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    • Inca and Rayas are already incubating the egg and getting ready to be parents

      The Toronto Zoo may have separated "gay" penguins Buddy and Pedro, but zookeepers in Madrid are taking a different approach with their all-male couple.

      Inca and Rayas, the couple at Madrid's Faunia Park, have been given an egg to take care of.

      "We wanted them to have something to stay together for - so we got an egg," said zookeeper Yolanda Martin in a Telegraph article. "Otherwise they might have become depressed."

      The couple has had to watch other penguins raise their young.

      According to the Telegraph, Inca has taken on the role of incubating the donated egg and sits like a statue atop it while Rayas watches the nest and eats as much as he can in preparation of having to feed the little one regurgitated food.

      Martin said it's great to cheer people up as Spain is in an economic turmoil, but notes the pair actually isn't gay. They are just best friends who have been together for six years.

      "When you put

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    • A three-year-old boy has escaped unharmed after driving his toy motorcycle into a busy intersection in China.

      According to reports, the boy's grandfather was watching him Monday, but when the grandfather went to the bathroom the boy disappeared.

      As the video shows, the toddler slowly makes his way into the massive Wenzhou intersection, in China's Zhejiang Province. Cars and buses manage to miss him, but don't stop to help.

      A police officer eventually spotted the boy and led him out of the intersection and to safety.

    • The future of new companies and technology may be out to sea - on a giant cruise ship.

      A four-person Sunnyvale startup, backed by prominent investor Peter Thiel, is working on a barge that will be anchored about 19 kilometres off the coast of California. They say the community will solve the problems of immigration red tape and the overpriced housing market in Silicon Valley.

      It will be able to hold about 1,000 entrepreneurs and allow them to work a short distance from startup founders and venture capitalists without needing a U.S. working permit.

      "Blueseed is a visa-free startup incubator, 12 miles offshore from Silicon Valley, on a vessel in international waters outside the jurisdiction of the United States," reads the website.

      They boast "awesome hackerspace," accommodation to fit any budget, daily ferry rides to the mainland and of course no one needs a visa to start working there.

      The goal is to have entrepreneurs come from anywhere in the world and connect into Silicon Valley and

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    • The Moments Machine gave people in Justin Herman Plaza items such as surf boards and skis

      Tourists and residents passing by a San Francisco plaza recently could experience a little bit of what B.C. has to offer.

      Tourism British Columbia placed a massive one of a kind 14-foot tall vending machine in Justin Herman Plaza from May 17 to 19, but this was no normal vending machine. It didn't dispense chips or pop, but rather mountain bikes, kayaks and surfboards.

      "We hope that the installation will allow us to show the people of San Francisco the diverse range of travel experiences they can find in British Columbia, and invite everyone to come and try them for themselves this summer," said Jacqueline Simpson, Marketing Manager, Consumer Programs, North America of Tourism BC in a statement.

      The device, called the BC Moments Machine is part of the '100 BC Moments' Campaign, which is trying to encourage people to visit B.C. this summer and see what the province has to offer.

      People walking in

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    • University students are usually buzzing on graduation day, but there was an entirely different buzz at Boston University's graduation on Sunday.

      A swarm of bees made a guest appearance and all seemed to want to sit on the same seat.

      According to a WHDH article, beekeepers said the bees were following their queen to a new hive and decided to take a break.


      The roughly 5,000 unticketed guests overtook the guest section about 45 minutes before the ceremony was set to begin, reports BU Today. Luckily, one of the people in charge of setup and take down for the commencement, Bill Murray, is also a backyard beekeeper and the adviser to BU's Beekeepers Club. He calmly took action and removed the chair.

      Beekeepers took the chair with the bees on it and put it in a trash bin. The B.U. Beekeepers Club is going to give them a new home by the Charles River.

      (Reuters photos)

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    • The thief was caught after quick-thinking employees recognized the man and the fake jewel he gave them back

      When kids grow up playing cops and robbers they usually don't have to sit around waiting for a bad guy to expel evidence.

      But that's what Windsor, Ont., police had to do after a famous jewelry thief, Richard Mackenzie Matthews, allegedly swallowed a $20,000 diamond. The 1.7-carat stone was finally passed by the accused on Saturday, police say. Tests have confirmed that the stone is, in fact, the missing Precision Jewellers gem.

      The alleged thief, who is known for robbing other stores elsewhere and called the diamond switcher, initially came in to case out the Precision Jewellers, the Windsor Star reports. He returned and asked for the same employee, Liz Dick, to help him find an engagement ring. She pulled out the diamond and let him hold it.

      "I was shaking, I was scared but I tried not to show it," she said to the Windsor Star. "The last thing I wanted him to do was bolt from

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    • Canadian offices, university adding slidesCorus Entertainment and Grip Limited both have one and UBC will be getting two in their new student union building

      Students at the University of British Columbia may be sliding between floors of their new student union building in a couple years, but employees at two Toronto companies are already enjoying the thrill.

      Corus installed a three-storey slide inside their new headquarters on Queen's Quay and advertising agency Grip Limited also gives their employees an alternative to the elevator or stairs.

      "When I first heard about it, I immediately thought of recess in elementary school," said Jamie Galloro about the Corus slide to Maclean's On Campus. She watches cartoons for a living, witch is called quality control and says she takes the slide most days. "The novelty has not worn off."

      Chief technology officer Scott Dyer oversaw the design of the headquarters and said the building has improved employee satisfaction. He told Maclean's he has a lot of people now asking if they are

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    • The Toronto band entertained passengers while stuck on the tarmac at Pearson International

      When planes are delayed on the tarmac people usually groan and grab a book, but a group of people had an entirely different idea when they were stuck on a plane at Pearson.

      The members of the Lemon Bucket Orkestra grabbed their instruments and started playing in the aisles. And the passengers seemed to really dig it as they started smiling and clapping along.

      "Our plane got delayed 20 minutes so we got out the instruments," reads the YouTube page.

      The band, which describes itself as "Toronto's only Balkan-Klezmer-Gypsy-Party-Punk Super-Band" on a Facebook page, delighted passengers with a four-song set while delayed at the Toronto airport on a flight to Europe.

      They were heading to Romania for their Balkan Station 2012 Tour and will be playing the International Romani Art Festival.

      We're not sure how the instruments, especially the trombone and saxophone, had made it into the cabin, but wouldn't

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    • Bill Wisth is picketing Chuck's Place for not letting him eat as much fish as he could

      A U.S. man is protesting a restaurant because the so-called all-you-can-eat special didn't allow him to truly eat all that he could.

      Bill Wisth went to Chuck's Place in Thiensville, Wisconsin for their all-you-can-eat fish fry Friday night special, but the restaurant wouldn't serve him more than 12 pieces of fish.

      "It's false advertising," he said to TODAY's TMJ4 in Milwaukee. "We asked for more fish and they refused to give us any more fish."

      According to a NewsCore article, the restaurant managers dispute Wisth's claims and say they gave him eight more pieces, but then asked him to leave. They also argue they were running low on fish for other customers and described Wisth as a problem customer who has an outstanding tab with the restaurant.

      Upset by the move, Wisth, who weighs about 160kg (350 pounds), called the police to complain and then a couple days later showed up at the restaurant with a

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    • The company had 3.5 pounds of weapons-grade uranium in Rochester for more than 30 years

      Just across Lake Ontario in Rochester, N.Y., Kodak had kept a small nuclear reactor and weapons-grade uranium for more than 30 years in a basement research facility.

      The Democrat and Chronicle, a newspaper in Rochester, reports the company had 3.5 pounds of enriched uranium, but it carried no risk of explosion and never leaked.

      "It's such an odd situation because private companies just don't have this material," said Miles Pomper, a senior research associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, to the Democrat and Chronicle.

      The paper learned of the device when an employee just happened to mention it to a reporter.

      "It was a known entity, but it was not well-publicized," said Albert Filo, a former Kodak research scientist who worked with the device, to the paper.

      Kodak originally got the device, which they closed down six years ago, to see if subatomic particles could be used to

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