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Ten people, including three children, are killed after gas station in sleepy Irish village EXPLODES 'because of accidental gas leak': Victims include teenage girl choosing ice cream with best friend before sleepover​

The heartbreaking final moments of three children and seven adults killed in a devastating suspected gas explosion in Donegal on Friday have been revealed. Locals say it is the county's 'darkest day'. Leona Harper, 14, died while choosing an ice cream from the fridge in the petrol station shop in Creeslough which was reduced to rubble in the blast. Jessica Gallagher, 23, a designer who recently moved back to her hometown of Creeslough after spending several years living in Paris, was also among the 10 people killed in the explosion. Her boyfriend was airlifted to a hospital in Dublin where he is being treated for severe burns. The other victims included a mother, named locally as Catherine O'Donnell, and her 13-year-old son James, a third woman and three other men.

The teenager choosing an ice cream and other tragic details of Irish petrol station 'gas
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The Goose is Loose!
A goose disrupts the Padres-Dodgers MLB game.

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Inside a cryonics facility preserving terminally-ill people (and pets) to wake up in the future​


In Scottsdale, Arizona, there are tanks filled with liquid nitrogen are the bodies and heads of 199 humans who opted to be cryopreserved (some along with their pets) with the hopes of being revived in the future. Many of the patients - as Alcor Life Extension Foundation calls them - are people who were terminally ill with cancer, ALS or other diseases with no cure in the present day. "So they're not really dead, they're just legally dead... It puts dying on a pause and lets you go into the future where we have greater capabilities to reverse that and bring you back to life," Alcor’s former CEO, Max More said while giving a tour of the facility. It costs a minimum of $200,000 to freeze a body and $80,000 for the brain alone. But there are skeptics in the medical world, where the idea of cryonics is far-fetched. "I think this notion of freezing ourselves into the future is pretty science fiction and it's naive," Arthur Caplan, professor of bioethics at NYU said in an interview. "It's almost like what you'd be thinking about in a college dormitory discussion, if I could just freeze myself and then defrost myself kind of like a bag of peas and wind up way in the future, wouldn't that be cool?"



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Human waste, an open-air drug market and homeless camps on the doorstep of Biden's Portland hotel: Fed up with the failed 'woke experiment' and murder rate, residents tell DailyMail.com why they're abandoning the city AND the Democrats ​

When President Joe Biden flew into Oregon to try to shore up his party's nominee for governor he would not have had far to look to see the problem. He spent Friday night at the luxury Duniway Hotel in downtown Portland, a property at risk of foreclosure as visitors stay away from the city center. And if he had taken a morning stroll, he could have seen for himself the results of the 2020 decision to decriminalize hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. The casualties were everywhere. Two blocks from the hotel lobby a man was folded up on a street corner, his body draped around a small hold-all.



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ABC's national security expert hasn't been seen since APRIL when FBI mysteriously raided his house: Journalist was writing a book about Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan​

James Gordon Meek, 52, 'abruptly' resigned from his job at the network and has since 'dropped off the face of the earth', according to colleagues who spoke to Rolling Stone. On April 27, FBI agents raided his apartment in Arlington, Virginia (right). A source close to the investigation told Rolling Stone that they believed Meek was in the possession of classified documents, and that's what ordered the raid.

 
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Wild west Philly: Violent mob riding illegal dirt bikes and ATVs circle cops and pelt them with bottles at gas station as local lawmaker claims mayor has told cops to IGNORE the issue​

A violent mob rolled through the streets of Philadelphia on illegal ATVs and dirt bikes and hurled bricks and glass bottles at police officers in a wild attack that was caught on video and prompted renewed calls to crack down on the riders. Philadelphia Police Department shared the video on Tuesday that showed as the nightmarish assault unfolded while officers were trying to secure a stolen bike. It happened Saturday night at a gas station in the area of Delaware Avenue and Spring Garden Street, not far from police headquarters, police said. Police said a dirt bike rider crashed into a vehicle near the gas pumps, abandoned his bike and fled on foot. It was later determined that the bike had been reported stolen from New Jersey. The attack happened just a day after Philadelphia City Councilman At-Large David Oh responded to a different video showing hordes of dirt bike and ATV riders, stating: 'This has to stop.' Oh alleges Philly Mayor Jim Kenney has told cops to ignore the rideouts - a claim Kenney has denied.

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How Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz turned a Thai duck farmer's 'hangover cure' into a multi-billion pound business and sports empire after discovering energy drink helped with his jet lag on a business trips​

Dietrich Mateschitz, who co-founded the Red Bull energy drink company and a Formula 1 team bearing the same name, has died at the age of 78.

The Austrian, who became known later in his life for his love of motorsports, extreme sports and football, passed away this week after a battle with illness, the company announced yesterday.

The entrepreneur, who gained a net wealth of more than £17billion through his firm, build his fortune while being introduced to the drink while on a business trip to Thailand in the 1980s.

Mr Mateschitz, who had been working as a marketing executive for German firm Blendax, was impressed with a drink that helped him with his jet lag called Krating Daeng.

It had been developed a decade before by duck farmer turned pharmacist Chaleo Yoovidhya, and Mr Mateschitz was reportedly so impressed with it he struck a deal to promote it abroad.

The company carbonated it and with its promise that it would 'give you wings', it proved hugely successful after its launch as Red Bull in 1987 and kick started the energy drinks market, Forbes reports.

Mr Mateschitz took a 49 per cent stake in the company, and the partnership made both men and their families extremely wealthy - in 2020 Mr Yoovidhya's family received £184million in dividends, while the Austrian received £299million.

As his extraordinary wealth grew over the years Mr Mateschitz used his company to invest in extreme sports, Formula 1 and to buy several football teams.

Mr Mateschitz combined the company with his passion for motorsport and other sports as it became the sponsor of many different teams across the world.

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nivek said:

How Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz turned a Thai duck farmer's 'hangover cure' into a multi-billion pound business and sports empire after discovering energy drink helped with his jet lag on a business trips​

Dietrich Mateschitz, who co-founded the Red Bull energy drink company and a Formula 1 team bearing the same name, has died at the age of 78.

The Austrian, who became known later in his life for his love of motorsports, extreme sports and football, passed away this week after a battle with illness, the company announced yesterday.

The entrepreneur, who gained a net wealth of more than £17billion through his firm, build his fortune while being introduced to the drink while on a business trip to Thailand in the 1980s.

Mr Mateschitz, who had been working as a marketing executive for German firm Blendax, was impressed with a drink that helped him with his jet lag called Krating Daeng.

It had been developed a decade before by duck farmer turned pharmacist Chaleo Yoovidhya, and Mr Mateschitz was reportedly so impressed with it he struck a deal to promote it abroad.

The company carbonated it and with its promise that it would 'give you wings', it proved hugely successful after its launch as Red Bull in 1987 and kick started the energy drinks market, Forbes reports.

Mr Mateschitz took a 49 per cent stake in the company, and the partnership made both men and their families extremely wealthy - in 2020 Mr Yoovidhya's family received £184million in dividends, while the Austrian received £299million.

As his extraordinary wealth grew over the years Mr Mateschitz used his company to invest in extreme sports, Formula 1 and to buy several football teams.

Mr Mateschitz combined the company with his passion for motorsport and other sports as it became the sponsor of many different teams across the world.

(More on the link)

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My family moved to the far east for a time thirty years ago, when I was a child. I tried the flat version of Red Bull then as it was on sale throughout the region. It came in a shorter, gold can, made of steel (not aluminium, like the carbonated vesion). I much preferred the carbonated one, though.
 
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My family moved to the far east for a time thirty years ago, when I was a child. I tried the flat version of Red Bull then as it was on sale throughout the region. It came in a shorter, gold can, made of steel (not aluminium, like the carbonated vesion). I much preferred the carbonated one, though.
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I did not like Red Bull until they began making different flavours, I could not stomach the original flavour...I used to drink the orange flavour however they discontinued that one, so now occasionally I'll drink the Tropical flavoured variety...

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America's 'most dangerous' law? Illinois candidate warns of 'anarchy' after criminal justice overhaul​

Crime in Illinois could "spiral out of control" after a new law overhauling the state's criminal justice system goes into effect in January, the mayor of a Chicago suburb said. "When I said that this is the most dangerous law I've ever seen, I believe that," said Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau, who is running for Congress in Illinois’ 6th District.

The Illinois Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act changes multiple parts of Illinois' justice system with provisions like ending cash bail; limiting how flights determine whether defendants are flight risks; and allows defendants under electronic monitoring to leave home for 48 hours before they can be charged with escape. The legislation, which Gov. JB. Pritzker signed into law last year, will go into effect Jan. 1.

"I don't think we know what's coming from this," Pekau told Fox News. "I think we can project that if criminals are allowed to run free and police officers can't protect citizens, citizens are going to start protecting themselves and take the law into their own hands."

The 764-page SAFE-T Act passed both chambers of Illinois' legislature in seven hours with no formal hearings or debates and without input from stakeholders, three former Illinois justice system officials wrote in a Chicago Tribune op-ed. "The whole thing is concerning to me because it was just a potpourri of everything, and it didn't bring into consideration law enforcement, judges or all the stakeholders in place," Pekau told Fox News. "It was basically to allow criminals to go free."

The law also implements a higher standard on when a defendant can be detained for several crimes, including second-degree murder, aggravated battery, arson and kidnapping. The new rule replaces cash bail with a judge's determination on the defendant's flight risk and risk to the public from the evidence prosecutors submit.

The reforms being passed around the country revolve around the idea that "the criminal shouldn't be held," Pekau said. "I think that's absurd," he added.

Proponents have argued that the SAFE-T Act will combat systemic racism and make the criminal justice system more equitable since, according to a 2022 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report, minorities disproportionately face higher rates of pretrial detention. "We’d be ending wealth-based jailing and restoring the presumption of innocence in the courtroom, which is something that is really under fire and it is not valued under our current system," Kareem Butler, pretrial justice fellow of the Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts, told The Daily North Western.

In addition to eliminating cash bail, Pekau also highlighted how the law will drop trespassing from a Class A misdemeanor to Class B. He said police, as result, won't be able to physically remove non-violent trespassers from a property.

In Orland Park, "our police officers would say if someone's trespassing, the best tool they have to get someone to leave willingly is to say ‘you’re trespassing, please leave or we will arrest you,'" Pekau said. "Well, now they can't arrest, they can only write a ticket," he continued. "So, they get to stay in that business, on your property, at your house, etc." Pekau is concerned what could happen if residents stop relying on the police. "We create potential anarchy because law enforcement can't do their job and then people feel that they have to do that job," he said. "People aren't trained in the use of force. They're not trained to de-escalate situations."

"Lots of bad things can happen out of this, and it could potentially spiral out of control relatively quickly," Pekau continued. He said he hopes Illinoisans will vote out the state legislators who passed the bill, as well as Pritzker. "I really hope that this thing gets repealed," he said. "I hope the voters wake up and do the right thing. Their votes matter."

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The US now has just 25 days of diesel supply — the lowest since 2008.​

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The U.S. is facing a diesel crunch just as demand is surging ahead of winter — with only 25 days of supply left, according to the Energy Information Administration. National Economic Council Director Brian Deese told Bloomberg TV that diesel inventories are “unacceptably low” and “all options are on the table” to bolster supply and reduce prices.

However, even as the stockpiles are being drained, the Biden administration seems to be left with very few sustainable options for long-term relief.

If diesel inventory continues to run down without the government intervening, the impact on transportation costs for goods could drive inflation up even further. Deese adds that the Fed has some tools to bolster diesel supply, like the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, which houses one million barrels of diesel in case of a disruption in supplies.

“We have looked very carefully at being prepared to deploy as and when necessary,” he said. But The Washington Post reports that diesel demand is so high, that if a million barrels of diesel were delivered from the Northeast reserves, they would be depleted in less than six hours.

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