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LavantiS / November 13th, 2009
A photograph purporting to show a 55ft snake found in a forest in China has become an internet sensation.
- A 55ft (more than 16 meters) snake captured in China
It was originally posted in a thread on the website of the People’s Daily, the official Communist Party newspaper in China.
The thread claimed the snake was one of two enormous boas found by workers clearing forest for a new road outside Guping city, Jiangxi province.
They apparently woke up the sleeping snakes during attempts to bulldoze a huge mound of earth.
“On the third dig, the operator found there was blood amongst the soil, and with a further dig, a dying snake appeared,” said the post.
“At the same time, another gold coloured giant boa appeared with its mouth wide open. The driver was paralysed with fear, while the other workers ran for their lives.
“By the time the workers came back, the wounded boa had died, while the other snake had disappeared. The bulldozer operator was so sick that he couldn’t even stand up.”
The post claimed that the digger driver was so traumatised that he suffered a heart attack on his way to hospital and later died.
The dead snake was 55ft (16.7m) long, weighed 300kg and was estimated to be 140 years old, according to the post.
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Tags: china, giant boas, snake
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LavantiS / November 11th, 2009
Michael Jackson's golden casket
Michael Jackson’s private family funeral was fit for a king and had a price tag to match: roughly $1 million, according to court documents released Tuesday.
Although Jackson died in June and had a large public tribute at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in July, the private family funeral held Sept. 3 appeared to have been arranged with urgency.
Legal requests for payments filed with estate administrators by attorneys for Michael Jackson’s mother only three days before the scheduled burial noted that if payment was not received by the funeral home and the Glendale Police Department by Sept. 1, “the funeral will not proceed.”
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Tags: burial, dollars, Forest Lawn, funeral, King of pop, Los Angeles, Michael Jackson, Music
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LavantiS / September 30th, 2009
To make a long story short. NO!
A couple of months ago, I received an email from Natalie Pickford (natalie.pickford (at) adwire.us) with an offer to buy ad space on one of my sites. I explained to her our policy (no comission based ads, no casinos, porn or warez ads, etc, and in order to be on the safe side, pre-pay for the ad). She said she agrees on all the above, that their clients are Yahoo, Levi’s, Gucci, etc, and the pre-pay will only happen for the first month.. So we proceed..
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Tags: ads, adwire, adwire.us, Natalie Pickford, Natalie.Pickford@adwire.us, publishers
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LavantiS / September 7th, 2009
Robbie Williams used to shovel drugs up his nose, pop pills and sink lager like a man possessed.
But Class As have been replaced by cuddles from his stunning missus – and his life has changed.
On a punishing round of radio interviews yesterday Rob confessed that “a new Robbie had emerged” who no longer had any “pent-up sexual energy”.
The singer has been having serious sofa sessions with actress Ayda, who has given him the embarrassing nickname “Tickles Anunu”.
And Rob said: “I’ve spent most of the last few years cuddling up on the sofa.”
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Tags: album, Ayda, bodies, interview, Music, radio, Robbie Williams, single, Tickles Anunu
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Minas Lavantis / August 19th, 2009
E-cigarettes have been declared illegal by the Food and Drug Administration [FDA], their sale has been banned in one state and several countries, PayPal has stopped facilitating their sale, Facebook has reportedly dropped their ads, and now one county was banned their use wherever conventional smoking is prohibited.
Other restrictions and problems are on their way for e-cigarettes, says public interest law professor John Banzhaf of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), who has been behind many of these steps to protect the public from this untested product. A letter from ASH helped trigger this latest restriction, one which will prevent the use of e-cigarettes in any public areas and workplaces where the smoking of conventional tobacco products is now prohibited.
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Tags: cigaretes, electronic cigarette, health, smoking, tobacco
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