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When people from away think of Maine, what’s the first thing that comes to their minds? “Isn’t it winter there, like, ten months a year?” “I think it’s part of Canada. Or Sweden.” “Stephen King is the governor. Or the governor is some other psycho like him.” Which just goes to show that people from away are idiots. What they’re supposed to think of when the subject of Maine comes up is a rockbound coastline with lighthouses, lobsters being plucked from the sea and plopped into steamers, hardy rural types tapping maple trees each spring in order to listen in...

I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab people. Related Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for...

Somewhere in the heavens above Amarillo, angry shouts rang out from the back of Southwest Airlines Flight 3683. “You’re all going to die,” a man dressed in black screamed at passengers Tuesday afternoon. “You’re all going to hell. Allahu Akbar,” translated as God is great in Arabic. Federal authorities arrested Ali Reza Shahsavari, 29, of Indialantic, Fla., onboard the Boeing 737 after pilots made an emergency landing at Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport at 3:30 p.m. He is being held in the Randall County jail on a federal charge of interfering with a flight crew. None of the 136 passengers...

'Many deaf and hard-of-hearing people have been left bemused by some unfortunate mistakes in the BBC’s computer generated subtitles. The errors asked for ‘a moment of violence’ to commemorate the Queen Mother at her funeral and mistakenly called the Archbishop of Canterbury the ‘Arch b*tch of Canterbury’. Mistakes are so frequent they’ve prompted the creation of a website dedicated to sharing the gaffes. Live subtitles are generated by speech recognition as someone talks into a microphone while listening to a programme, or by a stenographer typing words manually. A news reporter visiting a farm spoke of the pigs’ habit of...

In the long term, the Pagami Creek fire still burning east of Ely, Minn., should improve moose habitat, clearing the bramble to make way for saplings and berries that the animals love to munch on. But for now, the forest fire is proving problematic for moose hunters, many of whom have been unable to access the territory they are permitted to hunt starting Saturday. The situation has led the state Department of Natural Resources to offer refunds for the cost of permits. Those permits, for what is often known as "the hunt of a lifetime," are a coveted commodity that...

Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that is going to use this teeny, tiny space to talk about a huge, but under-acknowledged local problem: moose alcoholism. As you can see from the disturbing photo above, this is a growing issue in our community, with moose practically dropping everything to chase down Coors trucks and other such madness. We can no longer look the other way. But our concern is not only for the well being of our local fauna — we can't have our moose developing hangovers or liver disease — but also for...

Moose gut pile leads to Alaska bear mauling

When Dave Collie looked out his window Monday morning he saw a very unusual sight. A moose was hanging about in the yard outside Collie's house on Bayview Court. "My neighbor phoned me at about 7:00 am and said to look out my window because there was a moose just outside our house." Collie was able to tip toe about 50 feet away from the moose and snap some photos. "He decided to lay down for about half an hour. I went out to see if I could perhaps get a better shot, but he just got up and moved...

A woman was taken to the Whitbourne Clinic for observation Sunday evening after the car she was in collided with a moose on the Trans-Canada Highway. The accident happened just before 8:30 p.m. in the Hodgewater Line area about 100 kilometres west of St. John’s. RCMP said the woman's injuries were not serious. Early Monday morning, RCMP from the Holyrood detachment reported there was a moose-vehicle accident between Makinsons and Bay Roberts. The moose was killed. Police didn’t say if anyone in the vehicle was injured.

Two drivers received minor injuries after running into moose on the Outer Ring Road outside St. John's Friday morning. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a pickup truck hit two moose. Then a sport utility vehicle that had been following the truck hit one of the animals. The accident happened in the eastbound lanes between Topsail Road and Thorburn Road. Meanwhile, the RNC also said a vehicle hit a moose on the Southern Shore highway, south of St. John's, on Thursday evening. The driver sustained minor injuries.

Woman Hits Moose With Car After Sister Hits Moose With Car The moose of Canada are stalking and haunting Connie Evirett and Yvonne Studley, two car-driving sisters from British Columbia. Last month Studley, 49, had a car accident involving one of the beasts; the melee left her in a coma, and the moose in a moose coffin. Then, while on the way to the hospital to visit her younger sister, 51-year-old Evirett had a moose/car accident of her own. Everitt told a reporter: "My first thought was, 'Are the moose going out [on a] hunting season for my family?'" Seems...

For the first time, this year's aerial surveys indicated a statistically significant decline - down from more than 8,000 in 2006 - in the moose population of northeastern Minnesota, including the Arrowhead region. The population in the northwestern part of the state already has collapsed, down to about 100 animals from more than 4,000 in 1986. This as the range of the moose has shriveled steadily since the 1960s, when moose could be spotted all across the northern part of the state. A new draft plan released by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources last week spells out not only...

The cheese is sliding off of Chris Matthews' cracker.

Michele Bachmann must have had an interesting chat with her openly lesbian stepsister when she came out. The Minnesota Republican, whose anti-gay remarks have got the political world talking, will have had some explaining to do to Helen LaFave. A video of Ms LaFave talking positively about Democrat Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 with her long-term partner Nia Wronski has emerged.

<p>Officials say a moose burst through the dining room window of a retirement home in southwestern Sweden, knocking over furniture and flower pots before taking off into the wild again.</p>

You never know what might happen when you're reporting on a farm. WWBT reporter Tara Morgan learned that lesson the hard way. While working on a story in Hanover County, VA, a camel started eating her hair. For a moment, it seemed like the camel had a good grip on the reporter. But with some help from her photographer, it didn't take long for Morgan to free herself. Both Morgan and her photographer got a good laugh, and no one was injured.

Kenya: In the Footsteps of Her Brother, ObamaJohn Makeni 8 April 2011 Nairobi — At 6.30pm, all the seats are already occupied. A bespectacled man walks to the stage and announces that the public reading will start in a minute. Soon Dr Auma Obama emerges from a side door and proceeds to the podium. She is greeted by a round of applause, and she flashes a smile back. Dr Obama steers clear of the limelight, and this was a rare moment when she appeared in a public podium. After all, she is the half-sister of the world's most powerful man,...

Ryan Streeter reckons that Governor Palin’s fiscal record in Alaska does not bear comparison with Governor Christie

The world is approching the ultimate crunch. The selfcentered mind made world created by human nature cannot survive the divine spirits of love truth and life. Self active human nature is filled with the spirits of hate, lies and death. These ill spirits are clearly displayed by the Islamo-Marxist-Chicago Gangster occupying the White House. The vessels dedicated to serving these ill spirits must pass away. We are in the third year after the inaugeration of Obama. This correlates to the third horse in the book of Revelation. In Revelation the black horse reveals famine and rationing. We see this before...

On Tuesday February 15th, Wisconsin will hold a primary election for The Wisconsin Supreme Court. Wisconsin Freepers, please do what you can to get your conservative friends to vote in this important primary.