Dam tragedy shows Russia lags behind

 ULAN UDE, Russia (AFP) - The tragedy at a Russian power plant shows Russia lags far behind in technology, its president said Monday, in a rare high-level acknowledgement of the country's post-Soviet weaknesses.

President Dmitry Medvedev said the deadly catastrophe last week at Russia's biggest hydroelectric power plant showed that ageing infrastructure which was once the pride of the Soviet Union was in urgent need of modernization."It is clear that a technological catastrophe of unprecedented scale and consequences has taken place," a stern-faced Medvedev told a meeting with officials in Ulan Ude, the capital of the Siberian region of Buryatia.

Investigators have said that a technical fault caused the August 17 flooding tragedy at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam, which killed at least 69 people with six more still missing and presumed dead."The only truth here is this. Our country is technologically very far behind," said Medvedev."We really are very far behind and if we don't overcome this challenge then all those threats that everyone is talking about will truly become a reality."

Glue on toilet seat: Man taken to hospital

CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA: A man who used a public toilet in a shopping mall was taken to a hospital to have the toilet seat removed from his backside after someone smeared it with glue in what an official condemned on Monday as a sick joke.

Police urged possible witnesses to come forward after the 58-year-old man was humiliated in the northeastern city of Cairns by the prank. An ambulance was called to help the man after he was found stuck by fast-acting adhesive glue to a toilet seat on Saturday in the busy shopping mall.

Paramedics removed the seat from the toilet and took him to a hospital, where medical staff used industrial solvents to get it off.Cairns local government official Di Forsyth said the man, who was not identified, was not injured but was "extremely embarrassed" by his experience.

"I'm disgusted that a gentlemen has had to go through that because someone thinks it's funny," Forsyth said. "It's a sick joke."

Source: Times Of India

Man finds his baby son alive after opening his coffin

Jose Alvarenga was told by doctors at a state hospital in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital, that his son had been pronounced dead shortly after birth.

Hospital orderlies delivered the premature baby's body, which had been placed in a temporary coffin, to Mr Alvarenga's home fours hours later.Shortly afterwards, the grieving father opened the coffin to bid an emotional farewell to the infant.

"I opened it to look at his remains and found that the baby was breathing," Mr Alvarenga recounted. "I began to cry." He rushed back to the hospital with his unnamed son in his arms and nurses placed the infant in an oxygen chamber.

Doctors seemed hopeful that tragedy would not strike again, describing the boy's condition as "stable".
The news of the child's miraculous recovery was then taken to his mother, who was in a bed in the same hospital.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Women drags her child while shopping

A 37 year old mother dragged leashed child on the ground at a store in paris. Women was jailed and enquiry is going on to know exactly what happened at the store which made mother to drag the child.

For video  and texts go through the link below: From AOL news
http://www.parentdish.com/2009/08/04/parenting-can-be-a-drag-for-woman-who-keeps-child-on-a-leash/

Obama's Joker image spreading like online viral

A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources.Nobody has come forward yet to claim responsibility for the posters, which, of course, only adds to the mystery and fuels Internet speculation

The poster has also gone viral online, crashing the Web site that first posted images of it and rising to the top of Google's "Today's Hot Trends" list.

This is spreading like virus, certain democrats have overreacted on the issue, they have challenged the group that has created and published the image to come to foreground and state the reason why they did  offensive against the president

Mystery object crashes into Ottawa river

Dozens of residents of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa Ontario and nearby Gatineau, Que., witnessed an object streak across the night sky at about 10pm local time Monday night and crash into the Ottawa River with a “thunderous boom.” The object had lights on it and appeared to change course several times, like a small plane struggling to stay airborn, before it hit the water.

It was such a sight that emergency rescue and search crews in the area sprung into action and began searching the area using sophisticated sonars and underwater cameras

to try and figure out what the object was. Even helicopters from the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) in nearby Trenton took part. On Tuesday at 1:30pm, they discovered an object about 9 meters (30 feet) below the surface, but because of currents and nearby rapids, sending divers down would be extremely dangerous since they would be instantly swept away by the currents.

The mystery? Authorities and residents have no idea what this object laying at the bottom of the river is. There are no planes missing from the area, no other aircraft like helicopters, etc. are missing. There is no derbis, no oil slick and even space agencies that were contacted said nothing disappeared from orbit.

On Tuesday afternoon, Ottawa police Const. Alain Boucher said of the object they found on the riverbed:

“The size and the shape doesn’t lead us to believe it’s any piece of an airplane or fuselage or anything like that. It could be a rock, it could be a bunch of logs stuck together, it’s hard to say. No one has come forward with any kind of videos or anything like that at this time.


Source: http://www.inquisitr.com
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FTC Might Start Watching Bloggers, should be careful while writing testimony

There is a big buzz in the blogosphere about a regulation that the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is planning to approve late this summer. If that goes through, they will basically start going after bloggers “for any false claims or failure to disclose any conflict of interest.”

In other words, if you write a testimonial for a product you have never used, you might get busted. This part is the one that makes sense. The controversial one is the “failure to disclose any conflict of interest” one. This could involve bloggers who earned a freebie from a company and ended up writing about it (without disclosing the freebie), for example. Furthermore, it could also mean that you can’t use any affiliate links inside your blog or website without disclosing that you stand to earn money if someone clicks on them.

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Source :  http://www.dailyblogtips.com/careful-bloggers-the-ftc-might-start-watching-you/

CPJ names 10 worst countries to blog

CPJ(Committee to Protect Journalists) names the worst online oppressors. Booming online cultures in many
Asian and Middle Eastern nations have led to aggressive government repression.10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger” also identifies a number of countries in the Middle East and Asia where Internet penetration has blossomed and government repression has grown in response

Here is the list of Top 10
1.    Burma
2.    Iran
3.    Syria
4.    Cuba
5.    Saudi Arabia
6.    Vietnam
7.    Tunisia
8.    China
9.    Turkmenistan
10.    Egypt

Refer Below Link For detailed report
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists
http://cpj.org/reports/2009/04/10-worst-countries-to-be-a-blogger.php   

Seattle bank teller lost job after catching bank robber

 A bank teller in seattle has lost his job because he ran down a would-be bank robber and held him until police arrived. Jim Nicholson, 30, who had worked for more than two years at a Key Bank branch near the Seattle Center, says he understands the bank's strict policy that employees comply with robbery demands and avoid confrontations.

But he told The Seattle Times that instinct took over when a thin man in a beanie cap, dark clothing and sunglasses pushed a black backpack across the bank counter on Tuesday and demanded money.
Nicholson threw the bag to the floor, lunged toward the man and demanded to see a weapon. The man bolted
for the door with Nicholson in pursuit.

He chased him several blocks before knocking him to the ground with the help of a passer-by. Nicholson
then held the man until police arrived. On Thursday, Nicholson was fired. Key Bank spokeswoman Anne Foster declined to comment on Nicholson and his actions.

Source: AOL News  http://news.aol.com/
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Mob attacks two churches and burnt 75 houses of Christians in pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Muslim fanatics attacked churches and burnt down scores of houses of the Christian community in Pakistan's Punjab province, a news report said on Saturday.

A mob attacked two churches and burnt 75 houses of Christians over the alleged desecration of papers inscribed with Quran verses at a wedding ceremony in Punjab's Azafi Abadi village at Chak 95-JB on Thursday, Atif Jamil Pagaan and Ashfaq Fateh, leaders of the minority community was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper today.


Fearing attack, the members of the minority community fled the village that allowed the fanatics to attack the church, houses and cattle, the report said. The station house officer of Gojra Sadar has been suspended by the District Police Officer (DPO) Inkisar Khan, the Pakistani daily said

The attack came barely a month after a mob attacked 100 houses of Christian in Punjab province's Kasur district, destroying several houses and injuring many on blasphemy charge, it said More than 1,200 of Christian families have been living in Sikendarabad near Kotri even before the creation of Pakistan," he stressed.

In November 2005, 3,000 militant Islamists attacked Christians in Sangla Hill in Pakistan and destroyed churches. The attack was over allegations of violation of blasphemy laws by a Pakistani Christian named Yousaf Masih.

In February 2006, churches and Christian schools were targeted in protests over the publications of the Jyllands-Posten cartoons in Denmark, leaving two elderly women injured and many homes and properties destroyed.

Source: Times Of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pakistani-mob-attacks-churches-houses-of-Christians/articleshow/4844929.cms