-oarfish-190342643.html

The much smaller fish found by Carolyn Hoffman and her husband Harry Furrevig is not a perfect match. But Waldner said its body most likely was beaten down by the surf.

Furrevig, a fisherman, took a photo with the fish and reportedly told his wife, "Let's fillet this and eat it." "I said no thanks," Hoffman said.
 
"Willie and the Hand Jive" singer Johnny Otis dies at 90.......OK OK Please no jokes
By Piya Sinha-Roy, Reuters

LOS ANGELES — Johnny Otis, singer of the 1958 hit "Willie and the Hand Jive", has died in California at the age of 90.

Otis died on Tuesday in the Los Angeles suburb of Altadena, his friend and music historian Tom Reed told Reuters.

"His role in pop and rock'n roll music made him a legend, he could do it all. He is one of the greatest talents of American music and he was a great American," said Reed.

Born John Alexander Veliotes in December 1921 to Greek-American parents in northern California, the young musician grew up in a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Berkeley, immersing himself in their culture and music, listening to blues, gospel and swing sounds.

Otis founded his own band in the mid-1940s and scored his first hit with the song "Harlem Nocturne". He went on to have R&B hits with "Mistrustin' Blues" and "Double Crossing Blues" in the 1950s and "Willie and the Hand Jive," in 1958.

The singer also composed Etta James' first hit, "The Wallflower" which gained chart success in 1955, the 1961 hit "Every Beat of My Heart" for Gladys Knight and the Pips, and produced "Hound Dog," made famous by Elvis Presley in 1956.

Otis became a disc jockey for Los Angeles radio station KFOX, and was also heavily involved in politics and the civil rights movement. He wrote about both in his 1968 debut book, "Listen to the Lambs," in which the 1965 Watts riots played a central theme.

He also became an ordained minister, opening the Landmark Community Church in Los Angeles in the late 1970s. He later moved back to northern California to become an organic farmer.

But the pioneering musician never moved away from his first love, music, and toured well into his 70s, headlining blues and jazz festivals along with his son, Shuggie Otis.

Otis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

(Reporting By Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Jill Serjeant)
 
Urinating cat, not fire, caused smoke in Pa. home

NEW CASTLE, Pa. — One western Pennsylvania fire department learned that there's not necessarily fire wherever there's smoke.

New Castle's assistant fire chief Jim Donston tells The Associated Press that firefighters were called when an electrical outlet on a floor was smoking, only to find that happened because the family's cat urinated into the outlet.

The New Castle News ( http://bit.ly/zHd1RS) first reported the incident Friday and Donston supplied more details to the AP.

The assistant chief says a Columbia Gas worker was at the house checking for a possible leak when he noticed the smoking outlet and called the fire department Wednesday about 7:30 p.m.

Donston says firefighters "found the receptacle wet from cat urine" and shut off the electrical supply to that circuit.___

Information from: New Castle News, http://www.ncnewsonline.com
 
This is hitting the nail on the head...backwards.

Ill. man in joking mood despite nail in brain
By DON BABWIN, AP

This provided by Christ Medical Center & Hope Children's Hospital in O...

OAK LAWN, Ill. — Gail Glaenzer still can't believe that her fiance unknowingly shot a nail into his skull, let alone that he posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook during his ambulance ride between hospitals for surgery.

But she was joking about the circumstances Friday, a day after doctors successfully removed the 3 1/4-inch nail from Dante Autullo's brain.

"Dante says, `I want it to make a necklace out of it,'" Glaenzer said.

Glaenzer sat Friday in the lobby of Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. where Autullo, 32, of Orland Park, was listed in fair condition in the hospital's intensive care unit. She was still trying to process just how lucky the father of her four children was.

"He feels good. He moved all his limbs, he's talking normal, he remembers everything," said Glaenzer, 33. "It's amazing, a miracle."

Autullo was in his workshop using the nail gun Tuesday when it recoiled near his head, Glaenzer said.

He felt what he thought was the point of the gun hit his head. But what really happened was that when the gun came in contact with his head, the sensor recognized a flat surface and fired, she said.

"I looked at it when he got home, and it just looked like (his head) was cut open," she said.

With nothing to indicate that a nail had not simply "whizzed by his ear," as Autullo explained to her, she cleaned it with peroxide.

While there are pain-sensitive nerves on a person's skull, there aren't any within the brain itself. That's why he would have felt the nail strike the skull, but he wouldn't have felt it penetrate the brain.

Neither thought much about it, and Autullo went on with his day, even plowing a bit of snow. But the next day when he awoke from a nap, feeling nauseated, Glaenzer sensed something was wrong and suggested they go to the hospital.

At first Autullo refused, but he relented after the two picked up their son at school Wednesday evening.

A couple hours later an X-ray was taken, and there in the middle of his brain was a nail. Doctors told Autullo and Glaenzer that the nail came within millimeters from the part of the brain that controls motor function. He was rushed by ambulance to the other hospital for more specialized care.

Hospital spokesman Mike Maggio said the surgery took two hours, and the part of the skull that was removed for surgery was replaced with a titanium mesh. The surgeon didn't want to put that part of the skull back in place, fearing it might have been contaminated by the nail, he said.

Glaenzer said that while Autullo hasn't really talked about how scared he was about what might have happened, he did express a recognition about coming close to death.

"He was joking with me, (after surgery), `We need to get the Discovery Channel up here to tape this,'" she recalled him saying. "'I'm one of those medical miracles.'"

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
 
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