tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74281910557008177052024-03-04T20:49:01.594-08:00Everything happensKirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-23011715008728377382012-10-13T02:59:00.000-07:002012-10-13T02:59:00.095-07:00Brother and sister forced to watch as their parents are killed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These shocking photographs capture the horrific moment a six-year-old boy is forced to describe how he saw his parents and other family members wiped out.<br /><br />Six-year-old Carlos Daniel Gonzalez and his four-year-old sister Izabel escaped with their lives by hiding from the killers as they shot dead their mother and father in the hamlet of 'Las Escobas', in Villa Canales municipality,Guatemala.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />In all, seven members of the Gonzalez family, including an eight-month-old baby and an eight-year-old boy, were slaughtered by the group of strangers. The killings are believed to have been over nothing more sinister than a row over land rights.<br />
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After the bloody killings, the two terrified orphans returned to the crime scene with local authorities to explain what they had seen.<br /><br />According to watchdog International Crisis Group, Guatemala is one of the world's most dangerous countries. It is slightly smaller than Tennessee in size and has a population of about 14million.<br /><br />According to the U.S. State Department, more than 96 per cent of all crimes go unpunished in Guatemala and corruption pervades all levels of government and the police.<br /><br />
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The country is overrun with violent gangs and violence is worst for the poorest people.The Guatemalan government reports that 6,500 people met violent deaths in 2009 and nearly 6,000 were slain in 2010.<br /><br />Forty-one percent of those deaths were linked to drug trafficking, while extortion was another common crime.<br /><br />The Guatemalan Civil War ended in 1996 and the current president is Otto Pérez Molina, whose Patriotic Party won the 2011 election.<br /><br />
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<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-20386282214760096432012-10-11T06:31:00.002-07:002012-10-11T06:31:32.615-07:00Spaniard comes home from jail to find wife's mummified Body<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A Spaniard returned home after being released from prison and found his wife's mummified body in their home.<br /><br />Evidently, it had been more than a year since he had heard from her.<br /><br />The woman, Angeles Fernandez, died in her home in Ciempozuelos, near Madrid, without anyone noticing or missing her, except her jailed husband, who had complained in September 2011 that he had not heard anything from her for a year.<a name='more'></a><br />The local government said Tuesday that a judge had refused on several occasions to allow anyone to enter the home.<br /><br />The judge denied several requests from the town police and the Civil Guard to enter the home after complaints about a foul odor emanating from it and after the husband reported his wife's lack of communication.<br /><br />The Civil Guard reported that the mummified body was found on the bed and apparently bore no signs of violence, although an autopsy will be performed to definitively determine the cause of death.<br /><br />Several neighbors in the building where the woman lived had complained about bad smells coming from the apartment, but the town administration said that such complaints had been a normal occurrence since the dead woman had moved in.<br /><br />"The lack of hygiene ... (of) Angeles Fernandez, on the last occasions that she was seen, were evident and so it was not ruled out that these smells were produced by lack of hygiene inside the home," said the authorities.<br /><br />With the information provided by neighbors and friends of the woman, a court order to enter the home was requested but the judge denied it.<br /><br />According to the Ciempozuelas government, the judge argued that the husband - identified as Eduardo R. - had no authorization to enter the home "since he did not have a relationship with his wife," also saying that he wanted to avoid possible problems "due to his situation of serving a sentence."<br /><br />The husband, who was released from prison on furlough last week, went to the home "knocked the door down and found the body," the municipal administration said.<br /><br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-31353902288748758172012-10-09T07:09:00.001-07:002012-10-09T09:41:21.898-07:00Alligator pool parties for children<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A Florida man is offering entertainment with a difference for children's parties - swimming with alligators.<br />
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For £100, Bob Barrett, from Tampa Bay, takes an alligator to people's backyard pools to swim with their children.<br />
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"It just took off like wildfire," he told the Tampa Bay Times. "Everybody loves having the gator pool parties."<br />
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Mr Barrett, who runs the local Alligator Attraction, came up with the idea during the summer when business was slow.<br />
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"If you're nine, ten or 11 years old, you've already had the 'jumparoo' house, the bounce house, you've had the pizza party, you've had the clown party," he said.<br />
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"You get to have a pool party with a gator. It's a very popular party."<br />
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Mr Barrett tapes the alligators' mouths shut before the parties which he insists are safe.<br />
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed he isn't doing anything illegal, but added: "We will say that this is not something that we encourage."<br />
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<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-33175077470129263832012-10-09T06:51:00.001-07:002012-10-09T06:51:47.021-07:00100-Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Found in Amber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Researchers have found trapped in amber a rare dinosaur-age scene of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web.<br /><br />The piece of amber, which contains 15 intact strands of spider silk, provides the first fossil evidence of such an assault, the researchers said. It was excavated in a Burmese mine and dates back to the Early Cretaceous, between 97 million and 110 million years ago.<a name='more'></a><br /><br />"This juvenile spider was going to make a meal out of a tiny parasitic wasp, but never quite got to it," George Poinar, Jr., a zoology professor at Oregon State University, said in a statement.<br /><br />"This was a male wasp that suddenly found itself trapped in a spider web. This was the wasp's worst nightmare, and it never ended. The wasp was watching the spider just as it was about to be attacked, when tree resin flowed over and captured both of them."<br /><br />Poinar and Ron Buckley, an amber collector from Kentucky, described the find in a paper published in the October issue of the journal Historical Biology. They wrote that while there are examples of amber-trapped insects caught in webs, "there is no previous fossil record of a spider attacking its ensnared prey."<br /><br />The amber chunk also contains the body of another male spider in the same web, which might make the fossil the oldest known evidence of social behavior in spiders, according to the authors.<br /><br />Both the spider and wasp species are today extinct. But the type of wasp (Cascoscelio incassus) belongs to a group that today is known to parasitize spider eggs, Poinor said. The attack on the wasp by the bristly orb-weaver spider, Geratonephila burmanica, might then be considered revenge.<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-53423086504893243452012-10-06T07:20:00.001-07:002012-10-06T07:20:14.279-07:00Bizarre species of miniature dinosaur Identified<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not every dinosaur grew up to be a mighty predator like Tyrannosaurus rex or a hulking vegan like Apatosaurus. A few stayed small, and some of the smallest dinosaurs that ever lived — tiny enough to nip at your heels — were among the first to spread across the planet more than 200 million years ago. <br />
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Fossils of these miniature, fanged plant-eaters known as
heterodontosaurs, or “different toothed reptiles,” have turned up as far
apart as England and China. Now, in a discovery that has been at least
50 years in the making, a new and especially bizarre species of these
dwarf herbivores has been identified in a slab of red rock that was
collected in the early 1960s by scientists working in South Africa.<br /><br />In
a report published Wednesday in the online journal ZooKeys, Paul C.
Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago and a dinosaur
specialist, described the strange anatomy of the newfound member of the
heterodontosaur family and gave the new species the name Pegomastax
africanus, or “thick jaw from Africa.” He also apologized in an
interview for not getting around sooner to this piece of research.<br />
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When he first viewed the specimen at a Harvard laboratory, Dr. Sereno said, “my eyes popped, as it was clear this was a distinct species.”<br /><br />Embedded in the rock were remains of a creature with a short parrotlike beak, one-inch jaws, sharp teeth and a skull no less than three inches long. The entire body was less than two feet in length and probably weighed less than a small house cat.<br /><br />“I’m embarrassed to say how many years ago that was — 1983,” he said. “But I was an enterprising graduate student then at the American Museum of Natural History. All the while since then, I wondered if anyone else might spot the creature hiding among the lab drawers.”<br /><br />The Pegomastax fossils were eventually returned to the South African Museum in Cape Town, the true nature of the one slab still undiscovered, Dr. Sereno said. The main researcher responsible for collecting the fossils was Alfred Crompton, a Harvard professor now retired. Part of Dr. Sereno’s research was supported by the National Geographic Society, where he also is an explorer-in-residence.<br /><br />His close examination showed that behind the parrot-shaped beak were a pair of stabbing canines up front and a set of tall teeth tucked behind for slicing plants. These teeth in upper and lower jaws operated like self-sharpening scissors, Dr. Sereno said, with shearing facets that slid past each other when the jaws closed. The parrotlike skull, he noted, may have been adapted to plucking fruit.<br /><br />Dr. Sereno said it was “very rare that a plant-eater like Pegomastax would sport sharp-edged enlarged canines.” Some scientists suggested that the creature may have consumed some meat, or at least insects.<br /><br />In his new study, Dr. Sereno concluded that the creature’s fangs, unusual for a herbivore, were probably “for nipping and defending themselves, not for eating meat.” Other aspects about the new species and other heterodontosaurs, including their chewing mechanism, are evolutionary surprises, he said, and “their anatomy is key to understanding the early evolution of this great group of plant eaters.”<br /><br />Another possible characteristic of the new species, Dr. Sereno said, is that its body might have been covered in quills, something like those of a porcupine. If so, he pictured that in life Pegomastax would have scampered around in search of suitable plants, looking something like a “nimble two-legged porcupine.” Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-42145357125363184912012-10-06T06:58:00.000-07:002012-10-06T07:27:49.934-07:00Thai Man Marries Dead Girlfriend in Joint Funeral and Wedding Ceremony<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A man from Thailand recently married his dead girlfriend in a bizarre wedding ceremony that also doubled as a funeral for the young bridge.<br />
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Chadil Deffy, also known as Deff Yingyuen, and his girlfriend Sarinya “Anne” Kamsook met 10 years ago at Thailand’s Eastern Asia University.<br />
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The young couple had been planning on getting married in the future, but unfortunately, Anne unexpectedly died on January 3rd in a car accident before the couple could set a date.<br />
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During the unusual ceremony, which was recorded and photographed, Deffy, dressed in an all black tuxedo, can be seen kissing his late girlfriend and putting a ring on her finger.<br />
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An abandoned newborn baby is recovering in hospital after having her throat cut, being put in a plastic bag and thrown into a garbage bin in China's Liaoning province.<br /><br />The female baby - so newborn that her placenta and umbilical cord were still attached - was discovered by a man who was searching a bin for recyclables.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />Local residents called police and the tiny girl was taken to hospital, where she remains in a critical condition.<br /><br />A resident who witnessed the girl being taken to hospital said: 'She was still breathing and had a heartbeat. Blood from the wound stained the whole body.'<br /><br />Doctors worked to close a two-inch wound across her neck, so deep that it went down to her windpipe.<br /><br /><br /><br />
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A doctor at the hospital said that had the cut been any deeper at all 'she would have died instantly'.<br /><br />The girl was found in Anshan city, in northeast China.<br /><br />She is believed to be a victim of the country's notorious one child policy - and seems to confirm the long-held belief that parents upon which this restriction is imposed prefer boys.<br /><br />Infanticide of 'guilt children' is still a problem in rural areas but it is rare in cities, where children are usually abandoned but not killed.<br /><br />The baby's fate has horrified China. The girl, who is yet to be named, was spotted when a collectibles scavenger saw what he thought was a dead baby in a bag.<br /><br />He told police that the child was purple and had not moved until he examined the bag more closely – not convinced that it was a real baby.<br /><br />Doctors said that baby had been born premature and was probably between 32 and 34 weeks old, weighing just three pounds. Medics said that once the baby had recovered it would be put in a children's home.<br /><br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-55288543489400498802012-10-04T02:21:00.001-07:002012-10-04T02:21:10.345-07:00A quarter of her skull was removed and stored in her stomach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A former beauty queen has undergone an incredible surgery where a quarter of her skull was removed and stored in her stomach while she recovered from a devastating head injury.<br /><br />Surgeons removed the rear quarter of Jamie Hilton's skull and placed in her abdomen so that the bone would remain sterile and nourished as her brain swelling subsided.<br /><br />When the mother-of-three and former Mrs. Idaho woke up from the operation she found the large, hard lump in her stomach and a portion of her head missing.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />The skull remained in her abdomen for 42 days until it was re-attached in a successful operation and now, three months after her near death experience the 36-year-old has returned home.<br /><br />Writing on a blog post about her near death experience, Jamie, who won Mrs. Idaho in 2009 and competed in the Mrs. America beauty contests, said: 'NOTHING in this world really matters to me today other than I AM HERE. I am on this GLORIOUS earth with my unbelievable family.<br /><br />'I can snuggle my kids, kiss my husband, hang out with my mom, and LIVE. My heart feels like it could explode with GRATITUDE. My cup is running over with joy and happiness. Is everything in my life perfect? No. But today I AM ALIVE!'<br /><br /><br /><br />
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Jamie's brush with death came after she joined her husband Nick and brother-in-law Greg on a salmon fishing trip to Hell's Canyon in Idaho in June.<br /><br />As Jamie tried to reel in her first fish she lost her footing and fell 12ft on to a boulder. Her husband scrambled down to his wife and found her unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing.<br /><br />When Nick lifted her, she began breathing again and nearby Forest Ranger called for emergency services. Jamie was airlifted to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise where doctors found her brain had swollen.<br /><br />With her family warned that the next 72 hours would decide if she lived or died, they took the decision to remove a quarter of her skull until the brain swelling went down. The skull portion remained in her abdomen for 42 days until it was removed and placed back on her head.<br /><br />As she came round from the operation she called the doctor over to her and said: 'Thank you for what you have done. You have saved my life!'<br /><br />On her blog site where her recovery was detailed Jamie, from Boise, Idaho, spoke about the moment her skull was replaced.<br /><br /><br />
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'Surgery went as well as expected! My skull is back in my head... really weird to say ;),' she said. 'Stitches this time, not staples! They are scheduled to come out August 3rd. yeah! So for now the only possible problems, are infection, or my body rejecting the skull being back in my head.<br /><br />'Your prayers are FELT and APPRECIATED! Never in my life have I FELT the prayers and faith of others in my behalf. What a marvelous experience. THANK YOU!'<br /><br />Jamie posted a photo of the skull in her abdomen on her blog page entitled 'Miracles believe in them' as well as a photo showing a scar running the length of her head.<br /><br />Since recovering she has returned to work in the family taxi business as she attempts to clear a six figure medical bill for her life saving surgery.<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-72318693109740441942012-10-03T10:29:00.001-07:002012-10-03T10:29:28.536-07:00Man with superhuman memory<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Can you remember what you were doing on 15th March 2003? Or what the weather was like on 30th May 2007? British student Aurelien can, in fact he can remember EVERYTHING!<br /><br />The 20-year-old is one of just a handful of people in the world who are baffling scientists with their ability to recall every detail of every day of their lives, a condition known as superior autobiographical memory.<a name='more'></a><br />Aurelien - who is the subject of a documentary on Channel 4 - can apparently even recall exactly what he did on every day since the age of four, including details of conversations and what he had for lunch.<br /><br />In the show Aurelien is put to the test by eight time world memory champion, Dominic O'Brien, and examined by memory expert Professor Giuliana Mazzoni.<br />"The Boy Who Can’t Forget" looks into the theories of scientists trying to unravel the mystery in the UK and US, and the lives of the seemingly ordinary people who appear to have an extraordinary power we had no idea humans could possess.<br /><br /><br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-48901321868412442822012-10-03T02:18:00.002-07:002012-10-03T02:18:32.101-07:00Taking picture with nokia 3310<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You were thinking that you need some cool smart phone to take a picture? Maybe that not true :) Here is a joke that students made at their university using Nokia 3310<br /><br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-47341160786377782612012-10-01T04:49:00.000-07:002012-10-01T04:49:57.427-07:00Girl has transformed herself into a living cartoon character <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With her enormous, glassy eyes, purple hair and coquettish pose, this girl could have stepped from the scene of a Japanese anime film.<br /><br />Anime fan Anastasiya Shpagina has transformed herself into a living cartoon character, complete with miniature waist, vividly-coloured hair, and a defined pout.<br /><br />Originally from the Ukraine, the 19-year-old takes style inspiration from the cartoons and computer animations that have a huge following in Japan, and has even adopted a Japanese name - Fukkacumi.<br /><br />Anime characters often feature huge eyes and heads that are disproportionately large in comparison to their body.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />Shpagina, who is just 5ft2ins tall, is already reported to have slimmed down to just over six stone in her attempts to resemble a living anime character, and is said to spend 30 minutes painstakingly applying her dramatic make-up to each one of her eyes.<br /><br /><br /><br />
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It is thought Shpagina may go even further in her efforts to achieve her desired look, with some reports claiming she intends to undergo surgery on her eyes to make her resemble her anime idols even more closely.<br /><br />
Shpagina is not the first young girl to take style inspiration from the world of fantasy. American Dakota Rose - or Kota Koti - has been dubbed the 'real-life Barbie' thanks to her doe-eyed stare and dainty proportions.<br /><br />
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<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-87952719783898992472012-09-28T04:12:00.002-07:002012-09-28T04:12:34.991-07:00Ancient statue discovered by Nazis is made from meteorite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An ancient Buddhist statue that was recovered by a Nazi expedition in the 1930s was originally carved from a highly valuable meteorite.<br /><br />Researchers say the 1,000-year-old object with a swastika on its stomach is made from a rare form of iron with a high content of nickel.<br /><br />They believe it is part of the Chinga meteorite, which crashed about 15,000 years ago.<br />
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The 24cm (9-inch) tall statue is 10kg (22lb) and is called the Iron Man.<br />Origins unknown<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />The story of this priceless object owes more perhaps to an Indiana Jones film script than sober scientific research.<br /><br />It was discovered in Tibet in 1938 by German scientist Ernst Schafer. His expedition was supported by the Nazis, in particular by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS. Himmler was said to believe the Aryan race originated in Tibet and was keen to recover objects from the area. <br />
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Brought back to Germany, the statue became
part of a private collection and disappeared from view until 2007. A new
owner then sought scientific advice on the origins. He turned to Dr
Elmar Buchner from the University of Stuttgart.</div>
"I was absolutely sure it was a meteorite when I saw it first, even at 10 metres" said Dr Buchner. <br />
He said that the clue was in small, thumb like impressions
caused by the melting of the surface. Further analysis showed that it
was a rare ataxite class, a type of meteorite not often found on Earth.<br />
"It is rich in nickel, it is rich in cobalt. Less than 0.1%
of all meteorites and less than 1% of iron meteorites are ataxites, so
it is the rarest type of meteorites you can find."<br />
Meteorites have been seen as a sign of divine activity across
many cultures since the dawn of time. Knives and jewellery were made
from iron meteorites by ancient Inuit. But tracing their exact origins
is often extremely difficult. <br />
The German and Austrian scientists who worked on the Iron Man
with Dr Buchner were surprised to be able to trace the statue to a
specific event in meteorite history.<br />
<span class="cross-head">Absolutely priceless</span>
The researchers believe it was carved from a piece of the
Chinga meteorite that fell in the border region of eastern Siberia and
Mongolia about 15,000 years ago. <br />
The debris from the crash was only discovered in 1913 by gold
prospectors, but the individual fragment from which the statue was
carved was collected many centuries before.<br />
"We were quite astonished by the results," said Dr Buchner. <br />
"OK, it's a meteorite but what amazed me was that we could
also say it was from Chinga, that we could find the provenance, that was
really astonishing for me."<br />
The statue is believed to portray the god Vaisravana. The
researchers think it belongs to the pre-Buddhist Bon culture that
existed in Asia about 1,000 years ago. <br />
"If we are right that it was made in the Bon culture in the
11th Century, it is absolutely priceless and absolutely unique
worldwide," observed Dr Buchner. <br />
Neither the person who carved it or the Nazis had any idea it was made from such a rare substance, he said. <br />
In keeping with the Hollywood element in the story, Dr Buchner said the statue had a certain aura. <br />
"It is extremely impressive, it was formerly almost completely gilded - there is a great mystery represented by it."<br />
<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-5542330247164637192012-09-26T03:15:00.004-07:002012-09-26T03:15:57.656-07:00Scientists say that life was brought to Earth by space microbes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Extraterrestrial microbes might have brought life to Earth after travelling through space for millions of years, say scientists.<br /><br />The theory is based on calculations showing a high likelihood of rock fragments from planets in other star systems landing on Earth long ago.<br /><br />Some of them could have carried embedded micro-organisms, according to experts writing in the journal Astrobiology.<br /><br />Extraterrestrial microbes might have brought life to Earth after traveling through space for millions of years, say scientists.<br /><br />The theory is based on calculations showing a high likelihood of rock fragments from planets in other star systems landing on Earth long ago.<a name='more'></a><br />Some of them could have carried embedded micro-organisms, according to experts writing in the journal Astrobiology.<br /><br /> The Sun’s birth cluster slowly broke apart when the Solar System was 135 million to 535 million years old.<br /><br />Earth possessed surface water from when the Solar System was just 288 million years of age, making it likely that the planet was ready to receive alien microbes.<br /><br />Co-author Dr Amaya Moro-Martin, an astronomer from the Centro de Astrobiologia in Spain, said: 'Our study stops when the solid matter is trapped by the second planetary system, but for lithopanspermia to be completed it actually needs to land on a terrestrial planet where life could flourish.<br /><br />'The study of the probability of landing on a terrestrial planet is work that we now know is worth doing because large quantities of solid material originating from the first planetary system may be trapped by the second planetary system, waiting to land on a terrestrial planet.<br /><br />'Our study does not prove lithopanspermia actually took place, but it indicates that it is an open possibility.'<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-86554688078044623362012-09-24T00:10:00.001-07:002012-09-24T00:10:21.605-07:00Man cuts off hands to stop himself from stealing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An Egyptian man who could not stop stealing despite his strong feeling of guilt finally resorted to a macabre solution to win what he described as a “pitched battle” against the devil — by cutting off both hands.<br /><br />Ali Afifi, 27, went to the main train station in the western Egyptian town of Tanta four years ago and waited for the train to come his way before putting his hand under its wheels as hundreds of passengers watched in horror.<a name='more'></a><br />When his father learned of what happened, he was so shocked that he decided to send him to an asylum.<br /><br />“When I was later released from the asylum a few months ago, I cut the other hand off to make sure I will never steal again,” he told Egyptian newspapers.<br /><br />Afifi said he had asked a local Muslim scholar to have his hands severed because he could not stop stealing "after losing the war against the devil".<br /><br />“But the Sheikh refused my request, saying he is not a ruler or in a decision-making position to take such a decision…he advised me to repent and seek God’s help…I then decided to cut my hands off.”<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-84878892233670563712012-09-20T14:07:00.002-07:002012-09-20T14:07:33.858-07:00The 80-Year-Old Child<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Progeria is caused by a single tiny defect in a child's genetic code, but it has devastating and life-changing consequences. On average, a child born with this disease will be dead by the age of 13. Progeria is extremely rare, there are only around 48 people living with it in the whole world. However, there is a family that has five children with the disease.As they see their bodies fast forward through the normal process of ageing they develop striking physical symptoms, often including premature baldness, heart disease, thinning bones and arthritis.As newborns, children with progeria usually appear normal. However, within a year, their growth rate slows and they soon are much shorter and weigh much less than others their age.<br />
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While possessing normal intelligence, affected children develop a distinctive appearance characterized by baldness, aged-looking skin, a pinched nose, and a small face and jaw relative to head size. They also often suffer from symptoms typically seen in much older people: stiffness of joints, hip dislocations and severe, progressive cardiovascular disease. However, various other features associated with the normal aging process, such as cataracts and osteoarthritis, are not seen in children with progeria.<br />
The most severe form of the disease is Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, recognizing the efforts of Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, who first described the disease in 1886, and Dr. Hastings Gilford who did the same in 1904.<br />
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In 2003, NHGRI researchers, together with colleagues at the Progeria Research Foundation, the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, and the University of Michigan, discovered that Hutchinson-Gilford progeria is caused by a tiny, point mutation in a single gene, known as lamin A (LMNA). Parents and siblings of children with progeria are virtually never affected by the disease. In accordance with this clinical observation, the genetic mutation appears in nearly all instances to occur in the sperm prior to conception. It is remarkable that nearly all cases are found to arise from the substitution of just one base pair among the approximately 25,000 DNA base pairs that make up the LMNA gene. <br />
<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-40323729148756467082012-09-18T09:36:00.000-07:002012-09-20T02:38:33.469-07:00Is Higher Education Making You Fat?A new study published in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism (APNM) looks beyond the much-feared weight gain common to first-year students and reports on the full 4-year impact of higher education on weight, BMI, and body composition.<br />
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"Gropper et al. present a unique study that follows students through their undergraduate years. It documents the nature of the weight gain and shows the differences between males and females," says Susan Whiting, a professor of nutrition and dietetics at the University of Saskatchewan.<br />
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"While dozens of studies have investigated weight gain during the freshman year of college and have reported on the so called "freshman 15" (the commonly held belief that students gain an average of 15 lbs their first year of college), our study is the first to examine changes in weight, body mass index, body composition, and body shape over the 4-year college period," explains Sareen Gropper, a co-author of the study and researcher at Auburn University in Alabama.<br />
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The study followed 131 college students from the beginning of their first year to the end of their senior year. After 4 years in college about 70% of students had gained weight, which averaged at 5.3 kg, or 11.68 lbs; males gained significantly more weight, percent body fat , and BMI than females; and the percentage of participants considered overweight or obese increased from 18% to 31%.<br />
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"College and university students are often living away from home; they do not have a parent grocery shopping or preparing food for them. They can be distracted from their health by their studies and by extracurricular activities," says Terry Graham, Editor of APNM, and a professor in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph. "While one can alter their body composition at anytime by tipping the balance of energy intake and expenditure, this investigation demonstrates how important the years of early adulthood can be in this aspect. After 4 years, the changes are quite substantial even though the daily, weekly, and even monthly responses are subtle. This study highlights that students need to make healthy choices and also that the institutions need to take steps to facilitate these decisions."<br />
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Gropper agrees, "Our findings clearly suggest the need for additional campus-based health promotion strategies for students from the freshman year through their senior year of college." Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-43560773656113643802012-09-18T02:19:00.003-07:002012-09-20T02:38:12.660-07:00Is Death An Illusion? Evidence Suggests Death Isn’t the End<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After the death of his old friend, Albert Einstein said “Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us … know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”<br />
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New evidence continues to suggest that Einstein was right – death is an illusion.<br />
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Our classical way of thinking is based on the belief that the world has an objective observer-independent existence. But a long list of experiments shows just the opposite. We think life is just the activity of carbon and an admixture of molecules – we live awhile and then rot into the ground.<br />
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We believe in death because we’ve been taught we die. Also, of course, because we associate ourselves with our body and we know bodies die. End of story. But biocentrism – a new theory of everything – tells us death may not be the terminal event we think. Amazingly, if you add life and consciousness to the equation, you can explain some of the biggest puzzles of science. For instance, it becomes clear why space and time – and even the properties of matter itself – depend on the observer. It also becomes clear why the laws, forces, and constants of the universe appear to be exquisitely fine-tuned for the existence of life.<br />
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Until we recognize the universe in our heads, attempts to understand reality will remain a road to nowhere.<br />
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Consider the weather ‘outside’: You see a blue sky, but the cells in your brain could be changed so the sky looks green or red. In fact, with a little genetic engineering we could probably make everything that is red vibrate or make a noise, or even make you want to have sex like with some birds. You think its bright out, but your brain circuits could be changed so it looks dark out. You think it feels hot and humid, but to a tropical frog it would feel cold and dry. This logic applies to virtually everything. Bottom line: What you see could not be present without your consciousness.<br />
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In truth, you can’t see anything through the bone that surrounds your brain. Your eyes are not portals to the world. Everything you see and experience right now – even your body – is a whirl of information occurring in your mind. According to biocentrism, space and time aren’t the hard, cold objects we think. Wave your hand through the air – if you take everything away, what’s left? Nothing. The same thing applies for time. Space and time are simply the tools for putting everything together.<br />
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Consider the famous two-slit experiment. When scientists watch a particle pass through two slits in a barrier, the particle behaves like a bullet and goes through one slit or the other. But if you don’t watch, it acts like a wave and can go through both slits at the same time. So how can a particle change its behavior depending on whether you watch it or not? The answer is simple – reality is a process that involves your consciousness.<br />
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Or consider Heisenberg’s famous uncertainty principle. If there is really a world out there with particles just bouncing around, then we should be able to measure all their properties. But you can’t. For instance, a particle’s exact location and momentum can’t be known at the same time. So why should it matter to a particle what you decide to measure? And how can pairs of entangled particles be instantaneously connected on opposite sides of the galaxy as if space and time don’t exist? Again, the answer is simple: because they’re not just ‘out there’ – space and time are simply tools of our mind.<br />
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Death doesn’t exist in a timeless, spaceless world. Immortality doesn’t mean a perpetual existence in time, but resides outside of time altogether.<br />
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Our linear way of thinking about time is also inconsistent with another series of recent experiments. In 2002, scientists showed that particles of light “photons” knew – in advance – what their distant twins would do in the future. They tested the communication between pairs of photons. They let one photon finish its journey – it had to decide whether to be either a wave or a particle. Researchers stretched the distance the other photon took to reach its own detector. However, they could add a scrambler to prevent it from collapsing into a particle. Somehow, the first particle knew what the researcher was going to do before it happened – and across distances instantaneously as if there were no space or time between them. They decide not to become particles before their twin even encounters the scrambler. It doesn’t matter how we set up the experiment. Our mind and its knowledge is the only thing that determines how they behave. Experiments consistently confirm these observer-dependent effects.<br />
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Bizarre? Consider another experiment that was recently published in the prestigious scientific journal Science (Jacques et al, 315, 966, 2007). Scientists in France shot photons into an apparatus, and showed that what they did could retroactively change something that had already happened in the past. As the photons passed a fork in the apparatus, they had to decide whether to behave like particles or waves when they hit a beam splitter. Later on – well after the photons passed the fork – the experimenter could randomly switch a second beam splitter on and off. It turns out that what the observer decided at that point, determined what the particle actually did at the fork in the past. At that moment, the experimenter chose his past.<br />
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Of course, we live in the same world. But critics claim this behavior is limited to the microscopic world. But this ‘two-world’ view (that is, one set of physical laws for small objects, and another for the rest of the universe including us) has no basis in reason and is being challenged in laboratories around the world. A couple years ago, researchers published a paper in Nature (Jost et al, 459, 683, 2009) showing that quantum behavior extends into the everyday realm. Pairs of vibrating ions were coaxed to entangle so their physical properties remained bound together when separated by large distances (“spooky action at a distance,” as Einstein put it). Other experiments with huge molecules called ‘Buckyballs’ also show that quantum reality extends beyond the microscopic world. And in 2005, KHC03 crystals exhibited entanglement ridges one-half inch high, quantum behavior nudging into the ordinary world of human-scale objects.<br />
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We generally reject the multiple universes of Star Trek as fiction, but it turns out there is more than a morsel of scientific truth to this popular genre. One well-known aspect of quantum physics is that observations can’t be predicted absolutely. Instead, there is a range of possible observations each with a different probability. One mainstream explanation, the “many-worlds” interpretation, states that each of these possible observations corresponds to a different universe (the ‘multiverse’). There are an infinite number of universes and everything that could possibly happen occurs in some universe. Death does not exist in any real sense in these scenarios. All possible universes exist simultaneously, regardless of what happens in any of them.<br />
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Life is an adventure that transcends our ordinary linear way of thinking. When we die, we do so not in the random billiard-ball-matrix but in the inescapable-life-matrix. Life has a non-linear dimensionality – it’s like a perennial flower that returns to bloom in the multiverse.<br />
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“The influences of the senses,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson “has in most men overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of space and time have come to look solid, real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits in the world is the sign of insanity.”Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-14627872206655234752012-09-17T05:58:00.002-07:002012-09-20T02:38:47.625-07:00Here's looking at dew: Dragonflies captured in stunning detail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The tiny droplets of water magnify the dragonflies' beauty and reveal the details and bright red, orange, green and blue colours of the flying insects.<br />
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Macro photography, as demonstrated here by David Chambon, a photographer working in Doubs in eastern France, requires a decent light-source - and in this case it is the jewel-like droplets which capture the light so essential for these works of art.<br />
The countless bubbles seem suspended like ornaments on top of the creatures, the moisture turning them into natural diamonds.<br />
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Photographer David Chambon, 31, said: 'I love capturing sleepy dragonflies in the morning dew with my camera.<br />
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'They look like pure gems. It's always an adrenaline rush. You have to
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He added: 'I took these pictures at dawn during a holiday.<br />
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'I live five minutes from a natural reserve in Franche-Comte in the
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'I can't describe these moments because each of them is different and each time it's a surprise.<br />
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'Macro photography is a really beautiful area, seeing these insects so close to their intimacy gives me chills every time.'<br />
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<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-19383223551379274342012-09-17T02:49:00.004-07:002012-09-17T02:49:46.884-07:00New species of 'owl faced' monkey discovered<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A new species of monkey with a distinctive blue rear end has been identified in Africa, researchers have said.<br /><br />The species, known locally as the lesula, was discovered after a young female was seen kept captive at the home of a primary school director in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2007.<br /><br />The young animal resembled an owl faced monkey (Cercopithecus hamlyni) but the colour of its rear end was different to that of any known species, the researchers writing in the journal PLoS ONE said.<br /><br />In fact, they say, its blue rear end is unique.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />'The blue perineum, buttocks and scrotum displayed by adult males are more extensive than genital patches in any other Cercopithecus', the researchers wrote.<br /><br /><br /><br />
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Other wild lesula (Cercopithecus lomamiensis) have since been found in
their remote range in central Democratic Republic of Congo, where they
live in forests and feed on leafstalks, fruit and flower buds.<br />
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The discovery of the new species, in one of the country’s last
unexplored forest areas, is only the second time a new monkey species
has been found in Africa in the last 28 years.<br />
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Although the 6,500 square mile area in which the shy lesula is found is
remote and sparsely populated, the researchers warn the monkey is
vulnerable to extinction as a result of hunting for bush meat.<br />
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They called for controls on hunting and the creation of a protected area
covering its range to conserve the lesula and other wildlife found in
the region.<br />
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Researcher John Hart said: 'The challenge for conservation now in Congo is to intervene before losses become definitive.<br />
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'Species with small ranges like the lesula can move from vulnerable to
seriously endangered over the course of just a few years.'<br />
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<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-91019748648946988872012-09-16T06:02:00.001-07:002012-09-16T06:02:05.844-07:00'Dead' boy wakes up and asks for water at funeral in Brazil A two year old boy sat up in his coffin and asked for water before laying back down again lifeless, according to a Brazilian news website.<br /><br />Website ORM claimed that Kelvin Santos stopped breathing during treatment for pneumonia at a hospital in Belem, northern Brazil.<br /><br />He was declared dead at 7.40pm on Friday and his body was handed over to his family in a plastic bag.<br /><br />The child's devastated family took him home where grieving relatives held a wake throughout the night, with the boy's body laid in an open coffin.<br /><br />But an hour before his funeral was due to take place on Saturday the boy apparently sat up in his coffin and said: "Daddy, can I have some water?".<br /><br />The boy's father, Antonio Santos, said: "Everybody started to scream, we couldn't believe our eyes. Then we thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life.<br /><br />"Then Kelvin just laid back down, the way he was. We couldn't wake him. He was dead again."<br /><br />Mr Santos rushed his son back to the Aberlardo Santos hospital in Belem,where the doctors reexamined the boy and confirmed that he had no signs of life.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />He said: "They assured me that he really was dead and gave me no explanation for what we had just seen and heard."<br /><br />The boy's family decided to delay the funeral for an hour in the hope that he would wake up again, but ended up burying him at 5pm that day in a local cemetery.<br /><br />Convinced that his son was victim of medical malpractice, Mr Santos has now registered a complaint with the police who have launched an investigation<br /><br />He said: "Fifteen minutes after rushing him away for resuscitation, they came and told me he was dead and handed me his body. Perhaps they didn't examine him properly. Dead people don't just wake up and talk. I'm determined to find out the truth."<br /><br />The local state department today confirmed the boy had been admitted to hospital in a critical condition and was declared dead after suffering cardiac-respiratory failure.<br /><br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-9977981518155013202012-09-16T05:54:00.004-07:002012-09-16T05:54:59.189-07:00She is pregnant... also and her boyfriend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Man's rare syndrome leaves him with bloated tum, weight gain, hot flushes, exhaustion, cravings and morning sickness<br /><br />Mike Dowdall is enduring morning sickness, hot flushes, cravings and a swollen belly — all because girlfriend Amanda Bennett is pregnant.<br /><br />Mike, 25, has the rare phantom pregnancy Couvade syndrome. Amanda, of Manchester, said: “People pay more attention to his bump than mine.”<br /><br />Mike initially got the brush off from disbelieving Amanda — until he started suffering morning sickness just like her.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />At first irritated Amanda suspected tattooist Mike was taking the mickey out of her pregnancy symptoms when he complained of feeling queasy.<br /><br />But when he started running to the toilet after waking up each morning, she realised it was definitely no joke.<br />
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Mike said: “When I started being physically sick on a daily basis, she began to take me more seriously.”<br /><br />When Mike’s symptoms — which now include a swollen belly, hot flushes, exhaustion, water retention and food cravings — became increasingly severe, he consulted his GP.<br /><br />The doctor diagnosed an extreme case of Couvade syndrome, whose sufferers experience an intense form of male phantom pregnancy.<br /><br /> Mike said: “The exhaustion is the worst — but the headaches, heartburn and big belly are not enjoyable either.<br /><br />“Amanda’s belly started to grow when she reached three months — and she got really excited about looking pregnant.<br /><br />“Then a few weeks later, when getting changed for bed, I realised I had a similar shape.<br /><br />“Now at 33 weeks I’m two stone heavier than I used to be and have a round, bloated belly. And anything Amanda’s body does pregnancy-wise, mine does too.”<br />
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Amanda, 25, said Mike makes a very wimpy mum-to-be.<br /><br />She added: “Mike is being a bit of a girl over it all. As a woman I’m coping much better than him. I actually end up looking after him more than he takes care of me sometimes.<br /><br />“And people pay more attention to his bump than mine. A pregnant man is more interesting.”<br /><br />Mike, who has been with Amanda for three years, admitted he does have a tendency to moan. He added: “I’ve never felt so rough.<br /><br />“I’ve always taken pride in my body, going to the gym four days a week, keeping slim at 6ft and 14st.<br /><br />“So the water retention around my belly is a big shock.<br /><br />“With the cravings, heartburn, headaches and constant exhaustion, I now really respect what women go through during pregnancy.<br /><br />“I’ve had to take extra breaks at work, have early nights and buy larger-sized clothes because I’m two stone heavier. It’s crazy.<br /><br />“Thank heavens Amanda will be the only one giving birth.”<br /><br /> Such extreme forms of Couvade syndrome are rare — and the precise causes unknown.<br /><br />Some experts claim it is caused by psychological factors while others say it is down to high levels of female hormone in the body of the father-to-be.<br /><br />Sufferers have complained of weight gain, nausea and vomiting, stomach cramps, loss of appetite, cravings, headaches, toothache, nosebleeds and itchy skin.<br /><br />In almost all cases the symptoms disappear after the mum gives birth.<br /><br />The GP told Mike that Couvade syndrome typically affects men who are very close to their partners.<br /><br />Mike, from Manchester, said: “Hearing this made sense to me. My body wanted to know what Amanda is experiencing.<br /><br />“And while I do moan, I also find it amazing to be having these symptoms and experiencing them with the woman I love.”<br /><br />Shop owner Amanda said she sees the phantom pregnancy as a compliment — even though she was not amused at first.<br /><br />She added: “At eight weeks I’d wake up early and he’d complain he was feeling sick. I thought he was mocking me. Now our friends mock him about his phantom pregnancy. But others say it’s because he loves me so much.”<br /><br /> Amanda also enjoys having someone to share her food cravings — especially when it is chocolate.<br /><br />She said: “When I tuck into selection boxes late at night, I don’t feel bad as Mike is sat right next to me tucking in too.<br /><br />“Mike sometimes says he fancies a certain sandwich or a certain ice-cream and I’ll be craving the exact same thing.<br /><br />“We have been through phases where we both only want plain foods and then spicy foods.<br /><br />“It’s really strange but we’re used to it now.”<br /><br />But Amanda admitted she does sometimes wish she was the only one with pregnancy symptoms. She said: “When I’m rubbing his shoulders or lower back to help relieve his cramps, I feel like I’m looking after him when I’m the one carrying the baby.<br /><br />“But he does return the favour and there are times when we’re both lying in bed totally shattered moaning about the same symptoms, which is quite comforting.<br /><br />“We even find ourselves comparing baby bumps in the morning to see whose is bigger. I always win.”<br /><br />Their baby boy is due on October 23 — and both Amanda and Mike are now busy getting the nursery ready. Mike said: “At the moment I’m just letting these symptoms play out and trying to concentrate on preparing for the arrival of our first child.<br /><br />“After going through the motions with Amanda I feel like I’ll definitely be able to give any man or woman advice on pregnancy.<br /><br />“And it will be a good story to tell our son when he’s older.”<br /><br />Meanwhile Amanda is eager to see just how far Mike’s phantom pregnancy will go.<br /><br />She said: “Our research suggests there is a chance he will experience contraction pains.<br /><br />“I’d love to see that because I don’t think there’s a man in the world who truly understands how painful labour is.”Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-7765475838579118132012-09-15T05:47:00.002-07:002012-09-16T05:55:08.992-07:00Optical illusion: Face of Paris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-13628727446994049792012-09-14T04:48:00.002-07:002012-09-16T05:55:19.105-07:00A real-life chinese anime girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Meet Tina Leopard, a Chinese blogger and model who earlier this year sparked controversy among Internet users after photos showing her extremely sharp chin and large anime-like eyes went viral on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.<br />
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Apparently, there’s a new fashion trend sweeping across China – the anime look. The country’s most popular social media sites are practically flooded with tons of photos of young people clearly going out of their way to look as much like an anime character as possible. The trend took off last summer, when a girl going by the name of KOKO uploaded photos and videos showing her thin body, pointy chin and disproportionately large eyes. It turned out she used all kinds of makeup tricks to achieve her anime look, and her photos were apparently also altered in Photoshop, but that didn’t seem to matter much to people who wanted to look like the characters in popular Japanese cartoons. And while some of them actually look pretty cool, others are just plain freaky. Case in point, Tina Leopard, a young Chinese model whose extreme facial features have often been compared to those of an alien.<br />
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It’s not clear whether Tina has had any plastic surgery to get that sharp a chin, but just look at it, if she fell on her face that thing would probably stick in the ground. And to further emphasize her bizarre look, Ms. Leopard also uses fake eyelashes, contact lenses and buckets of makeup. She then posts photos of her on her Weibo microblog and gets thousands of comments from both her fans and people calling her an ugly alien or a monster.<br />
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<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-67543453460726400952012-09-14T03:56:00.001-07:002012-09-14T03:56:32.183-07:00Snow on Mars? Nasa discovers 'dry ice' weather phenomenon on the red planet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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NASA has 'clear evidence' of carbon dioxide snowfalls on Mars, the space agency revealed today - making this the only known example of carbon dioxide snow falling anywhere in our solar system.<br /><br />Frozen carbon dioxide, better known as 'dry ice', requires temperatures of about -125C (-193F) which is much colder than needed for freezing water.<br /><br />NASA said the carbon dioxide snow reminds scientists that although some parts of Mars may look quite Earth-like, the Red Planet is very different.<br /><br />'These are the first definitive detections of carbon dioxide snow clouds," said the report's lead author Paul Hayne of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />"We firmly establish the clouds are composed of carbon dioxide - flakes of Martian air - and they are thick enough to result in snowfall accumulation at the surface."<br /><br />The snow falls occurred from clouds around the Red Planet's south pole in winter.<br /><br />The presence of carbon dioxide ice in Mars' seasonal and residual southern polar caps has been known for decades. Also, NASA's Phoenix Lander mission in 2008 observed falling water-ice snow on northern Mars.<br /><br /><br /><br />
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Hayne and six co-authors analysed data gained by looking at clouds straight overhead and sideways with the Mars Climate Sounder, one of six instruments on MRO.<br /><br />This instrument records brightness in nine wavebands of visible and infrared light as a way to examine particles and gases in the Martian atmosphere.<br /><br />The data provide information about temperatures, particle sizes and their concentrations.<br /><br />The new analysis is based on data from observations in the south polar region during southern Mars winter in 2006-2007, identifying a tall carbon dioxide cloud about 300 miles (500 kilometers) in diameter persisting over the pole and smaller, shorter-lived, lower-altitude carbon dioxide ice clouds at latitudes from 70 to 80 degrees south.<br /><br />"One line of evidence for snow is that the carbon dioxide ice particles in the clouds are large enough to fall to the ground during the lifespan of the clouds," co-author David Kass of JPL said.<br /><br />"Another comes from observations when the instrument is pointed toward the horizon, instead of down at the surface.<br /><br />'The infrared spectra signature of the clouds viewed from this angle is clearly carbon dioxide ice particles and they extend to the surface. By observing this way, the Mars Climate Sounder is able to distinguish the particles in the atmosphere from the dry ice on the surface."<br /><br />Mars' south polar residual ice cap is the only place on Mars where frozen carbon dioxide persists on the surface year-round.<br /><br />Just how the carbon dioxide from Mars' atmosphere gets deposited has been in question. It is unclear whether it occurs as snow or by freezing out at ground level as frost. These results show snowfall is especially vigorous on top of the residual cap.<br /><br />"The finding of snowfall could mean that the type of deposition - snow or frost - is somehow linked to the year-to-year preservation of the residual cap," Hayne said.<br /><br />
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<br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7428191055700817705.post-60517585145289861812012-09-13T08:38:00.000-07:002012-09-13T08:38:40.010-07:00Meet the lifeguard of the future<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The days of human lifeguards watching over us on the beach are numbered.<br /><br />Or at least they will be if the Japanese have got anything to do with it.<br /><br />Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have unveiled a new robot modelled on Olympic athletes that could be the lifeguard of the future.<br /><br />They are currently working on a prototype that can mimic a human swimmer’s whole body motion.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />The robot, nicknamed Swumanoid, can swim front crawl at a speed of 0.64 metres per second, just a third of the human world record, as well as backstroke and butterfly.<br /><br />It will need a new pair of legs before it attempts breast stroke, however.<br /><br />Swumanoid is intended to measure water resistance and analyse how people swim rather than using humans who would get tired of repeatedly doing the same stroke.<br /><br /><br />
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The data collected is intended to help find patterns that can improve a swimmer’s technique.<br /><br />The team behind the creation, led by associate professor Motomu Nakashima, hopes that, in the future, robots like Swumanoid can act as lifeguards, patrolling the shores and helping swimmers in distress.<br /><br />Professor Nakashima said: ‘Since it's a swimming humanoid, it will be able to help people who face danger out in the water, I believe this may be possible in the future.<br /><br />‘The first purpose of the robot is to measure the energy output of swimmers.'<br /><br />The engineers developed the body of the robot by using a 3D scanner to scan an unknown Olympic athlete, before creating a plastic version that can be produced in virtually any size.<br /><br />But the robot is a long way off from taking up the role of David Hasselhoff in Baywatch – endurance, output and waterproofing are still issues with the design.<br /><br /> Chang-Hyun Chung, a researcher at the institute, hopes to solve some of these problems in the coming weeks.<br /><br />He said: ‘We want to use a bigger motor to gain more power, as right now, the motor’s power is not enough.’<br /><br />Mr Nakashima was quick to point out that he won't be creating Arnold Swartzenegger's iconic Terminator just yet, ‘It's not quite strong enough to be a Terminator just yet, I think we're completely fine for a while.’<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Kirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647728749699413noreply@blogger.com0