20 tons of mayo spills onto interstate

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20 tons of mayo spills onto interstate SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (UPI) -- Missouri authorities said they are investigating a tractor-trailer crash that spilled 40,000 pounds of mayonnaise onto Interstate 44. Springfield police Lt. Scott Leven said the truck driver lost control of the vehicle Saturday night and wound up between the bridge supports and a guardrail underneath the U.S. 65 overpass on I-44, spilling the 20 tons of condiment onto the pavement, the Springfield News-Leader reported Monday. Leven said no other vehicles were involved in the crash and the cause of the incident is under investigation. He said the driver was not injured. Police said the eastbound lanes of I-44 were closed for several hours Saturday night for cleanup. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Sculptor plans world's largest motorcycle REGENT, N.D. (UPI) -- A North Dakota man said he is planning to build the world's largest motorcycle sculpture to draw tourists to his town. Gary Greff, whose metal sculptures of grasshoppers, deer, fish and other animals line the Enchanted Highway outside of Regent, said he wants to assemble the motorcycle, planned to measure 102 feet from wheel to wheel and 42 feet from ground to handlebars, next winter with an aim of displaying it on Regent's Main Street in summer 2012, the Bismark Tribune reported Monday. Greff said he is hoping the motorcycle sculpture will draw tourists traveling to the annual Sturgis Rally in South Dakota. "Bikers are always looking for a day trip from Sturgis and maybe we can entice them for an overnight stopover," he said. Greff said he and his brother, Don Greff, are currently working on transforming the former Regent Elementary School into a 23-room motel to serve as a source of funds for maintaining the Enchanted Highway and creating new sculptures. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Robot 'natural language' claim misleading? AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) -- The Texas-based Global Language Monitor said IBM's "Jeopardy!" champion robot, Watson, is not an advancement in "natural language processing." The organization, which follows and analyzes language trends around the world, said claims that Watson used "natural language processing" to best human competitors Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter during this month's "Jeopardy!" showdown appear to be misleading. "Watson did not prove adept at processing language in a manner similar to humans," said Paul Payack, president and chief word analyst at GLM. "In fact, computers have dramatically failed at this task for four decades now," he said. "What Watson has accomplished is a far cry from 'natural language processing.' Rather, what Watson achieved was a very close approximation of appearing as if it had acquired an acuity at understanding of the English language. "This, in itself, is an accomplishment to be acknowledged. After all, Watson was designed from the ground up as a 'question-answering machine,' as IBM readily admits." However, Payack said, that's "not quite accurate" because Watson was specifically built as a game-show answering machine for "Jeopardy!" Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Police: Suspect changed in Porta-Potty OCALA, Fla. (UPI) -- Police in Florida said a suspected bank robber was arrested when he was spotted exiting a portable toilet in different clothes shortly after the crime. Ocala police said Charles Grier, 52, entered a Bank of America location about 9:40 a.m. Friday and gave a teller a threatening note demanding cash and indicating he had a gun, WKMG-TV, Orlando, Fla., reported Monday. Grier left the bank with an unspecified amount of cash and was next spotted by a police detective who noticed "a suspicious man" exiting a Porta-Potty across the street from the bank branch. The detective followed the man to a nearby restaurant and he was arrested with money from the bank. Police said a search of the portable toilet turned up the robbery note, an Airsoft pellet gun and the clothing the robber wore during the crime. Grier was jailed on robbery charges in lieu of $10,000 bond. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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