Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Chinese face transplant Li Guoxing dies
A CHINESE man who received a face transplant in 2006 has died, highlighting the risks of a recent groundbreaking US operation.
Li Guoxing, 32, died at his rural home in rugged southwestern China after forsaking immune-system drugs in favour of herbal medicine, his surgeon Guo Shuzhong said.
"His death was not caused by the surgery. Our operation was a success. But we cannot rule out a connection with the immune system drugs,'' said Dr Guo, a surgeon with Xijing Hospital in the northern city of Xian who operated on Li in April 2006.
Dr Qiao Guangliang, chief of Li's village in mountainous Yunnan province, also confirmed the death.
Both men said the exact cause of death was unknown as no autopsy was performed.
Li's death had been rumoured on Chinese blogs but has received scant attention in the mainstream press.
While the news of his death was confirmed today, Li reportedly died in July.
US doctors in Cleveland last week they conducted the world's first near-total facial transplant on a disfigured woman.
It was the fourth known facial transplant in the world.
Doctors in France had performed the first partial transplant in 2005 on a 38-year-old woman disfigured in a dog attack.
The next year, Li, a farmer, underwent an apparently successful operation to replace about half his face after it was ripped off by a wild bear.
Source : news.com
Monday, December 29, 2008
Boffins keep transplant lungs alive in glass dome
The idea is that often transplant docs have some lungs on hand, and people needing their present ones replaced, but the available lungs aren't in good enough nick to be used.
But now, with the Toronto XVIVO Lung Perfusion System, a set of lungs can be whipped out of the donor and put into a "protective, transparent bubble-like chamber". Here they are hooked up to a "pump, ventilator and filters through which flow oxygen, nutrients and a special solution" and kept at human body temperature.
According to Dr Shaf Keshavjee of Toronto General Hospital, "lungs can be safely kept on this circuit for 12 hours in order to assess, maintain and treat them before successfully transplanting them".
Full Article and Source : theregister
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Robot endures Antarctic cold to prepare for space mission
The robot overcame some technical surprises to gather information on the lake's internal structure - data many Antarctica experts once despaired of knowing - and spot a colony of microbes unlike any seen before.
Scientists named the robot ENDURANCE (for Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer) in a nod to the ship Sir Ernest Shackleton was forced to abandon on his failed Antarctic expedition a century ago.
The device patrols under the ice like a $5 million Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner while a pair of scientists with tracking antennas follow it across the ice above like overprotective parents.
Its only way out of the lake is a single, cubicle-sized hole in the ice that is guarded by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago. A fiber-optic cable is the sole lifeline that connects the robot to scientists waiting by the hole in wood-floored tents.
ENDURANCE was built by Stone Aerospace in Austin, Texas, from a design used for Mexican waters. When it first explored cold water in February at Lake Mendota in Madison, Wis., the sonar was iffy, thrusters balked, and it barely found its way back to the starting point.
Full Article and Source : physorg
Trail of the black panther leads to Kenthurst
With at least 19 sightings reported this year, big cat hunters believe they're becoming bolder as they search for food and mates.
Cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy said the elusive creatures - usually reported as fleeting sightings at night, often on lonely country roads - have been reported as far afield as Kenthurst, Lithgow, Penrith and Appin as they find migratory routes around Warragamba dam, linking breeding populations from the northwest to southwest via the Blue Mountains.
For Full Article and Source : The Daily Telegraph
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Who has the longest ear hair in the world?
This is one record we would never want to break and gladly leave it to Radhakant Bajpai of India. One of Radhakant Bajpai's hair measures an amazing 13.2 cm. or 5.19 inches.
Source: thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast
Japanese who say they are the descendants of Jesus
For someone who claims to be the direct descendant of Jesus Christ, Junichiro Sawaguchi is planning a distinctly unfestive Christmas.
On Dec 25, the round-faced Mr Sawaguchi will get up in the icy predawn of northern Japan, put on his uniform of suit and tie and head off for another day as a civil servant in the construction division of Aomori Prefectural Government.
But on his way out the door of his home, in the hamlet of Shingo, he will probably give a nod in the direction of the mound of earth topped by a wooden cross that is the last resting place of the man that Christianity reveres as the Messiah.
"I'm not really planning anything at all for the 25th as it doesn't really matter to us," said 52-year-old Mr Sawaguchi. "I know I am descended from Jesus but as a Buddhist it's just not all that important."
Married with a son and daughter, Mr Sawaguchi may display the same degree of religious flexibility that is common in Japan, but his beliefs are firm. Jesus is buried in the neighbouring field, along with his brother Isukiri, and nearby are the scattered remains of pyramid that was larger than those in Egypt but toppled in an earthquake in 1857.
Seven hours north of Tokyo by train and bus, Shingo only had garlic farming to to put it on the map until a scroll was found in 1935 by a Shinto priest in nearby Ibaraki Prefecture that was identified as Christ's will and, bizzarely, identified Shingo as his last resting place.
The scroll is on display in the "Village of Christ Legend Museum," which closes in the tourist off-season between October and April, and is the basis of a very different take on the incredible tale.
According to the document, Jesus arrived in Aomori at the age of 21, where he took the name Daitenku Taro Jurai, studied the Japanese language and developed a deep affinity for the country and people. Eleven years later – conveniently the same period in the Bible that his whereabouts cannot be accounted for – he returned to Judea but fell foul of the Romans.
Instead of being crucified, however, the Romans got the wrong man and nailed his brother, Isukiri, to the cross. Carrying his brother's ear and a lock of hair from the Virgin Mary, Jesus fled across Siberia to Shingo, where he grew rice, married a local woman called Miyuko and had three daughters, it claims.
At the ripe old age of 106, Jesus died peacefully and was interred in the mound that sits on Mr Sawaguchi's land.
"My family has always owned this land, but I'm not even sure how many generations there are between us," says Mr Sawaguchi, with his self-depreciating chuckle.
But it is not just the physical evidence that local people hold up as evidence of their village being the site of Christ's eternal repose; the hamlet's former name, Herai, sounds slightly similar to "Hebrew," the chants in the summer festival at the site of the tomb sound somewhat Judaic and Mr Sawaguchi's grandfather stood out in the neighbourhood for being tall and thin, completely the opposite of these sturdy mountain folk.
But most tellingly, he had blue eyes, they say. Shingo has built up a respectable income from a tourism trade that has visitors buying Tomb of Christ biscuits, sweets, chopsticks and postcards, but Mr Sawaguchi leaves that side of his fame to his neighbours. He is content to talk to some of the visitors to his ancestor's grave, tend his garlic plant smallholding and go to work.
Source : telegraph.co.uk
Friday, December 26, 2008
Coral springs back from tsunami
Scientists have reported a rapid recovery in some of the coral reefs that were damaged by the Indian Ocean tsunami four years ago.
It had been feared that some of the reefs off the coast of Indonesia could take a decade to recover.
The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) found evidence of rapid growth of young corals in badly-hit areas.
A spokesman said reefs damaged before the tsunami were also recovering.
Some communities were abandoning destructive fishing techniques and even transplanting corals into damaged areas, the WCS said.
"This is a great story of ecosystem resilience and recovery," said Stuart Campbell, co-ordinator of the WCS's Indonesia Marine Program.
"These findings provide new insights into coral recovery processes that can help us manage coral reefs in the face of climate change."
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a reef expert from the University of Queensland in Australia who did not take part in the study, said the findings were not surprising since corals typically recovered if not affected by fishing and coastal development.
"We are seeing similar things around the southern Great Barrier Reef where reefs that experience major catastrophe can bounce back quite quickly," the scientist told the Associated Press.
Countries across the Indian Ocean have been remembering the 2004 disaster, which claimed some 230,000 lives.
Prayers were said in Indonesia, Thailand and India on Friday, while Sri Lanka declared a two-minute silence in memory of the dead.
Source : news.bbc
Crocodile found in bath in London
Steve North made the discovery while carrying out door-to-door inquiries to advertise Southwark Council's pest control service.
A resident in Peckham invited him in and showed him the 2ft long crocodile.
The man said he had a 'problem' in his bathroom and asked Mr North to take a look at it.
Mr North said: "I followed him in. What I didn't expect was to be eyeballed by a 2ft long crocodile, happily lounging in the bath."
The man, a tenant who was renting the flat, said he was looking after the crocodile for a friend.
A team of animal control experts had to be brought in to remove the crocodile and take it away.
Meanwhile, another pest control officer, Leslie Leonard, was asked to go to a home in Walworth, south London, to collect an unwanted guinea pig and a rabbit - and instead found more than one million cockroaches.
He said: "They were everywhere - on the walls, the ceilings, in the chest of drawers, everywhere.
"The resident living in and among them was too frightened to call someone to get some help."
The guinea pig and rabbit were taken away and then officers had to spray the property twice a day for six weeks to get rid of the cockroaches.
The men revealed their most bizarre job experiences while promoting the relaunch of its free pest control service in the borough of Southwark.
Source : telegraph.co.uk
Face similar provision from Obama
'Hobbit' Fossils Represent A New Species, Concludes Anthropologist
University of Minnesota anthropology professor Kieran McNulty (along with colleague Karen Baab of Stony Brook University in New York) has made an important contribution toward solving one of the greatest paleoanthropological mysteries in recent history -- that fossilized skeletons resembling a mythical "hobbit" creature represent an entirely new species in humanity's evolutionary chain.
Discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, controversy has surrounded the fossilized hominid skeletons of the so-called "hobbit people," or Homo floresiensis ever since. Experts are still debating whether the 18,000-year-old remains merely belong to a diminutive population of modern-day humans (with one individual exhibiting "microcephaly," an abnormally small head) or represent a previously unrecognized branch in humanity's family tree.
Using 3D modeling methods, McNulty and his fellow researchers compared the cranial features of this real-life "hobbit" to those of a simulated fossil human (of similar stature) to determine whether or not such a species was distinct from modern humans.
Source and picture : sciencedaily
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Angel Pantoja Medina Stood Upright At His Wake. What Did You Do Today, Lazy Ass?
Dressed in a Yankees baseball cap an
d sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in his mother’s living room.
His brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper the victim had long said he wanted to be upright for his own wake: “He wanted to be happy, standing.”
Angel was found dead last Friday, buried underneath a bridge. They’re still investigating the cause of death. Not being investigated? How this is going to effect that one caterer who didn’t get the memo and kept wondering why impeccably coordinated dude in the corner kept side-eyeing him all day.
Source : guanabee.comPlane goes missing in Bermuda Triangle
The pilot of a plane that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle with 11 passengers aboard had only a U.S. student pilot license and should have never been allowed to fly, Dominican authorities said Wednesday.
Adriano Jimenez had been stripped of his Dominican license in 2006 because he was caught flying multiengine planes when he was only authorized to fly helicopters, said Pedro Dominguez, president of the Dominican Pilots Association. Two weeks ago, he had a minor accident while landing a small plane at a Dominican airport.
"An in-depth investigation was never opened to prevent what today we are lamenting," Dominguez said.
Jimenez loaded 11 passengers onto a twin-engine plane in Santiago, Dominican Republic, on Monday and filed a flight plan for a landing in Mayaguana Island in the Bahamas, but he never arrived, according to the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute.
Jimenez sent an emergency signal about 35 minutes after takeoff and then disappeared from the radar. He was flying in low visibility over rough seas, according to U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Barry Bena.
Rescue crews have searched about 4,000 square miles (10,300 square kilometers) but have not turned up any sign of the plane or its passengers, said Lt. Matt Moorlag of the Coast Guard.
The plane went missing in the Bermuda Triangle, a zone of the Atlantic Ocean noted for a supposedly high number of unexplained losses of small boats and aircraft.
The U.S. Coast Guard says the mysteries can usually be attributed to storms that flare up quickly and to swift, Gulf Stream currents that wash away evidence of wreckage.
"Overall, the U.S. Coast Guard is not impressed with supernatural explanations of disasters at sea," Moorlag said.
The missing aircraft's owner, Luis Perez of Puerto Rico, said he hired a pilot to fly the BN2A MK III Trislander to the Dominican Republic so that Jimenez, a potential buyer, could inspect it.
The pilot who was supposed to fly the plane with Jimenez at his side refused to do so when Jimenez arrived at the airport with 11 passengers, according to Luis Irizarry, an attorney for Perez' company. He said Jimenez then took the plane himself without authorization.
Jimenez, 43, received a U.S. student pilot license in March, according to U.S. Federal Aviation Administration records.
Dominguez recently raised concerns with the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute about other pilots who allegedly provide illegal charter flights using private planes.
Santiago Rosa, aerial navigation director for the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute, did not respond to requests for comment.
Source : news yahoo
Picture : Model
Monday, October 20, 2008
Iran Catchs Pigeon Spy
According to report of Etemad Melli newspaper, Monday ( 20 / 10), one of done be cached by in Kashan Town, Isfahan Province. The animal is attached circular of difficult small steel and equipments seen by entropic eye.
" Beginning of this month, a black pigeon is cached to use circulus of iron having colour blue and other equipments, " said source which refuse to by mention its(the name to AFP press agency. The source do not mention how fate of bird is the next.
Natanz is station factory enrichment of uranium underground in Iran who(which location by do not far from Kashan. The factory activity frets Western countries and Israel suspecting by Iran develops nuclear weapon. Iran repeatedly argues the accusation. They call nuclear factory of Iran for industry and importance of peace.
Last year, Iran protests upper formal act of ACE sending by spy to observe nuclear program of them.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Found by Gladiator Mausoleum
Mausoleum a gladiator so called Markus Nonius Macrinus be recently found by in Roma by the ancient experts. Markus is gladiator pride of Emperor alive Marcus Aurelius by the end of second century for together battle in obtaining feather in one's cap in Europe continent.
" This historic invention about nation of Roma of vital importance by to see in clearly the life during 20 or 30 year, " said senior archeology, Daniella Rossi, in Roma, Sunday ( 19 / 10). The mausoleum is found alongside frontier north Town Via Flamia.
There is marble stone giving by inspiration and frieze which have by been looked after by respecting during for centuries. Altogether buried by in mud exactly by protects object Worth's it when deluge in Tiber River.
Rossi adds, still many again mausoleums the buried in mud and the existing the archeology go on looking for final resort mausoleum the the gladiators. Besides gladiator mausoleum, in the situs there is emperor residence which is in by Roma downtown, also believed by there is underground road, place of Emperor Caligula kills the soldier at that moment
Friday, October 3, 2008
Is there a Madonna-Alex Rodriguez Sex Tape?
Is there a Madonna-Alex Rodriguez Sex Tape? At least one video snapping voyeur says so!
An unidentified New York man is demanding fistful of cash for footage of Alex and Madge doing the mattress mambo in an apartment allegedly used by the pair for secret afternoon trysts.
In a series of emails to media outlets, the cameraman claims he is in possession of two month old footage of the pair having sex in a New York City apartment owned by a pal of Madonna.
The cameraman – who is also a friend of the apartment owner – claimed he found out about the pair’s secret affair and secretly installed a hidden camera in the living room with the lens pointed at the sofa.
The cameraman is willing to sell the tape to the highest bidder, with the asking price starting at $1 million.
But legal experts say if even if the sex tape is legit, the seller would likely face prosecution.
“If footage was obtained in this way it would be an outrageous invasion of privacy. Even if the video existed it would probably be seized by the courts.’’
Madonna’s lawyers in the meantime have said that they are “aware” of the claims but are not commenting.
Source : popcrunchSunday, September 14, 2008
Is Is It Correct That Mccain don't Understand Computer
In advertisement its campaign Obama all hollow jeers McCain problem do not understand computer technology. In campaign advertisement he mentions, McCain age by 72 year ignores how using computer and ignores way sends enamel.
In the campaign, Obama emphasizes that to be able to lead State, knowledge about technology is an absolute, while McCain age by 72 year be known really ignores many the problem of technologies.
The Side Of McCain do not receive the matter. They tell McCain always goes to bring laptop.
Do need an President understands computer technology?
How according to you?
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Today Google having acquisition TextCube
Joyce Kim, a blogger, tell that TextCube has cleaner dashboard. In our TextCube also easier to integrate video, photograph and podcast in postings. It is said there are fitter drag-and-drop watering down by to enter photograph, format text around picture, create slide show, re size picture and others. Chyme calls that beauty of Text Cube lays in the modesty.
Story Of Nursemaid Barack Obama
Jakarta - Feel have never met since 32 last year, former nursemaid Barack Obama wish to meet. Even, although Obama do not become President USA, Mbak Nun wish to meet, remember his naughty.
" I disjointed since Barry class primary, since then I not have ever there are contact again, more than anything else Maya (the sister Obama), do not know contact where? Because since childhood he be also gone away with his mother, " said Lia ( 47) alias Mbak Nun which is met in its contract matter in Jalan Traditional party, Manggarai South, Tebet, Jakarta South, Friday ( 12 / 9 / 2008).
" I want meets to him, more than anything else I hear he wants to become President USA. I miss get if meeting, I remember to the mischief. President cancel to also I want meets, more than anything else Maya, his sister, " Mbak Nun flux also by confesses sure Barack Obama recognizes with himself, because she knows in left foot bent Obama is hurt ex- fall to got at the time of climbing mango tree.
Mbak Nun till the year 1981 himself still still working with Lolo Santoro family, stepfather Barack Obama during 10 year. " Since I married, I still liking to play to house Mr. Lolo in Menteng Dalam, " say her.
According To Mbak Nun, after mother and his stepfather divorced, himself for a while meet with Barry. That moment, Barry asks himself can follow, but do not be given by permit by its stepfather to be brought by to USA.
" Barry was crying that moment for a while. Of course after split-ups equal father, Barry, Virtual and his mother lives in Jackfruit Gangway, Ciputat some old, " she reasserted.
Barry himself before going for a while give souvenir to Mbak Nun. Mbak Nun examplizes, like two counterpanes, two glasses and souvenir house of custom Tanatoraja property of Barry is passed to himself and now is kept by in Sukabumi.
(mbak = miss)
Source : detikcom
Monday, September 8, 2008
Rupiah and share is slip
At commerce of Tuesday ( 9/9/2008) at 10.20 time JATS, IHSG be directly clipped until 60,136 point ( 2,95%) to level 1.977,862. This is level is ugly by since 21 August 2007 then, when IHSG comes into contact level 1993.
While rupiah exchange rate also for a while be depressed in level 9.360 per US dollar before finally a few of rebound to 9.345 per US dollar.
Pre-eminent share based on commodity declines sharply. Like Earth Resources ( EARTH) Go Down Rp 275 becoming Rp 4.125, Astra International ( ASII) go down Rp 200 becoming Rp 19.650, Astra Agro Lestari ( AALI) go down Rp 1000 becoming Rp 14.950, Tin ( TINS) go down Rp 125 becoming Rp 2.050.
Regional stock be also knocked over keen decline after at commerce yesterday increase of after ACE government announced acquisition of Fannie-Mae and Freddie Mac.
Index Nikkei-225 in Stock Tokyo declines 185,43 point to level 12.439,03, Hang Seng declines 384,6 point to level 20.409,67, Shanghai Composite Index goes down 2,94 point ( 0,14%) to level 2.140,48.
Investor in Asian stocks market performed action profit taking after printing big increase yesterday, exploit momentum announcement of acquisition of Fannie-Mae and Freddie Mac.
Though at commerce of Monday ( 8/9/2008), index Dow Jones is closed by rising 289,78 point ( 2,58%) to level 11.510,74, Nasdaq rising 13,88 point ( 0,62%) to level 2.269,76 and S&P rising 25,48 point ( 2,05%) to level 1.267,79.
Europe Stock also follows enthusiastic. Index FTSE 100 in strong London that 3,92% to level 5.446,30, even for a while there trouble technical. While index CAC 40 Paris rising 3,42% to level 4.340,18 and DAX Frankfurt rising 2,22% to level 6.263,74
Anniversary to 10 google the more glorious
Date of 7 September then new Google to celebrate anniversary to 10. More and more business of the google.
Because initially google only as search engine. But now google a number of popular services property of them.
Like video You Tube internet. At October 2006 Google takes for the price of US$1,65 billion.
For blog, google has Blogger.
Then for map, there is googlemap, and others.
So, area of newest business Google is platform for mobile peripheral. Google has drawn up Android - name of the platform - to vie with Symbian and Windows Mobile in this business domain.
Asset Google business be now estimated has reached dollar billion. Though if observing back, there's nothing will numeral that Google genesis also begins from a hostel room and continues in bond.
The founder - Larry Page and Sergey Brin - now have enjoyed result of their hard work. They also unnecessary again have [its] office in bond, because now have owned head office luxury Google nan in Mountain View California, United States.
Sarah Palin refused by Oprah
There is having news surprising that Oprah Winfrey refuses Sarah Palin as star guest in her Talk Show. The Observer.
But the matter are decision of Oprah because she is Democrat supporter, although team from Oprah divided to two citadels.
And, what do you think?
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Mccain and Commemorative Obama With Tragedy 11 September
Two candidates United States president ( ACE), John McCain and Barack Obama will meet. Both would seen with in ex- World Trade Canter ruins ( WTC) in New York to commemorate tragedy 11 September.
" We will come together at 9/11, not as people of Democrat or Republic Party, but as Americans. We will one as American family, " said second statement of senator is which by Saturday ( 6/9), as are published by Reuters.
" At the Thursday, we will overrule political and come with to strengthen unity, in honour of every member of America dies by, and condole to family and friend losing by man which they by loved. "
For both, this is the first time met since was nomination became Presidential Candidate ACE for general election 4 November 2008 coming. Actually, McCain and Obama for a while at the same podium in California last month. But, the moment takes place?run brief and insufficient when to immortalize it.
As are known, around 3.000 man dies in attack 11 September 2001, when plane which is ploughed by terrorist flows on WTC, Pentagon, and land in Pennsylvania.
" We will also render thanks to fire company, police, and officer listens carefully emergency exemplifying by heroic without individualistic, and for men or woman who(which devoted by self to keep up freedom and security and safety follows up attack in New York, in Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. "
Source : another news
Voice From Within Earth
a researcher from Uni Soviet ( Russia) by the time performed a exploration into earth stomach.
In the end the exploration ( I do not know how much metre), team they hear voice people screams painful. Voice who they by heard make fear they.
According to you whose voice?
What they hear are people voice dies which is tortured by dickens in empire of dickens.
Spirit Mystery
The researcher checks someone which has by been floated death. Of course man which is checked has got permit from its family. The the researcher makes a case from thin glass. The case is input by to ill man. And camera from all angle in confronting to it.
At the time of the man is not healthy exhale breath and at second also suddenly glass is it fore by barst a few.
Its conclusion is that is spirit from the man is not healthy the.
Mystery not?
Unique Creation
To be able to depict the matter I give a lead.
An apple have three things giving by impressive.
1. Feel sweet
2. Colour squeezes
3. globular.
So, there is how many the apple? Of course there is one. Are not three. So do you. :)
Three Divisions
Do you believe?
1. Body
Body is side which is seen from us. That is flesh and bone and parts of differ from our body
If our foot/feet us hit sure thorn we feel ill.
2. Spirit
What is the spirit? Spirit is not side seen by eye. If an dying hence he will lose its. Spirit moving by part of body.
3. Soul
Soul is part of body. Soul is emotion, hobby, sorrow from someone.
Do you believe other life besides in this world?
Or before you were born, where you resided in?
That questions sure often passes by quickly mind us. Outside religion context, I feel surely something manages all these. According to you?
But who did manage all these? Who can answer?
Well. In this blog I of story about what I know. And to friend may pass it an opinion.
Beginning
This Blog wants to allot having news it to you, beside having news who happened in this world also.