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Nigeria Breaks World Record: Becomes the first Country to Builds World’s Largest Bottle Tree.

Nigeria’s leading brewer, Nigerian Breweries has unveiled the World’s largest-bottle tree made with a mind-boggling 8,000 bottles.

The Star bottle tree, situated at the Star Beer Village on the Bar Beach Stretch, Victoria Island, Lagos, was officially unveiled last night, Wednesday, December 17, 2014, as the largest tree in the World.

Speaking at the event, the Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries, Walter Drenth said: ‘This is another achievement by Nigerian Breweries Plc, which has become a forerunner in creativity and innovation over the years, The Star Bottle Tree is a first-of-its-kind in Nigeria and the enormous size is perhaps a first-of-its-kind in the World.’ The Star Bottle Tree set out to break the current World Record of 1,000 beer bottles held by the Chinese city of Shanghai.
 
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Move over Monica ... there's a new controversial cigar in the White House -- a Cuban fingered by President Obama in a photo many thought was fake, but we've learned it's the real deal.

The original pic shows Obama Wednesday night ... sampling the aroma of what's alleged to be a Cuban cigar. It was posted on Reddit Thursday morning, and immediately the Internet started tearing it apart as a Photoshop job.

TMZ has obtained several high-res pics of POTUS' run-in with the cigar -- and our photo/art experts say everything about them looks legit. Significant ... since Cuba and the U.S. just agreed to open embassies in each other's countries.

According to our D.C. sources ... the hand-off went down during the White House Hanukkah party -- when an invitee walked up and said, "Mr. President, here's a Cuban." Obama proceeded to give it a huge sniff and then held on to the gift. It's unclear if he pocketed it or handed it to the Secret Service.

Considering Michelle Obama -- who's been known to make a stink about Barack's cigarette smoking -- was standing right next to him ... we're guessing he ditched it.
If Anton Purisima is successful in his two undecillion dollar lawsuit against Au Bon Pain bakery and a collection of other businesses and individuals in New York, we will all be in a lot of trouble.

If he wins in what is the largest lawsuit ever filed (an undecillion comes with 36 zeroes after it), Purisima, 62, stands to be awarded more money than there is in the world. So, before the world deals with global warming, it must deal with Purisima's lawsuit.

There will be no after-work margaritas if Purisima wins, no wages, no curve-screen TVs, and no global aid for the less fortunate. Rich and poor, currencies, financial markets, food production, electricity, everything: up in smoke, screwed, done with. Netflix—kaput. No more wondering why Gap jeans seem to have their own sizing logic. There will be no more Gap jeans.

If Purisima wins, with no money, the world will have to reconfigure its economic and trade coordinates completely. No bad thing, a radical anti-capitalist might say. But even Marx must have had the odd bit of change in his pocket, if only to indulge his love of pickled beets and Hollandaise, his favorite dish.

If Purisima wins, he will have a lot of money, with everything—and nothing—to buy. He could hold the world to ransom. Let’s hope he has a giant white cat to stroke.

Purisima, says the New York Post, filed his 22-page hand-written complaint filed in Manhattan federal court on April 11.

A picture shows a bulbous white bandage encasing Purisima’s middle finger, which he claims was bitten off by a rabid dog. In announcing his intention to sue two local hospitals, Kmart, a “Latina” dog owner, as well as Au Bon Pain—its croissants are dreary, for sure, but not that bad—Purisima writes of having his middle finger infected and bloodied after being bitten by a “rabies-infected” dog on a city bus and then having a “Chinese couple” taking unauthorized photos of him while he was being treated at a local hospital.

He goes on to cite "civil-rights violations, personal injury, discrimination in national origin, retaliation, harassment, fraud, attempted murder, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and conspiracy to defraud.” No amount of money could meet his demands, making the damages for his suit “priceless”—hence the astronomical sum. Alongside Au Bon Pain, also listed as defendants in the case are Carepoint Health, Hoboken University Medical Center, Kmart Store 7749, St. Luke’s Emergency Dept., New York City Transit Authority, City of New York, NYC MTA, and LaGuardia Airport Administration (Purisima claims he is regularly overcharged for coffee at the airport). In a previous lawsuit, Purisima listed his address as 390 9th Avenue, a "General Delivery" postal address many homeless people use at Penn Station.

The Daily Mail reports that in the last four years Purisima has filed lawsuits against the People’s Republic of China, several major banks (including Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, and Wachovia), the Commissioner of Social Security, Lang Lang International Music Foundation, and others.

In this latest case, Purisima wants more money than there is in the world. It is, commentators agree, a frivolous lawsuit. But this is taking place in the nutty, high-sums petri dish of New York’s legal system, so who knows? Hold on to the those Gap jeans. They may soon be museum pieces.
Curiosity Rover Drills Into Mars Rock, Finds Water

NASA's Curiosity rover is continuing to help scientists piece together the mystery of how Mars lost its surface water over the course of billions of years.

The rover drilled into a piece of Martian rock called Cumberland and found some ancient water hidden within it. Researchers were then able to test a key ratio in the water with Curiosity's onboard instruments to gather more data about when Mars started to lose its water, NASA officials said. In the same sample, Curiosity also detected the first organic molecules it has found. Mission scientists announced the discovery in a news conference today (Dec. 15) at the American Geophysical Union's convention in San Francisco, where they also unveiled Curiosity's first detection of methane on Mars.

"It's really interesting that our measurements from Curiosity of gases extracted from ancient rocks can tell us about loss of water from Mars," Paul Mahaffy, Curiosity's SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in a statement. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]

Curiosity measured the ratio of deuterium (heavy hydrogen) to "normal" hydrogen. This D-to-H ratio can help scientists see how long it takes for water molecules to escape, because the lighter hydrogen molecules fly toward the upper atmosphere more freely than deuterium does.

The D-to-H ratio in Cumberland is about half the ratio found in the Martian atmosphere's water vapor today, NASA officials said. This suggests that the planet lost much of its surface water after the Cumberland rock formed, space agency officials added in the same statement.

But the water sample is also about three times "heavier" than Earth's oceans. This means that if Mars' surface water started off with a D-to-H ratio like Earth's, then most of the Martian water likely disappeared before Cumberland formed about 3.9 billion to 4.6 billion years ago.

The Cumberland measurement fills in a gap for scientists studying different epochs of Martian geological evolution. This sampling marks the first time scientists have been able to measure what the water on Mars may have been like during the Hesperian period, when this rock was formed, said Mahaffy, who is the lead author of a Mars water study published in the journal Science this week.

Previously, scientists have used Martian meteorites on Earth to sample Martian water; however, none of those space rocks date back to the Hesperian period.

"You have the whole period from 2.5 billion to 4 billion years old, and there's no data that we have from Mars meteorites just because we haven't found any yet, I guess," Mahaffy told Space.com. "So, it's very gratifying to be able to fill in that picture a little bit."

Passengers on an American Airlines flight between Seoul and Dallas post videos showing the sheer fright during turbulence.


Flying is safe, we're always told. Which doesn't mean that it can't be frightening.

Tuesday morning, an American Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport encountered unexpected and severe turbulence.

Four passengers and one member of the crew were injured, according to NBC Dallas, but none seriously. Perhaps inevitably, some passengers decided to film the experience and post the results to YouTube.

A video posted by someone called John (now taken down by the user) shows the sheer terror as the plane dropped. Shot in the coach section of the plane, John offered commentary such as "this is the most frightening thing I've ever seen."

He also spoke of how much he loves his family, as if wanting them to perhaps get the message in the event something truly terrible happened. The video also shows people holding hands across the aisle.

There's a certain contrast between this and another video -- this one shot in business class. Posted to NBC Dallas courtesy of lawyer Marc Stanley, it documents some of the damage, such as a plate that apparently crashed on a passenger's head.

The plane was a Boeing 777-200 with 240 passengers and 15 crew. Instead of continuing on to Dallas after the approximately hour-long turbulence, the pilot diverted to Narita airport in Tokyo.

American Airlines did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In planes of past eras, turbulence could cause a plane to crash. These days, aircraft design makes that much more unlikely.

Airline pilot Patrick Smith, who writes the popular Ask The Pilot blog, has frequently pointed out that what might seem a big drop to passengers could be only 20 feet.

He writes: "For all intents and purposes, a plane cannot be flipped upside-down, thrown into a tailspin, or otherwise flung from the sky by even the mightiest gust or air pocket."
For those who are especially uncomfortable with being in a large metal tube suspended some 37,000 feet in the air, no amount of reassurance is enough. However, Smith cautions: "The level of turbulence required to dislodge an engine or bend a wing spar is something even the most frequent flyer -- or pilot for that matter-- won't experience in a lifetime of traveling."
Still, it's the fear that it could -- even if only theoretically -- happen that makes some passengers fear for their lives. It's still a wonder to some (including me) how those tubes of engineering stay up in the sky.



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