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« on: February 22, 2010, 06:01:10 PM »
Claiming that saliva collected from pretty teenage girls is a tonic, a man set about to make his fortune on the Chinese equivalent of eBay, Taobao.com.
The site removed the product after receiving complaints from users. Taobao seller Zhou was asking roughly $3.25 for a small bottle of spit labeled with a photo of the spit-producing girl. The pretty girl drool was allegedly collected from 18-year-old girls while they were sleeping.
The listings were intended to test the marketplace demand for teen spit.
The drool was all collected from 18-year-old pretty girls when they were sleeping. And buyers can pay later after they certified the authenticity of this product.
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« on: February 22, 2010, 05:50:54 PM »
1 ) George SampsonGeorge Sampson , 16 years old . He is a street dancer from Warrington, England, He was the winner of second series of "Britain’s Got Talent" on 31 May 2008 , aged 14 . As a prize, he received £100,000 and the opportunity to perform at the 2008 Royal Variety Performance, staged at the London Palladium on 11 December 2008 .2 ) Cleopatra StratanThe daughter of Moldovan-Romanian singer , Cleopatra . She was born October 2002 Chisinau , Moldova . She broke the records in the music industry for being the youngest singer . She made her album in 2006 when she was still 3 years old and the most shocking part was.. she was paid about 1000 euro per song .3 ) Akrit Jaswal:A young Indian boy , Akrit Jaswal who has been called “the world’s smartest boy” and it’s easy to see why . His IQ is 146 and is considered the smartest person his age in India—a country of more than a billion people . Akrit Jaswal shocked the public when he performed a surgery on a local girl when he was only 7 years old . He went to the university at the age of 11 .4 ) Kim Ung-YongKim Ung-Yong , the Korean super-genius was born in 1962 and might just be the smartest guy alive today (he’s recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest IQ of anyone on the planet) . he has been able to read Japanese words , Korean , Germany and English when he was 4 years old and when he was 5 he can solve the calculus problems . He was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Highest IQ”; the book estimated the boy’s score at over 210 .5 ) Aelita AndreAelita Andre is a young Australian girl . She was only 2 years old when she was able to show her genious in art. When Mark Jamieson, the director of Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne’s Fitzroy , was shown her work he liked what he saw and agreed to include it in a group show . Now she owns a gallery for her abstract art .6 ) Elaina Smith:Elaina became a broadcaster in her local radio station after she rang and offered advice to a woman caller who had been dumped . She is capable of tackling problems ranging from how to dump boyfriends and how to cope with relationship breakdown to dealing with smelly brothers . There was a listener who wrote to Elaina asking how to get a man , she replied : “Shake your booty on the dance floor and listen to High School Musical” . Another caller asked how to get her man back , Elaina told her : “He’s not worth the heartache . Life’s too short to be upset with a boy."7 ) Gregory Smith:Gregory was born in 1990 . He could read at age of two and had enrolled in university at 10. But “genius” is only one half of the Greg Smith story . He is the creator of International Youth Advocates , an organization that promotes principles of peace and understanding among young people throughout the world . Gregory got the peace Nobel for his effort by making the international youth advocates .8 ) Michael Kevin KearneyKearney was born in 1984 and is known for setting several world records and teaching college at the age of 17 and he himself finished his college when he was 10 years old . He became known as the world’s youngest college graduate at the age of 10. In 2008, Kearney earned $1,000,000 on the television game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"9) Saul Aaron Kripke:Saul Aaron Kripke was born in New York and grew up in Omaha, in 1940 . He is the son of a rabbi . He got a letter from Harvard to be a lecturer at Harvard when he was a senior in high school . Kripke was awarded the Shock Prize , philosophy’s equivalent of the Nobel . He was also known as the Greatest Philosopher in the history ever .sungha_20090608_seoulbeats10 ) Sungha Jung Sungha Jung , 11 year old classical finger-style guitarist from South Korea whose guitar is nearly as big as he is . Sungha Jung says its’ his dream to become a professional finger-style guitarist . He became famous after his father posted various videos of him playing his guitar on the video sharing site You Tube .
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« on: February 22, 2010, 09:14:09 AM »
Is It Happening?
Yes. Earth is already showing many signs of worldwide climate change.
• Average temperatures have climbed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degree Celsius) around the world since 1880, much of this in recent decades, according to NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
• The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies. And the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that 11 of the past 12 years are among the dozen warmest since 1850.
• The Arctic is feeling the effects the most. Average temperatures in Alaska, western Canada, and eastern Russia have risen at twice the global average, according to the multinational Arctic Climate Impact Assessment report compiled between 2000 and 2004.
• Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the region may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and indigenous cultures are already suffering from the sea-ice loss.
• Glaciers and mountain snows are rapidly melting—for example, Montana's Glacier National Park now has only 27 glaciers, versus 150 in 1910. In the Northern Hemisphere, thaws also come a week earlier in spring and freezes begin a week later.
• Coral reefs, which are highly sensitive to small changes in water temperature, suffered the worst bleaching—or die-off in response to stress—ever recorded in 1998, with some areas seeing bleach rates of 70 percent. Experts expect these sorts of events to increase in frequency and intensity in the next 50 years as sea temperatures rise.
• An upsurge in the amount of extreme weather events, such as wildfires, heat waves, and strong tropical storms, is also attributed in part to climate change by some experts. Are Humans Causing It? The report, based on the work of some 2,500 scientists in more than 130 countries, concluded that humans have caused all or most of the current planetary warming. Human-caused global warming is often called anthropogenic climate change.
• Industrialization, deforestation, and pollution have greatly increased atmospheric concentrations of water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, all greenhouse gases that help trap heat near Earth's surface.
• Humans are pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere much faster than plants and oceans can absorb it.
• These gases persist in the atmosphere for years, meaning that even if such emissions were eliminated today, it would not immediately stop global warming.
• Some experts point out that natural cycles in Earth's orbit can alter the planet's exposure to sunlight, which may explain the current trend. Earth has indeed experienced warming and cooling cycles roughly every hundred thousand years due to these orbital shifts, but such changes have occurred over the span of several centuries. Today's changes have taken place over the past hundred years or less.
• Other recent research has suggested that the effects of variations in the sun's output are "negligible" as a factor in warming, but other, more complicated solar mechanisms could possibly play a role. What's Going to Happen? A follow-up report by the IPCC released in April 2007 warned that global warming could lead to large-scale food and water shortages and have catastrophic effects on wildlife.
• Sea level could rise between 7 and 23 inches (18 to 59 centimeters) by century's end, the IPCC's February 2007 report projects. Rises of just 4 inches (10 centimeters) could flood many South Seas islands and swamp large parts of Southeast Asia.
• Some hundred million people live within 3 feet (1 meter) of mean sea level, and much of the world's population is concentrated in vulnerable coastal cities. In the U.S., Louisiana and Florida are especially at risk.
• Glaciers around the world could melt, causing sea levels to rise while creating water shortages in regions dependent on runoff for fresh water.
• Strong hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, and other natural disasters may become commonplace in many parts of the world. The growth of deserts may also cause food shortages in many places.
• More than a million species face extinction from disappearing habitat, changing ecosystems, and acidifying oceans.
• The ocean's circulation system, known as the ocean conveyor belt, could be permanently altered, causing a mini-ice age in Western Europe and other rapid changes.
• At some point in the future, warming could become uncontrollable by creating a so-called positive feedback effect. Rising temperatures could release additional greenhouse gases by unlocking methane in permafrost and undersea deposits, freeing carbon trapped in sea ice, and causing increased evaporation of water.
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« on: February 22, 2010, 08:57:20 AM »
The crop circles of Santa Teresinha, Brazil, are seen in an undated photograph. Hundreds of circles, squares, and other geometric shapes once hidden by forest hint at a previously unknown ancient society that flourished in the Amazon, a new study says.
Satellite images of the upper Amazon Basin taken since 1999 have revealed more than 200 geometric earthworks spanning a distance greater than 155 miles (250 kilometers).
Now researchers estimate that nearly ten times as many such structures—of unknown purpose—may exist undetected under the Amazon's forest cover.
At least one of the sites has been dated to around A.D. 1283, although others may date as far back as A.D. 200 to 300, said study co-author Denise Schaan, an anthropologist at the Federal University of Pará in Belém, Brazil.
The discovery adds to evidence that the hinterlands of the Amazon once teemed with complex societies, which were largely wiped out by diseases brought to South America by European colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries, Schaan said.
Since these vanished societies had gone unrecorded, previous research had suggested that soils in the upper Amazon were too poor to support the extensive agriculture needed for such large, permanent settlements.
"We found that this picture is wrong," Schaan said. "And there is a lot more to discover in these places."
Wide-reaching Culture
The newfound shapes are created by a series of trenches about 36 feet (11 meters) wide and several feet deep, with adjacent banks up to 3 feet (1 meter) tall. Straight roads connect many of the earthworks.
Preliminary excavations at one of the sites in 2008 revealed that some of the earthworks were surrounded by low mounds containing domestic ceramics, charcoal, grinding-stone fragments, and other evidence of habitation.
But who built the structures and what functions they served remains a mystery. Ideas range from defensive buildings to ceremonial centers and homes, the study authors say.
It's also possible the structures served different purposes over time, noted William Woods, a geographer and anthropologist at the University of Kansas in Lawrence who was not involved in the research.
"For example," he said, "in Lawrence there's a Masonic temple—it is now a bar. There was a bank—it is now a restaurant called Tellers. These things happen."
What most surprised the research team is that the earthworks appear in both the region's floodplains and the uplands.
In general, the Amazon's fertile floodplains have been popular sites for ancient civilizations, while the sparser uplands have been thought to be largely devoid of people, the researchers say.
What's more, the earthworks in both regions are of a similar style, suggesting they were built by the same society.
"In Amazonian archaeology you always have this idea that you find different peoples in different ecosystems," study co-author Schaan said.
"And so it was kind of odd to have a culture that would take advantage of different ecosystems and expand over such a large region."
"Astounding" Population
The uplands sites appear to have been home to as many as 60,000 people, Schaan and her colleagues suggest in their paper, published this month in the journal Antiquity.
That figure is based on estimates of the social organization and labor that would have been required to build the structures hinted at by the remaining earthworks.
According to the University of Kansas' Woods, the population estimate is reasonable, albeit rough, since so little is known about these complexes.
Answers may emerge as researchers continue to excavate the newfound shapes in the coming years.
But Woods is impressed by the possibility that so many people might have once lived in a region long thought uninhabited.
"Traditionally, if you would have asked an anthropologist or archaeologist how many people lived [in these Amazon uplands], they'd say almost zero," he said.
"And so this is astounding that there is 60,000 people making a go of it where there aren't supposed to be any."
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« on: February 21, 2010, 10:18:36 PM »
International Space Station (Under Construction)($157 Billion)
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Year of completion : 2012 (expected) ITER – Experimental fusion reactor (under construction) ($6.5 Billion)
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« on: February 21, 2010, 09:06:38 PM »
JIZAN, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 19- A Saudi Arabian court handed down a 120-lash sentence to a man who was simultaneously married to six women -- two more than the legal limit.
The man, whose name was not released, told the Jizan province court he did not know he was violating Shariah, Islamic law, by having more than four wives at the same time, the BBC reported Friday.
The defendant, a member of the Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a religious police force, was also ordered to read two chapters of the Koran and was banned from leading prayers.
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« on: February 21, 2010, 09:02:36 PM »
ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 21 - A gun safety class attendee in Orlando, Fla., was accidentally shot in the foot by his instructor, police reported.
Robert Frauman Jr., 50, was one of three students at a concealed weapons certification class at Summit Church Saturday, when he was struck by the stray bullet, a church spokeswoman told the Orlando Sentinel, adding he was "doing well" and the bullet did not hit any bones.
Instructor Michael Phillips could not be reached for comment, the Sentinel said, but another National Rifle Association instructor told the newspaper it is forbidden to take ammunition to classes.
The event was not sponsored by the church, which offered one of its meeting rooms to the group after some of its members made a request, the spokeswoman said.
"We won't be having anything like that in our church in the future," she added.
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« on: February 21, 2010, 08:28:31 PM »
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World * Great Pyramid of Giza
* Hanging Gardens of Babylon * Statue of Zeus at Olympia * Temple of Artemis at Ephesus * Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus * Colossus of Rhodes * Lighthouse of Alexandria[/color] Wonders of the Medieval World
* Stonehenge
* Colosseum
* Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa
* Great Wall of China
* Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
* Hagia Sophia
* Leaning Tower of Pisa
Other sites sometimes included on such lists: * Taj Mahal  * Cairo Citadel  * Ely Cathedral  * Cluny Abbey  Wonders of the modern world Many lists have been made of the greatest structures built during modern times or of the greatest wonders existing today. Some of the most notable lists are presented below. American Society of Civil Engineers *Channel Tunnel
*CN Tower
*Empire State Building
*Golden Gate Bridge
*Itaipu Dam
*Delta Works/ Zuiderzee Works
*Panama Canal
New7Wonders Foundation's seven wonders of the world[/color[/b *Great Wall of China
*Petra *Christ the Redeemer *Machu Picchu *Chichen Itza *Roman Colosseum *Taj Mahal[/color] USA Today's New Seven Wonders 1 Potala Palace Lhasa, Tibet, China
2 Old City of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel
3 Polar ice caps Polar regions
4 Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Hawaii, United States
5 Internet Everywhere
6 Maya ruins Yucatán Peninsula, México
7 Great Migration of Serengeti and Masai Mara Tanzania and Kenya
8 Grand Canyon (viewer-chosen eighth wonder) Arizona, United States Seven Natural Wonders of the World * Grand Canyon
* Great Barrier Reef
* Harbour of Rio de Janeiro
* Mount Everest
* Aurora
* Parícutin volcano
* Victoria Falls
Seven Wonders of the Underwater World * Palau
* Belize Barrier Reef
* Great Barrier Reef
* Deep-Sea Vents
* Galápagos Islands
* Lake Baikal
* Northern Red Sea Seven Wonders of the Industrial World * SS Great Eastern
* Bell Rock Lighthouse
* Brooklyn Bridge
* London sewerage system
* First Transcontinental Railroad
* Panama Canal
* Hoover Dam Travel wonders of the world Man-made travel wonders 1. Giza pyramid complex
2. Great Wall of China
3. Taj Mahal
4. Machu Picchu
5. Bali
6. Angkor Wat
7. Forbidden City
8. Bagan Temples and Pagodas
9. Karnak Temple
10. Teotihuacán Natural travel wonders 1. Serengeti Migration
2. Galápagos Islands
3. Grand Canyon
4. Antarctica
5. Iguazu Falls
6. Amazon Rainforest
7. Ngorongoro Crater
8. Great Barrier Reef
9. Victoria Falls
10. Bora Bora
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« on: February 21, 2010, 07:42:03 PM »
I hate myself for being me
When all I cause is misery
When love changes into enemy
I am left feeling alone and empty
I hate myself for what I sometimes do
And what I seem to put others through
I always try to keep my soul true
But you never see what comes out of the blue
I hate myself for letting myself lose her
Thought so many storms we could weather
Always believed we could always stay together
But love just never seems to last for ever
I hate myself and I always will
I have to swallow the bitter pill
Of this hate it will never have its' fill
And I am left hating myself still
-christopher glyn john smith
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« on: February 21, 2010, 01:21:52 AM »
Google is widely known as the Internet’s best search engine. Everybody with access to the internet uses Google at some point to find something (or many things) on the web for a particular web page, or a certain piece of information.
However, Google has several built in functions that will help you make your searches more successful, and to enable you to spend less time searching. I am not a computer geek and have just a workable knowledge of computers but some of my friends are genius when it comes to working with computers. One of them sent me a list of 5 functions that I didnt't know before,all accessible from the main Google search box (frontpage), which help me find every piece of information I am looking for1. Removing unwanted (unrelated) results: Ever searched for something before, and had a whole list of completely irrelevant web pages come up? This is annoying at the best of times, as it takes time to check and read through the list of sites and find the one you actually want.
For example, if you were looking for a review of the book “Harry Potter” (whatever part of it), and you typed into Google “Harry Potter review”, many of the links listed are reviews of the movie, not the book. Because you are not looking for a review of the movie, you can remove all pages related to the movie by adding “-movie” to the end of your search terms.
This will now display all the pages relevant to “Harry Potter review“, but not relevant to ” Harry Potter movie”.2. Use Google as an excellent Calculator: Google can be used as a calculator, answering anything from the simplest math to the most complex equation. Just enter your math question, and Google will display the answer. (Damn, I wish I knew this earlier)
+ is used to add terms, - to subtract terms, * to multiply terms, and / to divide terms. Besides these basic operators, you can use ^ to work out something to the power of something (for example, “2^4” would be 2 to the power of 4), and “sqrt“ (without quotation marks) to calculate the square root of a number (for example, “sqrt 4” would be the square root of 4).3. Find Dictionary Definitions By typing “define:” before a word, Google will retrieve and display a list of dictionary definitions for that word. Very useful function…4. Search A Single Website If you type “site:” and then a website after a search term, Google will search for your term(s) in only the site dictated. For example, the following search will search the keyword “Windows 7″ only this blog.5. Search for A Specific File Type: As I am sure you are aware, there are many files hosted on the internet besides the standard ‘html websites’. Therefore, searching for a specific type of file could make your search a lot easier. For example, if you were looking for a PDF version of the iPhone manual, you could use the following search, which would produce more accurate (and less) results.
Here the “filetype:” tool is making Google search the web for PDF files only, therefore eliminating any pages that we didn’t want to see.
These are just 5 useful functions that Google can perform, there are many more for you to discover, and they can all be mixed and matched! If you know some more functions post them in comments and share with others. I hope this helped you to find that ever-elusive page or snippet of info. Have fun, and happy searching!
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« on: February 20, 2010, 06:37:44 PM »
“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” – Thomas Edison Your subconscious loves to do work while your body performs other tasks that are easy. I can prove this very easily by asking you how many good ideas you have had while driving or in the shower. When you are relaxed yet slightly distracted, your mind is often at its best.
Using subconscious requests will…
* Improve your motivation.
* Help you become happier.
* Increase your emotional intelligence.
You’ll see improvement in less than a month.
My last request to my subconscious was "Please give me more patience and dedication to complete the project I have taken in my hand. After one month, I am enjoying doing it and fully concenterated on it.
My latest request to subconscious is "Let's find creative and innovative ways to grow this Forum "Knowledge".
I took this approach because it’s going to take a request to my subconscious and action in my waking life to make this happen. This request is only one day old and it wud start working soon. I sure wud start getting ideas from friends and suggestions from PJians itself.
Mindset
My mindset is changing by setting my subconscious on a certain issue. I start to see new angles that I’ve never seen before. This subconscious request works for personal issues as well as work related concerns.
The 3 step request only takes five minutes:
Step 1: Before you turn out the light, close your eyes and take one minute to make a request to your subconscious. It can be anything. I would start small and make it open ended. I wouldn’t request to be an astronaut by the end of the month. Your subconscious is good, but not that good.
Step 2: Take two minutes to visualize yourself actually able to do this thing. Whether it is getting the motivation to jog before work or eating a healthy snack, you must visualize yourself doing the request that you asked your subconscious. Let’s say you want to jog before work: imagine yourself getting up a few minutes earlier than usual, putting on your exercise clothes and jogging shoes, and heading out into the crisp air. Then you start jogging, watching the sun rise over the buildings, the birds chirping, and you are feeling good.
Step 3: Take two minutes to imagine the feeling that will occur when you are able to accomplish this new thing. How do you feel when you walk back in your front door after a morning jog? Energized? Whatever feeling you want to achieves imagine that you have already created this emotion inside of yourself. Let it sink in, then go to sleep and let your subconscious do the rest of the work.
Your subconscious mind wants to help you improve your life; you just have to trust its vast resources and allow it to do its thing.
Action Makes Your Request Real
You may not want to go jogging after the first subconscious request, but try to visualize yourself going through the motions the first couple of weeks. Then just start putting on your exercise gear and go for a five minute walk. Taking these baby steps will set you up for your jogging routine. Then after a few weeks just go for it. Now that you have your emotions geared toward jogging it should spur you into action.
By allowing the emotional momentum to build, you can create motivation that will help you accomplish things that make you happier. Do you have a motivational tip to share? Have you ever tried making a subconscious requests before bed? We would love to hear it. Let’s discuss it
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« on: February 20, 2010, 09:53:53 AM »
In The Histories, written in 450 B.C., Herodotus makes the following statement:
"If an important decision is to be made [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk and the following day the master of the house...submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk."
What a strange way to make decisions, you might say. Perhaps it is, but there are even stranger methods of human choice.
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« on: February 20, 2010, 09:47:54 AM »
In November of 1905, an enraged Mark Twain sent this superb letter to J. H. Todd, a patent medicine salesman who had just attempted to sell bogus medicine to the author by way of a letter and leaflet delivered to his home. According to the literature Twain received (p1,p2,p3,p4), the 'medicine' in question - The Elixir of Life - could cure such ailments as meningitis (which had previously killed Twain's daughter in 1896) and diphtheria (which had also killed his 19-month-old son). Twain, himself of ill-health at the time and very recently widowed after his wife suffered heart failure, was understandably furious and dictated the following letter to his secretary, which he then signed.
TranscriptJ. H. Todd
1212 Webster St.
San Francisco, Cal.
Dear Sir,
Your letter is an insoluble puzzle to me. The handwriting is good and exhibits considerable character, and there are even traces of intelligence in what you say, yet the letter and the accompanying advertisements profess to be the work of the same hand. The person who wrote the advertisements is without doubt the most ignorant person now alive on the planet; also without doubt he is an idiot, an idiot of the 33rd degree, and scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link. It puzzles me to make out how the same hand could have constructed your letter and your advertisements. Puzzles fret me, puzzles annoy me, puzzles exasperate me; and always, for a moment, they arouse in me an unkind state of mind toward the person who has puzzled me. A few moments from now my resentment will have faded and passed and I shall probably even be praying for you; but while there is yet time I hasten to wish that you may take a dose of your own poison by mistake, and enter swiftly into the damnation which you and all other patent medicine assassins have so remorselessly earned and do so richly deserve.
Adieu, adieu, adieu!
Mark Twain
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« on: February 20, 2010, 09:34:35 AM »
Pablo Neruda, 1971 Nobel Prize winner is my favourite poet. Its a lame attempt to translate his poem "Me Gustas Cuando Callas" in english. I guess u still wud like it.I like you when you are quiet because it is as though you are absent,
and you hear me from far away, and my voice does not touch you.
It looks as though your eyes had flown away
and it looks as if a kiss had sealed your mouth.
Like all things are full of my soul
You emerge from the things, full of my soul.
Dream butterfly, you look like my soul,
and you look like a melancoly word.
I like you when you are quiet and it is as though you are distant.
It is as though you are complaining, butterfly in lullaby.
And you hear me from far away, and my voice does not reach you:
let me fall quiet with your own silence.
Let me also speak to you with your silence
Clear like a lamp, simple like a ring.
You are like the night, quiet and constellated.
Your silence is of a star, so far away and solitary.
I like you when you are quiet because it is as though you are absent.
Distant and painful as if you had died.
A word then, a smile is enough.
And I am happy, happy that it is not true.
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« on: February 19, 2010, 09:19:46 PM »
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« on: February 19, 2010, 07:13:19 PM »
Beijing summoned U.S. Ambassador Jon Huntsman and "lodged solemn representations" over meetings the Buddhist leader had Thursday with U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In a separate statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu was more direct in his dressing down of Huntsman and condemnation of the meetings. "The U.S. act grossly interfered in China's internal affairs, gravely hurt the Chinese people's national sentiments and seriously damaged the Sino-U.S. ties," said Ma.
His comments kick off a series of five articles in the China Daily newspaper condemning the meeting, claiming that it was Obama's "home run" in his game against China.
But Ma insisted that "Tibet is an inalienable part of the inviolable territory of China and the issues concerning Tibet are purely internal affairs of China." China firmly opposes leaders or government officials of any country meeting the Dalai Lama in any way, he added.
The lead article notes that the Dalai Lama, "after launching and having failed an armed rebellion in March 1959, he fled to India and formed a so-called Tibet government-in-exile. In the guise of religion, the Dalai Lama has since been involved in activities aimed to split China and to undermine Tibet's social stability."
Ma also claimed that even allowing the Dalai Lama to visit the United States was contrary to previous understandings between the White House and China.
"It grossly violated the basic norms governing international relations and ran counter to the principles set forth in the three China-U.S. joint communiques and the China-U.S. joint statement," Ma said.
In a separate commentary, the China Daily writer claimed Obama "hit a home run to complete his months-long game called antagonizing China."
Thanks to his vow to "get much tougher" with China, "Obama has struck nearly every note to create the cacophony against a country that he once pledged not to contain. From the $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan to issues related to currency rates and Internet freedom, Obama has taken a poke at China in every possible opportunity."
The ball is now in the U.S. court as to whether China-U.S. relations are "resilient enough to survive all the damages done."
Another article relates how many Western writers have thrown doubt on the Dalai Lama's statements that he is not looking for Tibetan independence. Obama's motives for "playing the Tibet card" are questioned by the Japanese monthly magazine Choice, the article says.
The article also noted that Ted Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, said he believed Obama was trying to win over both Democrat and Republican camps that support the Dalai Lama and who are not fond of China.
As well, the China Daily article claimed that Pierre Picquart, "an expert on China from the University of Paris, said Obama's meeting with political figures such as the Dalai Lama was intended to set up a barrier to China's development while securing the U.S. dominance in the world."
China's war of words concerning the Dalai Lama visit might continue for several days. After the dust has settled, the United States may find that relations with China are the coolest for many years, Jin Canrong, from the School of International Studies at the Chinese institute Renmin University, told the BBC.
"For the short term, I think the political atmosphere will deteriorate to some extent, some kind of dialogue will be suspended and Chinese willingness to cooperate on international issues will be weakened," he said.
The Dalai Lama has met every sitting U.S. president since 1991 and each meeting has been condemned by China. George W. Bush's meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2007 was the only time a sitting president appeared in public with the exiled Tibetan leader.
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« on: February 19, 2010, 07:07:02 PM »
ATLANTA, Feb. 19 - An escaped circus zebra was captured uninjured on a busy Atlanta highway, circus bosses and state transportation officials said.
Crystal Drake, a representative of Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey circus, said the zebra escaped from an enclosure at the downtown Philips Arena and made its way to the overlapped connector of Interstates 75 and 85 shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday, CBS Atlanta reported Friday.
The Georgia Department of Transportation said the zebra was captured and placed on a large truck for transport back to the circus. They said the unusual animal in the road caused traffic backups in both directions on the connecto
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« on: February 19, 2010, 05:44:12 PM »
There are so many, many bad things in the world, but for some weird visceral reason, cannibalism is considered just about the worst. Depending on your point of view, it rises above even such criminal abominations as pedophilia, rape and genocide, but in the final analysis, it's what's for dinner.
Then again, we live in a culture in which people would run vomiting to the bathroom if they saw what went into making their McDonald's hamburgers, in which a cow is brutally killed with blunt-force trauma, its innards are outered, and then the whole thing is ground up into a mealy paste, intestines, feces, bones and all.
With McDonald's, you can mentally blank out the process in favor of focusing on the tasty fat-and-gristle laden product. With cannibalism, there is a nearly unavoidable tendency to linger on the details of the process -- removing the limbs, peeling the skin, roasting it over an open flame, etc., etc. And do we really taste like chicken? Cannibalism is, of course, the eating of one's own species. It should be distinguished from vampirism, which is the drinking of human blood. If you cut a fellow human up into little pieces and puree him or her in a blender, that would technically be cannibalism and not vampirism.
There are two kinds of cannibalismsociological and pathological.The former means living and eating in a culture where cannibalism is accepted, and the latter means practicing cannibalism within a culture where it's not accepted.
There is a lot of controversy over the idea of sociological cannibalism, mostly because reports of its existence have been greatly exaggerated. Ever since human society expanded past the tribal stage, the charge of cannibalism has served as a primary justification for one social collective (European nation, Western religion, Aztecs) to annihilate another, usually militarily inferior social collective (aborigines, pagans, Mayans).
In many cases, these charges were wholly fabricated. Reports of social cannibalism are mostly pointed at the Americas and Africa, since these were the primary continents subjected to European killing and conquest sprees from the Middle Ages through modern times. Despite the political convenience of these claims, there are documented examples of cannibalistic cultures and practices.
There's no evidence that the Native Americans encountered in North America by the first European settlers had any history of cannibalism, although the accusation was repeated often enough. But there are some isolated examples that have been confirmed by recent research. Most demonstrable cannibal practices in North America were in the distant past, far earlier than Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In South America and Africa, there are more recent reports, or at least allegations. Unfortunately for the weak of heart, we're all descended from cannibals. Recent genetic studies revealed that almost all humans have genes designed to provide immunity to certain diseases which can only be transmitted by eating human brains. Based on what we know of recent tribal practices, it's generally thought that cannibalism was not treated like a night out at "Red Lobster," at least not within the time frame of the last 4,000 to 6,000 years. Instead, it usually was a spiritual ritual. In some cases, the bodies of enemies were consumed in order to absorb the enemies' strength; in other cases, the bodies of ancestors and relatives were consumed so that they would live on in the diners.
One of the most recent discoveries of active cannibalism practice was the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea, which was only discovered by Westerners in the 20th century. The Fores had turned to cannibalism only recently, to compensate for the meager sources of protein on the Pacific island where they lived. Woman and children ate brains for protein, while the men of the tribe caught their own small game. This was working out OK for them until a bizarre brain disease struck the tribe and created devastating casualties and eventually led to the abandonment of the practice.
Of course, social and recreational cannibalism is not just the province of non-white aborigines. In 15th century Scotland, a highlander named Sawney Beane and his wife lived in a remote mountain pass, where they subsisted on a steady diet of unfortunate travelers, which they also fed to their 14 children, and a number of incestuous grandchildren. Needless to say, when the civilized world found out about this, their outrage was so great that they executed the entire family, amputating the limbs of the men so that they bled to death, and burning the women and children at the stake. Now that's civilized!
Other famous alleged cannibals in anthropology include the Anasazi tribe in North America, the Aztecs in Central America, and on islands like Fiji, where the menu of choices was necessarily limited by geography. It should be noted that these claims are all extremely controversial because nobody likes to think about the topic.
Having noted the controversy, feel free to subsequently ignore it, since most of the people arguing against cannibalism have been scientifically proven to be either a) recently descended from cannibals (and thus oversensitive) or b) idiots. Anthropology as a science is in deep trouble because anthropologists often find themselves persecuted for saying things people don't want to hear. If the anthropologists themselves ate each other, they would be subjected to less abuse than they get for saying long-dead cultures were cannibals.
Cannibalism as a modern phenomenon is much more interesting and fucked-up than the historical record, at any rate. Modern cannibals are almost always really bizarre and unpleasant people, so consistently that when regular folks are driven to eat other by impending starvation, it invariably becomes the subject of a movie and at least 15 Discovery Channel sweeps-week specials. Examples of the latter include the soccer players whose plane crashed in the Andes and inspired the movie "Alive," and of course, the infamous Donner Party.
The Donner Party was an expedition to the West Coast that had the misfortune of becoming stranded in a weekslong blizzard in the Sierra Nevada area. Lost in the mountains of California for nearly two months, they ran out of food and began to die. The company drew lots to determine who would be dinner, but then "didn't have the heart" to kill him. Luckily, he died from illness anyway. They skinned him, cut the meat from his bones and roasted it. When that ran out, they discussed murdering their Indian guides for dinner (apparently, they had the heart for that). The guides wisely took their chances with the blizzard, however they didn't make it far enough and ended up au jus.
As this went on for some time, the members of the party became unbalanced. It was bad enough watching a spouse die; toasting him on a spit afterward didn't comfortably fit into the five stages of grieving. Some members went insane and killed other members. Normally this would be considered a tragedy, but for the Donner Party it meant a smorgasbord. The party was eventually rescued by spring; by the end half the party of 87 had died. One of the rescuers described the sight: Among the cabins lay the fleshless bones and half-eaten bodies of the victims of the famine. There lay the limbs, the skulls and the hair of the poor beings who had died from want and whose flesh preserved the lives of their surviving comrades who, shivering beneath their filthy rags and surrounded by the remains of their unholy feast, looked more like demons than human beings. They had fallen from their high estate, though compelled by the fell hand of dire necessity.
Another wrote: They had consumed two children of Jacob Donner. Mrs. Graves's body was lying there with almost all the flesh cut away from her arms and limbs. Her breasts were cut off, her heart and liver taken out. Her little child, about 13 months old, sat at her side, one arm upon the body of its mangled mother, sobbing bitterly, crying, "Ma! Ma! Ma!" Cannibalism isn't just about survival, though. There have been plenty of non-survival cases of cannibalism reported in recent years.Jeffrey Dahmerwas one of the most famous: He seduced at least 15 young men and boys back to his Milwaukee apartment, then tortured, sodomized, murdered, sodomized and barreled them, then butchered and ate was was left.The late Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada cannibalized most of his predecessor's underlings after a coup; 19th-century cannibal Alfred Packer later inspired Cannibal! The Musical (1996), an early film by the creators of South Park. The German cannibal Arwan Meiwes, who used Internet personal ads to find a victim, provided the basis for the recent musical smash All You Need (2004), as described by the San Francisco Chronicle: 
The name of Ed Gein might be less well-known than Dahmer or Amin, but his work has taken on mythological proportions. Gein was the rural hick cannibal who inspired everything from Psycho (1960, 1998) to The Silence of the Lambs (1991), to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, 2003), in addition to to their countless sequels, prequels, spinoffs, and video game tie-ins.We had better not close out this discussion without answering the most pressing question everyone has about cannibalism: What do people taste like? We're assuming the taste of a hangnail doesn't carry over to the more succulent regions. Legend has it that spam tastes remarkably like human flesh. Another popular comparison is pork, and of course we know everything "tastes like chicken."
But let's go straight to a legit source. According to the Andean soccer team, "the slight browning of the flesh gave it an immeasurably better flavor, softer than beef but with much the same taste."
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« on: February 19, 2010, 10:35:53 AM »
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« on: February 18, 2010, 09:05:04 PM »
This could be beautiful,
If you let it,
But you strain against convention,
Time and again,
I’m left in the cold,
Along with the masses,
You bask in a warm glow,
Individuality,
I try to match you,
You’re one step ahead,
This could be beautiful,
But you never look back.
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