The world's tallest man and shortest woman posed together in Egypt (Image: REX/Shutterstock) The worlds tallest man and shortest woman have met in Egypt for an incredible photoshoot.
And the difference between them is just astonishing as in one photo Amge looks to be the same size as Kosen's foot.
According
to the Guinness World Records, Sultan Kosen, 35, from Turkey is the
tallest man on the planet measuring a massive 8ft 1in.
And Jyoti Amge, 24, from India, has been named the shortest woman at just over 2ft tall...Photos, mirror.co.uk
The George River caribou herd could be wiped out within five years if
its current rate of decline continues, says the provincial government. (CBC) By Bailey White, CBC News
It was heralded as a groundbreaking agreement and a model for
Indigenous leadership, but now the Ungava Peninsula Caribou Aboriginal
Round Table (UPCART) finds its work imperilled by dispute from within.
UPCART co-chair Adamie Delisle Alaku says Innu Nation's decision to
leave the group is "very unfortunate and shows a lack of respect."
FBI agents involved in a scandal over anti-Trump text messages referred to a “secret society”
on the day after President Trump’s 2016 election win and hinted at
plans for a presidential assassination, according to South Caroline Rep.
Trey Gowdy...http://yournewswire.com.ridder.co/DJkrxE
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Then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a bilateral meeting at the
Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan on September 19, 2016. .
(photo credit: REUTERS/DARREN ORNITZ)
Kerry to Abbas confidante: 'Stay strong and do not give in to Trump'
...During the conversation, according to the report, Kerry asked Agha to
convey a message to Abbas and ask him to “hold on and be strong.” Tell
him, he told Agha, “that he should stay strong in his spirit and play
for time, that he will not break and will not yield to President
[Donald] Trump’s demands.”
A logo of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is seen stuck on a window at
the congress center in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos in 2012. The
upcoming WEF will be held from January 20 to 23 (Flickr/ WEF)
Legendary singer, songwriter and performer Neil Diamond today
announced his retirement from touring due to his recent diagnosis of
Parkinson’s disease. The onset of the disease has made it difficult to
travel and perform on a large scale basis but will allow Mr. Diamond to
continue his writing, recording and development of new projects. Based
on his doctors’ advice, the third leg of Diamond’s 50th Anniversary
tour, set to land in Australia and New Zealand this March, has been
cancelled.
“It is with great reluctance and disappointment that I announce my
retirement from concert touring. I have been so honored to bring my
shows to the public for the past 50 years,” said Neil Diamond.”My
sincerest apologies to everyone who purchased tickets and were planning
to come to the upcoming shows.
I plan to remain active in writing, recording and other projects for a long time to come...http://www.neildiamond.com/
Each January, the science and security board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
unveils an estimate of the likelihood that humanity will self-destruct.
They do so by marking the time on a metaphorical “Doomsday Clock,” on
which midnight represents the apocalypse. In 2017, the clock stood at a
frightening two and a half minutes to midnight; this month could easily
see the minute hand creep even closer to doom. Is panic warranted? And
if so, can we unpack how and why humanity seems destined to cause its
own annihilation?
At its start in 1947, the
Doomsday Clock was set at seven minutes to midnight. Since then, its
minute hand has ticked as far forward as two minutes to midnight in
1953—in the wake of hydrogen bomb tests by both the United States and
Soviet Union—and as far back as 17 minutes to the hour at the end of the
Cold War in 1991. In January 2017, the Bulletin moved the
clock forward by just 30 seconds—from three minutes, where it had rested
for two years, to two and a half minutes to midnight. They made this
unprecedented move of only a fraction of a minute, they explained,
because “as this statement is issued, Donald Trump has been the U.S.
President only a matter of days.”...https://www.sapiens.org/culture/violence-steven-pinker-doomsday/
A 2017 training exercise in Wainwright,
Alberta. If Alberta forces ever drove east to capture Saskatchewan and
neutralize opposition, this is what it would look like.Master Corporal Malcolm Byers
Saskatchewan isn’t a great place to fight a modern guerrilla war
A 1983 Florida State University study
identified two key ingredients behind a successful guerrilla campaign:
Dense cities and broken, mountainous terrain. Saskatchewan doesn’t have
much of either. There’s a popular expression that if a dog runs away in
Saskatchewan, you can still see him three days later. Similarly, if a
Saskatchewan rebel fighter runs away from your search-and-destroy raid,
you can still shoot him three days later. Guerrilla fighters also thrive
in dense urban areas. A rebel fighter operating out of, say, Baghdad,
can safely hide in a crowded neighbourhood because he knows that an
occupying power will be too worried about collateral damage to level the
area with air strikes. Saskatchewan, by contrast, has vanishingly few
places to hide among civilians. Saskatoon has 50 people per square
kilometre, compared to 237 in Calgary and 123 in Edmonton. This means
that it’s much easier to vaporize a Saskatchewan rebel headquarters
without so much as drawing a noise complaint from their neighbours...http://thestarphoenix.com/news/canada/how-a-literal-war-would-play-out-between-alberta-and-saskatchewan/wcm/c9bfe76a-722e-4c81-b53b-f67131ea6247
Facebook's post today is the most
self-critical assessment of the company's impact to date, complete with
an admission that its efforts may not be successful.Getty ImagesBloomberg News
Facebook Inc. acknowledged today that social media can have a
negative impact on democracies, and that the company has more work to do
in order to ensure that the good outweighs the bad.
“From the
Arab Spring to robust elections around the globe, social media seemed
like a positive,” Katie Harbath, who runs the Facebook team that builds
relationships with governments around the world, wrote in a blog post.
“The last U.S. presidential campaign changed that, with foreign
interference that Facebook should have been quicker to identify, to the
rise of ‘fake news’ and echo chambers.”
OTTAWA, January 11, 2017 (LifeSiteNews)
– Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is facing a growing backlash from
churches, charities, and religious groups for requiring employers to
sign an attestation supporting abortion and transgender rights to
receive summer job grants for students.
The Canadian Council of Christian Charities (CCCC) has been
“overwhelmed” by calls and emails from members who say they can’t in
conscience sign the attestation, says Barry W. Bussey, the association’s
director of legal services.
“People are very concerned,” he told LifeSiteNews.
It gets hard to tell when you go back that far, but humans—Homo erectus in this case—probably crafted the first seaworthy vessel
some 800,000 years ago. Since then, our ability to build boats and take
to the seas has been critical to many of the most important human
processes, from migration and commerce to exploration and, of course,
war. But we did not become a seafaring species alone.
Alongside brave
seafaring men—and women, when they were allowed on board—there were
often equally courageous pets...https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/
Has the Islamist influence in the Canadian government become so
dominant that the American government should monitor and assess this
issue? Is the penetration of the Canadian political system by the
Muslim Brotherhood (and others) so severe that it is becoming a national
security threat to the U.S.? A wall and its northern border?
Prime Minister Trudeau has done himself few favors by telling
Canadians and the world that he believes returning ISIS fighters can be
rehabilitated into “powerful” voices against radicalism. This despite
the absence of a rehab program in Canada. In Canada’s Parliament, the
Prime Minister stated that anyone who opposed the return of ISIS
fighters was Islamophobic. Trudeau also amended the Canadian law that
allowed the deportation of terrorists with dual citizenship. Convicted
terrorists can now keep their newly acquired Canadian citizenship and
remain in Canada after their release.
A general view of Jerusalem's old city shows the Dome of the Rock in the
compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple
Mount, October 25, 2015.
(photo credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN)
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Since federal approval was granted in late November, twelve new
Aboriginal communities have affirmed their support for the proposed
Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, says Kinder Morgan Canada.
There
are now 51 Aboriginal communities that have signed mutual benefit
agreements with the project valued at more than $400 million.
This
includes all of the First Nations whose reserves the pipeline crosses
and about 80 percent of communities within proximity to the pipeline
right-of-way, the company says. The 51 agreements include 10 in Alberta
and 41 in B.C.
The title of this year’s True Legends Conference is Transhumanism and the Hybrid Age.
For the followers of Steve Quayle, Timothy Alberino and Tom Horn, these
might be familiar terms, but the critical importance of the topic
deserves a clear understanding by all. So what exactly is transhumanism?
And for that matter, what is a hybrid?
Transhumanism
is defined as “the belief or theory that the human race can evolve
beyond its current physical and mental limitations, especially by means
of science and technology.” Of course, this sounds noble. Who among us
does not want to move toward the goal of eliminating human pain with
ever increasing enlightenment? But transhumanism is much more than that.
With the unending surge in biological know-how, we now have the ability
to redefine what is means to be human. Through tools like artificial
intelligence, robotics and especially genetics, science is playing a
very high-stakes game in the homo sapien sandbox. The fallout of this
game will hurtle forever forward for all future generations...https://gensix.com/what-is-transhumanism/
CRISPR is an acronym for Clustered Regularly
Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat. This name refers to the unique
organization of short, partially palindromic repeated DNA sequences
found in the genomes of bacteria and other microorganisms. While
seemingly innocuous, CRISPR sequences are a crucial component of the
immune systems [3] of these simple life forms. The immune system is
responsible for protecting an organism’s health and well-being. Just
like us, bacterial cells can be invaded by viruses, which are small,
infectious agents. If a viral infection threatens a bacterial cell, the
CRISPR immune system can thwart the attack by destroying the genome of
the invading virus [4]. The genome of the virus includes genetic
material that is necessary for the virus to continue replicating. Thus,
by destroying the viral genome, the CRISPR immune system protects
bacteria from ongoing viral infection...http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2014/crispr-a-game-changing-genetic-engineering-technique/
Tom Wolf takes his dog out for a
unicycle ride along Saskatchewan Crescent East in Saskatoon on January
14, 2018. Wolf cycles to work and back every day, even in the winter,
saying he enjoys the cold and that the unicycle provides him more of a
workout.Michelle Berg / Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Another Arctic ridge of high pressure building into Saskatchewan means Saskatoon is in for more extreme wind chills.
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
And where have you been my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall...https://www.google.ca/search?q=a+hard+rain%27s+gonna+fall+lyrics
by
Melissa Couto and Josh Clipperton,
Waterloo Region Record
Josh Donaldson and the Blue Jays avoided arbitration Friday by agreeing
on a $23-million US, one-year contact — the largest one-year deal for an
arbitration-eligible player in Major League Baseball history. -
Associated Press File Photo
Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins didn't see a problem
giving all-star third baseman Josh Donaldson a hefty raise for the
upcoming season.
Donaldson and the Blue Jays avoided arbitration Friday by
agreeing on a $23-million US, one-year contact — the largest one-year
deal for an arbitration-eligible player in Major League Baseball
history.
"We didn't by any means break the record, Josh did. Josh
broke the record with his performance and quite frankly blew it out of
the water," Atkins said on a conference call. "We knew that was going to
happen. It was just a matter of how much and if we could align in value
and we're very pleased that we did."
More than 15 inches (40cm) has blanketed sand dunes across the small town of Ain Sefra, Algeria.
It is the second time snow has hit in nearly 40 years, with a dusting also recorded in December 2016.
But this snowfall which hit yesterday, is much deeper than the fleeting shower little more than a year ago.
Legendary singer, songwriter and performer Neil Diamond today
announced his retirement from touring due to his recent diagnosis of
Parkinson’s disease. The onset of the disease has made it difficult to
travel and perform on a large scale basis but will allow Mr. Diamond to
continue his writing, recording and development of new projects. Based
on his doctors’ advice, the third leg of Diamond’s 50th Anniversary
tour, set to land in Australia and New Zealand this March, has been
cancelled.
Kathleen Mosley
Photo By: Henri Cartier Bresson 
Google hopes to make people immortal. GETTY
Tom Wolf takes his dog out for a
unicycle ride along Saskatchewan Crescent East in Saskatoon on January
14, 2018. Wolf cycles to work and back every day, even in the winter,
saying he enjoys the cold and that the unicycle provides him more of a
workout.
Josh Donaldson and the Blue Jays avoided arbitration Friday by agreeing
on a $23-million US, one-year contact — the largest one-year deal for an
arbitration-eligible player in Major League Baseball history. -
Associated Press File Photo 
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By Bill Sanderson Saudi Arabia's King Salman (right) and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef walk to greet President Obama in Riy...
