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China Gives 'Drink Like A Fish' New Meaning
January 31, 2005 (Release from: Independent Online (South Africa))
Beijing - The French used grapes, Russians fermented potatoes, Koreans
put ginseng in their drink and Mexicans distilled cactus plants to make fiery
tequila. Now China is introducing fish wine.
Sun Keman, an entrepreneur in the north-east port city of Dalian, has
formed the Dalian Fisherman's Song Maritime Biological Brewery, with a plan to
use his background in the fishing industry to make fish into wine.
"Different from China's thousands of years of brewing, the brewery will
clean, boil, and ferment fish for making wine," the official Xinhua news
agency reported. The company already had orders from Japan, Russia and other
parts of China, it said. Tipplers might also take heart in knowing the brew is
purported to be good for them. "Experts said the wine is nutritious and
contains low alcohol," Xinhua said.
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Malaysian Killed By Swordfish (August 12, 2004 Release from: Jonathan Kent BBC)
A man has died in Malaysia after being attacked by a swordfish. Azlieman
Mantinpan succumbed to his wounds after the incident near the northern tip of
Malaysian Borneo. Mr Azlieman, a 30-year-old mechanic, was on a fishing trip off Kampung Limau
Limauan, near the town of Kudat, when he was fatally wounded. Police sources said he was swimming in the sea with friends when the 7kg
swordfish leapt out of the water and struck him in the chest. According to police, the nearest hospital was more than 50km away, and Mr
Azlieman bled to death before he could be treated. This is the first such incident for five years. In 1999 a fisherman died near
Kota Baru on the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, when a 2kg flying fish
lanced him in the side, puncturing his lungs.
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John Barnes, 33, of Crystal River is charged with over the
commercial limit of pompano, after Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission investigator Camille Soverel nabbed him at Jorgensen’s Landing
about 5 a.m., Wednesday with 945 pompano in his boat. The legal limit of pompano
is 250 per boat. In addition to the over-the-limit
charge, Soverel also charged Barnes with failure to ice the fish, and possessing
seine nets on board without the required markings. All three charges are
second-degree misdemeanors, which each carry a maximum penalty of 60 days in
jail and $500 fine. Barnes was also charged with a no-navigation-light
infraction.
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Georgina Thompson, 37, was charged in Wellington, Kansas, in
March with soliciting two men to murder her common-law husband. Her
promised payment was her husband's collection of baseball cards. The two men
reported her to police and turned over the down payment she had made of 10 of
the cards. Said the deputy sheriff about the offer of baseball cards,
"That's about as mean as a wife can get. The only thing lower would have
been if she offered his hunting and fishing gear."
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LONDON
- Firefighters in Berlin believe a goldfish bowl may have concentrated the sun's
rays and set fire to a garden shed containing potentially hazardous chemicals.
Tablets of aluminum phosphide stored in the shed released toxic fumes when
firemen tried to dampen them down and 18 firefighters, four paramedics and four
neighbors were taken to a the hospital suffering from vomiting, nausea and
burning chest sensations. Unfortunately, the goldfish did not survive.
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Hong Kong police reported in April the rescue of a 32-year-old man who was
washed ashore. He had taken a casino ship from the Hong Kong port, but had run
up some gambling bills and jumped into shark-infested waters to avoid the loan
shark.
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Dachshund eating catfish
finally gets stuffed, destined for museum Germany Kuno, a catfish with a huge appetite and menacing disposition, met a sad end
when low water levels and hot weather did him in. The town of Bremen remembers
him as 'the Loch Ness of our time' and a terror to their town lake... [IOL
Independent News, South Africa]
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The
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was ordered to pay $165,000 and reinstate a
former staff member whom it fired in retaliation for her having filed a
work-related complaint. And authorities in Jersey City, N.J., declared an
emergency upon finding 150 tons of rotting fish, lobster and squid in Max's
Natural Foods Warehouse (abandoned, they believe, four months earlier).
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Thai fishermen unloading a catch of fish found a human leg sticking out of the mouth of a shark Monday.
The fishermen also found a man's right forearm in the shark's stomach. The body parts are undergoing DNA tests to determine the identity of the victim.
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Associated Press
Jun. 17, 2003
MILWAUKEE - It's not the sort of catch a fisherman likes to boast
about - hundreds of used condoms floating in the harbor. Officials at the Jones
Island Wastewater Treatment Plant say an angler made the rather disgusting
discovery. Some suspect a new $8.5 million filtration system isn't up to the
task. But officials say there's no proof of just where the condoms came from.
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District says it will install additional
filters. Workers will also be used to scoop condoms out of the wastewater stream
with fish nets.
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The Manitoba, Canada, Natural Resources Minister apologized in February when news got out that the government had saved $1,800 in postage by mailing a fishing survey through the U.S. mails rather than through Canada's. Clerks had gone to Grand Forks, N.D., about 100 miles from the border, to mail the surveys to several thousand U.S. anglers who use Manitoba waters.
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In May, South Carolina Republican political consultant Rod Shealy was found guilty of violating state campaign laws in a 1990 scheme in which he hired an unemployed black fisherman to run for lieutenant governor against Shealy's sister. Shealy admitted he did it to scare white voters to the polls to vote for his sister.
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Authorities
in Jersey City, N.J., declared an emergency upon finding 150 tons of rotting
fish, lobster and squid in Max's Natural Foods Warehouse (abandoned, they
believe, four months earlier).
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The museum director
who housed Marco Evaristti's installation, in which patrons were invited to turn
on a live goldfish-containing blender, was acquitted of animal cruelty charges
because the two unlucky fish died instantly (Copenhagen, Denmark).
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| Grandfather + Fishing + Tire + Canal = Death. "His enjoyment
was fishing," she said. "He always went there. My brother usually went
with him." The unusual accident began about 1:15 p.m. when a man driving
west on West El Camino Avenue lost control of his pickup truck and swerved
across the road, striking two cars parked by the fishing spot. The impact caused
a back tire to fly off one of the vehicles, hitting Shalnev and knocking him
into the canal. The pickup truck then flew into the canal, according to Lt.
Daniel Hahn of the Sacramento Police Department. "It is very bizarre,"
Hahn said of the chain of events."
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| Last September, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names complained publicly about the difficulty in placing more Indian names on official maps. Two examples: The closest English spelling of a waterfall near Spokane, Wash., is
"Stseqhwlkwe." And the native name of Lake Char in Massachusetts is a word containing 44 letters and meaning, "You fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fishes in the middle."
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| Coincidence?
"Jules Verne would have been delighted. Not only is the trophy for the
fastest round-the-world yacht trip named after him, but one of the competing
boats was grappled this week by a giant squid. The trimaran Geronimo, skippered
by the holder of the Jules Verne trophy, Olivier de Kersauson, was seized by a
squid on Sunday night, just like the submarine Nautilus in Verne's novel 20 000
Leagues under the Sea. The giant squid (Architeuthis Dux), believed to have been
10 metres long, wrapped itself around the Geronimo's hull for an hour near the
straits of Gibraltar before letting go and returning to the depths."
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| ""Aalfred"
the pet eel who has lived in a German family's bathtub for 33 years may have to
be evicted to a nearby canal, an official said Tuesday. Animal rights protesters
have complained that the eel, who has gained nationwide fame since media started
reporting about him a few weeks ago, is being held in unnatural circumstances.
He was caught in 1969 by Paul Richter who took him home for supper. But his
children refused to let him kill the eel and he has become part of the family.
Aalfred (Aal means eel in German) swims into a bucket whenever someone needs to
wash. But his future now hinges on the verdict of veterinary experts.
Authorities in the western city of Bochum sent a vet to check on Aalfred this
week and are seeking further advice."
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| "At
least eight eagles had to walk awhile Tuesday after bingeing on fish guts in the
back of a seafood processor truck. Burdened down by an estimated 4 pounds of
dinner each, their wings wet and oily from fish waste, the eagles could not fly
out of the back of a Trident Seafoods Biodry truck. The vehicle contained
seafood waste that will be reduced to fertilizer. Kodiak Wildlife Refuge
biologist Denny Zwiefelhofer said the eagles would not be able to fly until they
dried off. He estimated that by sunset they would be ready to take off.
"Its fairly windy, and the sun is out. They're drip-drying and preening
their feathers," he said. Zwiefelhofer said there was probably 18 inches of
wet, gooey fish guts in the back of the truck."
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| In June, two fishermen bled to death in Papua New Guinea's Sepik
River after pirhana-like fish, attracted by the men's urine streams, attacked
the source with their razor-sharp teeth. And two weeks later, a 63-year-old
peasant squatting to answer nature's call in a field near Lorica, Colombia, was
bitten on his penis by a poisonous Mapana-tigre snake and was rushed to a
hospital (where he arrived with the snake still attached because he feared
trying to dislodge it); he is recovering satisfactorily.
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Rage': In July, police in Brooklyn, N. Y., accused Gail Murphy, 47, bedridden on
her stomach while recovering from hemorrhoid surgery, of shooting her husband to
death because he had gone on a six-hour fishing trip. Said a police
investigator, "She felt that her husband didn't demonstrate that he cared
for her on that particular day." [New York Times]
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– It’s difficult to image the delighted surprise of Icelandic fish store
owner, Asgeir Baldursson when a giant 90 pound skate that was caught by
fishermen was brought in. The enormous fish was more than six feet from
head-to-tail, astonishing as most skates weigh in at only ten pounds. But what
to do with this rare beauty? Well Baldursson did what any traditional Icelander
would do with a 90-pound record-setting fish: putrefy the thing and serve it up
in a traditional Icelandic dish of rotten fish.
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| Self-described
"fishing fanatic" Tom Getherall of East Moriches, Long Island, telling
a New York Daily News reporter the day after the crash of TWA Flight 800:
"I felt bad when I heard about the wreck, real bad, but to be honest with
you, the first thing I wondered was how it would affect the fishing." [New
York Daily News]
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| Football
star Deion Sanders, arrested for trespassing at a fishing hole near Fort Myers,
Fla., in June: "The only defense I have is that I'm sorry but they were
biting." [St. Petersburg Times]
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| Jerry
Tibbs, 51, was killed when a whale leaped on his fishing boat, knocking him
overboard. Tibbs was one of four men returning from a fishing trip off the
coast of California in a 23-foot boat. Tibbs, the captain, was thrown into rough
seas and drowned. The other three men recovered were treated for hypothermia.
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| MONTICELLO, Ind. - A
man's attempt to rig a fishing tournament by retrieving prize-winning bass from
a sunken cage has landed him a fine.
Danny Engleking, 40, was arrested in August after a surveillance camera showed
him loading bass from the cage onto his boat during the contest on Lake Shafer,
authorities said. He later claimed the contest's $300 first prize.
Under an agreement with prosecutors, a felony theft charge was dropped and
Engleking pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge for claiming the prize.
He will pay a $25 fine and $132 in court costs but serve no jail time.
The White County Sheriff's Department set up the camera after a passer-by
reported seeing the sunken cage in a secluded tributary of the lake.
About
20 minutes into the tournament, Engleking was recorded loading five bass onto
his boat from the cage, authorities said. His catch was later judged best in
terms of weight.
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| A lobster fisherman from Maine cut off his own arm at
the elbow in order to survive an accident at sea. He had become caught in a
winch hauling lobster pots up from the sea floor, and could not free himself.
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| Scott
Favre, 30, of Kiln, Miss., brother of pro football quarterback Brett Favre, was
returned to prison in May to serve his original 15-year sentence for felony DUI.
The judge had sentenced him to only one year of house arrest (stay home except
for work, church or medical treatment), but on Memorial Day, Favre decided he
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| A
45-year-old man drinking with fishing buddies choked to death after trying to
swallow a live, 5-inch-long perch (Viburnum, Mo., May); according to one of the
buddies, the man's last words were, "Hey, watch this!" |
| Georgina
Thompson, 37, was charged in Wellington, Kansas, in March with soliciting two
men to murder her common-law husband. Her promised payment was her
husband's collection of baseball cards. The two men reported her to police and
turned over the down payment she had made of 10 of the cards. Said the deputy
sheriff about the offer of baseball cards, "That's about as mean as a wife
can get. The only thing lower would have been if she offered his hunting and
fishing gear." |
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Manitoba, Canada, Natural Resources minister apologized in February when news
got out that her government had saved $1,800 in postage by mailing a fishing
survey through the US mails rather than through Canada's. Clerks had gone to
Grand Forks, N.D. about 100 miles from the border, to mail the surveys to
several thousand US anglers who use Manitoba waters. |
Fisherman
saved after 12 hours floating on ice block
A Romanian fisherman has been rescued after he floated for more than 12 hours on
an ice block. The man was fishing on the frozen river when the ice started to
break due to recent warm weather. He remained stranded on an ice block and
started to scream for help. Fortunately he was heard by some villagers but the
rescue proved difficult because of the troubled waters and fog.
Costica Gavrilas, 32, from Piatra village, Bistrita county, was finally saved by
a boat after a helicopter failed to take him from the floating ice in the
Somesul Mare river, reports the Evenimentul Zilei newspaper. |
| Sheriff Bill Wiester announced in Moses Lake, Wash., in March that he had arrested a man sitting in a car bobbing his head and who thus looked like he was doing drugs. On closer inspection, however, no drugs were found; the man had a straw in his mouth and was blowing bubbles into a fishbowl he was holding in his lap, aerating the water for his pet piranha. |
| Robert E. Bell Jr., head psychiatrist of the Florida prison system, was arrested in May and charged with breaking into his former girlfriend's home and threatening to stab her to death if she did not return the chocolate syrup, tuna fish and cigarettes he thought she had stolen from him. |
| Last September, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names complained publicly about the difficulty in placing more Indian names on official maps. Two examples: The closest English spelling of a waterfall near Spokane, Wash., is
"Stseqhwlkwe." And the native name of Lake Char in Massachusetts is a word containing 44 letters and meaning, "You fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fishes in the middle." |
| Ronald Clark, 30, was charged with assault in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in February for reportedly hitting Thomas Jones in the face with a frozen fish, breaking Jones' nose. Clark was confronted in his home by Jones in
an argument over a woman. |
| J.R. Spradley, a member of the U.S. delegation to an international conference on climate change, addressing the Bangladesh delegation about last year's floods, said the situation was "not a disaster; it is merely a change. The area won't have disappeared; it will just be under water. Where you now have cows, you will have fish." |
| The Associated Press reported in February that landscaper Jay Knudsen of Des Moines, Iowa, runs a side business in which relatives of deceased hunters pay him to load the deceased's ashes into shotgun shells and fire at targets as the deceased might have wanted it. Knudsen said he also gets requests to put ashes in duck decoys, fishermen's lures and golf clubs. Said Knudsen, "There's a lot of ideas that go to waste because people are afraid to be laughed at." |
A Canadian woman filled a strip club with tuna after being fired from it.
She reportedly swore revenge after being sacked from Fanny's Cabaret in Ottawa.
The unnamed woman left bags full of the fish on tables, chairs, next to walls and in coat and champagne rooms
The Ottawa Sun says many people complained of burning eyes and upset stomachs, but no one had to be taken to hospital. |
| In Copenhagen, Denmark, an exhibit by artist Marco Evaristti consisting of goldfish in a blender has been seized by police, after complaints by overenthusiastic do-gooders, Reuters reported. Participants were encouraged to switch on the blender, turning the live fish into soupy puree. It's just fish, people. |
| According to Florida shark expert George Burgess, 150 people each year die after being struck with falling coconuts. Only 10 are killed by sharks. "The reality," he says, "is that, on the list of potential dangers encountered in aquatic recreation, sharks are right at the bottom of the list." |
A 20 year old student went spearfishing off the island of Crete. Several hours later he was found floating face-up with a spear through his head which entered under his jaw and exited out the top of his skull.
Surgeons removed the spear in a three hour operation. The man is now back home and walking and talking normally. |
| Frank J. Ashmus, 46, is being held in Pinellas County Jail after he used a swordfish bill to stab Garth
Spacek, 42, in the stomach as Spacek was beating Ashmus in the head with a beer bottle, Pinellas County sheriff's deputies said.
Ashmus was charged with aggravated battery remains behind bars in lieu of $20,000 bail. |
| Twenty six Vietnamese drug addicts escaped from a treatment center in Ho Chi Minh city by rusting the bars with fish sauce, then sawing through them with guitar strings. Sixteen have been recaptured. Authorities are still searching for the other ten. Drug treatment is mandatory for addicts in Vietnam, where heroin addiction is a growing problem. |
| Two men in Tsukui, Kanagawa, Japan drowned in an effort to rescue their beer from the river. Kyosuke
Hidaka, 40, and Sawano Junichi, 39, were camping when Hidaka dropped a can of beer into the water. He went in after it, and when the current swept him away, Junichi jumped in to save him. Their bodies were recovered about an hour later. The river was swollen from a recent typhoon. Police say both had been drinking before the incident. |
A Fort Pierce man out fishing with his son and a friend made a gruesome discovery in the waters of the Atlantic — a human head.
The men used a gaff to fish the head out of the water and placed it in a garbage bag. Then they kept right on fishing. |
| South Korean artist Bul Lee's display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in March, which consisted only of rotting fish in sealed bags and glass cabinets, was abruptly pulled by officials after only several hours' display because the ventilation equipment failed. The show was titled "Majestic Splendor." |
| In October, Kim Novacs told reporters she would file a $1 million lawsuit in West Palm Beach, Fla., against an alligator that her husband killed the year before. The 6-foot-long gator scared the couple's little girl, causing Keith Novacs to shoot it, for which he was convicted of poaching. Mrs. Novacs cited a 1993 Florida court case in which an endangered species animal was the named plaintiff in a case and argued that if such an animal can be a plaintiff, it can be a defendant, with the state Game and Fish Commission liable for any damages. |
| The Wall Street Journal reported in October that among the trendy foods in restaurants in Scotland was the "Mars bar supper" a Mars bar dipped in fish batter, fried in vegetable oil, and served with a side order of chips. |
| Earlier this year and backed by $100,000 in federal, state and private grants, Kodiak, Alaska, photographer Marion Stirrup developed PlanTea, a nutrient-rich mix of kelp, fish bone meal, dried beet root powder and other ingredients, which she touts as a superior plant food. Stirrup says the list of ingredients came to her telepathically from her 16-inch palm plant, georgiane (which prefers its name spelled with a lower-case G, Stirrup said). |
| Fishing on Junior Lake in July, Phil Cram, police chief of Medway, Maine, lost part of his hand when an explosive tube he was using illegally to stun fish blew up prematurely. |
| Among new Japanese computer fish technology: a computer-aided fishing simulator, in which working a rod and reel properly allows simulated fish on a video monitor to be bagged, and a virtual aquarium, "Aqua zone," in which simulated fish "live" in real time, must be fed, must be prescribed optimum environmental conditions for breeding, dirty the water with excretion, and grow older even while the program is not running. |
| In February, a fishing boat sank in rough, cold waters off Vancouver Island, leaving two men in a life raft that was tied to the sinking boat by a nylon rope. Neither had a knife to cut the rope, and had the ship sunk, it would have pulled the boat and the men down with it. For an hour, the two men alternated chewing the rope, with one man losing a tooth in the process, and, minutes before the ship sank, the men finally chewed through the rope and survived. |
| People Weekly magazine reported recently that Avon cosmetics company has more than 36,000 sales representatives in the Amazonia region of Brazil, with sales growing at 50 percent a year. Photographs showed an expedition by zone manager Sonia Pinheiro to introduce her products to the Tembe Indians in Tenetehara. Avon representatives in
Amazonian sell the complete range of Avon products, from lipstick, moisturizer and mascara to men's bikini briefs, and accept for payment almost any
barter able item, such as fish. |
| Following news reports earlier in the year on health benefits, Japanese fish markets have been experiencing a run on tuna eyeballs. Nutritionists had reported that mice injected with an acid from the eyeballs had lower cholesterol and could find their way through mazes much faster. The eyes are a delicacy selling for around $15 a can. Said one fish company executive, "Unfortunately, fish have only one pair of eyes." |
| A 1991 federal regulation requires cities to remove at least 30 percent of "organic waste" from incoming sewage before treating it. According to a Washington Post story in May, the Environmental Protection Agency refused to exempt Anchorage, Alaska, from the regulation, even though the city has so little organic waste coming in that its incoming is cleaner than most cities' outgoing. Required to comply, anyway, Anchorage solved the problem by paying fish processors to purposely dump fish byproducts into the sewer so the city will have enough organic waste to remove. |
| At a congressional hearing in February, the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mollie Beattie, argued with Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, over continued exemptions for Alaska natives from laws protecting ocean animals. Beattie's concern is that seals, polar bears and other animals are being killed solely for their gall bladders and reproductive organs, which are delicacies or thought to be aphrodisiacs in some Asian countries. Young became angry, grabbed an 18-inch-long walrus penis bone that he had brought along as a prop, and pounded it into his hand as he argued with Beattie. |
| The Avon cosmetics company has more than 36,000 sales representatives in the
Amazonian region of Brazil, with sales growing at 50 percent a year. Photographs in People magazine showed an expedition by zone manager Sonia Pinheiro to introduce her products to the Tembe
Indians in Tenetehara. Representatives in Amazonian sell the complete range of Avon products, from lipstick, moisturizer and mascara, to men's bikini briefs, and accept for payment almost any
barter able item, such as fish. |
| In January at the Lake Como Fish and Game Club near Syracuse, N.Y., Brian Carr beat out three dozen competitors in the annual ice-fishing derby, with 155 catches. The temperature that day was minus 30, and prize money for the top three anglers was $8, $6.50 and $5. |
| South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. announced in November that it had invented "Bio Television" a TV set that converts a television's ordinary electromagnetic beams into waves that have an effect similar to that of sunlight on nearby plants and animals. In tests, the longevity of fish, and the freshness of flowers, increased by from 50 percent to 100 percent when they were near the Bio TV. |
| After a spirited debate at the Great Midwestern Think-Off on June 26 in New York Mills, Minn., the audience of professional and amateur philosophers officially affirmed, by 70-54, that life has meaning. Winning debater and sometime-fisherman Peter Hilts argued that life has meaning even for a fish, prevailing over beekeeper Charles Carpenter, who maintained that life simply "is" and that life is beyond such a bland concept as "meaning." Each of the four semi-finalists received a medal of Rodin's "The Thinker" seated on a tractor. |
| In May the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported that George Puzak, a member of the city's Park and Recreation Board, had requested reimbursement for official travel at 29 cents a mile despite the fact that he travels by bicycle. State Rep. Phyllis Kahn said she has billed the state for official travel by bicycle since 1979 but not at the maximum rate. She said she always requests a per-mile rate that covers the cost of the bananas and yogurt she eats for "fuel," plus a penny a mile for bicycle depreciation. In October, Deptford, N.J., politician Mike Mostovlyan told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he had not intended to send the two large, dead fish he sent through the mail to his political foe, Deputy Mayor Bea Cerkez. Actually, said Mostovlyan, he had intended to mail the fish to a friend in Puerto Rico and a book to Cerkez and simply mislabeled the packages. |
| Malaysia's New Straits Times reported in February that a man in Perak, Malaysia, was arrested after several incidents in which he climbed on roofs at night and, using a fishing line and hook, lifted the sarongs of sleeping women to look at their bodies. |
| The 58-year-old wife of Ethridge Leon "Bill" Carter died in April of a gunshot to the head in Heber Springs, Ark., the result, said Carter, of suicide. In 1992, Carter's second wife died of a gunshot, also self-inflicted, said Carter. In 1990, Carter's first wife drowned on a fishing trip the couple had taken by themselves. |
| In November, officials at the Tokyo Sea Life Park aquarium reported that about 10 percent of its bluefin and yellowfin tuna have developed deformed faces because of the "stress" of swimming in a small tank. Large bumps have appeared on some fishes' faces; other fishes' eyes have become partially dislodged. |
| Last summer, the cable television company that serves Columbia, S.C., aimed a camera full-time at an aquarium to occupy a vacant channel, which was awaiting the September start-up of the Science-Fiction Channel. When Sci-Fi replaced the "fish channel," complaints were so numerous that the company was forced to find another channel for the aquarium, which now runs 14 hours per day, sharing time with the Bravo channel. |
| In Ada, Okla., Ut Van Ho, 29, was charged with shooting at a 22-year-old man because the man was "harassing" his pet fish by shining a flashlight into the fish tank during an afternoon card game in December. |
| Albuquerque, N.M., sheriff's deputies, arriving to evict Rick "Reptile" Little, 30, from his home in a rent dispute in June, encountered 140 snakes being housed (at least 40 of them venomous), along with owls, toads, rabbits, salamanders, moles, lizards, turtles, tarantulas, scorpions, dogs, cats and fish. Not surprisingly, the stench, said deputies, was unbearable. |
| A topless woman, interviewed by The New York Times while taking advantage of a state court of appeals ruling permitting non-lewd, non-commercial
topless ness, said she thought the ruling would not have much impact: "There are a lot of things not conducive to being topless. You can't run topless, you can't barbecue topless, you can't fry fish." |
| Georgina Thompson, 37, was charged in Wellington, Kan., in March with soliciting two men to murder her common-law husband. Her promised payment was her husband's collection of baseball cards. The two men reported her to police and turned over the
down payment she had made, of 10 of the cards. Said the deputy sheriff about the offer of baseball cards, "That's about as mean as a wife can get. The only thing lower would have been if she offered his hunting and fishing gear." |
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