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Beautiful Photography

2013-02-08T20:23:00.001-08:00

Below are some really stunning pictures!

Food allergies may be caused by pesticides in tap water

2013-02-08T19:59:00.000-08:00

A new study finds that chemicals leached from agricultural pesticides and water treatment processes can lead to food allergies.

With the legions of people suffering from new nut allergies, gluten sensitivities, soy aversion and lactose-intolerance, we’re either becoming an increasingly food-neurotic culture, or food allergies really are on the rise.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports an 18 percent uptick in food allergies between 1997 and 2007. Food allergies now affect a whopping 15 million Americans. But according to a new study published in the December issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, it looks like the increase is more than a hypochondriacal diet fad. Like the aphorism goes, there's something in the water — and that something is pesticides.

The study reported that high levels of the chemical dichlorophenol in the body are associated with food allergies. Dichlorophenol is often put in agricultural pesticides as well as consumer insect and weed control products. It is also used to chlorinate tap water.

"Previous studies have shown that both food allergies and environmental pollution are increasing in the United States," said allergist Elina Jerschow, M.D., M.Sc., ACAAI fellow and lead study author. "The results of our study suggest these two trends might be linked, and that increased use of pesticides and other chemicals is associated with a higher prevalence of food allergies."

She noted that the dichlorophenol-containing pesticides may possibly weaken food tolerance in some people, causing food allergy.

While the results of the study may have people who endure food allergies stocking up on bottled water, simply avoiding tap water may not help. "Other dichlorophenol sources, such as pesticide-treated fruits and vegetables, may play a greater role in causing food allergy," said Jerschow.

unbelievable animals

2013-02-08T19:28:00.002-08:00

Aye-Aye

The aye-aye is a small lemur that lives in Madagascar. This creature would be hard-pressed to win a primate beauty pageant. The average aye-aye has large bulbous eyes — not unlike Gollum from "Lord of the Rings" — huge ears that are more creepy than adorable and nightmarishly long fingers. There is no evolutionary benefit to good looks in the aye-aye line.

To complete this strange package, the aye-aye feeds more like a woodpecker than a primate. The aye-aye taps on trees to find grubs, gnaws a hole into the wood, and uses its freakishly long middle finger — which looks like something Tim Burton might have created — to pull out its dinner.

Weird and wonderful wildlife

With all the bizarre and crazy creatures humans have invented, it's easy to forget that for every unicorn there is a bizarre creature that actually exists. Evolution and niche specialization can create some crazy-looking forms of life. Here are six strange examples.

Frilled shark

The frilled shark is straight out of central casting for prehistoric sharks and has been called a "living fossil" due to its unique and seemingly evolutionarily stunted features. It's not clear just how much direct lineage the frilled shark shares with ancient sharks, but even the possibility of a connection is exciting.

Whatever its origins, the frilled shark is one of the stranger things swimming in the ocean. The frilled shark has been found all over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and seems to prefer feeding near biologically rich upwellings.

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Dumbo octopus

The Dumbo octopus was so named because the fins that grow out of the side of its head resemble the floppy ears of Disney's flying elephant. The Dumbo octopus lives in extremely deep waters (up to three miles down) and looks as if it might be an anime caricature of an octopus.

It has huge eyes that are kind of adorable, and cute little tentacles that seem far too short for its bulbous little body. The Dumbo octopus uses both its tentacles and its Dumbo ears to move around, feeding off small worms, bivalves and crustaceans found on the sea floor.

Blobfish

The blobfish is a rare native of deep waters off Australia and Tasmania. Its choice of living quarters in the deep makes sense ... because this is one strange-looking creature.

The blobfish doesn't have the gas bladder that most other fish have to regulate buoyancy. Instead, it relies on its gelatinous flesh, which is slightly less dense than seawater, allowing it to easily swim around the ocean floor in search of food.

Shoebill

This bird looks like something you might see in a TV commercial — it has a wide, exaggerated beak that makes it look like a creature dreamed up to be the spokesperson for an insurance company.

Though this cartoonish bird looks like it should talk with a Brooklyn accent and bust your chops all day, the shoebill lives in swamps in east Africa and can grow to be nearly five feet tall. With a remaining population of only 5,000 to 8,000 birds, the shoebill is listed as a vulnerable species by BirdLife International.

Mars rover photo teeming with 'UFOs'

2013-02-08T19:21:00.000-08:00

Photoshop filtering and dead pixels from the Curiosity rover cameras have led to a rash of pseudo-photos from the surface of the Red Planet.

According to the fringe sector of the Internet, Mars is practically teeming with aliens.

Since NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet two weeks ago and powered up its cameras, it has already managed to photograph several alleged UFOs and other "anomalies" in the surrounding landscape.

From classic flying saucers to an absurdly out-of-place fossilized human finger, here's a rundown of what UFO believers claim to have found in Curiosity photos so far. [Gallery of Mars 'UFO' Photos]

Horizon anomaly (aka impact cloud)

Speculation about Martians in Curiosity's midst got off to a running start when the very first sequence of photos taken by the rover raised questions. A hazy, distant object mysteriously appeared and then disappeared in consecutive images of the Martian horizon, perplexing even NASA scientists at first.

But the much-discussed "anomaly" turned out not to be a sign of alien activity, but rather the plume of dust kicked up by the sky crane that delivered the rover close to the Martian surface, then veered off and struck the ground some 2,000 feet (600 meters) away.

"We believe we've caught what is the descent stage impact on the Martian surface," said NASA engineer Steven Sell, sky crane specialist on the Curiosity mission.

Flying saucers (aka dead pixels)

In footage posted to YouTube Aug. 18, user "StephenHannardADGUK" applies a series of filters to a Curiosity image of the nearby rim of Gale crater, revealing what he says are four flying saucer-like objects stationed in the sky. More than 700,000 people have since given the video a gander.

"Four objects caught by Mars Curiosity, very difficult to make out on original image so I have used a few filters to highlight," he said in the video description. "What are these four objects? UFOs, Dust particles, or something else? As always you decide."

Experts say the four "objects" are actually just dead pixels in the rover's CCD camera — single points in the camera's imager that have lost functionality and register as white. Marc D'Antonio, a photo and video analyst for MUFON [Mutual UFO Network], told Huffington Post, "I fully concur at this point that these are dead pixels on the imager. All CCD [cameras] have them, and in a bland atmosphere like that at Mars, they would be very obvious as opposed to an active atmosphere like Earth, where they could end up hidden for a long time before anyone noticed them."

Photoshop filtering processes often blend, color-correct or contrast-heighten images in ways that turn single dead pixels into larger, more prominent shapes. In other words, "using a few filters" is exactly what the YouTube user should not have done in trying to clarify the contents of the Curiosity photo.

White dot UFOs (aka Photoshopped)

In a YouTube video that has racked up more than 400,000 views since it was posted by "ParanormalCollection" on Aug. 7, two small white dots trek across the Martian sky in a time-lapse sequence supposedly shot by one of Curiosity's hazard avoidance cameras and then accidentally "leaked" by NASA. The footage would be very curious indeed, and deserving of the widespread media attention it has accrued — if it were real, that is.

The images that appear in the footage are in fact the very first ones released by NASA, on Aug. 5, in which the impact cloud from the sky crane can be seen rising like a plume near the horizon. The difference is that no white dots appear in the original images.

This leaves viewers to contemplate which is more likely: that Curiosity happened to capture UFOs in the very first photos it took of Mars, that NASA removed the UFOs and released the scrubbed photos, then accidentally leaked the originals to "ParanormalCollection" — or that this YouTube user simply took the photos released by NASA, added a sequence of white dots to them in Photoshop, and posted the creation to YouTube? [7 Huge Misconceptions about Aliens]

Ancient finger, shoe, animal (aka rocks)

StephenHannardADGUK, he of dead pixel fame, also stumbled upon a few items that may or may not be leftover props from a David Lynch film miraculously transported to the floor of Mars' Gale Crater. "Mars Curiosty[sp] captures a possible ancient finger, a dome shaped object, a shoe or sandal and a possible Martian creature," Hannard wrote in the video description. "Are these anomalies real, tricks of the light or something else, as always you decide."

When Hannard zooms in on the rocks — which is what we have decided they are — one sees that the finger rock does indeed have a faint, shadowy outline at one end that looks somewhat like a fingernail, and the shoe rock does bear a resemblance to a carelessly overturned sandal. Likewise, a roughly round rock could be described as a dome-shaped object, and a crevice on another boulder does give it the vague look of a grinning Martian animal.

It's the logical leap of deciding that the rocks might actually be these things that most people don't take.

New evidence of the asteroid impact that killed dinosaurs?

2013-02-08T19:18:00.001-08:00

The new extinction date is precise to within 11,000 years.

The idea that a cosmic impact ended the age of dinosaurs in what is now Mexico now has fresh new support, researchers say.

The most recent and most familiar mass extinction is the one that finished the reign of the dinosaurs — the end-Cretaceous or Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, often known as K-T. The only survivors among the dinosaurs are the birds.

Currently, the main suspect behind this catastrophe is a cosmic impact from an asteroid or comet, an idea first proposed by physicist Luis Alvarez and his son geologist Walter Alvarez. Scientists later found that signs of this collision seemed evident near the town of Chicxulub (CHEEK-sheh-loob) in Mexico in the form of a gargantuan crater more than 110 miles (180 kilometers) wide. The explosion, likely caused by an object about 6 miles (10 km) across, would have released as much energy as 100 trillion tons of TNT, more than a billion times more than the atom bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

However, further work suggested the Chicxulub impact occurred either 300,000 years before or 180,000 years after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. As such, researchers have explored other possibilities, including other impact sites, such as thecontroversial Shiva crater in India, or even massive volcanic eruptions, such as those creating the Deccan Flats in India.

Timing of an impact

New findings using high-precision radiometric dating analysis of debris kicked up by the impact now suggest the K-T event and the Chicxulub collision happened no more than 33,000 years apart. In radiometric dating, scientists estimate the ages of samples based on the relative proportions of specific radioactive materials within them. [Wipe Out: History's Most Mysterious Mass Extinctions]

"We've shown the impact and the mass extinction coincided as much as one can possibly demonstrate with existing dating techniques," researcher Paul Renne, a geochronologist and director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California, told LiveScience.

"It's gratifying to see these results, for those of us who've been arguing a long time that there was an impact at the time of this mass extinction," geologist Walter Alvarez at the University of California at Berkeley, who did not participate in this study, told LiveScience. "This research is just a tour de force, a demonstration of really skillful geochronology to resolve time that well."

The fact the impact and mass extinction may have been virtually simultaneous in time supports the idea that the cosmic impact dealt the age of dinosaurs its deathblow.

"The impact was clearly the final straw that pushed Earth past the tipping point," Renne said. "We have shown that these events are synchronous to within a gnat's eyebrow, and therefore, the impact clearly played a major role in extinctions, but it probably wasn't just the impact."

The new extinction date is precise to within 11,000 years.

"When I got started in the field, the error bars on these events were plus or minus a million years," added paleontologist William Clemens at the University of California at Berkeley, who did not participate in this research. "It's an exciting time right now, a lot of which we can attribute to the work that Paul and his colleagues are doing in refining the precision of the time scale with which we work."

Final blow

Although the cosmic impact and mass extinction coincided in time, Renne cautioned this does not mean the impact was the only cause of the die-offs. For instance, dramatic climate swings in the preceding million years, including long cold snaps in the general hothouse environment of the Cretaceous, probably brought many creatures to the brink of extinction. The volcanic eruptions behind the Deccan Traps might be one cause of these climate variations.

"These precursory phenomena made the global ecosystem much more sensitive to even relatively small triggers, so that what otherwise might have been a fairly minor effect shifted the ecosystem into a new state," Renne said.

The cosmic impact then proved the deathblow.

"What we really need to do is to understand better what was going on before the impact — what was the level of ecological stress that existed that allowed the impact to be the straw that broke the camel's back?" Renne said. "We also need better dates for the massive volcanism at the Deccan Flats to better understand when it first started and how fast it occurred."

The Record for the Most Babies Born to One Woman is 69

2012-07-09T15:21:00.000-07:00

The Record for the Most Babies Born to One Woman is 69

Today I found out that the record for most babies born to one woman is 69. Yes, you read that correctly 69!

Who was this amazing woman with apparently a womb of steel and a vagina her husband just couldn’t say no too? We don’t really know. (anti-climactic I know) Her husband is the one who’s name has lived on because of her crazy baby making skills. (feminists of the world unite!) She was the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev a peasant from Shuya, Russia who lived from 1707-1782. We can only speculate how many fire safety ordinances he violated by housing all his progeny in his little peasant sized hovel. Presumably, at some point they also had to choose to feed on the weak ones in order to provide food for the strong.

How did she manage this feat given most women only have about 30-ish years of baby making ability? She gave birth to sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets; so basically a veritable baby making factory who scoffs at “one at a timing” it. Amazingly, 67 of her children survived infancy. No word on whether either of her breasts could say the same.

Now, let’s just take a step back here. She was the “first wife” of Feodor Vassilyev. Seeming to imply he married again; polygamy was not generally practiced at that time in Russia. So we can assume he was only married to one lady at a time. So this guy goes out; shuns wearing tighty whities (presumably); gets married; invests all his money in a baby naming book; then apparently takes every second his wife isn’t pregnant as a personal affront to his manhood; then she presumably kills herself (I mean really, wouldn’t you?) and he then somehow manages to swindle another woman into wanting to be his wife and take on raising his kids? Can you imagine remembering all 67 of their names? Especially considering that woman would also need to deal with the fact that they came in identical sets. I don’t know about you, but my parents have to go through every one of my siblings names before they can correctly say mine when they want to get my attention. That must have taken forever in that family.

Then of course, after old Feodor Vassilyev swindles her into becoming his second wife, he presumably decided to use her vagina as a clown car too. *shudders*

The really amazing thing of it is that with the 67 surviving kids, if each of them had 2 kids (a low number for back then, but we’ll be conservative here) and each of their kids had 2 kids and so on, and we assume about 25-ish years between generations. Then this couple currently has around 70,000 descendants!

Giving Her Oral Sex

2012-07-09T15:16:00.000-07:00

Women often complain about men's ability to perform cunnilingus or, as it's more commonly called, oral sex. There are hundreds of men who write us asking for advice on how to give her oral sex. We can only imagine the millions of others who stand like a possum caught in headlights when it comes to the task. As such, we thought it was time to give readers a more in-depth look into the vagina and the amazing things that guys (and gals) can do to it with their tongues.The following oral sex techniques are a simple guide to teaching all of you the basics of "eating out."

If you're not much of a vaginal vacuum and are hesitant to try oral sex because of odors or whatever other preconceived notions that you have, ensuring that she has just come out of the shower will ease your tension and you'll be able to let loose orally. There are men who stand their ground and absolutely refuse to perform oral sex; we suggest you get over yourself, because your girl likes to receive oral sex as much as you consider a good blow job a part of foreplay.

Tongue To Lips

Any licking, gentle sucking or all-around moisture from the mouth to the vaginal entrance, the labia (lips) or the clitoris will surely make you popular with your flavor of the evening.

When you begin to give her oral sex, it's important to start slowly. Women like it when a man takes the time to appreciate her and her body. What she won't like is an overachiever who jumps right in with an aggressive tongue. Pretend that her entire vagina is an ice-cream cone with three scoops of your favorite flavor; if you don't like ice cream, we're sure you can still appreciate the metaphor. Use your tongue to lick her vagina from its entrance up to the clitoris. Remember to chill out and relax; enjoy yourself and don't get tense.

Move your tongue freely from her inner lips to her outer labia on one side. Once you've done that, draw her lips into your mouth and massage them with your tongue. And since the other side will probably get jealous, move on to the other side afterward.

Oral Exploration

Were you aware that the tongue is the body's strongest muscle? Well imagine what you could do with your tongue if you were giving her oral sex. Since you have more control with your tongue than with your penis, the sensations will drive her crazy.

Not only is your tongue naturally lubricated with saliva, you can maneuver it in ways that a penis never could. So why not use your tongue to have sex with her? Thrust your tongue in and out of her vagina, and take a break from time to time to explore her insides.

While you're roaming around down there, vary your cadence and the firmness of your tongue. Use your firm, flexed tongue for pinpoint accuracy, such as when you circle the clitoris, and use a limber, flat tongue to cover more ground.

Remember to continuously return to her clitoris since most women achieve orgasm through clitoral stimulation -- especially when it comes to oral sex. However, don't apply too much pressure to her clitoris right away because it may irritate her and turn her off. Start out gently and increase pressure and speed according to herbody language.

Above all, have fun down there when you're giving her oral sex, and keep her on her toes (or off as the case may be).

Intense Vaginal Volume

When you have her as hot as a lioness in heat, the following oral sex techniques are going to drive her wild. Once again, make sure to pay attention to her reactions and body language at all times.

With her clitoris still exposed, give it quick little sucks by enveloping it with your mouth momentarily and releasing it. This will definitely have a positive effect on her entire body.

Next, take her clitoris into your mouth and gently suck on it while you simultaneously flick your tongue over and around it. You can perform this oral technique very lightly or aggressively, depending on what she likes.

If you combine these oral sex techniques with your fingers, she will have a mind-blowing orgasm virtually every time.

Some more secrets on giving her oral sex

Use your fingers

There is nothing that a woman likes more than a multitalented man. And if you know how to use both your tongue and fingers at the same time, you will definitely become her oral sex king.

While you're French kissing her clitoris, use your finger to rub it at the same time. If you can rub your stomach and pat your head at the same time, you might want to suck on her clitoris, penetrate her vagina and thrust repeatedly with your fingers.

Be careful not to lose sight of what you're doing because the vagina is a very sensitive area and one wrong move can leave you hung out to dry. Keep up with what you're doing to her. Make sure that you're not thrusting your fingers too deep or too fast. You might also want to use your finger to rub her G-Spot; it's not that big of a mystery as it's a rough-feeling portion of flesh located on the anterior wall of the vagina.

The tongue's the one

Use your tongue freely and don't be afraid to venture into uncharted territory; the more relaxed you are, the more relaxed she will be. And perhaps you weren't aware of this, but if your woman is a gusher, the feeling of her ejaculate flowing all over your mouth is one of the world's greatest aphrodisiacs.

No one likes a slobbering idiot, so don't lose your mind while you're in her sacred garden. Don't start drooling all over her vagina and don't do random things when you're giving her oral sex. Always have a strategy when you're going down and an escape plan, just in case you hit a foul ball.

Lastly, and we can't stress this enough: Never bite any part of the vagina. Not only can it cause physical harm, but you'll probably get thrown into the dog house.

Useful positions

In order to make your oral buffet as comfortable and as enjoyable as possible, have your lady lie on her back with her legs spread apart and her knees slightly bent. Get on your stomach between her legs and slide your arms under her legs. Your head ends up comfortably facing your oral objective. Wrap your arms around her legs and you'll have perfect access to her vagina, which allows you to manipulate it with your fingers.

You can also lie down in the same position and place both of your hands under her behind, elevating it so that it comes directly to your face. Although this requires a little more strength and requires both your hands, it can be very pleasurable for your woman.

Finally, you can bring her behind to the edge of the bed while you give her oral sex. Have her rest her feet on your shoulders or on the edge of the bed as well, and you'll have plenty of access while you kneel in front of her. This position will also give your fingers full access to her vagina.

bon appetit

There you have it -- some of the basics to giving her oral sex. Of course this isn't a definitive oral sex guide, but it's a good place to start. There are plenty of other positions and techniques that you can try; the ones here are just some of the more comfortable positions. Remember: Don't be shy, be gentle, take your time, experiment, and have fun.

Cannibalism In China चीन में नरभक्षण

2012-01-15T03:34:00.000-08:00

These photos below is taken from Penulis Senja Blog. According to the article, the photos were taken in China in one of the village located in interior of China.
Please see the photos below. Just could not believe my own eyes that in this era, cannibalism still exist.

Bollywood wishes new parents Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan for the baby girl

2011-11-16T22:59:00.000-08:00

The Bachchan family is ecstatic about the birth of Abhishek and Aishwarya's first child, a baby girl in Mumbai, Wednesday morning. The news also spread cheer among many Bollywood celebrities, who sent out good wishes for their new bundle of joy.

Former Miss World Aishwarya, 38, was admitted to the Seven Hills hospital in Andheri, Mumbai, Monday night. The child was delivered in a normal manner a few minutes before 10 a.m. Wednesday.

As soon as the baby was born, Abhishek tweeted: "IT'S A GIRL!!!!!! :-)))))", while his father, megastar Amitabh Bachchan, shared his excitement on becoming a grandfather.

"I AM DADA to the cutest baby girl, A dada ji ... Ecstatic," posted the 69-year-old, who already has two grandchildren - Agastya and Navya Naveli, children of his daughter Shweta and son-in-law Nikhil Nanda.

Ash and the baby are doing "great", according to Abhishek, who has been by his wife's side ever since she was admitted to the hospital. He hasn't slept well because he is "too excited".

The Bachchan family has been recieving good wishes for the new addition.

Some family friends like former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, filmmaker Goldie Behl and his wife Sonali Bendre, as well as filmmakers Apoorva Lakhia and Bunty Walia, visited the hospital to meet the 'Baby B'. Singh was one of the first ones to visit the newborn at the hospital, which had tight security arrangements.

Most celebrities like Anupam Kher, Javed Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Karan Johar, Bipasha Basu and Arjun Rampal, as well as melody queen Lata Mangeshkar took to Twitter to shower blessings on the baby girl.

"Bachchan parivaar ko bohot bohot badhaai. Unke ghar mein Lakshmi aayi. (Many congratulations to the Bachchan family. Lakshmi has come into their house)," wrote Mangeshkar, while Johar tweeted: "Congratulations!! Baby B had a baby girl!! @juniorbachchan!!! All the love and happiness...am sure she will be the prettiest girl ever!!!"

Arjun, a father of two daughters, posted: "Congratulations daddy cool @juniorbachchan and the coolest Dadaji @SrBachchan and the most beautiful mommy Ash and the lovely dadi Jayaji."

Both Abhishek and Amitabh have thanked everyone for their wishes.

Aishwarya tied the knot with Abhishek in April 2007, and the event had grabbed a lot of media attention back then.

Ever since then, be it Aishwarya's baby shower, Karva Chauth or Diwali -- all such events at the Bachchan household attracted mass media coverage in the recent past. However, a 10-point advisory issued to TV channel heads by the Broadcasting Editor's Association (BEA) curtailed the electronic news coverage regarding the high-profile childbirth.

Now, Amitabh is expected to address a press conference in Mumbai either Wednesday night or Thursday morning.

5 Youngest Moms in the History

2011-11-03T01:56:00.000-07:00

Linda Medina was the youngest girl ever to give birth. She was just 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days when her 2.7 kg (6.0 lb) son Gerardo was born. Linda got attendance of her parents when they noticed abnormal increase of her belly; she was thought to have had a tumor but when Linda was taken to hospital, there they get to know about her pregnancy. The mystery remains unsolved about the father of Gerardo. Both mother and son died at the age of 40 and 76 respectively.

(age 8, Lima)
The father of Gerardo was never discovered, but this girl was raped by two of her own cousins. She got pregnant and gave birth to a baby weighing 2 kg (4.4 lb) by cesarean section at a hospital in December 2006.

(age 9, Hilda Trujillo)
Hilda Trujillo was third youngest mother to give birth at the age of nine. In November Hilda entered the Maternity Hospital as the patient of Obstetrician Rolando Colareta, underwent examination by a team of 16 obstetricians, gland specialists, radiologists, psychiatrists and general practitioners. They reported her to be normal, only a little older-looking than other girls of her age. After one month, on December 1957 she gave birth to a baby girl. Her 22 year old cousin was arrested, accused of rape. Dr Rolando Colareta who examined her gave reasoning saying “the rape of minors is nothing so unusual here or anywhere else. But of course rape does not mean pregnancy in children so young, except in rare cases”.

(age 9, Phetchabun.Thailand)
Not that long ago in the month of February 2001 Wanwisa Janmuk became youngest Asian mother. World’s forth youngest mother was married to a 26 year old man; by the time of birth mother and father were nine and twenty seven year old respectively.

(age 9, Singapore)
After Thailand, Singapore was second Asian country where a nine year old girl gave birth to a baby. She was student of primary school, had an affair with 14 year old student. Both were alone at home in the absence of their parents and she ended up getting pregnant

5 X 4 Crazy Facts About Human Body

2011-11-03T01:48:00.000-07:00

Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
Babies’ eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph.
Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.
One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.
Women hearts beat faster than men.
In one day your heart beats 100,000 times.
Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.

hindi film raone

2011-10-31T12:27:00.000-07:00

HINDI MOVIE RA ONE

2011-10-31T12:00:00.000-07:00

story begins wid a touch of sci-fic element wer in things in virtuality hold a mere status of reality..it den moves to d house of jeevan shekar(sharukh),,a happy man wid spouse sonia(kareena) nd their son prateik...jeevan is a tamilian married to a north indian girl who lives abroad nd works as a programmer in a gaming company...wen d company decides 2 launch its new game, jeevan comes wid an idea of such a game wer in d antagonist,i.e d villain is more powerful than d hero,,which is his son,prateik's brainchild who has gr8 skill nd passion for gaming..The work for d game progresses nd jeevan is finally succesful in launchin his motion game ra.one,,d game in whch g-one is d hero who has jeevan's avatar in d game..Nw tht's nt all wer it ends..the director then portrays his weaving ability to linkup virtuality nd... more

Outdoor advertising media kathmandu nepal

2011-10-31T05:56:00.000-07:00

The Biggest Ships In The World

2011-10-29T01:40:00.000-07:00

They came after the Titanic, but they are the biggest ships in the world right now. Let’s all hope they won’t share the Titanic destiny.

outdoor advertising media at delhi chandigarh highway no 1 from drishti ...

2011-10-27T06:01:00.000-07:00

Outdoor advertising media kathmandu nepal

2011-10-27T05:22:00.000-07:00

HAPPY DEEPAWALI

2011-10-26T23:48:00.000-07:00

Libyan prime minister confirms Gaddafi killed as Sirte is overrun

2011-10-20T12:32:00.000-07:00

democratic Libya.” He told the Libyan people: “You have won your revolution.”

The dramatic final battle capped a drawn-out fight in which NATO played a key role, bombarding Gaddafi’s forces under an unprecedented U.N. mandate to protect civilians who had risen up against their government. A NATO airstrike appeared to cripple Gaddafi’s convoy early Thursday as it sped out of Sirte, although revolutionary fighters said they were the ones who then moved in and shot the former leader.

Gaddafi, who ruled Libya for 42 years until Tripoli fell in August, was the first leader to die in the Arab Spring uprisings.

The capture of Sirte — and the death of Gaddafi — clear the way for the appointment of a new interim government that is to steer the country toward new elections, expected in eight or nine months.

The new Libyan government will face some of the most daunting challenges of any of the Arab Spring countries. The revolutionaries have pledged to build a democracy in a country that has never had one. Gaddafi had banned opposition parties and a free press and largely ruled single-handedly, even though he shunned official titles.

The confirmation of Gaddafi’s death came after hours of conflicting reports following the final assault on Sirte, Gaddafi’s last refuge about 280 miles east of Tripoli.

Abdulrahman Busin, the military liaison to Libya’s transitional government, said Gaddafi and a number of his allies were trying to leave Sirte when revolutionaries fired on them.

“There was an exchange of fire in which he was injured,” said Busin. The revolutionary forces then captured the former leader, he said.

He said Gaddafi was found with a 9mm pistol and a semiautomatic rifle.

Busin said Gaddafi may have been in a part of the convoy hit by a NATO airstrike. But he added: “Our forces went in and did the rest. He wasn’t killed by NATO.”

It was not immediately clear, however, whether Gaddafi was initially wounded in the airstrike.

Video footage broadcast by CNN showed Gaddafi bloodied but upright and apparently alive when he was first caught by revolutionaries. Later images showed his body inert and stripped of his shirt as he lay on the ground.

Busin predicted that the interim leadership would declare the “full liberation” of Libya within 48 hours, which would trigger the naming of a new temporary government and the preparation of elections.

How to use Female Condom?

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Instruction for use

Open End (Outer Ring)

Closed End (Inner Ring)

The open covers the area around the opening of the vagina. The inner right is used for insertion, and to help hold the condom in place.

Hold the sheath

Hold inner ring between thumb and middle finger.
Squeeze.
Insert the inner right the vagina.

How to insert the condom

Insert the sheath as far as it will go. It's in the right place when you can't feel it. Don't worry it can't go too far, and IT WON'T HURT!

Make sure the placement is correct

Make sure the sheath is not twisted. The outer ring should be outside the vagina.

Removal

Remove before standing up. Squeezed and twist the outer ring. Pull out gently being careful not to spill semen. Throw it in the garbage, not in toilet.
Use condoms only once.

Benefits of Female Condom

Opportunity for women to share the responsibility for the condoms with their partners
A woman may be able to use the female condom if her partner refuses to use the male condom
The female condom will protect against most STDs and pregnancy if used correctly
The FC or FC2 female condom can be inserted up to 8 hours before intercourse so as not to interfere with the moment

The FC and FC2 female condoms are made of polyurethane and nitrile, which are less likely to cause an allergic reaction than latex. These materials can be used with oil-based as well as water-based lubricants. No special storage requirements are needed because polyurethane and nitrile are not affected by changes in temperature and dampness. In addition, these materials are thin and conduct heat well, so sensation is preserved.

Disadvantages of Female Condom

The outer ring or frame is visible outside the vagina, which can make some women feel self-conscious
The FC and FC2 female condoms can make noises during intercourse (adding more lubricant can lessen this problem)
Some women find the female condom hard to insert and to remove
It has a higher failure rate in preventing pregnancy than non-barrier methods such as the pill
It is relatively expensive and relatively limited in availability in some countries
It is recommended that the female condom be used only once

1492: An Ongoing Voyage

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1492. Columbus. The date and the name provoke many questions related to the linking of very different parts of the world, the Western Hemisphere and the Mediterranean. What was life like in those areas before 1492? What spurred European expansion? How did European, African and American peoples react to each other? What were some of the immediate results of these contacts?

1492: An Ongoing Voyage addresses such questions by examining the rich mixture of societies coexisting in five areas of this hemisphere before European arrival. It then surveys the polyglot Mediterranean world at a dynamic turning point in its development.

The exhibition examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. During this period, in the wake of Columbus's voyages, Africans also arrived in the hemisphere, usually as slaves. All of these encounters, some brutal and traumatic, others more gradual, irreversibly changed the way in which peoples in the Americas led their lives.

The dramatic events following 1492 set the stage for numerous cultural interactions in the Americas which are still in progress - a complex and ongoing voyage.

Top-10-startling-facts-Apollo-11s-historic-Moon-mission

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The moment when man first walked on the Moon was watched by half a billion people and was arguably one of the most significant events in human history. Here we reveal 10 surprising facts about the most famous of space missions Apollo 11...
There is only one blurry direct photograph of Neil Armstrong actually on the Moon. All the famous shots are of his fellow spaceman Buzz Aldrin. Mr Aldrin denied speculation that this was because of 'sour grapes' over coming second. He said he had intended to take some shots after the flag planting but they then received an unexpected phone call from Richard Nixon.
Buzz Aldrin's father, Edwin Aldrin, was a good friend of Orville Wright - one of the famous brothers who built and flew the world's first airplane.
Neil Armstrong is visible on the right. This is the only direct shot of him on the lunar surface despite being the first man on the Moon
The Command Module pilot Michael Collins had been originally slated to pilot Apollo 8. However he was replaced by Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks in the film Apollo 13) after he had surgery on his back. He took what would have been Lovell's spot on Apollo 11.
Buzz Aldrin was a firm Presbyterian Christian and had communion on the Moon. However it was kept secret from the public as Nasa was fighting a lawsuit by atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair who objected to the Apollo 8 crew reading from the Book of Genesis. Aldrin's communion kit was prepared by the pastor of his church.
Apollo 11 though a success was not a completely smooth mission. When landing the Eagle, Armstrong had to navigate over an unexpected boulder field, landing the craft with just 20 seconds left of fuel. The astronauts also had to use a biro to replace the re-ignition switch to send them back into space after Aldrin accidentally broke it.
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Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins (r) had been due to fly in Apollo 8, until a bad back caused a reshuffle that meant astronaut Jim Lovell never stepped on the Moon
Armstrong took the first steps on the Moon but Aldrin was the first to pee there. He took a lunar leak into a special bag within his suit.
The pair left behind a retroreflector array which is still used by scientists today to measure the distance between our planet and the Moon. Every day laser beams are shot towards the Moon from the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. Some of these are reflected back by the array and the distance can be calculated by the time this takes.

Buzz Aldrin, seen here on July 21 1969, was the first to relieve himself on the Moon into a special bag in his suit.
Buzz left a small gold olive branch on the Moon, along with an Apollo 1 patch and two Russian cosmonaut medallions to honour those that were killed during the space race. He almost forget to leave them until Armstrong reminded him and he unceremoniously dumped them on his way back into the command module. The pair also left their moon boots and urine bags on the lunar surface.
The American flag they placed near the Command Module was blown over by the downdraft when they launched back into space, according to Buzz Aldrin. In future Apollo missions flags were placed a good distance away.
Buzz, Neil and Michael suffered from excessive and 'fragrant' flatulence caused by hydrogen bubbles in their water.

Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin, lunar module pilot Neil Armstrong and command module pilot Michael Collins by their command module. It was said to smell quite fruity after the trip

A brief history of McDonald's

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A brief history of McDonald's

PHOTO: The first McDonald's was built in 1940 by the McDonald brothers (Dick and Mac).

1954

Ray Kroc became the first franchisee appointed by Mac and Dick McDonald in San Bernardino, California.

1955

Ray Kroc opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois (near Chicago), and the McDonald's Corporation was created.

1957

Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value (Q.S.C. & V.) became the company motto.

1959

The 100th McDonald's opened in Chicago.
PHOTO: The McDonald brothers (Dick right and Mac center) discussing plans with an executive.

1961

Ray Kroc bought all rights to the McDonald's concept from the McDonald's brothers for $2.7 million.

Hamburger University opened in Elk Grove, near Chicago.

1963

One billion hamburgers sold.

The 500th restaurant opened.

The 500th student graduates from Hamburger University.

Ronald McDonald made his debut.

McDonald's net income exceeded $1 million.

1964

Filet-o-Fish sandwich introduced.

1965

McDonald's Corporation went public. Per earning ratio varies from 10 to 22 during year; stock price range, 15 - 33.5.

1966

McDonald's listed on the New York stock exchange on the 7th May.

1967

The first restaurants outside of the USA opened in Canada and Puerto Rico.

1968

The Big Mac was introduced.

The 1,000th restaurant opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.

1970

McDonald's restaurant in every US state.

Ray Cesca (Director of Global Purchasing of the McDonald's Corporation) has admitted that when McDonald's opened stores in Costa Rica in 1970, they were using beef from cattle raised on ex-rainforest land, deforested in the 1950's and 1960's.

New countries - Virgin Islands, Costa Rica.
PHOTO: The first Japanese McDonald's in Tokyo.

1971

The Egg McMuffin sandwich was test marketed in the US as McDonald's first breakfast menu item.

McDonald's Japanese President, Den Fujita, stated "the reason Japanese people are so short and have yellow skins is because they have eaten nothing but fish and rice for two thousand years"; "if we eat McDonald's hamburgers and potatoes for a thousand years we will become taller, our skin become white and our hair blonde".

New countries - Japan, Holland, Australia, Germany, Panama, Guam.

1972

Assets exceeded $500 million and sales surpassed $1 billion.

A new McDonald's restaurant opening every day.

New countries - France, El Salvador.

The 2,000th restaurant opened in Des Plaines, Illinois.

The Quarter Pounder was introduced.

Ray Kroc made a $250,000 donation to the controversial 1972 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon, a donation which was perhaps a subject of investigation during the Watergate corruption scandal. Passages in the 'Behind The Arches' book (written with McDonald's backing and assistance) state that the donation came around the very time that McDonald's franchisees were lobbying to prevent an increase in the minimum wage, and to get legislation (dubbed 'The McDonald's Bill') passed to be able to pay a sub- minimum wage to some young workers.

1973

McDonald's Golden Arches Restaurants Limited founded in UK as a joint venture partnership between the McDonald's Corporation and two businessmen; one British, one American.

New country - Sweden.

Egg McMuffin introduced.

1974

The 3,000th McDonald's restaurant was opened in Woolwich (south east London) in October, the first in the UK. The company admitted that NOBODY went in and later decided to target children with TV ads.

The UK Head Office was sited in Hampstead, North London.

Up to 1974, McDonald's employees in Puerto Rico were unionised, but the company was sold to a new franchisee. A dispute followed, closing all the stores and McDonald's pulled out of Puerto Rico. They reopened in 1980 with non-union labour.

New countries - England, Netherlands, Antilles, Guatemala.

The first Ronald McDonald House opened in Philadelphia.

At a San Francisco Labor Board hearing, McDonald's workers testified that lie-detectors had been used to ask about union sympathies, following which the company was threatened with legal action.
PHOTO: McDonald's buildings have undergone dramatic changes from the first one opened by Kroc in 1955 (top) which is now preserved as a museum, to this ultra modern restaurant opened in 1983 in New Orleans (bottom).

1975

The company's first Drive-Thru opened in Sierra Vista, Arizona.

New countries - Hong Kong, Bahamas, Nicaragua.

Fred Turner becomes Chairman, Ray Kroc Senior Chairman, and Ed Schmitt becomes President.

Broadcast advertising appeared in UK cinemas.

1976

McDonald's first UK TV advertisement was broadcast.

4,000th store opened in Canada.

New countries - Switzerland, New Zealand.

Largest restaurant opens - with 334 seats.

1977

New countries - Ireland, Austria.

Breakfast menu introduced, nationally in America.

1978

The 5,000th restaurant opened in Kanagawa, Japan and it made US $1 million in its first year.

Sundaes introduced in USA.

In one store in Chicago (USA), a majority of McDonald's workers joined a union. The company then took legal action to stop recognition for the union unless they could get a majority in the 8 stores run by the franchisee.

New country - Belgium.

1979

A 7 month strike in Dublin (Ireland) lead to recognition of the ITGWU union. In 1985, two union activists won a victory at a labour court after claiming victimisation and unfair dismissal.

New countries - Brazil and Singapore.

1980

The 6,000th restaurant opened in Munich.

After workers in a store in Detroit (USA) joined a union, the company organised a visit by a top baseball star, staff disco, and 'McBingo' prior to elections for union representation.

First floating restaurant on a steamer in Missouri.

1,000th international restaurant opened.

1981

New countries - Spain, Denmark and Malaysia.

1982

Geoffrey Guiliano, a main Ronald McDonald actor, quit and publicly apologised, stating "I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to concerns who make millions by murdering animals".

7,000th restaurant opened in Washington DC.

McDonald's were responsible for food poisoning outbreak caused by E. Coli bacteria, which affected 47 people in Oregon and Michigan, USA.

Egon Ronay calls McDonald's burgers 'uninspiring'.

Breakfast was introduced to the British menu.
PHOTO: The $40 million 'Hamburger University'.

1983

The McDonald's Corporation became sole owners of McDonald's in the UK. The Company is named McDonald's Hamburgers Limited.

Five consignments of Brazilian beef are secretly imported for McDonald's UK stores.

The 100th UK restaurant opened in Market Street, Manchester.

New country - Norway.

Introduction of Chicken McNuggets in USA.

New Hamburger University campus opens in Oak Brook, Illinois. Set in 80 wooded acres. Training is provided for every level of McDonald's management worldwide. A lodge with 154 rooms in also on the same site.

In Arkansas (USA), the UFCW union, which was interested in recruiting McDonald's workers, was involved in a union dispute at a chicken processing plant supplying McDonald's. The union launched a boycott of McDonald's 'McNuggets' and picketed many of its stores. Stan Stein (McDonald's Head of Personnel and Labour Relations) spent up to '80%' of a whole year fighting the union's campaign.

1984

Founder Ray Kroc dies.

James Huberty shoots 22 people dead at a McDonald's in San Diego (USA).

50 billionth hamburger sold.

Ronald McDonald Children's Charities is founded in his memory to raise funds in support of child welfare.

A McDonald's pamphlet which is distributed to health professionals in the UK states:

"There is a considerable amount of evidence to suggest that many of the diseases which are more common in the western, affluent world - diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and some forms of cancer - are related to diet. The typical western diet is relatively low in dietary fibre (roughage) and high in fat, salt and sugar."

McDonald's now serves 17 million customers a day - equivalent to serving lunch to the entire population of Australia and New Zealand. If McDonald's lined up all the hamburgers sold since 1955, they would:-

Circle the equator 103.75 times;
Reach to the moon and back 5 times.

PHOTO: Ray Kroc demonstrating his fetish for cleanliness.

1985

London Greenpeace (a radical group of civil rights and environmental campaigners, independent of Greenpeace International) launches a campaign intended to expose the reality behind the advertising mask of the fast food chains, including McDonald's.

Sergio Quintana, the sales director of Coop Montecillos (the sole supplier of beef to McDonald's stores in Costa Rica since 1970), stated on camera that his company's beef was being supplied to McDonald's in the USA.

1986

Drive-Thru restaurants opened in UK at Fallowfield, Dudley, Neasden and Coventry.

Four workers in Madrid who had called for union elections were sacked by McDonald's. The company was forced to reinstate the workers after the labour court ruled that the dismissals were illegal.

The 200th UK restaurant opened in lpswich.PICTURE: Cover of the "What's wrong with McDonald's?" factsheet produced by London Greenpeace.

McDonald's became the first UK restaurant group to introduce nutritional information, throughout the country, for the benefit of customers.

London Greenpeace published a 6-sided factsheet entitled "What's Wrong With McDonald's? - Everything They Don't Want You To Know".

The first UK franchisee-operated restaurant opened in Hayes, Middlesex.

The first World Day of Action Against McDonald's was held on 16th October (UN 'World Food Day').

1987

The Attorneys General of Texas, California and New York threatened to sue McDonald's under the consumer protection laws over an advertising campaign claiming that McDonald's food is nutritious. The Attorneys General concluded that the campaign was deceptive because "McDonald's food is, as a whole, not nutritious."

McDonald's is serving 20 million people a day in nearly 10,000 restaurants in 47 countries.

The UK Midlands regional training centre opened in Sutton Coldfield.

McDonald's started legal proceedings against the Transnationals Information Centre (an independent research and action group based in London) over a booklet they produced called "Working for Big Mac" which was highly critical of the company's employment practices. The TIC backed down lacking resources to fight the case to trial, discontinued publication and distribution of the booklet (which was pulped), and the organisation itself went bust.

1988

McDonald's sponsored the Child of Achievement Awards.

CFCs ceased to be used for most of McDonald's styrofoam packaging.

300th UK restaurant opened in Dagenham, Essex.
PHOTO:An ad in a German newspaper which aims to counter criticism that McDonald's is changing German restaurant traditions for the worse.

1989

Italian designer Valentino attempts in a Rome court to stop McDonald's opening near the Piazza di Spagna, complaining of "noise and disgusting odours".

McDonald's is listed on the Frankfurt, Munich, Paris and Tokyo stock exchanges.

The Bournemouth Advertiser (UK) is threatened with a libel action by McDonald's over an article which discussed the captive-bolt method of slaughter for cattle. The newspaper backed down and published an apology.

Michael Quinlan is appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

The UK company's name was changed to McDonald's Restaurants Limited.

McDonald's send undercover private investigators to infiltrate London Greenpeace over a period of 20 months.

McDonald's charity for child welfare fundraising, Ronald McDonald Children's Charities, was registered.

McDonald's Child of Achievement Awards were presented by UK Prime Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher.

The UK Manchester regional training centre was opened.

McDonald's stores in Philadelphia (USA) were independently surveyed and accused of having racist differential wage rates between the inner-city stores (mostly black workers) and the suburbs (mostly white workers).

1990

September - libel writs were served on five supporters of London Greenpeace, three of whom feel unable to fight the case. The McLibel Support Campaign is set up to generate solidarity and financial backing for the McLibel Defendants.

McDonald's opened in Pushkin Square and Gorky Street, Moscow.

McDonald's opened at a UK airport at North Terminal, Gatwick.

The first Ronald McDonald House opened at Guy's Hospital, London.

McDonald's Child of Achievement Awards attended by HRH The Princess of Wales.

1991

McDonald's were responsible for a serious food poisoning outbreak in Preston (UK), when several customers were hospitalised as a result of eating undercooked burgers contaminated by potentially deadly E.Coli 0157H bacteria.

The 150th Ronald McDonald House opened in Paris.

McDonald's opened in Beijing, China.

The 400th UK restaurant (and first in Northern Ireland) is opened in Belfast.

McDonald's opens in Hampstead (North London) despite strong opposition from local residents.
PHOTO: A 1950's newspaper advert.

1992

Mark Hopkins, a McDonald's worker in Manchester (UK), was fatally electrocuted on touching a 'fat filtering unit' in the 'wash-up' area of the store.

The manager of a Newcastle store (UK) was jailed for 6 months for inducing a crew member to phone through a hoax bomb threat to nearby Burger King in order to boost sales at McDonald's.

McDonald's Child of Achievement Awards attended by UK Prime Minister John Major.

McDonald's opened in a railway station at Liverpool Street, London.

A UK Health & Safety Executive report made 23 recommendations for improvements in the safety of employees. One of its conclusions was "The application of McDonald's hustle policy [ie. getting staff to work at speed] in many restaurants was, in effect, putting the service of the customer before the safety of employees."

Visitors to Salisbury Cathedral (UK) are offered two burgers for the price of one if they buy a commemorative parchment scroll. The idea is dropped when the bishop gets back from holiday.

First restaurant in a European hospital opened at Guy's Hospital, London.

1993

The first McDonald's at sea opened aboard the Silja Europa, the world's largest ferry sailing between Stockholm and Helsinki.

The Paris planning authorities refuse permission for a McDonald's under the Eiffel Tower.

The second Ronald McDonald House opened at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool.

500th UK restaurant opened in Notting Hill Gate, London.

First UK operated restaurant on a ship opened on the Stena Sealink ferry "Fantasia" sailing between Dover and Calais.

McDonald's sponsored athletics in the UK through the McDonald's Young Athletes' League and the International invitational meeting the McDonald's Games.

1994

McLibel Trial starts on 28th June.

Restaurants opened in Bahrain, Bulgaria, Egypt, Kuwait, Latvia, Oman, New Caledonia, Trinidad and United Arab Emirates, bringing the total to over 15,000 in 79 countries on 6 continents.

McDonald's celebrated twenty years of operating in the UK.

McDonald's environmental image was revealed to be a sham, and customers being conned when it was discovered that rubbish which customers were asked to put into separated recycling bins throughout New Zealand stores was sent to the tip.

McDonald's achieved the highest ever grade under the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)Quality Safety Audit scheme.

McDonald's was voted the 'Most Parent Friendly' restaurant in the UK for the second successive year by the Tommy's Parent Friendly Campaign, supported by the Daily Telegraph.

Workers in an Ontario store (Canada) joined a union, but the company managed to avoid recognition by ensuring victory in Labour Board sponsored elections.

The McLibel Defendants issue a countersuit for libel against McDonald's over the company's accusation in a leaflet that they are telling lies.

Five McDonald's managers are arrested in Lyon, France for trying to rig union elections.

On 1st October, McDonald's UK executives held a celebration along with a jazz band and clown at their Woolwich store to mark 20 years since this first store opened in the UK. Twenty five London Greenpeace and McLibel supporters gathered with a banner reading "20 Years of McGarbage" and handed out 4000 "What's Wrong With McDonald's?" leaflets to passers-by.

In October, there is an demonstration at McDonald's European headquarters in London where sackfuls of the company's litter picked up off the streets are returned. 500 people attend the National March Against McDonald's through central London to protest against the company's exploitation of people, animals and the environment.

The company threatens legal action against a topless restaurant in Australia called "McTits".PHOTO:An ad in a German newspaper which aims to counter criticism that McDonald's is changing German restaurant traditions for the worse.

1995

McLibel Trial becomes the longest libel trial in British history on Day 102 in March.

On 15th April, there were international protests to mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of the world's first store of the McDonald's Corporation, and to celebrate 10 years of co-ordinated international resistance to McDonald's.

On the first anniversary of the McLibel Trial (28th June), it becomes known that McDonald's had initiated secret settlement negotiations and had twice flown members of their US Board of Directors to London to meet with the McLibel Defendants in an attempt to bring the case to an end.

12th October, the third anniversary of the death of Mark Hopkins, was a Day of Solidarity With McDonald's Workers in the UK.

On 16th October, the 11th annual Worldwide Day of Action Against McDonald's, there were protests in at least 20 countries. In the UK, at least 250 of the company's 600 stores were leafletted.

On 11th December (Day 199 of the trial), the McLibel Trial becomes the longest civil case in English history.

Following widespread opposition by local residents, McDonald's were refused permission to open an outlet at their European headquarters in north London.

1996

February 16th 10am, the McSpotlight website was launched.

In March, the public's intense concern over the links between the cattle disease BSE and its human equivalent CJD forced McDonald's UK to ban British beef. The company did not sell any beef products for a week while supposedly waiting for beef supplies to arrive from other EU countries.

The "Vegetable Deluxe" was launched in the UK.

McDonald's opened stores in India.

McDonald's and Disney announced a deal giving McDonald's exclusive rights to use characters from Disney films in its promotions around the world for 10 years. Commentators called it the biggest global marketing alliance yet devised.

McDonald's opened a store in Belarus, its 100th country.

The movie star Robin Williams turned down a million-pound offer to advertise McDonald's.

McDonald's threatened the owner of a UK sandwich bar called "McMunchies" with legal action for breach of trademark. A retired Scottish school-teacher called Ronald McDonald, and the chief of the McDonald clan in Scotland were both outraged at this further attempt by McDonald's to claim global dominion over the prefix "Mc" and the name "McDonald" which has been an Irish and Scottish family name for centuries.

The Supreme Court of Denmark ruled against McDonald's claim that a sausage stand called "McAllan's" was in breach of its trademark.

Following widespread opposition by local residents in Winchmore Hill (north London) which put a lot of pressure on the local MP (Michael Portillo, the Defence Secretary), McDonald's were refused permission to convert the local Conservative Association HQ into a Drive-Thru.

McDonald's sued for breach of trademark a Jamaican fast-food company (called the McDonald's Corporation Limited) which had been operating in Jamaica since the early 1970's. The Jamaican company succeeded in getting information from the McLibel Trial taken from the Internet ruled admissible in the case, and in getting an order barring McDonald's from opening stores in the country until the courtcase was completed.

McDonald's succeeded in its trademark battle in South Africa, when an appeal court prohibited competitors from using its name and the golden arches symbol.

McDonald's began spending $200 million on a promotional blitz in the USA & Canada to lure adults to visit their outlets. This included the launch of the new adult burger, the "Arch Deluxe" in May. Despite this blitz, US sales continued to fall.

The parents of a child, who died from E.Coli 0157 food poisoning after eating McDonald's burgers in Spain and England, began legal proceedings for compensation in the USA. Meanwhile, three children who suffered E.Coli 0157 food poisoning in England also from McDonald's burgers were granted legal aid to sue McDonald's and their supplier McKey's.

McDonald's opened the world's first fast-food ski-through in the Lindvallen resort (Sweden).

The McLibel Trial became the longest trial of any kind in English legal history in November. The evidence was completed in July, and the closing speeches in December, but the Judge reserved his Judgment until the following year.PHOTO: Ray Kroc

History of KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken

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Take a trip down KFC's memory lane. You'll see that Colonel Sanders' spirit and heritage are reflected in every aspect of KFC's brand identity - from our world-recognized logo to our world-renowned recipes.
9/9/1890
Harland Sanders is born just outside Henryville, Indiana.
1900-1924
Harland Sanders holds a variety of jobs including: farm hand, streetcar conductor, army private in Cuba, blacksmith's helper, railyard fireman, insurance salesman, tire salesman and service station operator for Standard Oil.
1930
In the midst of the depression, Harland Sanders opens his first restaurant in the small front room of a gas station in Corbin, Kentucky. Sanders serves as station operator, chief cook and cashier and names the dining area "Sanders Court & Café."
1936
Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon makes Harland Sanders an honorary Kentucky Colonel in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine.
1937
The Sanders Court & Café adds a motel and expands the restaurant to 142 seats.
1939
The Sanders Court & Café is first listed in Duncan Hines' "Adventures in Good Eating."
Fire destroys The Sanders Court & Café, but it is rebuilt and reopened.
The pressure cooker is introduced. Soon thereafter Colonel Sanders begins using it to fry his chicken to give customers fresh chicken, faster.
1940
Birthdate of the Original Recipe
1949
Sanders marries Claudia Price.
1952
The Colonel begins actively franchising his chicken business by traveling from town to town and cooking batches of chicken for restaurant owners and employees.
The Colonel awards Pete Harman of Salt Lake City with the first KFC franchise. A handshake agreement stipulates a payment of a nickel to Sanders for each chicken sold.
1955
An interstate highway is built to bypass Corbin, Kentucky. Sanders sells the service station on the same day that he receives his first social security check for $105. After paying debts owed, he is virtually broke. He decides to go on the road to sell his Secret Recipe to restaurants.
1957
Kentucky Fried Chicken first sold in buckets
1960
The Colonel's hard work on the road begins to pay off and there are 190 KFC franchisees and 400 franchise units in the U.S. and Canada.
1964
Kentucky Fried Chicken has more than 600 franchised outlets in the United States, Canada and the first overseas outlet, in England.
Sanders sells his interest in the U.S. company for $2 million to a group of investors headed by John Y. Brown Jr., future governor of Kentucky. The Colonel remains a public spokesman for the company.
1965
Colonel Sanders receives the Horatio Alger Award from the American Schools and Colleges Association.
1966
The Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation goes public.
1969
The Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
1971
More than 3,500 franchised and company-owned restaurants are in worldwide operation when Heublein Inc. acquires KFC Corporation.
1976
An independent survey ranks the Colonel as the world's second most recognizable celebrity.
1977
Colonel Sanders speaks before a U.S. Congressional Committee on Aging.
1979
KFC cooks up 2.7 billion pieces of chicken. There are approximately 6,000 KFC restaurants worldwide with sales of more than $2 billion.
12/16/1980
Colonel Harland Sanders, who came to symbolize quality in the food industry, dies after being stricken with leukemia. Flags on all Kentucky state buildings fly at half-staff for four days.
1982
Kentucky Fried Chicken becomes a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. (now RJR Nabisco, Inc.) when Heublein, Inc. is acquired by Reynolds.
1986
PepsiCo, Inc. acquires KFC from RJR Nabisco, Inc.
1997
PepsiCo, Inc. announces the spin-off of its quick service restaurants - KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut - into Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc.
2002
Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., the world's largest restaurant company, changes its corporate name to YUM! Brands, Inc. In addition to KFC, the company owns A&W® All-American Food® Restaurants, Long John Silvers®, Pizza Hut® and Taco Bell® restaurants.
2006
More than a billion of the Colonel's "finger lickin' good" chicken dinners are served annually in more than 80 countries and territories around the world.
2007
KFC proudly introduces a new recipe that keeps the Colonel's 11 herbs and spices and finger-lickin' flavor, but contains Zero Grams of Trans Fat per serving thanks to new cooking oil.
2008
The Colonel has a new look! KFC updates one of the most recognized, respected and beloved brand icons with a new logo. The new logo depicts Colonel Sanders with his signature string tie, but for the first time, replaces his classic white, double-breasted suit with a red apron. The apron symbolizes the home-style culinary heritage of the brand and reminds customers that KFC is always in the kitchen cooking delicious, high-quality, freshly prepared chicken by hand, just the way Colonel Sanders did 50 years ago.
2009
KFC introduces Kentucky Grilled Chicken™ - a better-for-you option for health conscious consumers who love the flavor of KFC. Kentucky Grilled Chicken has less calories, fat and sodium than KFC’s Original Recipe® chicken, without sacrificing the great taste of KFC.

Human and Robots: Visions of the Future

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The future is not written yet and who knows whether robots are dangerous or not. What is for sure is thathumans, being the curious beings, will develop new advanced generations of robots.

It happens so that people and robots go together in this life side by side, in some spheres of life they are even interchangeable and who knows into what this opposition “Human and Robots” will translate. Robots and humans that live and prosper together…Or robots will realize they don’t need that much…

For now it is up to out fantasy to express what we think will happen in human-robot relations in the future. This is a collection of 3d computer generated images of various creative 3d artists that shows their vision. The level of detail of these computer graphics shows that our technology will lead us to the point where these fantastic photographs will be the reality.

PERSONAL ROBOT 04, AUTHOR: FRANZ STEINER (SOFTWARE: 3DS MAX)

Who will win in this game of chess? When there is the opposition of the mechanical creature and the human intellect it is not easy to predict the outcome of the game. You can make books, but you will never be sure about the results, they are unpredictable.

PERSONAL ROBOT 08, AUTHOR: FRANZ STEINER (SOFTWARE: 3DS MAX)

In the process of the humming work robots can be of a great use for people. With them less time would be spend for the most complicated tasks and the crunch times would take place not so often. The only question that is left â€“ to find such a robot.

PERSONAL ROBOT 02, AUTHOR: FRANZ STEINER

I’m not sure that it is more pleasant to work in the company of robots, but it definitely has certain advantages. One of the main is the high efficiency of the process of work, furthermore not a lot of time is spent for the idle talks, spreading silly rumors and gossiping.

PERSONAL ROBOT 06, AUTHOR: FRANZ STEINER (SOFTWARE: 3DS MAX)

This robot looks like a housekeeper who takes care of everything around. In its duties are household activities and it copes with all the everyday duties without any difficulties in a short time and without procrastinations.

MECHA, AUTHOR: TINYPANTS

This robot looks like the one that was made either in correspondence to the model of a human being or using the humanâ€™s corpus as the basis. A little bit creepy and at the same time intriguing. Anyway, the excellent model and the great work!

I’M ROBOT, AUTHOR: WIDYANTARA

Some time ago, when I was a human being I was dreaming about the perennial youth, the thoughts that were so peculiar for every woman. My dreams turned into life immediately after my passing and I have obtained the desired eternity: now I’m a robot.

PERSONAL ROBOT 07, AUTHOR: FRANZ STEINER (SOFTWARE: 3DS MAX)

When you touch gently the lips of your beloved your heart begins to beat speedily, the mind is hazed with pleasant feelings and you fly away. These minutes can fly not so that you’d notice, but they are so sweet and inimitable.

PERSONAL ROBOT 05, AUTHOR: FRANZ STEINER (SOFTWARE: 3DS MAX)

Love is a curious thing, one never knows when it happens so that you will be overtaken with this feeling and who will be the matter of your sleepless nights. It can be a bonny girl from the next door, a handsome boy from the night-club or even a cyber creature.

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