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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
JOKE: a busload of people entered a large restaurant
VIDEO: 7 Year Old Singing Rhema Marvanne "Amazing Grace"
You have to hear this little girl sing!
Rhema Marvanne was born 9/15/02, lost her mother, Wendi Marvanne Voraritskul, to ovarian cancer on November 8, 2008. Rhema lives in Carrollton, TX and attends The Branch Church (Vista Ridge Campus)
This video was done in Texas around McKinney & Dallas where she lives.
Her mother had died just a few months before she got to put this together.
Rhema sings to glorify God. This is her calling and ministry.
Rhema Marvanne provides her service (Free) to churches, non-profit organizations, charities, hospitals and special events.
Rhema Marvanne - 'Amazing Grace' REVISED 6/11 from Black Olive Media.com on Vimeo.
Crazy car owner jailed for grabbing helicopter
A man has been sentenced to a year in prison for endangering the safety of an aircraft when he grabbed a helicopter as it took off in Bristol,England. Bristol Crown Court was told Houshang Jafari, 58, became "extremely angry" after the helicopter landed near his flat, causing debris to hit his car. The court heard how Jafari grabbed one of its skid bars as the pilot tried to take off with four passengers on board.
The pilot managed to take off safely despite Jafari's actions last March. Dr Mark Blockland, who was in charge of the helicopter, was credited in court for using his "considerable skill" to allow it to take off safely despite it lurching violently. Sentencing Jafari, Judge Michael Roach said it was a "deliberate and much more a reckless and dangerous act" and, despite the fact he was a business and family man, he had "no choice" other than to send him to prison.
The court had previously heard Dr Blockland had landed close to Dower House to pick up two passengers. Jafari was said to have become angry when the private aircraft blew debris at his Range Rover. He approached the helicopter, threw a bag of rubbish at its nose and then kicked it.
As the pilot tried to take off, Jafari grabbed the skid bar as it was about 6ft off the ground. This caused the helicopter to lurch to the right. An eyewitness told the court the aircraft narrowly missed nearby houses as it "swerved around" and "flew erratically" away. Pictures of the incident taken by another resident of Dower House were shown to the court.
Zzyzx: Weird Name, Weirder Place
What's in a name? Pretty much everything if you're the place known as Zzyzx, Calif.
For decades, perplexed motorists traveling the desert between Las Vegas and Los Angeles along Interstate 15 have tried pronouncing the odd word at the Zzyzx Road exit sign (it rhymes with "Isaacs"), most of them unaware that there really is a place that bears the strange name.
But four and a half miles down a lonesome winding road, you arrive at the quixotic settlement known as Zzyzx.
The sign for Zzyzx off Interstate 15 in California.
Originally called Soda Springs because of its natural spring water, in 1944 the area was renamed Zzyzx by Curtis Howe Springer, a radio evangelist who built his broadcast career while on the air at KDKA in Pittsburgh.
Discovering the spot, which, by then, was simply the remains of an 1860s Army post and railroad station, Springer decided the property was perfect for a hot springs resort that might attract more followers.
So he built a 60-room hotel, a church, a cross-shaped health spa with mineral baths, a radio broadcast studio (his program was carried by hundreds of stations around the world), a castle and even a private airstrip called the "Zyport."
Springer bottled the water from his springs to entice parched desert travelers, and even imported animals from all over the U.S. as another reason to stop at his Utopia in the Mojave.
As for the name Zzyzx, Springer wanted to create a term that would officially be the last, alphabetically, in the English language.
The lake that remains at Zzyzx, Calif., today.
For about 30 years, he actually pulled it off.
Asking listeners to send him donations to help support his special health cure concoctions (which supposedly were nothing more than vegetable juices), he managed to keep the resort alive until 1974.
But that's when then the dream came crashing down as the feds moved in to arrest Springer for alleged misuse of the land and violations of food and drug laws. They evicted his few hundred followers from the site, the government reclaimed the land and Zzyzx went bust.
Or did it?
Today, along the "Boulevard of Dreams," as Springer called the road leading into his private Eden, there is activity. Many of the buildings remain, and the small lake is teeming with marsh birds and other wildlife.
Since 1976, the Bureau of Land Management has allowed California State University to manage the Zzyzx property. A consortium of CSU campuses uses it as a desert studies center and students study the land, prospecting for fossils and analyzing its geology.
Diana Pomeroy, a grad student at Cal State Long Beach, recently stayed at the compound as part of a class field trip. "It was very peaceful," Pomeroy told AOL News. "The geology was fascinating, I was surprised by the number of different animals in the area, and it seemed like a genuine oasis in the middle of a harsh environment. And I always thought the name was weird, so it was interesting to learn more about the origin of it."
Ruins of the mineral baths at Zzyzx today.
The name Zzyzx lives on in pop culture, as well. The band Stavesacre had a song called "Zzyzx Scarecrow." Another band, Stone Sour, also had a song named for Zzyzx, plus there was an album from the band Zeromancer that paid homage to the name.
A 2006 horror film, "Zzyzx," is thought to be officially the "lowest grossing movie of all time" and just this year, the punk band Off With Their Heads named a tune in honor of it.
Springer died in Las Vegas in 1986 at the age of 90. But today, his strange name of Zzyzx still thrives -- on a road sign along Interstate 15, and in a once-bustling mineral springs resort, a desert Shangri La that's still very much intact.
Next time you approach that sign, maybe take a few minutes and get off the exit. Drive the few miles and take a look around. It's not a mirage.
And as hot as it gets in these parts, it's a cool little place.
NJ man shot parrot with pellet gun for interrupting NASCAR race
A 67-year-old Randolph man has been accepted into a special probation program in Morris County for shooting his family's 20-year-old African gray parrot to death with a pellet gun last year.
Dennis Zeglin was admitted Wednesday by state Superior Court Judge Thomas V. Manahan into the county's pretrial intervention program for first-time offenders. If he successfully serves three years on probation, an animal cruelty charge will be dismissed, and he will not have a conviction on his record.
Under the program's terms, Zeglin also must complete 100 hours of community service assisting a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals or another organization that provides humane care to creatures. He also must comply with alcohol counseling and pay $1,000 for services and investigation done by the animal control officer for Randolph.
Zeglin declined to comment Monday. Defense attorney Stephen Fletcher could not be reached. He has said that Zeglin was intoxicated when he shot Mikey on June 7, 2009, because the parrot distracted him with its squawks as Zeglin watched a NASCAR race on television.
Zeglin's wife heard the shots and called police when she saw the bird had been shot.
Zeglin willingly turned over the pellet gun, a Daisy PowerLine Model 93, to police and immediately started intensive counseling for alcoholism, Fletcher has said. He has said his client was extremely remorseful over the death of the parrot, which had been in the household for two decades.
Morris County Prosecutor Robert A. Bianchi said the decision to let Zeglin go into the program was made after careful consideration and proof that Zeglin was rehabilitating himself from alcohol dependency.
"While deterrence is always a consideration, so too is the fact that this defendant has taken significant steps to rehabilitate himself on his own. He is extremely remorseful," Bianchi said.
Zeglin must forfeit any weapons he owns and his firearms ID card.
JOKE: THE RIGHT SIZE IS IMPORTANT
Harry noticed he was running low on condoms, so he stopped by the local drugstore. "What size?" asked the blonde pharmacist's assistant
sweetly. When he admitted he wasn't sure of his size.
The blonde led him into the back room, lifted her skirt and told him to enter her. He was delighted to oblige. "Size six." she told him after a moment. Now take it out. How many?"
Harry bought a dozen, and on his way home, he ran into his friend Tom. Harry eagerly told Tom the whole story. Tom rushed down to the drugstore to place an order. "But I'm afraid I don't know my size." he told the sales girl.
So the blonde led him in to the back room and repeated the procedure. "Size seven, Sir, now take it out please. How many?"
But Tom kept it in till he reached a climax; "None thanks." he told her, zipping up his fly. "I just came in for a fitting."
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