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boy in a dryer
An 11-year-old boy gets the scare of his life, seeking shelter from a tornado in a dryer.
Austin Miller's mother called him from work as storms swept through the town of Lenox in Iowa, telling him to take shelter. The home doesn't have a basement."I said, 'Get in the laundry room.' There is not a basement and I said, 'Just get in the laundry room,' and he said 'Why mommy?' and I said, "Just get in laundry room.' And then the sirens went off," said Jessica Miller. As she tried desperately to get home, two twisters whipped debris into a blinding mess on local streets."(Austin) said, "Mommy there's glass breaking, it's loud crackling. It's loud and I think the house is going,'" Jessica Miller said. "I mean I was like two blocks away. I could not get here. It was the worst feeling, I can't even explain."While she was on the phone with Austin, the wind tore the home's roof away and rain pounded inside. With debris flying through the air, Austin took shelter in the only place he could."He was just like, "Mommy I'm so scared, I'm so scared," and he ended up getting in the dryer," Jessica Miller said. A short time later, Jessica ran through the front door yelling her son's name. She said he popped right out of the laundry room uninjured -- amazing given the damage the storms caused."I think he's a very smart boy," she said.
Austin Miller's mother called him from work as storms swept through the town of Lenox in Iowa, telling him to take shelter. The home doesn't have a basement."I said, 'Get in the laundry room.' There is not a basement and I said, 'Just get in the laundry room,' and he said 'Why mommy?' and I said, "Just get in laundry room.' And then the sirens went off," said Jessica Miller. As she tried desperately to get home, two twisters whipped debris into a blinding mess on local streets."(Austin) said, "Mommy there's glass breaking, it's loud crackling. It's loud and I think the house is going,'" Jessica Miller said. "I mean I was like two blocks away. I could not get here. It was the worst feeling, I can't even explain."While she was on the phone with Austin, the wind tore the home's roof away and rain pounded inside. With debris flying through the air, Austin took shelter in the only place he could."He was just like, "Mommy I'm so scared, I'm so scared," and he ended up getting in the dryer," Jessica Miller said. A short time later, Jessica ran through the front door yelling her son's name. She said he popped right out of the laundry room uninjured -- amazing given the damage the storms caused."I think he's a very smart boy," she said.
what am i - riddle
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
A river.
A river.
why birds fly into windows
Chris Leahy of Mass Audubon explains male birds become territorial, and by singing they advertise they want to mate. But that singing also tells other birds to stay out of his space, said Leahy.
When they see themselves in a window something happens. “They don’t perceive that this is a reflection. They think it’s a rival, and they will attack this reflection,” said Leahy.
It should end when breeding season is over, but it will start up again in late summer when the second breeding season begins.
Experts say birds probably won’t hurt themselves doing this.
When they see themselves in a window something happens. “They don’t perceive that this is a reflection. They think it’s a rival, and they will attack this reflection,” said Leahy.
It should end when breeding season is over, but it will start up again in late summer when the second breeding season begins.
Experts say birds probably won’t hurt themselves doing this.
crash saves choking trucker
A Pennsylvania trucker may have saved his own life with an unintentional and very elaborate Heimlich maneuver.
Police say 55-year-old Richard Paylor, of Fairless Hills, was eating an apple as he drove on a busy highway in Reading, Pa. when he began choking. Authorities say Paylor then lost consciousness and crashed through a concrete median.
The Reading Eagle reports investigators believe the apple was dislodged when Paylor smacked his chest against the steering wheel. Police recovered a chunk of apple from the dashboard.
Investigators spoke with doctors who backed up their conclusion that the accident dislodged the offending fruit.
Police say 55-year-old Richard Paylor, of Fairless Hills, was eating an apple as he drove on a busy highway in Reading, Pa. when he began choking. Authorities say Paylor then lost consciousness and crashed through a concrete median.
The Reading Eagle reports investigators believe the apple was dislodged when Paylor smacked his chest against the steering wheel. Police recovered a chunk of apple from the dashboard.
hairiest girl in the world
An 11-year-old Thai girl has insisted she is delighted to have been recognized by Guinness World Records as the planet's hairiest girl.
Supatra Sasuphan - nicknamed Nat - has been called "wolf girl" and "monkey face" for the thick hair that grows on her face, ears, arms, legs and back as a result of Ambras Syndrome.But the Bangkok girl has not let that stand in her way, forming close friendships with other children and being embraced by her local community.
Now, she says the title has made her even more popular at school.
"I'm very happy to be in the Guinness World Records," she said.
"A lot of people have to do a lot to get in. All I did was answer a few questions and then they gave it to me."
There have only been 50 recorded cases of Ambras Syndrome since the Middle Ages and the symptoms of facial hair growth earned the sufferers reputations as werewolves.
"There were a few people who used to tease me and call me monkey face but they don't do it any more," Supatra explained.
Despite her condition, the bubbly pre-teen is like any other girl her age and enjoys dancing and swimming, as well as watching cartoons on television.To be recognized by Guinness World Records, Supatra had her hair measured on Italian show Lo Show dei Record in Rome on 4 March 2010.
There is no cure for the syndrome and although doctors have tried different treatments to remove the hair, including laser therapy, it has always grown back.
The hair is thickening as she gets older, meaning Supatra's mother has to trim it to keep it out of her eyes.
But the happy 11 year old said she is used to the condition and it does not make her uncomfortable - although she would like to be cured one day.
Supatra has endured health problems since she was born and had difficulty breathing until two operations to enlarge her nostrils.
anna - sign language song
This is Anna and her final for a college level sign language class. She is not deaf and still learning sign language.
knife removed from mans head after 4 years
Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch (10-centimeter) knife from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years, the hospital said Friday.
Li Fuyan, 30, had been suffering from severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort, said the senior official at the Yuxi City People's Hospital in Yunnan Province. Li told doctors he had been stabbed in the lower right jaw by a robber four years ago and the blade broke off inside his head without anyone realizing it, said the director of the hospital's Communist Party committee's office who would only give his surname, He. Surgeons worked cautiously to remove the badly-corroded blade without shattering it, He said. The hospital's website also reported the successful surgery. The case, which one of the doctors described as a "miracle," has been widely covered by the Chinese media and discussed on the Internet. "We checked his mouth, but no wound or scar has been found. It is very strange as to how the blade got into his head," Xu Wen, deputy director of the hospital's stomatology department. CCTV showed footage of the rusted knife and interviewed Li, who said: "As time passed, I used injections to kill the pain in my head and ears. It has been four years already." Dr. Eugene Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at New York's Montefiore Medical Center, said X-ray images of the man's head posted on the hospital's website show the knife sitting behind the man's throat, having missed the carotid artery and other key structures. "There are planes and spaces between important organs. That's how one does surgery - you dissect in those planes, move the trachea one way, the esophagus the other," he said. "Maybe out of sheer luck this knife passed through" one such area, Flamm said, adding that he was still surprised at the time the blade supposedly spent in the man's body.
Li Fuyan, 30, had been suffering from severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort, said the senior official at the Yuxi City People's Hospital in Yunnan Province. Li told doctors he had been stabbed in the lower right jaw by a robber four years ago and the blade broke off inside his head without anyone realizing it, said the director of the hospital's Communist Party committee's office who would only give his surname, He. Surgeons worked cautiously to remove the badly-corroded blade without shattering it, He said. The hospital's website also reported the successful surgery. The case, which one of the doctors described as a "miracle," has been widely covered by the Chinese media and discussed on the Internet. "We checked his mouth, but no wound or scar has been found. It is very strange as to how the blade got into his head," Xu Wen, deputy director of the hospital's stomatology department. CCTV showed footage of the rusted knife and interviewed Li, who said: "As time passed, I used injections to kill the pain in my head and ears. It has been four years already." Dr. Eugene Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at New York's Montefiore Medical Center, said X-ray images of the man's head posted on the hospital's website show the knife sitting behind the man's throat, having missed the carotid artery and other key structures. "There are planes and spaces between important organs. That's how one does surgery - you dissect in those planes, move the trachea one way, the esophagus the other," he said. "Maybe out of sheer luck this knife passed through" one such area, Flamm said, adding that he was still surprised at the time the blade supposedly spent in the man's body.
crocodile eats phone
Gena, a 14-year-old crocodile in Ukraine at an aquarium in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk, has been refusing food after eating a cell phone dropped by a woman as she tried to photograph him.
Aquarium workers initially didn't believe Rimma Golovko, a new mother in her 20s, when she complained that the crocodile had swallowed her phone. "But then the phone started ringing and the sound was coming from inside our Gena's stomach and we understood she wasn't lying," said Alexandra, an employee who declined to give her last name as she wasn't authorized to speak publicly. Golovko admits the accident was her fault. She stretched out her arm to snap a photo of Gena opening his mouth and dropped her Nokia phone into the water. "This should have been a very dramatic shot, but things didn't work out," she said. Golovko is resigned to losing her phone, but still wants its SIM card back since that has her precious photos and contacts. The mishap has caused bigger problems for the crocodile, which has not eaten or had a bowel movement in four weeks and appears depressed and in pain. "The animal is not feeling well," said Alexandra. "His behavior has changed, he moves very little and swims much less than he used to." Doctors tried to whet the crocodile's appetite this week by feeding him live quail rather than the pork or beef he usually gets once a week. The quail were injected with vitamins and a laxative, but while Gena smothered one bird, he didn't eat it. He also won't play with three fellow African crocodiles, despite being the leader in the group. Crocodiles can live up to 100 years. "He is the biggest and the oldest, perhaps he went for the phone to protect his group," Alexandra said. Dnipropetrovsk chief veterinarian Oleksandr Shushlenko said the crocodile will be taken for an X-ray next week if he continues to refuse food. Surgically removing the phone would be a measure of last resort, he said, since incisions and stitches usually take at least three weeks to heal in reptiles and the procedure is dangerous for the animal and the vets. "Everything will depend on where the foreign body is located," Shushlenko said. "We don't have much experience working with such large animals." The crocodile in "Peter Pan" with the ticking stomach was on the hunt for Captain Hook after getting a taste for the pirate's flesh from eating one of his hands. But luckily for Hook, he could always hear the crocodile coming.
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Why use sell your pension? Because all they do all the time is help people release the funds they need. They don't work on mortgages, insurance, other financial needs or life polices. They will help you achieve your pension goals. Their expertise may help you.
They will offer advice, explain the process and help you fill out any paperwork.
Their website states that you are not required to pay them a fee or be asked to transfer money to them at any time.
Sell your pension can help with SIPPs (Self Invested Personal Pension). With SIPPs you have control.
Sell your pension can also help with QROPs (Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme). Pension holders would do this if they wish to take advantages of the tax-breaks that are available in the country that the QROPs operates. That also means that the fund will pay in that currency removing the risk of the changing exchange rate.
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