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BEIRUT, Lebanon - The season’s first hailstorm Tuesday was a blessing in disguise for cluster bomb-infested parts of southern Lebanon, triggering blasts from previously unexploded bomblets. No injuries were reported.
After a long dry spell across Lebanon, hailstones as big as walnuts hit villages and struck undiscovered bomblets scattered across the landscape, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Dalya Farran, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center (MACC), confirmed that many cluster bombs exploded when they were hit by hailstones in villages near the town of Marjayoun.
[Via - NewsDay]
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Four-year-old Long Branch Elementary School student Zacari found himself in the home of a different family and in the middle of an unusual mix-up Tuesday, WJXT-TV in Jacksonville reported.
After school Tuesday, a grandfather went to Long Branch to pick up his grandson but wound up taking Zacari home by mistake.”I went to his house,” Zacari told Channel 4.Zacari’s mother, Latoia Gillis, said “They don’t have the same name. They don’t even look alike.”Apparently,to the 77-year-old grandfather, the boy did look like his grandson, and the man put Zacari on his bike and rode home.”We were riding a bicycle, and he had to pick me up and put me in the middle,” Zacari said.
“All the way from Long Branch to Main Street on a bicycle with a man who is 77 years old?” Gillis said, still in shock.Zacari said that when they got to the man’s house, it was the man’s wife who realized the mistake.”She said, ‘You got the wrong kid,’” Zacari said.Back at the school, Zacari’s aunt had come to pick him up and was panicked to learn her nephew was already gone.”
I was thinking the worst. I was crying. I was shaking,” said Zacari’s aunt.Fortunately, the man who picked up the 4-year-old was on his way back to the school with an unharmed Zacari.Zacari’s family said it wants to make sure another such mix-up never happens again.”I just want it to be a wake-up call. I’m very lucky to have my son back,” Gillis said.
Gillis said that at the beginning of the school year, she filled out a form that included a list of names and contact numbers of the people with whom her son was allowed to go home.A school district representative said protocol was not followed in Tuesday’s mix-up, and that the teachers involved would face disciplinary action.As a result of Zacaris’s ride with a stranger, district policy was immediately changed. Pre-K teachers will be required to check identification before allowing people to collect their youngsters from school.
[Via - WSBTV]
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Fans who have had their fill of beer at the University of Georgia’s homecoming football game on Saturday be warned — no flushing allowed.
Earlier this week, crews put up signs in bathrooms asking people not to flush “if it’s yellow” and to leave the handle-pulling to attendants, who will do the job for the estimated 93,000 people at Saturday’s game.
It’s part of the university’s “Every Drop Counts” water conservation effort in the drought that’s struck Georgia and much of the Southeast.
The university is considering replacing all of the stadium’s old toilets, which use 3.5 gallons of water per flush, with new ones that use less than half that amount — 1.6 gallons — per flush, said Arthur Johnson, associate athletic director for internal operations.
But two old-fashioned trough urinals that have constant running water will be open beneath the west end stands during the game against Troy University.
“We’ve got a lot of fans in that area that would need to use the restroom and it would be impractical to ask them to go to another part of the stadium,” he said.
The drought has worsened with sweltering temperatures and a drier-than-normal hurricane season. Now drought in almost one-third of the Southeast has been deemed “exceptional” — the most severe drought category.
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(AP) He may look young for his age, but 77-year-old Swedish retiree Per-Eric Henricsson was not flattered when his local supermarket asked him to show ID to prove that he was old enough to buy a case of beer.
Now, Henricsson has asked the National Association of Senior Citizens for help in pressing the ICA supermarket in Gallivare, northern Sweden, to stop carding the elderly.
“It is ridiculous. I have been a customer at ICA for more than 40 years and they know me,” Henricsson told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The minimum age for buying low-alcohol beer and cider in Swedish supermarkets is 18. Beer with higher alcohol content, wine and spirits are sold in government-operated liquor stores, where 20 is the age limit.
Henricsson had planned to buy a case of beer for a social gathering of the local senior citizens group he leads when the cashier asked for his ID. He said he was so insulted by the request that he refused to make the purchase and left the store.
Supermarket manager Lars Hakan Olofsson said the cashier followed the store’s policy to demand ID from all customers buying alcohol because it is difficult to guess people’s ages.
“I want to make it easier for my staff,” he said, adding that several other supermarkets in the area have similar policies.
[Via - CBS]
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