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    <title>Huddersfield Examiner - Thas avin me on</title>
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    <title>Boy who rips new trousers tells police a bullet did the damage!</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.examiner.co.uk,2011:/thasavinmeon//935.354083</id>

    <published>2011-03-23T09:12:15Z</published>
    <updated>2011-03-23T09:21:45Z</updated>

    <summary>POLICE said a 14-year-old Utah boy was trying to cover up for falling and ripping his new trousers when he reported a bullet grazed him....</summary>
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        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>POLICE said a 14-year-old Utah boy was trying to cover up for falling and ripping his new trousers when he reported a bullet grazed him.</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>South Salt Lake police Sergeant Mikael Wersland told the Salt Lake Tribune that the teenager reported the shooting yesterday evening.</p>

<p>Police said about 10 witnesses told them they did not hear any gunfire in the area at the time.</p>

<p>Sgt Wersland said the boy "fell down and tore the knee" of his trousers, but lied about being grazed by a bullet because he did not want to get into trouble.</p>

<p>The sergeant said the teenager only suffered a "scrape where he fell down".</p>

<p>The boy has not been identified. It was not immediately known whether he would be charged with any crime.<br />
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<entry>
    <title>Player manager sent off for tackling Borat streaker</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.examiner.co.uk,2011:/thasavinmeon//935.352625</id>

    <published>2011-03-08T10:51:04Z</published>
    <updated>2011-03-08T11:06:13Z</updated>

    <summary>There&apos;s some idiot on the pitch, they think it&apos;s all over...it is now! When you thought that football couldn&apos;t get any more bizarre check out the man in black who sends off the Dorchester Town player/manager for tackling a streaker....</summary>
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        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>There's some idiot on the pitch, they think it's all over...it is now!</p>

<p>When you thought that football couldn't get any more bizarre check out the man in black who sends off the Dorchester Town player/manager for tackling a streaker.</p>]]>
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<p>The man sent off, Ashley Vickers, said: "My only thought was to get hold him so we could get on with the game. I managed to grab him and bring him to the ground and the funny thing was the stewards actually thanked me for it.</p>

<p>"But the ref decided to send me off and it beggars belief. Their players told the ref not to send me off and their chairman even offered to take a player off to even things up.</p>

<p>"The ref lost the game after that and he knew he had made a great error by the reaction of Havant's players and management. In hindsight I perhaps shouldn't have done it but hindsight is a wonderful thing. I'm sure people will crucify me for this but I have broad shoulders."</p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Bungling robbers get ATM stuck in door and flee empty-handed</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.examiner.co.uk,2010:/thasavinmeon//935.306036</id>

    <published>2010-12-16T15:28:49Z</published>
    <updated>2010-12-16T15:37:40Z</updated>

    <summary>THREE bungling raiders were caught when their bid to tow a cash machine to a getaway car ended in farce when the dispenser became jammed in a doorway....</summary>
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        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>THREE bungling raiders were caught when their bid to tow a cash machine to a getaway car ended in farce when the dispenser became jammed in a doorway.<br />
</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>The masked robbers burst into the post office in Gorton, Greater Manchester, and wedged open the front door with a breeze block as they tied a strap around the cash machine.<br />
The strap was then attached to a stolen car parked outside, police said.<br />
CCTV footage captured their blundered getaway bid as the machine was dragged against the door frame where it became stuck.<br />
This caused the wheels of the stolen black Vauxhall Astra to lock up outside Mount Road Post Office as the vehicle remained on its spot.<br />
The three offenders fled the scene on foot but were all apprehended by officers shortly after, Manchester Crown Court heard.<br />
Karl Warburton, 30, Wayne Horrocks, 20, and Mark Delahunt, 30, all of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to attempted robbery on July 12 at an earlier hearing.<br />
Detective Constable David Meeney said: "These three men had clearly planned this robbery in advance but what they did not think through was how difficult it is to dislodge a cash machine, or how relentlessly our officers would pursue them."</p>

<p>Take a look at the bank robber below who also had a few problems with a door.</p>

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    <title>Pensioner poisons 47 police officers in Birmingham - with sandwiches!</title>
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    <published>2010-12-08T11:21:07Z</published>
    <updated>2010-12-08T11:23:04Z</updated>

    <summary>A PENSIONER whose sandwiches poisoned 47 police officers has been given a suspended jail sentence and ordered to obey a one-month night-time curfew....</summary>
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        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>A PENSIONER whose sandwiches poisoned 47 police officers has been given a suspended jail sentence and ordered to obey a one-month night-time curfew.<br />
</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>Food safety officials said 70-year-old Muriel Morris received a four-month jail term, suspended for a year, and was ordered to pay ÃÂ£16,482.70p in costs.</p>

<p>Birmingham City Council, which prosecuted Morris for four breaches of food hygiene law, launched an investigation into the poisoning outbreak after nine officers were taken to hospital during an English Defence League demonstration near New Street station in July 2009.</p>

<p>The city's magistrates' court heard that tests conducted on the sandwiches established they had been provided by Morris, of Dorrington Green, Great Barr, Birmingham.</p>

<p>Morris pleaded guilty to four offences relating to the Meal Machine cafe in Nechells, which she no longer runs.</p>

<p>An investigation by the council's food safety team established that officers were given sandwiches provided by Meal Machine at three briefings during the EDL protest and a counter-demonstration.</p>

<p>A West Midlands Police spokesman confirmed that 47 officers experienced the effects of sickness, with several requiring hospital treatment for dehydration.</p>

<p>"Contingency planning measures were implemented to ensure that normal policing business could continue as the protest came to an end," the spokesman said.</p>

<p>Commenting on the prosecution, Neil Eustace, chairman of Birmingham's Public Protection Committee, said officers had been left extremely ill by the serious offences.<br />
"Environmental health officers were rightly appalled by the lack of regard for the health of customers shown by Ms Morris and moved quickly to shut the premises," he said.</p>]]>
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    <title>Harry Potter&apos;s invisibility cloak a reality? Scottish scientists develop light-bending material</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.examiner.co.uk,2010:/thasavinmeon//935.290110</id>

    <published>2010-11-04T10:32:02Z</published>
    <updated>2010-11-04T10:41:28Z</updated>

    <summary>A new material that could be used to create a real-life Harry Potter-style &quot;invisibility cloak&quot; has been designed by British scientists. The material, called &quot;Metaflex&quot; may in future provide a way of manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light....</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>A new material that could be used to create a real-life Harry Potter-style "invisibility cloak" has been designed by British scientists.<br />
The material, called "Metaflex" may in future provide a way of manufacturing fabrics that manipulate light.<br />
</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>Metamaterials have already been developed that bend and channel light to render objects invisible at longer wavelengths.<br />
Visible light poses a greater challenge because its short wavelength means the metamaterial atoms have to be very small.<br />
So far such small light-bending atoms have only been produced on flat, hard surfaces unsuitable for use in clothing.<br />
But scientists at the University of St Andrews in Scotland believe they have overcome this problem.<br />
They have produced flexible metamaterial "membranes" using a new technique that frees the meta-atoms from the hard surface they are constructed on.<br />
Metaflex can operate at wavelengths of around 620 nanometres, within the visible light region.<br />
Stacking the membranes together could produce a flexible "smart fabric" that may provide the basis of an invisibility cloak, the scientists believe. Other applications could include "superlenses" that are far more efficient than conventional lenses.<br />
Describing their work today in the New Journal of Physics, the researchers write: "Arguably, one of the most exciting applications of Metaflex is to fabricate three-dimensional flexible MMs (metamaterials) in the optical range, which can be achieved by stacking several Metaflex membranes on top of one another...<br />
"These results confirm that it is possible to realise MMs on flexible substrates and operating in the visible regime, which we believe are ideal building blocks for future generations of three-dimensional flexible MMs at optical wavelengths."<br />
Lead scientist Dr Andrea Di Falco said: "Metamaterials give us the ultimate handle on manipulating the behaviour of light."</p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>It looks like a mobile in 1920 - so it must be time travel...</title>
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    <published>2010-11-02T13:43:22Z</published>
    <updated>2010-11-02T13:52:34Z</updated>

    <summary>APOLOGIES for the delay - I&apos;d like to say it&apos;s been unavoidable but it&apos;s really due to summer indolence. But now we&apos;re back - try this one on for size.......</summary>
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        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>APOLOGIES for the delay - I'd like to say it's been unavoidable but it's really due to summer indolence.</p>

<p>But now we're back - try this one on for size....</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>A Belfast film-maker has posted a video on the internet showing what he says could be evidence of time travelling.</p>

<p>George Clarke from Belfast has been puzzled for more than a year by a scene in a film which appears to show a woman talking on a mobile phone. </p>

<p>The unusual thing is that the movie was made by Charlie Chaplin in 1928 - long before mobile phones were invented. </p>

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<p>In the eight days since George posted the clip on Youtube - more than 1.5m people have viewed the video online. </p>

<p>Even the US talk show host Jay Leno created his own spoof version. </p>

<p>George was checking the extras on a Chaplin DVD box-set and began watching a clip of the 1928 Hollywood premiere of The Circus.</p>

<p>"As I sat back to watch it I realised in the first 30 seconds there's A lady strolling by with her hand up to her ear which looked quite familiar in today's society."</p>

<p><br />
He added: "My initial reaction was that's a mobile phone, they weren't around then, my only explanation - and I'm pretty open-minded about the sci-fi element of things - it was kind of like wow that's somebody that's went back in time." </p>

<p>The <em>only</em><strong></strong> explanation was that someone went back in time - not that it was just someone holding something up.</p>

<p><br />
Ah well<br />
</p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Hoopla! University lecturer proves the physics behind &apos;fixed&apos; game</title>
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    <published>2010-05-26T10:17:35Z</published>
    <updated>2010-05-26T10:21:08Z</updated>

    <summary>A UNIVERSITY lecturer has revealed how he helped show that gamblers were being fleeced on a seaside hoopla stall in Blackpool....</summary>
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        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>A UNIVERSITY lecturer has revealed how he helped show that gamblers were being fleeced on a seaside hoopla stall in Blackpool.<br />
</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>Punters attempted to land hoops over pegs without knowing that they stood a 2,600/1 chance of being successful and winning a stuffed toy or a bottle of champagne.</p>

<p>Trading standards officers in Blackpool stepped in following complaints from members of the public about the stall on the resort's famous Golden Mile.</p>

<p>They secretly filmed two girls aged 14 and 15 carrying out a test purchase at the stall where they paid ÃÂ£3 for five attempts at the game.</p>

<p>Items from the stall were later seized and passed to Dr David Lucy, from Lancaster University, who often helps evaluate forensic evidence for the police.</p>

<p>He recreated the game in laboratory conditions as students and staff from the mathematics and statistics department chanced their arm.</p>

<p>Dr Lucy explained: "What we found is that you could place the hoop over the pegs but throwing it into the air from two metres it would have to land precisely. The pegs were cut at such an angle that the trajectory the hoop needed to take just would not work.</p>

<p>"We made nearly 600 throws without any joy which led to me calculating on the geometry that one would have to try 2,600 times to stand a reasonable chance of being successful."</p>

<p>His experiment led to a successful prosecution by Blackpool Council of two men who admitted breaching gambling laws.</p>

<p>Philip Williams, 53, and Darren Casey, 36, of Blackpool were ordered by Blackpool magistrates to perform unpaid work for the community. Williams was also handed a 14-week suspended jail sentence<br />
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<entry>
    <title>Man banned from driving after being caught walking dog by holding lead out of car window! </title>
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    <published>2010-03-02T15:25:49Z</published>
    <updated>2010-03-02T15:28:45Z</updated>

    <summary>A dog owner too lazy to walk his pet has lost his driving licence after getting caught walking the animal while driving his car....</summary>
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        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>A dog owner too lazy to walk his pet has lost his driving licence after getting caught walking the animal while driving his car.<br />
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        <![CDATA[<p>Paul Railton, 23, of County Durham, had wound down the window of his Nissan Navara to exercise his lurcher when police caught him.<br />
Officers reported seeing him driving at 5mph along a country lane in County Durham.<br />
Yesterday, at Consett Magistrates' Court, Railton pleaded guilty to not being in proper control of a vehicle at about 2.20pm on December 4 in Stonyheap Lane, near Consett.<br />
Sharon Lowrie, prosecuting, said a cyclist alerted police that two men were dragging a dog along from a car.<br />
She said: "The driver was hanging onto the dog's lead through the driver window, approaching a blind summit."<br />
Railton was told to put the dog in the back of the car and was allowed to go, but five days later police turned up at his home to charge him.<br />
A police statement read out to the court said: "I explained the dangers to the other road users and that he was not in full control of the car.<br />
"Due to the narrow road there was no area for other cars to pass."<br />
Paul Donoghue, mitigating, said Railton had pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.<br />
He said: "He accepts it was a silly thing to do and there was an element of laziness. He does not usually drive in a such a manner."<br />
The court confirmed that Railton, who is unemployed, was fined ÃÂ£66 and ordered to pay ÃÂ£43 costs and a legal surcharge of ÃÂ£15.<br />
He had three penalty points added to his licence and, because he already had nine, this meant he was banned from driving for six months.<br />
After the hearing, Railton, of Wesley Terrace, Annfield Plain, Stanley, told The Journal: "It is a joke. I'm not bothered. I knew I'd get three points. I might save myself some money not having a car."<br />
Last July Railton was one of five people that stood trial in connection with a shooting.<br />
But the cases against Railton, three other men and a woman, were thrown out by a High Court judge.</p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Ambassador gets marriage annulled after veiled bride found to have cross-eyes and a beard</title>
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    <id>tag:blogs.examiner.co.uk,2010:/thasavinmeon//935.209878</id>

    <published>2010-02-11T09:09:10Z</published>
    <updated>2010-02-11T09:11:15Z</updated>

    <summary> An Arabic country&apos;s ambassador to Dubai has had his marriage contract annulled after discovering the bride was cross-eyed and had facial hair....</summary>
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        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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<p>An Arabic country's ambassador to Dubai has had his marriage contract annulled after discovering the bride was cross-eyed and had facial hair.<br />
</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>The woman had worn an Islamic veil, known as the niqab, on the few occasions the couple had met. </p>

<p>The envoy, who has not been identified, told a Sharia court her mother had tricked him by showing him pictures of the bride's sister, Gulf News reported. </p>

<p>He only discovered the deception when he lifted the woman's veil to kiss her. </p>

<p>The court had annulled the marriage contract but rejected a $130,000 (ÃÂ£83,000) compensation claim for gifts he had bought his intended, the report said. </p>]]>
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    <title>Want ice in your whisky Mr Shackleton? 100 year old blend found udner Antarctic ice</title>
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    <published>2010-02-05T10:13:14Z</published>
    <updated>2010-02-05T10:16:03Z</updated>

    <summary>Five crates of Scotch whisky buried under Antarctic ice for more than 100 years have been recovered by a heritage team restoring explorer Ernest Shackleton&apos;s hut....</summary>
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        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>Five crates of Scotch whisky buried under Antarctic ice for more than 100 years have been recovered by a heritage team restoring explorer Ernest Shackleton's hut.<br />
</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust team leader Al Fastier says he believes some bottles are still intact.<br />
The whisky was made by McKinlay and Co and drinks group Whyte & Mackay has asked for a sample to carry out tests with a view to re-launching the defunct brand.<br />
Ice cracked some of the bottles that had been left there in 1909, but the restorers said today they are confident the five crates contain intact bottles "given liquid can be heard when the crates are moved''.<br />
New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust team leader Al Fastier said the team thought there were two whisky and brandy crates and were amazed to find five.<br />
Mr Fastier said restoration workers found the crates under the hut's floorboards in 2006, but they were too deeply embedded in ice to be dislodged.<br />
The New Zealanders agreed to drill the ice to try to retrieve some bottles, although the rest must stay under conservation guidelines agreed to by 12 Antarctic Treaty nations.<br />
Mr Fastier said: "The unexpected find of the brandy crates, one labeled Chas. Mackinlay & Co and the other labeled The Hunter Valley Distillery Limited Allandale (Australia) are a real bonus."<br />
Ice has cracked some of the crates and formed inside them. Mr Fastier said that would make extracting the contents delicate, but the trust would decide how to do so in coming weeks.<br />
Richard Paterson, master blender at Whyte and Mackay, whose company supplied the Mackinlay's whisky for Shackleton, described the find as "a gift from the heavens for whisky lovers".<br />
"If the contents can be confirmed, safely extracted and analysed, the original blend may be able to be replicated. Given the original recipe no longer exists, this may open a door into history," he said in a statement.<br />
Shackleton's expedition ran short of supplies on its long ski trek to the South Pole from the northern Antarctic coast in 1907/09 and turned back about 100 miles short of its goal.<br />
The expedition sailed away in 1909 as winter ice formed, leaving behind supplies, including the whisky and brandy.<br />
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<entry>
    <title>Farmer builds secret castle and hides it behind straw bales!</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.examiner.co.uk/thasavinmeon/2010/02/farmer-builds-secret-castle-an-1.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.examiner.co.uk,2010:/thasavinmeon//935.207754</id>

    <published>2010-02-03T11:20:43Z</published>
    <updated>2010-02-05T10:18:33Z</updated>

    <summary>A farmer who secretly built a castle and lived in it for four years while it was concealed behind bales of straw today lost a High Court bid to save it from being demolished....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>A farmer who secretly built a castle and lived in it for four years while it was concealed behind bales of straw today lost a High Court bid to save it from being demolished.</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>A judge ruled Robert Fidler, 60, who took two years to covertly built his dream home with ramparts and cannon, was not entitled to benefit from his deception of the local planning authority.</p>

<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://blogs.examiner.co.uk/thasavinmeon/feb/RobertFidlers_468x284.jpg"><img alt="Robert Fidler's castle" src="http://blogs.examiner.co.uk/thasavinmeon/assets_c/2010/02/RobertFidlers_468x284-thumb-470x541.jpg" width="470" height="541" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></a></span></p>

<p>Mr Fidler, of Honeycrock Farm on Axes Lane in Salfords, Redhill, Surrey, had been hoping for another chance at securing planning consent to keep the castle.</p>

<p>He and his wife Linda, 40, and their son Harry, eight, moved into the castle when it was complete in 2002, and for four years kept it hidden from the local planning authority, Reigate & Banstead Borough Council, behind walls made of straw bales and tarpaulin.<br />
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<entry>
    <title>Two Cumbria men fined for pigeon tossing in Poland - No, we didn&apos;t know either</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.examiner.co.uk/thasavinmeon/2009/11/two-cumbria-men-fined-for-pige.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.examiner.co.uk,2009:/thasavinmeon//935.181496</id>

    <published>2009-11-17T16:57:31Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-17T16:59:26Z</updated>

    <summary>TWO British men have been fined by a court in Poland for pigeon tossing....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[<p>TWO British men have been fined by a court in Poland for pigeon tossing.<br />
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        <![CDATA[<p>The pair threw the birds up in to the air in historic Krakow's Renaissance market on October 24.<br />
According to local reports the stunned birds were not able to open their wings and fell to the ground, breaking their wings.<br />
The pigeon tossers, both aged 24, from Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, appeared in court today and pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelty to animals.<br />
Prosecutor Boguslawa Marcinkowska said the men were both fined 600 zlotys (ÃÂ£130) each.<br />
She identified them as Lee James W. of Ulverston and Arron David P. of Barrow-in-Furness, but did not give their last names in line with Polish privacy law.<br />
She also said she did not know whether the pigeons survived.<br />
The Foreign Office said the consulate in Poland was not informed of the court hearing.</p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Mourners at Brazilian funeral shocked when &apos;dead man&apos; walks in</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.examiner.co.uk/thasavinmeon/2009/11/mourners-at-brazilian-funeral.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.examiner.co.uk,2009:/thasavinmeon//935.178601</id>

    <published>2009-11-05T10:49:24Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-05T10:51:46Z</updated>

    <summary>A 59-year-old Brazilian man has surprised his family by turning up at his own funeral, reports the BBC....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
    </author>
    
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    <category term="brazil" label="brazil" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
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        <![CDATA[<p>A 59-year-old Brazilian man has surprised his family by turning up at his own funeral, reports the BBC.</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, a bricklayer, had identified him as the victim of a car crash in southern Parana state the previous day. </p>

<p>Police told O Globo newspaper that relatives had trouble identifying the corpse because it was badly disfigured. </p>

<p>It emerged that Mr Goncalves had spent the night drinking a rum-like liquor called "pinga" with his friends. </p>

<p>He did not get word of his funeral until it was already happening on Monday morning, his niece Rosa Sampaio said. </p>

<p>She said some family members - including herself and the man's mother - had doubts, but an aunt and four friends had positively identified the body. </p>

<p>"What were we to do? We went ahead with the funeral," she told O Globo. </p>

<p>The body was correctly identified later, he said, and buried in another state. </p>]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Snoring and sleep apnoea? I&apos;ve got an iPhone app for that</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.examiner.co.uk/thasavinmeon/2009/11/snoring-and-sleep-apnoea-ive-g.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.examiner.co.uk,2009:/thasavinmeon//935.178249</id>

    <published>2009-11-04T08:39:55Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-04T08:44:22Z</updated>

    <summary>I COULD understand the spirit level app and a few others, but the latest one (direct from Finland) is an app which measures snoring!...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
    </author>
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>I COULD understand the spirit level app and a few others, but the latest one (direct from Finland) is an app which measures snoring!</p>]]>
        <![CDATA[<p>Basically here's what the company involved have to say...</p>

<p>Remote Analysis Ltd, a telemedicine services provider, has in cooperation with Elias Pietila's Qvik Ltd (Wooden Labyrinth, for example) developed an iPhone application for recording and analyzing snoring and sleep apnea. The Sleep Aid -application is now available on the iPhone App Store for E 2,39.<br />
"This application is very easy to use. Just place the iPhone on your night stand, click Record and go to sleep. In the morning click Wake up. After this you can browse a graph based on the night time recording and listen to audio clips revealing your snoring. The app includes sample audio clips of regular snoring and sleep apnea. You can compare your own recording with the samples and conclude whether you might have sleep apnea", CEO Ossi Tiihonen explains.<br />
"We have developed the application with Qvik Ltd and medical doctors who specialize in sleep apnea diagnostics. The application can be used to screen sleep apnea or, for example, to gather evidence of your husband's snoring", CEO Ossi Tiihonen continues.<br />
Remote Analysis Ltd specializes in remote medical analysis. The company was founded in 2002 and it serves 123 health care organizations around Finland.</p>

<p>Crikey Moses - you're not even safe when you sleep now.<br />
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</entry>

<entry>
    <title>Look at Kelly Brook&apos;s buns - London Underground demand bigger ones</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.examiner.co.uk/thasavinmeon/2009/11/look-at-kelly-brooks-buns---lo.html" />
    <id>tag:blogs.examiner.co.uk,2009:/thasavinmeon//935.178106</id>

    <published>2009-11-03T15:43:24Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-03T15:46:58Z</updated>

    <summary>POSTERS promoting actress Kelly Brook&apos;s new play had to be changed because buns covering her cleavage were deemed too small, it emerged today....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Andrew Jackson</name>
        
    </author>
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>POSTERS promoting actress Kelly Brook's new play had to be changed because buns covering her cleavage were deemed too small, it emerged today.<br />
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        <![CDATA[<p>The 29-year-old is set to join the cast of West End production Calendar Girls this week.<br />
Adverts for the play used on London Underground  featured Brook using cherry-topped buns to preserve her modesty.<br />
But a spokeswoman for the production said the first version of the posters had to be changed so they left more to the imagination.<br />
She said: "Producer David Pugh wanted to use it as the poster image in the underground stations. London Underground said that it was indecent and he would need to re-do the photos with bigger buns."</p>

<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Kelly Brook and those buns" src="http://blogs.examiner.co.uk/thasavinmeon/nov/SHOWBIZ%20Brook%20181364_587.jpg" width="400" height="330" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></span></p>

<p>Brook will replace Jerry Hall in the role of Celia in the play, which tells the story of Women's Institute members who decide to bare all for a charity calendar.<br />
A Transport for London spokesman said: "We worked with the advertiser to ensure that the advert complied with our policy. We will be carrying an amended version of the advert on the Tube network."<br />
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