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Genuine pictures of aliens
2007-08-04 20:08:00
It seems that Egypt is not the only place that has been visited by Aliens in ancient times. This plate called 'The Lolladoff plate' is a 12,000 year old stone dish found in Nepal. It clearly shows a disk shaped UFO (top of pic, hard to see from the angle of the plate however). There is also a figure on the disc looking remarkably similar to a Grey. Notice the spiral galaxy shape as well, with the alien inside it and the ufo at the begging of it. Galaxies come in spiral shape and through out India, Egypt and Peru and other ancient sites the spiral shape is very often seen. This galaxy spiral is probably there to tell us that they flew here from another galaxy, or the spiral shape could signify energy or eternity, other meanings attributed to the spiral by Egyptians and other ancient cultures with inexplicable advanced methods in astronomy and spirituality.Picture of a rock carving in Egypt, I took this picture myself and up close you can see ...
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Mothers in Philippines break Guinness World Record for breastfeeding
2007-08-04 08:55:00
MANILA, Philippines , 16 May 2006 ? Almost 4,000 mothers in the Philippines ? along with their babies ? have helped set a new world record for simultaneous breast-feeding. It easily beat the previous Guinness World Record set by 1,135 women in Berkeley, California. ?The malnutrition situation in the Philippines is devastating,? said UNICEF Representative in the Philippines Nicholas K. Alipui. ?The situation can be reversed with simple but effective measures. The effort to break the Guinness World Record is one such measure.? Mothers converge Early on the morning of 4 May, wave upon wave of mothers from different districts of Manila converged on the San Andres Sports Complex carrying their babies. Once all 3,738 women had been registered, Manila Mayor Jose ?Lito? Atienza gave the go-ahead for the record attempt to begin. The event, which required participants to breastfeed their babies for one minute, was organized by the City of Manila, Children for Breastfeeding (an organization ...
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U.S. Breast Feeding rates rise to Record high
2007-08-03 17:57:00
The percentage of U.S. mothers who breast-feed their babies has reached the highest level on record amid mounting evidence that it provides many health benefits to the child, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 74 percent of American women who gave birth in 2004 breast-fed their babies for at least some period of time, continuing an upward trend since the early 1990s. "We've made quite a bit of progress," CDC epidemiologist Dr. Celeste Philip, lead author of a CDC report on breast-feeding, said in a telephone interview. Breast -feeding rates just about reached the government's target of 75 percent, the report showed. But many women did not stick exclusively to breast-feeding in the first months after birth as recommended by experts, turning instead to baby formula, the report showed. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that women who do not have health problems exclusively breast-feed their infants f...
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Seven-legged lamb born
2007-08-03 10:50:00
A six-day-old lamb at a veterinary clinic on New Zealand's South Island bleats like any other newborn sheep, but is rather different in other ways. This lamb has seven legs, local media reported today. Two of the extra legs hang uselessly behind the lamb's forelegs. The animal has three hind legs, one of them with two hoofs. It walks using its two forelegs and three hind legs, the Ashburton Guardian newspaper said. The lamb was born last Friday on the farm of Dave and Di Callaghan. Mr Callaghan said he was surprised to find the creature, born with a twin, walking round in the paddock with its mother and normal twin sibling. "I have never seen anything like that," he said. Veterinarian Steve Williams at the Canterbury Vets clinic in the rural town of Methven said he believed an error during embryo formation had resulted in the lamb being born polydactyl - with many legs - a condition that occurs once in several million sheep. He said the lamb was also hermaphrodite and missing a po...
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Armless driver in spotlight
2007-08-02 12:55:00
Michael Wiley demonstrates how he drives in the driveway of his Port Richey homeNEW PORT RICHEY - Before there was Paris or Lindsay, there was Michael. That's Michael Francis Wiley, who has shown far more gumption than any spoiled celebutante but not much better judgment when behind the wheel. The Pasco County man overcame the loss of two arms and a leg in a childhood accident and taught himself how to drive using his stumps - but not, according to authorities, how to obey the rules of the road. Wiley's license has been suspended at least 19 times, and on Friday he is scheduled to be sentenced on a host of traffic and drug infractions. He faces up to five years in prison. The media clamor surrounding Wiley's day in court is reaching a fever pitch, at least by west Pasco standards. The 6th Judicial Circuit has imposed "pool" rules on media covering the sentencing hearing because so many Florida TV stations requested access. That means only one videocamera and one still photographe...
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Sex workers chronicle life in Indian brothels
2007-07-31 09:27:00
MUMBAI (Reuters) - An exclusive magazine for prostitutes is offering a snapshot of life in some of India's biggest brothels, reporting the murky world of pimps and violent customers and showcasing the dreams and talents of sex workers."Red Light Despatch", a monthly publication, is full of emotional outpourings of women sold to brothels as children, personal accounts of torture and harassment, poems and essays by prostitutes, book and film reviews and advocacy articles.Health workers and prostitutes sit together once a week in a tiny newsroom located inside a brothel in India's financial capital to discuss stories, headlines and the design of issues.The reporters, often themselves prostitutes or their relatives, file their contribution after scouring the brothels of Mumbai, Kolkata and New Delhi and some smaller cities."We choose the best stories for publishing," said Rupa Metgudd, a news coordinator and daughter of a former prostitute, sifting through reports for the latest editi...
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Scientists excited by Indonesian-caught coelacanth
2007-07-30 09:03:00
MANADO, Indonesia - Two months ago Indonesian fisherman Justinus Lahama caught a fish so exceptional that an international team of scientists rushed here to investigate.A very rare coelacanth fish as Indonesian, Japanese and French specialists (unseen) carry out an autopsy of in Manado, North Sulawesi, in June. Coelacanth s are among the world's oldest fish species. Their fossil records date back more than 360 million years and suggest the animal has changed little in that time. [Agencies]French experts equipped with sonar and GPS asked Lahama to reconstruct, in his dugout canoe, exactly what it was he did that enabled him to catch a rare coelacanth fish, an awkward-swimming species among the world's oldest. Last May 19, Lahama and his son Delvy manoevred their frail canoe into the Malalayang river, on the outskirts of Manado, on northern Sulawesi island. Like any other morning, they rowed out to sea and fished within 200 metres (yards) of the beach. "I very qui...
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town creates record ketchup packet
2007-07-29 20:57:00
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. (AP) ? First came the world's largest ketchup bottle. Now citizens of this southern Illinois community are after the record for the world's largest ketchup packet. Collinsville has partnered with the H.J. Heinz Co. to fill an 8-foot tall, 4-foot wide plastic pouch with 1,500 pounds of the tomato goop for a school fundraiser. "That's a lot of ketchup," said Tracey Parsons, a Heinz spokeswoman. The company donated 4,000 glass bottles of the condiment that people can buy for $1 and pour into the packet. Hundreds in the city, which is the home of a 170-foot-tall water tower shaped like a giant ketchup bottle, showed up Saturday to participate in the ketchup filling and other fundraising activities. Organizers expected the packet to be filled to capacity with 130 gallons by Saturday evening. The feat is being submitted to the Guinness Book of World Record s. If accepted, it will be the world's largest ketchup packet, Parsons said. The proceeds will go to the Colli...
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The world's most beauty pageant Contest in Arab
2007-07-29 09:21:00
The world's most beauty pageant Contest in Arab The world's most upmarket beauty pageant - without a bikini in sightWomen from across the Arab world came together to compete in the Miss Arab World contest in Cairo - with Miss Bahrain, Wafa Yaqoop, being crowned the winner.Winner: Wafa Yaqoop is crowned Miss Arab World 2007 Candidates came from 16 Arab countries including Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Iraq, Libya and Palestine.Contestants: Palestinian contestant Merna Kattan (left) and Kuwaiti contestant Fatma GhadbanBeauty : Iraqi contestant Mayada Hussein (left) and Moroccan contestant Sarah Banani It is the second time the competition has been staged.Line-up: Contestants in the second Miss Arab World Contest
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Sex for the motherland: Russian youths encouraged to procreate at camp
2007-07-28 20:32:00
Remember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp's mass wedding. "They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia".Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormitory tents arranged in a heart-shape and called the Love Oasis, where they can start procreating for the motherland.With its relentlessly upbeat tone, bizarre ideas and tight control, it sounds like a weird indoctrination session for a phoney religious cult.But this organisation - known as "Nashi", meaning "Ours" - is youth movement run by Vladimir Putin's Kremlin that has become a central part of Russian political life.Nashi's annual camp, 200 miles outside Moscow, is attended by 10,000 uniformed youngsters and involves two weeks of lectures and physical fitness. Attendance is monitored via compulsory electronic badges and anyone who misses three events is expelled. So are drinkers; alcohol is banned. But sex is encouraged, and condoms are nowhere on ...
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top 10 sex world record
2007-07-27 14:05:00
1) The most ejaculatory orgasms ever recorded in 1 hour for a man is 16.2) The farthest a woman has been recorded to ejaculate is about 9'29" (3 m).3) The greatest distance attained for a jet of semen that has ever been recorded is 18'9" (5.71 m) which was achieved with a "substantial" amount of seminal fluid by Horst Schultz.4) The average speed of a man's ejaculation is 28 miles (45.05 km) per hour. The average speed of a city bus is 25 miles (40.22 km) per hour.5) Having swallowed the most amount of semen ever officially recorded Michelle Monaghan had 1.7 pints (0.96 liter) of semen pumped out of her stomach in Los Angeles in July 1991.6) The female gangbang world record is owned by a woman named Houston who had intercourse with 620 men in one day! A video was made of this historic event. As it took about 10 hours (with a few very brief breaks) to do it, the average time of intercourse was less than 58 seconds.7) Women hold the record for having the most orgasms. The biggest a...
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World's First Flying Car Enters Production
2007-07-26 11:17:00
World's First Flying Car Enters Production In a moment we've been waiting for since the first time we saw The Jetsons, the first flying car has finally gone on sale. Just like the car George uses to drop off the kids, the Moller M200G Volantor is shaped like a saucer. To avoid the need to pass FAA regulations, the civilian version of the Volantor is restricted to heights of 10 feet, but can travel as fast as 50mph and fly for up to 90minutes. Military or rescue versions could be unencumbered by such limitations. Depending on the number of orders, prices could be as low as $90,000. Video of the Volantor in action after the jump.The Moller M200 Flying Car Moller, better known for the yet-to-reach-production Skycar, have already started work on the 67 orders received so far. They envision uses including extreme off roading - the Volantor is unencumbered by any ground-based obstacles - or as a ferry between a yacht and the land. In the long run, they'd like to see the vehicle used as t...
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New born snake baby shocks Saudi family
2007-07-25 10:45:00
Summary: A Saudi family in Jeddah was in shock at the sight of their new born baby badly deformed by a genetic skin disease. The mother of seven girls who had wanted a boy claimed she had predicted she would give birth to a "snake" days before the delivery.Date: 20 July 2007Shotlist: Various shots of the newly born Saudi baby 00:00-01:23Diverse shots from the Kurtoglan village in Van 01:23-02:23Interview with doctor at the Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Ercan Kirimi (in Turkish) 02:23-03:56Kirimi showing pictures of Harlequin ichtiyosis cases on computer 03:56-04:09Photos of babies with Harlequin ichthiyosis disease 04:09-04:54Origin: JeddahI was in CAYTV this morning and I happened to open a video of a baby who look like a snake, it said that that baby was born in Jordan and she died after an hour. I don?t know if I?m late or not but for those who did not see it yet, you can view it in this link. Accordingly, when the mother of that baby learned that the baby she was conceiving was...
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The Top 10 Weirdest and Funniest Japanese Condoms
2007-07-23 17:08:00
condoms have a long history in Japan, beginning with the earliest versions which were made from leather (!), tortoise shells (!!) or even horns (!!!)... is this where the expression "are you horny?" came from?Thankfully, condom technology has advanced to the point where 580 million condoms are sold each year in Japan and competition within the industry is, er, stiff. Indeed, Japan boasts more condoms used per person per year than any other country. To get ahead in the race for safe sex supremacy, Japanese consumers are being treated to innovative market thrusts that are by turns interesting, unusual and downright weird. So, leave that poor turtle alone and come with us (ahem), as we count down The Top 10 Weirdest JapaneseCondoms !1) Super Big Boy Condoms... to Win, Place or Show!Whoa... easy now big fella!You know, there is a sort of endearing innocence to the Japanese sensibility that comes through from time to time, and this is one of those times. The earnest marketers at Okamoto s...

Record storms kill 152 in China
2007-07-22 09:19:00
BEIJING - Record rainfall this week triggered floods, landslides and mud flows that killed 152 people in China and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported Sunday.Since the start of the annual rainy season in June, floods have hit nearly half of China's regions and killed at least 400 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said.Worst-hit this week was southern China's Yunnan province, where rain triggered floods and landslides from Wednesday to Saturday.More than 4,000 houses were destroyed and 386,000 people evacuated, Xinhua said. It cited the Ministry of Civil Affairs as saying that 59 people were killed in Yunnan, most of them caught in violent mud flows on Thursday.Eastern China's Shandong province and the southwestern city of Chongqing were also badly hit, with rain inflicting severe damage to infrastructure, transportation and telecommunications, Xinhua said.In Chongqing, 42 people died and 12 have been reported missing, it said. Another 300,00...
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Woman faces charges for kissing painting
2007-07-22 09:13:00
MARSEILLE, France - A woman has been arrested on suspicion of kissing a painting by American artist Cy Twombly and smudging the bone-white canvas with her lipstick, French judicial officials said Saturday.Police said they arrested the woman after she kissed the work on Thursday. She is to be tried in a court in the southern city of Avignon on Aug. 16 for "damage to a work of art," judicial officials said.The painting, which is worth an estimated $2 million, was on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Avignon. It is part of an exhibition slated to run at the museum through Sept. 30. Officials did not provide further details on the painting.Twombly is known for his abstract paintings combining painting and drawing techniques, repetitive lines and the use of graffiti, letters and words.Born in Lexington, Va., in 1928, Twombly has lived in Italy for nearly a half- century. He won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale in 2001.
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5 Deadliest Cities in The World
2007-07-20 12:12:00
1. Chernobyl, Ukraine When you hear Chernobyl, you immediately think nuclear disaster. It was, in fact the worst nuclear accident in history. A huge fallout cloud of radioactive dust spread across vast swathes of the Soviet Union, Europe and Eastern North America. As a result, an estimated 9 thousand people have contracted cancer and died. The disaster displaced over 336,000 people. Life expectancy is low. However, according to scientist James Lovelock, Chernobyl was an ecological success: animals can now roam around free without being hunted. Environmental Graffiti disagrees. 2. Dzerzhinsk, Russia Until recently, the city of Dzerzhinsk in Russia used to produce huge quantities of chemical weapons, including mustard gas and lewisite. Chemical weapons ceased to be produced by 1945. However, the waste was buried underground, contaminating water and crops. The site however, remains the largest producer of chemicals for the Russian Federation. Life expectancy is low at 42 for men and ...
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3 girls in tubs successful in 60km crossing
2007-07-19 11:22:00
NIIGATA -- Three women completed the 60-kilometer crossing from Sado to Honshu in tub boats Saturday, following in the footsteps of a mythical figure who traversed the straits to see her lover on the mainland.Kanako Takahashi, 26, Miho Hamada, 25 and Miki Takano, 27, each rowed a tub boat across the Sado Straits to make the first successful crossing in the craft for 40 years; the third overall, but the first ever to be completed solo."My arms and hands are really hurting, but I'm so glad it was successful," Hamada said.A Sado tale tells of a woman called Omitsu paddling one of the island's famous tub boats from Sado to Kashiwazaki, where her fisherman lover Gosaku lived. The Sado Tourism Association planned the three women's crossing, which began at about 10 a.m. Friday in Sado.Takahashi, Hamada and Takano, all clad in traditional garments, set off in their 1.9-meter tubs at about 10 a.m. Friday, provisioned with food, water and a bucket to use as a toilet. They arrived in Kashiw...
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How to Chill a Hot Beer or Soda in 3 Minutes
2007-07-09 10:24:00
So my father and brother-in-law were over this weekend for a barbecue. My fridge was stuffed with appetizers and salads so I was only able to fit a 12-pack of beer. Normally, this would have been enough so I didn't worry about it. After a couple hours, the stash was depleted.I did have some more beer in the garage but the 90+ degree Chicago heat had rendered it useless for at least an hour. Now what? These guys all had designated drivers and, in all honesty, they wanted more beer. Little did I know, the old man had a trick up his sleeve that I had never heard of. If I had a video camera ready, I would have taped this because it was pretty cool (sorry, no pun intended there).Here is how he took beer from 80+ degrees to (seemingly) 40 degrees in about 3 minutes. 1. He took 6 hot beers from my garage and he placed them into a steel pot from the kitchen 2. He tossed in enough ice cubes to completely cover the beer 3. He then filled the pot with water 4. Next, and this is the trick,...
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World's Biggest Gay Pride Parade
2007-07-07 02:47:00
Sao Paulo hosts world's largest gay pride paradeSAO PAULO, Brazil -- Millions of people packed the streets of Sao Paulo for what organizers said was the world's largest gay pride parade, dancing and waving rainbow flags in a carnival-like atmosphere to condemn homophobia, racism and sexism. At least 3 million people filled the canyonlike Paulista Avenue on Sunday, organizers said, surpassing last year's count of 2.5 million. The larger count was confirmed by a police spokesman who is not authorized to be quoted by name under department rules. "This is the biggest parade on the planet," Tourism Minister Marta Suplicy said. "Our city is showing, once again, its respect for diversity." In comparison, recent gay pride parades in New York and San Francisco have drawn tens of thousands of people, and world gay pride day celebrations in Berlin in 2004 attracted between 200,000 and 500,000 participants.(AP) Participants kiss each other during the annual Gay Pride Parade in Sao Paulo,...
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Turtles to test wireless network
2007-07-05 16:56:00
DEERFIELD, Mass. - From the way he thrashed his head, kicked and tried to make a getaway, M16 made it clear he didn't like human contact. But the researchers wrangling with him could be helping to save his species.Despite his best efforts to escape the clutches of two scientists from the University of Massachusetts and get back to the swamp he was just lifted from, the 40-pound snapping turtle finally gave up and let Mike Jones and Matt Garber do their jobs. Using a combination of orthodontic cement and duct tape, the students attached a postcard-sized waterproof computer to the turtle's shell. After christening the 16th male turtle he found in the area as "M16," Jones scribbled some information about the turtle's shell markings into a field book and set the snapper free. Knowing where M16 goes could help scientists protect him.n an experiment taking place along the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts, two otherwise unrelated groups of researchers are working together: compu...
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The little girl who can give birth to her own brother or sister
2007-07-03 22:53:00
When Melanie Boivin learned that her young daughter Flavie had a rare condition which would damage her fertility, she was determined to find a way to help her. After a year of research on the Internet, talking to experts and discussing it with her partner, she came up with the answer - to donate some of her own eggs for eventual use by seven-year-old Flavie. As a result, the little girl could one day give birth to her own half-brother or sister while Miss Boivin, 35, would be both a mother and grandmother to the infant. "The role of a mother is essentially to help her children and if I could do anything in my power to help her I had to do it, and because of my age I had to do it now," Miss Boivin said. "I told myself if she had needed another organ like a kidney I would volunteer without any hesitation, and it is the same kind of thought process for this. "It is not the biological aspect that is as important as caring and raising the child. She would be the real mother as she w...
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Cell Phone Explodes and Burns Off Owner?s Nipple
2007-07-03 12:21:00
You often hear of stories how a cell phone can harm people who have heart problems and use pacemakers or that there is radiation in the airwaves that effect the brain. Rarely do you actually consider your cell phone would explode on you.That is exactly what happened to poor Cai.?Right after I powered on the cell phone and pressed the button it exploded. My nipple got burned so badly from the explosion?.20 year-old Cai paid $50 for a second hand cell phone and followed the instruction that the battery needs to be fully charged before use.Next morning he got out the bed, couldn?t wait to try out his new toy, right after he powered on and he began to press a few buttons, it exploded.Cai wasn?t wearing any clothing at the time, his left chest got badly burned including his nipple. The cell phone was some ?Made in China ? local brand with cheap quality and the battery wasn?t even safety certified.An office girl also bought a similar new cell phone and it exploded as well, her nose was hur...
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The human cannonball who has mastered the art of flying
2007-07-02 11:12:00
Blasted out of the smoking cannon, this daredevil appears to have mastered the impossible Art of flying. But seconds later Mike - the Bullet - Smith loses his inevitable battle with gravity and lands 50 yards away on a giant safety net. The cannonball man, wearing a special red jumpsuit and safety helmet, was the star attraction at the Royal Norfolk Show in Norwich. Thousands of spectators clustered around the waterlogged field on Thursday to watch him execute a perfect arc across the sky. Photographer Bill Smith was perfect placed to film his spectacular ascent with his high-speed professional Nikon camera. He said: "I was in the right place at the right time. The blast from the cannon was so loud the first few frames were a little wonky, but I managed to keep it steady. "My camera, which takes around eight shots a second, was for the job." Mr Smith used all 29 frames his camera took of the flight to produce this astounding composite picture. Having perfected his craft over...
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Kiss Caught on Camera Raises Issues of Big Brother Surveillance
2007-07-01 16:20:00
Surveillance cameras in schools are meant to keep children safe and in-line, but a kiss, a camera and a controversy have Gig Harbor High School in Washington in an uproar. A security camera captured two girls kissing, but it?s what happened next that sparked a surveillance debate. With Warren County schools having surveillance cameras not only in the high schools but in the middle school and elementary schools as well, you?ll want to read on because reporter Keith Eldridge?s brings you the story that asks the question: When does Big Brother surveillance cross the line?The dean of students said he saw two girls kissing. He checked the surveillance tape then shared what he saw with the parents of one of the girls. They then pulled her out of school, which then pulled the peninsula school district into a big controversy. ?They weren?t harming other students, so I don?t think the administrators had a right to show it to her parents or anybody else,? student, Laura Varadi said. ?I think ...
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Improve Your Sex Life with Yoga
2007-06-29 18:15:00
You already know yoga can give you greater flexibility, better muscle tone, a surefire way to release stress, and maybe even enlightenment. But better sex? Really? You betcha. Yoga offers myriad physical and emotional benefits that add up to more fun between the sheets and a more fulfilling, meaningful sexual relationship with your partner.Whether heating up your sex life is the main goal of your yoga practice or just a happy side effect, chalk this information up as yet another great reason to roll out the mat. Here are the major ways it works:Sensuality?Yoga is sexy,? says Colleen Saidman, co-founder of Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor, N.Y., and co-star of Gaiam yoga DVDs Advanced Yoga and Yoga Burn. ?How often do you put on as few clothes as possible and stick your butt in the air??On a more subtle level, yoga helps you develop an awareness of sensations in your body. Learning to feel the weight rolling into the inside edges of your palms in downward dog, for example, teaches you to sa...
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Baby pygmy hippo is born at Paris Zoo
2007-06-28 12:50:00
PARIS - Aldo looks, eats and lazes like a hippopotamus ? but he's only about as big as a human baby, at 21 inches. The pygmy hippo, born this month at the Paris Zoo, is one of only a few dozen in Europe, bred in a special program to boost the rare species.There are no more than 3,000 around the world, mostly concentrated in west African countries such as Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau or Liberia, said Juliane Villenain, a biologist at the zoo in the Bois de Vincennes, a park on Paris' eastern edge. According to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, pygmy hippos have already disappeared from Nigeria.Pygmy hippopotamuses are, unlike their bigger brethren, lonely animals, except during reproduction season. The female takes care of the new born by herself, as little Aldo's mother Anais did, Villenain said.His older brothers, now 7 and 6 years old, live in Spain and Britain.Aldo likes alfalfa, carrots, apples and all sorts of vegetables. When captive, pygmy hippos ...
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Man ban on the beach keeps the pests at bay
2007-06-27 10:40:00
Italy has opened its first women-only beach, away from the prying eyes and wandering hands of the country?s notoriously lascivious men.The beach at the resort of Riccione, on the Adriatic coast, is also closed to children, with mothers encouraged to leave their offspring with their father or grandparents.Signs at the entrance to Beach 134 say ?No Men?. One sign depicts a macho-looking man in a bathing costume apparently ready with his next chat-up line. But he has a diagonal line across his torso, in a manner similar to signs saying ?No Dogs?. Ironically, dogs are allowed on the ?Pink Beach?.?This is not a lesbian beach,? Fausto Ravaglia, the businessman behind the idea to ban men, said. ?It is simply for women to be themselves.?Cinzia Donati, 43, a housewife from Milan, agreed. ?I?ve left my husband and son behind ? and I feel I?ve arrived in paradise,? she said. The beach was ?a really classy place, beautifully clean and well organised. It?s perfect for us women. We are so much be...
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The baby gorillas who think their keeper is the best mum in the world
2007-06-26 20:44:00
For these two baby gorillas, clinging on to mum is the most natural thing in the world - even if she is making a cup of tea, rather than foraging in a tropical forest. Six-month-old girl Kouki and ten-month-old boy Oudiki were abandoned by their separate mothers soon after they were born. Since then, they have been hand-reared by zookeepers Donna Honey and Matt Stagg at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent. The western lowland gorillas are now doing so well that they are being primed for a return to the wild in their native Africa. Miss Honey, 25, said that the secret of mothering her two unlikely charges was to behave as much like a mother gorilla as possible. "We don't tend to carry them," she said. "We encourage them to grip on to us like they would their mum. We also make gorilla noises to make them feel at home."
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Astronaut Sunita Williams Sets the Record Straight, and Long
2007-06-20 11:40:00
Call it a great leap forward for women in space.After six years of people, three of whom have been women, living in space aboard the International Space Station, the female time-in-space endurance record set 11 years ago has been broken.And it was broken in a single flight.Image to right: Astronaut Sunita L. Williams , Expedition 15 flight engineer, wearing squat harness pads, poses for a photo while using the Interim Resistive Exercise Device (IRED) equipment in the Unity node of the International Space Station. Credit: NASANASA Astronaut Sunita Williams set a new record this morning at 12:47 CDT for the longest duration spaceflight by a woman. At that time, Williams surpassed Shannon Lucid?s mark of 188 days, 4 hours set in 1996.Williams began her record-setting flight when she launched with the crew of STS-116 in December 2006. The Massachusetts native remained onboard the station as a member of the Expedition 14 crew and then joined the Expedition 15 crew in April. Her spacefligh...
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