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SatNav Theft

Police say motorists should wipe personal details from the gadgets or risk having their homes ransacked.
Thieves are stealing car's satellite navigation systems so that they can use them to target people's homes in burglaries, police warned.
Criminals are breaking into vehicles parked in public places to take sat navs before following the directions to 'home' which many users store on the gadget.

They then are able to make their second 'hit' on the victim - and burgle the property knowing the occupant is likely to be out.

Police urged motorists to wipe their personal details from the gadgets or risk having their homes ransacked. Or maybe use the name of a person rather than the word "home".
The portable kits have become a number one target for thieves as they are easy to steal and are not security coded like in-car hi-fi systems.

Last year there were more than a million thefts from vehicles, with up to a quarter of these thought to be sat navs.
Electronic devices such as sat navs are a particularly lucrative target because they can be easily sold on for cash while also instantly coughing up the owner's address.

Many have cradles which leave distinctive marks on the window, meaning there may be a sat nav hidden in the glove box or under the seat.
Choose a sat-nav device with built in anti-theft features so it can't be used by anyone who doesn't know the pin code.
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The Washington Post's yearly contest where readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words -- and the winners are...
1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash.
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Issue 33 of Mediterranean Living continued...

You can read here the parts we wouldn't print.
Not for young people or those who might be upset by graphic descriptions of unpleasant historical facts.

The Horror of the Images on the Man Wrapped in the Shroud of Turin

In the images on the Shroud of Turin there are clear signs of scourging and beating and there are also the unmistakable wounds of crucifixion.

Pathologists who have studied the image say that the man of the shroud was savagely whipped, crucified, died and was wrapped in the Shroud after rigor mortis had set in.

The whip used exactly fits with a Roman flagrum, which was a whip of short leather thongs tipped with pieces of lead, bronze or bone which tore into flesh and muscle. See opposite.

There are dozens upon dozens of dumbbell shaped welts and tears, the type of wound that the flagellum would have caused.

There is blood from the whipping visible inside the images of the wounds..

More...http://www.med-liv.com/Ashroud.html

Snakes Can Predict Earthquakes!

Scientists in China have developed a new way of predicting earthquakes, watching snakes smash into walls in an effort to escape them, but before they happen!
Experts at the earthquake bureau in Nanning monitor snake farms via 24-hour internet video links.
Scientists say the snakes can sense an earthquake from 120km away, up to five days before it happens.
They start to behave erratically, even smashing into walls to escape, scientists said.
"Of all the creatures on the Earth, snakes are perhaps the most sensitive to earthquakes," Jiang Weisong, director of the earthquake bureau in Nanning, told The China Daily.
"When an earthquake is about to occur, snakes will move out of their nests, even in the cold of winter. If the earthquake is a big one, the snakes will even smash into walls while trying to escape," he told the newspaper.
Nanning is an area prone to earthquakes, and is one of 12 Chinese cities monitored by hi-tech equipment. It also has 143 animal monitoring units.
"By installing cameras over the snake nests, we have improved our ability to forecast earthquakes. The system could be extended to other parts of the country to make our earthquake forecasts more precise," Mr Jiang said.
China is frequently struck by earthquakes.
In 1976, some 250,000 people died when the city of Tangshan was devastated by an earthquake.
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Continuing...

9. Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist (bowel specialist-medicine) immediately before he examines you.
13. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.
14. Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts