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Aeroflot fired the employee for aggressive Twitter post about recent Superjet crash

2012-05-12T22:45:00.004+08:00

Russian-made aircraft Superjet-100-95 crashed during a demonstration flight near Jakarta on May 9

On May, 11 flight attendant of the Aeroflot company Ekaterina Solovieva was fired after the company found her tweet with a grim joke comment about the crash of Russian airliner Sukhoi Superjet-100 in Indonesia. Company had put a reference to the dismissal order on the official Twitter page of the company.

Currently, Solovieva’s tweet was removed, but the blogs section of Russian search engine Yandex kept a reference to her post "A Superjet collapsed? Hahaha! Shit-machine! It is a pity the plane was not the Aeroflot’s one, it would be one less for company to fly, and maybe they would sell them back to someone. " The author of the post acknowledged that she "loves black humor."

Head of Press Service of "Aeroflot" Irina Dannenberg explained to Russian newspaper Vedomosti that the company found it impossible to cooperate with the flight attendant, wishing death to passengers and crew. According to her, the author of the tweet was not difficult to find — the company knew that the account 4katrin belonged to Solovieva.

Aeroflot fired the employee for aggressive Twitter post about recent Superjet crash

Time breastfeeding cover sparks controversy

2012-05-11T23:30:00.003+08:00

The cover of the latest Time magazine illustrates a story about 72-year-old pediatrician Dr. William Sears with a photo of a nearly 4-year-old boy standing and suckling at the breast of his 26-year-old mother.

Headline: "Are you mom enough?"

The story discusses Sears’ support of attachment parenting, a controversial approach to child development that promotes practices such as baby wearing (carrying a baby close in a slinglike cloth carrier), co-sleeping and, of course, breast-feeding.

The cover photo of Jamie Lynne Grumet, a slender California blonde, gazing at the camera nearly expressionless with her preschool-aged son perched at her bosom rocketed through social media circles on Thursday, with screeds, pleas and jokes in tow. Commenters are weighing in on all sides of related issues - parental rights, child advocacy and media sensationalism, to name a few.

"Time magazine" spent much of the day as a trending topic on Twitter and as a hot search on Google. The cover was also the talk of morning shows such as ABC’s "The View" and MSNBC’s "Morning Joe," where Time Editor-in-Chief Rick Stengel discussed the story and Sears.

"He wants you to spend every waking moment, and pretty much every sleeping moment, with your baby," Stengel said.

"What about Octomom or the Duggars?" "The View" co-host Joy Behar quipped. "Are they supposed to sleep with all their children?"

Nancy Mohrbacher, an officer with the Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition, said the cover has sparked the wrong questions.

"The question is not are you mom enough, but is our culture family friendly enough," Mohrbacher said. "The question is not how should we parent, but how do we support and value parenting in our society."

"One of the reasons there can be a conflict with attachment parenting in our culture is we don’t have family-friendly environments. It’s not part of our culture. We’re expected to have a strict dichotomy between family and the rest of our lives."

But is the Time cover attempting to promote those conversations, or just trying to stand out at a tough time for magazines? Or both?

"The point of a cover is to get your attention," Stengel said on MSNBC, "and this gets your attention."

Bank gave unemployed woman €18 million by mistake

2012-05-07T22:51:00.003+08:00

Bank gave unemployed woman €18 million by mistake

An unemployed single mother with just 35 cents became a multi-millionaire for a few hours after her bank mistakenly deposited over €18m into her account. When Laura Hughes (32) from Athenry, Co Galway, checked her Ulster Bank account on Thursday morning to see if she had received her carer's allowance for her disabled son, she was left lost for words when she realised she had €18,099, 425.99 in 'available funds'. "I nearly died," said the mother of two young sons. "Before I went to bed on Wednesday night I had 35c in my account, but when I checked on Thursday morning I thought I was seeing things. First I thought it was €18,500 but I quickly realised I had over €18m in the bank," she said. "I don't work, I'm a full-time carer to my two kids aged seven and four.

"I rang all my family straight away to tell them and I just assumed it was an error. I have internet banking on my phone and I kept checking to see if I still had the money. Then as a test I decided to transfer €9,000 from that account into another account, just to see if it would work. I started to really panic when it worked and everyone was telling me to run off and spend it." Overwhelmed by her newfound wealth, Ms Hughes decided to splash out on a new Nissan Micra car, and spent the morning test driving a number of flashy motors. "I actually went into a Nissan dealership in Galway to buy a car worth €8,950 and I was so close to going through with it. I had visited two other dealerships before that. I have a battered car at the moment with no windows in it and it's falling to bits.

"I've been saving for a car for years and I was so tempted, you have no idea. But my gut instinct wouldn't let me do it." Her wealth was short-lived, however, as the bank immediately shut down her account once they learnt of their costly blunder. "The money was in my account for five hours. I went in to see somebody in the bank but they said they didn't have time to see me. But when I told her what it was about she ran off to get the manager and he immediately freaked out. They kept me there for about an hour trying to figure out what was going on and how it happened - they were completely panicked. The bank told me it was simply human error. One of their employees opened up an overdraft facility for me of €20m.

"My youngest boy, Shay, is four and has autism. Cian is seven today and I bought him a go-kart. I keep thinking of all the things I could have bought him if I had all those millions in the bank. It was a nice dream while it lasted!" Banking expert Thomas O'Malley, from McDowell Purcell solicitors, says that had Laura gone off on a spending spree, she would have been liable to repay the money in full. "That money was not hers, it was clearly an error. There was no intention to pass ownership of the money to her so on that principal she didn't have title to the money. If she had spent any of it she would have had difficulties and the bank would have been entitled to come after her," he said.

Bank gives €200 million to man by mistake

Man allowed to keep interest from €200 million bank error

A German man whose bank mistakenly gave him €200 million has been told he can keep the €12,000 interest earned while it was “resting in his account” overnight. The man, named only as Michael H., sold shares last April for €20,000 – but his online bank, Comdirect, accidentally put €200 million into his account.

Michael H. swiftly transferred €10 million of it into his current account in a different bank. And although Comdirect successfully clawed back all the €200 million, it demanded €12,000 on top – 14.4 percent interest on the money he moved.

The district court in Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, ruled on Thursday that Comdirect should repay the man the €12,000 – plus the interest it accrued over the last year. But the bank – which is owned by Commerzbank – is going to appeal. “People who want to use money that does not belong to them generally have to pay interest," a bank spokesman said.

“That is the same for everyone. We only implemented normal procedures – it was nothing more than correct protocol.” Michael H. admitted it was fun to be a multimillionaire for a moment, but now regrets moving the money. “It would have been better if I had done nothing.”

What would you do if Bank accidently credit Millions into your account?

La Pascualita - The Corpse Bride of Mexico

2012-05-02T22:44:00.003+08:00

La Pascualita or Little Pascuala is a bridal mannequin that has “lived” in a store window in Chihuahua, Mexico for the past 75 years. That is quite a long time for a bridal gown shop to retain a mannequin, but then the dummy has a rather strange history behind it. According to an urban legend, La Pascualita isn’t a dummy at all, but the perfectly preserved corpse of the previous owner’s daughter.

For years, the story of La Pascualita has been drawing loads of visitors, including media personalities, from all over Mexico to Chihuahua. Now, people from South America, the US and Europe have also started paying visits to the corpse bride. People smudge their noses up against the shop window, staring at the dummy, trying to figure out if she is real or not. They are taken in by her mesmerizing gaze and realistic-looking features. Most people walk away convinced that she has to be real.

How about a male bra?

2012-05-01T21:21:00.002+08:00

Male bra – also known as a compression bra, compression vest, Manoobie holder, Gynecomastia vest, Manssiere or Bro – refers to brassieres that are worn by men.

New revolutionaly invention has appear on Japanese market, called Male Bra. It’s well known that Japanese people keep shocking the rest of the world with weird and bizarre inventions for a long time. This time they got to far. I mean, Really? Who will wear something like this? Even better question. Why would anyone wear something like this? This question will probably stay unanswered until some of us ask someone who actually is wearing male bra. Until then, we can only be shocked with this “invention”.

Additionally, some male athletes may choose to wear a sports bra under their shirts in order to prevent a common medical condition called jogger's nipple, also known as nipple chafing. This condition is caused by excessive rubbing of wet (sweat soaked) material over one's nipples. The condition often very painful, and can be prevented by wearing a sports bra.

The ‘Modern’ Robinson Crusoe

2012-04-20T21:18:00.007+08:00

For the past 20 years, Nagasaki lived on the island alone, walks around in the nude and watches the waves go by.Situated off the most southern tip of Japan lies the remote island of Sotobanari, which for the past twenty years had only one resident: Japan’s version of the novel character Robinson Crusoe.

The island is uninhabited by humans, except for one, because of constant threads of flooding and the lack of natural water sources. It rarely gets visitors and Sotobanari is so far south, the Island is actually closer to Taiwan than Japan.

Yet that did not deter one man from calling the island home. ‘Being deserted and alone’ were exactly the qualities 76 year old recluse Masafumi Nagasaki was looking for.

The ‘islander’ says he is one with nature and knows this is the place he wants to die. He lives on rice cakes, he buys once a week in the ‘real’ world with money his brother gives him, and collects rainwater to drink and cook with.

Still, the modern Robinson Crusoe says he doesn’t just live on the Island, instead, he obeys the rules of nature.

“I use to wear clothes,” says Nagasaki, “but all too soon you find you’re out of place.”

“I don’t want to blindly adhere to the rules of society. I want to adhere to the rules of natures. You can’t beat mother nature, so why not join her,” says the tanned senior.

The recluse, whose daily routine begins with stretching exercises to keep young and limber, does have to deal with typhoons, extreme climate and local insects, some of them with a nasty sting.

Sotobanari, meaning ‘the most remote island’ is the place Nagasaki chose to spend his days until his end has come.

“Finding an ideal place to die is crucial to anyone,” says the loner. “I’ve decided for myself that this is my place. I rather die here than in a hospital or rest home.”

The American Who Quit Money To Live In A Cave

"Mark Sundeen, the author of book, 'The Man Who Quit Money' is a soulful journey into the spirit of Daniel Suelo. Suelo, gave up on money in 2000. He walked into a phone booth, pulled out 30 dollars and left it. Twelve years later, Suelo still does not have a personal i.d. bank accounts, a modern home, does not take money, or live off of federal welfare. Suelo, lives in caves in the canyon lands outside of Moab, UT. Suelo, harvests wild foods, eats roadkill, and dumpster dives. Suelo, is not an isolationist, he still is very active in the Moab community SE Utah politics and he is an active blogger...

The Man Who Gave Up Money Video

Britain's own Robinson Crusoe lives alone on tropical island with 120 giant tortoises
An 86-year-old Yorkshire man, Brendon Grimshaw may have lived alone for many years on the tiny island paradise of Moyenne in the Seychelles in the middle of the Indian Ocean since he bought it in 1962 for £8000, but he is rarely lonely.

For Brendon has spent the years reintroducing the indigenous giant tortoise to Moyenne and now shares the island with 120 of the magnificent creatures, on one of the world's smallest national parks.

Choose the wedding dress for Angelina Jolie

2012-04-17T22:41:00.005+08:00

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Are Engaged: Let The Wedding Dress Predictions Begin!

Angelina Jolie look good in this elegant dress, seductive.

The Girl Who Wants To Be A Doll

2012-04-14T23:06:00.006+08:00

Venus Palermos mother Margaret praises 15-year-old-daughters obsession looking like living doll.

Venus, along with her mother Margaret Palermo, appeared on British morning show Daybreak. Palermo defends Venus, saying, “I would be horrified if she came home pregnant, I am not horrified if she is innocent and [a] very nice, good girl who likes some cute clothes and frills and ribbons.” Since we do not live in a world of false dilemmas, one might also say that the best outcome for teenage girls is not getting pregnant and not aspiring to be a doll.

The talk show does a efficient job of spinning this into “catastrophic psychological problems” territory, when it’s clear they’ve just never really encountered kawaii culture (or is this lolita?)… and this isn’t even a very extreme example at that. Moreover, Venus’ sartorial inclinations don’t appear to be doing anyone any harm, other than that it looks strange.

15-year-old Venus is an 'innocent and good girl who likes frills and ribbons'

Bearded Woman Conchita Wurst

2012-04-10T22:25:00.004+08:00

Great "Singer" Conchita Wurst (German - sausage) knows how to win the hearts of fans.

Conchita Wurst was born in 1988 and raised in Austria

86-year-old steals show at top gymnastics event

2012-03-30T22:49:00.003+08:00

An 86-year-old gymnast has become an unlikely internet star thanks to her astonishing display at a gymnastics event in Germany.Johanna Quaas put on her astonishing displays at the Cottbus World Cup, at which some of the world's best gymnasts were taking place - including Britain's World Championship silver medallist Daniel Keatings.

But it was the grey-haired Quaas who stole the show with her exhibition displays on the parallel bars and floor, with her age-defying skill, strength and balance earning her rapturous applause from the crowd.

Miss Universe Canada contestant disqualified

2012-03-29T21:18:00.009+08:00

Vancouver’s Jenna Talackova was everything Miss Universe Canada was looking for when she was selected among 65 finalists for the 2012 competition, to be held in Toronto in May.
But the Donald Trump–owned beauty pageant has confirmed that the 23-year-old has been disqualified from the competition.

The reason, Talackova claims, is she was born male.

“She did not meet the requirements to compete despite having stated otherwise on her entry form,” stated a Miss Universe Canada release.

An online petition has been started to get transsexual Miss Universe Canada finalist Jenna Talackova of Vancouver reinstated.

The petition, which was started by a man in Brooklyn, N.Y., is being hosted on www.change.org, a for-profit company that says it aims to promote social change through online petitions.

The petition has more than 30,300 signatures toward the 35,000 goal.

“She is a woman who deserves to be treated like other women would be,” says the petition. “What kind of genitals she was born with [and even what kind she has today] is completely irrelevant.”

One petition signator argued that Talackova is legally and physically a woman.

“Her being trans represents that it was harder for her than most to get where she is today, and that make her the perfect Miss Universe contestant,” said the signator.

The Miss Universe pageant has acknowledged Talackova is not a contestant, but had not elaborated on why.

“She did not meet the requirements to compete despite having stated otherwise on her entry form,” said the pageant.

Contest rules state that contestants must be Canadian citizens and between the ages of 18 and 27. They cannot be pregnant or married, but there is no mention of any cosmetic or sex-reassignment surgery being prohibited.

In a YouTube video from the 2010 Miss International Queen transgender and transsexual competition Talackova says she knew she was a girl at four years old and began hormone therapy at 14. She says she underwent sex reassignment surgery at the age of 19 and identifies herself as 22-year-old student in the video.

The pageant organization has also said they “respect her (Talackova’s) goals, determination and wish her the best.”

Donald Trump owns the Miss Universe organization with NBC Universal. The joint venture sells the television rights to Miss Universe-branded spinoff pageants in other countries.

Beauties of Canada Organization gained the exclusive rights to send a Canadian to the Miss Universe Pageant in 2002.

UPDATE: 4 APRIL 2012

Transgendered Miss Canada contestant threatens legal action against Miss Universe Organization

Less than two weeks ago, Miss Canada Universe contestant Jenna Talackova went public with her dismissal from the pageant. The Miss Universe Organization refused to allow Talackova to compete because she was not “naturally born” a woman. Talackova enlisted high-profile lawyer Gloria Allred along with a top Canadian lawyer to join her in fighting for the right to compete at the pageant, which runs May 17-19.

Yesterday, the Organization tentatively reversed their position, issuing this statement: “The Miss Universe Organization will allow Jenna Talackova to compete in the 2012 Miss Universe Canada pageant provided she meets the legal gender recognition requirements of Canada, and the standards established by other international competitions.”

Today, Talackova’s fate as a contestant next month remains in the balance as she and Allred have taken issue with the Organization’s careful wording. Now they are demanding a definitive answer as to her competitive status and calling for Organization head Donald Trump “to step up and be a leader in the fight against discrimination.”

UPDATE: 19 MAY 2012
Jenna Talackova in a bathing suit

Chinese Twins Undergo Sex Change

2012-03-28T22:46:00.003+08:00

A pair of 25-year-old twin sisters from Yunnan Province in southwestern China have successfully received preliminary sex-change operations in a Shanghai hospital to become males, seeing their long-cherished shared dream finally come true.

Two young Chinese women undergoing sex-change surgery at a Shanghai hospital are hoping to be the first twins in the country to change their gender, a state-backed newspaper said Wednesday.

The 25-year-old sisters from the southwestern province of Yunnan have already undergone preliminary surgery at a military hospital in the commercial hub, the Shanghai Daily reported.

"The operations on both the twins are successful," their surgeon, Zhao Yede, was quoted as saying.

"They said they would continue to save up (money) from hard work so they can return for their respective last phases of surgery," he said.

A spokesman for the People's Liberation Army Number 411 Hospital declined to comment to AFP, saying military units could not speak to foreign media.

The paper quoted one of the twins as saying they did not want any publicity, fearing they would lose their jobs.

New Massage Technique in Taiwan

2012-03-23T22:30:00.003+08:00

George Pan grabs a heavy meat cleaver from the rack, sharpens it on a wet stone block and rubs iodine over the blade while an ailing patient waits to begin his unique therapy.

Like many practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, Pan believes the human body is crisscrossed with streams of energy called "qi" that originate at the abdomen. Tapping these vital points could help the body heal itself, Pan says.

Pain and sickness are caused when energy points throughout the body are blocked, and Pan believes the stainless steel cleavers work better than acupuncture needles to release and transmit the energy.
Pan taps the patient's body with the sharp _ not flat _ side of a 10-inch blade, saying his "knife massage" releases the body's stored energy, increases blood flow and washes away harmful toxins.

"I don't push or pull when I set the meat cleaver down so I don't harm the patients," Pan said, shaving off hair from his forearm with the knife to test its sharpness.
"Static energy is released with the up and down movement of the knife. We call it self-cure," Pan says, hitting a patient's chest in light, up-and-down strokes much the same way he would dice an onion.

Pan never strikes heavily enough to break the skin and cause bleeding. But one patient twitches and squints as Pan thumps the sharp end of his polished cleaver inches off the upper groin to treat what he says is a bruised liver.

"You hear that sound like a drum?" Pan asks, striking heavily enough to leave red streaks on the skin. "Too much drinking. Chop, chop, chop and the pain will go away."

Most patients visit Pan's Dao Liao, or Knife Therapy Association, for common aches and pains. They lie on massage beds while Pan applies light chopping motions with the cleaver's blade on traditional pressure points that correspond to ailing body parts.

Pan's patients are generally calm during the half-hour session, which costs $15 in American currency. Some giggle when Pan tickles their armpits with the blade's sharp corners. Others groan in relief as he chops the tense upper shoulders.

"Don't be afraid. This will cure your inner organs," Pan reassures a nervous new patient as he rubs his thumb over the knife's blade.

Doctors had scheduled Li Su-yu, an 81-year-old retired air force pilot, for a kidney dialysis. Instead, Li opted for Pan's more esoteric cure and says his uric acid has since dropped, irregular urinary patterns improved and pain in both legs gone.

"It's been three months since I started, and I feel a lot healthier now," Li says, his entire back covered in strips of red.

Pan claims his therapy can help cure any sickness, even cancer. Releasing the patient's latent energies through regular knife massage on vital energy points can ease the adverse effects of chemotherapy such as hair loss or nausea, Pan says.

Lin Yu-hua, a 48-year old office worker, began Pan's therapy after doctors removed a breast tumor the size of a large pearl in August. The pain in her upper chest was so bad that she couldn't raise her arms, Lin said.

"But now my doctors call it a 100 percent recovery," Lin said, "My complexion remains the same and I've managed to keep my hair from falling out."

A microbiologist and soil toxicologist by training, Pan says his cleaver cure was a common form of self-medication in China over 2,000 years ago. The technique was preserved through the ages by Buddhist monks who used it as a form of meditation and therapy.

When Chinese monks brought Buddhism to Japan more than 1,000 years ago, they brought with them the technique, which became popular with samurai warriors. The monks used long, razor-sharp swords, says Tsai Huo-cheng, a Taipei-based Chinese medical specialist.

The therapy focuses on easing blood flow through the lymph nodes, and the sword's steel conducts energy through the body's energy points, said Tsai, himself a practitioner of acupuncture and acupressure massage treatment.

Most physicians practicing Western medicine, however, say there's no scientific evidence of "qi," and they don't recommend that patients rely solely on traditional Chinese cures, such as knife massage.

A devout Buddhist, Pan studied 20 years ago with a Japan-based Buddhist monk who insisted on the use of samurai swords for greater effectiveness. After failing to find a sword with the right weight, Pan had cleavers made to his specifications.

"Heavy knives are used for more serious illnesses. Hitting can be painful at first, but then the sickness heals and gets better," Pan said.

Lightly tapping the corner of his cleaver from a student's hairline down to the eyelid, Pan asks a patient, "You have a headache? Here, let me hit your head."

Longest Wedding Dress

2012-03-21T23:29:00.004+08:00

The wedding gown that 17-year-old model Ema Dumitrescu wore has been declared the longest in the world, with a train stretching up to 2,750m behind her! The previous record was held by a Dutch designer, which was at 2,488m. The dress was worn during a Guinness World Record attempt in Bucharest on 20 March.

It reportedly took 100 days for the dress to be made and had to be made with the help of 10 seamstresses using 1,857 needles. The gown was organised by the Andree Salon fashion house and the organisers of this year's biannual Wedding Fair in Bucharest.

The Telegraph reported the crafting of the dress required 4,700m of taffeta, 5.5m of Chantilly lace, 45m of lining, 1,857 sewing needles and 150 spools of threads. The lace was imported from France, while the taffeta and other fabrics were purchased from Italy. The cost of the material was £5,000.

In 2009, a Chinese bride made a bid for the record books when she turned up for her wedding wearing a 1.4-mile long gown. It took 200 guests more than three hours to unroll Lin Rong's train and pin on the 9,999 red silk roses for her wedding.

Romanian Models Wins World Records for 2,750 Meter Train

A story of a father who changes her gender

2012-03-19T22:04:00.003+08:00

This unusual story took place in an ordinary family in London.

John Ozimek

Sixteen years old Tash Ozimek might never have imagined that one day one of her father’s disclosures could change her life forever. One day she was asked by her father that what is the most embarrassing thing I could ever do to you, after racking her brains for a few minutes, she replied ‘Probably if you dressed up as a woman in front of all my friends.’ Tash’s joke becomes a shock when her father explained her that this was exactly what he had in mind.

Her father told her that he had been unhappy as a man and always felt that his true gender is female and he want to change his sex. Before he could say anything else, Tash, now 18, fled the room in tears. ‘It was pure shock,’ she says. ‘I remember crying for a very long time.’

“The thing is, I hadn’t had a clue that this was how he was feeling. If I had, I’d never have made that remark about dressing up as a woman,” Daily Mail quoted her as saying.

But soon after making this bombshell disclosure, the writer and IT and marketing consultant John, 54, an Oxford graduate and former Lib Dem parliamentary candidate became Jane Fae and started living as a woman.
He underwent gender re-assignment surgery paid for privately followed by o estrogen hormone therapy to feminise his body, soften his facial features and create breasts last July.

Daily Mail quoted Jane as saying that she has no regrets about becoming a woman. For the first time in her life, she feels comfortable in her own skin; happy with her identity. There is a sense of ‘rightness.

‘I still call her Dad because the word represents a role to us, not a gender,’ Tash Ozimek said. ‘Jane is not my mom and I’m not going to invent a new word, because I haven’t lost my dad. Dad is still the same person inside and that’s what I’ve called her for so many years, it’s just getting the pronouns right. It’s difficult swapping “she” for “he” after so many years,’ Daily Mail quoted Tash as saying.

“I feel constantly responsible for my decision, both the good and the bad. That upsets me, but to have stayed a man would have been disastrous for me,” Daily Mail quoted Jane as saying.

The hardest part of Jane’s transition for the whole family was the period before the sex change operation. For three months, Jane had to live as a woman and undergo therapy before she was allowed to begin hormone treatment in April 2010.

'At first it was so weird seeing my dad in women's clothes... there were a few times when she got it wrong and I had to have a word,' Daily Mail quoted Tash as saying.
Jane has learned to wear clothes that suit her, showing off her best features her long legs and, surprisingly, no one bats an eyelid as she walks into the room with Tash.

‘Given the choice, I wouldn’t want my old Dad back. Never, because, Dad now talks to everyone, smiles at everyone, goes swimming and to Zumba classes. We have a much better relationship, because when someone is happy they want to talk to you and as John, Dad was so quiet and unhappy,’ Daily Mail quoted Tash as saying.

The longest chain of brides in one location!

2012-03-15T23:29:00.003+08:00

Twilight fans or so called "Twi-hards" attempted to set a world record in honor of their favourite movie, by creating the longest chain of brides in one location!

Bella's wedding was definitely the highlight of the movie, The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn - Part 1.

The stunt took place in london, and the brides were treated to an exlusive clip of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2!

The ladies were all dressed in bridal gowns, done their hair and makeup, and put a lot of effort in this stunt.

Annette Larkins turns 70 in ageless & vibrant look

2012-03-12T22:25:00.006+08:00

The image of health, vitality and youth with a petite size four frame and a line-free face, Mrs Larkins is in fact 70 years old.

The resident of Miami-Dade County, Florida, attributes her youthful looks to her raw vegan diet and grows almost everything she eats in the garden she refers to as her 'fountain of youth'.

When Annette Larkins goes out with her husband of 54 years, people assume she is his daughter.

Fountain of youth: Annette Larkin looks at least 30 years younger than her 70 years which she credits to eating a completely raw, vegan diet and growing all the food in her garden

Recognising how positively she could influence others, the formidable 70-year-old has already written two booklets titled: Journey to Health and produced a DVD about her nutritional regime.

'I am very vibrant, I have lots of energy, as I told you before, I am up no later than 5:30 in the morning as a rule, and I am ready to go' she told ABC.

Her husband agreed, gushing: 'She's an amazing person though. Oh man, I mean really. She does everything- build computers, make all her own clothes, grow her own food, speaks three languages. It's amazing.'

The sprightly septuagenarian did not always eat this way. Husband of 54 years, Amos, owned a meat factory in the 1960's and it was around this time that his wife decided to go vegetarian.

27 years ago she went one step further by turning vegan and now everything she eats is raw. Nothing cooked or processed every passes her lips.

Annette Larkins, she was 70 years old, and she looks all of 40

Annette says the food in her garden is her Fountain of Youth.

What Asian Women Want

2012-03-11T15:54:00.004+08:00

Since last Thursday was Interna-tional Women’s Day,There is no doubt that women are everywhere today, occupying high positions in the corporate and political worlds. They are holding their own and giving the men a run for their money.

Asian Women today want Women’s rights.Women and men are treated equally in society. Women today do not want to be abused by the Men.

In Asian countries, women have no rights, and who would say that it is not - then he is lying. And if a woman is still married, she's just a slave of her husband, who could do with it whatever he wants.

International Women's Day: Wolf-whistling 'to be made illegal'

2012-03-08T23:18:00.003+08:00

Wolf-whistling will technically be made illegal under European laws set to be signed by David Cameron today.

The prime minister chose International Women's Day to sign a Council of Europe convention promising "necessary legislative measures” against anyone committing “verbal, non-verbal or physical sexual harassment”.

The convention outlaws anything which violates "the dignity of a person, in particular when creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment”.

Many women's groups welcomed the move but there was concern the law will criminalise less serious behaviour, such as wolf-whistling and flirtation.

The convention has already been signed by 18 other countries, including Germany, France Spain, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

It would allow people who rape or seriously harm women to be prosecuted in this country if charges are not brought abroad – something currently only possible for murder and child abuse.

It also carries sections related to female genital mutilation, forced marriage and forced abortions.

The government is also introducing a separate law against stalking today.

Kim Kardashian has 100 pairs of shoes.

2012-03-07T21:40:00.003+08:00

Kim Kardashian said: "To celebrate fashion week, I posted pictures of shoes collection"
Kim Kardashian claims that she has more than 100 pairs of Christian Louboutin shoes worth $50000! She converted a guest bedroom into a huge closet in her new house, while bags and shoes have their own walk-in.
In addition to shoes, Kim also love their bags. She has more than 70 Hermes Birkins bags.

Indonesia Ciliwung river

2012-03-04T22:44:00.001+08:00

For some of the Indonesian, river is an important aspect in their life. It is not just a pathway for water, but it can be the pathway of life. Many activities can be done on the river from just washing, take a bath to activities like buying, selling and spiritual rites.

Today, many rivers in the big cities of Indonesia are full of dirt. Big cities with population problem like Jakarta, has made the people less care about the environment. Take an example of Ciliwung river at Jakarta, it is full of garbage, smell not good and the color of the water is dark brown. The economic condition has insisted the people to use the water for bathing, tooth brushing, dish washing and even cooking.

Father and son celebrate 11th birthdays together at joint party

2012-02-29T21:22:00.004+08:00

An improbable twist of fate saw schoolboy Seamus Clarke celebrate his 11th birthday just hours before his dad James. Seamus' father James marks his birthday today, on February 29, a date which only comes around every four years as a leap day.

While Mr Clarke is actually 44, in 2012 he will only ever have celebrated 11 birthdays on his actual birth date as one of a select batch of leap year babies. Despite missing out on a total of 33 birthdays since 1968, he admitted being born in a leap year does have its benefits. 'I'm used to missing out on my real birthday, but being born in a leap year did have its benefits when I was at school,' he said.

'You know what children are like - especially boys. We were always giving each other birthday bumps or beats. But I usually got away with it because on February 28 I'd tell them "it's my birthday tomorrow" and then on March 1 I'd say "my birthday was yesterday".'

Seamus turned 11 hours before on February 28, something he has enjoyed reminding his father of ahead of a planned joint party. 'Seamus finds it hilarious that he will turn 11 before me,' revealed James. 'He's been telling all of his friends at school and they have a good laugh - it's a real big deal for him.'

New Jersey mom Michelle Birnbaum celebrates her real birthday for only the eighth time today.

And the guest of honor at her party will be another very special birthday girl — her 4-year-old daughter, Rose, who remarkably beat the 2 million-to-1 odds and also was born on Feb. 29.

Birnbaum, 32, insisted that as delighted as she is to finally have a built-in party partner, she never planed to create two generations of Leap Year birthdays.

Malaysian creates portraits from coffee stains

2012-02-22T21:29:00.005+08:00

HONG YI, 26, an architect from Sabah with the nick name of Red Hong, has taken 12 hours to complete painting a portrait of Taiwanese singer Jay Chou using coffee cup stains. She had previously received unexpected fame on the YouTube when she used a basketball to paint a portrait of Yao Ming.

She uploaded her latest undertaking online on Feb 15 (youtube.com/ohiseeRED) and it garnered over 2,000 hits just hours after it was uploaded. By 9pm Malaysia time today (Feb 22) within a week, there have been 159,738 visitors.

Red Hong admitted that she initially had butterflies in her stomach to work on another piece of art following her last success.

“When I received a lot of sudden attention, I became nervous. I have learned that the only person I should satisfy is myself and God,” she told Durie Rainer Fong, of The Star in an interview.

“I delayed this project because it took a bit of trial and error and I was only able to paint on weekends, as I have a full-time job,” said Hong, who works for an Australian firm in Shanghai.

She said Chou’s portrait took longer to finish as the medium she used was more challenging.

“Too much water and the rings would not form easily, and I had to be precise with placing the cup,” she said.

Hong was inspired to paint Chou, who also starred in Hollywood’s re-make of The Green Hornet, from the opening of his song Secret.

“The opening sentence was about lifting a coffee cup off the saucer, which is why I have chosen to use coffee cup stains as the main tool in this portrait,” she said.

“I’m constantly inspired by things I see, smell, touch and feel.

“Art is my outlet and it allows me to fully express who I am”, she said, adding that a bigger project was in the offing.

“It may not be a portrait, but it will be a very interesting piece,” Hong promised.

She is indeed an artist of great promise.

UPDATE:14 APRIL 2012

Portrait of Zhang with 750 pairs of socks

Shanghai: Shanghai-based artist, Hong Yi, paid tribute to Chinese film director Yimou Zhang in a unique fashion—by creating a large-scale monochromatic portrait of him with 750 pairs of socks.

Hong Yi is quite famous for her amazing works regarding portraits of renowned people made from different things.

She first got the idea of this peculiar art work when she stumbled across a little alleyway in Shanghai, filled with clotheslines made of bamboo sticks with various clothing items hanging above her. She was astonished to see such a traditional aspect of life in a modern city like Shanghai.

The unique art medium is also related to Yimou Zhang who uses bamboo sticks in his period films, as well as in the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony he directed.

Hong Yi, also known as “Red”, has got fame on the internet for such projects. She has also made portraits of Yao Ming created with a basketball and Jay Chou by spilling coffee.

Red Dress Collection Fashion Show 2012

2012-02-19T21:33:00.005+08:00

In 2012, The Heart Truth marks a decade of commitment to women's heart health. During February's American Heart Month, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) reaffirms its commitment to increasing awareness about heart disease among women and helping women take steps to reduce their own personal risk of developing heart disease.

One of the campaign's signature American Heart Month activities, the Red Dress Collection Fashion Show, serves as a red alert to women that heart disease doesn't care what you wear—it's the #1 killer of women. With the generous support of celebrities and the fashion community, the Red Dress will take center stage on the runway again this February as the national symbol of women and heart disease awareness. While millions of women will be reached with NHLBI's heart health message as a result of Red Dress Collection 2012, the real "heart" of the campaign—hundreds of Heart Truth partners, Champions, and individuals—will organize events and activities across the country to spread The Heart Truth.

"Happy Valentine! Love and be loved! "

2012-02-14T23:04:00.004+08:00

Happy Valentines day for those that have partners! Those who are single, think positive. Cherish your single life!