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Pilots run out of fuel, pray, land near Jesus sign
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - It seemed like an almost literal answer to their prayers. When two New Zealand pilots ran out of fuel in a microlight airplane they offered prayers and were able to make an emergency landing in a field — coming to rest right next to a sign reading, "Jesus is Lord."
Grant Stubbs and Owen Wilson, both from the town of Blenheim on the country's South Island, were flying up the sloping valley of Pelorus Sound when the engine spluttered, coughed and died.
"My friend and I are both Christians so our immediate reaction in a life-threatening situation was to ask for God's help," Stubbs told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
He said he prayed during the ill-fated flight Sunday that the tiny craft would get over the top of a ridge and that they would find a landing site that was not too steep — or in the nearby sea.
Wilson said that the pair would have been in deep trouble if the fuel had run out five minutes earlier.
"If it had to run out, that was the place to be," he said. "There was an instantaneous answer to prayer as we crossed the ridge and there was an airfield — I didn't know it existed till then."
After Wilson glided the powerless craft to a landing on the grassy strip, the pair noticed they were beside a 20-foot-tall sign that read, "Jesus is Lord — The Bible."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_flight_prayer
Grant Stubbs and Owen Wilson, both from the town of Blenheim on the country's South Island, were flying up the sloping valley of Pelorus Sound when the engine spluttered, coughed and died.
"My friend and I are both Christians so our immediate reaction in a life-threatening situation was to ask for God's help," Stubbs told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
He said he prayed during the ill-fated flight Sunday that the tiny craft would get over the top of a ridge and that they would find a landing site that was not too steep — or in the nearby sea.
Wilson said that the pair would have been in deep trouble if the fuel had run out five minutes earlier.
"If it had to run out, that was the place to be," he said. "There was an instantaneous answer to prayer as we crossed the ridge and there was an airfield — I didn't know it existed till then."
After Wilson glided the powerless craft to a landing on the grassy strip, the pair noticed they were beside a 20-foot-tall sign that read, "Jesus is Lord — The Bible."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_flight_prayer
Girl Sells 17,328 Boxes of Girl Scout Cookies
15-year-old Jennifer Sharpe from Dearborn, Michigan might have set a National record for the amount of Girl Scout cookies sold in one season. Jennifer sold 17,328 boxes in just one season.
Jennifer set up shop in a church parking lot from 3pm to 7pm. Monday through Saturday. Sundays, she moved her operation to an auto parts store from 11am to 7pm.
She said, "I know how to get people to buy more. If they buy two boxes and they hand me a 10, I'd be like, 'For 50 cents more, you can get three,' because three boxes are $10.50."
http://www.dlisted.com/node/25942
Cuban Man Attempts to Make the World's Longest Cigar
Jose Castelar, the champion cigar-roller in Cuba, rolled a 98-foot-long stogie the other day in a bid to break the world record.
The 64-year-old was joined by five assistants as he used almost 93 pounds of high-quality tobacco to assemble the massive cigar that stretched across 14 long tables. Castelar rolled record cigars in both 2001 and 2003, and then broke the record again in 2005 with a 67-foot-long smoke.
Competition is evidently stiff for long-cigar rolling. Unfortunately for Castelar, Guinness says the world record actually belongs to Puerto Rican Patricio Pena, who last year made a 135-foot-long cigar.
http://www.asylum.com/
Dan Rather resubmits suit against CBS
Dan Rather fired off a new lawsuit against his former network Tuesday, charging that CBS News labeled the anchor "too hot to handle" and prevented him from being hired by other networks after his acrimonious departure.
Rather was rebuffed in an earlier suit, when many of his claims were knocked down by a New York state judge. But the judge also allowed Rather to resubmit his claims.
In the latest filing, Rather claims that CNN, ABC, NBC and other networks met to talk about possible employment but that all eventually declined for reasons that included, according to the lawsuit, Rather's having had "too much baggage." The claim says he lost other business opportunities as well. He later signed with HDNet.
"Mr. Rather's exposure is dramatically limited and, accordingly, his reputation and standing in his trade and profession have not recovered from the damage caused by the defendants' conduct," the lawsuit says.
In a statement, CBS said: "Mr. Rather is trying to put forth fraud complaints that the court has already determined to be legally unfounded. We believe he will fail a second time. We will find an appropriate motion to dismiss."
CBS was served with the amended complaint Tuesday; it was to be filed in a New York court Wednesday.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Monday (May 5) before the filing, Rather said the reason he is going through the legal proceedings is to find out what happened in the wake of the 2004 "60 Minutes II" report on President Bush's military service during the Vietnam War.
"The story was true. What we said in the report was true, despite what others have tried to have you believe about the documents, which were one, and only one, part of the story," Rather said.
Rather claims in the lawsuit that CBS forced him to keep silent when he wanted to defend the report and himself after bloggers and others questioned the documents. An independent report didn't rule on whether the documents were faked.
CBS News has hit back hard against its former anchor, something that hasn't been lost on Rather.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080507/tv_nm/rather_dc_1
Creative Ways to Reuse "Disposable" Items
CDs/DVDs and their cases
Along with organizing cables and toting bagels, both borked and discarded CD- and DVD-Rs and the spindles they came in can find second lives:
-"The (spindle) covers can be turned upside-down and used as small tabletop bins as well (especially the 50 and 100-packs)."
-"An outer plastic container from a 50-spindle of CDs or DVDs makes a great desk pen or craft tool holder if you tuck toilet-paper tubes into it."
Dryer sheets
We've long been fans of the pan-cleaning, shoe de-stink-ifying, anti-static dusting squares, and our readers have even more novel uses for them:
-"Used dryer sheets will clean your iron - just run the iron over it on medium heat."
-"Stick used dryer sheets into drawers to keep clothing smelling nice."
Plastic containers
-"Plastic yogurt containers make great starter pots for seedlings."
-"... The Stonyfield quart-sized yogurt containers are marked as dishwasher safe. We make our own chicken stock, and freeze it in those yogurt containers."—skyesong.
"The plastic bags that newspapers are delivered in make for a great umbrella bag.
-"Plastic Chinese food containers: store miscellaneous parts in my garage."
-"I sell and trade a lot of used books, so I cut up the heavy plastic wrap from the cases of bottled water and use it as a waterproof liner for shipping. I use brown paper cut from grocery bags for the outer wrapper."
Odds and ends
-"2 wine corks can make a quick and easy laptop stand."
-"I save those pop-up tissue boxes for the car. They make great trash receptacles and it is easy to tell when they are full."
-"I have saved every twist-tie I've come into contact with, and I end up re-using every one. Keep your pens together in your bag. Ear bud cables organized at the gym. Chip clips. Shower curtain rings. Any tech cable that's snaking around the room. Half of that single-serve bag of coffee."
Along with organizing cables and toting bagels, both borked and discarded CD- and DVD-Rs and the spindles they came in can find second lives:
-"The (spindle) covers can be turned upside-down and used as small tabletop bins as well (especially the 50 and 100-packs)."
-"An outer plastic container from a 50-spindle of CDs or DVDs makes a great desk pen or craft tool holder if you tuck toilet-paper tubes into it."
Dryer sheets
We've long been fans of the pan-cleaning, shoe de-stink-ifying, anti-static dusting squares, and our readers have even more novel uses for them:
-"Used dryer sheets will clean your iron - just run the iron over it on medium heat."
-"Stick used dryer sheets into drawers to keep clothing smelling nice."
Plastic containers
-"Plastic yogurt containers make great starter pots for seedlings."
-"... The Stonyfield quart-sized yogurt containers are marked as dishwasher safe. We make our own chicken stock, and freeze it in those yogurt containers."—skyesong.
"The plastic bags that newspapers are delivered in make for a great umbrella bag.
-"Plastic Chinese food containers: store miscellaneous parts in my garage."
-"I sell and trade a lot of used books, so I cut up the heavy plastic wrap from the cases of bottled water and use it as a waterproof liner for shipping. I use brown paper cut from grocery bags for the outer wrapper."
Odds and ends
-"2 wine corks can make a quick and easy laptop stand."
-"I save those pop-up tissue boxes for the car. They make great trash receptacles and it is easy to tell when they are full."
-"I have saved every twist-tie I've come into contact with, and I end up re-using every one. Keep your pens together in your bag. Ear bud cables organized at the gym. Chip clips. Shower curtain rings. Any tech cable that's snaking around the room. Half of that single-serve bag of coffee."