Aral Sea Ship Cemetery
Ship wrecks are rusting for over 20 years where the Aral sea once was in Kazakhstan. Some former seaside towns are 70km from the water. View more of this flickr set of the Aral Sea in KZ.
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One out away from defeat in the ninth inning, the Marlins received back-to-back pinch-hit home runs by Joe Borchard and Wes Helms to force extra innings. Then in the 10th inning, Miguel Cabrera swatted an RBI single to center on what was supposed to be an intentional walk. The amazing string of events propelled Florida to an improbable 8-5 win over Baltimore at a stunned Camden Yards.
Hanley Ramirez opened the 10th with a bunt single off Todd Williams. A groundout moved Ramirez to second. What happened next falls under the “believe it or not†category. Williams attempted to intentionally walk Cabrera, but the pitch was too close to the plate, and the Marlins slugger reached out and flicked an RBI single to center off a stunned Williams.
“I had it like two times this year,†Cabrera said of taking intentional walks on a close pitch. “I said, ‘I’m going to get ready.’ A couple of games before it was close. I said, ‘I’ll be ready on every pitch and see what happens.’ It feels good. I saw the ball coming to the plate, and I said, ‘I have to swing.’â€
Henry Mora, 63, began digging two weeks ago after his gold detector picked up a signal near his front patio.
“I figured, well, maybe there’s something down there — you would logically conclude, right? So I started digging,” the semiretired musician said Wednesday.
Mora said he only intended to go down 3 or 4 feet, but he started finding gold dust in the dirt and the detector kept hinting that he was getting closer. He ended up digging a 60-foot-deep hole, authorities said.
“It was still beeping, and that just gave me the idea to keep digging,” he said. “I think it’s a normal human reaction, especially when you think there might be gold down there.”
“We told him, ‘You’re done,’” Montclair fire Capt. Rich Baldwin said. “It’s amazing no one got killed.”
Authorities fenced off Mora’s property and ordered him to hire an engineer to safely pack the dirt back into the ground.
Wanting to get into treasure hunting, he bought the metal detector a White’s TM 808 off the Internet for about $600. The machine is geared to find items larger than a coffee can and is specifically designed for gold, Mora said. The company Web site boasts of its ability to track down deeply buried finds: “treasure chests, coin caches, hoards of gold.”
Realizing he’d need some help, he enlisted the help of two workers from the Pomona Day Labor Center.
Day after day, one worker would hack away at the bottom of the hole while another used a bucket and pulley to empty out the loose dirt. Mora kept watch.
As the anticipation built, one of the men told Mora that he and his father had done this before in Mexico. Once the hole reached about 25 feet, Mora’s ladder wouldn’t extend any deeper. The men dug sideways a bit, then down again, making a shelf for the first ladder, and room for another to lead them deeper still.
Just recently, he saw a story on the Internet about a robot tracking down an underwater cache of gold coins and jewelry in South America.
“When you see stuff like that, you go, `Hey, I may have something. Maybe I’ve got a few gold bars,’ ” Mora said. “I took a chance.”
Vincent Ferrari recorded himself trying to cancel his AOL account. This is a hilarious but sad phone call. Lots of “Cancel the Account” when the AOL CSR John puts up a fight. John even calls the customer a liar.
Update: AOL sent him an apology and said the customer service rep was no longer with the company.
MILWAUKEE — More than a bell is needed to save Dustin Diamond this time around. Diamond, best known as geeky Screech Powers on the 1989-1993 teen comedy series “Saved by the Bell,” is selling T-shirts with his photo on them to try to raise $250,000 so he doesn’t lose his gray two-story house under a foreclosure order.
Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts — at $15 or $20 (autographed) each — to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn’t have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee.
The T-shirt has a photo of Diamond holding a sign that says, “Save My House.” The back of the shirt reads, “I paid $15.00 to save Screeech’s house.” The third “e” was added to get around copyright laws, he said.
He’s selling the shirts on his Web site: http://www.getdshirts.com.
Screech’s home at 124 Grandview Dr, Port Washington, WI 53074 has a total assessed value of $300,400.
dustindiamond.com
In 2003, Diamond attempted to take control of the domain dustindiamond.com, which was owned by Max Goldberg, the creator of YTMND. Diamond’s lawyer, Herro & Lamont, LLC, served Goldberg with a cease and desist order that was entirely unsuccessful.
In 2004, the case was submitted to the National Arbitration Forum acting on behalf of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Diamond’s complaint was filled with statements that, in light of Dustin’s current career, could be considered both exaggerated and amusing.
Diamond ultimately lost the suit despite the fact that Goldberg, then 21, represented himself. The precedent-setting decision is believed to be the first time that a celebrity has lost a domain name dispute to a non-commercial parody site.
What’s next for Screech?
A small claims court case in which he and his fiancee star as defendants. August 15 is the next court date.
Lawyers for the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy (CLP), on Monday, asked a federal judge in Dallas to issue an injunction against the United States Secret Service to stop the agency from continuing to seize Million Dollar gospel tracts.
The CLP request was made after three Secret Service agents, on June 2, 2006, appeared at the Denton, Texas office of Great News Network (GNN), a Christian organization, and, without a warrant, ordered an employee to turn over all Million Dollar gospel tracts in the possession of GNN. The agents claimed the gospel tracts violated United States counterfeiting laws.
The agents, though, after completing their conversation with Rundus, threatened an employee at the office with arrest if he did not turn over the tracts. Rather than be arrested, the employee gave the agents the 8,300 gospel tracts possessed by GNN.
Over the past three years, Great News Network has distributed over one million $1,000,000 gospel tracts. And an estimated 8-10 million tracts, sold by Living Waters Store, have been handed out over the last ten years. “No one, at least before [June 2], had ever suggested these tracts violated the law,†said Rundus.
Some reviews from purchasers of the million dollar track:
05/28/2006 - I love the new look. The picture above just does not do it justice though. It’s much more realistic looking in real life.
06/02/2006 - These are great. I like to put one sticking out of the atm at the mall and sit back and watch what happens.
LA Dodger pitcher Odalis Perez was roughed up by the Mets on last Wednesday in his first start in more than a month after losing his starting pitcher job.
He stopped his O’s 45’s program, in which he bought 45 tickets for inner-city school children to attend his starts, after losing his starting job. He said he would not reinstate the program now that he is starting again because he felt he never got enough credit from the club or the public for his charitable contributions.
“When you spend your own money you want to be recognized for that,” Perez said. “I don’t want to be a hero, but just pay more attention to what I’m doing. People don’t want to give me the recognition for it.”
Odalis’ 2006 salary: $8,750,000.
Update on last weekend’s 85% chance of a nuke attack on the UN building.
From truebiblecode.com:
Our first 3 dates were wrong but the scriptural threat is still there. We now calculate that the UN Plaza will be nuked between Friday evening June 30th and Saturday evening July 1st, 2006It is certainly true that: No nukes is good nukes! But just because we got the date wrong (3 times) does not mean that the scriptural threat has evaporated. It is still there in black and white. So we still have the almost impossible task of persuading a typical New Yorker with faith in God, that the Bible predicts the very day and place of the first terrorist nuke. There is obviously a massive credibility gap between: “Here endeth the lesson” and “Here endeth NYC”. But every journey, however long, begins with one small step. So here is our attempt to fill that gap.
Firstly we again strongly advise anyone in New York City with any faith in God, whatever his religion or whatever his distrust of organised religion, to take the weekend of June30/July1, and leave NYC for that weekend.
Gordon Ritchie, a biblical scholar in London warns of an event that will occur on 6/9/06 or 6/10/06. According to Gordon’s and his group of Biblical scholars interpretation of certain Bible Codes, there is an 85% chance that the U.N. building in NY will be nuked. This is not the apocalypse, but just the beginning of one. Gordon says there will be six more nukes following this weeks blast. You can read all about it at truebiblecode.com.
“By getting our first nuclear predictions wrong and having the whole church look out for something that did not occur, we fulfilled verse 43. Not only did the event not occur on both the dates we thought it would, but in fact there is no prior nuclear bomb to the UN bomb, so when Elijah’s attendant said: There is not anything, presumably he meant there is no earlier bomb.
So now we can say with more confidence, that on 2006Sivan12, there really will be an ascending mushroom cloud from the terrorists, hitting the UN. And there will be 6 further terrorist nuclear bombs in all before Armageddon, each one falling on a sabbath (either daily or monthly) and each one coming between the next two Christian festivals.”
Organisations and people warned so far…
All the 100 plus permanent missions to the UN (fax), including the Vatican permanent mission to the UN.
29 Congresspersons representing NY State (fax)
61 State Senators (email)
Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer (fax)
Mayor Bloomberg (fax)
FEMA (fax)
FBI (web tip submission)
New York City and State Fire Department (fax)
US National Fire Administration (fax)
The top 100 Newspapers in the US (www.eworldwire.com)
All the media oufits that cover the New York Metro Area (www.eworldwire.com)
Google News and other search engine news sites (www.prweb.com, www.eworldwire.com)
205,000 online reads and 33,500 media outlet pick ups so far through the PRweb newswire
Press release through www.send2press.com to every newspaper in the US with circulation more than 35,000 etc etc.
220,000 junk faxes sent to area code 212 (this is legal from the UK and for non commercial material)
140 Kingdom Halls in the NYC area (by letter)
Head offices (Bethels) of the Watchtower in 70 different countries (by fax)
All the governing body members and corporate officers of the 9 corporations of the Watchtower (by letter)
Hundreds of churches and religious bodies in NYC (email and fax).
Interview on the Tommy and Rumble show on NWOR Virginia (everything that rocks!) www.fm99.com/Recap.asp