****ASF Breaking News****

[MrBurns]

Dick Smith is owned by WOW has been for decades

Thats right thanks, forgot.

I know from experience that to let a location like this go means only one thing .....trouble.

 

[Solly]

Teetotallers more likely to be depressed

Who needs sertraline, venlafaxine, paroxetine, fluoxetine, amitriptyline, when you have......BEER


http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/teetotalers-more-likely-be-depressed-24553.html

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[Solly]

Schwarto attacked with jug.

More here;

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/30/2671024.htm

 

[Solly]

Solo sailor Jessica Watson hits ship, forced to turn back

(But she's OK)

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26047924-952,00.html

 

[noirua]

Not breaking news really but Australian commodities are likely to be affected increasingly by the 'PIIGS': http://uk.news.yahoo.com

 

[noirua]

Polish President, Lech Kaczynski his wife and senior members of his Government are thought to have been killed in a plane crash: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8612825.stm

 

[noirua]

Polish President, Lech Kaczynski his wife and senior members of his Government are thought to have been killed in a plane crash: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8612825.stm

Report on the death of the Polish President: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/10/poland.president.plane.crash/index.html

 

[Solly]

World Land Speed Record for a lawnmower has just been broken
http://www.projectrunningblade.co.uk

 

[noirua]

It has been reported from Whitehaven, Cumbria in the Lake District in England, that a Taxi driver has gone berserk and shot dead 11 people. He is still on the loose having abandoned his car. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7459669.stm

 

[noirua]

It has been reported from Whitehaven, Cumbria in the Lake District in England, that a Taxi driver has gone berserk and shot dead 11 people. He is still on the loose having abandoned his car. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7459669.stm

The number of people confirmed killed has risen to 12 with unconfirmed reports citing total number as 25.

 

[GumbyLearner]

The number of people confirmed killed has risen to 12 with unconfirmed reports citing total number as 25.

very sad news.

 

[subasurf]

Pretty shocking really. Especially for that area of Britain.

 

[$20shoes]

Shows just how perilous a sailing journey can be.

Abby Sunderland (16yo) who is trying to complete a round the world solo yacht trip activated two EPIRBs yesterday. She is in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

It looks like she suffered several knockdowns and then no contact. Search and Rescue are trying to get a visual; ships are still a day away from the EPIRB location.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Sunderland

 

[$20shoes]

Could hardly have happened at a more remote location, more's the pity.

http://goo.gl/rdby
[links to Google Maps]

Hopefully she's hauled up in a hull compartment and riding it out.

 

[Bushman]

Shows just how perilous a sailing journey can be.

Abby Sunderland (16yo) who is trying to complete a round the world solo yacht trip activated two EPIRBs yesterday. She is in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

It looks like she suffered several knockdowns and then no contact. Search and Rescue are trying to get a visual; ships are still a day away from the EPIRB location.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Sunderland

Why do parents allow 16 year old's to sail solo around the world?

 

[$20shoes]

Why do parents allow 16 year old's to sail solo around the world?

As a parent I wouldn't. And this is the reason why...imagine knowing your daughter is lost in the middle of the Indian Ocean and you can do nothing more to help her. How bloody frantic would you be.

Maybe it comes down to the experience she's had previously. But being 16, I would still question what possible previous experience could brace you for a global solo trip.

 

[pacestick]

1. I call it child neglect. Welfare really needs to be on to this and take the children off the parents ( That should get some of you going )
2. Why dont such attempts at dangerous activities involve the people concerned putting up funds to be used for the cost of search and rescue I object to taxes being used because someone is on an ego trip and it goes pear shaped on them

 

[Bigukraine]

Why do parents allow 16 year old's to sail solo around the world?

$2-3 million in the bank after the book and the new idea type stories thats why

 

[gordon2007]

They have found her alive and well.

 

[Julia]

Veteran Australian sailor Ian Kiernan, who held the Australian record for solo circumnavigation of the world, said Sunderland's trip was badly planned, given the mountainous seas and huge wind strengths of winter in the area.

"I don't know what she's doing in the Southern Ocean as a 16-year-old in the middle of winter. It's foolhardy," Kiernan said.

Sunderland had hoped to become the youngest sailor to circumnavigate the globe alone nonstop but had to give up her chance at that record when she was forced to pull into a port at Cape Town, South Africa, for repairs to her boat.

Her parents have been criticized by some in the media for allowing her to undertake the solo voyage at 16. Sailing experts have said that she was ill-advised to leave California in January, because she risked arriving in the Indian Ocean at the start of the winter season.

There has also been criticism that her boat was an inappropriate design for the voyage.

Anyone have any idea of the cost of the search and rescue effort all up?

Would be nice if these children were unable to set forth unless they had obtained some sort of insurance policy to pay for their rescue if it all goes bad.