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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Man on a mission to visit every Starbucks in the world
A software engineer from California is on a mission to visit every single Starbucks coffee shop on the planet. Winter, 37, has spent 12 years drinking coffee in 9,100 chain stores. He estimates he has 3,000 left.
In each Starbucks, Winter drinks one cup of regular brewed coffee. He takes a photo and posts it on his website, starbuckseverywhere.net.
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Students to get discounts for motorbike licenses
Concerned about the rising number of students who ride their motorcycles to school without a licence, the Road Safety Department and Safety Driving Centre has decided to offer them licences at a discounted rate from next month.
A survey conducted among secondary school students found that many of them did not possess a valid licence because the cost was beyond their reach, Road Safety Department director-general Datuk Suret Singh said.
He said parents should not allow their children to ride motorcycles without a licence as the authorities would take stern action against them in addition to confiscating the vehicle.
“Under the motorcycle licence promotion campaign, those who are applying for the B2 class of below 250cc will get a 50% discount from June 1 to Aug 31,” he told reporters after signing a memorandum of understanding between the Road Safety Department and Safety Driving Centre here Friday.
The three-month promotion is targeted at secondary school students aged between 15 and 19 and the licence package starts from RM199.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Vitamin D: Why You Need This Vitamin Now
You may already know that vitamin D can help build strong teeth and bones, but wait until you hear what else it can do for the rest of your body. D can keep you trim, boost your mood, ward off sniffles, drastically cut your risk of cancer, and more.
“We could prevent 150,000 cases of cancer annually if we could just increase vitamin D to optimal levels,” says Cedric Garland, a doctor of public health, a leading vitamin D researcher, and a professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
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Robert Kuok (net worth US$9bil) still Malaysia's richest man
Tan Sri Robert Kuok, the Kuok Group patriarch, remains Malaysia's richest with a net worth of US$9 billion, down from US$10 billion a year ago, according to the 2009 Forbes Asia Malaysia Rich List. In a statement here today, Forbes said Kuok has held the top spot every year since Forbes Asia began ranking the 40 richest Malaysians in 2006.
Businessman Tan Sri Ananda Krishnan held on to his second place with a net worth of US$7 billion,just down from US$7.2 billion last year. He has also maintained the same ranking every year since 2006.
Together, Kouk and Ananda account for 44% of the top 40's wealth. They are also the two richest people in Southeast Asia.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Telling your wife she's not pretty may soon be an offence
A husband tells his wife that she is no longer pretty in an attempt to humiliate her can be classified as an emotional violence offence if amendments are made to the Domestic Violence Act (DVA)1994.
The plan is to amend the DVA for the inclusion of a clause on emotional violence against women.
Currently, they are only protected only against physical abuse, Women's Development Department director-general Datuk Dr Noorul Ainur Mohd Nur said.
She said on Wednesday that the aim for proposing the amendment was to safeguard women both physically and emotionally.
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Study confirms mothers-in-law are the chief cause of divorces
Every married person knows it, but a local study has confirmed it – mothers-in-law are the chief cause of divorces, especially in the Indian community.
Data in the Malaysia Community and Family Study 2004 by the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN) revealed that “meddlesome in-laws” is the number one reason why Indian couples get divorced.
It is also among the top three factors for divorce among the Malays and Chinese. The other two factors are incompatibility (42.3%) and infidelity (12%).
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Tyson's daughter dies after accident in home
The four-year-old daughter of boxer Mike Tyson died at a hospital on Tuesday, a day after her neck apparently got caught in a treadmill cord at her Phoenix home, police said.
Exodus Tyson had been on life support and police have said their investigation showed her injury on Monday was a "tragic accident."
"There are no words to describe the tragic loss of our beloved Exodus," the family said in a statement.
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Singapore records first H1N1 flu case
Singapore’s health ministry has confirmed the country’s first influenza A (H1N1) case, a 22-year-old local woman who picked up the virus after visiting New York.
The ministry said in a statement Wednesday that the woman was in New York from May 14 to 24, and reported developing a cough on her flight back to Singapore earlier this week.
The ministry says it has quarantined people with whom the woman has been in close contact and is searching for passengers who were on the same flight from New York.
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Meet the toddler who's a pool prodigy
A New York toddler still in nappies has a growing reputation as a pool shark with a mean bank shot - even though he has to stand on a chair to reach the table.
Two-year-old Keith O'Dell Jr has pool shooting videos posted on YouTube, has his own website (www.poolprodigy.com) and is the youngest member of the American Pool Association.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Half price on DiGi prepaid calls this Thursday
About a million DiGi prepaid customers suffered a nationwide service disruption yesterday morning. The mobile communications company is apologising and offering compensation for the inconvenience.
DiGi Communications said in a press release that it is offering all its prepaid service subscribers 50% off on voice calls this Thursday, from 7am to 7pm, as a small way to make up for yesterday’s disruption.
The disruption lasted from 8am to 11.45am and impacted both voice and SMS services.
“I take this extremely seriously. Our customers have an expectation to be always on and I am disappointed that they have been inconvenienced, and for that I apologise,” said DiGi chief executive officer Johan Dennelind.
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Monday, May 25, 2009
The Most Scientific Tattoo You'll See Today
Joe writes, “My tattoo is 3 lines of equations, the top is the Born Oppenheimer Approximation, the second line is the equation in the form of a 3-Dimensional Schroedinger Equation, and the solution in the form of a Schroedinger Equation. As a biochemist and molecular biophysicist I studied a lot of this stuff and I must say, Schroedinger was my favorite and well, I had to do it. The ink was done at Red Sky Studios in Tucson, AZ by artist Lisa.”
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
New YouTube street biking star gets 2.5m hits in a week
A video of difficult biking tricks, where street trial rider Danny MacAskill jumps onto spiked fences and leaps over rooftops, has had more than 2.5m YouTube hits in a week.
Goose photographed flying upside down
A photographer has taken a picture of a greylag goose, as the bird was flying upside down.
Paul Stancliffe, of the British Trust for Ornithology, based at Thetford, was able to explain the bird's bizarre behaviour.
"It looks like this bird is in mid-whiffle," he said.
"When geese come in to land from a great height they partake in a bout of whiffling, this involves the bird twisting and turning to spill air from their wings and thus lowering their speed prior to landing.
"In 36 years of birdwatching I have seen this many times, particularly when watching pink-footed geese on the north Norfolk coast coming in to roost in the late afternoon and evening. I have, however, never seen a photograph of a bird in mid-whiffle like this. It is an amazing photograph."
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'Alien skull' spotted on Mars
UFO spotters are claiming they have spotted an alien skull on Mars after NASA beamed back satellite images from the planet.
At first glance it looks like a rocky desert - but this image of the Mars landscape has got space-gazers talking.
An oddly shaped space boulder appears to show eye sockets and a nose leading to speculation it might be a Martian skull.
Internet forums are full of chatter about the picture, taken by a panoramic NASA camera known as Spirit.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Millions of women 'buy dresses too small to lose weight'
Millions of Britain's women buy under-size clothes as an incentive to help them lose weight, a survey has found.
More than a third of women deliberately buy clothes which are too small for them because they are determined to slim down enough to fit into them one day, it found.
The research found that on average these women confessed to buying three under-size items of clothing each.
This means about 24 million dresses, skirts, blouses and trousers hanging idly in the country's wardrobes --- as their owners battle to fit into them.
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Showering during the day helps productivity
Showering during the working day helps employees become more productive and more creative, according to a new study.
Four businesses - a restaurant, an architect firm, an advertising agency and a lingerie company - took part in the eight-week study, conducted by PR firm Lucre.
Staff took a shower break in addition to their usual daily wash - and results showed improvement across a range of areas, from mood to productivity.
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Schoolgirl goalkeeper scores twice from her own penalty box
Emily Dickson, a schoolgirl goalkeeper, is thought to have broken a Football Association record after scoring twice in a single match from her own penalty box.
Emily, 14, stunned her team-mates and the opposition when she launched two huge drop kicks more than 100m down the full-sized pitch.
With both attempts, the ball bounced over the opposing keeper and into the net during the under-15s match.
Emily, from Broxbourne, Herts, is now awaiting confirmation from officials, who believe that her effort is an FA record.
Although Emily is in line for an FA record, she is still one goal away from the world title.
The Guinness record for most goals scored by a goalkeeper in one game is three, and was achieved by José Luis Chilavert of Paraguay for the club Velez Sarsfield in their 6-1 defeat of Ferro Carril Oeste in the Argentine Primera Division, on November 28, 1999.
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Drinking large amounts of cola can cause paralysis
Chronic consumption of the drink can cause a condition called hypokalaemia, in which levels of potassium in the blood fall, in some patients. Symptoms can range from mild weakness and constipation to paralysis.
Researchers said that family doctors should look out for muscle problems in people who drink large amounts of cola, after finding that patients who drank between two and 10 litres a day developed the condition.
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Stunt driver defies gravity on the world's biggest loop-the-loop
It was definitely not the time to be having second thoughts. For the driver attempting the world's largest loop-the-loop, a moment's hesitation could have been fatal.
If stuntman Steve Truglia had been too timid in his acceleration, his yellow Toyota would have reached the top of the track and dropped like a stone. But if he had driven in too fast, the G-force generated could have knocked him unconscious.
Either way, his route down from the high point of the 40ft loop would have been, shall we say, less than graceful. But as this extraordinary picture shows, Mr Truglia's timing and speed were perfect.
The breathtaking stunt - planned with the help of a Cambridge physicist - was filmed at a Suffolk airbase for Channel Five's car show Fifth Gear.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Japanese man sets record for paper plane flight
A Japanese engineer has set the world record for the longest flight for a paper airplane, keeping his design aloft for 27.9 seconds.
After his record flight, Takuo Toda said that his achievement was merely the next step in his ambition of launching a paper plane from space.
Mr Toda, who is chairman of the Japan Origami Airplane Association, performed his feat at a competition in Hiroshima Prefecture in April and it has now been confirmed by Guinness World Records as the longest ever flight by a paper plane.
"I had thought that the world record was impossible to break, but the key to breaking the record is how high you fly it," Mr Toda told The Daily Telegraph.
Made of a single sheet of folded paper with no cuts, his design measured 10 cm from tip to tail. He plans to use the same shape to try to break his own record at another event for paper plane enthusiasts in September.
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Malaysia confirms first case of H1N1 flu
Malaysia confirmed on Friday its first case of H1N1 flu, the country's top health official said.
"I can confirm (that it) is the first case in Malaysia," Health Director General Ismail Merican told AFP. His confirmation followed a statement from the health ministry giving details of the country's first case.
"The patient is a 21-year-old male student who had just returned from the United States on May 13, 2009 and who was down with fever, sore throat and body aches on May 14," it said.
"This is the first A (H1N1) flu case found in Malaysia," the statement added.
It said the patient went into the Sungai Buloh quarantine facility in central Selangor state on the same evening and is now in a stable condition.
It urged all passengers who travelled on the Malaysian Airlines flight MH091 from Newark in the United States to Kuala Lumpur that landed at 7.15am on May 13 to contact the ministry for further instructions.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
‘Detective Lim’ charged with stealing books
Gerak Khas actor, Farid Amirul Hisham Wu Abdullah who was charged with stealing storybooks changed his plea to not guilty.
Farid, 43, who is also an assistant director, was charged with stealing the book The Sistine Secrets worth RM89.90 and the book Decoding The Heavens worth RM105 from the MPH Bookstore. He was said to have committed the offence at the ground floor of the Mid Valley shopping centre at 7:15pm on March 27.
Farid plays the role of Detective Lim in the popular Gerak Khas TV series.
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Sony reports $1B annual loss, first in 14 years
Sony Corp. said it lost 98.9 billion yen ($1 billion) in the fiscal year through March, its first annual net loss in 14 years. It projected it would lose even more money this year amid a serious slump in consumer demand for electronics goods.
Sony, which makes Bravia flat-panel TVs and Cyber-shot digital cameras, said Thursday it is closing three plants in Japan to help turn its business around. It is also in the midst of cutting 16,000 workers.
The Japanese electronics and entertainment company said no quick recovery was in sight, projecting a 120 billion yen ($1.2 billion) loss for the fiscal year through March 2010.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
What can you do in 5 minutes?
The guest celebrity demonstrates how to wake up, eat breakfast and get ready for work all in 5 minutes!
Song Around The World "Stand By Me"
Sometimes you need someone to stand by you... Amazing video of the song, Stand by Me, compiled from a group of very talented Street Musicians Buskers. This project is done by the people at Playing for Change. Please take some time to play the video.
4ft jellyfish found on British beach
A 4ft jellyfish - one of the biggest to be found in Britain - washed up on a popular beauty spot on the coast of north Devon.
Experts say the 4ft (1.21m) Rootmouth Jellyfish - nicknamed the Dustbin lid or Sea Mushroom - can cause a painful rash on human skin if in contact with tentacles.
The jellyfish was caught on camera by photographer Peter Stapleton who is keeping the exact location secret to avoid panic.
"It was the biggest I've seen, about 4ft long with a large body and tentacles.
The species - also known as moon jelly, common jellyfish or saucer jelly - have no bones or brain, and their colourful bodies are 95 per cent water.
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Do as much as you can Today!
MarsW spotted this sign at a roadside Restaurant in Sri Lanka......hilarious!
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Monday, May 11, 2009
Google hires goats to cut grass
I'm not kidding -- Google really has hired a herd of goats to cut the grass at its Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Dan Hoffman, director of real estate and workplace services at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, has employed a company called California Grazing to provide a novel solution to grass maintenance.
The company has provided Google with a herd of 200 goats – and a well-trained border collie named Jen – to tame the weeds and scrublands around the “Googleplex” offices.
“Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we’ve rented some goats,” wrote Hoffman on the Google blog. “A herder brings about 200 goats, and they spend roughly a week with us at Google, eating the grass and fertilising at the same time.”
The Googleplex at Mountain View is surrounded by scrubland that requires occasional mowing to clear weeds and brush to reduce the risk of fire, wrote Hoffman.
“It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawnmowers,” he joked.
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Google launches first TV ads
Google has launched its first TV advertising campaign across a range of US networks to promote Chrome, its web browser.
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Hot, hot, hot till September
Temperatures have been rising all over the country, with Klang Valley (Subang) recording 35.6°C last Friday. Outside the Klang Valley, Pahang (Batu Embun) experienced the hottest temperature last Thursday at 36.2°C.
The Meteorological Department said the hot and generally dry spell was expected to persist until September. Department chief assistant director (central forecast office) Ahmad Zaki Mohamad Saad said the weather pattern was a usual phenomenon in the country.
He said that April and May were the hottest months according to climatology studies. “The change of wind direction during the inter-monsoon season last month has caused the weather to be drier,’’ he said.
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Happy Mother's Day, Mom
No matter how old we get, moms always tell you to comb your hair. Happy Mother's Day ;-)
Friday, May 08, 2009
Snake's Head Found in TGI Friday's Dish
A diner at a T.G.I. Friday's in upstate New York says he got a little something extra with his broccoli — a severed snake head.
Jack Pendleton says he was at the restaurant in Clifton Park on Sunday when he spotted something gray mixed in with his vegetables. He realized it was a snake head the size of his thumb, with part of the spine still attached.
Pendleton says he snapped a photo with his cellphone camera and called the waiter over. He says he has no plans to sue.
A spokeswoman for the Carrollton, Texas, chain says it's investigating. It wasn't immediately known what kind of snake it was.
Pendleton and his girlfriend weren't charged for their meals.
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Weird Fish With Transparent Head
With a head like a fighter-plane cockpit, a Pacific barreleye fish shows off its highly sensitive, barrel-like eyes--topped by green, orblike lenses.
The fish, discovered alive in the deep water off California's central coast by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is the first specimen of its kind to be found with its soft transparent dome intact.
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Caroline on France's Got Talent
12 year old Caroline Costa sings 'Hurt' by Christina Aguilera on France's Got Talent.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
World's most photographed landmark according to Flickr
Showing off your holiday snaps is part and parcel of a trip away. Now scientists have revealed the world's most photographed landmarks by studying millions of images using a supercomputer. Experts at Cornell University analysed nearly 35million images posted by 300,000 users on the photo-sharing website Flickr.
They discovered that while the Eiffel Tower in Paris was the most popular landmark, four of the top seven were in London. Trafalgar Square, the Tate Modern and Big Ben managed second, third and fourth place, while the London Eye was sixth.
Most photographed landmarks according to Flickr:
1. Eiffel Tower, Paris
2. Trafalgar Square, London
3. The Tate Modern, London
4. Big Ben, London
5. Notre Dame, Paris
6. London Eye, London
7. Empire State Building, New York
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Toilet Sign
I've been doing it wrong all these years!!
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Sunday, May 03, 2009
Artist creates invisible car
The 22-year-old student at the University of Central Lancashire spray painted a battered Skoda Fabia to match the car park and entrance to her art studio.
Her work, created as part of her drawing and image making course at the university, creates the illusion that the car is see through.
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