| Rescue
workers search for victims in New York Building collapse |
Two small residential buildings
collapsed Tuesday night and rescue workers combed through a mound of debris
looking for three missing people.
One dwelling fell and took much
of an attached structure with it. Both buildings are small, one- or two-unit
homes. The buildings, on a quiet residential street, collapsed into
a pile of brick and wood about one-and-a-half stories high.
Dogs brought to the scene indicated
there may be people trapped inside, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said. Giuliani
said six people lived in the two buildings; three had been accounted for.
Though the cause of the accident was not immediately known, the mayor said
a gas explosion might have caused it. KeySpan Energy workers examined pipes
outside the buildings and found no evidence of a gas leak, a company spokesman
said.
The roof of the first building
collapsed without breaking, making it more difficult for rescue workers
to
get underneath and look for survivors, Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen
said. Cameras were also being used to see under the debris.
Giuliani said witnesses saw people
enter the buildings before the accident. Rescue workers said the missing
people were the owners of one building and a tenant in the other.
Kenneth Dinham, who works at a residential drug treatment facility
across the street from the collapse, said he heard an explosion Two firefighters
were treated for minor injuries. |
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| Favorite
Quote of the week |
| "And though hard be the task,
Keep a stiff upper lip."
-Phoebe Cary
|
| Opinion |
Mean People Suck!
Yes mean people do suck. But we have
to ask ourselves, are we a mean person sometimes? I know this past month
I have had my times. But I guess the reason I decided to write this is
becuase that since my last place of employment, I have been thinking alot
about it lateley. My last job, people took things too seriously and thus,
me and my co-workers were abused by customers on a daily basis. It was
incredible what people would complain about. In fact. Many times it was
the customers own fault. People! Wise up! Take ownership of your own responsibility.
Live is too short to go on about the little things. If you have a job or
something that is that important, than Don't wait until the last minute
to do it. Get it done ahead of time. And make sure that when you are shopping
that if you were treated well, let management know. It will come back to
the person you helped and make thier day. Remember the saying do one to
others cause Mean people Suck!
¡DavE! |
| Editor's Note |
It's that time of year again.
Time for eveyone to get nude!
This month is national Clothing
Optional Recreation month. In celebration we are bringing you our Bare
Facts guide to clothing optional recreation. If you have always been curious,
or if you bathe au natural you will want to check it out. As always,
Happy Surfing!
¡DavE!
|
| Useless
Facts |
FIVE FASCINATING FIRSTS
1. First Ballet-lasted 5 1/2 hours
2. First Miss America Pageant-Held
on Beach
3. First Secular Song-3 Blind Mice
4. First Photographs-Subject sat
30min. with head in clamps
5. First use of the guillotine-Crowd
disappointed at its speed |
| Useless
Humor |
| A young man was walking through
a supermarket to pick up a few things when he noticed an old lady following
him around. Thinking nothing of it, he ignored her and continued on. Finally
he went to the checkout line, but she got in front of him.
"Pardon me," she said, "I'm sorry
if my staring at you has made you feel uncomfortable. It's just that you
look just like my son, who just died recently."
"I'm very sorry," replied the young
man, "is there anything I can do for you?"
"Yes," she said, "As I'm leaving,
can you say 'Good bye, Mother'? It would make me feel so much better."
"Sure," answered the young man.
As the old woman was leaving, he
called out, "Goodbye, Mother!"
As he stepped up to the checkout
counter, he saw that his total was $127.50.
"How can that be?" He asked, "I
only purchased a few things!"
"Your mother said that you would
pay for her," said the clerk. |
| Useless
Brain Teasers |
| This weeks brain teaser |
Emma is odd but not peculiar. She
hates arguments and is agreeable. She dates a
programmer but loathes systems
analysts. She'd like to get married but can't pick which month to do so.
She has narrowed it to summer or fall because she hates spring and winter.
She is sure to enjoy her wedding but not her reception.
Emma's little cottage has three
rooms. She likes the walls and floors but not the ceilings. She likes the
doors but not the windows. She sleeps on cotton sheets and pillowcases
because she hates linen and silk. She likes dogwood trees and their small
blossoms but dislikes flowers. Her favorite colors are yellow and green;
she doesn't care for blue and red. She wears dresses instead of blouses
and skirts. Her hair, of course, is brunette.
Emma has a treadmill but doesn't
like to exercise. She's chubby but not plump. She loves the wilderness
but hates camping. She enjoys cooking but stays out of the kitchen. She
likes books but not magazines.
Does Emma prefer alligators or crocodiles? |
| Last weeks brain teaser and
answer |
| If the Earth were ironed out to
become a sphere, about how deep would be the water from all the oceans? |
| Solution |
| If the Earth were a smooth sphere,
all the land would be covered with sea water to a depth of about 8,810
feet--about 1 2/3 miles. |
| Useless Trivia |
How do the police train dogs to
find hidden drugs?
Assuming that there is nothing
in nature that inherently links canine and cannabis, how the heck do they
get dogs to develop a nose for wacky weed? Or for heroin? Do they end up
dissipated dogs, baying at the
moon in broad daylight?
Essentially, the dog is taught
through the use of its instinct to retrieve. What it fetches is marijuana,
wrapped carefully so the animal can't bite into the package and get high,
but
loosely enough so that the smell
becomes familiar. When the fetching becomes routine, the marijuana is hidden
so that the dog must sniff for it. Then the drug is placed in a bag and
hidden. (You can see where this escalating game is headed--the airport
baggage department.) Heroin is treated similarly, except that the real
stuff is so potent that a like- smelling artificial substance is used in
initial training to keep the dog from nodding out. |
| Music News |
BJORK PULLS OUT OF CHOIR TOUR
According to Music365, "Bjork has
pulled out of her special guest spot on a choral tour of Europe because
of the "increasing media frenzy" following her Cannes Film Festival
triumph. She was originally to have performed three acoustic songs with
the Voices Of Europe, a choir made up of 90 young people from nine captial
cities, but after winning the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role
in Dancer In The Dark it was felt the singer's high profile would
eclipse the other performers." A spokesman for the Reykjavik 2000
Cultural Office comments, "In spite of the repeated efforts of her
management and ourselves, Bjork's contribution to the choir has been blown
completely out of proportion. Her contribution was only to be approximately
ten minutes of a two-hour show, but in spite of this the media has tended
to represent it as a Bjork concert. Bjork has felt increasingly concerned
that her participation would dwarf the whole concept and distort the intention
of this pan-European celebration of diverse cultures and music." |
| Song Quote |
"Teach me how to pray, help
me find the way, help me help me help me find away"
-Concrete Blonde |
| ¡DavE!'s
NEWS |
Here's what has happened last
week in my life-
Well this week was pretty party
life, first on Friday a bunch of us at work tied a few on. Hehehe. So to
say. Then Saturday night I met the old coworkers from Kinko's at a party.
Man I lead the Lush Life. No I didn't get pierced this week. On Sunday
I went to Seattle with some friends. Toured my old stomping grounds. What
fun. But the week is here now and I am planning some fun for Serena and
I. Tomorrow we are going to rent a movie called Skip the Dog. It has that
Malcolm in the Middle guy in it. She likes him. Well until next week.
Happy Surfing!
¡DavE! |
