Russian Woman Attacked By Wolf, Axes It To Death

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apBeware of 56-year-old Russian women with axes.

A lone wolf attacked Aishat Maksudova outside her sister’s home in Russia’s province of Dagestan in the North Caucasus Mountains.

The animal bit the farmer on her arm and her leg and she fell to the ground, crying out for help from other villagers. No one was in earshot. So she reached for an ax she had brought along to repair a fence, and with remarkable aplomb, she hit the wolf over the head several times until his teeth unclenched.

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Man Napping in Cornfield Ran Over, Sucked into Combine

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Photo credit: Martin PettittA man taking a nap in a cornfield on the West End was run over Wednesday by a farmer who was harvesting corn.

Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Lt. Kent O’Donnell said the 57-year-old, whose name will not be released, was passing through town on the Greyhound bus from Washington, D.C. He was walking along the 4900 block of Grand Avenue when he decided to take a rest.

“He said that he stepped off the busy road and about three rows of corn into the field,” O’Donnell said. “He said he didn’t have intentions of sleeping but fell asleep anyway.”

At about 1:15 p.m., the landowner drove a combine into the field to harvest corn. The farmer drove about 50 yards when the combine shuddered, O’Donnell said.

“The farmer thought he had driven over a fence post or an irrigation pipe, but once he turned the machine off, he could hear a man screaming,” he said.

The machine had caught the man’s clothing and sucked him into the cutter, O’Donnell said.

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Strapped San Francisco Slashes Government Services But Now Offering Free Sex Change Operations

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In the midst of cash-strapped Californians approving new taxes to prevent further cuts in essential state services, San Francisco health officials appear to have found the money to fund what they say is a much-needed service to residents living in the City by the Bay:

Sex changes.

The gender-switching surgeries are part of a comprehensive program for treating transgender people that the city’s Health Commission green-lighted on Tuesday and announced two days later. Backers say it will help ease the mental anguish of people who feel they are trapped in bodies of the wrong gender, but critics wonder why the taxpayers should foot the bill.

“Taxpayers cannot afford this, as there are unintended costs and unintended consequences unrelated to the actual surgery, such as their longer-term hormone treatment, psychology needs and other longer term health issues,” said Thomas Moyer, a City by the Bay resident and author of “A Conservative Survival Guide to San Francisco.”

Under Mayor Ed Lee, the city’s current budget topped $7 billion for the first time in history this year. In addition to the local tax burden, residents have seen their cash-strapped state slash an array of services.

Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/09/gender-bender-spenders-san-francisco-to-foot-bill-for-sex-changes/#ixzz2BpN2TeGw

Forget Solyandra Solar! Try a Urine Powered Generator

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What have you built lately? 14-year-olds Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and 15-year-old Bello Eniola have created a urine powered generator.

Here’s how it works:

•Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which cracks the urea into nitrogen, water, and hydrogen.

•The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.

•The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.

•This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.

•1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.

If this doesn’t motivate you to go out and start thinking about how you can really make an impact, then I don’t know what will.

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Kenyan Mother Gives Birth to “Barack Obama and Mitt Romney”; Kenyans Celebrate

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A Kenyan mother who gave birth to twin boys on Wednesday named her new-born children after the president re-elect and his defeated Republican rival.

Millicent Owuor, 20, delivered her twins, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, at a district hospital in the town of Siaya in southwest Kenya, according to Kenya’s The Standard newspaper.

Owuor told reporters that she had named her twins after the winning and losing presidential candidates in order to remember the day of the election.

Owuor gave birth to her two boys a short distance from the village of Kogelo, where President Obama’s father was born and where his 90-year-old step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, still lives.

Residents of Kogelo sang songs, danced and cheered “Obama, Obama, Obama!” after their candidate of choice dominated key states including Ohio and New Hampshire leading him to win another four years with his family in the White House.

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Mother Receives $2500 Ticket For 3 Year Old Son Trying to Urinate in Front Yard

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A police officer in a small Oklahoma town has caused an outrage after issuing a $2,500 ticket to a woman because her three-year-old son tried to urinate in the family’s front yard.

Ashley Warden, of Piedmont, received the staggering fine after Officer Ken Qualls spotted her son, Dillan, who is going through potty training, dropping his pants outside the family’s home on Ryan Drive Sunday afternoon.

‘The policeman pulled up and asked for ID,’ the boy’s grandmother, Jennifer Warden, told NewsOK. ‘We didn’t know why and he said it was for public urination. We were like, “He’s 3 years old.” And he said it didn’t matter.’

Dillan’s mother said the incident has left her so enraged that she tore up the ticket, but then taped it back together and filed a complaint with the local police department.

Piedmont Police Chief Alex Oblein conceded on Tuesday that officer Qualls could have handled the incident better by turning it into a teachable moment for the Warden family.

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$16 Trillion In Debt, Treasury Dept. Offers Prizes To Kids Who Share The Best ‘Savings Stories’

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photo credit: rosefirerisingWith the country $16 trillion in debt, the U.S. Treasury Dept. is offering prizes to kids (K-12) who share the best “savings stories.”

The U.S. Treasury Department’s “Save Out Loud” contest is offering prizes to winning students who submit the most compelling photos, videos, and accounts of their savings success stories:

“Do you know a student with a savings story to share? The U.S. Department of the Treasury wants to hear about it!”

I’ll bet they do.

With the U.S. national debt exceeding $16 trillion – and the government spending a trillion dollars more than it’s taking in this year – the government could probably use all the savings tips it can get.With the country $16 trillion in debt, the U.S. Treasury Dept. is offering prizes to kids (K-12) who share the best “savings stories.”

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Video: Outrage Over Diver Who “Strangles,” Eats Huge Octupus For Art Project

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By James Nye. A rising tide of outrage is forming after pictures emerged of a 20-year-old diver who dragged a giant Pacific octopus from its watery home and then killed and ate it for his friends art project.

Angry fellow divers from the shore of Seattle took photographs of Dylan Mayer proudly standing with the large octopus and then watched in disbelief as he and his friend tossed the still live 30 pound female onto the bed of his truck before driving off.

Their shock turned to horror as a grinning Mayer posted images of himself measuring the now dead octopus onto his Facebook account and now is in the position of having to justify to the diving community why he hunted the gentle and intelligent animal.

‘As they were coming in you could tell the octopus was alive. It was writhing around and they were wrestling with it,’ said Bob Bailey who witnessed Mayer bring the octopus to shore.

‘Its just not done. It’s bad form. Even if you can do it, you shouldn’t do it.’ Read more from this story HERE.

Hot Springs Shutoff By British Columbia 7.7 Earthquake (+video)

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The recent West Coast earthquake appears to have shut off the water at the popular hot springs in Haida Gwaii’s national park, but there is hope they could reappear someday.

After Saturday’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake, Parks Canada workers went to check the springs and found they had run dry, according to Barb Rowsell, who owns Anvil Cove Charters.

“Three people went down to check it out, and sure enough there is no hot water and the rocks are dry and cold,” said Rowsell, who has been ferrying visitors to Hotspring Island for years.

The popular natural attraction in Gwaii Haanas National Park has been a major tourist draw for decades.

The park’s superintendent Ernie Gladstone said the springs were still steaming last week, but now, to his dismay, there is not even a puddle left.

Video: This Elephant Really Speaks Korean

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Granted, Koshik the elephant doesn’t have a large vocabulary. But scientists have confirmed that the 5.5-ton behemoth can imitate five Korean words by speaking through his trunk.

Koshik can say “annyong” (“hello”), “anja” (“sit down”), “aniya” (“no”), “nuo” (“lie down”), and “choah” (“good”). (Don’t think that’s much? Well, how much Korean can you speak?)

The researchers, in a report posted in Current Biology, note that imitating speech is not unheard-of across species. Mockingbirds routinely mimic other creatures and mynahs and parrots can reproduce entire human phrases with enough training. (A number of apes, including a gorilla named Koko, have learned to communicate in sign language.)

Koshik, a male Asian elephant, was the only elephant living at Yongin’s Everland Zoo when his talent was discovered… Read more from this story HERE.

Here’s quick video of the elephant “speaking”: