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Kitchener woman follows car's GPS directions into Lake Huron, swims to shore

http://www.citynews.ca/2016/05/13/k...s-cars-gps-directions-lake-huron-swims-shore/

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Police say following the instructions from a GPS on a foggy night left an Ontario woman taking an unplanned swim in Lake Huron.

The 23-year-old woman from Kitchener, Ont., was following a route on her car’s GPS while driving in the dark on Thursday night in Tobermory, Ont., according to provincial police.

Const. Katrina Rubinstein-Gilbert said driving conditions were difficult as the woman approached a boat launch on Little Tub Harbour near midnight, with rain and fog making visibility difficult.

As a result, Rubinstein-Gilbert said the woman made a wrong turn with dramatic consequences.

“How the launch works, it’s not an airborne thing. It’s not ‘Dukes of Hazzard.’ It kind of goes off the road and the launch just drops all of a sudden,” she said. “So she would have been driving on the road, and then all of a sudden just dropped and hit water.”

Rubinstein-Gilbert said the car stayed afloat long enough for the woman to roll down the window, grab her purse and swim about 30 metres to shore. Once there, she walked to the nearest hotel and summoned police, she said.
 
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That little green patch in the north west section of the brown is Fort McMurray. They lost about 10% of the town but it clearly could have (and still could be) much worse.
 
LeafGm said:
Are you still in the camps Mindz, or have you gotten the hell out of dodge?
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Essential services....I've already been out and come back. If that pic I just posted was a little bit bigger, you would see the site I work at just to the north. Starting to get a bit smokey though, so it's possible that we pull out today.
 
Have the sprayed the perimeter of your yet? We did it last week at one our stations near Anzac and it got to fence. The trail goes right around the tank farm
 
Artnes said:
Have the sprayed the perimeter of your yet? We did it last week at one our stations near Anzac and it got to fence. The trail goes right around the tank farm
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CNRL has had heavy equipment crews building fire breaks on the southern and western borders of the property along with perimeter woodlands that are closer to facilities. A lot of the forest here was torched in the 2011 wildfire, so there's not a whole hell of a lot of fuel thankfully.

Anything sensitive (tank farms, upgrader, sulfur plants, hydrogen plants, etc) are all a few Km's away from the treeline. The site is too big to **** with spraying, better to just deny the fire fuel in sensitive areas.
 
An EgyptAir jet is missing. The details seem a bit confusing just now but the flight from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar.

EgyptAir said on its Twitter feed late Wednesday that a plane en route from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar.

The plane, with 56 passengers and 10 crew members on board, took off at 11:09 p.m. local time in Paris, the airline said.

The airline later said the plane was travelling at an altitude of 11,280 metres when it disappeared 16 kilometres after entering Egyptian airspace, a corrected distance from earlier information the airline had sent out.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/egyptair-flight-ms804-paris-cairo-1.3588755
 
Fact it disappeared off radar, at that altitude.....with no radio communications beforehand.....have to assume it's a bombing.
 
MapleLeafBlueJayBoy said:
CNN has another plane crash to cover. Wolf Blitzer and Richard Quest must be rock hard right now.
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I always wondered how Richard Quest was able to keep his job after the whole Meth in pocket, rope tied around neck and junk, "device" in rectum thing.

Especially in the era we live in where unpopular opinions are enough to get you canned.
 
Very interesting article.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/health/homo-naledi-human-species-lee-berger/index.html

(CNN)Hidden deep within the innards of a South African cave lay human evolution's equivalent of Tutankhamun's tomb. A treasure trove of 15 skeletons -- eight children, five adults and two adolescents -- all members of a previously unknown species of human ancestor.

In the field of paleontology, uncovering just one complete skeleton has been likened to winning the lottery, but lying here were over 1,500 fossils amounting to multiple jackpots.

This was the largest collection of hominin remains -- part of the human lineage -- ever discovered on the continent.

In 2013, American paleoanthropologist Lee Berger was tantalizingly close to finding them.

But there was a catch.
 
Major offensive underway to take Fallujah back from ISIS. Guess Johnny Trump would say it would be a lot easier to just nuke the city, right?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/24/middleeast/iraq-falluja-residents-trapped/index.html

The United Nations says it fears for the safety of an estimated 10,000 families trapped in Falluja as Iraqi forces press in to retake the city from ISIS.

Fierce fighting has been raging around Falluja since Iraq's military launched an offensive Monday to reclaim the traditionally Sunni-dominated city, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, from the terror group.

And with tens of thousands of residents unable to flee the clutches of ISIS, the U.N. fears that civilians will pay a heavy toll for the liberation of the city.

Iraq's air force has airdropped thousands of leaflets on Falluja instructing residents to leave and promising them passage through "safe corridors" established by the military to camps outside the city.

The government has set up a hotline for residents to call or text if they require evacuation, while state television has broadcast advisories to residents to wave white flags over their homes if they can't flee, and to stay away from ISIS facilities and gatherings.

But activists say ISIS has been preventing residents from leaving, and has cut many communication lines -- leaving thousands potentially caught in the crossfire between government troops, backed by Shiite militia and tribal fighters, and the Sunni terror group.
 
axlsalinger said:
Major offensive underway to take Fallujah back from ISIS. Guess Johnny Trump would say it would be a lot easier to just nuke the city, right?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/24/middleeast/iraq-falluja-residents-trapped/index.html

The United Nations says it fears for the safety of an estimated 10,000 families trapped in Falluja as Iraqi forces press in to retake the city from ISIS.

Fierce fighting has been raging around Falluja since Iraq's military launched an offensive Monday to reclaim the traditionally Sunni-dominated city, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad, from the terror group.

And with tens of thousands of residents unable to flee the clutches of ISIS, the U.N. fears that civilians will pay a heavy toll for the liberation of the city.

Iraq's air force has airdropped thousands of leaflets on Falluja instructing residents to leave and promising them passage through "safe corridors" established by the military to camps outside the city.

The government has set up a hotline for residents to call or text if they require evacuation, while state television has broadcast advisories to residents to wave white flags over their homes if they can't flee, and to stay away from ISIS facilities and gatherings.

But activists say ISIS has been preventing residents from leaving, and has cut many communication lines -- leaving thousands potentially caught in the crossfire between government troops, backed by Shiite militia and tribal fighters, and the Sunni terror group.
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Hey fanclub!

I don't give a ****!

Carry on.
 
In fairness to Trump and Johnny, they probably should nuke Fallujah. It literally could not make things appreciably any worse on the ground there from an objective standpoint.

City's been destroyed for thirteen years and counting now.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
In fairness to Trump and Johnny, they probably should nuke Fallujah. It literally could not make things appreciably any worse on the ground there from an objective standpoint.

City's been destroyed for thirteen years and counting now.
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Yeah, let's unleash a torrent of radiation to finish off not only Fallujah, but maybe a circle around Fallujah the size of three states, for many lifetimes to come.... because the city's been destroyed for years anyways.
That's fantastic logic.
 
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