100-foot deep lake disappeared in Chile

A lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared and scientists want to know why.
Scientists in Chile are investigating the sudden disappearance of a 100 hundred foot deep glacial lake in the south of the country.When park rangers patrolled the area in the Magallanes region in March, the two-hectare (five-acre) lake was its normal size, officials say.

"The lake had simply disappeared.No one knows what happened," Juan Jose Romero, head of Chile's National Forest Service in the southernmost region of Magallanes, said.

In May 2007 they found a huge dry crater and several stranded chunks of ice that used to float on the water.

One theory is that an earthquake opened up a fissure in the ground, allowing the lake's water to drain through.

"In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal," said Romero.

"We went again in May and to our surprise we found that the lake had completely disappeared. All that was left were chunks of ice and an enormous fissure," he said.

Geologists and other experts are being sent to the area, which is some 2,000km (1,250 miles) south of the capital, Santiago, to investigate.

The region is shaken by frequent earth tremors and one idea is that a strong quake which hit the neighbouring region of Aysen in April opened up the fissure in the bottom of the lake.

A glacier specialist, Andres Rivera, told Chilean newspaper La Tercera that the lake's disappearance seemed to be part of the continual reforming of the landscape.

Also,the once plentiful river that flowed out of the lake was reduced to a trickle.The Magallanes area "has seen interesting changes in the last few decades," Rivera said, noting that the lake itself had not been there 30 years ago.

The lake, in the Magallanes region of southern Chile, was fed by a glacier but had radically dissapeared by the time researchers visited it in May,2007.

Locals have reported that the glacial lake had always existed, and through monthly patrols and photographic evidence it is clear the lake had remained relatively the same, independent of seasonal shifts in rain and snowfall,” reported Chile’s National Forestry Service (CONAF), which has monitored the area for the past three years.

“This is the first time our park rangers have recorded anything like this. However, we are not specialists, and we prefer not to speculate about the cause at this point,” said CONAF regional director Juan José Romero.

In July, a team of geologists and investigators will meet at the site to determine what exactly happened to the lake. Satellite images will also be examined.

Residents of the area blame the 6.2 magnitude earthquake which hit the neighboring Aysen region last April and caused over 50 landslides (May 22). They suggest that a rift opened up and drained the lake’s water.

Chilean glaciologist Gino Casassa, one of the 63 experts who participated in the second UN report on global warming, told the La Tercera newspaper that he believes the lake disappeared due to a relatively common glacial phenomenon: a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF). A GLOF is a sudden increase in a lake’s volume due to one of various possible causes, including a volcanic eruption, an earthquake, an avalanche, or a portion of a glacier falling into the lake.

The GLOF broke open a tunnel of ice below the lake, which drained the water to the ocean. “In this zone in particular... we have evidence that, in general, the lakes are filling up as the glaciers melt,” Casassa said. Global warming is most likely responsible for this process, as well as for the increase in GLOFs.

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Deputy Sheriff's Car Hit By Lightning

LOWRY,USA - Walworth County Deputy Sheriff Chuck Davidson,whose patrol vehicle was hit by lightning, answers to a new nickname. "They're all calling me Sparky," he said.

Davidson was driving down U.S. Highway 83 when the lightning hit at about 7 a.m. Thursday.

"All of a sudden, there was a flash, a bang and then there was a bunch of sparks on the road behind the vehicle,everything in the vehicle turned off, and I coasted to the side of the road," Davidson said.

He had to use his cell phone to call for help because the lightning fried the electronics and police radio in the vehicle.

While Davidson did lose his patrol vehicle, he didn't lose his sense of humor.

"It made me bald",he joked."But then again, they tell me that's how I was before."

"Every once in a while, I light up and you can see my bones.You know, how it happens in the cartoons," he said.

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German policewoman to referee football games

FRANKFURT,Germany - Germany's football federation (DFB - Der Deutsche Fußball-Bund) has appointed a 28-year-old police officer Bibiana Steinhaus as the first woman to referee men's professional matches.

Bibiana Steinhaus from Hanover will referee second division matches after several years' experience in regional games.She thinks being a cop is a lot like being a referee - which should help next season when she works the German soccer's second division.
There was a huge media presence at the DFB headquarters on Monday. At the center of attention was Bibiana Steinhaus.

“That the media presence will change, I already expected; I am pleased that the referee committee have placed their trust in me and I will work hard to fulfil the expectations,” she said.

"My aim for the coming years is to direct games well, to direct them according to the rules and hopefully to be able to influence the game positively that way," Steinhaus told a news conference.

Steinhaus said that her experiences in the police force will help her on the pitch.
"I will enforce rules and remain neutral," said Steinhaus, who was also a soccer player until she turned to refereeing in 1995.

Head of the DFB's referees' committee,Volker Roth, said there had been no big issue about employing a woman.

"There is absolutely no reason why the German soccer federation's referee committee should not employ a woman in the professional field," Volker said.

Drinking Aftershave And Cleaning Agents Kills Russian Men

Russians are risking death by drinking aftershave and cleaning agents,the Lancet study has suggested.British researchers estimated that half of all deaths in working age men in Russia are due to hazardous drinking.

The products, which also include herbal tinctures,are widely available, cheap and contain up to 97% alcohol, the Lancet study says.It was found that they contain very few toxins but are deadly simply because of the extreme alcohol levels.

Russian men have an "exceptionally low" life expectancy of 59 years, compared with 72 years for women.Russian men of working age are three-and-a-half times more likely to die than men in Britain.

Past studies have shown levels of alcohol consumption among the Russian population, where spirits such as vodka are popular, are very high.

But the team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine wanted to take into account non-beverage alcohol.They looked at 1,750 deaths in men aged 25 to 54 years in 2003 and 2005 in Izhevsk, a Russian city in the Western Ural region.

Family members were interviewed about the drinking habits of the deceased.Hazardous drinking,classed as excessive consumption of beer, wine and spirits or drinking of non-beverage alcohol was found to cause 43% of deaths.

Russian men who drank heavily or who drank non-beverage alcohol, were six times more likely to die than similar men who did not drink at all or did not have a drinking problem.

Those who specifically drank non-beverage alcohol were nine times more likely to die than those who did not.

Lead researcher Professor David Leon said: "We're talking about things like eau de cologne and aftershave which are widely available and cheaper because they are not subject to excise duty.

"The important work we have done is the toxicology and with many of these products all that's in them is water and ethanol and something to make them smell a bit , people are dying because of the concentration of alcohol in a cheap, readily available form.They should be more strictly regulated",he said.


Professor Leon said the toll might be even higher as his work only concentrated on Russian men who lived with their families.

Andrew McNeill, director of the British Institute of Alcohol Studies said there was a problem with heavy drinking in Eastern Europe in general.

"It has fluctuated in Russia under Communism, alcohol was the only thing people could afford.Gorbachev tried to sober everyone up but he couldn't sustain it",McNeill said.

He said that rapid economic development in recent years may have added to the social problems which often underlie heavy drinking.

"In Western countries, there's a link between alcohol and health inequalities.We don't find much more heavy drinking in poorer populations but morbidity and mortality tends to be higher because it compounds other problems",McNeill added

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Bishop read the prayer book with loaded pistols pointed at his congregation

When King Charles I and Archbishop William Laud attempted in 1638 to force Scotland to adopt the English prayer books and a form of church government controlled by bishops, the Scots balked.

They were so fierce about it that bishops fearing for their lives fled to England and just one,the bishop of Brechin,read the new book in the kirk.He did so with a pair of loaded pistols in his hands pointed at his congregation.

By imposing the prayer book the king hoped to bring Scottish forms of worship to in line with England's.But the people suspected a plot,especially as some detested rituals,including kneeling when taking communion,and oral confessions,had been reintroduced.

The Church of Scotland (CofS, known informally as The Kirk) is the national church of Scotland. It is a Presbyterian church,shaped by the Scottish Reformation of 1560. Its current membership is about 12% of the Scottish population - although many more Scots claim some form of allegiance to it.

Brechin is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. The town is well known for its eleventh century round tower, one of only three of these Irish-style monuments surviving in Scotland.

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"A Chronicle Of World History From AD 1000 To The End Of 1999 - Millenium Year By Year",Dorling Kindersley - London,New York,Sydney,Delhi,Paris,Munich,Johannesburg,1999

Watt, D.E.R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969

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When tennis was invented in 1874, it was called "sphairistike"

Sphairistike is the name of an ancient Greek game that a Welsh inventor Major Walter Wingfield (1833 – 1912) borrowed for the game he patented on February 23, 1874, in part a conflation of elements borrowed from three different games: the net from badminton, the ball from fives, and the scoring from racquets. If that name had caught on, we would now be watching the Wimbledon Sphairistike Championships.

Luckily ,it didn’t, for the very good reason that only those few people well versed in ancient Greek knew how to say it. Most converted it into a three-syllable word that roughly rhymed with “pike”. This was soon abbreviated either to sticky or the mock-French stické.
In his patent, Walter Wingfield also called it lawn tennis, chosen to distinguish it from the much older indoor game called court tennis.

The word tennis is said to have been derived from the French word, tenez ,the imperative form of the verb tenir, (to hold).The server announced "Tenez!" (meaning "I am about to serve!"),and then served the ball.

Racquet comes from the Arabic rakhat, meaning the palm of the hand.

Deuce comes from à deux le jeu, meaning "to both is the game" (that is, the two players have equal scores

The convention of numbering scores "15", "30" and "40" comes from quinze, trente and quarante, which to French ears makes a euphonious sequence, or from the quarters of a clock (15, 30, 45) - with 45 simplified to 40.

Tennis can be traced as far back as the ancient Greek game of sphairistike (Greek: Σφαιριστική), and is mentioned in literature as far back as the middle ages. Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's round table, plays tennis with a group of giants in The Turke and Gowin.
Also in the late 16th century, when William Shakespeare mentions "tennis balles" in his play Henry V, when a basket of them is given to King Henry as a mockery of his youth and playfulness.

At the suggestion of future British prime minister Arthur Balfour, Walter Wingfield eventually decided on "lawn tennis," a name that he had also patented for the game.

A modified version of his game became hugely popular under that name,but it was soon abbreviated just to tennis, so that the aficionados of the older game in snobbish retaliation started to call theirs real tennis, a term later mistakenly converted to royal tennis in Britain and some other countries.

When Wingfield patented it in 1874. With the patent came an eight-page rule book, titled “Sphairistike or Lawn Tennis” with the subheading “The Major’s Game of Lawn Tennis".

In the late 19th century, tennis spread first throughout the English-speaking world, particularly among the upper classes. Tennis is now played at all levels of society, by all ages, and in many countries around the world. Except for the adoption of the tie-breaker in the 1970s, its rules have remained remarkably unchanged since the 1890s.

Walter Wingfield also invented the butterfly bicycle.He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1997.

An American Judge Who Sued Cleaner For $67 Million Over Pants,Wants Now Just $54 Million

WASHINGTON,USA - Roy L. Pearson,an American judge,who was seeking $67 million from a dry cleaners that lost his pants wants now just $54 million, according to a court filing in D.C. Superior Court.

A District of Columbia administrative law judge,Roy L. Pearson,first sued Custom Cleaners over a pair of pants that went missing two years ago. He was seeking about $65 million under the D.C. consumer protection act and almost $2 million in common law claims.

Pearson asked the cleaners for the full price of the suit: more than $1,000.But a week later, the Chungs said the pants had been found and refused to pay. That's when Pearson decided to sue.

Pearson is now focusing his claims on signs in the shop that have since been removed. The suit alleges that Jin Nam Chung, Soo Chung and Ki Chung committed fraud and misled consumers with signs that claimed "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and "Same Day Service."

But the Chungs' attorney Chris Manning, says that can be considered fraud only if the signs misled a "reasonable" person. No reasonable person, he says, would interpret them to be an unconditional promise of satisfaction. This kind of suit makes the American justice system look bad.

Manning says he doesn't expect Pearson to win any compensation when the trial starts June 11.

"I'm still baffled,unless it's simply to harass and annoy my clients",he said.

But the bulk of the $54 million comes from Pearson's strict interpretation of D.C.'s consumer protection law, which fines violators $1,500 per violation, per day. According to court papers, Pearson added up 12 violations over 1,200 days, and then multiplied that by three defendants.

Also,because Pearson is representing himself, the litigation has cost him nothing. "But what he's tried to do, it appears as a trial strategy, is to keep up his aggressive stance so he keeps costing the Chungs money," Chungs' attorney said.

Pearson said that the focus of the case, from the start, was based on the "false, misleading and fraudulent advertisements displayed by the Chungs."

The Chungs, immigrants from South Korea, are facing tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.A donation website the Chungs set up for help,Custom Cleaners Defense Fund,has barely collected enough to pay a tenth of their costs, Chungs' attorney Chris Manning said.

If you wish to contribute to this fund, please visit the following website: http://www.customcleanersdefensefund.com

The Mystery Of The 80 Feet Tall Human Skeleton Reportedly Unearthed In India

News appeared recently that a giant skeleton of enormous dimensions,resembling to the description of the character of Ghadotkach in Mahabharata, was excavated in some unknown desert in India. There was also a photograph of the skeleton with two investigators standing nearby. The skeleton’s size can be judged from the height of the person standing near its skull. If calculated proportionately, the skeleton would be of a human having 80 feet height.

The first report appeared on the internet,telling that the skeleton was found somewhere in the deserts of western India. The Indian government had the area cordoned off by the Indian army and nobody was allowed to visit the site except a special National Geographic excavation team,the report said.

All information about the discovery was kept secret,for some unknown reason. The report also mentioned about a stone tablet found along with the skeleton with ancient carvings in Sanskrit language on it. The inscription was deciphered and it revealed the secret of the skeleton. “In ancient times there lived giants who were called Rakshasas. They challenged divine orders and were eliminated for that.”

The Indian mythology speaks about giants namely Rakshasas, who reigned over the forests.They ruled a country with the name Lanka and challenged the authority of the gods.In the Hindu epic Ramayana, Vishnu, the chief of the trio of supreme Hindu gods, incarnated in a royal family and killed the king of the Rakshasas. The report of the excavation of a skeleton of a Rakshasa was taken by some people as welcome proof for the reality of the Hindu mythological story. Without verifying the facts, the internet posting was further forwarded, spread widely and was taken very seriously by a large section of people.

The story of the discovery of the giant skeleton snowballed through magazines and newspapers around the world,without any verification.

The paranormal investigation center at the headquarters of Rationalist International made primary inquiries and found that no such discovery had been reported or confirmed by any independent source. The photo, experts said, could be manipulated with photo-editing software.A close look at the picture revealed that the light falling on the catwalk and the two men in white shirts comes from a different angle and is of different intensity than the light falling on the skeleton.The long shadow in front of the skull does not match with other shadows in the photo. An extremely enlarged version gave further proof that the picture was coined together from different elements.It seemed to be an authentic photograph of an excavation with a superimposed human skeleton.The investigation could have ended there,but the original excavation photo was traced on the internet:

The original photo was actually taken on 16 September 2000 at an excavation site outside Hyde Park, New York. It is part of the documentation of a sensational excavation under the Paleontological Research Institution and the Department of Geological Sciences at Cornell University. What the team of more than 60 scientists, students and volunteers under paleontologist Prof. John Chiment discovered was, however, not the skeleton of a giant human being, but the skeleton of a mastodon, an extinct predecessor of the elephant.The animals lived between 10,000 and 14,000 years ago.To see the original photo visit the following link http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/outreach/mastodon/aerial-views.html