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But new research shows that one arachnid might actually be best kept by your bedside.<br />
A single bite from the Brazilian wandering spider has been shown to have side-effects including four-hour long erections.<br />
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<em>Unusual side-effects: A single bite from the Brazilian wandering spider has been shown to cause four-hour long erections</em><br />
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The eight-legged creature – also known as the armed spider, banana spider or Phoneutria nigriventer – is native to South and Central America.<br />
Scientists at the Medical College of Georgia believe the species contains a possible breakthrough for erectile dysfunction.<br />
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Dr Kenia Nunes, a physiologist at the college, said: ‘The venom of the Phoneutria nigriventer spider is a very rich mixture of several molecules.<br />
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‘These molecules are called toxins, and then we have various toxins in this venom with different activity.<br />
‘Because of this, when a human is bitten by this spider, we can observe many different symptoms including priapism, a condition in which the penis is continually erect.’<br />
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Other side-effects on top of the long-painful erections include loss of muscle control, severe pain, difficulty breathing and if its victim is not treated with anti-venom, could lead to death due to oxygen deprivation.<br />
But its unusual effects could be used to treat sexual dysfunction in both men and women, according to Dr. Nunes.<br />
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<em>The new Viagra? The Brazilian wandering spider’s venom might lead to a breakthrough new treatment for erectile dysfunction</em><br />
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In her study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Dr. Nunes’ experiment managed to give erection-challenged rats with high blood pressure a bit of a boost.<br />
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A peptide called PnTx2-6 was given to the flaccid rats, who achieved side-effect free erections.<br />
Dr. Nunes said: ‘We found the toxin responsible [for the erections] and performed experiments using hypertensive rats which have severe erectile dysfunction. The toxin was able to normalise the erectile dysfunction in these animals.’<br />
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The spider’s toxin worked in a different way to drugs such as Viagra though and Nunes told MSNBC: ‘This is good because we know that some patients don’t respond to the conventional therapy.<br />
‘This could be an optional treatment for them.’<br />
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She is also hopeful that the toxin could help female sexual dysfunction, but has not yet studied this.<br />
The Brazilian wandering spider, which has a leg span of over four inches, has already been found in some American and Canadian supermarkets but is normally found in tropical banana plantations.<br />
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According to the curator of arachnids at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum, Rod Crawford, only 10 humans out of 7,000 have died from its bite.<br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-29198003034986773642011-03-08T04:46:00.001+07:002011-03-08T15:31:01.814+07:00Mardi Gras: Jude Law and Pamela Anderson in Rio<a href="http://indonesiaone.co.cc/">This year's carnival in Rio could go down as the safest in history.</a><br />
While nearly 800,000 tourists, Brazilian and foreign, take part in the high-decibel samba extravaganza of the world's biggest <a href="http://cepphoe.co.cc/">Mardi Gras</a> alongside most of Rio's population of six million, this year 50,000 police have been deployed to clamp down on crime in the city.<br />
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And for the first time, around 30 surveillance cameras have been installed to improve the monitoring of crowds and make it easier to tackle pick-pocketing and muggings that usually mar the event for a handful of unlucky revellers.<br />
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<i>What a spectacle: The Vila Isabel samba school performs during the carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, earlier today</i><br />
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R<i>io rainbow: Thousands line the streets as the Samba Sao Clemente group parades by. The whole country stops completely for almost a week for the intense carnival festivities </i><br />
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The Rio Carnival is the benchmark against which every other carnival is compared and boasts one of the most spectacular parades in the world.<br />
This year’s carnival began on Saturday with the opening ceremony crowning the carnival king followed by various parades including the Children’s Samba Schools parade.<br />
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The biggest cheer was reserved for the appearance of elite samba group Portela, which performed despite losing most of its costumes and floats in a devastating fire.<br />
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A blaze in early February tore through the warehouses where Portela and two other samba groups were preparing for Carnival, destroying more than 3,000 feather and glitter costumes and many meticulously decorated floats.<br />
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But the group, which has not missed a parade in its 84-year history, put on a dazzling performance.<br />
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<i>Sea of colour: The first night of the Rio Carnival parades at the Sambadrome. Scores of people watch the festivities from their balconies</i><br />
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<i>Celebrity hangout: Actress and model Pamela Anderson (left) enjoys the view as the parade passes, </i><br />
<i>while actor Jude Law (right) takes the opportunity to kick back and relax after his recent relationship break-up</i><br />
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Among celebrities spotted joining the party were top model Gisele Bundschen, actress Pamela Anderson and newly single British actor Jude Law.<br />
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Some of the revellers say they have already noticed the difference in atmosphere as a result of the police work in the months leading up to Mardi Gras 2011.<br />
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'The re-taking of the slums has improved the Carnival atmosphere a lot,' said one Brazilian dancer. 'Before it was a problem, there were muggings, but now people feel much safer,' he said.<br />
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Rio authorities are also trying to repair the city's reputation for crime ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.<br />
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The knock-on effect is a safer, if just as beautiful and crazy, carnival for everyone.<br />
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<i>Fling those beads: Fat Tuesday festivities begin in New Orleans</i><br />
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<i>The Krewe of Mid City Mardi Gras float rolls down St Charles Avenue in New Orleans. The crowds poured onto the Big Easy's streets for the traditional warm-up before the big show on Shrove Tuesday</i><br />
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New Orleans holds the American record for the biggest Mardi Gras celebrations - despite its difficulties over recent years.<br />
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Today in the city the warm-up for Mardi Gras is in full swing and people are celebrating the carnival season under clear skies.<br />
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After bad weather on Saturday which saw many parades cancelled as thunderstorms swept the state, yesterday crowds poured back onto the streets for the traditional warm-up before the big show on ‘Fat Tuesday’.<br />
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The French Quarter, where tourists and long-time regular visitors mix with locals, saw a handful of celebrity-laden parades and the usual revelry.<br />
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The temperature will rise further as the Carnival festivity moves closer to its climax. The excesses end at midnight tomorrow with the beginning of Lent.<br />
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<i>Temperatures will rise as the Carnival festivity moves closer to its climax of midnight tomorrow, the beginning of Lent</i><br />
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Meanwhile in the UK, Mardi Gras fever has spread to Great Yarmouth, which will host its second Carnival parade.<br />
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Local schoolchildren have been making Rio carnival-style masks and headdresses while Lithuanian culture will be represented by a colourful fight between two giant characters, Fatso and Hempen, which symbolise the struggle between winter and spring.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-31446588772533847242011-03-08T04:42:00.000+07:002011-03-08T04:42:53.921+07:00Orient Express: Into Eastern Europe and Dresden in Art Deco wartime bordello carriageTrainspotters in Eastern Europe, I can now say with some certainty, look just the same as the ones back home. Overnight we had rattled and creaked into Poland from the Czech Republic in our beautiful old Art Deco Wagon-Lit carriages, passing through dark forests that seemed to go on for ever.<br />
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We had started our unusual Orient-Express journey in busy, touristy Venice, but there we were the next morning, a long way from the canals and gondolas, blinking at the contrast as we rolled slowly past Zywiec.<br />
A rust-coloured train was waiting at a platform covered with weeds. Walls by the ticket office were covered with indecipherable graffiti. The sun beat down (Eastern Europe was in the midst of a heatwave). And then we saw them - the trainspotters.<br />
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<i>Eastern adventure: Tom and his girlfriend Emma board the Orient Express</i><br />
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A scraggly haired fellow with a giant belly and an old baseball cap was holding up a camera and taking snaps. Next to him, a skinny man wearing black socks and sandals was squinting through old spectacles, capturing the train with a video camera. Another with a sleeveless jacket with pockets was scribbling in a notebook.<br />
They smiled and waved, and we smiled and waved back - sitting at our little breakfast table in our tiny compartment, eating croissants and rolls, with cups of fresh coffee at a table with purple flowers in a silver vase.<br />
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It was a bizarre scene. It was also typical of the friendly reception the Orient-Express received as we moved deeper into Eastern Europe.<br />
Locals, tipped off to the arrival of our shiny, navy-blue carriages, were waiting at platforms all the way. We were almost cheered past in places, especially as we moved on from our stop in Krakow towards Dresden - the first time the Orient-Express has ventured into the city that suffered such heavy bombing in the Second World War.<br />
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From Dresden we were travelling onwards, via a mini-stop in Paris, to Calais and buses into the Channel Tunnel to Folkestone, where another Orient-Express train was waiting to transport us to Victoria Station. The journey consisted of one night on the train, two in Krakow (at a plush Sheraton), another night on the train, two in Dresden (in an even plusher Kempinski), one more on the train, before returning home. Quite an adventure: it made London-to-Venice or Paris-to-Istanbul seem pass? - we were travelling into the Orient-Express unknown.<br />
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So, via the Dolomites and long tunnels when the lights flickered (and we thought of Agatha Christie), Austria and the Czech Republic, we reached Poland. Along the way we dined on foie gras, fillet of beef marinated in dill and juniper berries, and dark chocolate cake ‘with Italian lemon zests’.<br />
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<img alt="Tom's Art Deco Wagon-Lit compartment" class="blkBorder" height="417" src="http://cepphoe.co.cc/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wpid-article-1361087-0D4F1A71000005DC-220634x417.jpg" width="634" /><br />
<i>Former bordello: Tom's Art Deco Wagon-Lit compartment</i><br />
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We were dressed formally - a tie and suit for me (some wore black tie), a smart dress for my girlfriend Emma - as we listened to a tinkling piano. There were three dining carriages (each restored to Art Deco glory) as well as six sleeping carriages, all beautifully maintained. Ours dated from 1929. The mahogany panelled rooms were designed by Rene Prou – considered a master in this area. A sign also said that the compartment had been ‘used as a brothel in Limoges 1940-45’.<br />
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Our compartment had a funny sink in a cabinet in a corner. There was a bench-seat converted into bunks by a steward while you had your evening meal. There was a mini-fan in a corner, helping with the heat. But it was still pretty hot.<br />
An American woman commented wryly: ‘Staying here is cheaper than a divorce.’ There was also no shower room – ‘This is authentic,’ explained the train manager, Bruno Janssens. Regarding the heat, he added: ‘We’re thinking of bringing in air-conditioning.’<br />
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In Krakow, we stayed by the Vistula river overlooking the 14th Century Wawel Castle. Krakow is easy to walk around, with a pretty old town encircled by a park renowned as a lovers’ promenade. We climbed the hill to the castle and took in the strange shoebox-like tourist boats on the river below and bathers on the small beach opposite. We walked on, passing a shopping mall selling every brand under the sun (Eastern Europe has come a long way since 1989) and had a coffee in the huge central square, where stalls had T-shirts bearing the slogan: ‘CK: City of Krakow.’<br />
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Then we went to Auschwitz. You can’t help wondering whether it is appropriate, having travelled in our sybaritic train on the very same tracks used by Hitler’s Holocaust wagons. But it would be wrong to visit this part of Poland without spending some time at this monument to man’s inhumanity.<br />
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We passed under the chilling sign that says Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes You Free) and entered the harrowing rows of red-brick compounds, overlooked by watchtowers and surrounded by barbed wire.<br />
We saw pictures of inmates sentenced to death. We took in a courtyard where executions were performed against a brick wall. We visited the terrifying gas chambers, where a sign said: ‘Please maintain silence here: remember their suffering and show respect for their memory.’ A display explained that more than a million people died in Auschwitz and neighbouring Birkenau.<br />
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It gave us a lot to think about when we returned to the Orient-Express that night.<br />
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<img alt="The Zwinger in Dresden" class="blkBorder" height="411" src="http://cepphoe.co.cc/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/wpid-article-1361087-0D4F1DB8000005DC-703634x411.jpg" width="634" /><br />
<i>Masterpiece: The Zwinger in Dresden has an amazing art collection</i><br />
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We journeyed on to Dresden, passing great factories and Soviet-era housing blocks in the outskirts of the former East German city. There was music and dancing at the station before we were whisked to the Kempinski, a former palace built for a mistress of Augustus the Strong, who ruled Saxony from 1670 to 1733.<br />
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The hotel was rebuilt after being bombed in February 1945, and is next to the Royal Palace. We were soon being shown round the grounds of the Zwinger, another palace with a fabulous collection of Augustus’s porcelain and a gallery full of works by Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt and Vermeer.<br />
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Augustus, we learned, spent a fortune gained from mining silver near Dresden on his beloved art. Stalin had taken much of it to Russia, but it was returned by Khrushchev, who felt the works belonged in the city.<br />
We were shown the marvellous domed Church of Our Lady, also destroyed during the war but rebuilt five years ago. Our guide said: ‘This is a symbol. I was five years old when this was destroyed. Now it is back, it feels as though the city is living again.’<br />
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Later, we visited a Volkswagen factory and the botanical gardens. Then we rejoined our train for the slow ride back via Paris to Calais – passing Eastern European trainspotters again on the way.<br />
As we did so, the words of our guide came back to me: ‘For many years, living here was like living in a prison. Now we are free to go where we like. Now we can welcome the Orient-Express.’<br />
With the piano playing in the dining car, we chugged out of Dresden on our very different (and extremely memorable) journey.<br />
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Orient-Express (0845 077 2222, www.orient-express.com) offers a seven-day Venice/Krakow/Dresden/London journey from ?4,850pp including a cabin suite on the train with full-board, two nights at the Sheraton Hotel in Krakow and two nights in the Taschenbergerpalais Kempinski Hotel in Dresden, a special dinner in Krakow and excursions. It can also arrange flights to Venice, two nights’ accommodation and transfers from ?475.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-68297707191774068142010-04-21T06:53:00.002+07:002011-03-08T15:29:53.923+07:00Ryanair Cabin Crew Charity Calendar 2010 (pictures and video)<img alt="2010 ryanair calendar blog thumb 450x637 53229 Ryanair Cabin Crew
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<a href="http://indonesiaone.co.cc/">The girls of Ryanair are back with their latest sexy cabin crew charity calendar for 2010.</a><br />
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The calendar is raising money for the UK charity “KIDS” which provides support to disabled children all over the Britain.<br />
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<a href="http://cepphoe.co.cc/">Here’s a couple of pics from the launch in London and a sneak peek at sexy air hostess Frances who appears for April plus a behind the scenes video filmed at the photoshoot on location in Alicante, Spain.</a><br />
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Full Name: Oxavia Aldiano<br />
Nickname: <strong>vidi</strong> or enough written <strong>Vd</strong><br />
Place / Date of Birth: Jakarta, March 29, 1990<br />
Education: SMU Al-Azhar 1 (AlPus) graduated in 2008<br />
Pelita Harapan University, major Electrical Engineering,<br />
registered?in 2008<br />
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Achievements :<br />
-1st Champion in the event 1ncredible Band Festival 2007<br />
-Champion-in Elfa’s Music Studio Try Out<br />
-Best Vocalist in 1incredible Band Festival 2007<br />
-Best Vocalist at the Electric Band Festival 2005<br />
-Top 100 Indonesian Idol 2006<br />
-Favorite Champion JakStuff in 2007, with Suddenly September<br />
-First Champion Alpus Pentasan 2006<br />
-First Champion Pop Singer Al-Azhar Festival<br />
-First Champion Nasyid Al-Azhar Festival<br />
The music that followed:<br />
-Java Jazz 2005<br />
-1ncredible-Band Festival 2007<br />
-National MTQ-2006<br />
-Jakarta Fair 2008<br />
-Jajan Jazz 2008<br />
-Amway ’s Leadership Seminar<br />
-Electric-SMP Al-Azhar Pejaten 2007<br />
-Bali-Fashion Week 2007<br />
-Party-Promo Night at Al-Azhar Pejaten 2008<br />
Vidi like :<br />
-Photography and love all things related image manipulation<br />
-Setup to the computer that is called Computer Freak<br />
-Any case-related gadgets<br />
Fashion Statement by vidi:<br />
Classy messy with favorite clothes output Zara, Top Men, Metrox<br />
Vidi’s idol:<br />
- Craig David. Because Craig David’s singing that even with the fast tempo but still ragtime<br />
- Jason Mraz. Because his song is cool and so groove<br />
Favorite places:<br />
Brewww – Lounge Caf?, Kemang. In addition to be a fun place to hang out with friends, vidi also appear to be regular.<br />
The ritual Before sing :<br />
To the rest room and relaxation.<br />
Top Quote of vidi :<br />
“…. You have a talent in singing. Your Vocal is properly. The Intonation is also correct. The Vibration is good … …. “(Indra Lesmana – when vidi in Top 100 Indonesian Idol 2006).Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-49603381647513194102010-04-11T20:33:00.000+07:002010-04-11T20:33:14.401+07:00Dixie Carter Biography<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qzd9HIsRWeA/Sfguys6HV2I/AAAAAAAAWlk/SjMGZE77CXQ/s1600/Dixie+Carter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Qzd9HIsRWeA/Sfguys6HV2I/AAAAAAAAWlk/SjMGZE77CXQ/s320/Dixie+Carter.jpg" /></a></div>Name<br />
Dixie Carter<br />
Date of Birth<br />
Thursday May 25 1939<br />
Born<br />
McLemoresville (Tennessee)<br />
Nationality<br />
American<br />
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A Southern-born leading lady and singer with hazel eyes and dark brown hair, Dixie Carter made her first professional appearances at Memphis' highly regarded Front Street Theater, playing soprano leads in "Carousel", "Oklahoma!", "Brigadoon", "The King and I", "The Student Prince", "The New Moon" and "Babes in Arms", as well as performing with the Memphis Shakespeare Festival. She made her Off-Broadway debut as Perdita in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of "A Winter's Tale" (1963) but left her promising career to marry and have children. Returning to the stage after an eight-year absence, Carter co-starred on Broadway in the musical "Sextet" (1974) and played Melba in the Circle in the Square revival of "Pal Joey" (1976) while playing Brandy Harrison on the long-running daytime serial "The Edge of Night" (first CBS, then ABC) from 1974-1976. She also worked frequently at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, winning a Theatre World Award for "Jesse and the Bandit Queen" (1976), and later at Lincoln Center, where she appeared in the musicals "The King & I", "Carousel" and "The Merry Widow".<br />
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Beginning in 1977, Carter appeared as a series regular in "On Our Own" (CBS), "Out of the Blue" (ABC), "Filthy Rich" (CBS) and "Different Strokes" (NBC), finally achieving her greatest success on the CBS comedy hit, "Designing Women", bringing her dusky, tongue-in-cheek drawl, glaring eyes and mature charm to the role of Julia Sugarbaker, the most sensible and vocally liberal of that show's four decorator divas. Carter met her current husband Hal Holbrook while starring opposite him in the CBS movie "The Killing of Randy Webster" (1981), and he had a recurring role on "Designing Women" as her romantic interest. They also co-starred in "A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle" (NBC, 1994). In addition to her many musical theater credits, Carter has excelled as a cabaret performer, playing NYC's Cafe Carlyle every year but one since 1989 and singing at the White House in November of 1993, the tape of that performance airing on PBS as "Cabaret" (1994). Carter's early ambition to sing opera came to naught, but she sort of realized her dream of being an opera singer by taking over the part of the great diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's "Master Class" (1997), the only spring she missed her engagement at the Carlyle.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-73924427243189025252010-04-11T20:25:00.001+07:002010-04-11T20:26:31.992+07:00Lech Aleksander Kaczynski<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/3010/lechkaczyc584ski.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/3010/lechkaczyc584ski.jpg" width="264" /></a></div><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="lech kaczynskiBiodata Lech Kaczynski - Lech
Aleksander Kaczynski info dengarkan, (lahir 18 Juni 1949 – meninggal 10
April 2010 pada umur 60 tahun) adalah Presiden Republik Polandia dan
politikus partai konservatif Hukum dan Keadilan (Prawo i
Sprawiedliwość/PiS)."><b>Lech Aleksander Kaczynski </b> (born June 18, 1949 - died 10 April 2010 at age 60 years) is the President of the Republic of Poland and politicians conservative Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość / PiS). </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Kaczyński menjabat Presiden Warsawa pada
2002 hingga 22 Desember 2005, sesaat sebelum dilantik sebagai presiden.">Kaczyński served as President of Warsaw in 2002 until December 22, 2005, shortly before being sworn in as president. </span><span title="Ia meninggal
dunia bersama istrinya dalam sebuah kecelakaan pesawat di Rusia pada 10
April 2010.">He died with his wife in a plane crash in Russia on April 10, 2010.</span></span><br />
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<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Pemilihan Presiden Lech Kaczynski"><b>Election of President Lech Kaczynski</b><br />
</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Kaczyński meraih 8,257,468 suara (54.04%)
pada babak kedua (run-off) yang diumumkan pada 23 Oktober 2005.">Kaczynski won 8,257,468 votes (54.04%) in the second round (run-off) which was announced on October 23, 2005. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Ia mengalahkan saingannya, Donald Tusk dari
Partai Program Kepentingan Umum (PO: Platforma Obywatelska) yang
neokonservatif yang memperoleh 7,022,319 suara (45.96%).">He defeated his rival, Donald Tusk of the Public Interest Program Party (PO: Platforma Obywatelska) the neoconservatives who obtained 7,022,319 votes (45.96%).<br />
</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Bersama dengan saudara kembarnya, Jarosław Kaczyński, Lech
Kaczyński adalah pemimpin Partai Hukum dan Keadilan (Prawo i
Sprawiedliwość).">Together with his twin brother, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Lech Kaczynski is the leader of Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość).<br />
</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Kaczyński adalah tokoh konservatif yang mengedepankan
nasionalisme Polandia dan didukung oleh orang-orang tua yang tak
terdidik serta warga pedesaan.">Kaczynski is a conservative figure which emphasizes nationalism, Poland and supported by old people are not educated and rural residents. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Dalam kampanye pemilu presiden 2005, ia
memikat pendukungnya dengan mengampanyekan pentingnya intervensi negara
dalam mengatur bantuan ekonomi dan sosial untuk kelompok tak mampu.">In the presidential election campaign in 2005, he attracted supporters by mengampanyekan importance of state intervention in regulating the economic and social assistance to the group could not.<br />
</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Lech Kaczyński
tewas dalam bencana pesawat dekat kota Smolensk di Rusia Barat pada 10
April 2010.">Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane disaster near the city of Smolensk in western Russia on April 10, 2010. </span><span title="Istrinya juga di antara para korban.">His wife is also among the victims.</span></span><br />
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dunia bersama istrinya dalam sebuah kecelakaan pesawat di Rusia pada 10
April 2010."> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-77420098344323992832010-04-11T20:17:00.000+07:002010-04-11T20:17:57.331+07:00youngest person to conquer EverestAt the age of 13, boys are told they have the world at their feet.<br />
That could quite literally soon be the case for American boy, Jordan Romero, who is bidding to become the youngest person ever to conquer Mount Everest.<br />
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This is no pipedream - the teenager was busy today in Nepal packing his equipment and discussing final details wit the three Sherpa guides who will accompany him.<br />
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He will not be undertaking the daunting task alone, however, his father Paul and stepmother Karen are tagging along too.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Intrepid: 13-year-old Jordan Romero hopes to be the youngest
person to scale the world's highest mountain " class="blkBorder" height="428" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/11/article-1265174-09163336000005DC-25_468x314.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Intrepid: 13-year-old Jordan Romero hopes to be the youngest person to scale the world's highest mountain. He is pictured here leaving his hotel in Kathmandu yesterday as he prepared for the challenge</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Steep: Mount Everest is 29,035 high and has claimed many lives " class="blkBorder" height="467" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/11/article-1265174-039E9EAF0000044D-743_468x342.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Steep: Mount Everest is 29,035 high and has claimed many lives </div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>Jordan has already climbed the highest peaks on six other continents and hopes to complete the set by chalking off Everest in May.<br />
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His team sets off from Kathmandu tomorrow en route to base camp on the Chinese side of the 29,035ft mountain.<br />
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'I just wanted to do something big, and this was something I wanted to do for myself. It was all about the experience and I just happen to be 13 at this time,' Jordan said.<br />
The record for the youngest climb of Everest is held by Temba Tsheri of Nepal, who reached the peak aged 16.<br />
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Jordan, who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa when he was 10 years old, said he was inspired by a painting in his school hallway of the seven continents' highest summits.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Tag team: The teenager will be accompanied on the climb by his
father Paul and stepmother Karen " class="blkBorder" height="390" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/11/article-1265174-09163342000005DC-514_468x286.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Tag team: The teenager will be accompanied on the climb by his father Paul and stepmother Karen </div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>Everest, however, will be his first over 8,000 metres (26,240 feet).<br />
'This will be a big leap, but we have been training for the altitude,' he said.<br />
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His father and stepmother also accompanied him on his previous climbs.<br />
Jordan said he would not take any unnecessary risks and would turn around if they encounter problems like bad weather. He said he read about past disasters on the mountain that claimed many lives and learned lessons from them.<br />
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'This may be the first of many attempts,' he said. <br />
'It could take a couple of years, but I am determined to do it. If I don't reach the summit this time, I will try next time.'<br />
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'I do feel ready,' he said. 'I feel very prepared emotionally, and definitely physically.'<br />
While he is acclimatising at the base camp before the May push to the summit, Jordan plans to do his algebra homework, some book reports and write a journal about his experiences.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="High achiever: Jordan poses at the Carstensz Pyramid summit,
Oceania's highest peak at 16,024 feet" class="blkBorder" height="480" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/11/article-1265174-09063000000005DC-892_468x352.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">High achiever: Jordan poses at the Carstensz Pyramid summit, Oceania's highest peak at 16,024 feet</div></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Travelling each year to Northern Manitoba in Canada to capture the Aurora Borealis, Linda Drake braves temperatures of minus 20 degrees in search of that elusive perfect shot.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Making the pilgrimage to just south of the Arctic Circle, in March each year, the 40-year-old has developed a passion for the heavenly phenomenon.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Linda Drake uses a variety of different camera exposure times to
photograph the spectacular lights " class="blkBorder" height="417" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/11/article-1265154-0916AA06000005DC-91_634x417.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Linda Drake uses a variety of different camera exposure times to photograph the spectacular lights </div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Most people travel to Churchill in Manitoba to photograph the polar bears coming out of hibernation in February and March, but I like to set up camp and wait each evening for the dancing lights and nature's most breathtaking show,' said the San Luis Obisto based photographer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It never ceases to amaze me how grand the shows of colour are and how each one differs so wildly from the last.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Hopefully in these pictures I have managed to capture the beauty that has transfixed me.'</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="The photographer braves temperatures of minus 20c in Canada's
northern Manitoba to capture the light shows" class="blkBorder" height="418" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/11/article-1265154-0916A9B1000005DC-468_634x418.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption">The photographer braves temperatures of minus 20c in Canada's northern Manitoba to capture the light shows </div><div class="imageCaption"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Usually catching the light shows between midnight and two in the morning, Linda uses a variety of different camera exposure times to photograph the aurora.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Sometimes I leave the lens open for two to three seconds and on other occasions go for 30 seconds to one whole minute,' said Linda.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The longest display of the northern lights that I have seen has lasted for up to two hours.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Caused by photon emissions in the upper ionosphere around 50 miles up, the light shows are the result of ionised nitrogen atoms becoming excited by solar wind particles funnelling through the Earth's atmosphere.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="The Northern Lights are the result of ionised nitrogen atoms
becoming excited by solar wind particles funnelling through the Earth's
atmosphere" class="blkBorder" height="419" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/11/article-1265154-0916AABA000005DC-294_634x419.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">The Northern Lights are the result of ionised nitrogen atoms becoming excited by solar wind particles funnelling through the Earth's atmosphere </div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I have braved the coldest temperatures I have ever experienced to get these photographs,' said Linda.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The way that the sky moves like an ocean current is mesmerising and takes my breath away.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I have been doing this for four years now and hope to continue into the future with my northern light fascination.' </span><br />
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<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Nama Lengkap : Tina Talisa">Full Name: Tina Talisa<br />
</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Nama Panggilan :
Tina Talisa">Call Name: Tina Talisa<br />
</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="TTl: Bandung, 24
Desember 1979">TTL: Bandung, December 24, 1979<br />
</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Pendidikan Terakhir
: Fakultas Kedokteran Gigi Universitas Padjajaran, Bandung">Last Education: Faculty of Dentistry, Padjadjaran University, Bandung</span></span><br />
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<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Talisa Presenter Cantik Kelahiran Bandung,
24 Desember 1979 merupakan seorang presenter, pembawa acara indonesia."> Births, December 24, 1979 was a presenter, host Indonesia. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Sebelum menjadi
presenter tv tina talisa pernah menjalani profesinya sebagai dokter
gigi.">Before becoming a TV presenter Talisa tina had a profession as a dentist. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Ia pun
pintar dalam bernyanyi dibuktikannya dalam setiap acara
yang dibawakannya tina sering bernyanyi di dalam acara itu.Adakah yang
tau bahwa presenter cantik ini merupakan finalis dari ajang kecantikan
yaitu Puteri Indonesia 2003, Juara 1 Mojang Jawa Barat 2003, dan Juara I
Mojang Kota Bandung 2002">He also demonstrated good at singing in every event that was brought tina often sing at the event itu.Adakah that know that this is a beautiful presenter finalists from the Miss Indonesia beauty event in 2003, Champion 2003 1st fathers of West Java and Bandung fathers Winner 2002 </span><span title=".">. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Bagaimana sampai
akhirnya Tina meninggalkan pekerjaannya sebagai dokter gigi menjadi
presenter tv?">How to Tina finally left his job as a dentist to be tv presenter? </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Ketertarikan itu timbul ketika ia bekerja di Radio Paramuda dan
Radio Mustika.">Interest in it arose when he worked in Radio and Radio Mustika Paramuda. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Lalu Tina pun sering membawakan acara di Reportase Sore,
Program berita di Trans TV..">Then Tina had often hosted in Reporting afternoon, a TV news program in Trans .. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="lalu ia panda ke
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<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Kania Sutisnawinata adalah salah satu anchor
primetime news Metro TV seperti 'Metro Hari Ini' dan 'Top Nine News'.">Kania Sutisnawinata is one of Metro TV news anchor primetime such as "Metro Hari Ini" and "Top Nine News'. </span><span title="Sebelumnya bersama
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</span><span title="Kania adalah putri dari pasangan Djunaedi Sutisnawinata dan
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bersaudara, kakaknya bernama Kamelia Sutisnawinata.">Kania is the second child of two brothers, her sister called Camellia Sutisnawinata. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Ayah Kania adalah
seorang diplomat dan pernah menjadi Duta Besar Republik Indonesia untuk
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pada 16 Juli 1975, Kania pernah menghabiskan masa kecilnya di berbagai
negara, termasuk Republik Ceko, Swiss, Amerika Serikat, dan Meksiko.">Born in Jakarta on July 16, 1975, Kania had spent his childhood in various countries, including Czech Republic, Switzerland, the United States, and Mexico.<br />
</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Kania telah menikah dengan Danurdoro W.">Kania has been married to Danurdoro W. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Suharno dan telah dikaruniai seorang putri yang
diberi nama Dinakara Hapsari Suharno.">Suharno and have been blessed with a daughter named Dinakara Hapsari Suharno.<br />
</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Kania adalah
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Born June 19, 1949, in Warsaw, Poland; son of Rajmund (an engineer) and Jadwiga (a professor of literature) Kaczynski; married Maria Mackiewicz (an economic researcher), 1978; children: Marta. <i> Education: </i> Earned degree in law and administration from Warsaw University; Gdansk University, Ph.D., 1976.<br />
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<b> Addresses: </b> <i> Home </i> —Warsaw, Poland. <i> Office </i> —c/o The Embassy of The Republic of Poland, 2640 16th St. NW, Washington DC 20009. <br />
<h2> Career </h2>Professor at Gdansk and Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski universities; advisor to the Solidarity strike committee, Lenin Shipyards, 1980; advisor to Lech Walesa, 1988; vice-chair, Solidarity trade union; elected to Polish Senate, 1989; elected to parliament, 1991; served as Security Minister under President Lech Walesa, 1990–93; President of the Supreme Chamber of Control, February 1992–May 1995; Minister of Justice and Attorney General, June 2000–July 2001; co-founded political party Law and Justice, 2001; elected mayor of Warsaw, 2002; elected president of Poland, October, 2005. <br />
<h2> Sidelights </h2>In October of 2005, Lech Kaczynski became Poland's third elected president since the end of its Communist era. A political activist in the 1970s and '80s, Kaczynski once served as a key advisor to Lech Walesa, the labor activist who played a major role in the ouster of Poland's Communist regime. Several months after taking office, Kaczynski took the unprecedented step of appointing his twin brother, Jaroslaw, as prime minister. Their rise has caused some political analysts to worry that Poland, a recent entrant to the European Union, has made a genuine shift to the right thanks to the support the brothers have received from older, conservative, and often rural voters in this staunchly Roman Catholic country.<br />
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Kaczynski and his brother—his elder by 45 minutes—were born in 1949, four years after the end of World War II in Poland. The war was a traumatic event for the nation, caught as it was between two longstanding enemies of its independence, Russia and Germany. Their engineer-father had served in the resistance army, and their mother was a war nurse who later went on to a professorship in literature at the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the early 1960s, the blonde twins achieved renown as the stars of the film adaptation of a popular children's story, <i> The Two Who Stole the Moon </i> .<br />
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Neither twin pursued film careers afterward, and Kaczynski earned a degree in law and administration from Warsaw University. He went on to a doctorate at Gdansk University, and finished in 1976. <br />
He held teaching posts both there and at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. By the late 1970s, however, there was growing dissatisfaction in Poland under Communist Party rule, in place since the Soviet occupation of Poland that immediately followed World War II. Kaczynski joined the burgeoning underground anti-Communist movement, including the Workers' Defense Committee, which had been established to aid families of those jailed in a series of 1976 labor strikes.<br />
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Dissent grew steadily in several cities until workers walkedoff the job at the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk, a Baltic Sea port, in August of 1980. A month later, the Solidarity trade union federation came into being in Gdansk. It was ardently anti-communist, and led by an electrician named Lech Walesa; Kaczynski served as an advisor to the strike committee. The Polish government declared martial law at the end of 1981 in an effort to quash the Solidarity movement, and Kaczynski was jailed in a crackdown on activists. Finally in 1989 a faltering Polish government permitted multi-party elections, and a Solidarity-led coalition won office. Kaczynski won a seat in the Polish national senate that same year, and two years later was elected to parliament. By then he had also risen to the post of vice-chair of the Solidarity trade union.<br />
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After Walesa was elected president in December of 1990, Kaczynski served as one of his top advisors as well as the minister for security. In 1993, however, the two men had a falling-out over a political dispute in the prime minister's government, and Kaczynski was fired as minister. He retained another post, that of president of the Supreme Chamber of Control, a government oversight body, until 1995. He later aligned with another former anti-communist activist, Jerzy Buzek, and after Buzek was elected prime minister, he appointed Kaczynski minister of justice and attorney general in 2000. <br />
Out of office again by mid-2001, Kaczynski teamed with his brother to form <i> Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc </i> , or the Law and Justice Party. Its main focus was on the rooting out of corruption in Poland's government, which had reached epic levels by then. A year later, Kaczynski won election as mayor of Warsaw, Poland's largest city and capital. He held office from November of 2002 until February of 2006, and gained a measure of infamy for banning an annual gay pride march in 2004 and 2005, claiming that it was offensive to the city's public morals.<br />
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In March of 2005, Kaczynski announced his candidacy for the presidency of Poland. The following September, the Law and Justice Party—headed by Jaroslaw—did well in parliamentary elections, and in the presidential election a month later, Kaczynski bested a candidate of the center-right party, Donald Tusk, by nine percentage points. In Polish politics, the chairperson of the party that received the majority in the last parliamentary elections is expected to be appointed prime minister, but Jaroslaw had said publicly that he would not serve as prime minister in order to avoid any charges of nepotism; the comment reportedly angered Kaczynski, and the two brothers did not speak for several days.<br />
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Taking office in December of 2005, Kaczynski promised Poles he would abolish corruption in the government and restore the Polish republic's reputation on the world stage. He halted an ongoing privatization plan, which sold off formerly state-controlled industries, and voiced suspicions about the European Union (EU), which Poland joined in 2004. Certain economic guidelines that EU member nations must follow had brought hardship to Poland's farmers, many of whom had supported Kaczynski's candidacy. <br />
Kaczynski rekindled the fires of some longstanding animosity that Poles felt toward Germany over the Nazi era in June of 2006, when he reacted to a satirical article in a Berlin newspaper that referred to him as a potato. He and Jaroslaw both responded with particularly vehement language, and Poland's foreign minister asserted that an official apology was in order. The German government was forced to point out that it had no control over a free press. Kaczynski then cancelled a planned summit with German chancellor Angela Merkel and Jacques Chirac, the president of France.<br />
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In July, Kaczynski officially replaced his prime minister, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, with his brother, Jaroslaw. Political analysts believed that Jaroslaw had already enjoyed a great degree of influence on his brother's government, and the switch was viewed as a bid to rescue Lech's failing presidency. "Poland awaits radical changes, but not revolutionary changes," <i> New York Times </i> writer Richard Bernstein quoted him as saying. "My brother uses the term moral revolution. Moral revolution has nothing to do with political revolution. I have in mind values like honesty. This is the revolution we are going to call for." <br />
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<span class="short_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Erdian Aji Prihartanto">Aji Erdian Prihartanto</span><span title="Laki-Laki">Male</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Jakarta, 05 Oktober
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berusia 8 tahun.">Men born in Jakarta on October 5, 1979 was never followed in TVRI singing contest when she was 8 years old. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Anji yang mendapat
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<h2>Indi Rahmawati Profile</h2>Indi Rahmawati suddenly became famous after the National Police Headquarters denounce this TVOne presenter to Press Council over alleged fake markus news. Indi interviewed a freelance in the entertainment media, Andris Ronaldi. Andris claims paid Rp. 1.5 million to perform at the event in TV0ne Apa Kabar Indonesia.<br />
Name : Indy Rachmawati<br />
Nick : Indy<br />
Lahir : Bandung, 01 April 1971<span id="more-6950"></span><br />
Hobi : Fotografi<br />
Occupation : Journalist => News Achor dan Producer<br />
Active in Journalist : 1999 – present<br />
Favorite food : kepiting<br />
Career :<br />
* SCTV<br />
* TVone<br />
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*Apa Kabar Indonesia Pagi (Senin hingga Jumat pukul 07.00-09.00 WIB)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-49136167721121951422010-04-11T03:59:00.000+07:002010-04-11T03:59:09.559+07:00Kristen Stewart in Budapest<strong>Kristen Stewart in Budapest, </strong>Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are planning a secret meeting in the next couple of days. Torn apart for too long, the Twilight stars plan to be close over the Easter holiday, accordingto OK! magazine.With Kristen Stewart in Los Angeles getting ready for a new film project her own mother is going to direct and Robert Pattinson in Budapest and London filming steamy love scenes with Uma Thurman , it’s time these two get some alone time in the same city Kristen Stewart in Budapest<br />
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Now scientists believe they have explained what causes the near death experiences reported by thousands of people on the operating table.<br />
A study of heart attack victims has found a link between out of body experiences and high levels of carbon dioxide in the blood.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Towards the light: People who have out-of-body experiences on the
operating table may have high levels of carbon dioxide in their blood" class="blkBorder" height="409" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264385-0589E3410000044D-779_468x300.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Towards the light: People who have out-of-body experiences on the operating table may have high levels of carbon dioxide in their blood</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>Researchers who made the discovery believe carbon dioxide may alter the chemical balance of the brain - and "trick" it into seeing lights, tunnels or dead people.<br />
Around a fifth of people whose heart stops during a cardiac arrest claim to have had some kind of near death experience.<br />
They include the sensation of someone's life flashing before their eyes, intense feelings of calm, travelling down tunnels towards bright lights and encounters with dead people.<br />
The new study in Slovenia, looked at the experiences of 52 patients treated for heart attacks in hospital. All the patients were "flatliners" - people who were resuscitated after their breath and heart stopped.<br />
Researchers looked for a range of chemicals in their blood at the time of their treatment - including carbon dioxide. They also gave them questionnaires to find out if they had a near-death experience.<br />
According to the study published in the journal Critical Care, 11 patients reported near-death experiences. Patients with higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in their breath and arteries were more likely to have an unusual experience.<br />
Dr Zalika Klemenc-Ketis, from the University of Maribor, said: 'We found that in those patients who experienced the phenomenon, blood carbon dioxide levels were significantly higher than in those who did not.'<br />
The chances of having a near death experience was not linked to age, sex, religious belief, fear of death or drugs given during resuscitation.<br />
She said further studies were needed, using larger sample sizes to investigate the possible link.<br />
'The association with carbon dioxide has never been reported before, and deserves further study,' she added.<br />
It is still not clear whether near death experiences take place before, during or after a heart attack.<br />
Dr Klemenc-Ketis said high levels of carbon dioxide in the blood has been shown to change the chemical balance of the brain 'which can provoke unusual experiences in the form of bright light, visions and out of body or even mystical experience'.<br />
However, British near death experience expert Dr Sam Parnia, of Southampton University, questioned whether carbon dioxide was the cause of near death experiences.<br />
High carbon dioxide levels were often a sign that a patient had a "good" resuscitation - where doctors made sure patients had a good flow of blood to the brain, he said.<br />
'These observations may indicate that those patients who had improved quality of resuscitation and had their hearts restarted after it had stopped had better brain recovery and hence better recall and less amnesic effects of brain injury which seems to be what limits people's ability to recall their near death experiences,' he said.<br />
'It does not mean that the CO2 itself caused the experiences.'<br />
Dr Parnia is leading a major investigation into near death experiences at 25 British and American hospitals.<br />
As part of the study, doctors have placed pictures on shelves high up in resuscitation areas. The pictures are only visible from the ceiling.<br />
Researchers want to find out whether people who report out of body experiences can accurately describe the hidden pictures. <br />
Once someone stops breathing, it can take several minutes before their heart slows down and comes to a stop. If their heart stops first - because of a cardiac arrest - breathing stops within seconds. This is the point of "clinical death".<br />
Consciousness is normally lost within a few seconds of clinical death. The brain, however, can survive unharmed for several minutes. It is during this period of unconsciousness that out of body experiences are thought to happen.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But this is exactly what astronaut Soichi Noguchi saw from inside the International Space Station (ISS) as it hurtled towards aurora borealis - or the northern lights - at 28,000km per hour (17,500mph).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">After taking the spellbinding photograph and then travelling through the aurora itself, he posted it on Twitter for all to see.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="A photo of the aurora taken from the ISS" class="blkBorder" height="611" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/07/article-1263973-0904E212000005DC-509_634x611.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">A photo of the aurora taken from the ISS</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="clear"> </div><img alt="iss" class="blkBorder" height="406" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/07/article-1263973-09081E77000005DC-103_634x406.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Astronaut Soichi posted this picture with the caption: 'Aurora, Moon, and my home away from home.'</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The photo shows a green glow hovering approximately 60miles above the Earth's surface.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This natural light display is created when particles enter the atmosphere and collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms, giving them an electric charge.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The extraordinary red glow above it can reach up to 300miles above our planet. This means that Mr Noguchi's online boast of travelling through the aurora is technically correct as the space station was 240miles above Earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The craft in the foreground of the picture is a Progress capsule, which brings supplies such as food, water and air to the ISS.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Noguchi, who is known as Astro_Soichi on Twitter, and his Expedition 22 colleagues recently broke the world record for the number of photos taken by an ISS crew. They have snapped over 100,000 images of space in an accumulated six months in the craft.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The total number of photos taken by crew members aboard the ISS now totals 639,000.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Noguchi won't be the only Japanese astronaut aboard the ISS after Naoko Yamazaki became the second woman from her country to fly into space over the Bank Holiday weekend.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She was one of three women among seven astronauts who blasted off in space shuttle Discovery and is taking Japanese curry and noodles up to Mr Noguchi, who has been up there for three months.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The three women on board Discovery will join a fourth already at the space station, setting a record for the most women in space at the same time.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The two other ladies, Americans Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Stephanie Wilson, will join fellow U.S. citizen Tracy Caldwell Dyson, who was launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan on Friday with two Russian male astronauts.</span><br />
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Scientists taking close-up photographs of the Epsilon Aurigae during its eclipse, which happens every 27 years, noticed the strange dark object's shadow on the star.<br />
They were able to zoom in on the star, which is likely to be about 2000 light years away from our solar system, using an instrument developed at the University of Michigan.<br />
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hovering over the star for the first time " class="blkBorder" height="488" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/07/article-1264306-090A48F5000005DC-924_468x358.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">The Epsilon Aurigae during its eclipse, which happens every 27 years. Scientists have been able to see the shape of a 'dark shadow' hovering over the star for the first time </div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>The object - the 'companion' - was assumed to be a smaller star, orbited by a thick disk of dust.<br />
For more than 175 years, astronomers have known that Epsilon Aurigae - the fifth brightest star in the northern constellation Auriga - is dimmer than it should be, given its mass.<br />
They noticed its brightness dip for more than a year every few decades and surmised that it was part of a binary system consisting of two objects, where one was invisible.<br />
The new images support this theory, showing a geometrically thin, dark, dense but partially translucent cloud passing in front of Epsilon Aurigae.<br />
John Monnier, an associate professor at the University of Michigan's department of astronomy, said the images depicted a system unlike any other known to scientists.<br />
'This really shows that the basic paradigm was right, despite the slim probability,' he said.<br />
'It kind of blows my mind that we could capture this. There's no other system like this known.<br />
'On top of that, it seems to be in a rare phase of stellar life. And it happens to be so close to us. It's extremely fortuitous.'<br />
The images were produced using the Michigan Infra-Red Combiner (MIRC) instrument which allows astronomers to see the shape and surface characteristics of stars.<br />
Prof Monnier worked alongside researchers from the University of Denver and Georgia State University to produce a paper published in tomorrow's edition of the journal Nature.<br />
The lead authors were astrophysics graduate student Brian Kloppenborg and astronomy professor Bob Stencel from the University of Denver.<br />
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Just two years after buying the site for £557million, struggling internet company AOL said it needed 'significant investment' to remain competitive. <br />
An email to staff added that the company was not in a position to provide the funding, and was looking for a buyer.<br />
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</div></div>Although Bebo has been overshadowed by the likes of MySpace and Facebook, it has been strong in foreign markets, including Britain. <br />
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AOL wanted to tap that strength abroad to drive traffic to AOL's other free, ad-supported websites, as well as building its U.S. audience by teaming it with lice chat programs.<br />
But Bebo's audience has instead been slipping in the U.S. <br />
According to comScore Inc., Bebo had 5.1million U.S. users in February, down from 5.8million a year earlier and a sliver of the 210million that Facebook has.<br />
Jon Brod, who runs AOL's startup acquisition and investment unit said AOL will look for potential buyers and plans to finish a strategic evaluation by the end of May.<br />
The $850million in cash that AOL paid for San Francisco-based Bebo in May 2008 made it AOL's largest deal since it bought MapQuest for $1billion (£655.7million) in 2000. <br />
At the time, AOL was still joined with Time Warner Inc., but it separated from the media conglomerate late last year.<br />
AOL, a pioneer in the dial-up Internet business during the '90s, has been trying to streamline and concentrate on rebuilding itself as a content and advertising business.<br />
It runs dozens of websites, including popular tech blog Engadget and personal finance site WalletPop.<br />
Clayton Moran, an analyst at The Benchmark Co., said the price AOL paid for Bebo was questioned from the start.<br />
'It made a lot of industry watchers scratch their heads,' Moran said. 'At this point they probably would admit they overpaid for it and now they're just cleaning it up.'<br />
He said that if AOL did sell Bebo, it would likely fetch a fraction of its original purchase price.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery took performing a three-point turn to a whole new level yesterday when they performed a back flip before docking the shuttle underneath the International Space Station (ISS).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The shuttle commander Alan Poindexter s</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">killfully docked Discovery at 2.30am on Wednesday morning. </span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Space shuttle Discovery before its back flip maneuver " class="blkBorder" height="383" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/09/article-1264584-0909266D000005DC-531_634x383.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">You have reached your destination: The space shuttle Discovery pulls into position for the manoeuvre</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Space station" class="blkBorder" height="286" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/09/article-1264584-090927FA000005DC-560_634x286.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">1, 2, 3, turn! Discovery begins its unusual three point turn</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Back flip" class="blkBorder" height="440" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/09/article-1264584-09092381000005DC-286_634x440.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Result: The shuttle ends up upside down, in the perfect position to dock onto the space station</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Later the same day</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> astronauts from Discovery used a robotic arm to lift a 13-ton cargo carrier from the payload bay onto the space station.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Half of container is taken up by science experiments and supplies, as well as a new bedroom and freezer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nasa said the sleeping compartment may be turned into a powder room, where space station residents can take sponge baths in an enclosed space. At the moment astronauts run the risk of drops of water floating away and getting into electronic equipment when they clean up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In total the crew will unload and transfer 17,000 pounds of science racks and other supplies.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Italian-built cargo carrier - named Leonardo after Signor da Vinci - will return to Earth filled with rubbish and old equipment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Then it will be beefed up and flown back up in September as a permanent storage unit for the space station. That will be the last shuttle flight.</span> <br />
<div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meanwhile the crew have been busy sending huge reams of data from the station to Mission Control.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The files contain laser images of the space shuttle Discovery, which was unable to send the information directly due to a broken antenna that was revealed when it reached orbit.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Discovery" class="blkBorder" height="347" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264584-090B1374000005DC-964_634x347.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">A close-up view of one of the space shuttle Discovery's wings. Every shuttle is checked for damage post-launch after the 2003 Columbia disaster</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nasa will study the pictures sent from the ISS of Discovery's wings and nose cone. Ever since the 2003 Columbia tragedy, Nasa has checked each shuttle for any launch damage to the heat shields following lift-off.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The fault meant the Discovery crew also had to dock </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">without the use of the normal radar tracking system. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Commander Poindexter used a video feed of the docking hatches to line the shuttle up with the ISS. It was only the second docking without radar assistance in 10 years</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="space station" class="blkBorder" height="899" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264584-090D0512000005DC-354_634x899.jpg" width="634" /> Astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured the shuttle Discovery approaching the station during docking</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="clear"> </div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The latest mission marks the achievement of having four women </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">aboard the same spacecraft for the first time.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Americans Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Stephanie Wilson and Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazak, joined </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">American Tracy Caldwell Dyson, who was launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan on Friday with two Russian male astronauts.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was also the fi</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">rst time two Japanese astronauts have been aboard the space station simultaneously. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Three spacewalks are planned over the coming days to replace a depleted ammonia tank that is part of the space station's cooling system. The first will take place today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The well-preserved skull - that of a young boy - belongs to a new species of human ancestor who lived nearly two million years ago. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Scientists believe it may have been a 'missing link' between ape-men and the first ancient humans. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was among 130 fossils belonging to a boy aged around nine and an adult female, probably in her late 20s or early 30s, who lived between 1.95million and 1.78million years ago.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090D42D4000005DC-791_634x440_popup.jpg" id="ext-gen6" onclick="return false" rel=""> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="This female skull forms part of the skeleton Australopithecus
sediba. Sediba is thought to have roamed Earth two million years ago" class="blkBorder" height="440" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090D42D4000005DC-791_634x440.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">This female skull forms part of the skeleton Australopithecus sediba. Sediba is thought to have roamed Earth two million years ago</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="clear"> </div><div class="floatRHS"> <a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090C8C3E000005DC-108_306x423_popup.jpg" id="ext-gen5" onclick="return false" rel=""> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><img alt="Matthew, 9" class="blkBorder" height="423" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090C8C3E000005DC-108_306x423.jpg" width="306" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Matthew Berger, nine, shows a rock from the area where he made the remarkable discovery</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Scientists believe the pair could have been mother and child who entered a cave in search of water, fell 150ft into a deep shaft, and died together.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The remains were discovered by a boy of nine who had joined his father on a fossil-hunting expedition at the Malapa Cave in the Sterkfontein region of South Africa. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Researchers have named the new species <cite>Australopithecus sediba- </cite>meaning-southern ape, spring'. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They are the most complete bones of any early human ancestor - or 'hominid' - ever found. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Professor Lee Berger of South Africa's University of Witwatersrand who made the find in 2008 with his son Matthew, said: 'These fossils give us an extraordinarily detailed look into a new chapter of human evolution and provide a window into a critical period when hominids made the committed change from dependency on life in the trees to life on the ground.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Prof Berger assumed Matthew had found a fossilised ancient antelope. But when he took a closer look, he saw that it was a collar bone. As it turned it over in his hands, he saw a hominid lower jaw jutting out.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I couldn't believe it,' he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The bones turned out to belong to the boy. The remains of the female were unearthed the following month and over the next two year, 130 fragments of bone were found.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The oldest known hominid is Ardi - a female member of the <cite>Ardipithecus ramidus </cite>species that lived 4.4million years ago. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, the best known is Lucy - a member of the ape-like <cite>Australopithecus </cite>who lived in Africa 3.2million years ago. Sediba bridges the gap between the Lucy-like <cite>Australopithecus </cite>and the first <cite>Homo </cite>species.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090C9F33000005DC-640_634x455_popup.jpg" id="ext-gen4" onclick="return false" rel=""> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="dr Paul dirks" class="blkBorder" height="455" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090C9F33000005DC-640_634x455.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Dr Paul Dirks, from James Cook University in Australia, stands close to where the remains were found shortly after it was first discovered and before excavation started</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="clear"> </div> <a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090C9D33000005DC-483_634x485_popup.jpg" id="ext-gen3" onclick="return false" rel=""> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="student abseling down into sediba site" class="blkBorder" height="485" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090C9D33000005DC-483_634x485.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">A student abseils down a shaft close to the Sediba site</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="floatRHS"> <img alt="Prof Lee Berger" class="blkBorder" height="570" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090CA446000005DC-458_306x570.jpg" width="306" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Prof Lee Berger with the skeleton of the male child, believed to be nine years old - the same age as his son who made the remarkable discovery </div></div><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Sediba was an upright walker, around 4ft 2in tall, who shared many physical traits with the earliest known Homo species, <cite>Homo erectus. </cite></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It had long arms, like an ape, short powerful hands, a human-like pelvis and long legs capable of striding and possibly running. Their brains were a third the size of modern humans. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The latest discovery has provoked a debate among scientists over their importance. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The fossils were found in what was once a cave that was 165ft underground 1.9million years ago. The couple appear to have fallen, along with other animals, into a deep cave. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They may have survived the fall for a few days or weeks, living off the meat from other animals trapped with them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">After they died, their bodies were washed into an underground lake or pool where they were covered with sediment and preserved.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The scientists believe they died close to each other in time - possibly hours, days or weeks apart.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Two more skeletons from the same species have been found since the discovery - but their details are being kept secret for now.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers also found fossils from at least 25 other species of animals - including sabre-toothed cats, a wild cat, a brown hyena, a wild dog, antelopes, mice, rabbits and a horse.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Prof Paul Dirks, from James Cook University in Australia, who took part in the dig, said; 'One possible explanation for their entry into the cave could have been that they needed water</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="clear"> </div><a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090C9D43000005DC-575_634x472_popup.jpg" id="ext-gen2" onclick="return false" rel=""> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="cave dose to site" class="blkBorder" height="472" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/08/article-1264538-090C9D43000005DC-575_634x472.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">This shows a well-known archaeological site close to where the find was made. Two more skeletons from the same species have been found since the discovery - but their details are being kept secret for now</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'To explain the fossil assemblage and their well-preserved state, we would speculate that perhaps at the time of their death, the area in which Sediba lived experienced a severe drought. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Animals may have smelled water, ventured in too deep, fallen down hidden shafts in the pitch dark or got lost and died.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The discovery has excited fossil experts around the world - and provoked a debate over their importance.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr Darren Curnoe a specialist in human evolution from the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney said: 'The discovery of one, let alone two, partial skeletons of the fossil relatives of humans is a rare and truly amazing thing. Added to this, is the remarkably young geological age of these new finds.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But he claimed the discovery had been surrounded by 'hype and over-interpretation'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'To claim that these new fossils represent an ancestor of living humans is misleading and founded in error,' he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Australopithecus sediba is the wrong species, in the wrong place, and at the wrong time. It is way too primitive to be the ancestor of the human genus Homo, one of our direct ancestors. For a start, fossil Homo is known from East Africa to be almost half a million years older. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The skull, tooth, and limb bone anatomy of the older Homo also looks very different from those of sediba. Finally, a number of key skulls compared to the new sediba remains have been incorrectly described leading to false conclusions about its place in human evolution.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Prof Maciej Henneberg is the Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Adelaide, added: 'I am not sure, whether a designation of a new separate species is necessary. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'In the human lineage there is a natural range of variation of characteristics of individuals and the new finds fit into this range.'</span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-79289113128613523682010-04-11T03:01:00.000+07:002010-04-11T03:01:44.178+07:00Swedish playboy prince strikes up romance with glamour model who posed topless with a pythonPrince Carl Philip of Sweden is dating glamour model Sofia Hellqvist, who has posed topless with a python draped around her body.<br />
The relationship has not only shocked the playboy prince's prudish royal family, but also the entire nation.<br />
Even for liberal and sexually open-minded Sweden, the prince’s choice of woman is over the top. <br />
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</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Prince Carl Philip of Sweden is dating glamour model Sofia Hellqvist</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>Sweden’s most wanted bachelor broke off his relationship with his long-term girlfriend after meeting Miss Hellqvist, but has steadily denied that he is dating anyone.<br />
The Royal Palace has not denied the rumour on his new girl friend but refused to confirm it either.<br />
But after this weekend, it seems a confirmation is no longer needed. The Prince and his new love were caught on tape as they left the Prince’s 140 square metre cottage in mid-Sweden where they spent the Easter holidays.<br />
Dressed in casual jogging outfits and with caps, the picture revealed the obvious - they did not meet recently but have spent a lot of time together.<br />
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'Carl Philip has said that he is single so obviously this is kind of unexpected. Nor has she met his parents, the proper moment has not emerged if you know what I mean,' a friend of the prince told Swedish media.<br />
Since Carl Philip broke up with his girlfriend of ten years, PR executive Emma Pernald, 29, the Swedes have expected them to make up and become a couple again.<br />
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</div></div>But since news of his romance with the topless model emerged, the Prince of Sweden obviously has his mind set on something else. <br />
'They have been flirting with each other since they first met 2008. But they have not become an item until now,' the friend said.<br />
The Royal Palace refused to comment the romance. 'I have no comments', said Nina Eldh, Information Director at Sweden’s Royal Court. <br />
Sources claimed that the Royal Family is in shock. Miss Hellqvist’s CV is not what they expected of their potential daughter-in-law.<br />
As the only son of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, the prince was the heir to the throne for a few months after he was born in 1979.<br />
But in 1980 the rules were changed and the principle of primogeniture was introduced.<br />
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PR executive Emma Pernald" class="blkBorder" height="483" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/04/09/article-1264876-09129EB0000005DC-584_233x483.jpg" width="233" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Prince Philip recently broke up with his girlfriend of ten years, PR executive Emma Pernald</div></div>His sister, Crown Princess Victoria is now heir.<br />
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'He comes across as the black sheep of the family,' a commentator on the Swedish Royal Family said yesterday.<br />
'Now that he is no longer next in line to the throne, he does his own thing. He's a racing car driver and a bit of a wild child.'<br />
Miss Hellqvist was a popular participant in Sweden’s version of notorious American reality show Paradise Hotel. <br />
The show, which was a huge hit in Sweden, consisted mainly of lies, fights, sex orgies and alcohol.<br />
Miss Hellqvist won viewers' support as he managed to kick the show’s most intriguing and hated woman out of the hotel.<br />
A source told Sweden’s biggest selling daily that the prince's relationship with Miss Hellqvist has not made the King and Queen happy. <br />
'The Royal family is not accepting her', the source said. <br />
And Sweden’s most famous royal historian, Mr Herman Lindkvist, agreed. <br />
'Considering that she has posed in Slitz (a Swedish men’s magazine) as well as a reality TV show I think this is almost impossible,' he said.<br />
Miss Hellqvist’s walk on the wild side with porn star Jena Jameson is another example of her not-so-royal-style. <br />
<div class="clear"> </div>'We kissed and it was worth remembering. I did not think so much about how it felt but more about that I really did it. <br />
'At the time I did not know how famous she is. But she was not bad. I think most people know that,' Miss Hellqvist told Swedish media.<br />
'We were at a party in Las Vegas. She approached me and told me I was one of the cutest girls she had ever seen and I knew my boy friend back then liked her. We decided to take a picture when were making out. That was it,' Miss Hellqvist said.<br />
On 19 June, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden will marry gym owner Daniel Westling in Stockholm. <br />
The wedding is expected to draw a TV audience of several hundred millions world wide and will be the biggest media event ever in Sweden. <br />
The big question now is whether the Crown Princess’ little brother will be allowed to bring his new love and make their romance official.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-83234869819984052482010-03-30T19:22:00.000+07:002010-03-30T19:22:41.138+07:00The space-age car which swerves away from danger by 'talking' to other vehicle<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">OK, it's not quite as foldable as the space vehicle that cartoon figure George Jetson pops into his briefcase as he heads into the office.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But the EN-V concept car, GM's 'automobile solution' for the future, just might fit into an apartment foyer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The space age electric car has been designed to avoid accidents by automatically swerving around other cars by communicating with them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">General Motors and its Chinese partner SAIC showcased the 'Electric Networked-Vehicle' yesterday in their joint pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, which opens May 1 and runs for six months.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Electric Networked-Vehicle" class="blkBorder" height="465" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/25/article-1260541-08D9A2BB000005DC-698_634x465.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Baby, you can drive my car: The EN-Vcar, pronounced 'envy', is show-cased in Shanghai</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The EN-V, pronounced 'envy' is GM's latest effort to burnish its credentials as a future-focused, environmentally friendly company and shed its image as the bastion of the gas guzzling Hummer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The automaker is in the process of winding down Hummer after a deal collapsed to sell it to a Chinese heavy equipment maker.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Detroit car manufacturer is hoping the helmet-shaped vehicle will help establish it as a significant player in fuel-efficient vehicles after emerging from bankruptcy last July.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">GM is not alone in viewing China as the ultimate landscape for tiny urban vehicles. Daimler introduced its Smart ultracompact here in 2008, though few of them can be seen yet on Shanghai streets.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The concept behind the car has already been seen in Hollywood blockbuster films including Minority Report and I-Robot, starring Will Smith.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The two-wheel, two-seater EN-V, which looks something like an oversized vacuum cleaner, is not just about making vehicles small, lightweight and emission-free, the company says.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Kevin Wale" class="blkBorder" height="426" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/25/article-1260541-08D99F16000005DC-852_634x426.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Kevin Wale, president and managing director of GM China Group, speaks at the launch ceremony with three versions of the car behind him</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'What we're talking about here is completely redoing the automobile,' says Michael Albano, GM director of product and technology communications.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">With the trunk-less EN-V, GM has jettisoned the traditional 'three box' system and petrol-fuelled engine in place of a pure-electric minivehicle meant strictly for city driving.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Other major car manufacturers, including Toyota and Nissan, have produced similar zero-emission mobility concepts as they look to meet higher fuel economy standards and increased consumer demand for greener models.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Five fit in the parking space needed for one conventional vehicle, says Kevin Wale, president and managing director for GM China Group.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'GM's vision with SAIC is petroleum-free, emission-free, accident-free and congestion-free,' said Mr Wale.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We think we can do that by combining the benefits of electricity and connectivity.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">What better a place to suggest such a solution than in smoggy, accident-plagued, traffic congested China, home to 1.3 billion people?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">By 2040, GM says, there will be 1.2 billion cars on Earth, and 60 per cent of humanity will be living in cities. For megacity countries like China, the explosion in use of conventional automobiles has already turned into a nightmare of smog, jammed roadways, and non-existent parking.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">China is GM's second largest market after the U.S. and a strategic background as car manufacturers compete for the biggest market share.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In 2009, GM sold 1.83million vehicles in China, up 67 per cent, and broke its own sales records every single month of the year.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is expect to sell more than two million this year.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 1.5m by 1.5m (about 5ft by 5ft) EN-V appears to build on GM's earlier work with Segway Inc. in developing the PUMA, or Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility, vehicle.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It will use the same types of battery cells as the Segway and the same battery supplier, Valence Technology Inc., said Christopher Borroni-Bird, GM's director of advanced technology vehicle concepts.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">With the EN-V, GM proposes to reconstruct the automobile's 'DNA'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The EN-V's maximum speed of only 40km per hour (24mph) - even now city roads average only 20km per hour (12mph) and often less - and other high-tech features reduce the need for heavy, high-stress steel, bumpers, air bags and crumple zones, says Mr Albano.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Apart from its diminutive size and light weight - 400kg (880lb) including the passengers - the vehicle would offer drivers the option of 'autonomous driving': letting the car drive itself via an elaborate system of GPS systems, digital maps, roadway and vehicle sensors, cameras and other devices.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'None of this is beyond the technology that exists today,' Mr Wale says.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The idea of allowing the car to take over may sound alarming to some, especially given the recalls due to unintended acceleration and other problems with some Toyota vehicles.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But GM's experts say there would be fail-safe backups for any electronics and that, properly equipped and in the right setting, vehicles can do a better job than humans at averting accidents.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In theory, EN-Vs could be hitched together to allow drivers to commute to work while finishing up shaving, phone calls or whatever else without endangering fellow road warriors.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But such functions would have to be optional, Wale says.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We don't want to take the excitement out of driving,' he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Shanghai Expo, with its theme of 'Better City, Better Life,' offers an apt occasion for GM to introduce its vision for a solution to the urban ills growing worse day-by-day thanks to China's craze for cars.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Whether China and its drivers - who seem inordinately fond of big, heavy cars and nearly acrobatic feats of lane switching - would go for this concept remains to be seen.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But GM does have a track record - at least in its distant past - of foreseeing at least some future trends.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The GM 'Futurama' vision of a superhighway system, introduced at the 1939 New York World's Fair, is said to have inspired the U.S. Interstate Highway System.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We're looking at solutions for 2030,' said Mr Wale.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We're looking at ways we can recreate the business we're in a way that takes into account the changes in the world since the products we're using today were invented under a different set of circumstances.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Macabre pictures show the faces of the dead women who Russian security services claim killed themselves as they detonated bombs during early morning rush hour on the Moscow metro yesterday, murdering 39 people and injuring 72.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The photographs emerged after being issued to Russian police amid a desperate bid to find the gang behind the two Moscow explosions with fears they could be plotting another outrage.</span><br />
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</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">One of the women who Russian security services claim killed themselves as they detonated bombs murdering 39 people and injuring 72</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It came amid claims that </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">the authorities had prior intelligence of a threat to the metro yesterday - and were actively stopping and searching women of the appearance of the attackers though no warning to the public was issued.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> Officials have not commented on the serious charge made by the Kommersant newspaper.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Links between </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">the bombers</span> and <span style="font-size: 1.2em;">the death of an Islamist rebel earlier this month also began to emerge today.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Although no group immediately claimed responsibility, </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">speculation centred on them being so-called 'black widow' killers avenging the deaths of fathers, brothers and husbands by Russian troops in Chechnya.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">This grainy image shows the woman police claim was the second bomber. Both women are believed to be from the North Caucasus region in Russia</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Russian media claimed the attack could even be in revenge for the death of a</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">notorious gang leader in Russia's North Caucasus, Alexander Tikhomirov - also known by his Islamic name Said Buryatsky. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Federal Security Services claimed earlier this month that he had been killed in a police swoop in Ingushetia. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He had been linked to the derailment of the Nevsky Express, a high-speed luxury train between Moscow and St Petersburg, in November. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Twenty-seven people died in that attack - the</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> first major terrorist incident beyond Russia's North Caucasus since 2004.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Russian media today quoted sources close to the investigation who claimed that Buryatsky's gang may have prepared the female suicide bombers who struck yesterday.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Russian police have killed several Islamic militant leaders in the North Caucasus recently, including one last week in the Kabardino-Balkariya region, which raised fears of retaliatory strikes and escalating bloodshed by the militants.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There was also a hint today from a top</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> Kremlin Minister that al-Qaeda could have masterminded or funded the worst terrorist attack on the Russian capital in six years.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said: 'We all know very well that clandestine terrorists are very active on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We know that several attacks have been prepared there, to be carried out not only in Afghanistan, but also in other countries. Sometimes, these journeys go as far as the Caucasus.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Moscow marked a day of mourning for the victims of the twin attacks, which took place during early morning rush hour on one of the world's busiest underground train systems.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The suicide bombers women are both believed to be aged between 18 and 25 and to have carried the explosives - packed with nails and metal fragments to maximise death and destruction - in shahid belts or handbags. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">According to reports one was dressed in black trousers, another in black skirt, black tights and spangled black shoes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The head of the younger woman was completely severed from her body, but remained sufficiently intact to give police vital clues. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Both bombers are said to be from the North Caucausus region of Russia, prompting suspicions that the attack was by militants from volatile Chechnya. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A search is underway to two women of Slavic appearance - aged 25 to 30 - who were believed to be accomplices, and an man in his 30s whose surname is Mataev.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Grief: Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin visits a survivor of yesterday's terrorist attack in hospital</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Grim: Rescue workers try to save the life of one of those injured in the blast at Park Kultury metro station</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There were claims today that the women's aim was 'to take revenge on ordinary Russians for the anti-terrorism operations performed by the FSB in the Caucasus'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kommersant newspaper also claimed that before the attacks women suspected of being from the Caucasus were being stopped and searched and questioned. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One woman who was stopped and questioned around 15 minutes before the first bomb heard officers talking on their radio phones to colleagues at other stations.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'She heard that many women had been stopped but nothing was found so far. At the moment of the first explosion she was still at the police room in the metro when she saw a police boss rushed in with an angry face.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'He shouted to his officers - 'how did you dare to miss them? You had all the information?''</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The newspaper said Moscow police were refusing to confirm the claim but several sources confirmed that at least three 'secret messages' had been received.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Premier Vladimir Putin returned early from a trip to Siberia to take charge of the Russian government's response to the attacks. Dressed in a white doctor's coat, he went straight to visit the wounded at Botkin Hospital in Moscow. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Some 16 of those hurt in the blast are 'seriously' injured.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Putin today came in for rare media criticism for failing to prevent the terrorist attacks. 'Reality has shattered the illusion of security in everyday life,' said newspaper Vedomosti.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'In recent years, the authorities and state television have been singing a lullaby to Russians with the thought that terrorism is localised in the North Caucasus and does not threaten ordinary residents.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As smoke billowed through the underground tunnels not far from the Kremlin and dazed survivors streamed out of the vast transportation system yesterday, al Qaeda-affiliated websites were abuzz with celebration of the attacks by the bombers.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Memorial: A Russian man lights a candle in memory of the victims of the bombing attacks</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One site opened a special page to 'receive congratulations' for the Chechen rebels who 'started the dark tunnel attacks in the apostate countries'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">All wished for God to accept the two women as martyrs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Alexander Ignatenko, the head of the independent Moscow-based Institute for Religion and Politics</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">, said Islamic militants in the Caucasus often recruited women whose relatives were killed by Russian security services.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'They tell them that if they become martyrs, they will join their husbands, brothers and fathers,' he said. 'And they also persuade them that the Russians as a nation share a collective guilt.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The bombings followed a warning last month from Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov that 'the war is coming to their cities'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Putin, who built much of his political capital by directing a fierce war against Chechen separatists a decade ago, promised to hunt down and kill the organisers of what he called a 'disgusting' crime.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The terrorists will be destroyed,' he said on national television.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Scars: People grieve in the Lubyanka metro station yesterday, near where a hole was torn in the wall during the bomb blasts</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="clear"></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In a televised meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev, Federal Security Service head Alexander Bortnikov said the remains of the two bombers pointed to a Caucasus connection.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We will continue the fight against terrorism unswervingly and to the end,' Mr Medvedev said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Umarov, the Chechen rebel leader, has relied on al Qaeda's financial support and has several al Qaeda emissaries in his entourage, said Mr Ignatenko, who has closely followed the Islamic uprising in the Caucasus.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Police with machine guns patrolled underground station entrances amid tight security today in the wake of the attacks.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Health official Andrei Seltsovsky told the Rossiya-24 state news channel that five people out of 71 in hospital remained in a critical condition.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said only eight of the victims had been formally identified.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Tribute: President Dmitry Medvedev stands during a minute of silence at Lubyanka metro station in memory of the victims of the two bomb explosions</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">At the site of the other attack, the city's Lubyanka station officials examine the scene. The station lies beneath the headquarters of the Federal Security Service </div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Yesterday's first explosion took place just before 8am at the Lubyanka station in central Moscow, beneath the notorious headquarters of the Federal Security Service or FSB, the KGB's main successor agency.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The FSB is a symbol of power under Mr Putin, a former KGB officer who headed the agency before his election as president in 2000.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">About 45 minutes later, a second blast hit the Park Kultury station on the same line, which is near Gorky Park. In both cases, the bombs were detonated as the trains pulled into the stations and the doors were opening.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I was getting off the train when I heard the sound of an explosion and saw clouds of smoke,' said Yegor Barbatunov, 29.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The (Park Kultury) station was jammed with people trying to get out, but there was no panic. I saw a young man walking past, blood pouring off his head and neck and trickling to the floor.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Amateur video on Russian TV showed wounded and possibly dead commuters on the floor of the smoke-filled Lubyanka station. One video showed gruesome images of dead passengers sprawled inside a mangled train carriage and a bloody leg lying on a station platform.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Passengers streamed out of the stations, many crying and making frantic calls on mobile phones. The wounded were put in ambulances and helicopters, some with their heads wrapped in bloody bandages, as sirens wailed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The suspected suicide bomber killed in the Park Kultury blast was last night said to aged between 18 and 20. The other bomber was said to be 'older'. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Police said they had been accompanied to the metro by two other women aged 25 to 30 and a male 'ringleader' in his 30s and with the surname Mataev. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'They are simply beasts,' said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev after visiting the platform of the Lubyanka metro station. 'We will find and destroy them all.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There were unconfirmed reports that they had set off the bombs using their mobile phones. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Reports said the young girl's facial features were sufficiently intact to assist police investigating the bombings. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One official said: 'Only her head and legs are left - and the middle part of her body is completely destroyed. This is a definite sign that she had a shahid suicide belt on. She was a very young woman with beautiful brown hair, long and in a thick plait.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rescuers revealed the bombs had been filled with small fragments of metal to maximise damage. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But the carnage could have been far worse if the trains were in tunnels-rather than stations when the blasts occurred. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Analysts are warning of a potential spillover from an insurgency in neighbouring Russia's mainly Muslim southern republics. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Azerbaijan said last night it had detained eight people including a Chechen man on suspicion of planning 'terrorist acts' against a school in the capital of the state. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">World leaders, including Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. president Barack Obama, condemned the attacks. Mr Obama telephoned Mr Medvedev to convey the condolences of the U.S.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At 4pm the two stations, scrubbed clean, reopened and dozens boarded waiting trains.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It's really terrifying,' said Vasily Vlastinin, 16. 'It's become dangerous to ride the metro, but I'll keep taking the metro. You have to get to school, to college, to work somehow.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The ornate Moscow tube system is the world's second-busiest after Tokyo's, carrying around seven million passengers on an average work day.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The last confirmed terrorist attack in Moscow was in August 2004 when a suicide bomber blew herself up outside a tube station, killing 10 people. Chechen rebels claimed responsibility.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In February 2004, a suicide bomber from the North Caucasus attacked a train during the morning rush hour, killing more than 40 people and wounding more than 100.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They call them the 'black widows' - the Chechen women who have lost husbands, fathers and brothers either in battle or to torture and beatings in the Kremlin's concentration camps. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Crazed by grief and loss, their one remaining desire is revenge on their country's tormentors. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is a fair bet that the female perpetrators of yesterday's bombing in Russia felt they had nothing to live for, but plenty to avenge. And so they blew themselves up on underground trains in the heart of Moscow. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Triggering their bombs at rush hour for maximum carnage, the bombers left at least 38 dead and many others maimed. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But there was another casualty: the Kremlin's claim to have brought peace to Russia's most troubled region - the wild and mountainous Northern Caucasus in the southwest of Russia between the Black and Caspian seas. </span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Splattered with blood, a wounded man makes a phone call on his mobile outside the Park Kultury metro station shortly after a female suicide bomber blew herself up</div><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Under Boris Yeltsin, Russia fought a two-year war with one of the region's republics, Chechnya, that left tens of thousands dead and the country in ruins. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It ended in stalemate and an uneasy autonomy. But banditry - including a modern slave trade in kidnap victims - mushroomed. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A second war under Vladimir Putin in 1999 defeated the rebels on the battlefield and installed a strongman who pays lipservice to the Kremlin, while taking a free hand to rule in the most brutal and licentious way. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Elsewhere in the North Caucasus, Moscow's rule is also a byword for misery. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Those who complain, such as a brave band of human rights campaigners, are murdered with depressing regularity. Yet it has not worked. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Russian civilians have largely left the region. Terrorist attacks continue in Chechnya and other parts of the North Caucasus - and beyond. The roots of the present conflict grow deep into history. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Russia, like Britain, is home to many Muslims - they make up around a fifth of its 143million population, and the vast majority live in central Russia and are peaceful and patriotic. But a minority are not. And they live in the highlands of the North Caucasus. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The territories that make up the region were conquered only 150 years ago by the Tsarist Empire, in a campaign fought with astonishing brutality. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mass killings, mutilation and deliberate starvation are reminiscent of the darkest days of European settlers in Africa or North America. </span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Massacre: A bloodied passenger is treated on the side of the road </div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">A hospital helicopter lands at Zubovsky Boulevard to evacuate the victims from the Park Kultury metro station</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">After the collapse of the Tsarist Empire in 1917, Russia's new Bolshevik rulers promised the Muslim nations self-rule, and greater recognition of their impenetrable cultures and complex languages. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But as Stalin's power grew, so did Russian chauvinism. Islam was fiercely persecuted and centuries-old peasant traditions driven out. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Far worse was to come. Starting in February 1944, around 500,000 people - Chechens, Ingush and other nations of the North Caucasus - were uprooted en masse, herded into cattle trucks and, after days of inhuman suffering from thirst and hunger, dumped in the wastes of central Asia. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Around a third of them died. It was years before survivors started trickling back to the ancestral homelands. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Stalin's brutality, compounded by modern Russia's blindness to its own history, is the fuel of terrorism now. Imagine the Highland Clearances, the Irish potato famine, and the Amritsar Massacre rolled into one - but ignored and unmourned. </span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Passengers try to make their way out of Prospekt Mira subway station. The attacks happened at the height of the morning rush hour</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Indeed, Russia has designated Sochi, site of the greatest massacre of the native Circassians in 1864, as the venue for the 2014 Winter Olympics. With cruel irony, that is exactly 150 years since the beaches of that resort were bathed in blood and clogged with corpses. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And so the North Caucasus inhabitants' sense of historical grievance is mixed with rage about contemporary ill-government. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Infiltration by foreign Islamist militants, including those with ties to Al Qaeda, help Kremlin propagandists portray the Chechen cause as just another outcrop of global terrorism. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Yet that is only part of the story. The real truth is that Russia created this problem - by colonialism 150 years ago, by Stalinist crimes 60 years ago, and by two futile and bloody wars in the past 15 years. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nobody would argue that the Caucasus and its wild and fiery people are easy neighbours. But by destroying traditional tribal structures, Russia has created a giant version of Somalia on Europe's doorstep: lawless, ungovernable, seething with rage and resentment. It will be with us for decades. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Attacks such as yesterday's on the hapless and innocent commuters of the Moscow underground were not the first. And they certainly will not be the last. </span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-3107556383515524152010-03-27T07:33:00.000+07:002010-03-27T07:33:06.351+07:00Imelda Marcos plants ghoulish kiss on glass coffin of embalmed husband as she resurrects political career<span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-size: small;">Eyes closed and lips pursed, Imelda Marcos leans forward to plant a ghoulish kiss on the glass coffin containing her husband's embalmed corpse.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Many believed the former Filipino first lady, still elegant at 80, had cloistered herself away to spend her remaining days in anonymous ignominy. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">They were wrong. At the last possible moment - and with her trademark taste for the theatrical - Marcos has exploded back into political life.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Electioneering: Imelda Marcos leans forward to kiss the casket of her dead husband Ferdinand after announcing she would be standing for the Filipino parliament</span></i></div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Ghoulish: The extraordinary photocall took place in the basement of Marcos's mansion in the town of Batac</span></i></div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;">She announced today she will stand for her husband Ferdinand Marcos's former seat in national elections to be held on May 10.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nor has age dulled her ambition. She is leading her brood into battle with daughter Imee running for governor of Ilocos Norte province and son Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Junior seeking a senate seat.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Marcos's decision to stand for parliament was a closely-guarded secret until now, in line with the Phillipines strict election laws.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The shamelessly political photocall held at the mausoleum in the basement of her own home, in the town of Batac, was her inimitable way of announcing she was back.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">After posing with her husband's waxy body, resplendent in white jacket, ceremonial sash and polished medals, she moved upstairs to hold a press conference.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Clan: Marcos's daughter Imee (right) is also running for office and aims to become governor of Ilocos Norte province </span></i></div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Campaign trail: Marcos (right) speaks to Batac residents from her battle bus after announcing her candidacy</span></i></div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;">Typically, Marcos used the occasion to praise her controversial husband who was ousted by a 'people power' revolution in 1986.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">'He was our best ever president,' she said, immaculate in tangerine blouse and matching trousers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">'During his time we had territorial integrity, freedom, justice and human rights. Whatever else people may say those were the best times ever for the Philippines.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">She insisted age was no issue. 'It is true that I am 80 years old, but I can also be a grandmother for our country,' she said. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Marcos astounded political observers when she registered at the last possible moment to run for election. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">She stressed that her motivation was redemption for her husband, who is accused of stealing billions of dollars from state coffers during his 20-year rule.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Entourage: The former first lady (rught, under umbrella) held a rally at the Paoay Church in Paoay, Ilocos Norte province</span></i></div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;">'I did this to ensure and uphold political integrity and the truth,' she said before outlining her ambitions for the country.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">'What I really want is to be a mother to each and every village so it will be a village fit for human beings,' she said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">'I will not stop until each and every village becomes a human settlement and also a paradise, because it is doable, because it is possible to make human settlements a paradise.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The former first lady is no political novice. She was housing minister and governor of the Manila capital region during her husband's rule and also ran an unsuccessful campaign for presidential office in 1992.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">But it is her eccentricities, extravagance and corruption that most remember - as well as her collection of 3,400 pairs of shoes, many never worn. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">They were discovered in her palatial apartments after the bloodless coup and immediately became a symbol of the couple's excess. While the Marcoses lived in splendour, millions of their people suffered abject poverty.</span><br />
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</div><div class="clear"> </div><div class="clear"> </div><span style="font-size: small;">In the wake of the coup, they fled to Hawaii, where the one-time president was to spend the last years of his life. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">He died from kidney and heart failure in 1989 and was never brought to account for what is believed to have been the world's biggest theft.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">His wife, however, was put before a New York court in 1990, accused of stealing $220million.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This amounted to only a fraction of their jointly acquired wealth. Estimates stood at a staggering $50billion.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">She was acquitted but faced 901 separate lawsuits whens she finally returned to the </span><span style="font-size: small;">Philippines from exile in 1991. A handful are still outstanding. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The Marcos estate has also been successfully sued for $2billion damages by 10,000-exiled Filipinos. But the irrepressible Imelda has never been convicted of a criminal offence. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">She has run two unsuccessful presidential campaigns but her most high-profile venture in recent years was a clothing and jewellery chain.</span><br />
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Monica, married to French actor Vincent Cassel, first posed with her bump on show six years ago while pregnant and enjoyed it so much she decided to do it again.<br />
Several other celebrities have done the same, the most famous being Demi Moore, who was the first to do it, and Spice Girl Mel B.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter">Monica said she decided to reveal all again to show that being a middle-aged mum is not a problem.<br />
Six months pregnant Monica told the Italian edition of Vanity Fair: 'When I had my first child (Deva) at 39 I was told that if I wanted another I should try straight away but I wasn't ready.<br />
''Eventually I decided that I was and I wanted one straight away but babies are not like movies and cannot be organised in a hurry.<br />
''Women who have children late like me are always told how brave they are and it's true that the older you are the more risks you run both for the child and yourself.<br />
'But I don't feel brave I just feel very lucky. I already have a healthy daughter who I gave birth to in Umbria (Italian region) like an ordinary farm wife.<br />
'This second pregnancy is just as fantastic but I wouldn't say I was an example to follow.'<br />
Monica said that she had not used medical treatment to fall pregnant.<br />
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<img alt="demi moore" class="blkBorder" height="640" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/24/article-0-08DB04A3000005DC-161_468x642.jpg" width="465" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">The original: Demi Moore was the first celebrity to pose naked for Vanity Fair while pregnant with her second child in 1991</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>'Maybe it's because my paternal grandmother had a child at 47 years old but I think I'm just lucky.<br />
'I know women who would cross the desert on their knees to have a child. Maybe if that had happened to me and I had difficulty then I would have become one of them.<br />
'It's a fact a lot of women wait until they are in their late 30s to have children. They have financial security, a home, a partner and then they think of children.<br />
'You have to remember that women are now living on average until 85 years so there is plenty of time. To put it into perspective if you or I had been born at the beginning of the 19th century we would probably have been dead at 40.<br />
'We may have been alive but we would have been in a terrible state and probably with no teeth. Things are different today and women in their 60s look fantastic. <br />
'So now you can have a child in your 40s and look forward to watching them grow up.'<br />
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</div></div>Monica also added that she was posing for Vanity Fair again to protest at Italy's fertility laws which prevent the use of donor sperm. <br />
She said: 'Women are going abroad but only if they can afford it. It's a political problem or rather an exploitation of religion by politics.'<br />
Monica also praised her husband Vincent, who starred in Ocean's Twelve, and said: 'He is helping. The more time passes by, the more I love the man he has become. <br />
'When I met him, he was a 28-year-old boy. Now he's a man with a great sense of responsibility who makes me feel good. <br />
'Deva needs him as she needs me. I always think that if something happens to me, Vincent is gonna be with our daughters. <br />
'A woman can say: "I'll have kids on my own". And lots of women do it, but having a partner beside us enriches both us and the children.''<br />
Besides The Matrix Reloaded, Monica also starred in The Passion Of Christ, The Brothers Grimm and comedy gangster move Shoot 'Em Up with Clive Owen.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Yet these school pupils effortlessly contort their bodies into an eye-watering variety of shapes as they practise the traditional Indian sport of Mallakhamb. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">What makes their display of gymnastics even more impressive is the fact that each and every one of them is blind.</span><br />
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Mallakhamb" class="blkBorder" height="652" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/19/article-0-08CA48D5000005DC-320_634x652.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Exercise in balance: Pupils from the Victoria Memorial School For The Blind practise Mallakhamb in Mumbai</div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The young men are students at the Victoria Memorial School For The Blind in Mumbai.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The sport of Mallakhamb originated in the 17th century as a form of exercise for wrestlers in Maharastra, India.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-size: small;">'Malla' means wrestler and 'khamb' means pole and the practice involves the use of a 2.6metre high teak or sheesham wood pole. </span></span><br />
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Mallakhamb" class="blkBorder" height="418" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/19/article-0-08CA2F12000005DC-595_634x418.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Poise: This young man holds a pose at what looks like an impossible angle</div><div class="clear"> </div><div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Pupils from the Victoria Memorial School for the blind practicing
Mallakhamb" class="blkBorder" height="371" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/19/article-0-08CA2F06000005DC-133_634x371.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Best seat in the house: The sport of Mallakhamb originated in the 17th century as a form of exercise for wrestlers in Maharastra</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;">Practitioners of Mallakhamb use a pole - which has a circumference of 55cm at the base, gradually tapering to 35cm at the top - to perform different gymnastic poses and feats. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">In the last 20 years the sport has seen something of a renaissance in India, though it is yet to be recognised by the government as a national sport.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Mallakhamb can be used as a form of exercise or as strength training for police or other jobs requiring a high level of fitness.</span><br />
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But these incredible images took place as a man held his sister-in-law at knife-point on a street in Wuxi, Jiangsu province in China earlier today.<br />
The man was believed to be under the influence of drugs when he abducted the woman.<br />
The woman was eventually rescued unharmed and the man, who had a criminal past was eventually hauled off and taken into custody.<br />
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Grandmother Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Linlou village, Henan province, began developing the mysterious protrusion last year.<br />
Since then it has grown 2.4in in length and another now appears to emerging on the other side of the mother of seven’s forehead.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Zhang Ruifang" class="blkBorder" height="610" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/08/article-0-08A01623000005DC-344_468x610.jpg" width="468" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i>Bizarre: Zhang Ruifang began growing a horn last year. It is now 2.4in long</i></div></div><i>The condition has left her family baffled and worried.</i><br />
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Her youngest of six sons, Zhang Guozheng, 60, said when a patch of rough skin formed on her forehead last year ‘we didn't pay too much attention to it’.<br />
‘But as time went on a horn grew out of her head and it is now 6cm long,' added Mr Zhang, whose eldest brother and sibling is 82 years old. <br />
‘Now something is also growing on the right side of her forehead. It’s quite possible that it’s another horn.’ <br />
<div class="clear"> </div>Although, it is unknown what the protrusion is on Mrs Zhang’s head, it resembles a cutaneous horn.<br />
This is a funnel-shaped growth and although most are only a few millimetres in length, some can extend a number of inches from the skin. <br />
Cutaneous horns are made up of compacted keratin, which is the same protein we have in our hair and nails, and forms horns, wool and feathers in animals. <br />
They usually develop in fair-skinned elderly adults who have a history of significant sun exposure but it is extremely unusual to see it form protrusions of this size.<br />
<div class="clear"> </div>The growths are most common in elderly people, aged between 60 and the mid-70s. They can sometimes be cancerous but more than half of cases are benign.<br />
Common underlying causes of cutaneous horns are common warts, skin cancer and actinic keratoses, patches of scaly skin that develop on skin exposed to the sun, such as your face, scalp or forearms.<br />
Cutaneous horns can be removed surgically but this does not treat the underlying cause.<br />
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A shelter that was formerly used by the Royal Observer Corps has gone up for sale on eBay. <br />
The starting bid was £500 but this had already risen to £19,500 by this morning.<br />
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</div></div><div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><img alt="eBay bunker" class="blkBorder" height="477" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/01/article-1254595-0884A63F000005DC-884_468x349.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i>Bare necessities: The bunker is sparsely decorated although it does have electricity and a chemical toilet</i></div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div>Set in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, the lot is being advertised as 'a rare opportunity to acquire a piece of Cold War history'. <br />
Measuring 50ft by 50ft, it is on private farmland in an 'elevated position with panoramic views'.<br />
The bunker, which is 'accessed via a metal hatch and shaft', lies 15ft underground and has two rooms - a chemical toilet and monitoring room - and two ventilation shafts.<br />
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</div></div><div class="clear"> </div>As well as furniture, the buyer will also receive a siren box, enamel bucket, jerry cans and rope for hauling heavy items up the shaft, said the advert.<br />
The bunker came into service in 1959 and was used by the Royal Observer Corps, a civilian defence organisation composed mainly of volunteers who had the task of reporting nuclear attack and fallout.<br />
<a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/01/article-1254595-0884A5F5000005DC-182_468x368.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="eBay bunker" border="0" class="blkBorder" height="503" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/01/article-1254595-0884A5F5000005DC-182_468x368.jpg" width="640" /></a><i>The shelter was fully operational until 1991 when it was decommissioned as the Soviet Union collapsed.</i><br />
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<h2>Syahrini Profile</h2>Birth Name: Syahrini<br />
Born: August 1, 1982, Bogor, Indonesia<br />
Other Name: Rini<br />
Occupation: Singer<br />
Years active: 2007 - present<br />
Child : 2 of 3 siblings<span id="more-6756"></span><br />
Religion: Islam<br />
Education: Law degree from the University Pakuan Bogor<br />
Discography<br />
* Ost. Coklat Stroberi (2007)<br />
* My Lovely (2008)<br />
* Pusing 1/2 Mati (Single Tahun 2009)<br />
Filmography<br />
* “The Maling Kuburans” (2009)<br />
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Le Blute-Fin Mill was painted in 1886, according to Louis Van Tilborgh, curator of research at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.<br />
It was bought in 1975 by Dirk Hannema, who was known as a brilliant museum curator but a fool when buying for his own collection. When he died in 1984 he claimed to have seven Vermeers, several Van Goghs and a few Rembrandts.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Le Blute-Fin Mill" class="blkBorder" height="678" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-1253617-0873C5BD000005DC-475_468x678.jpg" width="468" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">R<i>eclaimed masterpiece: Le Blute-Fin Mill is the first Van Gogh painting to be authenticated since 1995</i></div></div><br />
<div class="thinFloatRHS"> <img alt="Vincent Van Gogh" class="blkBorder" height="640" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-1253617-00AA035B1000044C-943_233x299.jpg" width="498" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i>Artist: Vincent Van Gogh painted the lost masterpiece in Paris in 1886</i></div></div>He was right only about this painting, which went on show yesterday in the Museum de Fundatie in the town of Zwolle.<br />
Mr Van Tilborgh said it was painted in 1886 when the artist was living in Paris. He said its large human figures are unusual for a Van Gogh landscape but it has his typically bright colours.<br />
The canvas bore the stamp of an art store he was known to frequent, and used pigments that were common in other works.<br />
The painting 'adds to his oeuvre', the curator said. 'You can link it to certain works of Van Gogh in that period, but not that many of them.'<br />
It is the first Van Gogh to be authenticated since 1995 and the sixth to be added to the confirmed list of the artist's paintings since the latest edition of the standard catalog was published in 1970.<br />
Van Gogh painted about 900 works in his brief career. Afflicted by mental illness, he died of a self-inflicted wound in 1890 at age 37.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Director Ralph Keuning of Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle" class="blkBorder" height="381" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-1253617-0872E23C000005DC-657_468x381.jpg" width="468" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i>On show: Ralph Keuning, director of the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, unveiled the painting to the public yesterday</i></div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Mr Hannema bought the painting in 1975 from an antique and art dealer in Paris who did not believe it was of much value. <br />
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<div class="thinFloatRHS"> <img alt="Dirk Hannema" class="blkBorder" height="640" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-1253617-08753505000005DC-876_233x350.jpg" width="426" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Art curator: Dirk Hannema's claims the painting is a Van Gogh have finally been vindicated, 25 years after his death</i></div><div class="imageCaption"><br />
</div></div>But the Dutch collector did and paid 5,000 Dutch guilders (£800) for this and another unknown work, immediately insuring the painting for 16 times what he paid.<br />
He touted the painting with 'absolute certainty' as a Van Gogh, but no one was listening. He had been discredited since he bought a Vermeer in 1937 that later was shown to be a forgery.<br />
'He was the laughing stock of the art world,' van Tilborgh said. 'His tragedy was that he was always thinking in terms of the big names.'<br />
Mr Hennema displayed the picture in his own house until he died in 1984, when it disappeared in the Museum de Fundatie depot, only to resurface shortly in 1993 and in 2007.<br />
The museum had sought once before, in 1993, to have experts authenticate Le Blute-Fin Mill to prepare for an exhibition. <br />
But the Amsterdam experts had no time, and the painting went on display as a work that Mr Hannema pronounced as a Van Gogh.<br />
The art collector also claimed he owned three more Van Gogh paintings, but no prove has been found to support that.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-213845348627829622010-02-26T05:53:00.000+07:002010-02-26T05:53:42.329+07:00Showered in flower petals and wild colours, it's the Indian festival of Lathmar Holi<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">From the lavish scenes of Bollywood to the rich spectrum of their cuisine, no other country in the world celebrates colours like India.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">So it's no surprise that spring is being greeted with a festival celebrating just that - colour.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Lathmar Holi was being celebrated in villages across India today, as thousands of men and women showered themselves in brilliantly coloured powders and millions of flower petals.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div> <img alt="lathmar holi" class="blkBorder" height="567" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-0-087510DB000005DC-370_964x567.jpg" width="964" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Spring colours: Men daubed in coloured powder celebrate the Lathmar Holi, also known as the festival of colours, at Nandgaon village near the northern Indian city of Mathura yesterday</div></div><br />
<div class="clear"> </div><div> <img alt="holi" class="blkBorder" height="704" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-0-0871382D000005DC-261_964x704.jpg" width="964" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Celebration: A man in Nandgaon covered in paint. The festival is held all over India</div></div><div class="clear"> </div><div> <img alt="bamboo" class="blkBorder" height="606" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-0-08713691000005DC-127_964x606.jpg" width="964" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i>Love: A woman with a bamboo stick, or lathi, pretends to beat a man, who is protecting himself with a shield. Legend has it that Radha beat Krishna out of anger that he was not living with her</i></div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The legend behind the festival claims that it is closely associated with Lord Krishna and his principle consort and childhood friend, Radha. Men in traditional dress take on the role of gops (friends of Krishna), while women play gopis (friends of Radha).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The men throw the coloured powders and flowers on the women, who fight back by pretending to beat them with bamboo.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is claimed that the Hindu deity Krishna, who was dark in colour, was jealous of the fair-coloured Radha. He pestered his foster mother Yasodha about it so much that, fed up, she told him he could change Radha's skin by sprinkling her with colours.</span><br />
<div class="clear"> </div><div> <img alt="holi" class="blkBorder" height="613" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-0-0875115B000005DC-444_964x613.jpg" width="964" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Rain of colours: Men in the village close their eyes as more colour is showered down on them</div></div><br />
<div class="clear"> </div><div> <img alt="holi" class="blkBorder" height="619" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-0-08751107000005DC-828_964x619.jpg" width="964" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">Brilliant: The festival is part of a welcoming of spring</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Krishna and his shepherd friends visited Radha and her cowherd girls on this day and teased her by throwing colours at her. She and the girls responded by chasing them away with the sticks, or lathis. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The bamboo sticks are said to be an expression of Radha's love - she and the cowherd girls are angry that Krishna and his friends do not live with them all the time.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Lathmar Holi celebration at Barsana in Mathura is the most famous.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div> <img alt="holi" class="blkBorder" height="555" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/25/article-0-087510AB000005DC-927_964x555.jpg" width="964" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">The men don't seem to mind their clothes being covered in the colours</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-52238752686955763232010-02-26T05:42:00.002+07:002010-02-26T16:01:10.971+07:00Mitha - The Virgin Profile<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://sumha.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/keren-mitha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://sumha.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/keren-mitha.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><h2 style="text-align: justify;">Mitha - The Virgin</h2><div style="text-align: justify;">* Full Name: Happy Cameria Pramita | CH Pramita</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Nickname: Mitha</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Name of Artist: Mitha The Virgin | Mitha The Rock Indonesia</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Place of Birth: Jakarta</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Date of Birth: January 2, 1986</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Hobbies: Ngapain aja</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Name of Mother: Emmy Sofyana</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Last Education: High School<span id="more-6258"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Favorite Food: Meatballs</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Favorite bands: Muse</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Most Genre: for mitha, music is the most beautiful works, so mitha likes everything music.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Position: Guitarist | Vocalist</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Group Band: The Rock Indonesia Band | The Virgin Band</div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Creation Mitha Song: Lagu Cinta Terlarang | Lagu Belahan Jiwa</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-69541119341381445992010-02-26T05:39:00.001+07:002010-02-26T16:01:40.788+07:00Hantu Binal jembatan Semanggi Trailer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy188/untukku7/five-v.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://i790.photobucket.com/albums/yy188/untukku7/five-v.jpg" /></a></div>Starring : Five V, Cynthiara Alona, Okie Agustina, Idea Fasha, Wicki Husen<br />
Adult Film-themed horror trailer has been released. There, you can see the pieces of the show, exciting and indulgence in the body, what about a full version that aired in theaters.<br />
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This production of K2K Production had been ever failed to pass censorship, many pieces of breast scene, and there are also stunt woman in sexy lingerie, hot sex scenes.<br />
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Selly Yustiawati Profile<br />
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The number of members who joined the Facebook group victim of a fraud Selly Yustiawati aka Rasellya Rahman Taher continues to grow.<br />
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Name : Selly Yustiawati<br />
other name : Rasellya Rahman Taher, Gisella Roderica<br />
Nick : Cha-cha<br />
Age : 25 Years (1985)<br />
Occupation : Confess as a journalist of Kompas, staf HRD<br />
Home : Kreo-Ulujami Area<br />
Personel FB : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000828155316#!/profile.php?v=wall&id=100000828155316<br />
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Facebook Group fraud victims of Selly Yustiawati alias Rasellya Rahman Taher, continued flooding of new members. Already more than 16 thousand facebooker join here.<br />
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Facebook Group Blame Selly : http://www.facebook.com/pages/PENIPUUUUUUUUUU-SELLY-YUSTIAWATI/303844708499<br />
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<h2>Arisan Brondong Trailer</h2>Cast Arisan Brondong :<br />
Bella Saphira,<br />
Heather Storm,<br />
Randi Fadillah,<br />
Ferly Putra<br />
Produced arisan berondong by Maxima Pictures<span id="more-6742"></span><br />
<h2>Arisan Brondong Trailer</h2>Genre : Comedy - Adult<br />
Producer : Ody Mulya Hidayat<br />
Production : Maxima Pictures<br />
Homepage : http://www.arisanbrondong.com<br />
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Anang Hermansyah finally found a new friend. Women whose identity has been disguised in public was singer Syahrini.<br />
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Anang did not close his eyes, looks beautiful and have sound quality, immediately made it so captivated. The meeting started when he appeared to fill the music program at a private television station in Semarang, Central Java, some time ago.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The $35billion (£22billion) worth of outdated planes is kept as spare parts for current models at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div> <img alt="Aeroplane graveyard: The 2,600 acre site is home to 4,200
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<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Some planes are merely stored at the base between deployments, but for more than 80 per cent of the 4,200 aircraft that call it home, it is a cemetery of steel - 350,000 items to be called on when needed. </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> <div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The base is home to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Group (309 AMARG) which carries out repairs to the craft and even gets some of them flying again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Engines, munitions, wiring and electronics are all recycled to help lower the cost of maintaining the current-day fleet. In 2005, staff at the facility recycled more than 19,000 parts worth $568million (£366million).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The U.S. government even allows the military in other countries to buy parts and even planes from the site.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The facility is the size of 1,300 football pitches.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The site has been a curiosity for eagle-eyed Google Earth users since the satellite imagery software was launched in 2005, but now for the first time it is available to view in high resolution.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The desert is a perfect place to store the mass of steel, because low humidity and rainfall means very little rust occurs. In addition, the hard soil means they can be parked up without the need for building concrete ramps.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The military has used Davis-Monthan as a plane storage facility for 60 years, and in recent years its unique landscape has been called on by Hollywood for such films as Transformers.</span><br />
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Monthan Air Force Base" class="blkBorder" height="423" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/23/article-1253068-086DC2A3000005DC-104_470x423.jpg" width="470" /> </a> </div><div class="splitRight"> <img alt="F-4 Phantoms in rows" class="blkBorder" height="423" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/23/article-1253068-086DC368000005DC-337_470x423.jpg" width="470" /> </div><div class="clear"> </div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i>On the left are B-52 bombers, which were built to carry nuclear weapons. They have been chopped up for scrap and (right) these are F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers which were used extensively in the Vietnam War</i></div></div></div><br />
<div class="clear"> </div></div></div><div class="clear"> </div><div> <img alt="where they store old B52 s It symbolizes the Cold War and the
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Giant' George claimed the prestigious title after Guinness Records officials measured him up at 43 inches from paw to shoulder, or 7ft 3in when 'standing' on his back legs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The four-year-old great dane weighs a staggering 17.5 stone and consumes 110lb of food each week.</span><br />
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</div><div class="clear"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He even sleeps in his own queen-size bed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His owner David Nasser, of Tucson, Arizona, is thrilled George has topped previous holder Titan, a four-year-old great dane from San Diego, who is 0.75 of an inch shorter than George. <div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Before Titan, the record was held by another Great Dane, Gibson, of Grass Valley, California, who stood at 42.2 inches tall.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Craig Glenday, editor-in-chief of Guinness World Records, said that the adjudicator was sent after controversy over conflicting media accounts of the tallest dog.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said: 'We can indeed say now that George is the top dog.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A few days after he was declared a record-breaker, Giant George appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Here, Mr Nasser recounts the whole experience.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Giant George" class="blkBorder" height="483" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/22/article-1252928-086A8913000005DC-418_634x483.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;">David Nasser with George: His fans can follow him on Facebook and on Twitter</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said: 'Oprah's staff learned about Giant George thorough FaceBook and YouTube and were were insistant on having him as a feature on this show; regardless of the Guinness World Record.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'As fate would have it, the timing with Guinness World Records and the Oprah Show came together flawlessley. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'On Monday, February 15, the Guinness representative came to Tucson and conducted the official measurement.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Triumphantly, Giant George earned the Guinness World Records for "Tallest Dog Ever," and "Tallest Living Dog." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We then began coordinating the logistics of transporting a 43ins and 17.3 stone dog to Chicago. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'After much deliberation and discussion, American Airlines soffered to fly Giant George to Chicago. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'He would not fit in a first-class row, so he got three of his own seats at the bulk-head...This meant that Giant George would be in the fuselage, like a regular passenger. </span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/22/article-1252928-086AC1A6000005DC-966_634x478_popup.jpg" onclick="return
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the world's tallest dog"> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="Giant george" class="blkBorder" height="478" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/22/article-1252928-086AC1A6000005DC-966_634x478.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><i>Mr Nasser shows off the award that declares Giant George is indeed the world's tallest dog</i></div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Needless to say, this was cause for much commotion on the flight. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Throughout, many of the other passengers came up to take photos and pet him...he was a total Rock Star!.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'There were so many people coming to the front of the plane, the pilot ended up illuminating the "fasten seat-belt" sign to get everyone to sit down. </span><br />
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<div class="floatRHS"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/22/article-1252928-086ABFF3000005DC-597_306x423.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="big dog" border="0" class="blkBorder" height="640" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/22/article-1252928-086ABFF3000005DC-597_306x423.jpg" width="462" /></a></div><div class="imageCaption"><i>Mr Nasser with George on the beach when the great dane was just a puppy... albeit a really big puppy</i></div><div class="imageCaption"><br />
</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'When we arrived in Chicago, we were shocked by the number of people who were wating for us in the arrival area at the airport.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'With flashing cameras and video rolling, more than one-hundred people saw Giant George strike a pose as though he was on a red carpet. Needless to say, they ate it up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'A limo whisked us to the Governor's Suite of the Omni Hotel.</span> <br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It happened to be snowing in Chicago that day, and Giant George had never seen snow before.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'In the suite, he had his own twin-size mattress on the floor and slep off the jet-lag.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The next day was showtime on Oprah. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The limo took us to Harpo Studios promply at 8:30 where Giant George had his own "green room" complete with very soft bedding on the ground for him to lay down.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'There was a sign on the door that read "Unless you are part of Team Giant George, please don't ask to see him until taping is over." </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'However, the sign didn't work so well; we were told that Giant George was more popular among the staff than many A-list super-stars who had appeared on Oprah in the past. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Everyone wanted to see Giant George, and he was happy to see them all. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Everyone on Oprah's staff was so nice, warm and friendly. What a great group of people that work for the Oprah show! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Finally, it was time for Giant George to go out on stage and have Oprah announce his Guinness World Records for Tallest Dog Ever and Tallest Living Dog. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Without question, this was one of the most memorable moments for all of us. Oprah was super friendly and the segment was trouble free.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Next was getting back to the airport for the return flight. American Airlines took Giant George to a private suite to relax before the big flight. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'When Giant George began the four legged walk to the gate, once again, there were more than one-hundred people waiting to take photos of Giant George; It was surreal to see all the people wanting to get a glimpse of Giant George.'</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/22/article-1252928-086ACCE6000005DC-980_634x362_popup.jpg" onclick="return false" rel="Gentle giant: George towers above ordinary dogs in a park near his
Tucson home"> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="giant dog" class="blkBorder" height="362" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/22/article-1252928-086ACCE6000005DC-980_634x362.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Gentle giant: George towers above ordinary dogs in a park near his Tucson home </i></div><br />
<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="giant dog" class="blkBorder" height="508" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/22/article-1252928-086AC0C6000005DC-798_634x508.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Tall tale: George was given a row of three seats for his flight to Chicago, where he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show</i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-28464727549733213772010-02-23T06:50:00.002+07:002010-02-23T06:50:41.940+07:00The magic carpets designed to keep you awake and gambling<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Las Vegas is well-known for being the city that never sleeps as gamblers are encouraged to spend their money around the clock.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now a new set of photographs has revealed that even the garish carpets that line the hotels and casinos have an important part to play.</span><br />
<a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/15/article-1251231-084C318F000005DC-121_634x384_popup.jpg" onclick="return false"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><img alt="casino carpet" height="384" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/15/article-1251231-084C318F000005DC-121_634x384.jpg" title="The magic carpets designed to keep you awake
and gambling" width="600" /> </a><br />
Garish designs: A paisley carpet at the Bellagio, in Las Vegas (pictured below), which makes tens of millions of pounds a year<br />
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Chris Maluszynski, 35,has spent four years snapping the kaleidoscopic designs after noticing them on a business trip. They include samples from the MGM Grand, Bellagio, Luxor and The Flamingo.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> He said: ‘Vegas is I feel the most surreal place in the world. In the middle of the desert you have this huge neon-lit metropolis, which is bizarre in itself.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> ‘Everywhere you look when you are on The Strip or Downtown there are flashing lights to mesmerise you.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I found myself trying to give my eyes a rest from the chaos by looking at the floor, but there is no respite even there.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I noticed the carpets were as loud as everything else out there and I was really blown away by the detail and effort that had gone into them. They are like carpets you see nowhere else. Only in Vegas, as the saying goes.’</span><br />
<img alt="The outrageous carpet does nothing to distract gamblers at Las
Vegas's most popular casinos" height="382" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/15/article-1251231-084C3506000005DC-462_634x382.jpg" title="The magic carpets designed to keep
you awake and gambling" width="600" /><br />
The outrageous carpets do nothing to distract gamblers at Las Vegas’s most popular casinos<br />
<img alt="This floral carpet is one of many garish designs intended to keep
casino regulars awake" height="387" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/15/article-1251231-084C35C4000005DC-370_634x387.jpg" title="The magic carpets designed to keep you
awake and gambling" width="600" /><br />
This floral carpet is one of many garish designs intended to keep casino regulars awake<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The extreme carpets unleash an assault on the senses in a deliberate attempt to keep tourists wide awake.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This is compounded by the fact Vegas casinos and hotels don’t have windows so that customers become confused about what time of day it is.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Dr David Schwartz from the Center for Gaming Research in Nevada said: ‘Casino carpet is known as an exercise in deliberate bad taste that somehow encourages people to gamble.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Many of the carpets use wheels – famous to the Romans as a symbol of the relentless capriciousness of fortune.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Could it be a subtle reminders to casino patrons that life and luck are fleeting, and one should eat, drink, and be merry before the morrow brings a swing in fortune?’</span><br />
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gambling" width="600" /><br />
The garish carpet (below) inside the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, which is in the shape of an ancient Egyptian pyramid (above)<br />
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and gambling" width="600" /><br />
<a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/15/article-1251231-084C3463000005DC-736_634x391_popup.jpg" onclick="return false"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><img alt=" traffic light-coloured carpet" height="391" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/15/article-1251231-084C3463000005DC-736_634x391.jpg" title="The magic carpets designed
to keep you awake and gambling" width="600" /> </a><br />
A traffic light-coloured carpet in a Las Vegas casino. Some bloggers have speculated greens and reds are used to make dropped chips harder to find<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Bloggers have also speculated that the intricate patterns also help to conceal the red and green chips that gamblers may accidentally drop.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It seems that every inch of everything out there has been designed to bombard your brain into staying awake,’ Mr Maluszynski concluded.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It’s all about keeping you stimulated. Tourists spend money when they are not asleep.’</span><br />
<a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/15/article-1251231-084C32AC000005DC-770_634x385_popup.jpg" onclick="return false"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><img alt="The Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino" height="385" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/15/article-1251231-084C32AC000005DC-770_634x385.jpg" title="The magic carpets
designed to keep you awake and gambling" width="600" /> </a><br />
A wheel design from The Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino. Dr Schwartz believes wheel designs are used to remind punters of the ever turning wheel of fortuneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-76666800086385510182010-02-23T06:48:00.002+07:002010-02-24T11:02:55.608+07:00Zebra Crossing<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A motorway in the southern United States turned into a circus yesterday afternoon when an escaped zebra galloped along a busy section of interstate with police in hot pursuit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 12-year-old animal, named Lima, was exercising outside a downtown arena in preparation for an evening show when something spooked him, said a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus spokesman. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The zebra broke away from his trainers and bumped up against a fence, then wriggled through an opening.</span><br />
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& Bailey Circus workers grab Lima after his unexpected foray on to a
motorway in the Georgia city of Atlanta"> <img alt="zebra loose" height="486" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/19/article-0-085CAC8A000005DC-511_634x486.jpg" title="Zebra Crossing" width="600" /> </a> <br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><i>Gotcha: Barnum & Bailey Circus workers grab Lima after his unexpected foray on to a motorway in the Georgia city of Atlanta</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘We’re not sure what it was that startled him, but we’re looking into that,’ she said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He was spotted by people in downtown Atlanta around 4:30pm, said a Georgia Department of Transportation spokesman.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Daniel Nance said he saw the zebra near a commuter station.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘All of a sudden a freaking zebra comes running down the street like a car,’ Nance told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Five or six police cars were in hot pursuit. And a bunch of officers on foot. But then I got scared, thinking… what else is loose?’</span><br />
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<a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/19/article-0-085CAEEA000005DC-297_634x352_popup.jpg" onclick="return false" rel="Police cruisers blocked off all
southbound lanes and were able to herd the zebra over to the right
shoulder and off an entrance ramp"> <img alt="zebra loose" height="352" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/19/article-0-085CAEEA000005DC-297_634x352.jpg" title="Zebra Crossing" width="600" /> </a><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><i>Police cruisers blocked off all southbound lanes and were able to herd the zebra over to the right shoulder and off an entrance ramp</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/19/article-0-085CB0BF000005DC-825_634x471_popup.jpg" onclick="return false" rel="Caught out: The animal made its way
through downtown to the interstate highway that cuts through the center
of the city"><img alt="zebra loose" height="471" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/19/article-0-085CB0BF000005DC-825_634x471.jpg" title="Zebra Crossing" width="634" /> </a><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><i>Caught out: The animal made its way through downtown to the interstate highway that cuts through the center of the city</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Lima led his trainers and police on a 40-minute chase through downtown to the interstate highway that cuts through the center of the city, covering well over a mile along the way.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Police cruisers blocked off all southbound lanes of Interstate 75 and were able to herd the zebra over to the right shoulder and off an entrance ramp, where his trainer was on hand to capture and soothe him, Drake said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘He obviously was excited, but he was in good shape,’ Drake said. ‘His handler calmed him down.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The animal suffered cuts on his hooves from his long run, Drake said. The show’s vet was examining him, but Drake said he would likely perform as scheduled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The object, known as P/2010 A2, was circling 90 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter when it was spotted last week by the Hubble Space Telescope.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The truth is we're still struggling to understand what this means,' lead scientist David Jewitt with the University of California at Los Angeles. 'It's most likely the result of a recent collision between two asteroids.'</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/03/article-1248163-08230F5B000005DC-603_634x404_popup.jpg" onclick="return false" rel="Although it appears like a comet, scientists believe this
mysterious object was created in a high-speed collision between two
asteroids"> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="comet" class="blkBorder" height="404" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/03/article-1248163-08230F5B000005DC-603_634x404.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Although it appears like a comet, scientists believe this mysterious object was created in a high-speed collision between two asteroids</i></div><div class="imageCaption"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">If so, he said, 'It'd be the first case we've seen of an asteroid smash happening, basically caught in the act.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The object resembles a comet, but its nucleus is severed from its tail, which 'has a very strange appearance, the likes of which we've never seen before,' Mr Jewitt said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Studies of the object - and searches for similar ones - would improve scientists' understanding of how asteroids break apart..</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">That information may be useful to thwart a future asteroid strike on Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The thing that we want to understand is how the asteroids smash into each other and destroy each other,' Mr Jewitt said. </span><br />
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filamentary structures near the point-like nucleus of the object and
trailing streamers of dust"> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="comet" class="blkBorder" height="491" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/03/article-1248163-08229F8E000005DC-66_634x491.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption"><i>This Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a bizarre X-pattern of filamentary structures near the point-like nucleus of the object and trailing streamers of dust</i></div><div class="imageCaption"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It might help us understand even how to destroy an asteroid and prevent one from hitting us.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Scientists believe a giant comet or asteroid that hit Earth about 65 million years ago was linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One theory says the object threw up dust or chemical clouds that blocked the sun or that it ignited global wildfires.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Calculations show the orbit of P/2010 A2 is related to the group of asteroids, known at the Flora family, that produced that asteroid.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nasa is working to catalogue at least 90 per cent of the estimated 1,000 objects that approach Earth and are larger than two-thirds of a mile across.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The agency's proposed budget for the year includes a $16 million (£10 million) annual increase to step up that effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Coming from three deadly cheetahs, it's the kind of invitation that's best refused - but amazingly, this impala escaped unscathed from its encounter. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Luckily for the youngster, it seems these three male cheetahs simply weren't hungry.</span><br />
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is to hunt for food, decide to play with this baby impala" class="blkBorder" height="540" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/29/article-1246886-07F4E916000005DC-834_964x540.jpg" width="964" /> <br />
<div class="imageCaption">No claws for alarm: Astonishingly, these cheetahs, whose instinct is to hunt for food, decide to play with this baby impala<br />
</div></div><div class="clear"></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">That's because unlike other big cats, the cheetah hunts in the daytime, either in the early morning or late afternoon. The bursts of speed needed to catch their prey tire them out - meaning they need to rest after a kill. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And that seems to be the secret to the antelope's survival, as it's likely it fell into the cheetahs' clutches when they were already full - and tired out - from an earlier hunt. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara in October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'These three brothers have been living together since they left their mother at about 18 months old,' he said. 'On the morning we saw them, they seemed not to be hungry, walking quickly but stopping sometimes to play together. </span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Sticking your neck out: Oblivious to the danger, the impala appears to return the affection to the cheetahs</div><div class="imageCaption"><br />
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<div class="imageCaption">New found friends: The new-found friends part with a farewell lick</div><div class="imageCaption"><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'At one point, they met a group of impala who ran away. But one youngster was not quick enough and the brothers caught it easily.' </span></div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">These extraordinary scenes followed, as the cheetahs played with the young impala the way a domestic cat might play with a ball of string. </span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Sprint finish: Impala is off the menu as the youngster makes its exit</div><div class="imageCaption"><br />
</div></div><div class="clear"></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'They knocked it down, but then they lost interest,' said Michel. 'For more than 15 minutes, they remained with the young antelope without doing anything other than licking it or putting their paws on the impala's head.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Even more extraordinarily, this story has a happy ending - after one tense moment when it looked as though one cheetah would bite the impala on the neck, the youngster ran away. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Let's hope it didn't tell all its friends how nice those big, scarylooking cheetahs really are when you get to know them.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-45163163126075278962010-01-31T21:07:00.000+07:002010-01-31T21:10:34.067+07:00The Roman Army Knife: Or how the ingenuity of the Swiss was beaten by 1,800 years<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The world's first Swiss Army knife' has been revealed - made 1,800 years before its modern counterpart.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">An intricately designed Roman implement, which dates back to 200AD, it is made from silver but has an iron blade.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">It features a spoon, fork as well as a retractable spike, spatula and small tooth-pick.</span><br />
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</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">It is thought the spatula would have offered a means of poking cooking sauce out of narrow-necked bottles.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The 3in x 6in (8cm x 15cm) knife was excavated from the Mediterranean area more than 20 years ago and was obtained by the museum in 1991.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The unique item is among dozens of artefacts exhibited in a newly refurbished Greek and Roman antiquities gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Experts believe it may have been carried by a wealthy traveller, who will have had the item custom made.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">A spokesman said: 'This was probably made between AD 200 and AD 300, when the Roman empire was a great imperial power.</span><br />
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</div></div><div class="clear"> </div><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">'The expansion of Rome - which, before 500 BC, had just been a small central Italian state - made some individuals, perhaps like our knife-owner, personally very wealthy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">'This could have been directly from the fruits of conquests, or indirectly, from the 'business opportunities' the empire offered.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">'We know almost nothing about the person who owned this ingenious knife, but perhaps he was one of those who profited from the vast expansion of Rome - he would have been wealthy to have such a real luxury item.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">'Perhaps he was a traveller, who required a practical compound utensil like this on his journeys.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;"> The spokesman added: 'While many less elaborate folding knives survive in bronze, this one's complexity and the fact that it is made of silver suggest it is a luxury item.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">'Perhaps a useful gadget for a wealthy traveller.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Modern Swiss Army knives originated in Ibach Schwyz, Switzerland, in 1897 and were created by Karl Elsener.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The knives which provide soldiers with a 'battlefield toolkit' have since become standard issue for many modern day fighting forces thanks to their toughness and quality.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Nationalist Elsener decided to design the knives after he realised the Swiss army were being issued with blades manufactured in neighbouring Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Other popular artefacts include an intricately designed Greek make-up box which was custom made almost 3000 years ago for a women of 'wealth and status'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The round clay make-up container from Athens dates back to 740BC and experts believe it may have been stored in a grave in the Ancient Greek city for the last 2,700 years.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The six inch high and 12 inch diameter box would have contained precious gems and make up from the era made from a variety of naturally occurring substances.</span><br />
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When Taylor Garrison gave birth to her daughter, Brielle, she was surprised when doctors whisked the baby away without an explanation.<br />
'They took her out of the room, and they wouldn't let us see her,' said Garrison. <br />
After six hours of tests, the mother got to look at her baby and see what medics were so concerned about.<br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>Breille Garrison will have gel-filled balls placed in her eye sockets so that her face remains the correct shape as she grows older</i></div><div class="imageCaption"><br />
</div></div>'She looked like a normal baby, but I could just tell something was wrong,' Garrison told ABC news in America. <br />
Brielle was born without any eye tissue - a condition called anophthalmia that leaves a person irrevocably blind. <br />
In the youngster's case, routine ultrasounds missed the deformity because eye sockets usually appear black. <br />
Brielle’s eye sockets were completely empty.<br />
About 30 in every 10,000 children are born with this rare condition, said Dr Aaron Fay, director of Opthalmic Plastic Surgery at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. <br />
Brielle will need to visit doctors over the next few years for conformers- balls filled with hydrogels.<br />
They will increase the size of her eye sockets so that her facial structure can grow naturally. <br />
Missing eyes could possibly be diagnosed in the womb with the use of an MRI, Dr Fay said. <br />
'There are skeletal stigmata that could be picked up,' he told ABC News. <br />
'But it’s most frequently diagnosed at birth.'<br />
The condition is also genetic, so families may have no idea if they are carrying a recessive gene. <br />
Doctors believe it could either be inherited or be an unexplained problem that occurs during the first few weeks of pregnancy.<br />
Despite the genetic link, the problem isn’t always found during genetic screening. <br />
Garrison had a chromosome test 'and she came back as a normal baby girl'.<br />
Dr. Mark Evans, a member of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told ABC News that if doctors were to perform genetic screening for every pregnant woman 'we’d bankrupt the country'.<br />
'What has happened in the last 20 years is that many women are being falsely reassured by ultrasound and not going on to genetic testing,' Evans said.<br />
Some obstetricians have become experts in using prenatal imaging to diagnose genetic disorders an ultrasound wouldn't have caught a generation ago. <br />
'What you can see in prenatal imaging is changing enormously,' Watson said. 'You end up with two different kinds of people who do imaging. <br />
'One level is the standard obstetrician on the corner, who can do the basic measurements and tell you if your baby is growing normally and you end up with a picture on your fridge.'<br />
'I'm going to treat her like she was born just as any other baby, because that's how she is,' said Brielle's mother. 'That's how I see her.'<br />
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Rabbit Jumping UK is the country's only rabbit jumping club and began when retired office worker Maureen Hoyle visited a fellow breeder in Sweden and got inspired. <br />
The unusual sport is popular there and in other parts of Scandinavia. <br />
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</div></div>Rabbit fan Maureen took the idea back home and appealed to others to join a new club. <br />
The rabbits are trained by owners at home who use treats to encourage the animals to make a leap of faith over barriers. <br />
On Saturday members met at the Yorkshire Event Centre in Harrogate, North Yorks. <br />
They treated visitors attending the Bradford Excel Small Animals Show to two competitions and rabbit jumping displays.<br />
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</div></div>'The rabbits love it,' said Maureen, from Huddersfield, West Yorks. <br />
'The rabbits are very agile and a lot of people are surprised by what they can do.<br />
'The rabbits have to clear the jump without touching it.<br />
'In more serious competitions the obstacle has a delicately balanced weight at the top which will fall if the rabbit makes contact. <br />
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</div></div>'That will add a penalty to the rabbit's total time.' <br />
Nine competing rabbits wearing harnesses were guided by their owners on a lead through a course of six jumps.<br />
The world's champion bunnies can clear heights of up to three feet.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The royal guard fell flat on his face after fainting at the arrival ceremony of a gala dinner hosted by the Danish queen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The soldier had been in a line-up awaiting the arrival of Princess Mary and politicians at the Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen last night when he keeled over.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: small;">He was dragged to his feet by security officials who carried him off before the guests arrived.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-size: small;">Queen Margrethe and Prince Consort Henrik were hosting their annual party last night for members of the Danish Parliament, and the soldier was part of the evening's honour guard. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But as they met for the first time, Sultan Kosen, the world's tallest man at 8ft 1in, and He PingPing, the world's smallest at 2ft 5.4in, clearly had a mutual respect. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Turkish farm labourer and the pint-sized man from China were happy to pose at an event in Istanbul to mark the opening of the new Guinness World Records Live! Roadshow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kosen said<span id="imageCaption">: 'I've wanted to meet Pingping ever since I was awarded the title "tallest man" and I'm really happy that he was willing to travel to Turkey so we could both take part in the launch celebration of Guinness World Records Live! at Forum Istanbul - I can't wait to show him around our beautiful city.'</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span id="imageCaption">Also </span><span id="imageCaption">the world record holder for the largest hands and feet, Kosen, 27, seized the title of world's tallest man from China's Bao Xishun last September, beating his rival by 10cm. </span></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span id="imageCaption">After a series of surgeries to remove the tumor which was causing his excess growth, Kosen stopped growing in 2008.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span id="imageCaption">At the opposite end, He PingPing, 21, suffers </span><span id="imageCaption">from a condition known as Primordial Dwarfism.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span id="imageCaption">He lives with his family in Inner Mongolia, China and has travelled the world since being recognised by Guinness World Records. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span id="imageCaption">Last year, He PingPing met Svetlana Pankratova, the woman with the world's longest legs - </span>measuring 51.96in long.</span><br />
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Groups of demonstrators have stripped off at airports in Berlin, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf in reaction to the news that officials are considering installing the scanners during the coming year.<br />
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A number of governments around the world are looking at using the controversial technology in a bid to boost airport security.<br />
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</div></div>Critics say the scanners violate travellers' right to privacy, and fears have been raised about child protection laws.<br />
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The demonstration was organised by the Piraten Partei (Pirate Party) - a group who say on their website that they stand up for 'civil liberties'.<br />
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<div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div>Protestors, using the motto 'you do not need to scan us - we are already naked', scrawled messages on their bodies including 'something to hide?' and 'be a good citizen – drop your pants'.<br />
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</div></div>Travellers were handed leaflets by the group as they walked through the airports with a Pirate Party banner.<br />
Champions of the devices - which not only reveal hidden weapons or explosives but also breast enlargements and a hazy outline of travellers' genitals - say it will hasten security checks.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-20403325286836783442010-01-13T17:23:00.001+07:002010-01-13T17:24:34.967+07:00Megan Fox strips down to her underwear as the new, er, face of Armani<div style="text-align: justify;">As an actress, her work has received somewhat lacklustre reviews. But her stunning good looks have won her nothing but praise.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Transformers star has been named as the new face of Emporio Armani.<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">In great shape: The shots of Megan will be used in fashion magazines from February<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And as a treat for the 23-year-old's fans, Armani promises the pictures will feature 'on signature billboards in major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, London, Milan, Rome, Paris and Tokyo'. <br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first advertising campaigns for spring/summer 2010 featuring Megan were shot on location in Los Angeles by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Designer Giorgio Armani said: 'Megan is young and sexy and has a lot of spirit. <br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans are all about a youthful attitude making her the perfect choice for the collections.'<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Megan is also busy filming her new movie, Passion Play, in which she plays an angel sent to help Mickey Rourke's trumpet player character redeem himself.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-23169651592788431112010-01-13T17:17:00.000+07:002010-01-13T17:17:37.525+07:00The schoolgirl who 'cries' blood and bleeds through her poresA schoolgirl who spontaneously bleeds from her pores has left doctors baffled.<br />
Indian Twinkle Dwivedi, 14, has an undiagnosed disorder which means she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched.<br />
The teenager, from Lucknar, Uttar Pradesh, has even undergone blood transfusions after bleeding from her eyes, nose, hairline, neck and soles of her feet about 50 times each day.<br />
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</div></div>She said: 'I bleed from my eyes, my hands, my head, from everywhere. From my ears, nose and eyes as well.<br />
'It doesn't hurt when the bleeding starts. But it makes me tired and sometimes I have headaches.'<br />
Dr George Buchanan, a leading American paediatric blood specialist who has worked in Britain, travelled to India to look into Twinkle's case.<br />
He visited her family at the Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai where he observed her bleeding.<br />
He said: 'I've never seen a case of someone who bleeds spontaneously from their scalp or their palms, or read about it in medical history.<br />
'I was interested to see if I could help Twinkle.'<br />
The doctor was called to the family's hotel room to witness bleeding which began from her hair parting. He was shocked to find no signs of cuts, bruising or redness.<br />
Dr Buchanan said: 'It doesn't seem physically possible for blood to seep through intact skin.<br />
'But I saw no signs of cuts or bruising anywhere on her body.'<br />
Twinkle's mother Nandani Diwedi, 43, who runs a beauty salon as well as caring for her four daughters, said: 'We have tried praying and seeking medical help to cure Twinkle. Sometimes you need to do both.<br />
'It hurts me to see her like this. I share her pain.'<br />
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</div></div>Dr Buchanan and his team carried out a series of tests including cutting Twinkle's skin to time how quickly the bleeding stops.<br />
Tests show she may have a mild form of a clotting disorder, which means her platelets do not stick together properly. But this is not enough to explain the spontaneous bleeding.<br />
Dr Buchanan is also investigating whether Twinkle or her mum cause the bleeding themselves.<br />
Twinkle, a Hindu, said: 'I am not causing this. Why would I want to make myself bleed? <br />
'I don't want to be like this. I want to go to school and have a normal life.'<br />
She has missed at least two years of education after two schools banned her from classes because of the bleeding.<br />
Her father Aditya Kumar Diewdi, 48, a railway worker, said: 'This is very frightening for my family. We just want to help Twinkle get better.'<br />
Specialists are now planning 24hour monitoring of Twinkle so close-up surveillance cameras can record exactly how the bleeding begins.<br />
Dr Buchanan said: 'There is a healthy relationship between Twinkle and her mother.<br />
'My heart tells me this may be is a condition we have never seen before.'<br />
The mysterious case of Twinkle's bleeding is fully examined in a new BodyShock documentary, The Girl Who Cries Blood, due to air on Channel 4 at 10pm tomorrow.<br />
It also shows Twinkle's family visiting a local mystic, being examined by a Christian bishop for stigmata, and bathing in the River Ganges.<br />
Last year an American boy, Calvino Inman, 16, from Rockwood, Tennessee, also began bleeding from his eyes, and his case is now under investigation by doctors in the US.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Bloodstained bodies lay strewn in the street of the capital, Port-au-Prince, as the full horror of the disaster began to emerge in the early hours today.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Eyewitnesses said gravely injured Haitians were crying out from the rubble, pleading for doctors as night fell. With the country in chaos and facing still more damage from a series of aftershocks, their cries went mostly unheard.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption">A section of the Haiti National Palace was destroyed in the massive earthquake<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Standing proud: The palace before the earthquake<br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One hotel collapse in Port-au-Prince is feared to have claimed the lives of more than 200 people.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The destruction is said to be staggering, even in an impoverished nation accustomed to tragedy and disaster. The National Palace is in ruins, a major hospital crumbled and tens of thousands of people homeless.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The headquarters of the United Nations peacekeeping mission also collapsed and a large number of staff in the five-storey building are believed to have been killed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Up to 250 people normally work at the UN headquarters and none had been rescued by late last night. It was unclear how many people were in their offices when the earthquake hit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">With communications disrupted, it may be days before the full death toll is known. The pictures tell a harrowing story, some of the first to emerge appeared on the Twitter networking site.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But Karel Zelenka, a Catholic Relief Services representative in Port-au-Prince, told American colleagues that ‘there must be thousands of people dead.</span> <br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The UK Government said it was 'deeply concerned' about the reported scale of the earthquake and was sending a team from the Department for International Development (DFID) to assess the humanitarian needs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A DFID spokesman said: 'We are deeply concerned at the reported scale of the earthquake which has struck Haiti. It appears to have been severe, causing considerable damage and harm.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We do not yet have a clear picture of needs from the Haitian authorities or from humanitarian agencies. We are monitoring the situation closely.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Overnight we have mobilised a DFID humanitarian assessment team to fly to Haiti today. We stand ready to provide whatever humanitarian assistance may be required.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The quake, the most powerful in the region for 200 years, was centred about ten miles west of the Haitian capital, a city of two million people, many of them living in flimsy shanty slums.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It struck at 4.53pm yesterday and was followed by as many as thirteen aftershocks, one of them as strong as 5.9 on the Richter scale, a sizeable earthquake in its own right.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The centre was also relatively shallow, less than ten miles below ground, raising the risk of damage.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Survivors held hands and sung hymns as they waited for help to come. But many people spent the night fighting for their lives.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">I can hear very distressed people…a lot of distress, people wailing, trying to find loved ones trapped under the rubble,’ said Ian Rodgers, of Save the Children, who is in Port-au-Prince.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I couldn't even stand up, that's how bad it was,’ said Valerie Moliere, a 15-year-old resident of Port-au-Prince. ‘There's a lot of people in the street everywhere. Some are wounded.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I just heard that right next to my neighborhood there's this pharmacy and this school that broke down and many people died,’ she added.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘I don't know how powerful it was. But from what I felt, it was very powerful," said Carole Bastin, another resident. ‘And it lasted quite long because I could not walk, I was trying to leave the house, the building, I could not because everything was shaking around me. All the file cabinets were opening and all the things falling apart.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In Washington, President Obama pledged to send aid. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton added: ‘We will be providing both civilian and military disaster relief and humanitarian assistance.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The British government was urgently seeking information about the scale of the catastrophe.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘We continue to monitor the situation and are urgently seeking information about the devastation caused by the quake and whether any British nationals have been affected,’ said a Foreign Office <br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Edeline B. Clermont weeps in the 'Little Haiti' area of Miami as she struggles to contact her relatives living in the Caribbean nation<br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in Washington that US Embassy personnel were ‘literally in the dark’ after power failed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘They reported structures down. They reported a lot of walls down. They did see a number of bodies in the street and on the sidewalk that had been hit by debris. So clearly, there's going to be serious loss of life in this,’ he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, said at least two Americans working at its Haitian aid mission were believed trapped in rubble.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Alain Le Roy, the UN peacekeeping chief in New York, said late Tuesday that the headquarters of the 9,000-member Haiti peacekeeping mission and other UN installations were seriously damaged.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Contacts with the U.N. on the ground have been severely hampered,’ Mr Le Roy said in a statement, adding: ‘For the moment, a large number of personnel remain unaccounted for.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Felix Augustin, Haiti's consul general in New York, said a portion of the National Palace had disintegrated.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption">People rush outside to inspect the damage after the huge quake hit<br />
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</div><div class="clear"></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Buildings collapsed all over the place,’ he said. ‘We have lives that are destroyed. It will take at least two or three days for people to know what's going on.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">An Associated Press videographer saw the wrecked hospital in Petionville, a hillside Port-au-Prince district that is home to many diplomats and wealthy Haitians, as well as many poor people. Elsewhere in the capital, a US government official reported seeing houses that had tumbled into a ravine.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kenson Calixte of Boston spoke to an uncle and cousin in Port-au-Prince shortly after the earthquake by phone. He could hear screaming in the background as his relatives described the frantic scene in the streets. His uncle told him that a small hotel near their home had collapsed, with people inside.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘They told me it was total chaos, a lot of devastation,’ he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Haiti's ambassador to the US, Raymond Joseph, said from his Washington office that he spoke to President Rene Preval's chief of staff, Fritz Longchamp, just after the quake hit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said Mr Longchamp told him that ‘buildings were crumbling right and left’ near the National Palace. The envoy said he had not been able to get back in contact with officials.</span><br />
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</div><div class="imageCaption">Death and suffering: Early images out of Port-au-Prince tell a harrowing story<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Close call: Survivors count their blessings after the quake struck<br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">With phones down, some of the only communication came from social media such as Twitter. Richard Morse, a well-known musician who manages the famed Olafson Hotel, kept up a stream of dispatches on the aftershocks and damage reports.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The news, based mostly on second-hand reports and photos, was disturbing, with people screaming in fear and roads blocked with debris. Belair, a slum even in the best of times, was said to be 'a broken mess.'</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><b>The earthquake that plunged Haiti into darkness is another blow to a nation that has seen more than its share of misery.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><b>Much of Haiti's nine million population is impoverished and the disaster comes after years of political instability.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><b>The country has suffered a number of recent disasters, including hurricanes and storms in 2008.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><b>In November 2008, following the collapse of a school in Petionville, the mayor of Port-au-Prince estimated about 60% of the buildings were shoddily built and unsafe in normal circumstances.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><b>The earthquake yesterday was felt in the Dominican Republic - but no major damage was reported there.<br />
Houses also shook in eastern Cuba but there were also no reports of significant damage.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">US Geological Survey geophysicist Kristin Marano called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in what is now Haiti. In 1946, a magnitude-8.1 quake struck the Dominican Republic and also shook Haiti, producing a tsunami that killed 1,790 people.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The temblor appeared to have occurred along a strike-slip fault, where one side of a vertical fault slips horizontally past the other, said earthquake expert Tom Jordan at the University of Southern California.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The quake's size and proximity to populated Port-au-Prince likely caused widespread casualties and structural damage, he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It's going to be a real killer,’ he said. ‘Whenever something like this happens, you just hope for the best.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Most of Haiti's nine million people are desperately poor, and after years of political instability the country has no real construction standards. In November 2008, following the collapse of a school in <br />
Petionville, the mayor of Port-au-Prince estimated about 60 percent of the buildings were shoddily built and unsafe in normal circumstances.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tuesday's quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, and some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking <br />
homes. But no major damage was reported there.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In eastern Cuba, houses shook but there were also no reports of significant damage.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption">The earthquake epicentre was ten miles outside Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">The epicentre of the quake was located inland, 14 miles (22km) west of the capital Port-au-Prince, pictured on a typical day<br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The few reports emerging from Haiti made clear the country suffered extensive damage.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,’ said Henry Bahn, a US Department of Agriculture official visiting Port-au-Prince. ‘The sky is just gray with dust.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Bahn said there were rocks strewn about and he saw a ravine where several homes had stood: ‘It's just full of collapsed walls and rubble and barbed wire.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the community of Thomassin, just outside Port-au-Prince, Alain Denis said neighbors told him the only road to the capital had been cut and phones were all dead so it was hard to determine the extent of the damage.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption">The US Geological Survey illustrates the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti yesterday<br />
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</div><div class="clear"></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘At this point, everything is a rumour,’ he said. ‘It's dark. It's nighttime.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Jocelyn Valcin, a resident of Boynton Beach, Florida who flew in to Miami International Airport from Port-au-Prince on Tuesday evening, said he was at the airport when the earthquake hit.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘The whole building was cracked down’ said Mr Valcin. ‘The whole outside deteriorated.’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Former President Bill Clinton, the UN's special envoy for Haiti, issued a statement saying his office would do whatever he could to help the nation recover and rebuild.</span><br />
<div class="clear"></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Haiti,’ he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said his government planned to send a military aircraft carrying canned foods, medicine and drinking water and also would dispatch a team of 50 rescue workers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Haitian musician Wyclef Jean urged his fans to donate to earthquake relief efforts, saying he had received text messages from his homeland reporting that many people had died. ‘We must think ahead for the aftershock, the people will need food, medicine, shelter, etc.,’ Mr Jean said on his Web site. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-43323503516379141712010-01-13T08:07:00.000+07:002010-01-13T08:08:28.831+07:00Suster Keramas Movie Trailer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://cascus.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/film_suster_keramas-poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://cascus.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/film_suster_keramas-poster.jpg" width="280" /></a><br />
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The potentially fatal condition - Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis - gripped her entire body, causing her skin to burn up and scab over before falling off.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Eva Uhlin" class="blkBorder" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/12/article-1242556-07D447FC000005DC-17_468x576.jpg" /> <div class="imageCaption">N<i>ew face: Eva Uhlin suffered a bizarre one-in-a-million allergic reaction to household paracetamol that left her unrecognisable</i><br />
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</div></div>The illness left the Swede, who currently works as a waitress, lying in a hospital bed for weeks as it ran its devastating course. <br />
Forty per cent of people who contract the disease do not survive.<br />
Now, more than four years later, Miss Uhlin is finally comfortable revealing her face to the world for the first time after completely growing back all her skin.<br />
Her nightmare began as a 15-year-old in September 2005 when she suddenly fell ill while holidaying in her home country.<br />
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<div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div>She was diagnosed with a fever and told to take a couple of paracetamol tablets to relieve her symptoms.<br />
But the combination of her virus and the drug created a reaction nobody could have predicted, triggering a disease that has taken Miss Uhlin years to fully recover from.<br />
She woke up the next day to find blisters covering her face and spreading over the rest of her body.<br />
The teenager was rushed to the University Hospital of Linkoping on September 12, where she was admitted to the burns unit.<br />
Doctors immediately gave her morphine and applied soothing ointment to her face and chest.<br />
But her skin began to fall off on a doctor's fingertips as he examined her eyes.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Eva Uhlin" class="blkBorder" height="643" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/12/article-1242556-07D43DBA000005DC-445_468x643.jpg" width="468" /> <div class="imageCaption">All smiles: Miss Uhlin has grown back her face, from which she had lost most of the surface<br />
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</div></div>Over the next few years she lost most of the surface of her face. Parts of her chest, arms, back and stomach also fell away and she even lost her eyelashes, fingernails, toenails and some of her hair.<br />
Miss Uhlin said: 'It felt like something was crawling around under my skin, I was in total shock - it was like something out of a horror film.<br />
'I couldn't believe what was happening, I had taken paracetamol many times before and doctors still aren't sure why I had this extreme reaction to it on that occasion.<br />
'It was terrifying, because at the time they didn't know what was wrong with me or what would happen to me.<br />
'When I looked in the mirror for the first time after it happened I didn't recognise myself.<br />
'I've always been a positive person, and I didn't let myself think about the chance that my skin would never be normal again.<br />
'I thought to myself - this is what has happened and now I have to deal with this.<br />
'As well as the pain, the affect that the reaction had on my confidence for that time was pretty terrible. I was so ashamed of the way I looked, I hated anybody to see me.'<br />
Fifteen doctors examined Miss Uhlin in her first 48 hours in hospital.<br />
At one point during her month-long stay her mouth and lips were so badly damaged they grew together. The resulting pain meant she was unable to sleep for most of the time.<br />
Miss Uhlin was discharged in October 2005 but had to return to hospital for regular check-ups on her skin and eyes for months.<br />
Today, she still takes eye drops twice a day and has skin remains sensitive to bright sunlight.<br />
Professor Folke Sjvberg, who treated Miss Uhlin, said he was pleased she had made such a good recovery.<br />
He said: 'The condition is very uncommon and it strikes only one in a million people.<br />
'When it is really bad it manifests itself in the way it had done with Eva. At its worst it covers all the skin on the body and can scab over the eyes and mouth.<br />
'In very basic layman's terms the skin reacts against itself because of the allergic reaction - it is very much like a burn injury, although it does tend to heal much better.<br />
'It was caused by the combination of a paracetamol and a viral infection Eva was suffering from at the time.<br />
'It is treated like a burn with pain relief and fluid replacement, you just have to try and make the skin function properly again.<br />
'With this condition you have to just let it run its course because there is no way to stop it.'<br />
The skin disease can kill and 40 per cent of sufferers do not survive the condition, due to the fact it leaves patients vulnerable to other dangerous infections.<br />
It is also known as Lyell's syndrome and is characterised by the detachment of the top layer of skin from the lower layers all over the body.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Rev Canon David Parrott blessed a pile of laptops and smart phones on the altar of London's 17th-century St Lawrence Jewry church. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The ritual was an effort to remind the capital's busy office workers that God's grace can reach them in many ways, he said.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Blessed be: The congregation hold up their mobile phones and Blackberries as Canon David Parrot conducts a service at the City of London Corporation's church, St Lawrence Jewry, on Monday" class="blkBorder" height="377" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/12/article-1242566-07D24ACA000005DC-28_634x377.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Blessed be: The congregation hold up their mobile phones, iPods and Blackberries as Canon David Parrot conducts a service at the City of London Corporation's church, St Lawrence Jewry, on Monday </i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It's the technology that is our daily working tool, and it's a technology we should bless,' Rev Parrott said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The short blessing capped Monday services at the Christopher Wren-designed building - the official church of the Corporation of the City of London, which runs the capital's financial district.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Parishioners took out mobile phones as Rev Parrott recited a blessing over them and their electronic devices. A few held their phones up in the air as he ran through the prayer.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Holy: Rev Parrot held the service to remind the capital's busy office workers that God's grace can reach them in many ways" class="blkBorder" height="363" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/12/article-1242566-07D24B8F000005DC-405_634x363.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Holy: Rev Parrot held the service to remind the capital's busy office workers that God's grace can reach them in many ways</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rev Parrott said the blessing ceremony was an update of a traditional back-to-work ceremony called 'Plough Monday', in which villagers gathered to bless a symbolic farming implement dragged to the church's door. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said that ceremony didn't have much relevance for his church, which was 'nowhere near a field, in the middle of London'.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Gadgets: Rev Parrot claims that as technology is our daily working tool, it ought to be blessed " class="blkBorder" height="412" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/12/article-1242566-07D2A1CD000005DC-1_634x412.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Gadgets: Rev Parrot claims that as technology is our daily working tool, it ought to be blessed </i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rev Parrott took up his post at St Lawrence Jewry (so-called because it stands in what was once the capital's Jewish neighbourhood) about seven months ago and said the updated ceremony was 'a fresh idea for a fresh post'.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said he hoped the ceremony had made worship 'lively and relevant to the people who work nearby, in the financial district.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Parrot said parishioners were welcome to leave their phones on during the service - so long as they kept them on silent.</span><br />
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That's because having a big bottom is good for your health - or at least better than having a big tummy. <br />
Studies show that having a generous rear end and thighs, rather than a pot belly, cuts levels of 'bad' cholesterol and raises levels of the 'good' cholesterol that protect against hardening of the arteries. <br />
It also cuts the risk of diabetes, a review in the International Journal of Obesity reports. The findings add to a welter of research on the benefits of having a pear-shaped body.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Jennifer Lopez " class="blkBorder" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/12/article-1242531-0060172B00000258-979_468x758.jpg" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Healthy: Jennifer Lopez could live longer because fat around the thighs and backside is far healthier that that found on the abdomen</i><br />
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</div></div>The Oxford University researchers gathered together various studies on the health benefits of lower body, or ' gluteofemoral' fat, then tried to work out why it is better for us than fat stored around the middle. <br />
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Ideas include it acting as a 'buffer', mopping up fats which could have dangerous effects elsewhere in the body. It may also make higher levels of hormones known to affect appetite and weight. <br />
Finally, it breaks down more slowly than belly fat. While this makes it harder to shift, it also means it produces fewer chemicals called inflammatory cytokines which have been linked to heart disease, diabetes and obesity. <br />
Researcher Konstantinos Manolopoulos said: 'The fat around our thighs and hips is different to the fat we accumulate around our tummy.<br />
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</div></div>'There is "good" fat and "bad" fat - just like there is good and bad cholesterol. <br />
The cells in lower body fat work differently from the cells in upper body fat.' <br />
The findings tie in with studies showing that the ratio of a person's waist to their hips is a better predictor of heart disease than BMI, the GPs' rule of thumb for judging healthy weights. <br />
In future, drugs that alter the way fat is stored around the body could be used to combat heart and other diseases. <br />
Fotini Rozakeas of the British Heart Foundation said: 'This research helps us better to understand how fat acts in the body in order to develop new approaches in reducing heart and circulatory disease. <br />
'If you are overweight, obese, or if your waist size has increased, it is important to make changes to your lifestyle, such as eating a healthy diet and doing regular physical activity, to reduce your risk of heart health problems.' <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A set of tombs belonging to the workers who built them has been discovered which sheds light on how they lived and ate more than 4,000 years ago.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The thousands of men who built the last remaining wonder of the ancient world regularly ate meat and worked three-month rotating shifts. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They were so well regarded they were also given the honour of being buried in mud brick tombs within the shadow of the sacred pyramids they worked on if they died during construction.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The tombs, revealed today by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, date back to the country's fourth dynasty between 2575 BC and 2467 BC.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was during this time that the great pyramids were built, according to the head of the Council, Zahi Hawass.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Graves belonging to workers who helped build the pyramids were first discovered in the area in 1990 but further discoveries such as this show the workers were paid labourers rather than slaves.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Hawass said: 'These tombs were built beside the King's pyramid, which indicates that these people were not by any means slaves.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'If they were slaves they would not have been able to build their tombs beside their king's.'</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He added that archeological evidence at the site indicated that the 10,000-strong army of workers ate 21 cattle and 23 sheep a day, sent to them from farms in northern and southern Egypt. The workers were rotated every three months.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The discovery also helps experts study the social classes that made up Egyptian society.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Salima Ikram, a professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, said: 'It is important to find tombs that belong to lower class people that are not made out of stone and tell you the social origin and wealth of a range of people.'</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Workers' tombs of this era were usually conical in shape and made from mud brick. They would then be covered in white plaster, probably echoing the nearby limestone-clad pyramids of the kings.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The most important of the new discoveries was a tomb belonging to a man named Idu. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was a regular structure with a plaster-covered mud brick casing. The tomb containing skeletal remains and featured burial shafts encased in white limestone and clay pots.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But this strange-looking snow formation has a very natural explanation.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'Snow rolls' are cylinders of snow found in freezing conditions on open ground and most commonly appear on the prairies of North America.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also known as snowrollers, snow bales and snow doughnuts, the phenomenon requires a precise balance of air temperature, ice, snow, moisture and wind. They are essentially a wintry version of tumbleweed.<br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>Totally natural: An example of the giant self-rolling snow rolls pictured by dog walker Ron Trevett</i><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Builder Ron Trevett, 55, and his wife Aileen, 54, were amazed to find them in a field near their home in Yeovil, Somerset, as they walked their dogs.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'We saw them from a distance on the ridge of the field, and we thought some kids had been playing up there and making giant snowballs,' said Mr Trevett.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'But when we got up there we saw there were no footprints and there were hundreds of them, too many for children to have done it. We realised it must have been the wind.'<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The couple considered themselves privileged to have had the chance to see them.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'We feel very lucky. I'm the wrong side of fifty and I've never seen anything like it in my life. <br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>Dozens of snow rolls were found scattered across this Somerset field</i><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">'We were gobsmacked to look at them there in the sunlight. It was a really impressive sight and I took some pictures so other people could share it.'<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Frank Barrow, a lecturer in meteorology at the Met Office, described the exact science behind the formations and said it was nature's version of a snowman.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said: 'They start off with a nice thick layer of snow, with the top snow just on the point of melting either because of general temperature or sunshine on the surface.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'The top snow layer becomes a bit sticky and you then need a fairly strong wind. The sticky layer can be peeled off the colder and more powdery snow underneath by the wind, forming a roll. <br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'In the first picture you can see some of the powdery stuff sticking to the lower outside surface of the roll. I suppose it is a natural version of making a snowman.'<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The rolls are not hollow to begin with, as a number of layers build up as the roll gets larger the further it is blown. <br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, the inner layers are weaker as they are formed first and are easily blown away. Eventually the rolls become too big to be blown any further or come to rest against vegetation or at the bottom of a hill. <br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Liz Bentley, from the Royal Meteorological Society, said despite their rarity more snow rolls could appear in the UK in the coming days.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'These rolls are unusual here because we don't tend to have major snow events like the one we're experiencing now. <br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'They happen with the combination of lying snow and high wind speeds, mostly in North America and Northern Europe, and they can be as small as a tennis ball or they can be as large as two feet across – depending on how strong the wind is and how smooth the surface of the snow is,' she said.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">'There are quite strong winds predicted this weekend as well as more snow, so if people keep a look out they might see a few more of these appearing around the country over the next few days.'<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But considering it has spent more than 70 years at the bottom of a lake, this one is in relatively good condition - and could fetch £80,000. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The rare 1925 touring Bugatti was pushed into the water by a frustrated tax official in 1936 after the owner abandoned it in Switzerland without paying the appropriate import tax. <br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Heading back to land. The 1925 Bugatti is raised from Lake Maggiore in Switzerland after being submerged for 70 years<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">The town's diving club decided to recover the car to sell it and raise money for charity<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">This restored car shows what the vehicle would have looked like back in the 1930s<br />
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</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Because the value of the car was less than the money owed, the customs officer was duty bound to destroy it - and decided to push it into Lake Maggiore.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Then, in 1967, the car was re-discovered by a diver, Ugo Pillon, who was curious to find out if there was any truth to the story.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He found the Bugatti lying on its side over 160ft below the surface and from then on members of the local diving club regularly visited it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was brought back up to the surface in July of last year by the club to raise money to fund a charity which addresses juvenile violence. It was founded after a fellow diver died after being beaten up by three youths. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 1925 touring Type 22 Bugatti was built in Brescia in Italy and was first registered in Nancy, France. A small brass plate found on the car bears the name 'George Nielly, 48 Rue Nollet, Paris'. It was registered in his name in 1930.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The car had four cylinders, a 1.5 litre engine and could reach almost 100 miles an hour. It was a two-seater with no roof and was very light.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i> The Bugatti was a two-seater with no roof and very light. It could reach speeds of almost 100mph</i><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>A diver by the car which was found in the lake in 1967, 30 years after it was dumped there by customs officials. Amazingly, there was still air in the tyres (below)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Later versions of the car were made in France, but this was known as a Brescia Bugatti, after the Italian town where it was manufactured.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As to who owned it in Ascona, Switzerland, it has not been determined, however, auctioneers Bonhams believe the most likely candidate is Marco (Max) Schmuklerski, a Zurich-born architect of Polish descent.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He is known to have worked there for three years, designing a number of buildings, before returning to Zurich.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is possible he acquired the car while studying architecture at the famous Beaux Arts school in Paris where he may have met George Nielly. But Mr Schmuklerski brought it back to Switzerland without paying import duties.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Another theory is that he bought the car from a French tourist or client in Ascona. Whatever the case, the car always kept its French plates and import duties were never paid.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Schmuklerski is believed to have left the car behind when he left Ascona and it then remained stored in a builder's yard.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But customs officials became aware of the car's existence and insisted on the import duties being paid. By this time the duties could well have amounted to more than the value of the well-used car which was 11 years old.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>The car was put on display after being pulled from the lake which stretches from Italy into Switzerland</i><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>Proceeds from the sale of the car will go towards a charity which tackles juvenile violence</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the case of non-payment, the car had to be destroyed and the easiest way to do so was to tip it into the nearby lake.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But should it ever be needed to be recovered a heavy chain was attached. However this finally corroded away and the car fell to the lakebed at a depth of 160ft.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Incredibly, when it was retrieved last summer, there was still air in the tyres and traces of the original Bugatti blue on its bodywork.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It's believed that 20 per cent of the vehicle is salvageable and collectors and museums are said to be keen to buy it.</span><br />
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</div><div class="imageCaption"><i>Clockwise from top left: The front of the car, with its grille and a headlamp; the battery, the seating area with the remains of the steering wheel visible; and, finally, part of the dashboard with the oil measure (right)</i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">James Knight, from Bonhams auction house, said: ‘We have offered a few things in our time in the motoring department, but nothing like this.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Sometimes we get cars that have been hidden in barns for years, built never have we had one that's spent 70 years at the bottom of a lake.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘The story as we know it is that in the late 1920s or early 1930s the car was taken to Switzerland by its French owner.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Eventually the customs official got fed up and pushed it into the lake. He was legally obliged to destroy it and rolling it into the lake seemed the best way.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">All money raised will go towards the Damiano Tamagni Foundation which is based in the town.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The sale is on January 23 at the Bonhams Retromobile sale in France.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>Preserved: The car still had traces of the original Bugatti blue on its bodywork</i><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>Seen from another angle the state of the car's disintegration becomes more apparent</i><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>How it would have looked: A similar blue Bugatti</i><br />
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Rin Sakuragi (桜木凛)<br />
Birthdate: March 3, 1989<br />
Zodiac: Pisces<br />
Birthplace: Hyogo, Japan<br />
Blood type: B<br />
Height: 158 cm (5 ft 2 in)<br />
Measurements: 83-57-82 cm (33-22-32 in)<br />
Cup: C65<br />
Hobby: Watching movie, playing with dog<br />
Special skill: Cooking<br />
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Her over-the-top hat was made of nothing more than her own hair.<br />
The pop star wore her blonde locks splayed out and teased into the shape of a sunhat as she appeared in Las Vegas yesterday.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Hair hat: Lady Gaga swears headgear - made from her hair - as she promotes Polaroid during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas" class="blkBorder" height="323" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/07/article-0-07CA8AC7000005DC-403_468x323.jpg" width="468" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Hair hat: Lady Gaga swears headgear - made from her hair - as she promotes Polaroid during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas</i><br />
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</div></div>She was unveiled as Polaroid's new Chief Creative Officer during the Consumer Electronics Show.<br />
The 23-year-old star announced that she will be creating fashion, technology and photography products which will hit shelves later this year.<br />
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She had earlier matched her pink lipstick to the ends of her bob cut for her guest role on U.S. reality show Launch My Line.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <i><img alt="Who needs a hat? Gaga was named Chief Creative Officer for the brand" class="blkBorder" height="561" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/07/article-0-07CA8911000005DC-818_468x561.jpg" width="468" /></i> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Who needs a hat? Gaga was named Chief Creative Officer for the brand</i><br />
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</div></div>But when it came to offering advice to the aspiring fashion designers, Gaga left them confused.<br />
'For me, when I'm thinking about either designing a piece or choosing a piece to wear, I think about a shape,' she said.<br />
'If you, as a designer, your aesthetic were to walk through a wooden door, what shape would it leave?'<br />
After telling the contestants she was a 'creative thinker' she cryptically added: 'Just because we're doing a heightened avant-garde sense of who we are, doesn't mean that we start shredding things and making giant hats. It still has to be you.'<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-15444102909029233232010-01-08T16:51:00.001+07:002010-01-08T16:52:45.189+07:00Get ready for my closeup: Rare Sumatran tiger and her cubs filmed for the first time in the wild by camera trap<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The first footage of an incredibly rare female tiger and her cubs have been captured by a camera trap deep in the Sumatran jungle, say researchers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The big cat family triggered the infrared video camera after the curious hunters stopped to sniff and check out the trap. </span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>A young Sumatran tiger is filmed on a balmy hot day by a camera trap installed by WWF in central Sumatra </i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The team from WWF-Indonesia have spent five years studying tigers using camera traps on known tiger routes through a forested 'wildlife corridor' in central Sumatra. However, this is the first time a tigress and her cubs have been spotted.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The researchers say the footage gives them a unique insight into the elusive tigers' behaviour and also helps them to identify individual animals.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There are as few as 400 Sumatran tigers left in the wild and they are under relentless pressure from poaching and clearing of their habitat. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Leader of WWF-Indonesia's Sumatran tiger research team, Karmila Parakkasi, said: 'We are very concerned because the territory of this tigress and its cubs is being rapidly cleared by two global paper companies, palm oil plantations, encroachers, and illegal loggers.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">WWF-Indonesia's Forest Programme Director, Ian Kosasih, added: 'When these cubs are old enough to leave their mother they will have to find their own territory.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Where will they go? As tiger habitat has shrunk with so much of the surrounding area having been cleared, the tigers will have a very hard time avoiding encounters with people. That will then be very dangerous for everyone involved.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In addition to the tigress and cubs' footage, the video camera also captured images of a male Sumatran tiger and its prey, wild boar and deer, as well as many other species such as tapirs, macaques, porcupines and civets.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>Time for my close-up: The two curious tiger cubs explore the clearing. There are only 400 of these big cats left in the wild</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">WWF is going to launch a campaign on Valentine's Day to coincide with the start of the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese calendar. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They are hoping to secure high-level political commitment at a Heads of State Tiger Summit to be hosted by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Russia later this year.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We want to change the course of tiger conservation,' said Mike Baltzer, leader of WWF's global Tiger Initiative. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It's not just about saving the tiger from extinction, but about doubling their number by 2022.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But there's a serious purpose to the act, as this band of pregnant elephants are exercising as part of their zoo's ante-natal classes. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The mums-to-be have to do a daily workout as well as being walked by their keepers three to five miles each day to stay in trim. </span><br />
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</div><div class="clear"> </div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The routine is so popular that two baby elephants, </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tarak and Shanti on the </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">furthest right, have joined in the fun as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The elephants are expected to give birth between April and November this year at their zoo in Hanover, Germany.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Meanwhile in Australia, Dr Thomas Hildebrant was flown in from Berlin to oversee the final days of Asian elephant Dokkoon's pregnancy. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Zoo keeper Steve Blanchard also took Dokkoon through some birthing exercises during the final stage of her pregnancy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Stillbirths are common among elephants, who experience difficult labours, sometimes resulting in the baby becoming stuck between the womb and the pelvis. Some captive elephants have been discovered to carry mummified remains in their wombs for years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">While emergency Caesareans have been attempted, the procedure is always at the expense of the life of the mother. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">These elephants are being put through their regimen of stretching and strengthening exercises, designed to ensure that their calves do not grow too big and to help them build up the muscles they will rely on during labour. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Elephants in captivity usually have their legs tethered during labour to prevent them from hurting themselves or their handlers. Once the delivery is complete, mother and calf are given space and privacy to bond. </span><br />
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Arran Fernandez had already broken records with his GCSE results and glided through A-level maths and further maths.<br />
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Now the child genius has received a conditional offer from Fitzwilliam College after he passed the university’s notoriously tough entrance exam last summer.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Arran Fernandez, 14, has been offered a place to study at Cambridge University" class="blkBorder" height="467" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/07/article-0-07C9CA0C000005DC-57_468x342.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption">M<i>aths prodigy: Arran Fernandez, 14, has been offered a place to study at Cambridge University</i><br />
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</div></div>Assuming he cements his offer by passing A-levels physics, Aaron will become the youngest undergraduate to study at the celebrated university since William Pitt the Younger in 1773.<br />
Home-educated Arran said: ‘Maths has been my favourite subject for as long as I can remember.<br />
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<div class="thinFloatRHS"> <img alt="Arran became the youngest person to get an A in maths GSCE at seven years old " class="blkBorder" height="640" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/07/article-0-07C9C97C000005DC-27_233x423.jpg" width="352" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>On a roll... Arran became the youngest person to get an A in maths GSCE at seven years old </i><br />
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</div></div>‘I enjoy being home-schooled because I'm more involved. I can see the mark schemes and help my dad decide the curriculum.’<br />
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The degree, which is called a tripos at Cambridge University, is widely considered one of the hardest in the world.<br />
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Former scholars include Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking.<br />
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Arran first hit the headlines in 2001 when he became the youngest person to pass a GCSE at just fives years old. Aaron passed the foundation maths GCSE paper with a grade D - the highest grade that could be awarded in that category.<br />
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He then sat the intermediate GCSE the following summer and further wowed teachers with an A in the advanced level paper in 2003.<br />
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Reports at the time said Arran aspired to be ‘a mathematician, lorry driver or space explorer’.<br />
But speaking about his latest ambition seven years on, Arran said he hopes to be a research mathematician.<br />
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‘It would be nice to work for Cambridge. There are a few things I want to work on. I'd like to solve the Riemann Hypothesis.’<br />
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<div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div>The Riemann Hypothesis, an unsolved theory about the patterns of prime numbers, has baffled the greatest mathematicians for 150 years.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">For, no matter how grumpy your boss may be this morning, at least you aren't actually risking life and limb by sticking your head in his jaws.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But that is exactly what the crocodile wrestlers at a Thai zoo do on a daily basis.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Staring into the abyss: Crocodile wrestler Somphop, 22, risks not seeing his 23rd birthday as he puts his head into the crocodile's mouth at Samphran Elephant Ground and Zoo" class="blkBorder" height="431" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/01/article-1239837-07BC600A000005DC-275_634x431.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Staring into the abyss: Crocodile wrestler Somphop, 22, risks not seeing his 23rd birthday as he puts his head into the crocodile's mouth at Samphran Elephant Ground and Zoo</i><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Let's not get snappy here: Somphop gives the camera a little smirk as he puts his head in between the jaws of death" class="blkBorder" height="432" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/01/article-1239837-07BC602A000005DC-253_634x432.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Let's not get snappy here: Somphop gives the camera a little smirk as he puts his head in between the jaws of death</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This astonishing series of photographs shows the men at the Samphran Elephant Ground and Zoo performing what may well be the world's most dangerous job. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The wranglers have been performing the stunts at the zoo on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, since it was set up in 1985.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">During the hour-long shows they stick their head between the jaws of some of the zoo's biggest crocs, in the style of Krai Thong, a legendary Thai crocodile hunter.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Photographer Bronek Kaminski, who witnessed the feat on a trip to the attraction, said: 'They are quite lively crocodiles. They are not lying around half asleep all the time.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'They are chomping at a bamboo stick and snapping their jaws and then they guys put them into some sort of trance and put their head into the croc's mouth.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Smile for the camera: Another wrestler grips a surprisingly docile beast and hoists him into the air" class="blkBorder" height="911" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/01/article-1239837-07BC6260000005DC-807_634x911.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Smile for the camera: Another wrestler grips a surprisingly docile beast and hoists him into the air</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'He keeps it in there for a long time, and puts his arm in, right up to his shoulder.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Then the crocodile goes back to being a wild animal. It's very impressive.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I was not sure if they were actually going to do it so when they do you are really taken back by it.'</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The centre also doubles up as a breeding zoo, and has more than 10,000 crocodiles.</span><br />
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But any doubt surrounding the pair's relationship will surely be put to rest after seeing these steamy pictures.<br />
Hannah Montana star Miley, 17, was spotted frolicking on the beach in Australia with The Last Song co-star Liam, 19, earlier this week.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="In love: Miley Cyrus and new boyfriend Liam Hemsworth on the beach in Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia earlier this week" class="blkBorder" height="640" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/07/article-0-07C8EF6C000005DC-304_468x511.jpg" width="585" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>In love: Miley Cyrus and new boyfriend Liam Hemsworth on the beach in Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia earlier this week</i><br />
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</div></div>The actress, who spent New Year visiting Liam's family and friends in Phillip Island, Victoria, seemed completely smitten with her new boyfriend as they spent the day at the beach.<br />
Wearing a cropped t-shirt which showed off her washboard stomach and pierced tummy button, teamed with denim hotpants and aviator sunglasses, Miley looked every inch the American beach babe.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Toned: Miley's outfit choice showed off her slim figure" class="blkBorder" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/07/article-0-07C8E6DA000005DC-294_468x708.jpg" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Toned: Miley's outfit choice showed off her slim figure</i><br />
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</div></div>Liam went for a 'surfer dude' look in a striped vest top and board shorts, also teamed with the Hollywood wardrobe staple of sunglasses.<br />
Miley, who has been staying with Liam's family for the past week after finishing her world tour, flew back to Los Angeles with Liam yesterday - but not without causing chaos.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Steamy: The couple moved in for a passionate kiss" class="blkBorder" height="390" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/01/07/article-0-07C8F1A7000005DC-16_468x286.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Steamy: The couple moved in for a passionate kiss</i><br />
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</div></div>Despite managing to keep largely out of sight during her trip, Miley's presence was soon made known by the groups of fans who began waiting outside the Hemsworth family home in the hope of catching a glimpse of the Disney star.<br />
When Miley, who had managed without a security escort for her whole trip, flew home from Melbourne airport, she caused such excitement that she was given a police escort through the terminal and rushed through customs in a bid to escape the paparazzi and screaming fans.<br />
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</div></div>Meanwhile, Miley has spoken about the controversial photographs taken of her by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair magazine, insisting she had no idea the shots - which show her covering her topless body in a sheet - would cause such a furore.<br />
Miley, the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, said: 'Here, my parents are thinking they're seeing a beautiful picture by a major photographer, and the people of America want to see something dirty in that? <br />
'It doesn't make sense to us because [my family] doesn't look for negativity. But people don't want to say, "What a great performance" or "What a great shot".<br />
'No-one wants to look at something like that and see the positive because it doesn't sell a magazine.'<br />
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</div>Miley - who also caused controversy when naughty photographs she had send of herself to an ex-boyfriend were made public - also said she never seeks out scandal, it just seems to find her.<br />
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She added to Harper's Bazaar magazine: 'People like controversy because that's what sells. My job is to be a role model, and that's what I want to do, but my job isn't to be a parent.'<br />
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</div></div>'My job isn't to tell your kids how to act or how not to act, because I'm still figuring that out for myself. <br />
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'So to take that away from me is a bit selfish. Your kids are going to make mistakes whether I do or not. That's just life.'<br />
Teen idol Miley also revealed the reasons behind getting her first tattoo, an inscription on her ribcage just under her left breast.<br />
The performer, who lost a friend to cystic fibrosis in 2007 and both grandfathers to lung cancer, said: 'It reminds me not to take things for granted.<br />
'I mean, breathing - that was something none of them could do, the most basic thing. <br />
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'And I put it near my heart because that is where they will always be.'<br />
The Last Song is set for release in April this year.<br />
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</div><h1 style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognised as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of World War II, has died at the age of 93.</span></h1>Mr Yamaguchi, known as 'Lucky', was in Hiroshima on a business trip for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on August 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city.<br />
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He suffered serious burns to his upper body as well as temporary blindness and spent the night in the city.<br />
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He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki, about 190 miles to the southwest, which suffered a second U.S. atomic bomb attack just three days later. On August 15, 1945, Japan surrended - ending the war.<br />
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Mr Yamaguchi died on Monday morning from stomach cancer, according to Japanese newspapers. It is not clear if the cancer is related to his exposure to radiation.<br />
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His family were also badly affected. His son Katstoshi, a baby at the time of the bomb, and his daughter Naoko were ill for much of their lives as a result of exposure to radiation. His son died of cancer in 2005 aged 59.<br />
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His wife died last year, aged 88, from kidney and liver cancer.<br />
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He was the only person to be certified by the Japanese government as having been in both cities when they were attacked, although other dual survivors have also been identified.<br />
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'My double radiation exposure is now an official government record,' he told the Mainichi newspaper last year.<br />
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'It can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die.'<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Devastation: Mr Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip when the first U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">70,000 people were killed after the second atomic bomb was dropped over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Japan surrendered six days later<br />
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</div></div>He added: 'Having been granted that miracle of survival it is my responsibility to pass on the truth to the people of the world.'<br />
The mayor of Nagasaki wrote 'a precious storyteller has been lost' in a message posted on the city's website today.<br />
In his later years, Mr Yamaguchi gave talks about his experiences as an atomic bomb survivor and often expressed his hope that such weapons would be abolished.<br />
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He spoke at the UN in 2006, wrote books and songs about his experiences and appeared in a documentary about survivors of both attacks.<br />
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Last month he was visited in hospital by filmmaker James Cameron, director of Titanic and Avatar, who is said to be considering making a film about the bombings.<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">A survivor walks over the rubble left after the Hiroshima bomb. 140,000 people were killed, and many more died afterwards as a result of exposure to radiation<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Victims of the bomb are sheltered at a temporary hospital in Hiroshima. Mr Yamaguchi is the only person officially recognised as having survived both blasts<br />
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</div></div>Immediately after the war, Mr Yamaguchi worked as a translator for American forces in Nagasaki and later as a high school teacher.<br />
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Japan is the only country to have suffered atomic bomb attacks. Around 140,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and 70,000 in Nagasaki.<br />
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Mr Yamaguchi was one of a handful to have survived both blasts. Around 260,000 people survived one atomic bomb attack, known as hibakusha - literally 'the explosion-affected people'.<br />
Some bombing survivors have developed various illnesses from radiation exposure, including cancer and liver diseases.<br />
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Certification as an atomic bomb survivor in Japan qualifies individuals for government compensation, including monthly allowances, free medical checkups and funeral costs.<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">An aerial view of the ground zero site in Nagasaki before the atomic bomb was dropped and, below, another image afterwards showing the same area flattened<br />
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</div>Details of Yamaguchi's health problems have not been released.<br />
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Thousands of survivors continue to seek official recognition after the government rejected their eligibility for compensation. <br />
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The government last year eased the requirements for being certified as a survivor, following criticism the rules were too strict and neglected many who had developed illnesses that doctors have linked to radiation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-63277902286904704032010-01-07T08:35:00.000+07:002010-01-07T08:36:48.008+07:00Fruits of the sea: Startling strawberry crab discovered off Taiwan<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A marine biologist has discovered a startling new crab species that resembles a large strawberry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The unusual crustacean was found off the coast of southern Taiwan. It has a dramatic bright red shell covered with small white bumps.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Professor Ho Ping-ho from the National Taiwan Ocean University said the crab resembles a species called Neoliomera Pubescens, that live</span><span class="HeadLineNewsContent1"></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">s in the areas around Hawaii, Polynesia and Mauritius.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However it has a clam-shaped shell about 1 inch wide, which makes it distinct.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Crabs are omnivores feeding primarily on algae. There are more than 5,000 known species in the world.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Professor Ho said his team found two female crabs of the new species last June off the coast of Kenting National Park, known for its rich marine life. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The crabs died shortly afterwards, possibly because the water in the area was polluted by a cargo ship that ran aground.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Taiwanese crab specialist Wang Chia-hsiang confirmed Professor Ho's finding.</span><br />
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</div><div class="shsParagraph2" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He made the near perfect jump from a pier in Long Beach, California to a barge anchored in the harbour, beating the previous record by 98 feet.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His vehicle skidded sideways after landing and slammed into a safety wall at the end of the barge.</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"></span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption">There he goes: Travis Pastrana's car reaches the top of the ramp as it prepares to take flight<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Mid air: The Subaru managed to jump 269ft across water<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Almost there: The vehicle looks tiny against the skyline as it reaches the barge<br />
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</div><div class="clear" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Pastrana emerged and ran up to the landing ramp where he did a backflip into the water.</span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Around 20,000 people had gathered to see the stunt which is part of Red Bull New Year, No Limits series.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 26-year-old said afterwards: 'It was a wild ride.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The flight was awesome. I couldn't have asked for anything better.'</span><div class="shsParagraph3"><br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Back on dry land: The Subaru skids sideways as it touches down<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Close shave: The car slams into the safety barriers<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">After teasing the crowd with a warm-up run down the 1,000-foot run-in and up the take-off ramp, Pastrana did it for real, flying across approximately 220 feet of water to the landing ramp.</span><br />
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</div><div class="shsParagraph11" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Pastrana said he skidded at the end because the dew had set in about 10 minutes before he took off.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> Had he landed straight and stopped before the wall, he planned to spin doughnuts in celebration.</span><div class="shsParagraph11"><br />
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<div class="imageCaption">Celebrate: Pastrana emerges jubilant at his new world record<br />
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<div class="imageCaption">World record: The daredevil has a number of stunts already under his belt<br />
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</div><div class="imageCaption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Asked about the condition of his car, he laughed and said: 'Good-ish. It's not a submarine, so I think that's good.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The old record was 171 feet set by Pastrana's Subaru teammate, Ken Block, in a rally car in November 2006. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Pastrana, who had wanted to break that mark by more than 100 ft, added: 'There's a 40-foot window where I wasn't going to break or die, and I hit it right in the middle.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The driver is well known for his stunts. He was the first to do a double backflip on a motorcycle, and he's gone on to win four straight Rally America championships.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In 1999, Pastrana announced himself to the action sports world when at age 15 he celebrated an X Games gold medal by jumping his motorcycle into San Francisco Bay.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"></span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">That stunt got him into trouble, and he lost his prize money along with his medal.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As part of his Nitro Circus TV show, he's done such crazy stunts as riding dirt bikes off a ramp into the Grand Canyon and parachuting the rest of the way down; and jumping out of a plane without a parachute, confident that a fellow skydiver with a parachute who jumped out at the same time would catch up to him and guide him to earth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The glowing embers left behind by one of the most powerful type of explosions in the Universe have been revealed for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Remnants from giant fireballs unleashed by a supernova are still glowing at temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the Sun thousands of years after the event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They were captured by the Japanese Suzaku space observatory, after unusual features were detected in the Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443), 5,000 light years away.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Suzaku" class="blkBorder" height="518" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/31/article-1239586-07BB2384000005DC-939_634x518.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Suzaku detected X-rays from fully ionized silicon and sulfur - which indicates temperatures of 17million celsius</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The strange phenomenon was picked up in the x-ray spectrum, </span><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">so the satellite, which studies such forms of electromagnetic radiation, was best placed to study it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A supernova remnant usually cools quickly due to rapid expansion following the explosion. Then, as it sweeps up tenuous interstellar gas over thousands of years, the remnant gradually heats up again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But Suzaku's X-ray Imaging Spectrometers were able to separate the x-rays by energy in much the same way as a prism separates light into a rainbow of colours. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This allowed astronomers to tease out the different processes that occur in the remnant over time.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Suzaku" class="blkBorder" height="558" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/31/article-1239586-07BB0E7F000005DC-770_634x558.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Suzaku found another fossil fireball in the supernova remnant W49B. It detected X-rays produced when heavily ionized iron atoms recapture an electron. This view combines infrared images from the ground (red, green) with X-ray data from Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Observatory (blue).</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This is the first evidence of a new type of supernova remnant - one that was heated right after the explosion,' said team leader Hiroya Yamaguchi at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in Japan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They found evidence in the Suzaku spectrum that indicated large amounts of silicon and sulfur atoms from which all electrons had been stripped away. This requires temperatures higher than 17million celsius and so could only have been created immediately after the supernova explosion.</span><br />
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<span class="box-ads">'Suzaku sees the Jellyfish's hot heart,' team member Midori Ozawa said. <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-42280496742841850642009-12-31T20:11:00.000+07:002009-12-31T20:14:07.152+07:00Happy 2010! New Year's celebrations kick off in Sydney... but Bali's U.S. Embassy warns of possible terrorist attack<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">New Year's Eve celebrations have already begun in Sydney today, with fireworks exploding over the city's iconic Opera House as Australia begins its final countdown to 2010. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Up to 1.5 million New Year's revellers have pitched tents and opened picnic baskets in in the city today to get one of the world's biggest parties started - bidding farewell to a tough year and welcoming a new decade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Preparations were under way across the world for pyrotechnics, parties and prayers in the final countdown to 2010, with far eastern points in Oceania and Asia the first to herald the end of the period dubbed 'the Noughties'.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Let the party begin: The '9pm early New Year's Eve fireworks' based on the theme 'Awaken the Spirit' explode over the Sydney Harbour from six barges three hours before midnight today" class="blkBorder" height="402" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/31/article-1239607-07BB508A000005DC-483_634x402.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Let the party begin: The '9pm early New Year's Eve fireworks' based on the theme 'Awaken the Spirit' explode over the Sydney Harbour from six barges three hours before midnight today</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The mood of celebrations was tempered in some places by the effects of the financial downturn, which bit hard in 2009, sending economies into recession, causing millions to lose their jobs and home foreclosures to rise dramatically in some countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There were also reminders of threats and the fight against terrorism that during the decade led to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and rising militant violence in Pakistan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The U.S. Embassy in Indonesia warned of a possible terrorist attack on the resort island of Bali on New Year's Eve, citing information from the island's governor. The e-mail warning to U.S. citizens said predominantly Muslim Indonesia's counterterrorism efforts have been partly successful in recent years, but violent extremists continue to pose a deadly threat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Signs of economic recovery emerged late in 2009, but the year may be one that many people are glad to put behind them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I think 2010 will be a good year - you can never tell, but I think so,' said Marek Kiera, a Sydney property investor who watched interest rates tumble amid the global financial crisis.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><img alt="New decade: Sydney's fireworks are just the start of New Year's celebrations across the globe" class="blkBorder" height="319" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/31/article-1239607-07BB4732000005DC-722_634x319.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>New decade: Sydney's fireworks are just the start of New Year's celebrations across the globe</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We have invested so much in something that may go up in value,' said Kiera, who went with his wife and three young children to a park in inner Sydney to watch the fireworks show. 'Hopefully there will be a boom like in the late '80s, when properties doubled in value.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Organisers said 1.5 million people were expected to line the shore for the annual fireworks extravaganza over Sydney's landmark harbour bridge and opera house - the centrepiece of Australia's celebrations that generates some of the most striking images from a night of revelry across the globe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Smaller fireworks displays and partying were planned across Australia and the South Pacific, the first region to greet each new day because of its proximity to the International Date Line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In New Zealand, dance parties, bands and fireworks were planned in the main cities, and live entertainment in many holiday spots, including the southern tourist spot of Queenstown. In the capital, Wellington, celebrations included a display by world unicycle games competitors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Asia will be partying, too, though probably not as hard as most of Europe and the Americas. The world's most populous nation, 1.3-billion-strong China, uses a different calendar that will mark the new year in February. Islamic nations such as Pakistan and Afghanistan also use a different calendar.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In Beijing, President Hu Jintao was to make an end-of-year speech but no major celebratory events were planned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Pyrotechnics displays were planned to illuminate Hong Kong's crowded skyline, high-glitz parties were planned in Singapore and thousands were expected to gather at Indonesia's national monument in the capital, Jakarta, for a fireworks show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Millions of Japanese were to welcome the new year by flocking to shrines to pray for good fortune in 2010.</span><br />
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<div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In Tokyo, the Sensoji temple was draped with banners greeting the new year in preparation for traditional New Year's Day ceremonies when thousands of people pray for good fortune. Shoppers mobbed the city, stocking up on seafood and other items.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In Sydney, crowds defied grey skies and drizzling rain in the middle of summer to line parks and public places along the harbour. High-rise apartments with water views prepared for toney parties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Sydney revellers were asked to wear something blue, the colour chosen to match the fireworks show's theme: Awaken the Spirit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In other cities such as Melbourne and Adelaide, revellers sweltered in 100 degree F (38 degree C) heat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Thousands of police were deployed across Australia to guard against alcohol-fuelled misbehaviour, with commanders warning that troublemakers should stay home or face jail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In Turkey, Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said authorities were deploying around 2,000 police officers around Taksim Square to prevent pickpockets and the molestation of women that have marred New Year celebrations in the past. Some officers would be under cover, disguised as street vendors or 'even in Santa Claus dress,' Guler said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Firecrackers were already exploding across the Netherlands early today on the only day of the year the Dutch are allowed to set off fireworks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Unlike countries like Australia, the vast majority of fireworks shows in the Netherlands are do-it-yourself affairs where families spill onto the street in front of their homes and light strings of fire crackers and other fireworks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Many Dutch families also fire up their deep-fat frying pans on New Year's Eve to cook the traditional treat of oliebollen - deep-fried balls of dough laced with raisins and dusted with icing sugar.</span><br />
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But then, another ten years of parties, movie premieres, family life and fame have to make a mark. <br />
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<i>Victoria’s reign: How Posh might look with another decade etched on her face</i><br />
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</div></div>Victoria Beckham, for instance, looks far more careworn at 45 than she does now – but then three teenage sons is enough to turn any mother's hair grey. (Victoria, however, remains a glossy brunette). <br />
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Husband David, whose looks are as lucrative as his football, seems more Golden Oldie than Golden Balls at the grand old age of 44. <br />
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And Madonna at 60 plus looks more like a Material Grandmother than Material Girl. <br />
The faces are the work of Washington-based forensic artist Joe Mullins.<br />
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</div></div>He looked into the future by taking recent photographs of the stars and adjusting them to look ten years older.<br />
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He took into account each of the stars' lifestyles to predict how they might look in 2020. <br />
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He suggests that being a mother to a big family could have taken its toll on Angelina Jolie by the time she is 44. <br />
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Her partner Brad Pitt appears as a still suave silver-haired 56-year-old.<br />
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</div></div>Paris Hilton at 38 appears to be paying the price for years of late nights out on the town.<br />
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But Britney Spears fares a little better. Getting her life back on track after her spectacular fall from grace last year leaves her with only a few laughter lines at 38. <br />
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'This is what the celebrities would probably look like if they didn't take care of themselves. I've given them ten hard years,' Mr Mullins said. 'Perhaps they can hang these pictures on the bathroom mirror as motivation to live healthy.'<br />
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But here's Ice-T as you've probably never seen him before, albeit still with a bikini-clad babe.<br />
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The 51-year-old rap star, real name Tracy Marrow, left his attitude at home as he spent a family day out on the beach in Miami with his wife Coco Marie, 31.<br />
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</div>And all eyes were on his partner who showed off her womanly curves in a tiny, floral-print bikini as the couple took Ice's son, Ice Marrow, and Coco's sister Kristy and her toddlers for a day out in the Sunshine State. <br />
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Real name is Nicole Austin, she grew up in California and began modelling swimwear in her teens.<br />
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At 18, she won the Miss Ujena beauty contest in Mexico and progressed to the pages of Playboy, also working as a party host at Hugh Hefner's mansion.<br />
The couple married in 2005.<br />
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And it appears both Ice-T and his wife are fans of the social-networking site.<br />
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<div class="clear"></div>Last week, Coco, who is famed for her huge rear, made waves on the internet when she posted a photo of her infamous behind while she lifted some weights.<br />
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The model also has her own website where she regularly posts photos from her raunchy glamour shoots. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kieron Williamson kneels on the wooden bench in his small kitchen, takes a pastel from the box by his side and rubs it onto a piece of paper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Have you got a picture in your head of what you're going to do?' asks his mother, Michelle. 'Yep,' Kieron nods. 'A snow scene.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">I ask: because it is winter at the moment? 'Yep.' Do you know how you want it to come out? 'Yep.' And does it come out how you want it? 'Sometimes it does.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This month, Kieron's second exhibition in a gallery in his home town of Holt, Norfolk, sold out in 14 minutes. The sale of 16 new paintings swelled his bank account by £18,200. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There are now 680 people on a waiting list for a Kieron original. Art lovers have driven from London to buy his work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Agents buzz around the town. People offer to buy his school books. The starting price for a simple pastel picture such as the one Kieron is sketching? £900. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kieron lives with his father, Keith, a former electrician, his mother, who is training to be a nutritionist, and his little sister, Billie-Jo, in a small flat overlooking a petrol station.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/30/article-1239267-07B8FCC0000005DC-67_634x477_popup.jpg" onclick="return false" rel=""> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="windmill painting " class="blkBorder" height="477" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/30/article-1239267-07B8FCC0000005DC-67_634x477.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Kieron prefers landscapes, but plans to paint a portrait of his grandmother for her 100th birthday </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">When I arrive, Kieron and Keith are out. When Kieron returns in football socks and shorts, I assume he has been playing football. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But no, he has been replenishing his stock of pastels in Holt, a chichi little place where even the chip shop has grainy portraits for sale on its walls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">From Jan Lievens to Millais, there have been plenty of precocious geniuses in the art world. Excitable press coverage has compared Kieron to Picasso, who painted his first canvas, The Picador, aged eight. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We don't know who Picasso is, really,' says Keith. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I know who Picasso is,' interrupts Kieron. 'I don't want to become him.' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Who would he like to become? 'Monet or Edward Seago,' he replies. We are often suspicious of child prodigies. We wonder if it is all their own work, or whether their pushy parents have hot-housed them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">People who don't know the Williamsons might think Kieron is being cleverly marketed, particularly when they hear that Keith is now an art dealer.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The truth is far more innocent. Two years ago, a serious accident forced Keith to stop work and turn his hobby of collecting art into an occupation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The accident also stopped Keith racing around outside with his son. Confined to a flat with no garden, surrounded by paintings and, like any small boy, influenced by his father, Kieron decided to take up drawing. </span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/30/article-1239267-07B901AC000005DC-968_634x506_popup.jpg" onclick="return false" rel=""> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="Figures at Holkham" class="blkBorder" height="506" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/30/article-1239267-07B901AC000005DC-968_634x506.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Figures at Holkham by Kieron: There are now 680 people on a waiting list for an original by the youngster. Art lovers have even driven from London to buy his work. </i><br />
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<div class="floatRHS"> <a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/30/article-1239267-07B8E9C1000005DC-542_306x440_popup.jpg" onclick="return false" rel=""> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><img alt="Painting of a boat " class="blkBorder" height="440" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/30/article-1239267-07B8E9C1000005DC-542_306x440.jpg" width="306" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Kieron has had lessons with Norfolk-based painters, including Brian Ryder and his favourite, Tony Garner</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now, father and son are learning about art together. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kieron is rubbing yellows and greys together for his sky. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'There's some trees going straight across and then there's a lake through the centre,' he explains. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">So, is this picture something you have seen, or is it in your imagination? 'I saw it on the computer and every time I do the picture it changes,' he says, handling his pastels expertly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Keith ducks into the kitchen and explains that Kieron finds pictures he likes on the internet. Rather than an exact copy, however, he creates his own version.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This winter scene is imagined from an image of the Norfolk Broads in summer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At first, Kieron's art was pretty much like any other five-year-old's. But he quickly progressed and was soon asking questions that his parents couldn't answer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Kieron wanted to know the technicalities of art and how to put a painting together,' says Michelle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Hearing of Kieron's promise, a local artist, Carol Ann Pennington, offered him some tips. </span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Since then, he has had lessons with other Norfolk-based painters, including Brian Ryder and his favourite, Tony Garner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Garner, a professional artist, has taught more than 1,000 adults over the past few decades and Kieron, he says, is head and shoulders above everyone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'He doesn't say very much, he doesn't ask very much, he just looks. He's a very visual learner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">If I did a picture with most students, they'd copy it - but Kieron will copy it, and then he will Kieronise it,' he says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It might be a bit naive at the moment, but there's a lovely freshness about what he does. The confidence that this little chap has got - he just doesn't see any danger.'</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/30/article-1239267-07B8FADC000005DC-319_634x425_popup.jpg" onclick="return false" rel=""> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt="A painting by artist Kieron Williamson" class="blkBorder" height="425" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/30/article-1239267-07B8FADC000005DC-319_634x425.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Kieron has been compared by some to Picasso, who painted his first canvas, The Picador, aged eight</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Garner says Kieron's parents have been brilliant at shielding their child from the business side and pressure this invariably brings. Keith and Michelle are extremely proud, protective and, perhaps, slightly in awe of their son. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They insist that Kieron paints only when he wants to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We judge ourselves every day, wondering whether we are making the right choices,' says Michelle. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Kieron is such a strong character you wouldn't get him to do anything he didn't want to do anyway. It's a hobby. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Some could argue he's got such a talent, why aren't we doing more for him in terms of touring galleries every weekend. We are a family and we've got Billie-Jo to consider; you've got to strike a balance.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">With all the people wanting paintings, I ask Kieron if he feels he has to do them. He says no. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">So you only paint when you want to? 'Yep.' Do you have days when you feel you don't want to paint? 'Yep.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">How many paintings or drawings do you do each week? One or two? 'About six.' <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Is he a perfectionist? 'You've got a bit of an artist's temperament, haven't you?' says Michelle, softly. 'You get frustrated if it doesn't work out. You punched a hole in the canvas once, didn't you?' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But those incidents are rare. Sometimes, however, Kieron will produce 'what we classify as a bag of trosh', says Michelle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'He's just got to go through the motions. It's almost as if it's a release. It's the process that he enjoys, because there are days when he is not really focused on his work, but he just enjoys doing it.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Sometimes, when they have taken Kieron out on painting trips in the countryside, the little boy has had other ideas: he has gone off and played in the mud or in a stream. He is still allowed to act seven years old. </span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">What do his school friends think? Are they impressed? 'Yep.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A moment later, Kieron pauses. 'I am also top of the class in maths, English, geography and science,' he says, rubbing the sky in his picture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kieron explains he is sticking to landscapes for now, but plans to paint a portrait of his 98-year-old grandmother when she turns 100. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">What does he think about people spending so much money on his paintings? 'Really good.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Would he like to be a professional painter? 'Yep.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He doesn't want to be a footballer when he is older? 'I want to be a footballer and a painter.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kieron enjoys playing football and, like his father, supports Leeds United. What other things does Kieron like doing? 'You played on the Xbox, but you got bored of it, didn't you?' says Keith. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'You said I could have it out at Christmas,' says Kieron. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'You can have it out in the holidays,' promises Michelle. 'He's a bit all-or-nothing with whatever he does, like the artwork. You have to pull the reins in a bit because otherwise he'd be up all night.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">What would his parents say if Kieron turned around and told them he was not going to paint any more? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Leave him to it. As long as he's happy. At the end of the day, he's at his happiest painting,' says Keith. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Michelle adds: 'It's entirely his choice. We don't know what's around the corner. Kieron might decide to put his boxes away and football might take over, and that would be entirely his choice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We're feeling slightly under pressure because there is such a waiting list of people wanting Kieron's work, but I'm inclined to tell them to wait, really.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">I doubt many artists could paint or draw while answering questions and being photographed, but Kieron carries on. When he finishes, we lean over to look. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Not bad. That's nice,' says Keith, who can't watch Kieron at work; I wonder if it is because he is worried about his son making a mistake, but Keith says he just prefers to see the finished article. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Is it as good as the one I did this morning, or better?' asks Kieron. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'What do you think?' replies Keith. 'It's got a nice glow on it, hasn't it?' Kieron nods. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">I would love one of his pictures but, I tell Kieron, he is already too expensive for me. 'I can price one down for you,' he says, as quick as a flash. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">No, no, I couldn't, I say, worried I would be exploiting a little boy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">I thank him for his time and hand him my business card. And Kieron trots into his</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">bedroom, comes out with his own business card and says thank you, right back.</span><br />
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Nieka Chetwyn was a child when she became a victim of one of Britain's worst cancer misdiagnosis scandals and was told the gruelling treatment had probably left her infertile. <br />
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Today, however, 25-year-old Nieka and her family are celebrating what they say is a 'miracle' after she gave birth to a healthy boy. Son Joscar arrived two weeks early on December 17 weighing 7lb 14oz. <br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Nieka Chetwyn" class="blkBorder" height="640" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/27/article-1238818-07AD2939000005DC-339_468x556.jpg" width="537" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Simply wonderful: Nieka Chetwyn with Joscar</i><br />
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</div></div>'I'd always wanted to have children but I thought I'd have to adopt so this is simply wonderful,' Nieka, a paediatric nurse, said yesterday. <br />
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In 1993, when she was eight, Nieka's plight was highlighted on the front page of the Daily Mail after she lost her hair to chemotherapy. She was given the aggressive treatment based on a consultant's incorrect diagnosis of her cancer and doctors had to break the news that she would almost certainly never have children. <br />
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Thousands more patients' test results had to be rechecked and scores received compensation after doctors discovered they may have gone through the trauma of cancer treatment unnecessarily. <br />
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Nieka's parents didn't receive a penny, however, as she had indeed been suffering from cancer, but of a different type to the one diagnosed. <br />
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<div class="thinFloatRHS"> <a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/27/article-1238818-07AE9CA7000005DC-930_233x333_popup.jpg" onclick="return false" rel=""> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><img alt="Flashback: Nieka Chetwyn, from the Mail in 1993" class="blkBorder" height="333" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/27/article-1238818-07AE9CA7000005DC-930_233x333.jpg" width="233" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Flashback: Nieka Chetwyn, from the Mail in 1993</i><br />
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</div></div>The family were left wondering whether her future had been permanently blighted and if such aggressive treatment had actually been necessary. <br />
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With the help of dedicated cancer specialists Nieka was eventually given the all-clear, but no one ever dared give her hope that she would be able to conceive naturally. <br />
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'I remember walking with her at a time when she had no hair because of the treatment,' said her mother, Kären. <br />
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'She said, "But Mummy, I'd like to have a baby one day". It brought tears to my eyes. My husband told her, "We'll do whatever it takes, we'll even sell the house and get you the best medical treatment". <br />
So for Nieka to have a child, and for us to have our first grandchild, it really is a miracle.' <br />
Nieka, of Prestwich, Greater Manchester, and her partner Sean O'Donovan, 27, were shocked to find she was pregnant – not least because she was taking the Pill to regulate her hormones. <br />
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'I couldn't 100 per cent accept I was pregnant until I actually gave birth!' she said. <br />
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She was seven when a suspicious lump was found in her calf. Doctors carried out a biopsy which was sent to Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham for analysis by Dr Carol Starkie, who diagnosed a Ewing's sarcoma. <br />
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After surgery Nieka had 18 gruelling sessions of chemotherapy at Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. In the meantime concern was being raised at Dr Starkie's performance and she retired on health grounds as more than 2,000 cases were rechecked. <br />
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Tests revealed that Nieka had actually been suffering from a different type of cancer, called a rhabdomyosarcoma. But by now doctors had to persist with the original course of treatment. <br />
Her father, Philip, said: 'The awful thing is that we'll never know if a less arduous treatment would have done the trick.' <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-42292670529305678742009-12-28T12:18:00.000+07:002009-12-28T12:18:11.263+07:00Rachel Uchitel puts the Tiger Woods scandal behind her with a walk on the beachAfter weeks of feeling the heat from the Tiger Woods scandal, bikini-clad beauty Rachel Uchitel is feeling the heat of a different kind - that of a sun-soaked beach.<br />
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The 34-year-old club hostess has distanced herself from reports of the champion golfer's alleged infidelities, other than to deny having an affair with him.<br />
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And it looked as though she didn't have a care in the world as she took in the Florida sunshine during a Christmas break with friends.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Rachel Uchitel" class="blkBorder" height="635" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/27/article-0-07B29D86000005DC-166_468x635.jpg" width="468" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Dog day afternoon: New York club hostess Rachel Uchitel enjoys the Florida sunshine with her four legged friend - just seven miles from where Tiger Woods moors his private yacht</i><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Rachel Uchitel " class="blkBorder" height="640" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/27/article-1238721-07B29DBB000005DC-560_468x593.jpg" width="504" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Rearing to go: Rachel heads for a dip in the warm waters off the Florida coast</i><br />
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</div></div>The native New Yorker is currently holidaying in Palm Beach, which just happens to be seven miles from where Woods moors his luxury yacht called 'Privacy'.<br />
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Although she has publicly denied an affair, a source told the New York Post that Miss Uchitel claimed to have met Woods during a party held by Derek Jeter, who plays for the New York Yankees, at his apartment.<br />
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'This girl has a real history of sleeping with rich, powerful and famous people,' a friend told the Post. 'Rachel is going to end up going on Oprah, telling her story - and doing Playboy.'<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Rachel Uchitel" class="blkBorder" height="640" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/27/article-0-07B29F56000005DC-770_468x527.jpg" width="568" /> <div class="imageCaption">What's up dog? Rachel shows off her toned figure in her skull motif bikini<br />
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</div></div>It's reported that Woods, 33, has been spending his days in seclusion in a house he owns near the family home in Windermere, Florida, eating cereal and watching cartoons. <br />
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His Swedish-born wife, Elin Nordegren, has made it clear to associates that she is pushing forward with a divorce. <br />
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<div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div>She is believed to be meeting celebrity attorney Sorrell Trope - who has represented Nicole Kidman and Britney Spears - and could get up to £169million of his fortune.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Rachel Uchitel spends the day at the beach with her dogs on Christmas Eve. " class="blkBorder" height="489" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/27/article-1238721-07B29FFA000005DC-730_468x359.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Puppy Love: Rachel relaxes on a sunbed while her pet pooch stands guard</i><br />
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</div></div>Meanwhile it's thought Rachel has hired an expensive, high-profile Los Angeles attorney.<br />
Lawyer Gloria Allred acted for OJ Simpson and Michael Jackson and Spice Girl Melanie B in her paternity suit against Eddie Murphy.<br />
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She declares herself: 'Fearless lawyer, feminist, activist, television and radio commentator, warrior, advocate, and winner - Gloria Allred is all of these things and more.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-20502243541766711992009-12-28T12:15:00.000+07:002009-12-28T12:15:47.093+07:00Did London turn him to terror? Two tourist trips, three years as a student, then off to join Al Qaeda<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">To his fellow students visiting the tourist spots of London, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was known affectionately as 'the Pope'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was a nickname the popular teenage son of a millionaire Nigerian banker had earned because he did so little wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Fellow student Efemena Mokedi said: 'He was very popular, a good guy, a very religious person, a very honest person who was friends with all the teachers.' </span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="clear"> </div><i><img alt="Pictured: Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in the red jacket, outside Buckingham Palace" class="blkBorder" height="452" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/28/article-1238821-07B52DF9000005DC-388_634x452.jpg" width="634" /></i> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Pictured: Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, in the red jacket, outside Buckingham Palace</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Abdulmutallab visited London in 2001 and 2002 on trips from the British International School in Togo, West Africa. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He was to return in 2005, when he began a three-year course in engineering at University College. According to reports last night, his family fear this was when his radicalisation began. </span><br />
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<div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One friend said: 'When his degree course ended, he "disappeared" to Yemen, where he was being taught Arabic. His family are suggesting he was probably recruited in London but became radicalised in Yemen. He had been in Yemen for about a year or even a year and a half.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Abdulmutallab is said to have told U.S. investigators he had been trained in terror techniques by Al Qaeda after travelling to Yemen and then sent on the mission to bring carnage to the skies over the U.S. </span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Trafalgur trip: Again in the red jacket, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab outside another London landmark" class="blkBorder" height="398" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/28/article-1238821-07B52DB9000005DC-38_634x398.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Trafalgar trip: Again in the red jacket, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab outside another London landmark</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Last night investigators on three continents were trying to piece together how and why a man from a privileged background could become an Al Qaeda suicide bomber. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'We are looking at a very unusual recruit ... a man who has been persuaded to reject his family, his heritage and his background,' a U.S. investigator said. 'We need to find out why and how very quickly.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The arrest has stunned British history teacher Michael Rimmer, who taught Abdulmutallab in Togo. He said the student had been 'every teacher's dream - very keen, enthusiastic, very bright, very polite'. </span><br />
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</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Rimmer recalled how his student had excelled in Islamic scholarship at the multireligious British school and gained a reputation for preaching to other students. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He said Abdulmutallab had been among a number of pupils he had taken to London in 2001 and 2002, when aged 13 and 14. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At one stage on the trip, Abdulmutallab had become upset because several older students had visited a pub and he thought it should not have been allowed on religious grounds. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Rimmer said that rather than spend money on souvenirs in London, Abdulmutallab had donated £50 to an orphanage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'At one stage, his nickname was "the Pope". In one way, it's totally unsuitable because he's a Muslim, but he did have this saintly aura. He was a model student, very keen, enthusiastic and loved the subject I taught him, history, and would often stay behind after lessons to discuss items in the lesson or in the news.' </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He added, however, that Abdulmutallab started to express extremist views after 9/11. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I remember in 2001 there was a class discussion about the Taliban in Afghanistan. All the other children including all the Muslims thought they were a bunch of nutters with beards, but he thought they had it right and thought their views were acceptable. At the time I thought, well, young people have silly views and he would grow out of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I was angry at the nutters who had put these silly ideas in his head but also angry with him because he had wonderful parents and comes from a lovely family, with lots of friends and had everything going for him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'He's a fine looking lad, very bright and I expected great things of him. But he's thrown it all away and his parents will be devastated.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Abdulmutallab had told Mr Rimmer that he was going to study Arabic in the Yemen. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I thought nothing of it at the time. I just thought he was being adventurous, instead of going to more mainstream places like Damascus.' </span><br />
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</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was Abdulmutallab's time in Yemen which prompted his own father, Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, 70, to become so concarrycerned that he approached the U.S. and Nigerian authorities to warn them about his son's views six months before the alleged attempt to destroy the flight to Detroit. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Mutallab, an influential banker who is well connected in Nigerian politics, approached the U.S. embassy in Abuja to express concerns that his son had been radicalised. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">US officials said Abdulmutallab had been added to a broad terrorism watchlist, but was not flagged for mandatory secondary screening or put on a no-fly list. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Mutallab flew yesterday from the family home in Funtua in Nigeria's northern Katsina State to meet security agencies and discuss the activities of his son, the youngest of his 16 children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I have been receiving telephone calls from all over the world about my child who has been arrested for an alleged attempt to bomb a plane,' he said yesterday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I am really disturbed. I would not want to say anything at the moment until I put myself together...I have been summonedby the Nigerian security and I am on my way to answer the call.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Mutallab, who retired last week after heading both his country's major banks, said he was surprised that despite his expressing his concerns, his son's name had not been placed on a no-fly list. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A close neighbour in Funtua said he believed Abdulmutallab did not get his extremist ideas from his family or from within Nigeria. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I believe he must have been lured where he is schooling to carry out this attack,' said Basiru Sani Hamza, 35. 'Really, the boy has betrayed his father, who took care of all his needs.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">While in London, where he graduated with a 2.2 in mechanical engineering and business finance, Abdulmutallab lived in a three-bedroom apartment in the West End paid for by his father. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Other members of the family also occupied the flat close to Oxford Circus and Harley Street from time to time. It is part of an imposing, sevenstorey block in Mansfield Street which has an English Heritage blue plaque on a wall in honour of the philanthropist Sir Robert Mayer, who once lived there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">One woman, who works as a carer for an elderly female resident, said Abdulmutallab's family were not always there. 'They only come when it is school holidays, they don't really stay there. Most of the people in these apartments have got houses in the country, so most of them are empty.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Police yesterday continued to carry out searches at the flat which, records show, is owned by a U.S. investment company. Scotland Yard confirmed that it was liaising with the U.S. authorities investigating the failed attack. Officers also visited UCL. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was in June 2008, shortly before he completed his course at UCL, that Abdulmutallab successfully applied for a twoyear visa to the U.S., valid until June 12, 2010. </span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-75517168536680149242009-12-28T12:08:00.000+07:002009-12-28T12:08:11.610+07:00Iranian opposition leader's nephew killed as thousands of protesters clash with riot police in bloody pitched battle on the streets of Tehran<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Iranian security forces in Tehran killed at least eight people, including a nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, during the fiercest clashes with anti-government protesters in months. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Amateur video footage showed an enraged crowd carrying away one of the casualties, chanting: 'I'll kill, I'll kill the one who killed my brother.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In several locations in the Iranian capital demonstrators fought back against security forces, hurling stones and setting motorcycles, cars and vans on fire, according to video footage and pro-reform websites. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Demonstrations also took place in at least three other cities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A close aide to Mousavi, a presidential contender in the disputed June election, said his 35-year-old nephew Ali Habibi Mousavi Khamene died of his injuries in a Tehran hospital. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mousavi's website and another reformist website also said Ali Mousavi died during clashes in which security forces reportedly fired on demonstrators. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The protesters in Tehran tried to cut off roads by burning barricades that filled the sky with billowing black smoke. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The protests began with thousands of opposition supporters chanting 'Death to the dictator', a reference to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as they took to the streets in defiance of official warnings of a harsh crackdown on any demonstrations coinciding with a religious observance on Sunday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Opposition activists have held a series of anti-government protests since the death of a dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, last week. </span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><a class="lightboxPopupLink" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/27/article-0-07B548BF000005DC-834_634x428_popup.jpg" onclick="return false" rel="Anti-riot police beat up a woman protester during today's disturbances"> <span class="clickToEnlargeTop"></span><span class="clickToEnlargeButton"></span> <img alt=" " class="blkBorder" height="428" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/27/article-0-07B548BF000005DC-834_634x428.jpg" width="634" /> </a> <div class="imageCaption">A<i>nti-riot police beat up a woman protester during today's disturbances</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Security forces tried but failed to disperse protesters on a central Tehran street with tear gas, charges by baton-wielding officers and warning shots fired into the air. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They then opened fire directly at protesters, killing at least three people, according to witnesses. A fourth protester was shot dead on a nearby street, they said. </span><br />
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</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">There were also violent confrontations in at least three other major cities: Isfahan and Najafabad in central Iran and Shiraz in the south. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Protesters say president Ahmadinejad won the election through massive vote fraud and that Mousavi was the winner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tehran's police chief denied that his officers had fired on the crowd - or that they were even armed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Foreign media organisations were barred from covering the demonstrations. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Fierce clashes also broke out today between security forces and opposition supporters in the cities of Isfahan and Najafabad in central Iran, the Rah-e-Sabz Web site said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mobile phone services were down and Internet connections were slowed to a crawl, as has happened during most other days of opposition protest in an apparent government attempt to limit attention on the events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Opposition activists have held a series of anti-government protests since the death of a dissident cleric last week.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Dec. 20 death of the 87-year-old Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a sharp critic of Iran's leaders, has given a new push to opposition protests, which have endured despite a heavy security crackdown since the election.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">His memorials have brought out not only the young, urban activists who filled the ranks of earlier protests, but also older, more religious Iranians who revered Montazeri on grounds of faith as much as politics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tens of thousands marched in his funeral procession in the holy city of Qom on Monday, many chanting slogans against the government.</span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-77964762000773490612009-12-24T08:37:00.000+07:002009-12-24T08:37:39.079+07:00Stem cell treatment allows the blind to see againPioneering stem cell treatment by British scientists has restored the sight of those threatened with permanent blindness.<br />
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The technique has transformed the lives of patients who have lost their vision through injury or disease.<br />
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The procedure has so far been carried out only on those who have lost their sight in one eye.<br />
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But trials are already under way on patients who have damage to both their eyes - and millions could one day benefit from the treatment.<br />
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The technique involves growing stem cells from the patient's 'good eye' in the laboratory before transferring them to the damaged eye. <br />
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<div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div>Among those who have already undergone the procedure is a have-a-go hero who lost the sight in one eye after being attacked with ammonia 15 years ago.<br />
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Russell Turnbull is one of the handful of patients who have been treated successfully by scientists and eye surgeons from the North East England Stem Cell Institute at Newcastle University.<br />
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Within a few weeks Mr Turnbull, 38, found his sight back to the level when he was attacked on a bus journey home following a night out in Newcastle in 1994.<br />
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As a 'guinea pig' on a trial at the institute, researchers took a tiny amount of stem cells from Mr Turnbull's good eye and grew them in a laboratory.<br />
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They were implanted in Mr Turnbull's damaged right eye where they began to function as normal, restoring sight.<br />
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Yesterday, he said: 'I have my life back thanks to the operation.'<br />
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The technique avoids the need for drugs to suppress immunity because the patient's own implanted cells cannot be rejected. <br />
<div class="thinFloatRHS"><h2><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">What is LSCD?<br />
</span></h2><h2>LSCD is a painful, blinding disease that requires long-term, costly treatment with frequent clinic visits and intensive hospital admissions.</h2><h2>The vision loss due to LSCD often means social support is necessary due to the enormous impact on the patient's quality of life.</h2><h2>This is magnified by the fact that LSCD mostly affects younger patients.</h2></div>It is also the first procedure that does not use animal products to help grow the stem cells in the laboratory.<br />
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Scientists expect the technique to help hundreds of patients whose eyes have been damaged by contact lenses, in industrial accidents involving thermal or chemical injuries, and by diseases.<br />
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The procedure targets corneal cloudiness - known medically as limbal stem cell deficiency - which has been estimated to cause blindness in eight million sufferers worldwide each year and affects up to 10,000 in Britain.<br />
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Francisco Figueiredo, a consultant eye surgeon at the North East England Stem Cell Institute who co-led the project, said the breakthrough could potentially 'help millions of people'.<br />
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'This technique we have been working on for the last three years has the potential to change people's lives,' he added.<br />
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'By doing an operation to transplant the stem cells we can restore their life back to normal.'<br />
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The research, published in the U.S. journal Stem Cells, has been used to help eight patients with corneal cloudiness in one eye, who have sufficient sight in the remaining eye to provide a supply of healthy stem cells.<br />
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But researchers are already carrying out trials involving patients who have damage to both eyes.<br />
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Mr Figueiredo said: 'I have a 74-year-old patient who has not been able to see out of one eye for 54 years. At the age of 20 he was attacked in the street with ammonia and lost his sight. <br />
'Since then he has practically been unable to see out of that eye.<br />
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Now, having had the operation, he can see again. It's incredible. Provided the blindness is caused by stem cell deficiency we can restore their sight using this technique.'<br />
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Professor Michael Whitaker, co-director of the institute, said: 'Stem cells from bone marrow have been used successfully for many years to treat cancer and immune disease, but this is the first successful stem cell therapy using stem cells from the eye without animal products to treat disease. <br />
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Because the early results look so promising, we are thinking hard now about how to bring this treatment rapidly into the clinic as we complete the necessary clinical trials, so that the treatment can be shared with all patients that might benefit.'<br />
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A larger study involving 24 patients is under way with funding from the UK's Medical Research Council. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The find that could shed new light on what the hamlet was like during the period the New Testament says Jesus lived there as a boy, Israeli archaeologists said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The dwelling and older discoveries of nearby tombs in burial caves suggest that Nazareth was an out-of-the-way hamlet of around 50 houses on a patch of about four acres. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It was evidently populated by Jews of modest means who kept camouflaged grottos to hide from Roman invaders, said archaeologist Yardena Alexandre, excavations director at the Israel Antiquities Authority,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Based on clay and chalk shards found at the site, the dwelling appeared to house a 'simple Jewish family,' Alexandre added, as workers at the site carefully chipped away at mud with small pickaxes to reveal stone walls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nazareth holds a cherished place in Christianity. It is the town where Christian tradition says Jesus grew up and where an angel told Mary she would bear the child of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This may well have been a place that Jesus and his contemporaries were familiar with,' Alexandre said. A young Jesus may have played around the house with his cousins and friends, she said. 'It's a logical suggestion.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The discovery so close to Christmas has pleased local Christians.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'They say if the people do not speak, the stones will speak,' said a smiling Rev. Jack Karam of the nearby Basilica of the Annunciation, the site where Christian tradition says Mary received the angel's word.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Alexandre's team found remains of a wall, a hideout, a courtyard and a water system that appeared to collect water from the roof and supply it to the home. The discovery was made when builders dug up the courtyard of a former convent to make room for a new Christian center, just yards (meters) away from the Basilica.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is not clear how big the dwelling is - Alexandre's team have uncovered about 900 square feet (85 square meters) of the house, but it may have been for an extended family and could be much larger, she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Alexandre said her team also found a camouflaged entry way into a grotto, which she believes was used by Jews at the time to hide from Roman soldiers who were battling Jewish rebels at the time for control of the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The grotto would have hid around six people for a few hours, she said.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, Roman soldiers did not end up battling Nazareth's Jews because the hamlet had little strategic value at the time. The Roman army was more interested in larger towns and strategic hilltop communities, she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Alexandre said similar camouflaged grottos were found in other ancient Jewish communities of the lower Galilee such as the nearby Biblical village of Cana, which did witness battle between Jews and Romans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At the site, Alexandre told reporters that archaeologists also found clay and chalk vessels which were likely used by Galilean Jews of the time. The scientists concluded a Jewish family lived there because of the chalk, which was used by Jews at the time to ensure the purity of the food and water kept inside the vessels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The shards also date back to the time of Jesus, which includes the late Hellenic, early Roman period that ranges from around 100 B.C. to 100 A.D., Alexandre said.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The absence of any remains of glass vessels or imported products suggested the family who lived in the dwelling were 'simple,' but Alexandre said the remains did not indicate whether they were traders or farmers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The only other artifacts that archeologists have found in the Nazareth area from the time of Jesus are ancient burial caves outside the hamlet, providing a rough idea of the village's population at the time, Alexandre said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Work is now taking place to clear newer ruins built above the dwelling, which will be preserved. The dwelling will become a part of a new international Christian center being constructed close to the site and funded by a French Roman Catholic group, said Marc Hodara of the Chemin Neuf Community overseeing construction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Alexandre said limited space and population density in Nazareth means it is unlikely that archeologists can carry out any further excavations in the area, leaving this dwelling to tell the story of what Jesus' boyhood home may have looked like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The discovery at 'this time, this period, is very interesting, especially as a Christian,' Karam said. 'For me it is a great gift.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The scientists - who have refused to identify themselves - have released a series of images taken beneath the Caribbean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They insist the snaps show what appear to be the ruins of a city that could pre-date Egypt's pyramids, which appeared after 2600BC.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They even told a French newspaper that one of the structures appears to be a pyramid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Now the anonymous group wants to raise funds to explore the secret location where the images were taken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They would not reveal the exact location, however, saying only that it was somewhere in the Caribbean Sea.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The claims have raised eyebrows on the internet, though sceptics refrained from debunking them entirely - just in case.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="clear"> </div><img alt="Could it be? This image released by the unnamed group shows what appears to be a grid-like pattern that could resemble the streets of a city" class="blkBorder" height="415" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/17/article-1236651-07A2C7CA000005DC-434_634x415.jpg" width="634" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Mysterious: The group said the images were taken beneath the Caribbean Sea - but they would not give an exact location, saying they are hoping to raise funds to explore further</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The legend of Atlantis, a city of astonishing wealth, knowledge and power that sank beneath the ocean waves, has fascinated millions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Time and time again hopes have been raised that the lost city has been found - only for those hopes to be dashed against the evidence (or lack thereof).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Its location - or at least the source of the legend - remained a tantalising mystery. </span><br />
<div id="TixyyLink" style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In 1997, Russian scientists claimed to have found Atlantis 100 miles off Land's End. <br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In 2000 a ruined town was found under 300ft of water off the north coast of Turkey in the Black Sea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The area is thought to have been swamped by a great flood around 5000BC, possibly the floods referred to in the Old Testament. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In 2004 an American architect used sonar to reveal man-made walls a mile deep in the Mediterranean between Cyprus and Syria. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In 2007 Swedish researchers claimed the city lay on the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, which was submerged in the Bronze Age. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And as recently as February of this year, what appeared to be grid-like lines that resembled city streets were spotted on Google Earth - in the ocean off the coast of Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Sadly Google itself quickly debunked the suggestion, explaining that the lines were left by a boat as it collected data for the application.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Bathymetric (sea-floor) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea-floor,' a spokesman said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data.' </span><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-64212409878038535752009-12-18T19:32:00.000+07:002009-12-18T19:32:48.700+07:00'Iranian Cyber Army' hackers take down TwitterIranian hackers brought down micro-blogging website Twitter for around two hours this morning.<br />
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The attack took place at around 6am and left the site's estimated 30million users unable to send messages or post 'tweets'.<br />
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The main Twitter homepage had been replaced with a black and red screen featuring an image of a green flag.<br />
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The page carried the message: 'This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.'<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="The screen that replaced the main Twitter homepage" class="blkBorder" height="536" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/18/article-1236873-07A51E80000005DC-717_468x392.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>The screen that replaced the main Twitter homepage for two hours this morning</i><br />
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'The USA thinks they control and manage internet access, but they don't. We control and manage the internet with our power, so do not try to the incite Iranian people.' <br />
<div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div>The site reappeared around two hours later, with staff telling users: 'We are working to recovery from an unplanned downtime and will update more as we learn the cause of this outage.'<br />
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It is believed that Twitter's DNS records were hijacked in the attack meaning that users who were trying to visit the site were actually redirected to the new page.<br />
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The DNS, which stands for Domain Name System, connects the name of a website, in this case twitter.com, to the servers which hold its contents.<br />
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A short statement was issued on the company's blog.<br />
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</div></div>It read: 'Twitter's DNS records were temporarily compromised but have now been fixed. <br />
'We are looking into the underlying cause and will update with more information soon.'<br />
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Websites such as Twitter and Facebook became a focal point for young, urban Iranians opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who defeated opposition candidate Mirhossein Mousavi in the presidential election.<br />
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Many Iranians used Twitter to arrange demonstrations and keep up to date during the unfolding saga.<br />
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According to Internet censorship monitor OpenNet Initiative, Iranians began taking to the internet in droves during the 1997-2005 presidency of Mohammad Khatami, when dozens of independent publications were shut down and journalists jailed.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Astro-photogrpaher Wally Pacholk captured this amazing shot in the Mojave Desert area near Victorville under a dark and almost clear sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The annual cosmic fireworks have been growing in intensity in recent decades with up to 160 meteors visible per hour under optimal conditions. They travel across the sky at about 22miles per second and are fairly easy to spot.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div> <img alt=" meteor " class="blkBorder" height="412" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/18/article-1236885-07A4DAB1000005DC-802_964x622.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>A huge meteor hurtles to Earth during the annual Geminid meteor shower. The picture was taken from the Mojave Desert area near Victorville</i><br />
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</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">The Geminids </span><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">are caused by the Earth crossing the debris-strewn path of the extinct comet 3200 Phaethon. The first recorded sightings were in 1862 in England and the U.S. In these early days only 14 meteors were recorded per hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Viewing conditions were particularly good this year because it peaked on Monday morning two days before a new Moon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">They are best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere although you can see up to 20 meteors per hour near the horizon in the Southern Hemisphere</span>.<br />
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<div class="relatedItemsTopBorder"> </div><span style="font-size: 1.4em;">Mr Pacholka is an accountant by day and an award-winning astro-photographer at night. His shots have been used both by Nasa and National Geographic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">'I just love the night sky,' he said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">'Even as a teenager, I'd be out all hours of the night searching. My friends and family would ask me, "Why?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.4em;">'So I started taking pictures of the night sky to show them what they were missing.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Sitting motionless in the sky above the Kremlin in Moscow, clips of the unexplained object have become the most-viewed videos on Russia's YouTube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The two videos, one taken at night from a car and one during the day, were both filmed by amateurs.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>The footage of the pyramid hovering over the Red Square in Moscow for minutes at a time has gone viral on the internet</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The UFO hovered for hours over Red Square in the Russian capital and was seen by hundreds of people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The identity of the shape has not been confirmed but internet forums are buzzing with the sighting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The UFO appeared on December 9th, the same night that a mysterious blue spiral light appeared over Norway. That was later attributed to a failed rocket launch from Russia.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Some have likened the object to one of the spaceships from Star Wars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But others have said it is merely a reflection from inside the cameraman's car. If the object exists experts estimate that it could be up to a mile wide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Some commentators have reacted sceptically to the videos and have pointed out that if hundreds of people had seen the object more videos and photos would have emerged by now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Russian reports ruled out a UFO but police have refused to comment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nick Pope, a former Ministry of Defence UFO analyst, said it was 'one of the most extraordinary UFO clips I've ever seen'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'At first I thought this was a reflection but it appears to move behind a power line, ruling out this theory.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A spokesman for aerospace journal Jane's News said: 'We have no idea what it is.'</span><br />
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Doctors in Brazil believe the needles were deliberately pushed into his body through his skin - including 17 discovered in his digestive system.<br />
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Police have launched an investigation to discover who carried out the attack amid fears the boy may have been used as part of a sinister black magic ritual.<br />
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</div></div>One of the needles perforated the youngster's left lung. Stunned medics admitted him to hospital in Barreiras in the state of Bahma, north east Brazil, after X-rays showed the 50 metal objects in his abdomen, neck, thorax and legs.<br />
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Today it emerged the macabre crime may be linked to a bizarre black magic ritual.<br />
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The boy, taken to hospital by a relative on Sunday with stomach pains, has not been named.<br />
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His mother, maid Marma Souza Santos, has told police she does not know who is responsible and said his gran used to look after her son while she was out at work.<br />
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But she has reportedly claimed in a statement the youngster's stepfather may have used the infant in a black magic ritual. He has denied the claims.<br />
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</div></div>Police chief Helder Fernandes Santana said: 'We are certain someone introduced the needles because of the position of some of them in the child's body.<br />
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'At the moment we don't know who did it.<br />
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'It's such a strange situation. We could be looking at attempted murder, a serious assault or some type of revenge attack. We're not ruling anything out at the moment.' <br />
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Doctors at West Hospital in Barreiras where the boy is currently being treated, said they would considering trying to remove sewing needles just under the surface of the boy's skin.<br />
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But hospital director Luiz Cesar said none of the needles were endangering his life at the moment - and said he may have to live with them inside his body because of the risk involved in removing them.<br />
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He added: 'We're certain the boy didn't swallow the needles of his own accord.<br />
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'If he did, they would be in his gastrointestinal tract.<br />
'I've never seen a case of its kind.<br />
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'Our priority at the moment is the boy's lung which was perforated by one of the needles.<br />
'Fortunately his life is not in danger.' The boy's dad Gessivaldo Alves added: 'We have faith in God that he is going to get better.' <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-86009515690760594342009-12-16T09:11:00.000+07:002009-12-16T09:11:27.736+07:00Burial cloth found in Jerusalem cave casts doubt on authenticity of Turin ShroudArchaeologists have discovered the first known burial shroud in Jerusalem from the time of Christ's crucifixion - and say it casts serious doubt on the claimed authenticity of the Turin Shroud.<br />
Ancient shrouds from the period have been found before in the Holy Land, but never in Jerusalem. <br />
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Researchers say the weave and design of the shroud discovered in a burial cave near Jerusalem's Old City are completely different to the Turin Shroud.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Jerusalem shroud" class="blkBorder" height="480" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/15/article-1236161-079C78C4000005DC-139_468x351.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Discovery: The shrouded body of a man was found in this sealed chamber of a cave in the Hinnom Valley, overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem</i><br />
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</div></div>Radiocarbon tests and artefacts found in the cave prove almost beyond doubt that it was from the same time of Christ's death.<br />
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It was made with a simple two-way weave - not the twill weave used on the Turin Shroud, which textile experts say was introduced more than 1,000 years after Christ lived.<br />
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And instead of being a single sheet like the famous item in Turin, the Jerusalem shroud is made up of several sections, with a separate piece for the head.<br />
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Professor Shimon Gibson, the archaeologist who discovered the tomb, said ancient writings and contemporary shrouds from other areas had suggested this design, and the Jerusalem shroud finally provided the physical evidence.<br />
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The debate over the Turin Shroud will not go away. Last month a Vatican researcher said she had found the words 'Jesus Nazarene' on the shroud, proving it was the linen cloth which was wrapped around Christ's body.<br />
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</div><div class="imageCaption">T<i>ests: DNA analysis of the fibres of the Jerusalem shroud, left, have revealed it dates back to the time of Christ's death. Experts say it casts doubt on the authenticity of the Turin Shroud, right</i><br />
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</div></div>Barbara Frale said computer analysis of photographs of the shroud revealed extremely faint words written in Greek, Aramaic and Latin which attested to its authenticity.<br />
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But the shroud-wrapped body dated to the time of Christ discovered in Jerusalem seems to point in the opposite direction.<br />
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The shroud was found around the remains of a man in a sealed chamber of a burial cave in the Hinnom Valley overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem by archaeologists from the Hebrew University and the Albright Research Institute, both in Jerusalem.<br />
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DNA tests indicated the man had suffered from leprosy and died of tuberculosis. <br />
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That was probably why his burial cave was sealed - a move that preserved the shroud and even some of the man's hair for 2,000 years.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Turin Shroud" class="blkBorder" height="390" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/15/article-1236161-000BE02E00000258-439_468x286.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>The Turin Shroud, which measures 14ft by 3ft, is unlike the burial practice of the time which used separate sheets for the head and body of the deceased</i><br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Jerusalem Old City" class="blkBorder" height="412" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/15/article-1236161-0463EF0D000005DC-878_468x303.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Find: The new shroud was discovered in a sealed cave in the Hinnom Valley near Jerusalem's Old City</i><br />
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</div></div>Professor Gibson said the Turin Shroud did not fit what was known of burial practices in first-century Palestine - now confirmed by the Jerusalem shroud.<br />
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'The Turin shroud is a single sheet made with a twill weave. <br />
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'The twill weave is known from this part of the world only from the mediaeval period, so we're talking about something that's from the Middle Ages,' Gibson told the Daily Mail.<br />
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'But the Jerusalem shroud confirmed another local practice which casts even more doubt on the Turin artefact.<br />
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'It wasn't one continuous sheet,' said Gibson, pointing out the Turin Shroud is a single rectangular sheet measuring about 14ft by 3ft.<br />
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'What our shroud shows is that the practice of having a separate shroud or wrapping for the body and for the head was common practice.<br />
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'There was a separate wrapping for the head itself, which was very important because when they brought someone to burial they would place the head wrapping separately on the face in case the person wasn't actually dead and woke up again, they would be able to blow off the face wrapping and shout for help,' said Gibson.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <i><img alt="Shimon Gibson" class="blkBorder" height="390" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/15/article-1236161-016CD53B0000044D-68_468x286.jpg" width="640" /></i> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Evidence: Archaeologist Shimon Gibson, centre, said tests had revealed the man suffered from leprosy and died from tuberculosis</i><br />
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</div></div>'This did occur quite a lot in antiquity because they didn't have the medical means we have today. <br />
'The idea was that if you enshrouded somebody, you had a separate set of wrappings for the body and a separate set of wrappings for the head,' he said.<br />
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Ancient rabbinical writings mention people who woke up, apparently miraculously and lived for years afterwards. <br />
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It was the custom at the time for the family to visit the tomb after three days to check their relative was indeed dead.<br />
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Gibson said this was probably the source of the Gospel story about Jesus's followers visiting his tomb three days after the Crucifixion, when they found it empty.<br />
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<div class="clear"> </div><div class="thinCenter"> <img alt="Jerusalem Shroud" class="blkBorder" height="390" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/15/article-1236161-079C78D7000005DC-590_468x286.jpg" width="640" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Historic: A diagram of where the body was found in the burial chamber. The chamber may have been sealed because he suffered from tuberculosis</i><br />
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</div></div>The Hinnom Valley where the Jerusalem shroud was discovered has long been associated with death. The Gospel of Matthew calls it Akeldama or 'Field of Blood.' <br />
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It is dotted with Roman-era burial tombs carved out of caves in the rock face. <br />
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In ancient times, pagan tribes burned children alive there as offerings to the god Moloch. <br />
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The ancient Israelites called the valley Gehinnom - the Hebrew for 'Hell' - and it was the site where the scapegoat was driven over a cliff on the Day of Atonement in Solomon's Temple.<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-52547888143399772752009-12-16T07:41:00.000+07:002009-12-16T07:41:48.291+07:00Pioneering stem cell technique stops climber from losing leg<div class="thinFloatRHS"> <img alt="Andrew Kent" class="blkBorder" height="640" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/15/article-1236169-079D02DF000005DC-176_233x366.jpg" width="407" /> <div class="imageCaption"><i>Andrew Kent underwent three operations to pin the bones in his leg back together</i><br />
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</div>A man who faced amputation after he broke a leg while rock climbing spoke today of a revolutionary new stem cell technique which fused it back together again.<br />
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Andrew Kent's right leg broke in five places when a large boulder fell on him as he climbed with his son in the Langdale Pikes in the Lake District in April.<br />
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He was taken to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle where he underwent three operations to pin the bones back together.<br />
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When the wound became seriously infected he was transferred to the private Spire Alexandra Hospital in Chatham, Kent.<br />
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There, orthopaedic surgeon Anan Shetty performed the revolutionary new treatment for the first time in Britain by removing stem cells from the bone marrow in Mr Kent's hip and mixing them with a new collagen gel called Cartifill.<br />
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The paste it formed was then smeared into the fractures before his leg was placed in a metal cage to gently squeeze the bones back together.<br />
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The cage was removed at the beginning of this month - six months after the stem cell procedure - and surgeons believe he will be able to climb again in the future.<br />
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</div></div>Mr Kent, from Gillingham, told Sky News: 'I've got a good prognosis. I'm very pleased with the way things have turned out.'<br />
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Describing how he felt when he was told his leg risked amputation, he said: 'Receiving that news is pretty devastating.<br />
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'You think: "I don't want to lose this foot. That would be horrendous".<br />
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'Now I'm very pleased. I can wiggle my toes and they are looking good.'<br />
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Mr Shetty told the channel: 'He has really surprised us. This is an amazing technique. He won't be able to run for about a year, but after 18 months his bones will have healed completely.<br />
'I'm sure he'll be able to go back and rock climb again.'<br />
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The Cartifill collagen gel was invented by orthopaedic surgeon Professor Seok Jung Kim, from South Korea. He was present to see the operation take place.<br />
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The technique costs far less than alternative methods, at only a few hundred pounds.<br />
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Mr Shetty will carry out the cartilage repair technique on around 30 patients before submitting his results to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the hope that it will be approved for use on the NHS. <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674728858872651224.post-31313874710371008422009-12-16T04:20:00.001+07:002009-12-16T04:23:39.448+07:00Boeing 787 Dreamliner finally takes to the skies in first test flight - two years later than originally planned<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Boeing Co made the first test flight of its 787 Dreamliner today, almost two and a half years after the new, fuel-efficient plane was supposed to fly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The lightweight carbon and titanium plane, promising to save airlines million of dollars in fuel and maintenance costs, has been hampered by a shortage of bolts, faulty design and a two-month strike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But today Boeing sent the plane on a four-hour flight from Paine Field in Everett, Washington, at 10am local time, to test it as it flew around the local area.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>The Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes off on the first of many test flights it will need to complete to obtain the necessary Federal Aviation Administration certification</i><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>Employees cheer as the Dreamliner takes off for the first time</i><br />
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</div></div><div class="clear"></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Boeing employees cheered as pilots Michael Carriker and Randall Neville ensured the plane had a successful take-off.</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Today's test was just the first in a series of checks which will be completed on six 787s over the next nine months in order to obtain the necessary Federal Aviation Administration certification. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Boeing executives say the tests, which will see the planes running around the clock, will be like 'running a small airline'.</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>Crowds gather to watch as the plane prepares for its first test flight</i><br />
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</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tests will include practising mid-air stalls, dives and steep banks, as well as seeing how the plane copes in extremes of heat and cold. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, experts insist the Dreamliner still has 'a long way to go' before it proves to be a success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Richard Aboulafia, aerospace analyst at research firm Teal Group, said: 'The first flight will provide a badly needed perception that the programme is on some kind of schedule again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'But it's still a long way from the ultimate result.'</span><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>A chase plane flies beside the 787 on its first test flight</i><br />
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</div></div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Dreamliner has proved very popular with airlines, who like the concept of a mid-sized plane being able to carry over 250 people for very long distances. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Since work began on the plane in 2004, airlines have ordered 840 of the aircraft - making $140billion for Boeing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, the five production delays over the past three years and the six postponements of the first flight have stretched customers' patience.</span><br />
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<div class="clear"></div><div class="clear"></div><div><img alt="Dreamliner interior" class="blkBorder" height="259" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/15/article-1236171-079CF438000005DC-467_964x392.jpg" width="640" /> <br />
<div class="imageCaption"><i>The impressive interior of the Dreamliner, which features larger toilets for passengers' increased comfort</i><br />
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<div class="imageCaption"><i>The entryway to the 787 has been designed with arches aimed at directing the eye upwards</i><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The company has had problems with the new materials used, as well as delays stemming from shortage of parts and the difficulties of bringing together fuselage and wing structures from Japan, Italy and elsewhere in the U.S.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the meantime, rival Airbus, a unit of Europe's EADS, has been attracting buyers with its competing A350 plane, which will also be made primarily from carbon-composite materials.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Analysts say Boeing have already invested more than $10 billion in the project, but will have to pay some sort of compensation to customers for late planes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Boeing are estimating that the first 787 Dreamliner will be delivered to Japan's All Nippon Airways late next year - more than two years after the original target of May 2008. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But the revolutionary use of carbon fibre in the planes, and the problems of joining it to other materials mean there is still plenty of risk that Boeing's new plane will hit new snags in the air.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Mr Aboulafia added: 'Just as Boeing found hurdles on the way to first flight, they are going to find hurdles on the way to certification.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However, Howard Wheeldon, transport analyst with BGC Partners, is enthusiastic about the significance of the test flight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He describes the Dreamliner as revolutionary, telling the BBC World Service that the project will reshape the aviation industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This is an aircraft that changes the whole basis of flying, because of the equipment onboard,' he says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'In terms of the cost of operation, this is an 80 per cent composite material aircraft, with 35 tonnes of carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, so it is a light aircraft - which means it burns less fuel.'</span><br />
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