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Pics / Re: Cartoon of the day

« on: February 23, 2010, 08:48:40 PM »

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News Khabran / Girl refuses to write devil essay

« on: February 23, 2010, 08:18:57 PM »

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C., Feb. 23- A North Carolina high school student said she was willing to sacrifice her honor roll grades to avoid writing an essay contrary to her Christian beliefs.

Tieanna Trough, a student at Gray's Creek High School in Fayetteville, said her English class was instructed to write essays on making deals with the devil as part of a curriculum studying Washington Irving's short story "The Devil and Tom Walker," WTVD-TV, Durham/Raleigh, reported Tuesday.

Trough said her faith bars her from writing about deals with the devil.

"I believe you don't write about how to sell your soul to the devil," she said.

The girl's parents said they agreed with their daughter.

"We can't allow God into the classrooms, but yet they are going to allow the devil in the classroom, that's the way I felt," said her mother, Monice McLean. "They were told if they didn't do it they would get a zero."

Trough said teachers have now given her an alternate subject for her essay, how and why money is important. She said the new essay subject is acceptable.

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News Khabran / Web site markets glow-in-the-dark TP

« on: February 23, 2010, 08:14:13 PM »

LONDON, Feb. 23 - A British Web site specializing in unusual goods has unveiled its latest specialty -- glow in the dark toilet paper for nighttime trips to the bathroom.

The rolls, which sell for about $8 apiece on the Web site I Want One of Those, resembles a standard roll of white toilet paper when viewed in the light but takes on a florescent glow in dim to dark lighting, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday.

ChipChick, a female-oriented technology blog, called the luminescent rolls "the most useful glow-in-the-dark product ever."

"If you plan on going camping, make sure you take a couple of these rolls with you. This way you'll be properly prepared, should you find that the call of nature visits you in the middle of night in the cold dark woods."

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Pics / Re: Picture of Day

« on: February 23, 2010, 08:00:53 PM »

Can’t bear to be away from your iPhone? This is the bedding for you. A Swedish company has produced the ultimate duvet set for iPhone addicts. The quilt and pillow case are available for 349 KR (£31) at the Ellos online store.

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Knowledge / Top 5 Brutal Serial Killers of World

« on: February 23, 2010, 07:37:34 PM »

1. Thug Behram, India

Serial killing phenomenon is as old as human race. Thug Behram killed more people than any other serial killer. Over the span of 50 years, Thug killed more than 900 people by strangulation using Handkerchief. He was caught, convicted and hanged in 1840 at the age of 75.

2. Gilles de Rais, France

Gilles served as Commander in Royal Army and fought wars for his country; his murdering career started after his retirement from army in 1434. He explained his craziness in his own words saying “when his victims were dead, he used to kiss them and those who had the most handsome limbs he used to hold them up and admired them, and had their bodies cruelly cut open and took delight at the sight of their inner organs; and very often when the children were dying he sat on their stomachs and took pleasure in seeing them die and laughed”. Known to have killed more than 400 children.

3. Pedro Lopez, Colombia

The history of Pedro and his childhood tells us a sad story. His mother was a prostitute and when he was taken away from his house, he was rapped many times. By the age of 18 he was an established killer of innocent girls. He was caught but managed to run away with the help of American missionaries. It is estimated that he killed over 360 girls across Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.[/color

4. Harold Shipman, UK

Harold Shipman is also known as Dr Death. He remains one of the most popular serial killer of all time. He was arrested in 1998 and pledge guilty for the life of 15 patients in 2000. Dr Death hanged himself in his prison cell in year 2004.

5. Henry Lee Lucas, USA

Like Pedro, the mother of Henry was also a prostitute and his father was addicted to alcohol. He was mistreated and beaten badly without any reason during his childhood by his mother which brought anger into his character. He took revenge and almost killed her mother who later died due to bleeding. He was responsible for killings of over 213 people. He died on September 15, 1996.

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Knowledge / Youngest Mother in the History

« on: February 23, 2010, 07:09:13 PM »

1939: Precocious puberty allowed Lina Medina of Tricapo, Peru to become pregnant at 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days old; she gave birth to a 2.0 kg (4.4 lb) son, named Gerardo, by caesarean section on May 14, 1939 in Lima. Her parents, who assumed their daughter had a tumor, took her to a hospital, where she was determined to be seven months pregnant. Although Medina's father was arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse, he was later released due to lack of evidence, and the identity of who impregnated Medina was never uncovered.The mystery remains unsolved about the father of Gerardo. Both mother and son died in the age of 40 and 76 respectively.

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Knowledge / Re: Global Warming Fast Facts

« on: February 23, 2010, 08:16:31 AM »

Quote from: zєняιℓι on February 23, 2010, 07:42:33 AM

its results we r nere to 2012

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Knowledge / Re: 10 Extraordinary kids

« on: February 23, 2010, 08:14:30 AM »

Quote from: zєняιℓι on February 23, 2010, 07:42:08 AM

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News Khabran / Dolphin 'Diabetes' Could Be Important Model for Humans

« on: February 23, 2010, 04:48:42 AM »

SAN DIEGO—The best nonhuman model for type 2 diabetes is not a rat or even a primate. It’s a dolphin, researchers suggested at a press conference here this morning at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW). Apparently, these marine mammals regularly shift their blood chemistry in a way that can cause problems strikingly similar to those associated with diabetes in humans, such as insulin resistance, excess iron, and kidney stones.

In 2007, veterinary epidemiologist Stephanie Venn-Watson of the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego and veterinary pathologist Sam Ridgway of the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, made a surprising discovery in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) owned by the U.S. Navy. After reviewing 7 years of routine blood samples from 52 dolphins, they found that the blood chemistry after fasting resembled that of people with diabetes—higher levels of glucose and other molecules, such as an enzyme called gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase—while the blood after a meal was like that of healthy people. This allows the dolphins to maintain adequate glucose levels while eating a high-protein diet, Venn-Watson said.

Last year, the group described signs of disease complications associated with diabetes. Some dolphins have hemochromatosis, an excess of iron in the blood, and high levels of triglycerides, problems associated with type 2 diabetes in humans. Some of these dolphins also have insulin resistance.

Now the team has added hypocitraturia (low urine levels of citrate) to the list. As in humans, these dolphins have a higher risk of kidney stones, probably because of the hypocitraturia. The findings are in press at the Journal of Comparative Medicine.

Venn-Watson proposes that dolphins could be the most realistic model for studying diabetes, because their condition is more similar to that of humans than in rats, cats, pigs, or primates. Figuring out how dolphins turn their diabetes-like state on and off—and how this leads to problems—could reveal clues to preventing diabetes in humans, she said.

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Gup Shup / The $2,500 Bottle of Green Tea

« on: February 23, 2010, 04:39:22 AM »

You could run to almost any supermarket and purchase a bottle of green tea for about a dollar, but that would be a huge mistake. Why not opt to spend a quarter million percent more for "super premium" green tea?

Packaged like a fine wine, Royal Blue Tea is offering a limited time, high-end green tea for an astounding $2,500 per bottle. Apparently the leaves are hand picked (or something like that) and presumably infused with about $2,499 worth of champagne and truffle oil. Otherwise I am assuming it would be hard to justify the outrageous price tag.

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