Man In Pumpkin 'Boat' Paddles 38 Miles Down Missouri River In Attempt To Beat World Record

Duane Hansen paddled 38 miles down the Missouri River in an 846-pound pumpkin.Phil Davidson/City of Bellevue/FacebookWhile most typically celebrate their birthdays with cake and a song, one man focused on a giant pumpkin and the Guinness World Record.Nebraska resident Duane Hansen celebrated his 60th on Saturday by paddling a hollowed-out, 846-pound pumpkin down the Missouri River, according to CNN. Hoping to beat the previous record for “longest journey by pumpkin,” he asked officials from the city of Bellevue to witness the endeavor. Advertisement The first Guinness World Record for this act was set with a 15-mile trek in Washington in 2016, according to the organization. Rick Swenson beat this in a gourd of his own with a 25.5-mile ride down the Red River in 2018, which Hansen aimed to trounce. Hansen thus endeavored to paddle his pumpkin for 38 miles from Bellevue’s public boat docks to Nebraska City, according to a Facebook post by the City of Bellevue. Hansen left at around 7:30 a.m. and arrived after 6:30 p.m. — with a passion for gardening inspiring him to do so. “Mr. Hansen is a long-time Nebraska resident who enjoys growing large pumpkins, gourds and other vegetables as a hobby,” read the post. “He came up with this idea when visiting Ohio and seeing another person attempt to set this record which is currently right around 30 miles.”Hansen paddled for nearly 12 hours but surpassed the record around the eighth.Phil Davidson/City of Bellevue/FacebookAdvertisement “Lisa Rybar and myself agreed to take on this task, which we were originally thought was to float a 800 pound pumpkin for over 30 miles down the river,” added the post. “It wasn’t until later in the conversation that we realized that Mr. Hansen would actually be riding the pumpkin on this journey.”Hansen endured the 11-hour journey with a cup holder carved into the hull and “SS Berta” written on the back. His Syracuse, Nebraska-based family and friends cheered him on from land, though some did trail behind him in an actual boat — just in case something went wrong. Hansen surpassed the 25.5-mile record just before 3 p.m., nearly four hours before he arrived in Nebraska City. Guinness World Record spokesperson Kyle Galloway told CNN they’ve since received his application, which will likely see Hansen crowned with the bizarre title. “They say if you stay in your job long enough you might see just about everything and this morning was one of those days!” a city official wrote in the Facebook post.Related...Female Rowing Team Breaks World Record, Crossing Pacific In 34 DaysArnaud Jerald Breaks World Record With 393-Foot Freedive In 3 Minutes, 34 SecondsMadonna Is The First Woman With A Billboard 200 Top 10 Album In Every Decade Since 1980s



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San Diego Zoo Fits Penguin With Orthopedic Footwear

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Watch A Girl Walk An Emotional Support Alligator On A Leash In A Philly Park

Don’t hug or pet this gator.George Shelley via Getty ImagesKids trying to beat the Philadelphia heat got a glimpse of a little gator aid on Friday.Video shows a young girl walking an alligator on a leash and playing in a series of water fountains in Love Park, CNN reports.It is legal to own an alligator as a pet in Pennsylvania, CNN notes, but it’s against state law to release one into the wild

The alligator, Wally, is a 7-year-old reptile, a TikTok star and a licensed emotional support animal, according to his social media accounts. Wally — who likes to be pet and reportedly “loves to give hugs” — was adopted in 2016 by reptile enthusiast Joie Henney, Philly Voice reports. Henney, who is undergoing cancer treatments, has a GoFundMe page to help cover the cost of care for Wally and other scaly critters he looks after at his reptile rescue. @wallythealligator Wally loved spending the day in Love Park, Philadelphia !!#WallyGatorESA ♬ Good Time - Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen Advertisement Wally is also apparently a hopeful contestant in “America’s Favorite Pet: Animal Kingdom,” an online competition for pets where the winner will receive $10,000 and be featured in a two-page In Touch Weekly spread.Wally’s TikTok account features a ton of videos that show kids cuddling the gator, and Wally visiting restaurants and swimming pools.Seriously, check out some of his videos below. We promise it’s not a complete crock. @wallythealligator What it is like traveling with Wally!!!#wallytheemotionalsupportalligator #WallyGatorESA #wallygatore ♬ Send Me on My Way - Guy Meets Girl @wallythealligator @iwondertv spent the day with Wally yesterday.#wallytheemotionalsupportalligator #WallyGatorESA #wallygatore ♬ Walking On Sunshine - Countdown Singers Related...New York Couple Turns In 5-Foot Gator 'Zachary' They'd Been Keeping In HomeEEK!: Reptile Sightings Spook Michigan College Town, Cause Nature Center To ShutFamily Hears Noise, Finds 550-Pound Alligator 'Taking A Dip' In Their Pool



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A Fisherman Thought He Caught A Rock. He Snagged A Prehistoric Treasure Instead.

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The fisherman later contacted a biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who confirmed to WOWT that Moore’s find seems to be a predator fish fossil that is up to 90 million years old.“I’m still kind of mind-blown about the whole thing,” Moore said.The fossil won’t be underwater anymore, as it’s now being prepared for display at the Lewis and Clark Visitor Center in Crofton, Nebraska.Related...Jared Kushner Stays In Shape In Preparation To 'Live Forever'Papa John's Launched A Weird New 'Craving,' And Pizza Lovers Aren't Having ItRepublicans’ Response To The FBI Raiding Trump’s House: Talk About The IRS!



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New York Wants People To Show ID For This Pumpkin Pie Staple

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And enforcement of the law has recently stepped up, the Times Union reported.“Sadly, young people buy and inhale this gas to get ‘high’ because they mistakenly believe it is a ‘safe’ substance,” state Sen. Joseph Addabbo, a Democrat representing the 15th District, said in a statement to the outlet.“This law will eliminate easy access to this dangerous substance for our youth.”Related...Jared Kushner Stays In Shape In Preparation To 'Live Forever'Ex-Trump Spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany Has Weird New Take On Hillary ClintonDr. Oz's Old Poop Tweets Come Back To Haunt His Senate Campaign



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FINISH HIM: Fighting Kangaroo Pulls Wild Move Right Out Of A Video Game

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California Man Pleads Guilty To Smuggling More Than 1,700 Animals

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California shows some smuggled animals from Mexico and Hong Kong into the U.S. (US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California via AP)via Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) — A California man who smuggled more than 1,700 wild animals into the United States, including 60 reptiles hidden in his clothing, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges.Jose Manuel Perez, 30, of Oxnard, entered pleas to two counts of smuggling and a charge of wildlife trafficking

Prosecutors said that from 2016 to this February, Perez and his accomplices used social media to arrange to smuggle animals from Mexico and Hong Kong. Most were reptiles and included Yucatan box turtles, Mexican box turtles, baby crocodiles and Mexican beaded lizards, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.It is illegal to import the animals without permits under an international treaty on the trade of endangered species, the DOJ said.Perez paid accomplices a crossing fee to drive animals from Mexico to El Paso, Texas, where he had them shipped to his family’s Ventura County home and resold them to customers throughout the U.S., authorities said.He also made some three dozen trips to Mexico himself to pick up animals, and on Feb. 25 he was arrested while trying to enter the U.S. with 60 reptiles hidden in bags of his clothing, prosecutors said. Three of the reptiles died

The smuggled reptiles were worth about $739,000, authorities estimated.Perez fled to Tijuana in June while out on bond but was quickly captured and returned to the U.S. He could face up to 20 years in federal prison for each smuggling count when he’s sentenced on Dec. 1.Related...YIKES! Man Arrested For Allegedly Smuggling 52 Live Lizards, Snakes In His ClothingNearly 200 Galapagos Tortoises, Labeled 'Souvenirs,' Found Crammed Inside Suitcase



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Scientists Create Synthetic Mouse Embryos Using Stem Cells

According to a study published in the journal Nature on Thursday, Aug. 25, scientists have created “synthetic” mouse embryos from stem cells without a dad's sperm or a mom's egg or womb. (Gianluca Amadei, Charlotte Handford via AP)via Associated PressScientists have created “synthetic” mouse embryos from stem cells without a dad’s sperm or a mom’s egg or womb.The lab-created embryos mirror a natural mouse embryo up to 8 ½ days after fertilization, containing the same structures, including one like a beating heart

In the near term, researchers hope to use these so-called embryoids to better understand early stages of development and study mechanisms behind disease without the need for as many lab animals. The feat could also lay the foundation for creating synthetic human embryos for research in the future.“We are undoubtedly facing a new technological revolution, still very inefficient … but with enormous potential,” said Lluís Montoliu, a research professor at the National Biotechnology Centre in Spain who is not part of the research. “It is reminiscent of such spectacular scientific advances as the birth of Dolly the sheep” and others.A study published Thursday in the journal Nature, by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz at the California Institute of Technology and her colleagues, was the latest to describe the synthetic mouse embryos. A similar study, by Jacob Hanna at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and his colleagues, was published earlier this month in the journal Cell. Hanna was also a coauthor on the Nature paper.Zernicka-Goetz, an expert in stem cell biology, said one reason to study the early stages of development is to get more insight into why the majority of human pregnancies are lost at an early stage and embryos created for in vitro fertilization fail to implant and develop in up to 70% of cases. Studying natural development is difficult for many reasons, she said, including the fact that very few human embryos are donated for research and scientists face ethical constraints

Building embryo models is an alternative way to study these issues.To create the synthetic embryos, or “embryoids,” described in the Nature paper, scientists combined embryonic stem cells and two other types of stem cells – all from mice. They did this in the lab, using a particular type of dish that allowed the three types of cells to come together. While the embryoids they created weren’t all perfect, Zernicka-Goetz said, the best ones were “indistinguishable” from natural mouse embryos. Besides the heart-like structure, they also develop head-like structures.”This is really the first model that allows you to study brain development in the context of the whole developing mouse embryo,” she said.The roots of this work go back decades, and both Zernicka-Goetz and Hanna said their groups were working on this line of research for many years. Zernicka-Goetz said her group submitted its study to Nature in November.Scientists said next steps include trying to coax the synthetic mouse embryos to develop past 8 ½ days – with the eventual goal of getting them to term, which is 20 days for a mouse.At this point, they “struggle to go past” the 8 1/2-day mark, said Gianluca Amadei, a coauthor on the Nature paper based at the University of Cambridge. “We think that we will be able to get them over the hump, so to speak, so they can continue developing.”Advertisement The scientists expect that after about 11 days of development the embryo will fail without a placenta, but they hope researchers can someday also find a way to create a synthetic placenta. At this point, they don’t know if they will be able to get the synthetic embryos all the way to term without a mouse womb.Researchers said they don’t see creating human versions of these synthetic embryos soon but do see it happening in time. Hanna called it “the next obvious thing.”Other scientists have already used human stem cells to create a “blastoid, ” a structure mimicking a pre-embryo, that can serve as a research alternative to a real one.Such work is subject to ethical concerns. For decades, a “14-day rule” on growing human embryos in the lab has guided researchers. Last year, the International Society for Stem Cell Research recommended relaxing the rule under limited circumstances.Scientists stress that growing a baby from a synthetic human embryo is neither possible nor under consideration

“Perspective on this report is important since, without it, the headline that a mammalian embryo has been built in vitro can lead to the thought that the same can be done with humans soon,” said developmental biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain, whose group has developed alternative stem cell based models of animal development.“In the future, similar experiments will be done with human cells and that, at some point, will yield similar results,” he said. “This should encourage considerations of the ethics and societal impact of these experiments before they happen.”___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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Seal Bursts Into Home Through Pet Flap, Temporarily Ousts Family Cat

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The University of Waikato, where Ross works, shared photos of the ordeal on Facebook, including one showing the seal peering around a corner and another of Coco in the incident’s aftermath.Jenn Ross shooed the seal outside, and a Department of Conservation ranger arrived to catch the bold seal and release it back to the sea.As for Coco, she took some time to recover.“Coco hid at the neighbour’s house and wouldn’t come home until the seal was gone,” Ross told Fox Television Stations in an email. “Then for the next day, she wouldn’t go downstairs where the seal was. We didn’t see the seal/cat interaction, but it was clearly something that Coco didn’t enjoy.”The intruding seal was “in good condition” and simply made a poor choice, he added.“It is really common for young seals to end up on unusual bits of coastline at this time of year,” he told Fox TV Stations. “The young ones are starting to get weaned, going out on their own, and like most teenagers, can make bad decisions about where they end up.”Advertisement “I knew the kids were wanting a new pet,” Ross joked on his own Facebook page, “but this was definitely a step too far.”Related...Everybody Clap! Endangered Seal Species Hits Comeback MilestoneTiny Seal Pup Found Tangled In Fishing Net Saved In Heartwarming RescueStowaway Cat Finds Fame After Secretly Joining Her Family's Road TripRelated...The Dog Poop Bags And Dispensers That Pet Parents UseHate Cleaning The Litter Box? You Need This.JJ Watt Owns Being A 'Wimp' In Bathroom Snake Encounter



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Woman Who Allegedly Took Nancy Pelosi's Laptop On Jan. 6 Gets 'Fair' Break From Arrest

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“I took Nancy [Pelosi’s] hard drives. I don’t care. Kill me,” officials said she wrote on Discord.“Like [they’re] gonna arrest me. They’ll never take me alive,” Williams also allegedly posted.She was arrested on Jan. 18, 2021.Williams currently doesn’t have a trial date, the newspaper reported, although her attorney said a status conference set for Friday could let her lawyers find a date.Williams is accused of a number of charges, including assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; disorderly conduct; and entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.Related...Man Charged With Election Interference Tied To Capitol RiotPennsylvania Man Arrested Over Threats To FBI After Trump RaidSome Capitol Rioters Try To Profit From Their Jan. 6 CrimesRelated...Police: Couple Caught Having Sex Atop Famed Giant Wheel At Cedar Point Amusement ParkFBI Says 'Rust' Shooting Had To Be Caused By A 'Pull Of The Trigger'Judge Investigates Alex Jones' Legal Team After Sandy Hook Medical Records Are Leaked



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Bremen, Germany, May Soon Lose Its Leaning LIghthouse Tower To The Sea

Beach chairs stay on the beach next to the leaning Mole tower in Bremerhaven, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Officials in Bremen said Thursday that an iconic lighthouse at the German city’s port has tilted sideways and could soon topple over entirely. (Sina Schuldt/dpa via AP)via Associated PressBERLIN (AP) — An iconic lighthouse at the northern German port of Bremen has tilted sideways and could soon topple over entirely, officials said Thursday.Public broadcaster Radio Bremen quoted the head of the water police, Uwe Old, as saying that nothing could be done to save the lighthouse

“Unfortunately, I think the tower is going to be history in the coming days,” he said.Authorities have banned ships from entering the Geeste River at Bremerhaven because of the risk posed by the leaning lighthouse, which is located at the end of a stone jetty that has long required repair.But port operator Bremenports said it planned to allow commercial ships entry again soon. If the lighthouse doesn’t topple by itself, the company said it would tear it down over the weekend with the aim of replacing it with an identical structure.___Latest webcam picture of lighthouse: https://pss.wsv.de/wsabhv/webcam/360/wsa-wjn-bremerhaven-360.jpgAdvertisement Related...This Is Whom Anne Heche Wanted To Portray Her In A Future BiopicAnne Heche's Ex Responds To Co-Star's Heartfelt Defense Of 'Genius' Late ActorTrevor Noah Pitches Foolproof Plan To 'Scare Kids Away From Trump'

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Defective Sex Toys Are Being Recycled Into Fashionable Shoes

Streetwear label Rose in Good Faith and sex toy company Doc Johnson have partnered to create a shoe derived in part from unused or defective sex toys. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)via Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Sex toys and shoes? Try, sex toys IN shoes.A little streetwear label has partnered with a giant in the adult toy industry to create a shoe derived in part from unused, defective amusements that come off the manufacturing line as misfits.Looking a lot like Merrell’s popular Hydro Moc or Yeezy’s Foam Runners, Plastic Soul is about 15% sex toy. The rest is non-bleach EVA, a petroleum-based foam that’s difficult to recycle

The shoe is the brainchild of David Teitelbaum, founder of Rose in Good Faith, and Chad Braverman, chief operating officer for Doc Johnson, the adult toy company his father founded in 1976.More than two years in the making, Plastic Soul has yet to create the buzz of a Yeezy or the kicks of other titans in sneaker culture. And it doesn’t particularly live up to its own marketing hype as a major sustainable option, but the two Los Angeles businessmen are proud nonetheless.“Personally, I love shoes. So it was a cool product, a really interesting way to get Doc Johnson on board with something that I would never ever do,” Braverman said from the company’s headquarters in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles.Teitelbaum is a collaboration king with elevated Ed Hardy, Lil Peep and Juice Wrld hoodies, T-shirts and other merch under his belt. Before the pandemic, he was looking for something new. He met with an adult film company, which put him on to Doc Johnson

Braverman isn’t sending a lot of sex toys to landfills and is able to reuse some of the base material from his manufacturing rejects, but he was happy to figure out what to do with the rest. He said he took on the shoe collaboration not as a garden variety publicity stunt but to promote sex positivity through fashion and innovation. That’s fine with Teitelbaum.“Something like 28% of the sales are going to women,” Teitelbaum said. “We’re hitting an interesting narrative. I think there’s a deeper connection.”The shoes were introduced in white last month and weren’t a sold-out-in-seconds phenom online or in several retail stores around the world. Next up is a black colorway.Braverman and Teitelbaum are grinding down the sex toy defects into millimeter-sized cubes of thermoplastic elastomer, a mix of rubber and plastic that lends itself to injection molding. That’s how the $130 slip-on shoes are made. Teitelbaum, who designed the shoe, added a natural cork insole for extra support.Teitelbaum plastered LA with cheeky advertisements to start. To promote exclusivity, the two are making limited batches, but a rollout of more colors is planned. A month after introduction, the first iteration of 1,600 pairs had yet to sell out

The online feedback has been mixed, Teitelbaum said.“A lot of it has been, ‘You look like Yeezy, go (expletive) yourself,’” he said. “But we also get so much love.”Related...It Appears Frank Ocean Is Selling A $25,000, Diamond-Encrusted Sex ToyStraight Men, The Vibrator Is Your Teammate, Not The CompetitionWhat You Shouldn't Use To Clean Your DildoRelated...'Rust' Investigators Just Need Alec Baldwin's Phone Records To FinishWill Smith And Jada Pinkett Smith Step Out Together For First Time Since Oscars SlapChris Hemsworth: ‘My Younger Self Would Be So Disappointed’ I Became Thor



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Papa John's Launched A Weird New 'Craving,' And Pizza Lovers Aren't Having It

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You can see more pizza lovers chew on the announcement below.“Here’s some crap” — Papa John’s new slogan https://t.co/MUusMri731— Dave Schilling (@dave_schilling) August 17, 2022 A good crust is what makes pizza good.Papa John's crust is gross, but the solution wasn't to remove it completely. https://t.co/ErsubAqYj3— Anna Funk (@annafunk) August 17, 2022 Nobody ever lost excitement about pizza. And if they did, it wasn’t solved by a deconstructed crustless pizza in a bowl. It was solved by going anywhere other than Papa John’s. https://t.co/QmwjhAgQ5l— Nick Mercadante (@NMercad) August 17, 2022 Papa John’s said “we want you to get excited about pizza again” and then made a salad pic.twitter.com/rzBsGEcCD2— chris alsikkan (@AlsikkanTV) August 17, 2022 Papa John’s is rebranding as Dada John’s by deconstructing the pizza beyond all meaning https://t.co/NqfxMKZt11— Jake Cole (@ThatJakePC) August 17, 2022 Advertisement Related...Comedian Mocks Dr. Oz By Pretending To Be Grocery Clerk Helping Him Buy 'Crudité'Disgraced Papa John's Founder Claims His 'Conservative Values' Made Better PizzaPapa John's Founder John Schnatter Announced As CPAC SpeakerRelated...



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Capuchin Monkey Accused Of Calling 911 From California Zoo

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office believes this little Capuchin monkey called 911 from a zoo last Saturday night.San Luis Obisbo Sheriff's OfficeSAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — Cops usually have a prime suspect. In this case it’s a primate suspect.The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office believes it was a little Capuchin monkey that called 911 from a zoo last Saturday night

The call disconnected and dispatchers tried to call and text back but there was no response, so deputies were sent to investigate, the office said in a social media post.The address turned out to be the Zoo to You near Paso Robles, but the deputies found that no one there made the call.They finally deduced that a Capuchin monkey named Route had apparently picked up the zoo’s cellphone, which was in a golf cart used to move about the property.“We’re told Capuchin monkeys are very inquisitive and will grab anything and everything and just start pushing buttons,” the office’s post said

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Kids Are Battling For America's Best Mullet And The Competition Is Fierce

Kids Mullet Championship FinalistsIllustration: HuffPost; Photos: Mullet ChampionshipsBusiness in the front, party in the back and a $2,500 prize on their minds.The USA Mullet Championship has selected 25 achy-breaky heartbreakers with truly majestic manes to compete for the year’s title of best mullet in its children’s online category. According to the organizers, the competition began in 2020 as a Michigan event but has expanded to locations in Texas, New York and Indiana. It also includes a few online competitions, including the women’s “Femullet” division, and competitions for kids and teens

The finalists in the kids’ division this year offer quite a variety of ’Merica mops ranging from tidy cuts with cascading curls to classic ’80s beaver tails and one fellow who shaved his patriotic pride into the side of his ’do.The father of one contestant told CBS News that there’s a $10 entree fee, but says “all donations are going to the Michigan Wig Foundation for kids.”TMZ reports that the winner gets a $2,500 prize.This year’s finalists were selected earlier this week, and those who are fans of the signature shag have a chance to mull-et over and vote for their favorite here by this Friday.Check them out below!Mullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsMullet ChampionshipsAdvertisement Related...I'm Fat And I Just Wore My First Bathing Suit In 3 Decades'Hopefully My Mom Is Free From Pain': Anne Heche's Son Gives Emotional Statement‘P-Valley’ Star Nicco Annan Wants Others Who Look Like Him To Truly Be Celebrated



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Pranksters Spot 1 Of The Weirdest Things On Noah's Ark Attraction

The Noah’s Ark attraction built in Kentucky by a creationist group has made a number of eyebrow-raising claims, but the prankster duo known as The Good Liars zeroed in on one of the strangest: dinosaurs. The Ark Encounter purports to be a full-size version of the ark as described in the Bible, which tells of it carrying two of every animal to preserve them from a global flood. That includes dinosaurs, as Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler learned during a recent visit. And that’s not all. The dinos were actually dragons: EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Noah of Noah’s Ark and you won’t believe what he had to say (he had dinosaurs on his ark). pic.twitter.com/pfPA3FUiti— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) August 15, 2022 Advertisement Dinosaurs were wiped out roughly 65 million years ago, give or take. However, the creationists behind the attraction believe Earth is only about 6,000 years old, with the flood taking place about 4,300 years ago.The creationists also claim that humans and dinosaurs coexisted at some point. One display inside the Ark Encounter attraction even suggests that there were gladiator-style fights involving humans, giants and dinosaurs:Exquisite design by @ArkEncounter artists for new Diorama depicting wicked population in the pre-Flood world to be installed @ArkEncounter pic.twitter.com/4JHQiTEWbG— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) February 16, 2017 Although it’s not clear when The Good Liars visited the attraction, they posted another clip several weeks ago from the Creation Museum ― also in Kentucky, and run by the same organization ― that showed a “not creepy at all” display of humans living with dinosaurs: Advertisement We visited The Creation Museum in Kentucky and it wasn’t creepy at all. pic.twitter.com/J28BHAEYlM— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) July 22, 2022 The pranksters also posted a clip about the claim that Noah was 600 years old at the time of the flood: We visited The Ark Encounter in Kentucky where we “learned” that Noah built the Ark when he was 600 years old and that he had dinosaurs on it. pic.twitter.com/tHdx5yXDqF— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) July 21, 2022 Related...Stephen Colbert Taunts Eric Trump's All-Too-Revealing Defense Of His FatherStephen Colbert Taunts Fox News Host's 'Very Stupid Theory' About TrumpWill Smith And Jada Pinkett Smith Step Out Together For First Time Since Oscars Slap



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Feathers Fly As Wild Turkey Dodges Cops In Slapstick Apartment Chase

A Wisconsin police department struggled to find a way to nab a wild turkey after the bird broke into an apartment last week.On Friday, Wausau police officers received a report of a wild turkey on the loose inside a second floor apartment and responded by trying to wrestle the bird as it flew between rooms, video shows:Advertisement “It really underscores the unpredictable nature of the job, that our officers are asked to do at any given time,” Wausau Police Department Patrol Captain Todd Baeten said.After hyping themselves up, the officers walked into the apartment wearing protective gloves. One carried a net. But each time they came close, the turkey proceeded to fly or race away.“We needed two of these, Brady,” one officer told another as the turkey fled into the kitchen.Doris Madden, who lives in Wausau’s City Walk Apartments, said she noticed the apartment’s broken window and had no idea what caused it, WSAW-TV reported. She called the apartment manager, who discovered the turkey.“I think it’s kind of funny. I’m just glad it wasn’t my apartment,” Madden told the station.The turkey was later released.Related...Watch Belligerent Wild Turkey Come For A D.C. BikerBiden Pardons 2 Turkeys Named After Classic Food Combo Ahead Of ThanksgivingJimmy Kimmel Debuts Crispy New Hairstyle After Thanksgiving Oven MishapAdvertisement Related...Beagles Rescued From Breeding Center Become Guests Of Honor At Joyful PartyNew York Couple Turns In 5-Foot Gator 'Zachary' They'd Been Keeping In Home11 Flowers Or Plants That Are Toxic To Cats And Dogs And That You Should Get Rid Of ASAP



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Car Thief Who Hid From Police Inside Giant Teddy Bear Learns His Fate

Police in Manchester, U.K., found suspected car thief Joshua Dobson hiding inside a giant teddy bearGreater Manchester PoliceA suspected car thief in Manchester, England, apparently found the idea of being arrested unbearable ― so he reportedly attempted to hide inside a 5-foot teddy bear.Spoiler alert: Joshua Dobson’s attempt at being a master of disguise didn’t work and now he will have to see if he can bear time behind bars

The 18-year-old has been wanted by Greater Manchester Police since May when he allegedly “stole a car and didn’t pay to fuel it up,” according to the BBC.Dobson managed to elude capture until July when police were searching a house in Rochdale and noticed what a force spokesman described as “a large bear breathing.”Dobson was taken into custody and charged with the alleged crimes. He was sentenced to nine months in a young offenders institution last week, according to the Metro.Police were searching a house in Rochdale and noticed what a force spokesman described as “a large bear breathing.” Greater Manchester PoliceAdvertisement The Greater Manchester Police announced Dobson’s sentence on Facebook with some pretty unbearable puns:“He’s now stuffed behind bars after being sentenced last week for theft of a motor vehicle, driving while disqualified, and making off from a petrol station without payment. Hopefully, he has a bearable time inside.”Related...California Burglar Bungle: Thief Left Keys Inside Crime SceneThief Makes Getaway On Stolen Lawnmower Towing Crimson Tide Sign: CopsCamp Counselor Selling Signed Baseball Card Of Former Camper Mark ZuckerbergRelated...Brad Pitt Keeps List Of Actors He'll Never Work With Again And We Need To Know Who's On ItLady Gaga Was Hit On Head At Concert And Apparently It's Part Of A New TraditionMakeup Pros Reveal How They Camouflage Bad Tan Lines On Models And Actors

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New Study Suggests Spiders Snooze Just Like Humans

A study published on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, suggests that jumping spiders show signs of sleep cycles, similar to humans and some animals. (Daniela C. Roessler via AP)via Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — It’s a question that keeps some scientists awake at night: Do spiders sleep?Daniela Roessler and her colleagues trained cameras on baby jumping spiders at night to find out. The footage showed patterns that looked a lot like sleep cycles: The spiders’ legs twitched and parts of their eyes flickered.The researchers described this pattern as a “REM sleep-like state.” In humans, REM, or rapid eye movement, is an active phase of sleep when parts of the brain light up with activity and is closely linked with dreaming

Other animals, including some birds and mammals, have been shown to experience REM sleep. But creatures like the jumping spider haven’t gotten as much attention so it wasn’t known if they got the same kind of sleep, said Roessler, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Konstanz in Germany.Their findings were published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Roessler and her team dug into the sleep question after she discovered the spiders hanging at night from threads of silk in their lab containers. She had recently scooped up some jumping spiders to study, a common species with a furry brown body and four pairs of big eyes.“It was just the most unusual thing I’ve ever seen,” Roessler said of the suspended spiders.The research showed the spiders’ overnight movements looked a lot like REM in other species, she said — like dogs or cats twitching in their sleep. And they happened in regular cycles, similar to sleep patterns in humans.Many species similar to spiders actually don’t have movable eyes, which makes it hard to compare their sleep cycles, explained study co-author Paul Shamble, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University

But these jumping spiders are predators that move their retinas around to change their gaze while they hunt, Shamble said. Plus, the young spiders have a see-through outer layer that gives a clear window into their bodies.“Sometimes as a biologist, you just get really, really lucky,” Shamble said.The researchers still have to figure out if the spiders are technically sleeping while they’re in these resting states, Roessler said. That includes testing whether they respond more slowly — or not at all — to triggers that would normally set them off.Critters like the jumping spider are very far from humans on the evolutionary tree. Jerry Siegel, a sleep researcher who was not involved with the study, said he’s doubtful that the spiders can really experience REM sleep.“There may be animals that have activity in quiet states,” said Siegel, of the UCLA Center for Sleep Research. “But are they REM sleep? It’s hard to imagine that they could be the same thing.”But Barrett Klein, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse who was also not involved with the study, said it was exciting to find REM-like signs in such a distant relative. Many questions remain about how widespread REM sleep is and what purpose it might serve for species, he said

REM sleep is “still very much a black box,” Klein said.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.Related...Trump’s History Of Disrespecting VeteransNation Erupts Over Breonna Taylor DecisionGriner Gets 9-Year Sentence

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Canadian Man Uses Giant Billboard To Get Rid Of Leftover Dairy Product In Fridge

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Camp Counselor Selling Signed Baseball Card Of Former Camper Mark Zuckerberg

This photo provided on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, shows Allie Tarantino holding a baseball card featuring a very young Mark Zuckerberg grinning in a red jersey and gripping a bat. (Shira Tarantino via AP)via Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — When camp counselor Allie Tarantino was flipping through a magazine years ago, he came upon a familiar name: Mark Zuckerberg. He rifled through boxes of memorabilia in his basement, running his fingers over old photos, newspapers and bus maps before finding a baseball card featuring a very young Zuckerberg grinning in a red jersey and gripping a bat.Three decades later, Tarantino is hoping that a signed baseball card featuring one of the richest men in the world will bring a fortune when it is put up for auction next month

“It’s like my version of a midlife crisis. I’m 50 years old — what am I going to do with this?” Tarantino joked.As told by Tarantino — who still works summers at Elmwood Day Camp in Westchester, New York — Zuckerberg, then age 8 or 9, offered the card he’d had printed as a parting gift at the end of camp 30 years ago.“As somebody who collects things, it’s always really difficult to part with whatever you have in your collection. But I’ve always been like weirdly curious about how the public would react to something that’s like this that’s a weird combination of pop culture and memorabilia,” he said.The card will also be auctioned off as a digital collector’s item — a so-called NFT, or non-fungible token, that has become a popular way to own memorabilia

Zuckerberg posted about the auction Thursday on Instagram, partly as a way to promote NFT technology in general, but also to help promote NFTs across his company’s platforms.Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has recently launched support for digital collectibles.“We’re going to auction off the card against a one-of-a-kind NFT of the card,” said Stephen Fishler, founder of ComicConnect, which is auctioning off the items.He called it “a virtual steel cage match,” with bidding on the physical card in U.S. dollars and the NFT done in Ethereum blockchain currency.Fishler said he’s uncertain of the value of the items, considering they aren’t the usual kinds of memorabilia put up for auction

In recent years, there’s been lots of interest in collectors’ items involving athletes. Rare baseball cards have gone for millions of dollars. A mint-condition baseball card of Mickie Mantle is expected to fetch $10 million, perhaps more, when it is sold at auction later this month.Tarantino, now a 5th grade teacher in Connecticut, held on to the Zuckerberg baseball card, not knowing when he filed it away in his basement that the kid would someday become a household name and would be responsible for one of the biggest technological advancements — or time wasters — in social networking.“I’m a sentimentalist at heart. When people give me something, I hold on to it, I’ve kind of always been like that,” Tarantino said Wednesday evening.“He was definitely a kid you knew and remembered. I was the kind of kid who just kind of blended into the background. He wasn’t one of those kids,” he said.Zuckerberg was already larger than life, Tarantino said. “On the back of his card, he put a .920 batting average — which is like impossible in baseball. So even as a little kid, he was aiming big.”Advertisement Related...Nation Erupts Over Breonna Taylor DecisionHip-Hop And R&B Are The Dominant Musical Genre In America | HuffPost NewsTucker Defends George Floyd’s Murderer

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South Korean Town's Garlic Ad Reeks Of Obscenity, Farmers Say

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A rural South Korean town is getting roasted over its video ad on garlic that some farmers say stinks of obscenity and has even sexually objectified the agricultural product.The controversy surrounds a 30-second video that had been posted on a YouTube channel for Hongseong County, a small central-west South Korean town of about 100,000 people known for its local “Hongsan” garlic, for about two years.You can see the ad below

The video shows a woman touching the thigh of a man named “Hongsan” with a full garlic head mask and saying words like “very thick” and “hard” to apparently describe the quality of the local garlic. It’s also a parody of a famous scene from a 2004 hit Korean movie titled “Once Upon a Time in High School.”The spicy ad, which reportedly generated about 190,000 views, had been largely kept underground, but began to take root in the larger public when it was aired on electronic billboards at a Seoul express bus terminal and a downtown street in the central city of Daejeon last month ahead of the garlic’s release.One farmer who saw the video notified some farmers’ groups, while South Korean media also began reporting about it, leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths.“We can’t repress our astonishment,” said a joint statement issued by the local branches of two major farmers’ organizations — the Korean Peasants League and the Korean Women Peasants Association. “The video offended the people who watched it and dealt a big blow to the image of the agricultural product that farmers have laboriously grown.”Advertisement Calling the video “suggestive” and “inappropriate,” the statement said it “sexually objectified” garlic.The farmers’ groups asked Hongseong to apologize, punish those responsible for the video production and formulate steps on how to prevent similar incidents. Shin Ji Youn, an official at the Korean Women Peasants Association, said the farmers’ groups asked Hongseong to respond to their requests by Aug. 10.Hongseong officials said Wednesday they’ve withdrawn the video from their YouTube channel and had stopped airing it on the billboards last week. The county hasn’t issued any official statement on the issue, and officials said they are discussing how to respond to the farmers’ requests.County officials said they formally changed the name of their local garlic to “Hongseong” after their county name in January.Many South Koreans believe garlic, one of the essential ingredients in Korean cuisine, boost stamina. Some think it can improve men’s sexual functions as well

During the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the country’s women’s curling team earned the nickname of “Garlic Girls” — four of the team’s five members came from another rural town known for its own famed garlic — as they had a fairy-tale run to win the silver medal.Related...Why Is Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Causing Tension?Rep. Greene Loved Vibe Of Golf Tourney Funded By The Regime Behind Journalist's MurderStephen Colbert Drops An F-Bomb On 'Insane' Republican Candidates



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Drunk Floridian Allegedly Drove Golf Cart On Highway With Open Bottle Of Whiskey

A golf cart on the road.Dina Alfasi / EyeEm via Getty ImagesTITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A woman with an open bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey in a bag was arrested for driving a golf cart on Florida’s busiest interstate while drunk, according to an arrest report.The 58-year-old woman was arrested Saturday night on the shoulder of Interstate 95. She is now facing misdemeanor charges of disorderly intoxication in a public place and resisting an officer without violence

A variety of Jack Daniels’ Tennessee Whiskey.Robin Marchant via Getty ImagesAccording to a Florida Highway Patrol report, a semitruck driver spotted the woman driving in the golf cart in the center lane of Interstate 95 in Brevard County, which is the heart of Florida’s Space Coast. The truck driver used her semi to steer the golf cart driver to the shoulder of the interstate, troopers said.Once on the shoulder, the truck driver grabbed the keys to the golf cart as the woman tried to drive away. Once troopers arrived at the scene, the woman started arguing with them and insisted she needed her bag. Inside the bag, troopers found an open bottle of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Fire Whiskey, authorities said.Interstate 95, which stretches up and down the East Coast, is Florida’s busiest interstate highway, according to the Federal Highway Administration

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Bandit The 'Guard Cat' Hailed As Hero After Thwarting Would-Be Robbery

Fred Everitt of Tupelo, Miss., is all smiles after his cat, "Bandit", alerted him in the middle of the night that two men were trying to break into the back door of his home, July 29, 2022, in Tupelo, Miss. (Thomas Wells/Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal via AP)via Associated PressBELDEN, Miss (AP) — A Mississippi man said his pet cat helped prevent a robbery at his home, and he credits the calico with possibly saving his life.Bandit, a 20-pound (9.1-kilogram) cat, lives with her retired owner Fred Everitt in the Tupelo suburb of Belden. When at least two people tried to break into their shared home last week, the cat did everything she could to alert Everitt of the danger, he told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

“You hear of guard dogs,” said Everitt, 68. “This is a guard cat.”The attempted robbery occurred sometime between 2:30 and 3 a.m. on July 25, Everitt said. He was first awoken by Bandit’s meows in the kitchen. Then, she raced into the bedroom, jumped onto the bed and began pulling the comforter off of him and clawing at his arms. Everitt knew something was wrong.“She had never done that before,” Everitt said. “I went, ‘What in the world is wrong with you?’”Everitt got up to investigate and saw two young men outside his back door. One had a handgun, and the other was using a crowbar to try and pry the door open, he said.Everitt said by the time he retrieved a handgun and returned to the kitchen, the would-be intruders had already fled. Everitt told the newspaper that he did not call the police.He said the situation could have been different without Bandit.“It did not turn into a confrontational situation, thank goodness,” Everitt said. “But I think it’s only because of the cat.”Advertisement Everitt adopted Bandit from the Tupelo-Lee Humane Society four years ago.Related...Gwyneth Paltrow Talks Nepotism With Hailey Bieber, Jokes About Sleeping With Her DadSandy Hook Lawyers Rip Bankruptcy Bid By 'Coward' Alex Jones To Dodge DamagesResurfaced ‘Drunk History’ Clip Tells How Nichelle Nichols ‘Literally Integrated Space’

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Judge Refuses To Dismiss Lawsuit Against DMV For 'FCANCER' Vanity License Plate

stock photosolidcolours via Getty ImagesDOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed against Delaware government officials who recalled a vanity license plate issued to a breast cancer survivor because of what the state transportation secretary described as a “perceived profanity.”The judge said in a ruling that the lawsuit by Kari Lynn Overington of Milton raises a “significant constitutional issue.”Advertisement “I am ready for my day in court,” Overington, 41, said in a brief phone interview.In December 2020, Overington applied for a vanity license plate reading “FCANCER” and received it two months later.In June 2021, she received a letter from the manager of the Division of Motor Vehicles office in Dover telling her that the plate “does not represent the division and the state in a positive manner.” DMV manager Levi Fisher wrote that any plate considered offensive will be denied or recalled, if issued in error.Overington responded by emailing state Transportation Secretary Nicole Majeski and asking for her help. She argued that the average person would not consider her vanity tag to be obscene. She also said court rulings in other states suggest that First Amendment rights apply to vanity tags, and that any regulations must be “viewpoint neutral.”“My vanity plate receives positive feedback everywhere I go, and I have had more than a few deep conversations with complete strangers about my cancer and how cancer has touched their lives because of it,” Overington wrote. “The community of cancer warriors, cancer survivors, and those who love them is far reaching and very supportive.”Advertisement Majeski stood by the decision to recall the vanity plate, saying officials must ensure that they are not approving license tags that contain “obscenity, vulgarity, profanity, hate speech or fighting words.”“Your vanity plate FCANCER contains a perceived profanity, the abbreviation for the word “F(asterisk)@k”, and for that reason, it must be recalled,” Majeski wrote, apologizing for the oversight by DMV staff in initially approving the plate.Overington then asked DOT officials to seek input from Gov. John Carney.“In other states the governor has gotten involved in these cases and the person was able to keep their vanity tags,” she wrote. “I’d be disappointed if Governor Carney was not willing to at least consider stepping in, especially given his work with the Delaware Cancer Consortium and his connection to Beau Biden and the entire Biden family.”Beau Biden, a former Delaware attorney general and the eldest son of President Joe Biden Jr., died of brain cancer in 2015.Overington noted in a later email that there are plenty of other “F” words in the English language, including “freedom” and that her license tag did not actually spell the word about which DMV officials were concerned. She also pointed out that the DMV itself has used implied profanity on electronic signs advising motorists to drive safely. Those messages include “Get your head out of your Apps” and “Oh Cell No.”Advertisement DMV Director Jana Simpler stood fast, however, insisting that Overington could no longer display the vanity tag.Overington responded by filing a lawsuit last year, claiming that the state officials had violated her First Amendment rights by imposing content-based and viewpoint-based restrictions on her speech.State officials sought to dismiss the complaint, arguing that it failed to state a a proper claim and that the defendants — Fisher, Simpler and Majeski — have qualified immunity against claims raised against them in their individual capacities.“This lawsuit is one of those instances where an individual seeks to push the boundaries of what DMV will permit to be displayed on a vanity license plate, to allow the display of profanity,” an attorney for the state wrote.Judge Richard Andrews denied the dismissal motion and granted a motion by Overington to amend her complaint to clarify that the defendants were being sued in their official, not individual, capacities

Citing a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Andrews wrote that challenges to laws that burden free expression are permitted when a licensing statute places “unbridled discretion in the hands of a government official.”Andrews also noted that, while Overington has represented herself well without a lawyer, the constitutional issue in dispute should be decided through a process that includes lawyers on both sides. He said he would ask the court clerk whether an attorney could be obtained as a “friend of the court” supporting Overington’s position.A spokesman for the Department of Transportation did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.Related...Kentucky Atheist Awarded $150,000 In Fight Over Vanity License PlatesMan Wins Court Battle To Get ‘IM GOD’ License PlateSweden Rejects Man Who Wants TRUMP License PlateFor Some Reason, New Hampshire DMV Has A Problem With This License PlateRelated...Myanmar Exercise Instructor Accidentally Records Military Coup In Workout VideoReport: DOJ Zeros In On Trump’s Coup MovesLil Nas X Smashes Billboard RecordRoger Stone’s Fascist Fantasy



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Cat Food Brand Will Let Humans Eat Its Latest 'Fancy Feast'

It’s no tall tail.Cat food brand Fancy Feast wasn’t kitten around this week when it announced it would open a temporary, cat food-inspired restaurant for humans in New York City.“Gatto Bianco by Fancy Feast,” a two-day pop-up, will be an “Italian-style trattoria and culinary experience” with recipes inspired by the brand’s food, according to a press release. The brand also teased an appearance by the fluffy white Fancy Feast cat at the restaurant.The Fancy Feast cat makes an appearance at a brand launch party in 2014.Gary Gershoff/WireImage via Getty ImagesAdvertisement The menu was made paw-sible by the brand’s chef, Amanda Hassner, and Michelin Star-winning Italian chef Cesare Casella, a chef who has been seen on “Iron Chef America” and “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.”The restaurant, located near New York City’s West Village and Meatpacking District, is expected to be open Aug. 11 and 12 with up to eight diners allowed each day. Reservations are available through OpenTable beginning at 12 p.m. ET on Aug. 4.Related...21 Of The Funniest Tweets About Cats And Dogs This Week10 Puppies Drown After Record Rainfall Floods Missouri Animal ShelterCat Lovers Not Happy Pet Has Been Classified As An ‘Invasive Alien Species’Related...Ice Cream For Dogs Exists, And Vets Love These 8 BrandsHow Much You Need To Walk Every Day To Cut Your Risk Of Heart DiseaseIs It Too Hot To Let Your Cat Out? Here's What Experts Say.



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New Mexico Department Of Transportation Misspells Albuquerque On Newly Erected Sign

A newly upgraded state Department of Transportation sign erected last week that pointed drivers toward Albuquerque misspelled the city's name, losing the “R.” (New Mexico Department of Transportation via AP)via Associated PressALBUQUERQUE, N,M. (AP) — It made drivers on Route 66 and Interstate 40 in New Mexico do double takes.A newly upgraded state Department of Transportation sign erected last week that pointed drivers toward Albuquerque misspelled the city’s name, losing the “R.”Advertisement People called and emailed the department to point out the mistake on the sign visible to drivers on the parallel highways, said Kimberly Gallegos, a department spokesperson.A corrected sign went up this week, she said.“I do not recall this happening before,” Gallegos said. “But I honestly think this was just a simple mistake.”Albuquerque used to have another “R” in its name. According to the city’s website, colonists were granted permission in 1706 by King Philip of Spain to establish a new community on the banks of the Rio Grande.The colony’s governor, Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, wrote a letter to Spain’s Duke of Alburquerque to report that it had been named La Villa de Alburquerque in his honor

The first “R” was dropped later, leaving Albuquerque with its current spelling, the city website said.Related...Non-Indigenous MP Delivers Mohawk Address In House Of CommonsWalruses Haul Out on Alaskan Coast as They Lose Ice Due to Climate ChangeAuthorities Find More Human Remains In Lake Mead As Water Levels Decline

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Spain's Prime Minister Suggests Ditching Neckties To Save Energy

El presidente del gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, habla durante una conferencia de prensa en el palacio de la Moncloa en Madrid, el viernes 29 de julio de 2022. (Eduardo Parra/Europa Press vía AP)via Associated PressMADRID (AP) — Spain’s leader has proposed an energy-saving move that many men have already embraced.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has asked government officials and people working in the private sector to save energy by giving up wearing neckties at work.Appearing at a news conference in an open-necked white shirt and blue jacket, Sánchez explained he had dressed less formally not as a nod to the casual Friday custom but to curb utility use — presumably air-conditioning, but he did not spell that out

“I´d like you to note that I am not wearing a tie. That means that we can all make savings from an energy point of view,” the prime minister said at the news conference called to summarize his government’s annual performance.He said he encouraged his ministers and public officials, “that if not necessary, don’t use a tie.”Spain has sweltered for more than a month, with temperatures in parts of the country often surpassing 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). The government has urged people to reduce electricity costs by not overusing air conditioning.Rising energy costs for households and businesses in Spain has been a major issue in recent months, especially since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. Sánchez said the government would present a new energy-saving plan next week, but he gave no details.He said the plan was designed to cut utility bills and to reduce energy dependency on “the aggressor, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.”Advertisement In June, Spain approved economic relief measures worth more than 9 billion euros ($9,2 billion), including reductions in electricity taxes and a one-time payment of 200 euros ($200) for people with low-incomes.___Follow all AP stories on climate change issues at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment.Related...Joe Manchin Agrees To Sweeping Legislation To Raise Taxes On Wealthy, Invest In ClimateU.K. Prime Minister Debate Abruptly Ends After Presenter Faints On AirGOP Rep. Peter Meijer Rules Out Write-In Bid If He Loses Primary



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Hotel Chef, Adamant Emu Stop Driver Fleeing Wreck

An alleged drunk driver in Malmesbury, England, was arrested after an encounter with the world's second-largest bird. vinisouza128 / 500px via Getty ImagesHotel chef Dean Wade figured his foot chase of a driver who crashed a pickup truck into Malmesbury, England, storefront was over when they reached the fence of a wildlife sanctuary.“Don’t go in there, look at that emu, it will do you in,” Wade warned the runaway driver, according to The Times. Advertisement The man, who Wade said appeared drunk, confidently bragged, “I can fight emus,” and scaled the fence containing the 6-foot bird and its offspring. “The driver is throwing kung fu kicks and punches and the emu is moving its neck out of the way and jabbing him in the ribs and the head,” Wade recounted. “It must have hurt.”“It was stabbing his body all over,” Wade told The Washington Post. Wiltshire police later charged the man, whom they didn’t name, with drunk driving and other crash-related offenses, according to the Post. They said he sustained minor injuries.As Wade, 42, tells the story, he was working in the Old Bell Hotel kitchen around lunchtime Monday when he heard the unmistakable “screeching noise” of an out-of-control auto. He ran outside to see a pickup smashed into a glass storefront and its driver and passenger running away

Wade had only worked at the Old Bell Hotel for two weeks when the driver crashed into a nearby storefront.Geography Photos via Getty ImagesWade pursued the pair for 15 minutes through thickets, noticing the driver was “swaying” and “staggering,” until they reached the sanctuary.“I could see this massive emu,” Wade told the Post. “I’m six foot tall and it was bigger than me.”Emus, the world’s second-tallest bird after ostriches, are known as fiercely protective of their young, usually attacking predators with their legs, according to National Geographic.After being subdued by the bird, the man fled the compound. Wade flagged down a passing police car and the man was arrested.“My only regret is I didn’t have my phone in my hand to video it; the words don’t do it justice,” said Wade

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