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Is the situation regarding snow and cold in UK normalizing Simon?

"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished."
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.

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Is the situation regarding snow and cold in UK normalizing Simon?

No snow but bloody freezing, -13C this morning.

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ORIGINAL: sprior

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Is the situation regarding snow and cold in UK normalizing Simon?

No snow but bloody freezing, -13C this morning.

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It is literally cold outside

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Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: sprior

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Is the situation regarding snow and cold in UK normalizing Simon?

No snow but bloody freezing, -13C this morning.

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

It is literally cold outside

That is really really cold guys (but luckily not as cold as in Poland on Czech Republic - they have -25)...


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Apparently there is now an American version of Top Gear. Why cant we just leave other peoples' stuff alone? Its not like it will be anywhere near as good.



Good luck with that. The only British TV series that I know of that converted successfully were "Steptoe and Son" and "Coupling".



Agreed. And the list of Brit shows we completely murdered is long and terrible.



I've seen the US version of "Coupling" and it didn't measure up to the original.

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Morning chaps 

It is literally cold outside

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

Morning chaps 

It is literally cold outside

Cold enough for Scotts to wear something under their kilts?

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That was a general statement/bad attempt at humor. In my mind I'm still asleep.

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'The water was churning like I was in a washing machine': Briton's horror after German tourist, 70, dies when her arm is ripped off in shark attack

* Woman killed just days after officials declared waters WERE safe to swim in
* Four holidaymakers injured in shark attacks last week

A tourist swimming at a winter sun resort popular with Britons died after having her arm torn off by a shark - just days after tourism bosses declared the beach safe to swim from.

The attack came after four other holidaymakers suffered horrific injuries in similar incidents – leading to fears of a Jaws-style rogue predator stalking the coastline.

Beaches at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, had only just been reopened following the earlier attacks when the latest victim, a 70-year-old German woman, went snorkelling on a reef close to the shore.


Attack: A German tourist died after being attacked by a shark at Sharm el-Sheikh, despite claims by officials that this animal was the killer:




Authorities had reassured tourists that they had captured two sharks – an oceanic whitetip and a mako – and the Red Sea waters were once again safe for swimming.

But their claims were proved tragically false with the fatal attack on Saturday.

Witnesses told how the woman screamed for help after an oceanic whitetip shark tore off her arm and part of her thigh. She is said to have died within minutes.

Briton Ellen Barnes frantically swam for the shoreline after describing the water around her turning red with blood.

She told The Sun: 'I have never felt pure terror like that. The water was churning like I was in a washing machine.

'The shark was thrashing and tearing at this poor woman and I could barely keep my head above the water it was so choppy.

'And the swimmer was screaming "Help me! Help me!" in English. It was spine-chilling. I just threw myself on to the beach.'


Wrong fish: An oceanic whitetip and a mako shark were caught by conservationists after four tourists were injured in two separate attacks last week:




Off limits: Seas at the popular Sharm El Sheikh resort on the Egyptian Red Sea coast were closed after two attacks last week:







Suddenly there was a scream for help and a lot of violence in the water,’ said Jochen Van Lysebettens, manager of the Red Sea Diving College at the Sinai Peninsula resort.

He said the victim, who was pulled from the water by a lifeguard, was a regular visitor to the luxury Hyatt Regency Hotel, one of the world’s most popular scuba diving destinations.

Oceanic whitetips – once described by late marine expert Jacques Cousteau as the most dangerous of all sharks – are not usually found so close to shore.

The beaches were immediately closed again and tourists were warned to stay out of the water. But there were claims last night that the authorities had been too slow to react to the ­initial danger.

The earlier attacks had seen three Russians and a Ukrainian injured.

In one of those incidents, an elderly woman had her hand ripped off and another female swimmer had her leg severed.

Tourist Agnieszka Gogolewski, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, who has just returned from the resort, said ­holidaymakers were given little information about the dangers.

‘We saw a diver being brought out of the water after being attacked by a shark,’ she told Sky News.

‘Only an hour after the attack we saw people were still swimming. It is terrible that no one was warning tourists. The hotels were saying nothing and people were diving and swimming about unaware of the danger.’

The attacks will deal a serious blow to Egypt’s tourist industry.

Sharm el-Sheikh is one of the country’s most popular holiday spots, attracting more than four million visitors a year, including thousands of Britons.

Tony Blair has holidayed with his family several times at the resort.


Predator: The attacks are believed to have been carried out by an oceanic whitetip shark, which can grow up to 13ft:




Terror: Tourists at the Egyptian resort had been told it was safe to go back into the water:




Horror: The latest attack resembles the plot of the 1975 film Jaws, where the mayor tells swimmers it is safe to go back into the water after fishermen catch a shark, with disastrous consequences:




Environmentalists warned the attacks may have been caused by overfishing in the region, which has brought sharks closer to shore to feed.

One diving expert said the sharks could have been drawn to the coastline by dead cattle – being brought in for the Islamic feast of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha – being dumped in the water.

‘It is unusual to have four attacks in a week,’ said Rolf Schmid, manager of the Sinai Divers’ Centre.

‘The area hasn’t had sharks for the past ten to 15 years.

‘A possible reason for these attacks is cattle and sheep imported from Australia die on the long voyage and are thrown in the water before the ships reach the harbour.’

U.S. shark expert Samuel Gruber said the spate of incidents recalled Steven Spielberg’s 1975 movie Jaws.

He said: ‘It seems the shark in one day bit more than one person. In all my years reading about shark attacks and writing about them you never hear about sharks biting more than one person.

‘Then for it to happen again is almost like a Jaws scenario.’

In the film, fishermen capture a tiger shark after one attack and the mayor of Amity declares it is safe for people to go back into the water, with disastrous results.

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Ungodly hour morning tithe.

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Hi all,

Eeeeeeeeeeeeek!

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'The water was churning like I was in a washing machine': Briton's horror after German tourist, 70, dies when her arm is ripped off in shark attack

* Woman killed just days after officials declared waters WERE safe to swim in
* Four holidaymakers injured in shark attacks last week

A tourist swimming at a winter sun resort popular with Britons died after having her arm torn off by a shark - just days after tourism bosses declared the beach safe to swim from.

The attack came after four other holidaymakers suffered horrific injuries in similar incidents – leading to fears of a Jaws-style rogue predator stalking the coastline.

Beaches at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, had only just been reopened following the earlier attacks when the latest victim, a 70-year-old German woman, went snorkelling on a reef close to the shore.


Attack: A German tourist died after being attacked by a shark at Sharm el-Sheikh, despite claims by officials that this animal was the killer:




Authorities had reassured tourists that they had captured two sharks – an oceanic whitetip and a mako – and the Red Sea waters were once again safe for swimming.

But their claims were proved tragically false with the fatal attack on Saturday.

Witnesses told how the woman screamed for help after an oceanic whitetip shark tore off her arm and part of her thigh. She is said to have died within minutes.

Briton Ellen Barnes frantically swam for the shoreline after describing the water around her turning red with blood.

She told The Sun: 'I have never felt pure terror like that. The water was churning like I was in a washing machine.

'The shark was thrashing and tearing at this poor woman and I could barely keep my head above the water it was so choppy.

'And the swimmer was screaming "Help me! Help me!" in English. It was spine-chilling. I just threw myself on to the beach.'


Wrong fish: An oceanic whitetip and a mako shark were caught by conservationists after four tourists were injured in two separate attacks last week:




Off limits: Seas at the popular Sharm El Sheikh resort on the Egyptian Red Sea coast were closed after two attacks last week:







Suddenly there was a scream for help and a lot of violence in the water,’ said Jochen Van Lysebettens, manager of the Red Sea Diving College at the Sinai Peninsula resort.

He said the victim, who was pulled from the water by a lifeguard, was a regular visitor to the luxury Hyatt Regency Hotel, one of the world’s most popular scuba diving destinations.

Oceanic whitetips – once described by late marine expert Jacques Cousteau as the most dangerous of all sharks – are not usually found so close to shore.

The beaches were immediately closed again and tourists were warned to stay out of the water. But there were claims last night that the authorities had been too slow to react to the ­initial danger.

The earlier attacks had seen three Russians and a Ukrainian injured.

In one of those incidents, an elderly woman had her hand ripped off and another female swimmer had her leg severed.

Tourist Agnieszka Gogolewski, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, who has just returned from the resort, said ­holidaymakers were given little information about the dangers.

‘We saw a diver being brought out of the water after being attacked by a shark,’ she told Sky News.

‘Only an hour after the attack we saw people were still swimming. It is terrible that no one was warning tourists. The hotels were saying nothing and people were diving and swimming about unaware of the danger.’

The attacks will deal a serious blow to Egypt’s tourist industry.

Sharm el-Sheikh is one of the country’s most popular holiday spots, attracting more than four million visitors a year, including thousands of Britons.

Tony Blair has holidayed with his family several times at the resort.


Predator: The attacks are believed to have been carried out by an oceanic whitetip shark, which can grow up to 13ft:




Terror: Tourists at the Egyptian resort had been told it was safe to go back into the water:




Horror: The latest attack resembles the plot of the 1975 film Jaws, where the mayor tells swimmers it is safe to go back into the water after fishermen catch a shark, with disastrous consequences:




Environmentalists warned the attacks may have been caused by overfishing in the region, which has brought sharks closer to shore to feed.

One diving expert said the sharks could have been drawn to the coastline by dead cattle – being brought in for the Islamic feast of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha – being dumped in the water.

‘It is unusual to have four attacks in a week,’ said Rolf Schmid, manager of the Sinai Divers’ Centre.

‘The area hasn’t had sharks for the past ten to 15 years.

‘A possible reason for these attacks is cattle and sheep imported from Australia die on the long voyage and are thrown in the water before the ships reach the harbour.’

U.S. shark expert Samuel Gruber said the spate of incidents recalled Steven Spielberg’s 1975 movie Jaws.

He said: ‘It seems the shark in one day bit more than one person. In all my years reading about shark attacks and writing about them you never hear about sharks biting more than one person.

‘Then for it to happen again is almost like a Jaws scenario.’

In the film, fishermen capture a tiger shark after one attack and the mayor of Amity declares it is safe for people to go back into the water, with disastrous results.

Leo "Apollo11"

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to Apollo11)

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

Morning chaps 

It is literally cold outside

Cold enough for Scotts to wear something under their kilts?

i don't remenber Martin pretending to be a Scott, i think he always told he was from boring Lincolnshire, right ?

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to gladiatt)

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Hi all,

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Ungodly hour morning tithe.

Why up so early thread brother Onime?


Leo "Apollo11"

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ORIGINAL: sprior

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Is the situation regarding snow and cold in UK normalizing Simon?

No snow but bloody freezing, -13C this morning.

Had this 2 days ago. Now it's your turn.
Be careful not to slip on an ice floor !! (no kidding here; the Urgency in the hospital in all Alps town are overbooked with all the accidents we had; too many people fell on the ice).

"Grown ups are what's left when skool is finished."
"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
- Nigel Molesworth.

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Eeeeeeeeeeeeek!

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'The water was churning like I was in a washing machine': Briton's horror after German tourist, 70, dies when her arm is ripped off in shark attack

* Woman killed just days after officials declared waters WERE safe to swim in
* Four holidaymakers injured in shark attacks last week

A tourist swimming at a winter sun resort popular with Britons died after having her arm torn off by a shark - just days after tourism bosses declared the beach safe to swim from.

The attack came after four other holidaymakers suffered horrific injuries in similar incidents – leading to fears of a Jaws-style rogue predator stalking the coastline.

Beaches at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, had only just been reopened following the earlier attacks when the latest victim, a 70-year-old German woman, went snorkelling on a reef close to the shore.


Attack: A German tourist died after being attacked by a shark at Sharm el-Sheikh, despite claims by officials that this animal was the killer:




Authorities had reassured tourists that they had captured two sharks – an oceanic whitetip and a mako – and the Red Sea waters were once again safe for swimming.

But their claims were proved tragically false with the fatal attack on Saturday.

Witnesses told how the woman screamed for help after an oceanic whitetip shark tore off her arm and part of her thigh. She is said to have died within minutes.

Briton Ellen Barnes frantically swam for the shoreline after describing the water around her turning red with blood.

She told The Sun: 'I have never felt pure terror like that. The water was churning like I was in a washing machine.

'The shark was thrashing and tearing at this poor woman and I could barely keep my head above the water it was so choppy.

'And the swimmer was screaming "Help me! Help me!" in English. It was spine-chilling. I just threw myself on to the beach.'


Wrong fish: An oceanic whitetip and a mako shark were caught by conservationists after four tourists were injured in two separate attacks last week:




Off limits: Seas at the popular Sharm El Sheikh resort on the Egyptian Red Sea coast were closed after two attacks last week:







Suddenly there was a scream for help and a lot of violence in the water,’ said Jochen Van Lysebettens, manager of the Red Sea Diving College at the Sinai Peninsula resort.

He said the victim, who was pulled from the water by a lifeguard, was a regular visitor to the luxury Hyatt Regency Hotel, one of the world’s most popular scuba diving destinations.

Oceanic whitetips – once described by late marine expert Jacques Cousteau as the most dangerous of all sharks – are not usually found so close to shore.

The beaches were immediately closed again and tourists were warned to stay out of the water. But there were claims last night that the authorities had been too slow to react to the ­initial danger.

The earlier attacks had seen three Russians and a Ukrainian injured.

In one of those incidents, an elderly woman had her hand ripped off and another female swimmer had her leg severed.

Tourist Agnieszka Gogolewski, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, who has just returned from the resort, said ­holidaymakers were given little information about the dangers.

‘We saw a diver being brought out of the water after being attacked by a shark,’ she told Sky News.

‘Only an hour after the attack we saw people were still swimming. It is terrible that no one was warning tourists. The hotels were saying nothing and people were diving and swimming about unaware of the danger.’

The attacks will deal a serious blow to Egypt’s tourist industry.

Sharm el-Sheikh is one of the country’s most popular holiday spots, attracting more than four million visitors a year, including thousands of Britons.

Tony Blair has holidayed with his family several times at the resort.


Predator: The attacks are believed to have been carried out by an oceanic whitetip shark, which can grow up to 13ft:




Terror: Tourists at the Egyptian resort had been told it was safe to go back into the water:




Horror: The latest attack resembles the plot of the 1975 film Jaws, where the mayor tells swimmers it is safe to go back into the water after fishermen catch a shark, with disastrous consequences:




Environmentalists warned the attacks may have been caused by overfishing in the region, which has brought sharks closer to shore to feed.

One diving expert said the sharks could have been drawn to the coastline by dead cattle – being brought in for the Islamic feast of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha – being dumped in the water.

‘It is unusual to have four attacks in a week,’ said Rolf Schmid, manager of the Sinai Divers’ Centre.

‘The area hasn’t had sharks for the past ten to 15 years.

‘A possible reason for these attacks is cattle and sheep imported from Australia die on the long voyage and are thrown in the water before the ships reach the harbour.’

U.S. shark expert Samuel Gruber said the spate of incidents recalled Steven Spielberg’s 1975 movie Jaws.

He said: ‘It seems the shark in one day bit more than one person. In all my years reading about shark attacks and writing about them you never hear about sharks biting more than one person.

‘Then for it to happen again is almost like a Jaws scenario.’

In the film, fishermen capture a tiger shark after one attack and the mayor of Amity declares it is safe for people to go back into the water, with disastrous results.

Daily Mail? The fact it's all about the Brits in Egypt makes it likely. The sharks are probably illegal immigrants on benefits as well (The eye rolling isn't at your posting Leo, more at the Daily Mail*) How is this anything like Jaws btw? Has a giant rubbery shark been attacking boats as well?

Still, it's not the sharks fault, we just happen to look like food from some angles, splashing around in the water in a known shark habitat comes with risks.... Would it be in bad taste to say Tony BLair should go for another swim?


*The tabloid of choice for the angry middle classes

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Hi all,

Yep... DailyMail UK... how did you guess?

BTW, it is news because Briton was almost attacked - it is not news that some Russians and Ukrainians were severely hurt (limbs bitten off) and that German died...


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Yep... DailyMail UK... how did you guess?

BTW, it is news because Briton was almost attacked - it is not news that some Russians and Ukrainians were severely hurt (limbs bitten off) and that German died...

Call it a wild guess

It's in the news because someone was almost attacked. But they weren't.

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Call it a wild guess

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Early morning title... Had to get our 15 year-old cat put to sleep yesterday, as he had cancer of the liver, and had stopped eating. I held him while the Vet give him the shot, and felt his life leave him. I hope today is a better day, and think I will have a Scotch after dinner tonight for my friend.

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"History started badly and hav been geting steadily worse."
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Early morning title... Had to get our 15 year-old cat put to sleep yesterday, as he had cancer of the liver, and had stopped eating. I held him while the Vet give him the shot, and felt his life leave him. I hope today is a better day, and think I will have a Scotch after dinner tonight for my friend.

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ORIGINAL: DivePac88

Early morning title... Had to get our 15 year-old cat put to sleep yesterday, as he had cancer of the liver, and had stopped eating. I held him while the Vet give him the shot, and felt his life leave him. I hope today is a better day, and think I will have a Scotch after dinner tonight for my friend.

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Early morning title... Had to get our 15 year-old cat put to sleep yesterday, as he had cancer of the liver, and had stopped eating. I held him while the Vet give him the shot, and felt his life leave him. I hope today is a better day, and think I will have a Scotch after dinner tonight for my friend.

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Continental 'responsible' for Concorde crash in 2000

By BBC

BBC's Christian Fraser said what the families were looking for was someone to blame and they had that now in Continental Airlines

A Paris court has said Continental Airlines was "criminally responsible" for the crash of a Concorde supersonic jet 10 years ago, and fined it 200,000 euros (£170,000).

It has also been ordered to pay 1m euros to the jet's operator Air France.

A Continental mechanic, John Taylor, was given a 15-month suspended prison sentence over the crash.

Continental has said it will appeal, saying the verdict "only protects French interests".

Another airline operative, Stanley Ford, and three French officials were cleared.

The Concorde caught fire shortly after take-off from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris in July 2000, killing 113 people.

The court ruled that the crash was caused by a piece of metal left on the runway after falling from a Continental jet. Investigators said this caused a tyre-burst in the jet, which in turn ruptured a fuel tank.

The judge in the case confirmed investigators' findings that titanium debris dropped by a Continental DC-10 onto the runway at Charles de Gaulle airport before the Concorde took off was to blame.

John Taylor should not have used titanium parts to make repairs on the DC-10 because the metal was known to be too dangerous for aeroplane tyres, and he should have used a softer metal, aluminium, instead, the court found.

Continental had disputed this interpretation, saying the airliner, operated by Air France, was already in flames before it hit the small piece of titanium.

"While we agree with the court's decision that Stanley Ford was innocent of the charges he faced and we share his relief that his decade-long nightmare is over, we strongly disagree with the court's verdict regarding Continental Airlines and John Taylor and will of course appeal this absurd finding," a UK-based Continental spokesman said in a statement.

"Portraying the metal strip as the cause of the accident, and Continental and one of its employees as the sole guilty parties, shows the determination of the French authorities to shift attention and blame away from Air France, which was government-owned at the time and operated and maintained the aircraft, as well as from the French authorities responsible for the Concorde's airworthiness and safety."

Pointing the finger

The families of most victims were compensated years ago, so financial claims were not the trial's focus, but apportioning blame was, says the BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris.

Most of the passengers were German tourists heading to New York to join a luxury cruise to the Caribbean. Nine French crew members and four hotel workers also died.

Following Monday's verdict, Air France, which paid out 100m euros in compensation to victims' families, may decide to seek to reclaim some of that money from the US company.

There is a separate court case taking place over economic compensation for the crash.



1. 1643 local time: Smoke seen as Air France Concorde 4590 takes off. Investigators found the tyre had exploded after hitting a metal strip left on the runway. Tyre pieces hit the fuel tank causing a fuel leak, which ignited.
2. Control tower tells pilot large flames coming from tail end.
3. Less than two kilometres from airport, pilot tries to gain altitude.
4. Almost five kilometres from airport, Concorde starts to roll and fall.
5. 1644 local time: Concorde crashes killing 109 on board and four on ground.

Source: Bureau Enquêtes-Accidents

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Early morning title... Had to get our 15 year-old cat put to sleep yesterday, as he had cancer of the liver, and had stopped eating. I held him while the Vet give him the shot, and felt his life leave him. I hope today is a better day, and think I will have a Scotch after dinner tonight for my friend.

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Russian satellites fail to enter orbit after launch

Three Russian satellites have failed to enter orbit after they were launched on a rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.


One Russian aerospace source said the carrier rocket veered off course after launch:




Russian aerospace experts said the satellites and the upper stage rocket carrying them probably fell into the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.

Officials said the satellites went off course after separating with a booster rocket from the main launch rocket.

The satellites were to be part of a navigation system meant to rival GPS.

They were being carried on a Proton-M rocket launched earlier on Sunday.

A source in Russia's aerospace industry told Ria-Novosti news agency that the rocket had veered off course by eight degrees after its launch.

Russia has already successfully launched a number of the Glonass satellites this year. The navigation system is meant to be in place next year.

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Suggested requirement for imported GPS-capable products

On July 16, 2010, during a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Evtushenkov called for an import ban on all the GPS-capable devices unless these devices support Glonass as well. Vladimir Evtushenkov is currently a main shareholder of JFSC Sistema, which has major financial interests in GLONASS. Evtushenkov claimed that Russian authorities had already started negotiations with major vendors like Nokia, Siemens and Motorola. Vladimir Putin agreed that "It is good that our partners understand our need to protect our national interests and promote our product". According to Russian experts, it was possible that mobile devices like smartphones would be effectively banned as well. Some producers claimed that if additional expenses to add GLONASS were too high, they may consider turning off satnav feature in devices for Russian market to avoid import ban.

On August 11, 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who is in charge of GLONASS development, called for a 25% import duty on all GPS-capable devices unless they are compatible with GLONASS. The duty is proposed to be implemented from January 2011. Russian government believes this move would "stimulate international interest" in the system.

On October 27, 2010, Sergei Ivanov confirmed a plan to introduce a 25% import duty on all GPS-capable devices, including mobile phones, unless they are compatible with GLONASS. As well, the government is planning to force all car manufactures in Russia to make cars with GLONASS starting from 2011. This will affect all car makers, including foreign brands like Ford and Toyota, which have car assembling facilities in Russia.

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Early morning title... Had to get our 15 year-old cat put to sleep yesterday, as he had cancer of the liver, and had stopped eating. I held him while the Vet give him the shot, and felt his life leave him. I hope today is a better day, and think I will have a Scotch after dinner tonight for my friend.