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Staying Calm Was Her Cup Of Tea

A Japanese woman brewed up an unusual escape plan to free herself and her 6-month-old daughter from a suspected armed robber: a cup of tea and a chat.

The DIY Dialysis Machine

Millie Kelly was born with a condition that required an immediate operation. During this operation her kidneys started to fail and since she was too small for dialysis machines, doctors told her parents that she was unlikely to live. Luckily for Millie, Dr. Malcolm Coulthard and a colleague tried to build a much smaller kidney machine on their own and they were successful. Her mother said, "It was a green metal box with a few paint marks on it with quite a few wires coming out of it into my daughter - it didn't look like a normal NHS one." The girl was hooked up to the machine over a seven day period to allow her kidneys to recover. Two years later, her mother Rebecca says she is "fit as a fiddle." You should see what Dr. Coulthard can build using a postage stamp, a tuning fork, a lawn chair and a jellyfish.

Saying goodbye to a beloved cat

Today is a really sad day for me as I have to bring my tongue-cancer-sick kitty to the vet to be put to sleep this evening. It's such a hard decision to make as she's gone downhill in a blink of a second, but the last thing we want is to have her suffer by starving. I adopted Chloe almost 7 seven years ago, when I was living by myself in a studio in Manhattan. Chloe was the best companion for me -- she's mellow and could handle being by her self for long stretches while I was at work, but she also loves affection. She'd greet me by the door when I came home and just gave so much love -- I was never lonely. She literally never swats at you or bites when you go to pet or kiss her. She's a little love bug, that Chloe. Two years ago, I had to let her go in a way because Dan was moving here and is super allergic to cats.

Best Student Council DVD 4

The Best Student Council is ready to move back into their newly-reconstructed dorm when Minamo—bless her privacy-violating heart—discovers a bombshell in vice-president Kuon's room: a picture of her with a handsome young man. The idle speculation turns deadly serious when the man's identity is discovered, and it's up to the Council to contain the fallout. Then Cyndi's mom comes to visit, but what should be a joyous reunion is clouded by one small problem: Cyndi has lied to her mother about every single aspect of her life. The Council scrambles to cover for her, but things are complicated by her mother's um, shaky grasp of Japanese. In the meantime, Miss Yukimi manages to snag herself an omiai with a perfect suitor, an event that threatens her friendship with Miss Wakana, especially when it turns out that her suitor may not be as inter

Excerpts from Belmar mayor's tourism blog

The spat ended the way most fights with SI girls do. The SI woman grabbed the Boonton woman by the hair (we're told that in Staten Island, this is the female equivalent of a guy kicking another guy in the groin only without the warm and friendly connotations), and began punching her face in. We realize, so far, this is not exactly newsworthy. Journalistically speaking, "SI woman punches other woman" is right up there with "Dog bites man." But here's the twist: As the Staten Island girl was pummeling the Boonton girl's face, she used the hand she was still holding her drink glass in. Now, we're not sure if the glass was stuck to her hand cause of all the hair spray or if this is a technique Staten Island girls learn in Brownies, but we are thankful she left her brass knuckles and straight razor in her other purse.

Panerai Sponsors the 36th Annual Nantucket Opera House Cup Regatta

PRNewswire/ -- The 36th annual Nantucket Opera House Cup Regatta presented by Panerai has come to a close. Demonstrated by the growing list of competitors, with 63 yachts participating this year, the event was an enormous success. The weather was ideal and the competition was well rounded, ranging from the 162ft Herreshoff designed Eleonora to several tiny and lovely Alerion class boats and of course a healthy showing of 12-Metres. For many, the Opera House Cup is the highlight of the season: the grand finale of Nantucket Race Week and the essence of a Nantucket summer. A crisp 15 - 20 knot breeze and sunny skies characterized the quintessential Nantucket day as the fleet of classic wooden sailing yachts competed for the prestige of winning the beloved Opera House Cup -- as well as a Panerai Luminor Chronograph Regatta watch.

Panerai Sponsors the 36th Annual Nantucket Opera House Cup Regatta

NANTUCKET ISLAND, Mass., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The 36th annual Nantucket Opera House Cup Regatta presented by Panerai has come to a close. Demonstrated by the growing list of competitors, with 63 yachts participating this year, the event was an enormous success. The weather was ideal and the competition was well rounded, ranging from the 162ft Herreshoff designed Eleonora to several tiny and lovely Alerion class boats and of course a healthy showing of 12-Metres. For many, the Opera House Cup is the highlight of the season: the grand finale of Nantucket Race Week and the essence of a Nantucket summer. A crisp 15 - 20 knot breeze and sunny skies characterized the quintessential Nantucket day as the fleet of classic wooden sailing yachts competed for the prestige of winning the beloved Opera House Cup -- as well as a Panerai Luminor Chron

IT Repair Installs Webcam Spying Software

Vapon writes "A lady noticed her computer was running slower after she had brought her computer in to be repaired. She took the computer to a second repair shop where they found that one of the problems was that her webcam would turn on whenever it detected her around and was taking photos and uploading it to a website. The repair technician that installed the software has done this to at least 10 women and has photos of at least one undressing."

Blog cafe A dog's legacy

Eyebrows were raised when Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog in her will, and they were raised even farther when it was learned recently that she had signed a "mission statement" indicating her wish that the charitable trust created by her will, which has an estimated $5 to $8 billion in net assets, be devoted to the welfare of dogs. The judge supervising the implementation of her will cut the bequest to her dog from $12 to $2 million, and it is uncertain how much of the charitable trust will actually be devoted to dogs.

V-Sports Fake Wii Boasts 12 Most Interesting Games

Let's say your 20-year-old daughter runs up an astounding $5000 cellphone bill from talking to her good-for-nothing boyfriend too much. Do you a) cancel her service and make her get her own phone? b) reprimand her and block the offending number from the phone? c) grab her and spank her like she's seven. If you answered c), you just might be James Phillips of Portland, Maine, who did just that. He's now being charged with domestic violence. Make sure to keep an eye on your minutes, readers. [Bangor News]

7 iPhone 3G's and now I get...

Someone better wake up Apple and find out what is going on in Cupertino.. Today I went to my Apple Store to exchange my 3rd iPhone since mine was powering on by itself. So during my meeting with the Genius Bar it was determined that the unit was defective again and they would swap it out with a refurb. Well when we opened the first one it had huge speckles that were sharp on the back of the phone. Almost as if dirt was on the phone and it was painted over. So the genius (funny term) then went back and got another one and what do you know? Yup.. Defective paint. At this time he told me if I get another one with bad paint to just take it and come back a month later and swap it again. Well.. you guessed it there was a dent in the paint and I was forced to take it with me.

Fake priest caught in confessional

Confessionalblog385x185_2 Bess writes: A bizarre case of identity fraud has surfaced in the Vatican: the Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, reports that a fake priest was caught in St Peter’s Basilica attempting to enter the confessional box. The 30-year-old man was subsequently sentenced in a special Vatican court. And, according to this morning's papers, the sentencing judge discovered he was a serial offender. Gianluigi Marrone, one a handful of judges employed at the court, explained: "He had priest's robes on but to the expert eye of our security staff he raised suspicions, He was acting strangely and so he was stopped and checked. He had an identity card which said he was a priest but a quick check established it was bogus.

Rock Queen reclaims her crown

There was confusion two years ago, when Chrissie Hynde appeared to mumble from the stage in Atlantic City that her band, the Pretenders, had just played their last ever gig, and that she was to retire. She soon issued a statement, claiming she had merely said that it was the last night of their tour, and that she was "real tired".

Woman, 97, says cat's yowling saved her from fire

Grace George, 97, holds her cat, Boo Boo on Thursday, July 31, a day after the black and gold brindle woke her from a sound sleep early Wednesday, helping her escape from her burning home in Independence, Mo. George picked up the yowling cat, a stray she'd taken in about 15 years earlier, and felt her way through the dark house until she smelled smoke and escaped.

Grandmother, 77, pins down rabid fox that bit her

A 77-year-old grandmother was recovering at home after she pinned down a rabid fox that bit her and held it until help arrived. Avis Blakeslee was attacked as she tended to her petunias outside her Stroudsburg farmhouse.

Grandmother, 77, Pins Down Rabid Fox That Bit Her

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A 77-year-old grandmother was recovering at home after she pinned down a rabid fox that bit her and held it until help arrived. Avis Blakeslee was attacked as she tended to her petunias outside her Stroudsburg farmhouse.

Sordid TV anchor scandal featured e-mail snooping

Alycia Lane was fired from her Philadelphia news anchor job this year after stories about her personal light were repeatedly leaked to the tabloid press. Turns out the leaker was her co-anchor Larry Mendte, who got the information from her own e-mail, which he accessed 537 times. Mendte has also been fired. Read more...

Sacre Bleu! It's the Louvre Inc.

Even by her own standards, the black-tie gala that Houston socialite Becca Cason Thrash organized in Paris on June 10 was exceptional. The 272 guests, who paid up to $10,000 each to attend, included a smattering of European royalty, Bianca Jagger, Wall Street grandees Wilbur Ross and Stephen Schwarzman and the cream of Houston high society. Cason Thrash flew her Los Angeles decorator in and says she was so nervous about the arrangements that "by 6 p.m., I was looking for a cyanide capsule." This wasn't any old fund raiser: it was held for the Louvre, in the Louvre, in the vaulted Galerie Daru beneath the Winged Victory of Samothrace. There, seated at two long, mirrored tables and surrounded by 2,000-year-old statues of Roman Emperors, the guests dined on asparagus soufflé and veal noisettes before moving on to a charity auction and a Dur

Waiting Room Death & Other Health News

The patient was dead for more than an hour, collapsed on the waiting room floor of a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital, by the time workers checked on her, the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog reports. A surveillance video, released this week, captured the incident that occurred in June at Kings County Hospital. Esmin Green, 49, fell face down from her seat in the waiting room at 5:32 a.m. on June 19 and stopped moving about a half-hour later, but a hospital staffer didn't check on her until 6:35 a.m. At that point, Green was dead, according to the Associated Press. Green had been involuntarily committed to the hospital's psychiatric unit the previous day and was waiting for a bed. Six hospital staffers have been fired in the wake of the incident, the Washington Post reports.

Home, but not alone

Cristal Vazquez had long been curious about what her three children were up to online. So when her 12-year-old daughter left her computer without logging out of her MySpace account two years ago, Vasquez seized the opportunity to check her viewing history. Among the list of "friends" were male names she didn't recognise, including one that was extremely flirtatious in his messages.

Custom Flame Painting - Lay Flames Like A Pro

I've liked flames since I was a little kid growing up in Southern California during the '50s. I can't remember if the first time I ever saw something flamed was in one of my dad's custom car magazines, or on a hot-rod driving down the street. I do remember by the time I was in elementary school I was getting in trouble with my teachers for drawing flames on all of my school papers. When old people used to ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I told them a custom painter. By the time I was 14 I was custom painting all of my friend's bicycles in the neighborhood. By age 17, I had opened up a custom paint shop out of my parent's garage.

Crush: Girl With A One-Track Mind

Started in 2004 as a way to anonymously write about her sex life and feminist views, Girl With A One-Track Mind has become much more. Writer Zoe Margolis “set out to show that it was OK for a woman to express her desire, rather than attempt to be the object of desire.� Women—and men—were into her message (and her sexy posts), and she was soon receiving thousands of daily pageviews.

What Happens When You Reply To ALL of Your Spam

bednarz writes "For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark. The idea of the Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment — which fittingly started on April Fool's Day — was to have 50 volunteers from around the world answer every spam message and pop-up ad they got. Mooney was game, especially since McAfee was giving a free PC to all participants. She told her story to Network World."

DNS Attack Writer a Victim of His Own Creation

BobB writes "HD Moore has been owned. Moore, the creator of the popular Metasploit hacking toolkit, has become the victim of a computer attack. It happened on Tuesday morning, when Moore's company, BreakingPoint, had some of its Internet traffic redirected to a fake Google page that was being run by a scammer. According to Moore, the hacker was able to do this by launching what's known as a cache poisoning attack on a DNS server on AT&T's network that was serving the Austin, Texas, area. One of BreakingPoint's servers was forwarding DNS (Domain Name System) traffic to the AT&T server, so when it was compromised, so was HD Moore's company."

Live Blogging III: Women in Poverty

This is a wonderful-written article. As the past leader of a Ivy League college pro-life group, I struggled with how to present well-reasoned articles to pro-choicers who violently objected to my position, thought it idiotic, and argued exactly from the position you've identified: that the baby was an unfair burden to some poor woman who bore no responsibility for it, or that the baby was destined for a life of "inhumane" suffering. Your arguments are a thoughtful, realistic and considerate response to those pro-choicers. I would love to know how you respond to those who argue in favor of abortion for those who have been raped. I imagine it was an issue you wrestled with yourself in your conversion. The best I could ever articulate was to argue that a further act of violence was not truly going to solve anything for these women; it was no

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