Chris Brown, senior marine biologist at the Loch Lomond aquarium, said seasonal chartbusters would be piped through walkthrough underwater tunnels where they can be heard by dozens of nurse sharks, black-tip reef sharks, and ray species.
Experts will then monitor the sharks' reactions to different hits.
Mr Brown said outward signs such as them lowering their fin tips, swimming faster and making sudden tight turns would indicate excitement or aggression.
He said: "We'll play everything from Kim Wilde and Mel Smith's Rocking Around the Christmas Tree and Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade to Wham's Last Christmas.
"We may find they prefer something softer like White Christmas by Bing Crosby.
"But we will be answering the question – do rays know it's Christmas?"
Mr Brown said nurse sharks and other species of carpet shark which spend most of their time lying on the bed of the tanks, could be the best barometers for the impact of those pop tunes. Their reactions will tell the researchers whether the sharks are enjoying the music or whether it turns them off.
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They took ten shots, and even put them on a CD for me, but they said that shot was the best. They also said this one was pretty cool too. 
Do you agree?Firemen and RSPCA officers were left feeling like right Twit-twoo's after spending hours trying to rescue a toy owl from a telegraph pole.So the question remains. Was the owl a really good decoy? Or are there a lot of really stupid people running around out there? I guess we'll never know without a picture of the owl.
A passer-by - concerned the owl had not moved in days - contacted the animal charity who, armed with a net to catch the bird, tried to coax it down.
After a couple of hours of shouting to the fake plastic owl the doppy rescue worker called in a team from Essex Fire Service.
Officers climbed the 30 ft pole in a bid to get the animal to move but as they got near local residents told them it was made of plastic.
Luckily the RSPCA and the fire service could see the funny side and had aright 'hoot'.
The owl had been placed on the pole by British Telecom to stop real birds from perching there.
In a rambling and profane interview, he said he kept stabbing Chalifoux because he wouldn't die.Yeah, because he was so scared for his life that he needed some pepperoni and cheese right now.
"I told him just hurry up and die already ... So I keep stabbin' him and stabbin' and stabbin' him and stabbin' him and stabbin' him, trying to slash his throat to get a jugular vein," Falle told police.
"He wouldn't bleed properly the way he should've bled, according to the movies."
He told police that Chalifoux was begging for his life, but Falle said he could not let him go because he feared his fellow gang members were in the hallway ready to attack.
After the killing, Falle tried to borrow a smoke and leaned out the window to ask his neighbour to order him a pizza.
Thanet council in Kent said it was happy with the way the incident in Margate had been dealt with.
'We take a zero tolerance approach to anyone who drops litter, including cigarette butts and chewing gum,' it said.
'No excuses will be accepted.'
The Palm Pistol is the world's first ergonomic firearm, according to Constitution Arms.
The single-shot 9mm weapon is grasped in the palm of the hand, with the barrel pointing out between the fingers.
Instead of pulling a trigger to fire the gun, users press their thumb on a button at the top.
"Point and shoot couldn't be easier," the New Jersey-based company claims on its website.
His attorney, Matt Graff of the Lancaster County Public Defender’s Office, argued the investigator played on Pischel’s emotions and continued to chat with him after Pischel said no thanks — she was too young — two months earlier.
When Pischel said he wouldn’t meet, the investigator sent an angry face emoticon. When Pischel tried to end the chat without contacting the “girl” again, the investigator blew him a “kiss.”
Chief Justice Michael Heavican asked how specifically someone can “blow a kiss” online.
Graff said it was done by typing certain keys that create a picture, similar to a smiley face made by a colon and a parenthesis. In this case, he argued, it added up to government inducement — by case law, opportunity plus “something else.”
“At first blush, it seems kind of silly to say the opportunity plus something else is an angry emoticon, an angry face. But that’s really what it is,” Graff said.
He argued Pischel should have a new trial because the jury wasn’t allowed to be given an instruction on the entrapment defense.
Burger King is under fire for a new advertising campaign featuring "burger virgins", impoverished villagers in remote parts of the world, taking part in Whopper versus Big Mac taste tests.
In teaser adverts promoting its "Whopper Virgins" challenge, the fast food chain describes how it sought out farmers in rural Romania, Thai villagers and residents of Greenland's icy tundra to compare its signature burger with arch rival McDonalds'.
"What happens if you take Transylvanian farmers who have never eaten a burger and ask them to compare Whopper versus Big Mac in the world's purest taste test?" one of the adverts asks. "Will they prefer the Whopper? These are the Whopper Virgins."
The "undeniable" results of the chain's "unbiased" global research – which involved "13 planes, two dog sleds and one helicopter" – will be unveiled in a documentary next week, according to whoppervirgins.com, the website promoting the campaign.
"If you want a real opinion about a burger, ask someone who doesn't even have a word for burger," states the site to a haunting theme of drums and pan pipes. "Watch the whopper virgins take their first bite."
A man removed his clothes in front of several children to "prove to his girlfriend that he wasn't going to use methamphetamine anymore," investigators wrote in charges filed Monday.
The man, 26, was wearing only shorts near 6400 South and Meadowcrest Road on Nov. 3, police wrote. He took the shorts off, threw them on the ground and ran naked into a house, deputies wrote. Several children were in the vicinity, deputies wrote.
He later told officers the gesture was meant for his girlfriend.
Investigators found the victim's hair in "disorder.” She said she and the alleged wig-snatcher lived together for eight months. She knew his first name, but apparently only recalled the first letter of his last name.
The ex-boyfriend called the victim's cell phone while an officer was there. Speaking to an officer via the cell phone, he admitted pulling the wig off and leaving when the victim started crying and said she was calling authorities.
The ex-boyfriend hung up after police asked for his last name. Investigators continue to try to identify the alleged wig-puller.
Last month, at Killorglin District Court in Kerry, two separate drink-driving cases were dismissed after the presiding judge ruled that the steam of the defendants' urine could have affected their alcohol readings taken during subsequent breath testing.
They were not the first cases where Judge O'Connor has agreed with defence submissions that inhalation of urine fumes could have skewed breath-test results and cases should be dismissed. The law requires that a person suspected of drink driving must be observed by a garda for 20 minutes at a garda station before their breath sample is taken.
During that 20-minute period they must not consume anything by mouth.
In both cases, the solicitor, Mr O'Connell, argued that during this 20-minute period both his clients had used a toilet to urinate. Because the two men urinated with their backs to the prosecuting garda, the 20-minute observation period had been interrupted. The solicitor argued that a new 20-minute observation period should have begun when his clients returned from the toilet and that the cases should be dismissed.
Judge O'Connor agreed. He stated that the purpose of the 20-minute observation period is to ensure nothing is taken by mouth that may affect the reading from the breath test.
"Nil by mouth is the same as nil by nose," Judge O'Connor declared. "When he is urinating, he is inhaling vapourised alcohol and there's always steam off it."
Paris Hilton has finished work on her second album. “I wrote all the songs myself,” Hilton said of the album, which is still in need of a label.
3. You gain insight
You cannot ever be rid of people entirely. I know this, I have tried. Hell, even Howard Hughes, the modern prophet of anti-socialism still had to deal with his lawyers. People, however, will be reduced to bite-sized chunks. You will be able to analyze them as you take your breaks from analyzing more important things. Spend enough time thinking about enough data and you come to some pretty interesting conclusions. The fact is that most people reveal far more than is immediately obvious in the course of a casual conversation, you just have to put it under a microscope, which means it needs isolated, and you
need private time look at it.
8. You don’t miss out on a whole lot
Most people have little to offer aside from the psychological comfort of being around another human being. They are not fun or interesting to anybody, least of all for the people who settle for them. In all but a few instances you could lose a relationship and feel very little, but even when you do, it’s pretty much always survivable. You lose that comfort from being around a particular person, but that’s more about adjusting to change than anything else. The point is that people are not all that important, not all that interesting, not all that fun, not all that essential. You would be making a better use of your time doing a crossword puzzle or learning a few words in a foreign language than hanging out with them.
10. It helps you deal with loneliness
The most sociable, chatty, clingy, blowhards out there, the ones who try to spend as little time alone as possible, for them being alone is the same thing as being lonely. For the antisocial loneliness is very different from the sensation of being alone, they are two distinctly separate feelings. The anti-social can feel loneliness, but it’s rare. You treasure the moments with no distractions, no background movement, no responsibilities beyond what you have in front of you. That is largely, I suspect, a learned reaction to being alone a lot, but it’s good since everybody has to be alone at some point and it’s best to see it as a gift rather than a burden.
Diagnosing a child with autism is usually done when the infant turns two, but using MEG technology, this could be done as early as after one year of existence.
The Testicles Cookbook - Cooking with Balls is a multimedia cookbook complete with how-to videos on cooking testicle dishes. Including Testicle Pizza, Testicle Goulash and White Wine Testicles, this is a short teaser taken from the full cookbook, written by Serbian testicles chef, Ljubomir Erovic. The full book is available to buy on YUDU in English and Serbian.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- A 27-year-old man walking home from a Coldplay concert plunged 30 feet to his death after he tried to leap across a gap in a bridge spanning a riverbed.
Police say witnesses saw Guillermo Gomez, of Alhambra, try to jump across a 10-foot gap that separates the westbound and eastbound lanes of traffic and fall onto a bike path below.
Sgt. Rick Martinez says Gomez, who had attended the concert with a relative, died less than an hour later at the hospital.
He says the gap in the roadway was surrounded by 2-foot-high concrete barriers.
She was really just hoping for something better when she moved her $5,000 home from a mobile home park to a littered, muddy patch of ground she calls the farm, between a steep cliff and a black-topped road not far from a creek.
"If that's not a lot for a person to ask for," she said, "I don't know what is."
Her boyfriend's mother lives across the way in a barn converted into an apartment. A few feet down the road one way is a home that burned but still stands unlivable and the other way a battered, single-wide with toys abandoned in the yard.
There's room for her five horses, her cats, Satan and Mommy Cat, and her family.
This house might be less crowded. Seven of the 12 people once living with Barton, including her daughter and granddaughter, have found other arrangements.
Because the electricity has not been hooked up yet, she was determined to spend Wednesday night in her new home using kerosene heaters. David Doyle, fearing fire, said he told her it would be better to wait until the electricity is on before moving in.
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