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by Shaggy Maggy
There is never going to be another flood like that of the ancient times of Noah. However, the ravaging floods in the Oz State of Queensland is just as frightening, devastating chilling as any flood could be. People have lost everything except their lives - things they have loved, treasured, cherished for some all their lives. People are helping, but many things lost are irreplaceable. In some cases their beloved pets which they will never see again. ‘We have to go on’ is the saying in any crisis. Many Queenslanders do not know how or where they will be going on to.
But the feeling of self-preservation exists within most of us. Even though standing stripped of everything, we do not want to lose what we have – the only thing we have, our lives, our ability to reason, to solve problems. No matter how long we have to stand shivering the thought persists that ‘something has to happen sooner or later. We can’t just stay like this forever.’by Shaggy Maggy
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Sope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family LearningSope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family... more
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Sope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family LearningSope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family... more
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Sope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family LearningSope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family... more
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Sope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family LearningSope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family... more
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Sope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family LearningSope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family... more
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Sope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family LearningSope is in VA waking up Chilling with Nieces Aaliyah, Cya, and Nephew Razi. Family... more
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Sope of Indie Heat Video Magazine kicks it with his friends from Uganda, Francis aka Frank White and Ahdamizod aka Izod in somewhere Baghdad IraqSope of Indie Heat Video Magazine kicks it with his friends from Uganda, Francis aka... more
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An employee makes a detailed and chilling 911 call to authorities. Nine people died in a mass shooting Tuesday when the shooter identified as Omar Thornton went on a killing spree at Hartford distributors in Manchester, Connecticut.An employee makes a detailed and chilling 911 call to authorities. Nine people died in... more
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Randy of Houston Texas brings his 1934 Ford Coupe to Southwest Rod and Custom for Pete to finish it out RIGHT! After visiting with Randy, Pete finds out that he has lost a son in the Iraq war to a Suicide Bomber, and decides to do Randy a big favor. Pete decides to build a Dedication Hot Rod in Memory of 1st Lieutenant Jeremy Ray. Watch the upcoming videos. This car is going to be one mean machine.. Support Gold Star Families....Check out SWRNC on "YOUTUBE" To get the WHOLE STORY!Randy of Houston Texas brings his 1934 Ford Coupe to Southwest Rod and Custom for Pete... more
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CANBERRA, Australia – Two men were found floating in an ice box in the seas off Australia and told authorities they had spent 25 days adrift after their fishing boat sank with the loss of 18 other crew members, an official said Tuesday.
The men, 22 and 24, from the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar, were rescued from the Torres Strait by a helicopter Saturday and flown to a hospital on Thursday Island off the coast of Queensland state, Maritime Safety Authority spokeswoman Tracey Jiggins said.
Both men stood in the pink ice box which has waist-high sides and waved when they were spotted by a customs border protection patrol flight.
The men told police they had been aboard a 30-foot (9-meter) wooden fishing boat that sank Dec. 23 with a total of 20 crew from Thailand and Myanmar, which is also known as Burma.
Jiggins said the men found refuge inside a large insulated box that held ice on the boat. "At the time of the sinking, the two survivors also witnessed other crew in the water with no flotation devices," she said.
She did not know what the men ate or drank during their ordeal.
One of the rescuers, pilot Terry Gadenne, told Seven Network television that each man drank about four pints of water within seconds of being hoisted aboard the helicopter.
An official at the hospital, Dr. Oscar Whitehead, said the men were in good condition and would be discharged into the care of immigration authorities later Tuesday. He said their greatest medical problem had been dehydration.
Immigration Department spokesman Sandi Logan said the men would likely be kept in a motel at Thursday Island under the department's supervision while officials attempted to prove their identities. Neither man had identity documents.CANBERRA, Australia – Two men were found floating in an ice box in the seas off... more
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For generations of African-Americans, a black US president was an impossible dream. Civil rights veteran Terrence Roberts explains his family's journey from segregation to the inauguration of President Obama.For generations of African-Americans, a black US president was an impossible dream.... more
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NEW YORK – Before it became an unforgettable story of luck and heroism, US Airways Flight 1549 was on course to be a catastrophe. In five minutes of flight, the stricken jetliner sprinted past one nightmare scenario after another.
The plane skirted skyscrapers and threaded through crowded airspace, horrifying spectators on the streets below. With no working engines, it had to clear the heavily traveled George Washington Bridge. Its landing strip was a stretch of the Hudson River full of commuter ferries. Had it not splash-landed in the river, the plane could have gone down in densely packed neighborhoods in New York City or northern New Jersey.
The abundance of possible catastrophic scenarios was clearly on the mind of the pilot, who told controllers that the jet was "too low, too slow" and near too many tall buildings to reach any airport.
"It was an amazing confluence," said Karlene Roberts, co-director of the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the University of California, Berkeley. "So many things could have gone wrong that didn't."
The run of good luck on the flight will be examined further by investigators as they inspect the jet wreckage for more clues about how a flock of birds managed to disable both engines and send the jet on its frightening obstacle course over a city of 8 million people.
The airliner was hoisted late Saturday from the ice-laden current and placed on a barge, its two flight data recorders sent to investigators in Washington. The barge was moved on Sunday night to a Jersey City, N.J., marina, where investigators hope to examine the plane more closely.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators interviewed the pilots on Saturday, and what emerged was a harrowing account of the split-second decisions they made in avoiding a crash.
It started with a wild stroke of misfortune minutes after the plane left LaGuardia Airport on Thursday for Charlotte, N.C. While bird strikes are common, commercial jet engines are fortified against them. They seldom disable an engine, let alone two. Archie Dickey, who teaches aviation environmental science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, says bird strikes that cripple both engines are "extremely rare."
While the pilot quickly leveled the plane off after the bird strike to keep it from stalling and thought about where to land, the co-pilot kept trying to restart the engines. He also began working through a three-page list of procedures for an emergency landing. Normally, those procedures begin at 35,000 feet.
This time, he started at 3,000 — somewhere over the Bronx, a borough of more than 1 million people.
The pilot, Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, could hardly have been better prepared. The 58-year-old former fighter pilot was named best aviator in his class at the Air Force Academy, had flown for US Airways for 29 years and mastered glider flying. He also has investigated air disasters, even studying how airline crews behave in a crisis.
His plane was crippled over a city still haunted by the devastation wrought by the hijacked planes that brought down the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001. And two months after that, American Airlines FlightNEW YORK – Before it became an unforgettable story of luck and heroism, US... more
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JERUSALEM – Israel declared a unilateral cease-fire Saturday in its 22-day offensive that turned Gaza neighborhoods into battlegrounds and dealt a stinging blow to the Islamic militants of Hamas. But Israeli troops will stay in the Palestinian territory for now and Hamas threatened to keep fighting until they leave.
In announcing the cease-fire, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel had achieved its goals and more.
"Hamas was hit hard, in its military arms and in its government institutions. Its leaders are in hiding and many of its men have been killed," Olmert said.
Israel launched the offensive on Dec. 27 to stop years of rocket fire from Gaza at southern Israeli towns. But the rockets did not stop coming throughout the assault. Militants fired about 30 rockets into Israel on Saturday, eight of them around the time Olmert spoke.
More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed in the offensive, about half civilians, according to Palestinian and U.N. officials. At least 13 Israelis have also died.
Olmert said the campaign will stop at 2 a.m. local time (7 p.m. EST).
If Hamas holds its fire, the military "will weigh pulling out of Gaza at a time that befits us," Olmert said. If not, Israel "will continue to act to defend our residents."
Israel's insistence on keeping troops in Gaza raises the specter of a stalemate with Hamas, which has repeated that it will not respect any cease-fire until Israel pulls out of the territory, with its population of 1.4 million.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum in Gaza said a unilateral cease-fire was not enough to end Hamas' resistance — echoing the stance takenJERUSALEM – Israel declared a unilateral cease-fire Saturday in its 22-day... more
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