Thursday, May 19, 2011

051911.19.1--Message for Today: Evil on the Internet, food problem

1.  There's something strangely evil on the Internet that we need to keep an eye on...

2.  Europe shall have food shortages... This food shortages could be anywhere in the world...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Planking" goes viral despite death, injury

Thu May 19, 10:42 am ET

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Planking, the Australian craze of lying face down stiff in often bizarre places for a photo op, claimed another victim when a man was critically injured after being thrown from the roof of a moving car when his planking went bad.

The 20-year-old New South Wales man was in an induced coma after falling head first in Invernell, Channel 9 news reported.

He is still luckier than a Brisbane man who fell to his death from a seventh-floor balcony in a planking stunt on the railings on Sunday.

The fad took off when rugby league star David "Wolfman" Williams -- a renowned planker -- showed off his skills on live television after a try in March, lying stretched out on the ground. The scene has been taken up by YouTube, where it has gotten nearly 100,000 views. For added emphasis, he repeated the stunt on Channel 9's anchor desk.

"People are trying to out-do each other by planking on structures or in precarious positions, putting themselves and others at risk," said Queensland police in a statement.

"The potential for disaster increases as more and more risks are taken to get the ultimate photo." The obsession started off innocently enough, with plankers targeting landmarks, parked police cars, dishwashers or each other. But they gradually got extreme, with smokestacks, industrial machinery, animals and railway tracks all becoming planking sites.

Despite the accidents, the craze shows no signs of abating.

The Planking Australia Facebook page has 141,000 followers, a remarkable figure for a country of just 22.5 million. By contrast, the "100,000 that Hate Planking" page has managed to find just six followers.

As one fan put it on Facebook: "Planking... No brains or skill required!!!"

What's next? Some say "pillaring," the vertical version of planking.

(Writing by Balazs Koranyi; editing by Elaine Lies)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110519/od_nm/us_australia_planking/print

Anonymous said...

Stink bug spread worries growers across nation

By DAVID DISHNEAU and GENARO C. ARMAS, Associated Press Fri May 20, 7:51 am ET

EMMITSBURG, Md. – An insect with a voracious appetite, no domestic natural predators and a taste for everything from apples to lima beans has caused millions of dollars in crop damage and may just be getting started.

The brown marmorated stink bug, a three-quarter-inch invader native to Asia, is believed to have been brought first to the Allentown, Pa., area in 1998. The bug began appearing in mid-Atlantic orchards in 2003-04 and exploded in number last year.

This spring, stink bugs have been seen in 33 states, including every one east of the Mississippi River and as far west as California, Oregon and Washington.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110520/ap_on_bi_ge/us_food_and_farm_stink_bugs/print