Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Drunk Driver Missing Front Tyre
Town changes name from 'Speed' to 'Speedkills'
700,000 Japanese Condoms Disappear
Indian Flying Car: The Ultimate Traffic Jam Solution?
Chinese Boy Suffers Knife Catastrophe
Monday, February 21, 2011
Documentary Download: Vertical City - Petronas Towers, Malaysia (2009)
Genre: Documentary
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Popin' Cookin': Intellectual Educational Candy
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Video Games in Tokyo Urinals to Make Peeing Less Boring
Japanese Invent The Electronic Smile Enhancer
Indian Website Offers Virtual Wives
Chinese Prisoners Offer Feet Apology To Their Shamed Families
Monday, February 14, 2011
Documentary Download: National Geographic - Megastructures: SMART Tunnel (Malaysia)
Genre: Documentary
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Shed owners could be sued if a burglar is injured!
Police have told residents to stop putting wire mesh on their garden shed windows (photo)– because they could be sued if a burglar is injured.
Some have been warned by police that using wire mesh to reinforce shed windows was ''dangerous’’ and could lead to criminals claiming compensation if they ''hurt themselves’’.
Thieves target sheds to steal lawnmowers, power drills, bicycles and a variety of DIY tools.
Thomas Cooper, of Tatsfield, Surrey, used wire mesh to protect three of his garden sheds after two break-ins over the past four years. He decided to take action after reports of a rise in garden raids in the area.
Mr Cooper said: “I reinforced my shed windows with wire mesh, but was told by the police I had to be very careful because thieves can actually sue you if they get hurt.
''It is ridiculous that the law protects them even though they are breaking it.”
Last month Samantha Cullum, a mother-of-three, of Brasted, near Sevenoaks in Kent, had her whole shed stolen when thieves lifted it on to a lorry.
She said: “We had some tools stolen every now and again, but this time they took the entire shed – I couldn’t believe it.”
Dave Bishop, of Tatsfield, said: “The law is so stupid, and you never know what decision judges are going to make. People do get fed up with these people trying to help themselves to things which you have worked hard to gather together.”
Pc John Lee, a crime reduction officer for Tandridge, said: “We are constantly advising home owners to protect their property and the contents of their shed or garage, however, a commonsense approach needs to be taken.
“To properly secure your sheds, Surrey Police strongly advises people to invest in items such as good-quality locks and bolts, and not to resort to homemade devices, as this could cause injury.”
A police source added: “Homemade devices can cause injury and there have been cases where criminals have sued for injuries they have suffered while committing a criminal act.
''We are advising people to do whatever they can to protect their property, but wire mesh is not one of the suggestions we would make.”
South Korean Govt: ‘Wear Thick Underwear’
As of January 17th, public servants in South Korea must turn off all heating devices from 11:00am to 12:00am and 5:00pm to 6:00pm. In addition, at all other times the heating cannot be set any higher than 18-degrees Celsius, or 64-degrees Fahrenheit.
It’s an emergency plan designed to prevent a “severe electricity shortage,” ministry official Roh Keon-Ki told Agence France-Presse (AFP) reporters.
The temperature in South Korea has been so cold—earlier this month it dropped to a record low of -17.8-degrees Celsius, or -.04-degrees Fahrenheit, which by the way is cold enough to make even this former-Midwestern chap shiver—that the use of heaters rose to an all-time high.
Ergo, to prevent a possible blackout, which would be devastating, the government is encouraging its employees to be extra frugal with their energy use. Long johns are okay, but thermal underwear is recommended. Suffice it to say, if employees are going to waste energy to stay warm, they better waste their own energy, i.e., batteries.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Six Years Old Girl is World’s Youngest Yoga Instructor
Even more stupefying, the little girl has been teaching yoga to adults at an ashram (yoga retreat), in northern India, for the last two years!
“She’s a fast learner and a perfectionist. She grasps techniques quickly unlike kids her own age, who get bored with something as patience consuming as yoga. Within just six months of her training, she surprised everyone by doing the toughest positions with ease and perfection,” said her trainer, Hari Chetan who set up the retreat some thirty-five years ago.
Shruti begins her daily regimen at 5.30 am, dressed in white leggings and a red t-shirt, her many different students from all ages and walks of life encircling her. They include: businessmen, teachers, housewives and elderly pensioners.
“It feels good when people follow my instructions, I feel like a real teacher… I got interested in yoga after seeing my brother do it. I tried picking it up myself but it was too hard. So I asked my parents to send me to yoga classes,” says Shruti.
This type of talent runs in the family, Her older brother, Harsh Kumar, now 11-years-old, made the Limca Book of Records when he was five years old by learning all 84 yoga positions. He has never been a teacher, however, like his little sister.
Shruti has mastered some of yoga’s most challenging positions. She can hold her entire body on the strength of her little arms and hang her legs right over her head backwards.
Her students are in awe of her capabilities and many have stated that her class has changed their attitudes about coping with life and its many pressures.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
China Sets Record For World’s Longest Sea Bridge
The world’s largest bridge stretches more than 26 miles long and is five miles longer than the Dover-Calais crossing and almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana. This bridge is also 174 times longer than London’s Tower Bridge over the Thames River.
At the cost of $8.5 billion, the bridge is specifically designed to withstand an earthquake of 8 magnitude and tropical typhoons with winds up to 125mph. Initiated back in 2006 with two separate groups of workers building the different ends of the structure, the six-lane expressway stretches from Qingdao to Huangdao and the Pearl River Delta city of Zhuhai.
Slated to carry over 30,000 cars per day when it opens to commuters at the end of 2011, it is expected that this bridge will dramatically reduce travel distance along the route between Qingdao and Huangdao by 30km (more than 18 miles) and shave about 20 minutes off the total travel time.
Although everything went well when construction was completed in December, there were still concerns.
“The computer models and calculations are all very well but you can’t really relax until the two sides are bolted together. Even a few centimeters off would have been a disaster,” commented one engineer.
Fame however, is fleeting, and this bridge will only remain the world’s largest for a few years when it is expected that its length will be bested by still another Chinese bridge that will link southern Guangdong province with Hong Kong and Macau. This one is set for completion in 2016 and will span nearly 50 km (30 miles).
It would seem that famed vaudevillian, Jimmy Durante. was right when he said that “everybody wants to get into the act!”
66 Year-Old Indian Woman gives Birth To Triplets
The two healthy boys and one girl were born this past May at Hisar’s National Fertility Center (NFC).
The babies are the just desserts of the woman’s bitterness against her farmer-turned property owner ex-husband, Deva Singh, who divorced her because she could not give him an heir and remarried two more times to no avail.
“The triplets are a happy coincidence. Bhateri had failed to conceive on two earlier attempts where two embryos were transferred to her womb each time. We made a third attempt with three embryos and were happily surprised when all three became implanted. This is the first documented instance where a 66-year-old woman has nurtured to full term and successfully given birth to three healthy babies,” according to Dr. Anurag Bishnoi of the NFC.
Although an amazing scientific achievement and a first concerning the birth of triplets, it is not a medical breakthrough.
Rajo Devi, a seventy-year-old woman, gave birth 18 months ago to a little girl named Naveen Lohan, with the help of The National Fertility Center, the same doctor and state-of-the-art in-vitro fertilization techniques.
Many childless couples have been granted the ability to conceive under the guidance of Dr. Bishnoi and the NFC.
“More than a hundred women over 50 years of age have successfully given birth at our center and this has been without a single case mortality of either the mother or the child,” Dr. Bishnoi said proudly.
Despite the shadows of problems that can and often do occur with aged parents dying before children are grown and other health issues, bringing a new life into the world is at all times a joyous and miraculous event.
Bhateri’s ex-husband is jubilant about her multiple-birth delivery of that which he so desperately desired at the cost of his wives’ happiness.
Surely somewhere unseen, Bhateri smiles at her victory; that is, if she can find the time in between changing diapers and heating up formula!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Documentary Download: China's Great Wall (2007) 720p HDTVRip AC3
Track 1: AC3 5.1 chs - 384 kbps (English) | Track 2: AC3 2 chs - 256 kbps (Russian)
Genre: Documentary
Directed by: Christian Twente
Part 1. Mongol Invaders
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Tempestt Henderson Addicted to Eating Soap
‘I remember the first time I dipped my fingers into the washing powder,’ she said.
‘I dabbed the powder onto my tongue and it tasted so sweet, and salty…it just felt so right. I was hooked straight away.’
The nursing student says she knew eating soap was dangerous, but ignored the warning labels on the box in favour of licking the deadly powder daily, from the minute she woke up in the morning.
Soon she had moved onto licking the bubbles of soap in the shower, too, a habit that was getting her through up to five bars of soap a week.
‘In the shower, I like to lather up a green bar of soap, and lick the bubbles. And as the soap disintegrates, I pop a tiny amount of the soap into my mouth and suck it. It’s heavenly.
After six months of eating soap, unhappy Tempestt decided to be brave and seek medical advice. She was diagnosed with a rare disorder called PICA, which doctors told her is characterised by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive.
Today, she faces a long road of recovery, but says she hopes she’ll never have to eat soap ever again.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Baby gives thumbs up on ultrasound scan.
When Donna, 29, and partner Simon Biscoe went for a routine 20-week scan they were told its head was unusually elongated and too small.
So they returned to Canterbury Hospital two weeks later to check its development.
The new images showed all was well but they got a surprise message.
Donna, from Whitstable, Kent, said: 'After checking everything was okay the nurse said she would try to get some more photographs of the baby but it was hiding and all she could get was its hand giving the thumbs-up, as if it was trying to tell us that everything was fine.
'The image was quite clear.
'We had both been concerned during the two weeks before I had the third scan but everything is okay.
'We have shown the photograph to family and friends and they all think it is quite apt.'
The ultrasound practitioner for East Kent, Fay Smith, said instances of babies giving hand signals like this were 'not that unusual'.
'You see them sucking their thumbs, doing rude gestures, and in later scans blinking,' she said.
'I often laugh with parents-to-be when babies have got their hands over their private parts.'
The baby is due on May 29.