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Friday, November 8, 2013
Breathtaking Nepal Photography
by Paulo Gabriel: Nepal is definitely one of those places on Earth that have an special feel to it. The Himalayans, Mount Everest, all of it compose a terrific, breathtaking subject for any photographer. Anyone would love to take a couple of pictures there!
These images show a place many desire to conquer, a wild, savage land where many have died, yet it's one of the most beautiful places in our planet. I've selected some of the most beautiful pictures I've found featuring Nepal and these are truly great! These are fantastic photographers and you should really check their portfolios out for more of their work simply by clicking each image! You can even request to buy these images, which is awesome. I hope you enjoy these! Cheers. ;)
Dylan Gehlken Nepal Photography
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Scientists discover monstrous, flesh-eating platypus - GlobalPost
News Desk
Platypus aren't generally known for either their ferocity or their taste for the flesh of the living, but the newly described Obdurodon tharalkooschild proves the species family had a past that was decidedly nastier. Or at least bigger.
Scientists at the University of New South Wales in Australia describe the obdurodon as over a meter in length with very well-developed teeth, meaning it likely survived on a diet of crayfish, frogs, small turtles and other unfortunate swimmers...Read more...
Platypus aren't generally known for either their ferocity or their taste for the flesh of the living, but the newly described Obdurodon tharalkooschild proves the species family had a past that was decidedly nastier. Or at least bigger.
Scientists at the University of New South Wales in Australia describe the obdurodon as over a meter in length with very well-developed teeth, meaning it likely survived on a diet of crayfish, frogs, small turtles and other unfortunate swimmers...Read more...
Dead drunk: Reveller wakes up in morgue body bag after big night out
By
Mark Molloy 
Hangover from hell: A drunk woke up in a morgue (Picture: Corbis / Metro)
A drunk had a sobering experience after he was sent to a morgue by paramedics who thought he was dead.Marek Michalski, 56, was found passed out on a bench without a pulse in Piotrkow, Poland, before concerned members of the public called an ambulance.
Hours later he awoke in a body bag and screamed for help. He managed to roll the bag off the table before escaping.
‘I remember sitting on a bench and the next thing I woke up in a morgue,’ he told local media.
‘Someone has to pay for this, I have nightmares now about being sliced up by doctors who don’t realise I am alive and want to do an autopsy.’
He now plans to sue the hospital, which has defended its staff, saying: ‘They believed that the man was dead and followed procedure by putting him inside a sealed bag.’metro.co.uk
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Rare sighting of 1,000 dolphins off the Gulf Islands
Passengers sailing from the Gulf Islands to Tsawwassen were lucky witnesses to a natural phenomena when close to 1,000 dolphins came alongside the ferry yesterday afternoon.
Although there was a collective stunned amazement over the sight, one traveller, Rob Maguire, managed to capture the moment on video.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Maguire says, who moved to Vancouver from New Brunswick a little more than a year ago. “The last time I saw an orca or dolphin was more than 15 years ago.”
Palm-Size Drones Buzz Over Battlefield
by
Eric
Schechter, LiveScience
Weighing only 0.56 ounces (16 grams), the Black Hornet looks like a tiny toy helicopter. But it's really a nano-size piece of military hardware unlike anything on the battlefield today -- experimental robot flies and hummingbirds not withstanding.
The PD-100 Black Hornet Personal Reconnaissance System, unveiled to the American public for the first time last week at the Association of the United States Army Expo in Washington, D.C., is a drone (actually, a pair of them) that a soldier can carry and operate as easily as he or she would a radio...Continue reading...
Islamic Radicalization on the Rise in Canada
Child who addressed the Al Quds Day rally with Anti-Zionist hate speech. Photo: Screenshot.
The man who calls himself Abu Muslim sits with his fellow fighters, members of the group Katiba al Muhajireen, and raises his rifle for the camera. He has come to Aleppo to fight, he tells the man who has come to interview him for Britain’s Channel 4. A Muslim convert, he – like some 100 others joining the jihad in Syria’s civil war – has left his family at home. In Canada. The United States’ neighbor to the north is experiencing a radicalization problem, according to a confidential report by the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). Made public earlier this year through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Canada’s National Post, the report confirms that “Islamist extremists are now radicalizing Canadians at a large number of venues,” ranging from mosques to dinner parties and even the family home.
“Parents have radicalized children, husbands have radicalized wives (and some wives have radicalized or supported their husbands,” the study’s authors contend, “and siblings have radicalized each other.”
Indeed, according to one assessment cited by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), “with the exception of the United States, there are more terrorist groups active in Canada today than in any other country in the world.” And while most of their activity is based abroad, a study published earlier this year by the International Institute for Counterterrorism (IIC) shows that 25 individuals have developed or been involved in four plots against Canadian targets since 2006. Of these, eight were Canadian born; three were converts to Islam; and 20 – nearly all – were between the ages of 18 and 35. Most were affiliated with al-Qaeda. Among them:
- The “Toronto 18,” arrested in 2006 for plans to behead Canada’s prime minister, along with a host of other schemes, including bombing the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service office in Toronto, and other targets;
- A group of three Muslims, Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, Misbahuddin Ahmed, and Khurram Syed Sher – a physician and former “Canadian Idol” contestant – accused in 2010 of plotting terrorist attacks and making bombs;
- Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, arrested earlier this year on charges they were planning to bomb an Amtrak/Via passenger train running between New York and Toronto;
- John Nuttail and Amanda Korody, converts charged with planning to celebrate Canada Day (July 1) this year by using pressure cooker bombs to blow up the British Columbia Provincial legislature in Victoria.
But it isn’t just in Syria: Canadian radicals have also been involved in attacks elsewhere: the suicide bombing of a courthouse in Mogodishu; the bombing, by members of Hezbollah, of a bus in Bulgaria carrying a group of Israeli tourists; and the attack on a gas plant in January, which killed hundreds of refinery workers in Algeria...Continue reading...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Good News For Drinkers: Gabapentin Gets A Boost In Treating Alcoholism
David Kroll, Contributor
Over the 12-week course of the randomized, double-blind,
placebo-controlled study, the drug, gabapentin, decreased the number of
“heavy drinking days” and at least tripled the percentage of drinkers
able to remain completely alcohol-free, when compared with those
receiving an inactive placebo.The study, led by Dr. Barbara J. Mason of The Scripps Research Institute’s Pearson Center for Alcoholism and Addiction Research, was published online today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
This early phase II clinical trial builds on work by the Scripps team and others who’ve identified in newly-abstinent drinkers that gabapentin dampens the brain’s stress response that’s activated during alcohol deprivation. Gabapentin, currently approved for epilepsy and neuropathic pain and used off-label to prevent migraines, not only helped drinkers with their alcohol consumption but also reduced alcohol craving and improved mood and sleep quality, all factors that normally trigger drinking relapses...Read more...
An early winter - Vimeo
An early winter from Cosma Beny on Vimeo.
Everything that's born has to die..just to be reborn again. It's amazing how a tree in the middle of the winter cold, covered up with snow, has the power to bloom again in the spring. Just like that, in all of our lives, at one point there will be a terrible winter, an obstacle that seems imposible to overcome, but in all of us there is strength, there is faith, there is summmer.
We made this video at the end of this Octobre, in Germany. Actually this is the first snow of this year and we thought that
such an ocasion deserves a video. We just you guys you'll like it.
Filmed & Edited by Beny Cosma
Canon 7D
Lens: 28 mm f/2.8
50 mm f/1.8
Filmed full hd
Music: Roy Todd - Twillight
www.benycosma.com vimeo.com
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