Hypodermic syringes are hidden below the surface pointing upwards to prick bomb squad experts as they hunt for devices.
The heroin needles are feared to be contaminated with hepatitis and HIV. And if the bomb goes off, the needles become deadly flying shrapnel.
Once again, idle hands are the workplace of the devil. Exposing British troops scouring for land mines with needles potentially infected with HIV, hepatitis, or any disease, really indicates the Taliban’s depravity.
May Kevlar gloves and more, continue to protect ANYONE from the wrath of disease and illogical and hateful intentions.
The sheer novelty of playing in a bathtub filled with bean bag “beans.”
The cat decided to pee on the beanbag, so that the filling would be dumped in the bathtub, and then she could play in it Just a note: She did not actually eat any of the filling, and she did not suffer any ill effects. She’s also not allowed near the beanbag anymore, so she won’t be playing in the filling again.
A businessman is under fire for buying tiny parcels of land so he can sell or lease them for inflated prices to people who thought they owned them.
In one case, Guthrie businessman Ron Edwards is demanding four Edmond condominium owners pay him $80,000 for a shared driveway he bought for $1,584 at a county auction.
Sleazy people trying to mega-capitalize on others.
Many Timberdale Estates residents are elderly; some barely can walk, Lunday said.
The businessman’s innocent defense.
“It’s just a business adventure trying to pick up a few bucks just like any other business,” Edwards said. “I wasn’t wanting to cause anybody grief, but sometimes it just works out that way.”
Edwards said his company “offers to correct” errors by title and abstract companies that often cause properties to go to auction without owners knowing.
“Offers to correct” is an interesting perception. Extortion, as one of the elderly residents claimed, is more like it. Especially since neighbors did not know of the sales of the properties for delinquent taxes, as they were not notified by county officials.
“Everything went black. I was spun 180 degrees, thrown several feet back. My legs turned to jelly. My shoes were smoking and the bottom of my feet felt like they were on fire.”
And when the groom-to-be reached out to his bride-to-be, she was no more.
70 % of people who never or rarely brushed their teeth had heart disease.
Previous research has shown that people with gum disease are more likely to suffer from heart problems. “A wide range of bacteria are associated with gum disease and if they are not treated they can enter the bloodstream and affect the heart,” says Professor Damien Walmsley of Birmingham University, a scientific adviser to the British Dental Association.
The bacteria stick to fatty deposits in the blood vessels of the heart, making clots more likely to form which in severe cases could lead to a heart attack.
Gum disease may also contribute to the clogging of the arteries that carry blood to the brain. Several studies have found people who have had a stroke are more likely to have had gum inflammation than people who have not.
Get out those toothbrushes and floss, so that the cardiologist does not have to stent your arteries. Or worse, the heart surgeon does not have to bypass them. Or the neurologist does not have to talk to you or your family about a stroke.
The national debt of the United States reached the record level of $13 trillion, which means that every US citizen owes the world $42,000. It seems that the US administration does not seem to care much about the fact. Barack Obama believes that it is the fault of the previous government. Obama stated during his speech at Pittsburg that his administration was not guilty of the enormous national debt. He said that he took office during the time of the crisis, when the economic recession in the country resulted in the creation of a huge hole of $3 trillion in the budget of the country
President Barack Obama. Seems to want everyone to believe he had nothing to do with it whatsoever.
The 2,000-year-old remains of almost 80 young men, mutilated by horrific injuries, were found by archaeologists as they excavated a residential area of York.
They claim the men’s injuries – including many decapitations and an apparent tiger bite to one skeleton – suggest they were gladiators who met a bloody end.
A fascinating find. Click here for pics. Those gladiators certainly never thought they might end up as just another part of a neighborhood. Now, they are not.
The goal was to achieve a secure foothold into Europe that would later enable Allied forces to overtake German forces.
6,900 vessels… including 4,100 landing craft. …12,000 aircraft… 1,000 transports to fly in the parachute troops; 10,000 tons of bombs… 14,000 attack sorties…
The total number of troops landed on D-Day was around 130,000- 156,000.
The total troops, vehicles and supplies landed over the period of the invasion were:
By the end of 11 June (D + 5), 326,547 troops, 54,186 vehicles and 104,428 tons of supplies.
By June 30 (D+24) over 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies.
By nightfall on June 6, more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were dead or wounded, but more than 100,000 had made it ashore and secured French coastal villages.
There is no official casualty figure for D-Day. It is estimated that more than 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded, or went missing during the battle. That figure includes more than 209,000 Allied casualties. In addition to roughly 200,000 German troops killed or wounded, the Allies also captured 200,000 soldiers. Captured Germans were sent to American prisoner-of-war camps at the rate of 30,000 per month, from D-Day until Christmas 1944. Between 15,000 and 20,000 French civilians were killed during the battle.
“Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a Coast Guard landing boat. CPhoM. Robert F. Sargent, June 6, 1944. 26-G-2343.” Image courtesy of http://archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/thumbnails/.
The deluge of information available on the Web has made the country ungovernable, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow.
Nope. It has made the government ’s inner workings and behind-the-scenes actions more accessible to the country. And hence , government a little more accountable.
Just a note: She did not actually eat any of the filling, and she did not suffer any ill effects. She’s also not allowed near the beanbag anymore, so she won’t be playing in the filling again.
