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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Woman survives terrifying fall after bungee snaps An Australian woman has survived a terrifying fall after her bungee cord snapped during a 111-metre (364-feet) leap off Africa's Victoria Falls Bridge, plunging her into the crocodile-infested Zambezi Rive
Woman survives terrifying fall after bungee snaps
SYDNEY: An Australian woman has survived a terrifying fall after her bungee cord snapped during a 111-metre (364-feet) leap off Africa's Victoria Falls Bridge, plunging her into the crocodile-infested Zambezi River below.Erin Langworthy, who suffered only cuts and bruises in the fall on New Year's Eve, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, said it was a "miracle" that she had survived the plunge into the rapids below the bridge, which borders Zambia and Zimbabwe.
"It felt like I had been slapped all over," the 22-year-old from Perth told Australia's Channel Nine television.
Video footage showed the moment towards the end of the fall that the cord snapped and hurled her into the river.
Langworthy had to dive under the water to unravel the rope bound around her feet as she entered the rapids.
"I actually had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught on to make it to the surface," she said.
After unbinding her feet she managed to swim to the river bank on the Zimbabwe side to await assistance.
"Yes, I think it's definitely a miracle that I survived," she said.
Langworthy was treated at a nearby clinic before being evacuated to South Africa.
A Zambian minister sought to reassure tourists about bungee safety but said the issue would be discussed with the operator.
"The bungee has proven to be a very viable operation considering that more than 50,000 tourists jump on it every year. It has been in operation for 10 years.
This is the first time I am hearing of an incident. The probability of an incident is one in 500,000 jumps," Information Minister Given Lubinda was quoted as saying in a report published on the Lusakatimes.com web site.
Source: http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?r5720872571
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Tottenham H.: Dos Santos expected to leave Spurs
Harry Redknapp still expects Giovani Dos Santos to leave Tottenham this month despite seeing the Mexico forward score one and help set up two other goals in Saturday's 3-0 FA Cup win over Cheltenham.
The Mexican infuriated Tottenham by turning down a ?13million move to Udinese last summer as he wanted to go to Sevilla, and Redknapp still thinks the forward lacks the determination to make it as a top-flight player in England.
"I think Gio will move if we get the right player (to replace him)," Redknapp said. "He's looking to move to be honest. We had a big bid from Italy last summer but he wants to go back to Spain."
He added: "He needs to play and to be fit and train hard, and when he does that, he's got a chance. He's got talent, he's got ability, he just needs to work harder in training and get fitter.
"It's difficult for him here. We've already got Gareth Bale, Aaron Lennon and Niko Kranjcar, who was excellent today.
"He's a class player and he's unlucky not to play more, but it's hard. He's a fantastic footballer and a great boy."
Robins boss Mark Yates, whose team are one point off League Two leaders Crawley, was happy to see his team put on a good display for the 5,000 fans who had made the trip from Gloucestershire.
"I was massively proud of the side in both halves," Yates said.
"We were never going to come here and go toe-to-toe, we tried to keep it tight like a lot of teams have and we showed we've got decent players.
"It was a reward for the hard work the players have put in and they can be really proud of it."
Source: PA
Source: http://www.footymad.net/storytext.asp?article=4019968
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Sarkozy gains ground on Socialist rival - poll (Reuters)
PARIS (Reuters) ? French President Nicolas Sarkozy has cut his Socialist rival's lead to the smallest margin so far in the run up to an April and May presidential election, a poll showed on Sunday.
However, the poll showed that Socialist candidate Francois Hollande would still comfortably beat Sarkozy in a run-off.
The president has been capitalizing on his central role in Europe's struggle to contain its debt crisis, and gained ground even after announcing plans for an unpopular sales tax hike and after Hollande's campaign took a more aggressive tone.
In the first round of the two-stage vote, on April 22, Hollande would win 28 percent of the vote while Sarkozy would secure 26 percent, the poll by IFOP for weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche found.
Hollande had a 10-point first-round lead shortly after the Socialist Party chose him as their candidate in October.
In the run-off, the poll showed Hollande winning with 54 percent of the vote while Sarkozy would get 46 percent, also the smallest margin registered so far in the election race and down from 20 percentage points in October.
Sarkozy hopes that, in the May 6 run-off, he can pick up ballots from people voting for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Francois Bayrou in the first round. Pollsters say many of those voters have not decided yet who to pick in the second round.
Sarkozy, widely expected to announce in February that he is seeking a second mandate, has been gaining momentum in opinion polls even though his economic credentials are under fire, with France at risk of losing its AAA credit rating and unemployment running at a 12-year high.
The president is putting a new focus on spurring growth and reviving French companies' competitiveness. In a political gamble, the government said it would finance a cut in social welfare contributions paid by large companies with an increase in sales tax.
Hollande has stepped up his attacks on Sarkozy, accusing him in an open letter of running the economy onto the rocks and being a "president of the privileged.
The IFOP poll was based on telephone interviews between January 4 and January 6 with 1,163 people registered to vote.
(Reporting by Leigh Thomas; Editing by Alessandra Rizzo)
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Westward Passage for Canada's Tar Sands Oil Also Challenged
Republicans opponents in Congress and many of the candidates for the GOP presidential nomination commenting on Obama's decision to hold off approval of the Keystone XL pipeline frequently make the argument that if the US decides not to allow such a project the obvious result would be that Canada's tar sands oil - regarded by most environmentalists as the "dirtiest fuel on the planet" - would simply shipped "straight West" for consumption by the Asian energy market, most notably by Chinese companies looking to diversify their imports.
Like their counterparts in the US, those concerned site environmental concerns as their primary reason for opposition. The Vancouver Sun reports that opponents of the pipeline "don't buy the assurances" of Enbridge to transport the oil safely.
They fear a spill by even one massive tanker could wreak havoc on marine life and coastline.
Environmentalists opposed to the project say it creates risks that have not previously existed on B.C.'s north coast ? specifically, oil-carrying supertankers navigating the same rock-shrouded channels that sank B.C. ferry Queen of the North.
Oil spills are common on the B.C. coast, but they tend to be small and involve petroleum products such as diesel fuel from vessels that disperses relatively quickly.
Canadian Coast Guard statistics show more than 550 "marine pollution incidents" in B.C. in 2011 as of mid-December, about 27 per cent of them level-three incidents requiring "cleanup or threat mitigation measures."
For environmentalists, the conclusion is obvious: Despite shipping advancements the risks are just too great.
And though this may be new on the rader of many in the US, this battle is not new, as noted in another recent report from the Vancouver Sun:
The mostly B.C.-based environmental groups have been fighting the proposed Enbridge pipeline for years.
There are about a dozen such groups, including the Dogwood Initiative, ForestEthics (with offices in B.C. and the U.S.), West Coast Environmental Law, the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, the SkeenaWild Conservation Trust and the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation.
All have similar concerns: the risk and the potential catastrophic effects of a pipeline or tanker spill on the environment and communities; and the expansion of the Alberta oilsands and increases in greenhouse gas emissions.
The Victoria-based Dogwood Initiative has an active campaign to halt the project.
Recently it ran a campaign that helped sign up 1,600 people to testify at the National Energy Board's regulatory hearings that begin Jan. 10 in Kitimat.
Although the Dogwood group says the decision on Northern Gateway should be made by British Columbians, it has no problem with the addition of the American-based NRDC to the campaign. "The more attention that can be placed on this issue, the better," said Dogwood Initiative official Eric Swanson, who heads the group's no-tanker campaign.
"We all share the planet, and we share the Pacific coast with many others," he added.
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Source: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/07-1
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