"In both surveys, the stronger the emotional connection, the better the sex. This is true from the beginning of a relationship for women, and increasingly true for men as a relationship continues." (Washington Post)The Washington Post analyses the findings of the latest Durex Global Sex Survey and Viagra manufacturer Pfizer's survey from last year.
"It doesn't actually develop the muscles as such; it just sort of sits in the tissues and makes them larger. One of the main problems people have with this is deformity as gravity plays its part, giving you droops within your muscles." (Sunday Times) Liverpool public health expert Jim McVeigh warns bodybuilders against sing new 'popeye' muscle enhancing oil product Synthol.
- http://www.zoraskingdom.freeserve.co.uk (Elephant Man & Other Medical Anomalies:.'John Merrick: 'I went to school like other children until I was about 11 or 12 years of age, when the greatest misfortune of my life occurred, namely the death of my mother. Peace to her, she was a good mother to me.... .....Together with my deformities, she was the means of making my life a perfect misery. I was taunted and sneered at so that I would not go home to my meals, and used to stay in the streets with a hungry belly rather than return for anything to eat . . .')
- http://www.jyi.org/news/nb.php?id=361 ('The worm Wuchereria bancrofti, or threadworm, causes elephantitis by growing in a host's lymph nodes. The human body reacts by trying to slow down the flow of lymphatic fluid through inflammation; unfortunately, this also causes the legs, arms, and genitals to swell to "elephant" sizes . . .')
its was preety cool video but when I kept mahself inplace of that guy I couldn't even think of going in the cage..... LOL!!!!! I ain't coward though..........
To change the topic a little bit, this titbit is about a possible case of "My girl, where did you sleep last night?" :P
Dog has kitten
A dog has become a local celebrity in a Chinese village after she reportedly gave birth to a kitten.
Hua Chengpeng, of Huayang village, Jiangyan city, told People's Daily that the unlikely animal was the third 'puppy' in his pet's litter.
"The first two puppies the dog produced were both normal, but when the third baby came, the whole family was very surprised to see a cat-like creature. It is a cat, not a dog at all," he said.
Local residents have been flocking to his house to see the 'kitten' which local vets say is really a puppy which looks like a cat because of a gene mutation. It apparently yaps like a puppy.
Hua says his son brought the dog home from Liaoning city, where he had been working, a year ago.
Water supplying Rome's world-famous Trevi Fountain was cut off when a builder across town damaged a 2,000-year-old pipe, the local water company said on Wednesday.
Water had been flowing into central Rome through the "aqueduct of the virgin" since 19 BC, but it mysteriously dried up earlier this month, cutting supplies to several fountains, including the Baroque masterpiece Trevi.
A search using a waterborne video camera through the ancient pipe tracked the blockage to a house in the high-end Parioli neighbourhood on the other side of the Villa Borghese park, where builders were making a private underground car park.
A spokesman for the ACEA water company said the builder had broken the pipe, then tried to mend it with concrete, but instead had filled it in. "We're undergoing technical checks and reckon it will take a couple of months to repair," he said.
Tourists at Trevi -- where Anita Ekberg frolicked in the 1960s film La Dolce Vita -- did not notice the damage as the fountain was on recycle mode rather than drawing water direct from the pipe.
But many smaller Rome fountains spluttered to a halt and the Trevi Fountain itself will soon need to have its water replaced.
While ACEA works on repairing the pipe -- and seeks damages against the builder -- it will divert water from another, younger pipe. The "aqueduct of Paul" has been bringing water to Rome from a lake north of the city only since 2 AD.
British striker sacked by Singapore club for swearing
S-League striker Kim Grant has lodged a complaint with soccer's world governing body FIFA and the Singapore FA after being sacked by his club for swearing.
The former Charlton Athletic front man was shown the door by Geylang United for indiscipline, local media reported.
"Grant breached the rules when he used the language at the office in front of a few other players as well as other staff," Geylang general manager Ong Yeok Phee told Singapore's Today tabloid.
"The vulgarity was targeted at the club... we felt it was unacceptable."
Englishman Grant said he had lost his temper following a spat over his home leave entitlement.
"I admitted it was an error and I apologised for it," said the 34-year-old. "It is part of my culture and I did not say it to anyone's face.
"I looked down and exclaimed angrily. I did not think it would hurt anyone."
An Australian man was attacked with a sawfish snout during a burglary in the northern state of Queensland, police said.
Police said two thieves broke into a caravan at Bundaberg in southeast Queensland Tuesday night and attacked the 40-year-old occupant with the fish snout, a length of cartilage with a row of serrated teeth around its outside edge.
The victim suffered cuts to his back, hands and arms in the attack and was treated by paramedics after the assailants fled, they said.
Police later said they had dropped their investigation of the case after the victim withdrew his complaint for reasons that were not made public.
They did not say whether the attackers happened across the sawfish bill in the caravan or deliberately brought it with them as a means of subduing their victim.
Sawfish are a type of ray with a prominent saw-like snout that is used to search the seabed for crustaceans and other prey. They are listed as endangered in Australia.
HAHAHAHAHAHA......captain, that's weird! isn't cat too small for a doggy :D..just a thought re kya ajha HAHA.....
the video posted by nightwish is freaking scary...the wounded must be the lion's master i guess who was caught up with a surprise attack?... never trust lions or any wild animals for that matter.......not even wild dogs (non-loote ones :P)....
meanwhile i got hold of this video where a lion eats a man...
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One Staten Island politician apparently doesn't have a sweet tooth for a locally-made vanilla ice cream with brownie chunks and cherries.
That's because the ice cream in question, marketed under the moniker "Staten Island Landfill," is "insulting and derogatory," borough president James Molinaro wrote in a letter on his Web site, in which he calls for a boycott of the treat, which is also packed with heart-shaped chocolate "crunchies" and fudge.
"The stereotyping of our community is as ignorant as it is hurtful," the infuriated politician wrote. "Even the most basic research effort would easily reveal the positive qualities that truly define our community."
For decades, until it closed in 2001, the city carted its refuse to a landfill in Staten Island, which residents there despised. Molinaro wrote that the borough has consistently been named the "greenest, cleanest and safest."
Kim and Scott Myles, the Queens couple who founded 5 Boroughs Ice Cream, which produces "Staten Island Landfill," said they intended no harm with the moniker.
Kim Myles, 33, told the Daily News in Wednesday's edition that it is a "flavor with heart."
The company markets other city-based ice cream flavors, including "Jackson Heights Mangodesh," "South Bronx Cha Cha Chocolate" and even "Upper East Side Rich White Vanilla."
The chairman of the upper East Side Community Board 8, David Liston, said if the ice cream was good, he would eat it.
Those who tried the Landfill ice cream said the name wasn't a big deal.
"It's not like we'll be expecting to see a syringe or a rubber boot in there," said Joe Melendez, an ironworker from Brooklyn.
The Staten Island borough president has offered an alternate name for a Staten Island ice cream — "Ferry Berry," after the Staten Island Ferry.
Capn' I think that has fraud written all over it. I saw in the newpaper this AM. It is impossible to have that happen by the laws of Nature. a submissive dog to a cat ? Nah !! its impossible to make them mate.
Police blame a woman named Butts for stealing toilet paper from a central Iowa courthouse, and while they're chuckling, the theft charge could put her in prison.
"She's facing potentially three years of incarceration for three rolls of toilet paper," Chief Lon Walker said, stifling a laugh as he talked to KCCI-TV about Suzanne Marie Butts. "See, I can't say it with a straight face."
Workers had noticed the rolls disappearing from the Marshall County Courthouse much faster than usual, Walker said.
Butts, 38, was caught last week after an employee saw her taking three rolls of two-ply tissue from a storage closet, Walker said.
Butts insisted it was the first time she'd pilfered toilet paper, but she declined to answer further questions on her attorney's advice.
The fifth-degree theft charge, a misdemeanor, normally carries a sentence of less than a year in jail. But Butts could face more time if convicted under the state's habitual offender law because she has prior theft convictions.
Walker did not know why Butts was at the courthouse, but said that she did not work there.
19th-Century Weapon Found in Whale By ERIN CONROY Associated Press Writer BOSTON -- A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt -- more than a century ago. Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3 1/2-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old.
"No other finding has been this precise," said John Bockstoce, an adjunct curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Calculating a whale's age can be difficult, and is usually gauged by amino acids in the eye lenses. It's rare to find one that has lived more than a century, but experts say the oldest were close to 200 years old.
The bomb lance fragment, lodged in a bone between the whale's neck and shoulder blade, was likely manufactured in New Bedford, on the southeast coast of Massachusetts, a major whaling center at that time, Bockstoce said.
It was probably shot at the whale from a heavy shoulder gun around 1890. The small metal cylinder was filled with explosives fitted with a time-delay fuse so it would explode seconds after it was shot into the whale. The bomb lance was meant to kill the whale immediately and prevent it from escaping.
The device exploded and probably injured the whale, Bockstoce said.
"It probably hurt the whale, or annoyed him, but it hit him in a non-lethal place," he said. "He couldn't have been that bothered if he lived for another 100 years."
The whale harkens back to far different era. If 130 years old, it would have been born in 1877, the year Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as president, when federal Reconstruction troops withdrew from the South and when Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention, the phonograph.
The 49-foot male whale died when it was shot with a similar projectile last month, and the older device was found buried beneath its blubber as hunters carved it with a chain saw for harvesting.
"It's unusual to find old things like that in whales, and I knew immediately that it was quite old by its shape," said Craig George, a wildlife biologist for the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, who was called down to the site soon after it was found.
The revelation led George to return to a similar piece found in a whale hunted near St. Lawrence Island in 1980, which he sent to Bockstoce to compare.
"We didn't make anything of it at the time, and no one had any idea about their lifespan, or speculated that a bowhead could be that old," George said.
Bockstoce said he was impressed by notches carved into the head of the arrow used in the 19th century hunt, a traditional way for the Alaskan hunters to indicate ownership of the whale.
Whaling has always been a prominent source of food for Alaskans, and is monitored by the International Whaling Commission. A hunting quota for the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission was recently renewed, allowing 255 whales to be harvested by 10 Alaskan villages over five years.
But for the blubber, it would have been sushi! :) A case for obesity, huh? :P :D
As for the "kuppy" or " pitten", if true, only a mutation could explain it. And boy what a mutation that would be! :P
SNDY - Funny.
Nightwish - Geez, I am done with watching lion videos for a week :P :D
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Here's some serious stuff:
Economists miss the boat in ignoring globalization's impact
"We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master, and a worse religion." - Amory Lovins
If you do much of your work on a computer, whether working at home or in an office, you might feel that you're part of the economic avant-garde.
Indeed, you are. In fact, you're in the front ranks of the next sector moving on . . . to another country. If your job could possibly be done at home, does it really matter if the home is in Boston or Belfast or Singapore? You are a part of the Almost Gone economy.
What got me thinking about jobs with one foot in the ocean was seeing that a few economists have finally come around to wondering about the impact of globalization on American workers. In fact, one prominent practitioner of the dismal science, Alan Blinder, made it personal this year. He put together a list of "highly offshorable" jobs and there on his list was economists.
(Envisioning how they'd move overseas: Financial firms could hire consulting firms staffed by Indian and Chinese economists. And someday, when we moved past the greatest barrier to free trade ever erected, faculty tenure, classes would be online from the London School of Economics.)
Yes, the invisible hand has been replaced by the invisible hook, slipping into the collar of those who've been telling us for decades that the freer the trade the better off we all are.
Also on Blinder's list were accounting clerks, computer programmers, actuaries, film editors, mathematicians, graphic designers, and on and on. If it can be done on a computer, it's part of the Almost Gone economy. ("Newspaper columnist" is not on the list, by the way. I suspect that's only because there's not enough money in it.)
So what have economists done to help? They yammer on about "comparative advantage," that old argument that if each country does what it is naturally most suited to do, that the world will be a better, more prosperous place.
Okay, but here's the question: What is the comparative advantage of the United States? There was a time when we were out front because of our technology, our collective knowledge, our access to capital of both the monetary and intellectual variety. That advantage we have given away.
Who's the tallest of them all? A tit bit about height and power in US politics:
American presidential candidates Height is might
May 23rd 2007 From Economist.com
IT IS a myth that the taller guy always wins the presidential race. Al Gore (6' and a bit) and John Kerry (a looming 6'4') both looked down on George Bush (5'11'), but lost to him. Yet height does triumph more often than not. Over the past century or so, once the race is down to two contenders, the taller man has won on 16 occasions and the shorter only eight times.
For 2008 one would think that the Republicans' lofty Fred Thompson has a decent shout, assuming he will declare himself a contender. John McCain, somewhat vertically challenged, may struggle. The Democrats' Barack Obama is helpfully tall. What of Hillary Clinton? We have given her an extra five inches in our graphic—the difference between the average American man and woman—which lifts her above, by a nose, the overall front-runner, Rudy Giuliani.
A celebrity chef is hoping to persuade Indians to pop out for an "English" when they are hungry.
Manju Malhi is to present a 40-part television series in Delhi promoting British cuisine, reports the BBC.
She is making traditional dishes like shepherd's pie, bangers and mash, and fish and chips - with a few extra spices to please Indian tastebuds.
Ms Malhi said: "Many people say if it doesn't have chillies in it, it's not worth eating, but I don't believe in that. Sometimes if you eat spicy food all the time, you want something that's a little blander.
"I've made mango crumble, the crew here loved the shepherd's pie - they never knew a British dish could taste like that and they were amazed.
"I've made bangers and mash, the bread and butter pudding has gone down very well too. But Welsh rarebit - they weren't too keen on, it's just cheese-on-toast, they say, even though there is a fine art to making it."
To make the food more palatable, Ms Malhi has been modifying her dishes. So fish and chips is made with a pinch of turmeric and a hint of chilli powder to give it a bit of a kick.
"I have turned the whole process around - in Britain curry is diluted to make it less spicy for the British taste buds, here I'm adding spices to English dishes to make them more acceptable."
Ms Malhi has been brought to India by the Delhi-based NDTV channel to do the series for their yet-to-be-launched lifestyle channel.
"There is not one British restaurant in Delhi, whereas in Britain there are thousands of Indian restaurants, so why this imbalance? I'm trying to say British food is good if you know how to cook it properly."
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