Sunday 22 January 2017
Lucky dog -Macie
What a haul of bombs.
In the french town of Bethane a record of 119 first world war british artillery shells were found on a building site.
Elephants now safe.
Monster Alligator seen .
A 12 ft alligator was seen by passers by onlookers at Lakeland,Florida.The alligator was nicknamed humpback and images were seen on facebook and bbc news -See Video
Saturday 21 January 2017
Sitting down makes you age by 8 YEARS
Women who spend too much time sitting down speed up the ageing process, experts have found.
Sitting
for more than ten hours a day gives women a 'biological age' up to
eight years older than it should be, according to a major study.
The
researchers, who tracked the movements of 1,481 women over the age of
64, found a strong link between a sedentary lifestyle and the premature
ageing of cells in the body.
This process is known to increase the risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Just
half an hour of moderate exercise - such as brisk walking, gardening or
cycling - is enough to undo the damage of a day sat down.
CIA Releases 13 Million Pages Of Declassified Documents: Include Psychic Experiments, UFO Research
The Central Intelligence Agency has published nearly 13 million pages
of declassified files online, documents which previously were
physically accessible only from four computer terminals at the National
Archives in College Park, Maryland.
The record include info on Nazi war crimes, the Cuban Missile Crisis, UFO sightings, human telepathy ("Project Stargate") and much more. The release has been a long time coming: Bill Clinton first ordered all documents at least 25 years old with "historical value" to be declassified in 1995. The agency complied, however anyone who wanted access had to trek all the way to the US National Archives in Washington DC to get a peak.
In 2014, a nonprofit journalism organization called MuckRock filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit pressing the CIA to post all of its documents online, but the agency said it would take up to six years to scan everything according to engadget. At the same time, journalist Mike Best crowd-funded more than $15,000 to visit the archives to print out and then publicly upload the records, one by one, to apply pressure to the CIA. "By printing out and scanning the documents at CIA expense, I was able to begin making them freely available to the public and to give the agency a financial incentive to simply put the database online," Best wrote in a blog post.
"Access to this historically significant collection is no longer limited by geography," said Joseph Lambert, the CIA's information management director in a press release. The agency was aiming to publish the documents by the end of 2017, but finished the work ahead of schedule.
“We’ve been working on this for a very long time and this is one of the things I wanted to make sure got done before I left. Now you can access it from the comfort of your own home,” said outgoing CIA director of information Lambert. The agency continues to review documents for declassification, so the treasure trove has not been unearthed in full, and there’s definitely more to follow.
* * *
The online records, shed light on the agency's activities throughout the Vietnam, Korean and Cold War conflicts; they also includes documents relating to UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate program, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists. The archives also cover events from the 1940s the 1990s (each year, a new batch are declassified) and include details about the flight of war criminals from Nazi Germany, the quarter-mile Berlin tunnel built to tap Soviet telephone lines, internal intelligence bulletins and memos from former CIA directors, UFO reports and more.
The released trove also includes the papers of Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well as several hundred thousand pages of intelligence analysis and science research and development.
Among the more unusual records are documents from the Stargate Project, which dealt with psychic powers and extrasensory perception. Those include records of testing on celebrity psychic Uri Geller in 1973, when he was already a well-established performer.-Read More
The record include info on Nazi war crimes, the Cuban Missile Crisis, UFO sightings, human telepathy ("Project Stargate") and much more. The release has been a long time coming: Bill Clinton first ordered all documents at least 25 years old with "historical value" to be declassified in 1995. The agency complied, however anyone who wanted access had to trek all the way to the US National Archives in Washington DC to get a peak.
In 2014, a nonprofit journalism organization called MuckRock filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit pressing the CIA to post all of its documents online, but the agency said it would take up to six years to scan everything according to engadget. At the same time, journalist Mike Best crowd-funded more than $15,000 to visit the archives to print out and then publicly upload the records, one by one, to apply pressure to the CIA. "By printing out and scanning the documents at CIA expense, I was able to begin making them freely available to the public and to give the agency a financial incentive to simply put the database online," Best wrote in a blog post.
"Access to this historically significant collection is no longer limited by geography," said Joseph Lambert, the CIA's information management director in a press release. The agency was aiming to publish the documents by the end of 2017, but finished the work ahead of schedule.
“We’ve been working on this for a very long time and this is one of the things I wanted to make sure got done before I left. Now you can access it from the comfort of your own home,” said outgoing CIA director of information Lambert. The agency continues to review documents for declassification, so the treasure trove has not been unearthed in full, and there’s definitely more to follow.
* * *
The online records, shed light on the agency's activities throughout the Vietnam, Korean and Cold War conflicts; they also includes documents relating to UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate program, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists. The archives also cover events from the 1940s the 1990s (each year, a new batch are declassified) and include details about the flight of war criminals from Nazi Germany, the quarter-mile Berlin tunnel built to tap Soviet telephone lines, internal intelligence bulletins and memos from former CIA directors, UFO reports and more.
The released trove also includes the papers of Henry Kissinger, who served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well as several hundred thousand pages of intelligence analysis and science research and development.
Among the more unusual records are documents from the Stargate Project, which dealt with psychic powers and extrasensory perception. Those include records of testing on celebrity psychic Uri Geller in 1973, when he was already a well-established performer.-Read More
Sunday 15 January 2017
Inside the Nepalese tribe that migrates every time a member dies and buries their dead upright after piercing their skull to allow the spirit to be free
Hidden deep in the Himalayan forest is one
of the world's last enduring nomadic tribes who are resisting attempts
to move them into permanent settlements.
The Raute tribe has no permanent home and frequently moves between camps.
They
will vacate a camp whenever a member dies to avoid bad spirits, but not
before burying their dead in an upright position and piercing their
skull to allow their spirit to be released into heaven.
Living
as hunter-gatherers and eating the meat of langur and macaque monkeys -
a controversial choice in the Hindu dominated country of Nepal, where
monkeys are considered to be the reincarnation of the God Hanuman.
Bert the randy tortoise, 22, is fitted with a pair of wheels after sex sessions left him with severe arthritis in his legs
Bert the randy tortoise has been fitted with a pair of wheels after he developed arthritis following wild sex sessions.
The 22-year-old African spurred tortoise now travels around with the help of heavy duty wheels strapped to his shell.
His
keepers at the Secret Animal Garden at the Dinosaur Adventure Park in
Norfolk believe he is the largest tortoise in the world to have wheels
fitted.
Pioneer Cabin Tree in California felled by storms
Storms in California have toppled one of America's most famous trees - the Pioneer Cabin Tree.
The giant sequoia was known for having a hole cut through its trunk - big enough for a car to drive through.
The tree, estimated to be more than 1,000-years-old, was felled by the strongest storm to have hit the area in more than a decade.
California and Nevada have been hit by unusually high rainfall levels, leading to flooding and falling trees.-read more
Parkour is now officially a sport – here’s to jumping for joy
Running, leaping and climbing through the city isn’t just a test of
strength and stamina – it’s also now an official sport. Parkour – a form
of urban acrobatics, originating in France – is now officially
recognised by sports councils across Britain. On a practical level, this
means that it can be on national educational curricula, apply for
lottery funding and access the benefits enjoyed by other major sports.
This is a big step forward for the development of parkour, which already has about 35,000 practitioners – or “traceurs” – in the UK alone. There’s no typical traceur; participants can range from very young children to those with Parkinson’s disease, and there are new people starting up all the time.
As well as having obvious physical health benefits, parkour also continues to show signs in research of contributing to positive mental health. It’s often practised in groups, which fosters social bonds between people, as encouraging each other to engage with the city in a constructive way,-read more
This is a big step forward for the development of parkour, which already has about 35,000 practitioners – or “traceurs” – in the UK alone. There’s no typical traceur; participants can range from very young children to those with Parkinson’s disease, and there are new people starting up all the time.
As well as having obvious physical health benefits, parkour also continues to show signs in research of contributing to positive mental health. It’s often practised in groups, which fosters social bonds between people, as encouraging each other to engage with the city in a constructive way,-read more
The extraordinary story of the Chorlton nurse who spied against the Nazis in wartime France
The extraordinary story of the Manchester nurse who risked her life
as an undercover spy against the Nazis has been pieced together by
historians.
Thrice-married Madge Addy lived a life of dashing adventure... helping stranded British troops evade capture in occupied France.
But her heroic exploits would have come to a huge shock to her neighbours in Chorlton, where she had quietly worked at a hairdressing salon.
But local historians have now launched a campaign to honour Madge, who received a Royal honour for her spy work, with a blue plaque in the south Manchester suburb. They are also appealing for further information to complete the puzzle about her remarkable life.
Ms Addy, who was born in Chorlton at the turn of the century, served as a nurse in Spain during the Spanish Civil War then became an agent for the government in occupied France. Research has revealed she was awarded an OBE, or possibly even a CBE, for her work as a spy, with sources suggesting she risked death to carry secret documents for the Allies under the noses of the Nazis.-read more
Thrice-married Madge Addy lived a life of dashing adventure... helping stranded British troops evade capture in occupied France.
But her heroic exploits would have come to a huge shock to her neighbours in Chorlton, where she had quietly worked at a hairdressing salon.
But local historians have now launched a campaign to honour Madge, who received a Royal honour for her spy work, with a blue plaque in the south Manchester suburb. They are also appealing for further information to complete the puzzle about her remarkable life.
Ms Addy, who was born in Chorlton at the turn of the century, served as a nurse in Spain during the Spanish Civil War then became an agent for the government in occupied France. Research has revealed she was awarded an OBE, or possibly even a CBE, for her work as a spy, with sources suggesting she risked death to carry secret documents for the Allies under the noses of the Nazis.-read more
Desmond T. Doss
"Fellows, come over here and gather
around. Doss wants to pray for us."
Corporal Desmond Doss, the lanky medic,
cringed inside. This was not what he had meant when he'd suggested prayer to
Lieutenant Goronto. Faced with an assault on the 400 foot sheer cliff that split the
island of Okinawa, Doss had merely meant that each soldier might want to spend a few
moments in personal, private prayer, before the attack began.
Prayer certainly was in order that April
morning in 1945. Doss's 77th Division had landed on Okinawa after fierce
fighting in Guam and Leyte. The Japanese were dug in all over the island.
Presenting an additional barrier was the Maeda Escarpment, the 400 foot cliff that
stretched across the island. The escarpment rose with a steep, rugged rise for the
first 360 feet, then rose another 40-50 feet as a sheer face. Honeycombed throughout
were multi-story caves, tunnels, and enemy gun emplacements. Wresting control of the
escarpment from the enemy would be a major struggle, the Americans fighting not only a
well entrenched and often camouflaged enemy, but formidable terrain. When the order
to attack had come, Doss told Lieutenant Goronto, "I believe prayer is the best life
saver there is. The men should really pray before going up."
It really shouldn't have surprised anyone in
Doss's company that he would suggest prayer. Doss was always praying...or reading
his Bible. From the first day of training everyone could tell he was different.
A devout Seventh-Day Adventist, the first night Doss knelt beside his bunk in the
barracks, oblivious to the taunts around him and the boots they threw his way, to spend
his time talking to God. Regularly he pulled the small Bible his new wife had given
him for a wedding gift, and read it as well. Among the men of the unit, disdain
turned to resentment. Doss refused to train or work on Saturday, the Lord's Sabbath.
Though he felt no reservation about caring for the medical needs of the men or
otherwise helping them on the Sabbath, he refused to violate it. The fact that he
worked overtime to make up for it the rest of the week made little difference. Doss
was teased, harassed, and ridiculed. And it only got worse.-read more
Robert Burns could have suffered bipolar disorder
Robert Burns’
tempestuous personality, intense creativity and unstable love life
suggest that he might have suffered from bipolar disorder, according to
Scottish researchers.
The 18th-century Scottish bard produced huge quantities of literary
works, including Auld Lang Syne and A Red, Red, Rose, in bursts of
creativity interspersed with periods of depression and heavy drinking.
According to scientific and literary experts at Glasgow University his
creative spikes, along with his volatile love life, point to the
possibility that he suffered from the condition that affects up to
three million people in Britain.
Dr Daniel Smith, from the university’s Institute of Health and
Wellbeing, said: “Burns had a complicated and some might say tempestuous
personal history, with bouts of melancholic depression, heavy lifelong
alcohol consumption and considerable instability in relationships,
including a series of extramarital affairs.
“Although it is difficult to prove conclusively, it is possible that his
life history and his prodigious literary outputs may have been
influenced by a recurrent disorder of -Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/robert-burns-could-have-suffered-bipolar-disorder-1-3427401
tempestuous personality, intense creativity and unstable love life
suggest that he might have suffered from bipolar disorder, according to
Scottish researchers.
The 18th-century Scottish bard produced huge quantities of literary
works, including Auld Lang Syne and A Red, Red, Rose, in bursts of
creativity interspersed with periods of depression and heavy drinking.
According to scientific and literary experts at Glasgow University his
creative spikes, along with his volatile love life, point to the
possibility that he suffered from the condition that affects up to
three million people in Britain.
Dr Daniel Smith, from the university’s Institute of Health and
Wellbeing, said: “Burns had a complicated and some might say tempestuous
personal history, with bouts of melancholic depression, heavy lifelong
alcohol consumption and considerable instability in relationships,
including a series of extramarital affairs.
“Although it is difficult to prove conclusively, it is possible that his
life history and his prodigious literary outputs may have been
influenced by a recurrent disorder of -Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/robert-burns-could-have-suffered-bipolar-disorder-1-3427401
Robert Burns’
tempestuous personality, intense creativity and unstable love life
suggest that he might have suffered from bipolar disorder, according to
Scottish researchers.
The 18th-century Scottish bard produced huge quantities of literary
works, including Auld Lang Syne and A Red, Red, Rose, in bursts of
creativity interspersed with periods of depression and heavy drinking.
According to scientific and literary experts at Glasgow University his
creative spikes, along with his volatile love life, point to the
possibility that he suffered from the condition that
affects up to
three million
people in Britain.
Dr Daniel Smith, from the university’s Institute of Health and
Wellbeing, said: “Burns had a complicated and some might say tempestuous
personal history, with bouts of melancholic depression, heavy lifelong
alcohol consumption and considerable instability in relationships,
including a series of extramarital affairs.
“Although it is difficult to prove conclusively, it is possible that his
life history and his prodigious literary outputs may have been
influenced by a recurrent disorder of
Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/robert-burns-could-have-suffered-bipolar-disorder-1-3427401
Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/culture/books/robert-burns-could-have-suffered-bipolar-disorder-1-3427401
Saturday 14 January 2017
6 strange newspaper stories that shocked Victorian Britain
Somnambulists in peril
The Victorians in general, and readers of the weekly newspaper the Illustrated Police News (IPN)
in particular, had a fascination with the mobile but unconscious female
body. Sleepwalkers, or ‘somnambulists’ as the Victorians called them,
were among the favourite subjects for the IPN’s bawdy-minded
draughtsmen. Male somnambulists may have been news, but they were never Illustrated Police news, even if they performed a tap-dance on the roof of the House of Lords; the IPN’s somnambulists were all young, female, and scantily clad.
Mice are transformed into aggressive 'zombie' hunters after scientists flick a killer switch in their brain
They're known for their timidity and love
of cheese, but scientists have tapped into the 'killer instinct' of
mice, to turn them into aggressive 'zombies'.
Researchers
isolated the brain circuitry in mice that coordinates predatory
hunting, including one set of neurons in the amygdala - the brain's
centre of emotion and motivation, making the animal pursue prey.
They
also 'switched on' another set in the brain region signalling the
animal to use its jaw and neck muscles to bite anything in its path – a
little like a fictional zombie.
Sunday 8 January 2017
EDDIE HALL -STRONGMAN
About MeREAD MORE ON HIS WEB SITE
Hi and welcome to Eddie Hall's website, here you can find official links to Eddie's sponsors, contact his manager for bookings, buy merchandise including signed photos and t-shirts, tickets to his next UK Strongman contest, and keep up to date with Eddie's competitive accomplishments and lifestyle.
Eddie was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England 1988. His athletic career started as a National Championship swimmer; but bored of endless laps of the pool he turned his attention to the gym at 15. On leaving school, he worked as a truck mechanic up to the age of 26 and then became a full time strongman upon meeting his manager Mo Chaudry.
Eddie has since dedicated his life to becoming the world's strongest man, and his famous ever lasting words have been "if you never see me on the podium at world's strongest man, I probably died trying"
He's broken world records in front of Arnold Schwarzenegger, he's lifted things so heavy his eyes balls have burst out of his head, but mos
Thousands of toy eggs washed up on a German beach
What could be more enchanting and colorful than a thousand plastic round eggs washing up on to a German shore?
Well, probably a lot of things, but a thousand colored plastic eggs
washing up this week on the North sea coast on the island of Langeoog
and it’s really a sight to be seen. Each little toy, lining the sand on
the beach were greeted by tons of curious German children.
Reports
say that police suspect the toy eggs came from a freighter that “lost
part of its cargo during an intense storm,” according to NPR. Now, the
eggs have been collected by the residents of Langeoog and everyone seems
to be intrigued.
Of course with the happiness of the gifts also come the reality of the trash that washed up on their shoreline. Mayor Uwe Garrels told the Associated Press, “At first I thought this was a wonder, because everything was so colorful and so on, but then we realized that this is a huge mess in the end. ”-Read More
One-mile-long stretch of ancient trees is chopped down because squirrels have gnawed at branches causing them to fall in front of drivers
Gnawing squirrels have forced officials to chop down hundreds of thriving trees across a mile-long stretch of road.
Some
750 towering beech trees used to flank this section of the A38, a busy
road running through picturesque parts of Devon and Cornwall.
But
they have been reduced to barren, 4ft stumps because squirrels were
chomping off branches, which then fell in front of drivers.
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