tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35596325196549821522024-02-02T12:53:34.972-08:00WORLD NEWSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559632519654982152.post-85391420775829087112011-10-06T10:44:00.000-07:002011-10-06T10:44:42.565-07:00'Killer Kismot curry' contest leaves two in hospital in Edinburgh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Ambulances were called to the restaurant, with one of those taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI) having to return there within hours of being released, for more treatment.<br /><br />At the heart of the ‘Kismot Killer’ is the bhut jolokia chilli, considered the world’s hottest edible variety – 20 times more potent than some Cayenne peppers.<br /><br />The blood red and brown dish containing three of the chillies gives off an air of menace and the disclaimer gives customers a taste of what they are letting themselves in for.<br /><br />‘Kismot Restaurant will take no responsibilities for the bodily functions after you eat the curry,’ it says. ‘If you die whilst eating or as a direct result of eating the curry, members of the table will share the cost of your Kismot Killer.Kim Curie had to be taken by ambulance to hospital twice in a matter of hours<br /><br />‘If you become ill due to the Kismot Killer or if you find that you are experiencing any problems with your lover(s) then under no circumstances are you entitled to blame Kismot Restaurant or any members of its staff.’<br /><br />Participants in the charity event had to eat spoonfuls of increasing strength ‘Kismot Killer’, with those who took a drink of milk before the end being disqualified.<br /><br />Kim Curie, 21, a Korean exchange student at Edinburgh University, came second in the competition, which was in aid of the Children’s Hospice Association Scotland. She said: ‘I’ve always enjoyed spicy foods and thought this was for a good cause. But it came with a price: I had to be taken to the ERI twice. I have never endured such pain in my life.’<br /><br />Restaurant owner Abdul Ali admitted his surprise at the violent reaction to the dish, especially as the man who finished fifth also ended up in hospital.<br />
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‘People were in agony,’ said Mr Ali, who was criticised by the ambulance
service after the event. ‘I might have overestimated what I could give
them. We made it a bit hotter than it is on the menu. I was a bit
shocked at how people reacted. I think we’ll tone it down in future. We
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Described as a 'visionary' by president Barack Obama and 'brilliant passionate and energetic' in a statement from his company itself, Jobs is widely credited with transforming the world of computer and smartphone technology.<br />
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Apple's iPod also revolutionised the music world by making digital music and music players 'cool' again.<br />
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Microsoft boss Bill Gates also paid tribute to Jobs, who died on Wednesday, saying it had been an 'insanely great honour' to work with him.<br />
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'I will miss Steve immensely,' Gates added.<br />
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In a short tribute, Mr Obama hailed Jobs' contribution to American life in general, saying he 'made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun'.<br />
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'Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it,' the US president added.<br />
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Apple's statement said: 'The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.'<br />
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Tributes and flowers were laid by Apple staff and fans at the company's iconic headquarters in Cupertino, California.<br />
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The Apple boss' death comes just a matter of hours after his company's latest announcement - the next generation iPhone 4S.<br />
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Jobs' impact across different spheres was perhaps encapsulated best by the tributes paid to him from all walks of life.<br />
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American tennis star Serena Williams called Jobs 'the Thomas Edison of our day' in a Twitter post, adding: 'You will be missed but your legend will live forever.'<br />
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Will Findlater, editor of Stuff Magazine, added: 'Steve Jobs created the modern technology landscape. He made gadgets front-page stories and objects of desire, and his uncanny ability to predict what we would need and want from our gadgets led to the products that have defined the 21st century.<br />
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'He understood above all else that it’s not the technology itself, but the way in which you use it that can enhance your life. As a result, he forever changed the way we entertain ourselves, communicate with one another and interact with our devices.'<br />
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Meanwhile, British business magnate Lord Sugar - his own fame born from the computers market - said he was 'gutted' by the news.<br />
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'We started our computer biz at same time and were competitors tru 80's. Great visionary. Sadly missed RIP,' he told his followers.<br />
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Jobs started his career in tech in 1969 when he got a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, before going on to launch the Apple 1 computer with fellow Apple founder Steve Wozniak in 1976. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559632519654982152.post-58765076182344326522011-05-04T08:00:00.001-07:002011-05-04T08:00:57.826-07:00She refused to wash off make-up for two years<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF79jHm_8xrb7J5z4KkEYs0Sat0niiuISBYGu3RuXsQGGtVPpnvR0BO4t21fr8sTVyiDPmjf9Zpm-QaBUCviDBy4IRmAPF6NiE5xlniFOlsJVDt0kktEa71P-8D-DdL8RaaXWt_R3hVes/s1600/20110503.175954_koreangirlmakeup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF79jHm_8xrb7J5z4KkEYs0Sat0niiuISBYGu3RuXsQGGtVPpnvR0BO4t21fr8sTVyiDPmjf9Zpm-QaBUCviDBy4IRmAPF6NiE5xlniFOlsJVDt0kktEa71P-8D-DdL8RaaXWt_R3hVes/s400/20110503.175954_koreangirlmakeup.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">she was dissatisfied with her appearance and wanted </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">cosmetic surgery on 10 areas of her face</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559632519654982152.post-38663314680787727402011-04-24T21:56:00.001-07:002011-04-24T21:56:45.660-07:00Meat Glows Blue in Shanghai<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijJKJXKHQLMXAxU2SsENneY-B1djpMOLUS2CKVyt2EMSSxYAiX25mllEjhsPffWROb59VLZPooJYXkPsdd2JdFta-NwfkGvqjUHr4M6joUWvgMwM2d9OwPCF2LlwyzCrJfmRj9RUojZy4/s1600/Glowing-pork.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijJKJXKHQLMXAxU2SsENneY-B1djpMOLUS2CKVyt2EMSSxYAiX25mllEjhsPffWROb59VLZPooJYXkPsdd2JdFta-NwfkGvqjUHr4M6joUWvgMwM2d9OwPCF2LlwyzCrJfmRj9RUojZy4/s1600/Glowing-pork.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">YOU'RE in the market for a smartphone now, forget it. Cancel your plans, save your money and avoid frustration.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the worse time to buy a smartphone. (Then again, there is no good time to buy anything related to technology because it just becomes old after three months.) It's definitely not the time to be buying a smartphone now if you're living in Southeast Asia, more so if you're in Brunei.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Why? Dual-core phones were announced just this year with LG's Optimus 2X being the first of its kind. What does dual core mean? Imagine this, combine two of the Optimus 2X's, they will be as capable as the Macbook Pro I am using. And then 3D phones are already on the way.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Let's take a look at the breakdown of the major operating systems available.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows Phone 7 (WP7)</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Many thought this was going to be the next hottest thing for mobile devices. But upon release, reviews went from good to bad. It's been almost a year after release and it hasn't really made much of an impact since.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">WP7 came with a semi multi-tasking ability. But the market already had other existing operating systems that were already capable of running a 100 per cent multi-task. WP7 is only planning to introduce the copy-and-paste function, an extremely necessary feature to have, "soon".</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The WP7 apps are not growing as fast as users would like them. You won't see many with these in Brunei, but if you're looking to be unique, then yes, buy WP7.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbian OS</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">People love their Nokia. Nokia phones are solid and cheap. Brunei actually has one of the highest users of Opera Web (percentage wise) which is what Symbian users have for web-surfing. With their new E7 recently announced, (at a whopping $900 retail), I'm not particularly convinced. Nokia just announced recently that they'll be moving towards WP7 this year so Symbian fans won't be very happy about that. Nokia, the biggest user of Symbian, however, promises it will keep updates going for two more years or so, but who would really want to sink their money in a product which might or might not be in use or be relevant in the future.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iOS</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple still refuses to give full Flash support to its devices, insisting HTML5 is the way to go. The iPhone 4 is good but still not good enough to make 3GS users switch, not to mention the ridiculous price tag and oh yeah, iPhone 5 is coming within a few months too.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">You can bet that the new iPhone will be running a dual-core processor seeing that the iPad 2 already has it. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the next iPhone update is just as frustrating as the new iPad changes. When the iPad 2 was launched, I was pretty excited to find out what they had changed. Sadly, Apple is still taking advantage of their consumers. Besides a speed bump and front camera, there isn't much to rave about. It would be hard to switch from an iPad to an iPad 2 that's for sure.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Android</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">This is the first OS to feature a dual-core processor. That's two times the power for your phone. While we haven't seen any of these yet in Brunei, they will definitely be here soon. The latest high-end Android phones in Brunei are the Sony Xperia Arc, HTC Incredible S and Nexus S. All of which are still running a single-core processor. Although the three phones are running Android's latest Gingerbread (very soon for the Incredible S), reviews have been .... sub-par. I played around with the Optimus 2X last week and boy, it was blazing fast. Applications loaded almost instantly while loading web pages in the background and three to four other apps ran simultaneously. A number of dual-core Android phones already released in the West include: Motorola Atrix, Sony Xperia Play and Samsung Galaxy S II. HTC was scheduled recently to host an event to announce their upcoming products just after they showed off the HTC Evo 3D last month.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BlackBerry</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The Torch was released almost six months ago and since everyone is going dual core, so is BB. There have been rumours about what RIM's next phone will be, with many expecting the Torch 2 and Dakota. Both expected to have BlackBerry's OS 6.1. RIM is also hosting BlackBerry World next month, so qwerty keyboard fans will have to sit and wait.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559632519654982152.post-72142418537252291652011-04-18T20:23:00.000-07:002011-04-18T20:23:57.280-07:00Alien body found near UFO crash site in Russia, video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4GgMAxqlQxwccPmgsaSMMHZEkb9AsfthLwRghtzA9T70w2LQ48j-KFS0b3Bi38TmVK9TYh7TdYH7bCEtf97KKsOqd7LA9OGf3FA_6nEAqWGgAkVW1ZTcRXi1xOwxchbrNZ81PfDNbuhs/s1600/crash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4GgMAxqlQxwccPmgsaSMMHZEkb9AsfthLwRghtzA9T70w2LQ48j-KFS0b3Bi38TmVK9TYh7TdYH7bCEtf97KKsOqd7LA9OGf3FA_6nEAqWGgAkVW1ZTcRXi1xOwxchbrNZ81PfDNbuhs/s400/crash.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The event received widespread coverage in Russia and was reported by Inter-fax, Russia's government news agency . In the West the event was completely ignored if not deliberately kept from public view.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">An enormous team of government officials, including military personal, secret service agents and science ministry officials made their was to the UFO crash site within hours of the event occurring.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now it seems a video has been leaked onto the Internet showing a dead Alien (see video below), found in the Republic of Buryatia, not far from the site of the UFO crash. Is the alien seen in this video a survivor of that crash who managed to leave the area only to die as a result of Russia's harsh conditions?Warning: the below video contains graphic images.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div id="bodytext" style="margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px; text-align: justify;">Unpredictable weather coupled with a decline in natural predators is responsible for a recent plague of caterpillars in parts of the country. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Though the phenomenon is centered largely in Probolinggo, East Java, smaller reported outbreaks in Central Java, West Java, Bali and, most recently, Jakarta have prompted fears of a widespread infestation. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">But Aunu Rauf, an entomologist at the Bogor Institute of Agricultural (IPB), says there is no connection between the outbreaks in Probolinggo and those in the other areas. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“There are at least 120,000 types of caterpillars in the world, so those found in Bekasi [West Java] and Probolinggo would be different from each other,” he told the Jakarta Globe on Wednesday. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“I’m sure the ones in Tanjung Duren [West Jakarta], where people have claimed to have been ‘attacked’ by caterpillars, are also a different type.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Since March, millions of hairy caterpillars have cropped up in at least five subdistricts in Probolinggo, invading fields and homes. They have also caused itchy rashes among residents. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">The caterpillars have also destroyed more than 8,800 mango trees — the district’s main agricultural produce. However, the caterpillars in Bekasi were found largely in bushes, while those in Tanjung Duren were found on pine trees. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Basically, in the life cycles of pests, it’s normal for them to increase in number at the start of the dry season — especially caterpillars,” Aunu said, adding that the country was currently in the transition period to the dry season. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“In the current case, however, their numbers exploded because of the prolonged rainy season last year that disrupted [the population growth of] natural predators, particularly birds and other insects. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“In addition, parasitoids, insects similar to wasps whose larvae live within caterpillars as parasites, are for some reason on the decline. Their role as the caterpillars’ natural enemy is very important because they lay their eggs inside the caterpillar, and when those hatch, the larvae eat up the caterpillar from the inside.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Aunu said the outbreak in Probolinggo, coming 70 years after the last similar outbreak there, was remarkable only for the extent of the damage being caused to mango trees. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“These caterpillars have had a tremendous effect — not only economic, from eating all the mango leaves, but also social,” he said. “Because now the villagers are afraid to carry out their regular activities due to all these insects coming into their houses.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Aunu said while it was good for people to be aware of the caterpillar phenomena, including in Tanjung Duren and Bekasi, he stressed it was normal for the caterpillar population to increase at this time of year and should not cause too much concern. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“If these caterpillars were the type that run around fields or enter homes instead of clinging to tree branches, then we would have to take action,” he said.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Hari Sutrisno, an entomologist from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), said that as long as the caterpillars were not harming people, they should be left alone. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“There’s been quite a frenzy over these caterpillars, and it’s all a bit too much,” he said, adding that the reports from Bekasi were particularly exaggerated. “Caterpillars don’t claim lives.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Hari said the best way to deal with the insects was to collect them for incineration rather than use pesticides on them. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Another method is to blend dead caterpillars with water and spray it on the live ones,” he said. “The spray acts as a natural insecticide because caterpillars that die naturally usually contain a virus that’s deadly for the species. It’s a lot better than using pesticides, which can have a long-term impact.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Aunu also cautioned against using pesticides. “Just pick them off the tree branches and get rid of them,” he said. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Don’t use pesticides because you don’t know what other kinds of insects you’ll be killing that serve a function for the tree.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In the Probolinggo case, Aunu said the caterpillar numbers were already declining because most of the insects had already turned into butterflies. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“The only way to deal with them is still through their natural enemies,” he said. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“To do this, put caterpillar pupae into a jar and see whether they become butterflies or wasps. If they turn into butterflies, then we need to kill them. But if you get a wasp, that means they need to be released because parasitoids are present and functioning.” </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Darmuna, a resident of Tanjung Duren, said the problem was that the hairs of the dead caterpillars were being blown around by the wind and making people itchy. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">He added that the outbreak was not a new problem, with a similar event taking place in 2007. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Sholeh, deputy head of a neighborhood unit in Tanjung Duren, suggested the best way to get rid of the pests would be to chop down the 29 pine trees along Jalan Sekretaris on which they were gathered. He also said the trees needed replacing because they were old and several had been uprooted during rainstorms. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“We expected the city administration to take our opinion seriously and take action on this case by chopping down the trees and replacing them with new ones,” he said. “Instead, they just sprayed the lower parts of the trees [with pesticide]. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif, Arial; line-height: 17px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Every day we have to deal with the hairs that make us itchy. We could chop the trees down ourselves, but it’d cost Rp 300,000 [$35] per tree and there are 29 of them. Besides, the administration already has a budget to chop down trees.”</div></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">A video of two children smoking cigarettes on a train has sparked fresh debate about the scale of China's tobacco habit.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The short video shows two young boys - aged approximately three to four years old - laughing as they puff away, with one blowing smoke into the others face.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">When one surprised passenger asks 'Does he know how to smoke?', another replies, 'Yes, you see he can inhale!', according to the website behindthewall.com.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The young pair are stood on the space between two connecting train carriages, which often serves as a smoking area on Chinese trains.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Smoking is a huge problem in China. The cost per year to the health service was more than 70billion yuan last year - approximately £6.5bn.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</h4><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"></ul></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">As much as 30 per cent of China's population smokes - around 300 million people - compared to around 10 million adults in Britain. As many as 53 per cent of adult men smoke in China.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Smoking was banned in public places in Britain came into force on July 1, 2007, and smoking rates have been steadily dropping for decades.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">China first mooted a ban as far back as 1995 and while any such plans have been fiercely opposed, restrictions are extended regularly.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhiI5CHTULIHP8NffEvNjOK3nHb_6eb2bbQMfMGkVO7itvID2SVlqbALD3x8reAptODQGrHgBZV5UvwSZCxLNSbQheGHEdjEJl2EHFCqqgsCORooncWACJFPW-BzPtP70AIG8l7MbD7_w/s1600/pb-110411-divineCigs-cheng-02.photoblog900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhiI5CHTULIHP8NffEvNjOK3nHb_6eb2bbQMfMGkVO7itvID2SVlqbALD3x8reAptODQGrHgBZV5UvwSZCxLNSbQheGHEdjEJl2EHFCqqgsCORooncWACJFPW-BzPtP70AIG8l7MbD7_w/s320/pb-110411-divineCigs-cheng-02.photoblog900.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">An Indonesian patient undergoing treatment for cancer using tobacco is wrapped with an aluminum foil and wet cloth on a copper table at the Griya Balur clinic in Jakarta.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIOC_jk-itGI_GfN-KoKgmmkhWxxPlGVVftqfDRI2sLdjAzdjwCcYTSZKsw9nAltAOhmILnuHTY3xhGQW_ysLnScJt9A7VzR27uib8P8reUUs9oSV4YbFB-qmp6hWZGxPxVM60r7iXPn4/s1600/pb-110411-divineCigs-cheng-03.photoblog900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIOC_jk-itGI_GfN-KoKgmmkhWxxPlGVVftqfDRI2sLdjAzdjwCcYTSZKsw9nAltAOhmILnuHTY3xhGQW_ysLnScJt9A7VzR27uib8P8reUUs9oSV4YbFB-qmp6hWZGxPxVM60r7iXPn4/s400/pb-110411-divineCigs-cheng-03.photoblog900.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">An Indonesian patient undergoing treatment for cancer using tobacco is wrapped with a wet cloth on a copper table at the Griya Balur clinic in Jakarta.</span></span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">JAKARTA (AFP) – An Indonesian woman exhales cigarette smoke into the mouth of a gaunt, naked patient at a Jakarta clinic, where tobacco is openly touted as a cancer cure.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Western patient is suffering from emphysema, a condition she developed from decades of smoking. Along with cancer and autism, it's just one of the ailments the Griya Balur clinic claims it can cure with cigarettes.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"I missed this," says the woman, a regular customer, with an American accent, as Phil Collins?s "I Can Feel It" blares in the background.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Griya Balur would be shut down in many parts of the world, but not in Indonesia, one of the developing-country new frontiers for big tobacco as it seeks to replace its dwindling profits in the health-conscious West.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Long traditions of tobacco use combined with poor regulation and the billions of dollars that flow into government coffers from the tobacco industry mean places like Griya Balur go unchallenged.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The "treatment" for the emphysema sufferer includes the blowing of smoke from "divine cigarettes" infused with "nanotechnology" to remove their cancer-causing "free radicals", through a tube into her diseased lungs.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Smoke is also blown into her ears and nose, while she holds a cup of aspirin over her right eye. The Phil Collins music, it seems, has no curative properties.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Griya Balur founder Dr. Gretha Zahar told AFP she had treated 60,000 people with tobacco smoke over the past decade.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">With a PhD in nanochemistry from Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java, Zahar believes that by manipulating the mercury in tobacco smoking can cure all diseases including cancer, and even reverse the ageing process.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"Mercury is the cause of all illnesses. In my cigarettes -- we call them Divine Cigarettes -- there are scavengers that extract the mercury from the body," she said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">On her website she says she does not need to subject her theories to clinical tests or publish them in peer-reviewed journals, nor does she have the money to "fight" with "Western medical scientists".</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Zahar?s claims were recently presented to the Constitutional Court where farmers and legislators from the tobacco-growing hub of Central Java are challenging a law that recognises the leaf as addictive.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Aris Widodo, a pharmacology professor at Brawijaya University in Malang, East Java, told the court that he had never heard of anyone dying from smoking. On the contrary, he said, smoking was good for you.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"Smoking can eliminate anxiety, sharpen concentration and calm the nerves. It?s a good cheap alternative to other expensive drugs, like Valium," he said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Tobacco is addictive and harmful to health, but Indonesians are taking up the habit in ever larger -- and younger -- numbers, cheered on by the tobacco industry's aggressive marketing.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Addicts puff everywhere from beauty salons to dentist?s waiting rooms. Parents give cigarettes to toddlers to keep them quiet. Cigarettes are handed out to teenagers along with concert tickets. Laws banning public smoking are rarely if ever enforced, and tobacco advertising is ubiquitous on the country's roadsides and television screens.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Cigarettes cost about one dollar for a pack of 20, yet they are often the second biggest item of household expenditure after food for the Southeast Asian country's poorest families.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">According to the World Health Organisation, smoking rates have risen six-fold in Indonesia over the last 40 years. Smoking kills at least 400,000 people every year and another 25,000 die from passive smoking.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Yet Indonesia is the only country in Asia not to have ratified the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which sets policy recommendations and benchmarks for countries concerned about the health impacts of smoking.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Indonesia's biggest cigarette manufacturer, PT HM Sampoerna, is an affiliate of Philip Morris International. British American Tobacco bought Indonesia?s fourth largest cigarette maker, PT Bentoel, for $494 million in 2009.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The government reaps about seven billion dollars a year in excise taxes from the industry, which employs scores of thousands of people around Temanggung in Central Java.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Anti-smoking activists say industry players are dusting off their old marketing playbook to obscure the science and paint smoking as cool, masculine, glamorous and even healthy, especially to women and children.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">During deliberations of smoking regulations in 2009, a clause stating tobacco?s addictiveness went missing from the final draft. The government said the omission was a mere oversight and later reinserted the clause.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Health ministry official Budi Sampurno was questioned but he maintains that tobacco companies had nothing to do with it.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"Never. Is there any proof? We have never been approached by tobacco companies. That is not legal practice," he said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Dr. Hakim Sorimuda Pohan, a Democratic Party legislator who helped draft the Health Law, said there was no doubt big tobacco was behind the shenanigans.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"They did the same thing in 1992. Tobacco companies successfully had the same clause omitted from the law," he said<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">.</span></div><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559632519654982152.post-1637178080150867242011-04-12T19:26:00.000-07:002011-04-12T19:26:14.261-07:00Transsexual leaves boyfriend after he paid $24,000 for her visa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ajIsj2504kROqBkc-alX4hWN5vwn7kqeWc3ckiWzOaNoIywiyhnhdaCv9RkF1oFik2epyhxt1spI-427OZMjHi9WieHkZuwx6kwLsfx9OfQ5DUlvjcrXs_268NhQo7f3l45EPZaw6OA/s1600/20110412.182639_apr1111_fatine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_ajIsj2504kROqBkc-alX4hWN5vwn7kqeWc3ckiWzOaNoIywiyhnhdaCv9RkF1oFik2epyhxt1spI-427OZMjHi9WieHkZuwx6kwLsfx9OfQ5DUlvjcrXs_268NhQo7f3l45EPZaw6OA/s400/20110412.182639_apr1111_fatine.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">She met Ian Young when he was working as a security guard in Malaysia.</span></div><br />
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border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the news site, 38-year-old Fatine, who was born Mohammed Fazdil Min Bahari, told her husband Ian Young that she would be jailed if she returned to Malaysia so he would help her get a visa.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">He also tried to commit suicide and is now rebuilding his life, according to the English news site.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The couple met when Mr Young was working as a security guard in Malaysia. They stayed together even after he discovered that she had been born a male.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Fatine stayed in England on a six-month tourist visa before she was awarded a full visa. She had cited death threats made against her on internet sites to support her visa application.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">After moving out, she stayed with friends in Blackpool and tried to work as a showgirl. After she couldn't get a job, she then went to Manchester and is now living on welfare payments.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"></span></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Sin Chew Daily reported that two women, who weighed 42kg and 47kg, respectively, claimed that they were now suffering from a bacterial infection after they went to a beautician for a slimming injection.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the women had gone for three injections, spending RM4,000 (S$1,700) on the product in November, while the other only received one shot.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">"My skin is swollen and feels itchy. It's painful," said one of them at a press conference organised by Cheras MCA.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Both women, who are in their 20s, alleged that they had spent RM50,000 and RM30,000 each to treat the infection.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">They also claimed that when they confronted the beautician about their condition, she told them that it was normal.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The women had since lodged a report at the Cheras police station.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai had promised a probe into the case.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">-The Star/Asia News Network</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559632519654982152.post-39985784358737252442011-04-11T19:21:00.000-07:002011-04-11T19:21:59.419-07:00Fake egg myth cracked<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaIIfMZPmAaJBk5F4oJ2Bb7J9BKVHMzlgejlLmzg_0_ddxzKYL_wkNultZI9_bjl1Ny7Cz82VV7a0bDM-wtPsPcu-LLyzsMTvSt3cN-oHkvTjuBiDLNrw51b2TANkMtUpTHnhcB7Ihy5g/s1600/15226.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaIIfMZPmAaJBk5F4oJ2Bb7J9BKVHMzlgejlLmzg_0_ddxzKYL_wkNultZI9_bjl1Ny7Cz82VV7a0bDM-wtPsPcu-LLyzsMTvSt3cN-oHkvTjuBiDLNrw51b2TANkMtUpTHnhcB7Ihy5g/s400/15226.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #8c090d; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">The 'fake' eggs are actually Grade E and F eggs normally used as base material for cakes, pastries and by biscuit manufacturers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #8c090d; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Director-general Datuk Dr Abd Aziz Jamaluddin said the Grade E and F eggs, usually sold for below 28 sen (S$0.10) each, were normally used as base material for cakes, pastries and by biscuit manufacturers.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">He said the eggs usually sold to consumers were Grades AA, A, B, C and D.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Dr Abd Aziz also discounted the possibility of fake eggs being sold locally, saying that it was far more costly to produce convincing fakes compared with natural ones.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">"Give me one sample of an egg that is fake and it will make my day. Maybe there are fakes in the market but we have no samples," he told a press conference here yesterday.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Offering an undisclosed monetary reward for anyone who could present a fake egg to the department, Dr Abd Aziz said department enforcement officers nationwide had been told to collect chicken eggs for testing.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">"We want to study the samples for safety and to close the subject on fake eggs once and for all," he added.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Dr Abd Aziz announced that the fake egg scare had prompted the department to develop a blanket accreditation standard for eggs.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">It may soon be mandatory for egg farms to stamp the grade, the farm code and a best-by date on chicken eggs as a quality standard measure to ensure the safety of eggs for public consumption.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Dr Abd Aziz said the department was cooperating with the Federation of Livestock Farmers Associations of Malaysia, which had 17 associations under it, to develop an accreditation standard for quality.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">He added that the price of eggs, which is a controlled item, would not rise as a result of the exercise.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Dr Aziz also reminded that it was illegal to import eggs under the Animals Act 1953 without an import licence.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Fomca, in an immediate response, welcomed the proposed mandatory quality standard measure for chicken eggs.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Its secretary-general Muhd Sha'ani Abdullah said the proposal was in line with the current 3P system for vegetables, where producers were required to grade, package and label their greens.</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said a DNA analysis of four chicken egg samples from Penang by the Chemistry Department found that the eggs were genuine.</div><br />
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border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Her friend tried to help before anyone noticed, but was unable to do so. </div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">To Holly's embarrassment, they had to alert the professor to the emergency, much to the amusement of the class, according to a BBC programme on Bizarre ER.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">The school nurse unsuccesfully tried everything from a hot water bottle to ice packs to unlock her jaw, before Holly was eventually sent to the hospital to seek help.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; 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text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">She was taken to Northampton General Hospital, where a doctor forced 26 wooden splints into her mouth.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Holly's footage on YouTube has been seen almost 600,000 times, according to The Sun, and American Idol presenter Ryan Seacrest even posted the link on Twitter.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; 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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #777777; font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN, Netherlands – A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon at a crowded shopping mall outside Amsterdam on Saturday, leaving at least six people dead and wounding 11 others, Dutch officials said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The attacker was among the dead after fatally shooting himself at the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, Mayor Bas Eenhoorn said. The suburb is less than 15 miles (25 kilometers) southwest of Amsterdam.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Four of the wounded were in critical condition, five were in serious condition and at least two others were slightly wounded, Eenhoorn said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">A witness identified as Maart Verbeek told state broadcaster NOS the attacker had a machine gun and appeared to be shooting at random.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"There was a panic in the mall, a lot of people running," said Verbeek, a pet shop owner. "I see the attacker coming, walking, and I go inside the store ... and I see him going by with a big machine gun."</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Hours after the shooting, residents continued to walk past the mall, some of whom appeared to be in a daze.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"You hear about this sort of thing happening at American schools and you think that's a long way away," said Rob Kuipers, 50, a project manager. "Now it's happened here in the Netherlands."</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Investigators were trying to determine the shooter's identity, the mayor said. Witnesses said he had long blond hair, appeared to be about 25 years old, and wore a leather jacket with camouflage pants.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">A resident who lives near the mall gave his name as Marijn said the shooting went on for several minutes. When he went to see whether friends working at the mall were OK, he saw the shooter lying dead in front of a grocery store.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"There was glass everywhere," the resident said. "He was just shooting everywhere as if it were the Wild West."</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">With his voice choking at times, Eenhoorn described the incident as a "disaster of unparalleled proportions" for Alphen, known as a quiet suburb, and it was all the more shocking because it took place on one of the first sunny days of spring.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">"Under these circumstances, with many people shopping at the Ridderhof today, including parents with children, it's an incomprehensible situation," he said.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Although rare, shootings and violence are not unknown in the Netherlands. Among other incidents, in 1999, four students and a teacher were hurt in a school shooting and in 2004, a teacher was shot dead by a student.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The country has also seen two assassinations in the past decade, the 2002 killing of right wing politician Pim Fortuyn by an animal rights activist and the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">In 2009, a loner drove his car into a group of bystanders during a royal parade, killing eight and wounding 10.</div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Gun permits are difficult to obtain, but illegal automatic weapons and ammunition are frequently seized during drug busts.</div><br />
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</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://c1.planetsave.com/files/2011/04/Simulation_of_Debris_from_March_11_2011_Japan_tsunami.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00942f; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-19424" height="323" src="http://c1.planetsave.com/files/2011/04/Simulation_of_Debris_from_March_11_2011_Japan_tsunami-1024x662.gif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="500" /></a></div><ul style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 1.571em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The debris first spreads out eastward from the Japan Coast in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_gyre" rel="wikipedia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00942f; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ocean gyre">North Pacific Subtropical Gyre</a>.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In a year, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument will see pieces washing up on its shores.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In two years, the remaining Hawaiian islands will see some effects.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In three years, the plume will reach the U.S. West Coast, dumping debris on Californian beaches and the beaches of British Columbia, Alaska, and Baja California.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The debris will then drift into the famous North Pacific Garbage Patch, where it will wander around and break into smaller and smaller pieces.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In five years, Hawaiʻi shores can expect to see another barrage of debris that is stronger and longer-lasting than the first one.</li>
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<div class="wp-caption-text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 0.857em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Courtesy of the US Navy</div></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This influx of rubbish into the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Ocean" rel="wikipedia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00942f; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="World Ocean">World Ocean</a> is not unexpected, or even new. For a long time our planet’s oceans have been a dumping ground for rubbish flowing in from rivers, washed off beaches, not to mention the amount of rubbish spawned from oil and gas platforms and from fishing, tourist, and merchant vessels.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The massive influx of debris from the tsunami will only serve to magnify the problem.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maximenko’s model has helped locate three of the five predicted ocean garbage patches. The North Pacific Garbage Patch is well known, and the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Garbage_Patch" rel="wikipedia" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00942f; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="North Atlantic Garbage Patch">North Atlantic Garbage Patch</a> has also gained some attention of late. But Maximenko’s model predicts that there are five major regions in the World Ocean where debris collects, and by using that model researchers have been able to find the other garbage patches in the South Atlantic, South Indian Ocean, and South Pacific.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Source: <a href="http://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=4328" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #00942f; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa</a><br />
Image Source: Nikolai Maximenko, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa</div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3559632519654982152.post-39412377012288295962011-04-06T19:24:00.000-07:002011-04-06T19:26:26.528-07:00Is it a pig? Is it a turtle? Just what is the mysterious river creature that has left a Somerset town confused and bemused?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</span></div><div class="thinCenter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 470px;"><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">It was a mysterious sighting that left the locals intrigued. And before long a large crowd had gathered in Bridgwater to catch a glimpse of the 'unidentified floating object' in the town's river.But the rumours of a rival to the Loch Ness Monster have not just caught the imagination of residents. </div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">The Somerset town and its mystery invader have become a sensation on internet sites and Twitter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">People across the globe are now speculating just what the creature might be - and why it managed to cause such a stir.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">Crowding on the Town Bridge, hundreds of people peered into the murky waters of the River Parrett to try to discover what the object was.With such a commotion going on in their town, the local paper seized the opportunity with a lead story on their website about what was happening.And from there the story took off.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Locals in the town speculated that it was a dead pig or turtle, while others reckoned it was a dolphin.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another onlooker thought the object was a stone, while one said he believed it was a dog. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The local newspaper website's story was soon inundated with comments asking why such a story could be headline news - and speculating as to the identity.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One wrote: 'Believe me, it will be the most exciting thing that happens in Bridgwater for decades.' And Twitter users who had noticed that the story was now a trend on the site then added their own views on the story.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some suspected that a new breed of animal known as a 'turtle-pig', a combination of the two, could be the most likely explanation.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<img alt="Taking a look: A large crowd gathered on Town Bridge in Bridgwater to try to discover what the unidentified object floating in the river was" class="blkBorder" height="332" src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/05/article-1373764-0B7E068F00000578-16_468x332.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: black; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: black; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: black; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="468" /></span></div><div class="thinCenter" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 470px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Taking a look: A large crowd gathered on Town Bridge in Bridgwater to try to discover what the unidentified object floating in the river was</span></div><div class="imageCaption" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />
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Not long ago people discovered fake chicken eggs being produced and sold in China. So if you are in China be very careful buying eggs, don’t buy the fake ones! This post from <a href="http://bbs.39.net/ss/topic/1246851.html" style="color: #fe2e2e; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">39Net</a>teaches you how to identify fake chicken eggs from the real ones.<br />
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Fake egg’s shell is made of calcium carbonate. Egg yolk and egg white are made of sodium alginate, alum, gelatin, eatable calcium chloride and then add water and food coloring. First pour a set amount of sodium alginate into warm water and mix it into egg white like shape, then mix it with gelatin together with benzoic acid, alum and other chemicals to make the egg white. Egg yolk is just adding lemon yellow food coloring. Together with calcium chloride to form egg mixture into the mold to produce the egg membrane. Egg shell is made of paraffin wax, gypsum powder, calcium carbonate and other materials.<br />
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Fake egg is full of chemicals, the main ingredient calcium alginate, at most is a gel. Alum, gelatin etc are only as additives, auxiliary agents. There are national standards on the use of additives; the amount of them is clearly defined. In the artificial eggs they have become the major components; they are not beneficial to the human body. Artificial egg has little or no nutrition value compare with the real egg.<br />
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Cooked fake egg<br />
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How to identify fake eggs: After opening the egg, egg white and egg yolk will soon mix together.<br />
1. Fake egg’s shell is a little shinier than the real egg, but it is not very noticeable.<br />
2. When touch the fake egg by hand, it feels a little rougher than the real egg.<br />
3. Shake the fake egg will make some noises, because water overflows from the solid agent.<br />
4. Real egg smells a little like raw meat.<br />
5. Tap the egg lightly. Real egg makes a more crisp sound than the fake egg.<br />
6. Shortly after opening the fake egg, egg yolk and egg white will melt together. This is because the egg yolk and egg white are made of the same raw materials.<br />
7. When frying a fake egg, the yolk will spread without being touched.<br />
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Between real and fake<br />
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After opening the egg, egg white and egg yolk will soon mix together.<br />
The following is the process of making fake eggs:<br />
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<strong>The production of raw materials</strong><br />
Mainly are sodium alginate aqueous solution of calcium chloride and other chemical materials<br />
Let’s calculate: 1kg of real egg worth about 6.5 Yuan. 1kg of sodium alginate only cost about 42 Yuan can make 150kg of fake eggs, plus other costs, 1kg of fake egg only cost about 0.55 Yuan to make.<br />
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Use sodium alginate which has been soaked in aqueous, adjusting the concentration, stirring evenly. Soon it will look slightly white and transparent, and should have the same viscosity as the real egg white. This is the main part of the “egg”. Separate part of this liquid and add a small amount of lemon yellow food coloring, adjust the color depth to look like the color of egg yolk. This is now the prototype of the “egg yolk”.<br />
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<strong>Fix the “egg yolk”</strong><br />
Then, pure the liquid into egg yolk shaped container, and promptly add calcium chloride dissolved in water. The outside of “Egg yolk” rapidly solidify and form a layer of transparent material. After one minute, “egg yolk” is formed.<br />
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<strong>Pour “egg yolk” into “egg shell”</strong><br />
Put solidified artificial egg yolk into artificial egg white, the egg’s basic “content” is done.<br />
Finally put “egg yolk” and “egg white” into “egg shell” made of calcium carbonate. After seal the opening, an “egg” produced by raw material and chemicals is done. The entire production is less than 5 minutes, which is much more efficient than waiting for a hen to lay an egg.<br />
The following are some other information:<br />
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Raw materials and chemicals<br />
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<tr><td valign="top" width="130"><strong>Composition</strong></td><td valign="top" width="187"><strong>Usage</strong></td><td valign="top" width="182"><strong>Side effects and harms</strong></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="130">Glucolactone</td><td valign="top" width="187">Solidifier</td><td valign="top" width="182">Metabolism disorder</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="130">Benzoic acid</td><td valign="top" width="187">Preservative</td><td valign="top" width="182">Harmful to brain, nerve cell. May cause liver dieses, senile dementia.</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="130">Calcium Chloride</td><td valign="top" width="187">Egg Shell</td><td valign="top" width="182">May cause nerve, liver dieses. May affect ability to produce blood.</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="130">Cellulose</td><td valign="top" width="187">Additive</td><td valign="top" width="182">Metabolism disorder</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="130">Alum</td><td valign="top" width="187">Softener</td><td valign="top" width="182">May cause nerve, liver dieses. May affect ability to produce blood.</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="130">Amino Acid</td><td valign="top" width="187">Additive</td><td valign="top" width="182">Metabolism disorder</td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="130">Food coloring</td><td valign="top" width="187">“Egg yolk” color</td><td valign="top" width="182"> </td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="130">Sodium alginate</td><td valign="top" width="187">“Egg white” and “egg yolk”</td><td valign="top" width="182"> </td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top" width="130">Gelatin</td><td valign="top" width="187">“Egg white” and “egg yolk”</td><td valign="top" width="182"> </td></tr>
</tbody></table><a href="http://chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090424fakeegg16.jpg" style="color: #fe2e2e; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="20090424-fakeegg-16" border="0" height="396" src="http://chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090424fakeegg16-thumb.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: inline;" title="20090424-fakeegg-16" width="504" /></a><br />
Pour “egg yolk liquid” into the mold about 2/3 full, and put it into calcium chloride water. Shake it slightly so that egg yolk appears to have a thin layer of membrane. Soak the “egg yolk” in calcium chloride water for one hour, then wash it and dry it for later use.<br />
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Pour “egg white liquid” into the mold about 1/3 full, then put in the “egg yolk”, and add some more “egg white”. Put this into calcium chloride water again and shake it slightly. A whole egg without the shell will start to appear. Then let the “naked egg” harden for an hour, then wash it and dry it.<br />
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Put a sewing line through the “egg” and use it to dip the egg into liquid made of beeswax and calcium carbonate. Immerse and repeat several times, until a dry shell is formed then immerse it in cold water and pull the sewing line out. Now you put an “egg shell” coat on the “fake egg” and you are done.<br />
<a href="http://chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090424fakeegg19.jpg" style="color: #fe2e2e; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="20090424-fakeegg-19" border="0" height="296" src="http://chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090424fakeegg19-thumb.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: inline;" title="20090424-fakeegg-19" width="504" /></a><br />
<a href="http://chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090424fakeegg20.jpg" style="color: #fe2e2e; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="20090424-fakeegg-20" border="0" height="471" src="http://chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090424fakeegg20-thumb.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: inline;" title="20090424-fakeegg-20" width="504" /></a><br />
<a href="http://chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090424fakeegg21.jpg" style="color: #fe2e2e; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="20090424-fakeegg-21" border="0" height="333" src="http://chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090424fakeegg21-thumb.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: inline;" title="20090424-fakeegg-21" width="504" /></a><br />
<blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.chinahush.com/wp-content/themes/chinahush/images/blockquoteclose.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; margin-left: 0px;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.chinahush.com/wp-content/themes/chinahush/images/blockquoteopen.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #555555; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 20px;">I have learned the techniques of making artificial eggs in this company. The eggs we produced were exactly the same as the real eggs, and the fake eggs actually taste better than the real ones. Now I stopped working, on average we make over 1,000 artificial eggs, making over 100 Yuan a day. I made a fortune making artificial eggs. Many villagers also came to me for leaning my technique.</div></blockquote><a href="http://chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090424fakeegg22.jpg" style="color: #fe2e2e; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="20090424-fakeegg-22" border="0" height="344" src="http://chinahush.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/20090424fakeegg22-thumb.jpg" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; display: inline;" title="20090424-fakeegg-22" width="504" /></a><br />
Frying a fake egg, will generate more bubbles but it looks more tasty than the real egg.<br />
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Varity of fake eggs, add brown and orange coloring, it turns into 100-year egg (preserved egg) immediately.<br />
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No matter how good the fake egg tastes, are the egg makers afraid one day they will eat one of their own fake eggs?<br />
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