Pet bathrooms open at D.C. area airports - your pet can make a pit stop too before getting on the plane with you -

Pet bathrooms open at D.C. area airports - your pet can make a pit stop too before getting on the plane with you - 

Dulles and Reagan National Airports have opened "pet relief areas" to let dogs go to the bathroom before they fly. (Photo courtesy of MWAA.)


 Now your pet can make a pit stop too before getting on the plane with you at two D.C. area airports.
Dulles and Reagan National Airports have opened "pet relief areas" to give dogs a place to go to the bathroom at the airport.
The pet areas were created because of federal rules requiring "service animal relief areas" for service animals that accompany passengers on trips, but the areas are also open for families traveling with pets.
Each fenced-in dog bathroom at Dulles has a fake fire hydrant, artificial grass, and bags so the owners can clean up after their pups. There are three pet areas outside the main terminal and two inside the concourses. The indoor locations have ventilation and flushing systems to keep everything clean.
Reagan National has all four of its pets areas outside on natural grass before you get through security.
Click for the full list of pet areas atReagan National Airport and Dulles Airport then look under the "Airport Services" tab.


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Flights diverted, delayed as UFO detected hovering -

Flights diverted, delayed as UFO detected hovering -



A photo taken by a resident in Hangzhou shows an unidentified flying object hovering over Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, late Wednesday, July 7, 2010. [Photo/Metro Express]

An unidentified flying object (UFO) disrupted air traffic over Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou late on Wednesday, the municipal government said on Thursday.

Xiaoshan Airport was closed after the UFO was detected at around 9 pm, and some flights were rerouted to airports in the cities of Ningbo and Wuxi , said an airport spokesman, who declined to be named.

The airport had resumed operations, and more details will be released after an investigation, he said.

A source with knowledge of the matter, however, told China Daily on Thursday that authorities had learned what the UFO was after an investigation.

But it was not the proper time to publicly disclose the information because there was a military connection, he said, adding that an official explanation is expected to be given on Friday.

Inbound flights were diverted to the nearby airports in Zhejiang province's Ningbo and Jiangsu province's Wuxi. Outbound flights were delayed for three to four hours.

A staff member at the airport's information desk said the airport had "no idea" how many flights were affected by the closure.

At around 11 pm on Wednesday, a netizen wrote three entries announcing the airport's closure in

his microblog at Sina.com, but they were all soon deleted.

He posted an apology at midnight, saying the news had not been confirmed and asking those who had republished his earlier entries to delete them.


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Venezuela nabs 2 for trying to 'Twitter' a run on banks - face 11 years in jail for disrupt normal banking practices -

Venezuela nabs 2 for trying to 'Twitter' a run on banks -  face 11 years in jail for disrupt normal banking practices - 





Police said that two people were under arrest for allegedly trying to destabilizeVenezuela's banking sector by putting out rumors on Twitter.
The suspects, a man and a woman, could face up to 11 years in jail under the terms of a 2001 law punishing the dissemination of false information or the use of any other fraudulent means to disrupt normal banking practices.
The couple in custody "were using the social networking site Twitter to disseminate false rumors with the purpose of destabilizing the national banking system... and trigger a run on banks," said scientific and technical police chiefWilmer Flores, on Thursday.
Police seized from the suspects a cellular phone that included "the first message" sent on Twitter, as well as two external hard drives and other portable memory devices. However, police did not divulge the exact content of the tweets.
Venezuelan banks have been on tenterhooks since leftist President Hugo Chavez's administration began intervening in the sector, with more than a dozen small- and mid-sized banks having been either expropriated or shut down since November 2009.
The latest government takeover earlier this month involved Banco Federal, the country's eighth largest bank. Chavez blamed the bank directors, who so far have eluded  arrest, of "leading a bank irresponsibly into a position of bankruptcy."  


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