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Steve Fossett News: Mammoth Lakes Hikers Discover Personal Items
Hikers who were near the town of Mammoth Lakes, California, discovered personal identification, pilots and aircraft licenses and a sweatshirt on Tuesday. The weathered papers had Fossett’s name on them and the garment of clothing was faded. There was no sign of a plane wreckage in the immediate vicinity. Hikers who were near the town of Mammoth Lakes, California, discovered personal identification, pilots and aircraft licenses and a swe... more
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Medical mystery: girl bleeds without being cut
Twinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a strange disorder which means she loses blood through pores on her skin without being cut or scratched.
She even had to undergo blood transfusions after pints of it seeped through her eyes, nose, hairline, neck and the soles of her feet.
Her family have sought help from numerous doctors as well as preachers from many different religions without success. "I am desperate to help my daughter," said her mother Nandani Diwedi, 42. "We are not superstitious people but we became so desperate. We've been to temples, mosques, churches and sufi saints, but nothing has cured her."
Indian medics now believe her condition is an extreme version of a rare blood platelet disorder for which they cannot find a cure.
However, a ray of hope has been offered by a British specialist, who believes Twinkle may have a different clotting disorder, for which treatment will be possible.
Last year, Twinkle was a normal 12-year-old who enjoyed school, painting and playing with her friends - but then she suddenly started bleeding between five and 20 times a day.
"I was so scared," she said. "It didn't hurt. But it was scary and messy, and my friends thought it was disgusting. My school blouse went all red. No-one would come near me or play with me. I used to cry nearly every time it happened. But now I just keep quiet."
Twinkle was thrown out of one school and another refused to teach her because of her strange condition. Villagers near her home in Uttar Pradesh, India, believe she must be cursed and shout cruel things in the street.
Now she studies at home and rarely sees other children.
Her mother said: "I am very worried about her. She is very weak and pale from the blood loss. "She is very isolated and depressed. She wants to get better so she can go back to school. I now believe doctors in India are incompetent. I don't think they can help her." Twinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a strange disorder which means she loses blood through pores on her skin without being cut or scratched. ... more -
Mystery ads on London Underground baffle commuters
Mysterious adverts featuring images of Barack Obama, David Cameron and the CERN particle collider on London Underground platforms have sparked debate among confused commuters and bloggers.
The adverts, which all have bold black backgrounds, started appearing at London Underground stations and on trains earlier this week, and were published in several national newspapers this morning. They contain no text, and there are few clues to what they are promoting.
At least six separate designs have been spotted around London: Barack Obama outside No 10 Downing Street, David Cameron walking past a statue of Winston Churchill, an overweight boy in swimming trunks, a golden football, a section of the Large Hadron Collider, and a stretching woman athlete.
Blogger Rick Lamb was one of the first to notice the posters and post pictures on the internet: “This is obviously a big outdoor campaign for someone, but they are keeping quiet about it and it is generating a decent amount of buzz around London,” he said. “My best guess at the moment is that it's for a news outlet, either a newspaper or TV News, or at a longer shot a new TV show.”
Have you seen one or more of the adverts? What do you think they are for? Do you like the idea of 'mystery advertisement' or does it seem rather pointless to you? Mysterious adverts featuring images of Barack Obama, David Cameron and the CERN particle collider on London Underground platforms have... more -
Star-spangled wardrobes
It always feels a bit odd to be an American overseas as July 4 nears; strange jingoistic impulses rear their heads and sudden desires to fry chicken and eat corn on the cob seem overwhelming. It’s one of those hokey US holidays that non-natives often find difficult to understand and easy to dismiss: all that flag waving and self-celebration, at a time when the country is fast skiddo-ing down a slippery slope to non-global domination; how deluded are you?
This is typically when I decide I really, really do need that red-white-and-blue Chanel shorts suit and cardi after all, or the white silk star-spangled YSL dress, or at least the Topshop “homage” versions of the same. Forget flying the colours: I want to wear them. In your face, buddy!
Barack Obama didn’t go nearly far enough with that little flag lapel pin he sported when it became clear he would get the Democratic nomination. I mean, after the Chanel show last March, designer Karl Lagerfeld had explained his Betsy Ross-inspired collection by stating it was time to give the US some obvious support. If a German designer of a French house feels that way, shouldn’t the actual Yankees? Sometimes the sartorial message doesn’t need to be so subtle.
And actually, when it comes to US presidential candidates, it usually isn’t. There was nothing difficult to get about George W. Bush’s cowboy boots, or Bill Clinton’s baseball caps, and there’s nothing obscure about the rolled-up shirtsleeves Obama used to favour, when he was being accessible as opposed to presidential. What’s interesting about it all, however, is the way the men use their wives to help them cover the electoral landscape. As they reach out to the big, working-guy population, dressing as though they can hunt and fish like any other man (for real, not just congressional, game) their other halves reach out to what seems, in most cases, a somewhat different niche.
Think of Cindy McCain, with her neatly coiffed platinum blonde locks, princess-line coats and pastel suits, and Michelle Obama with her ceiling-busting uniform of wide black belts, primary-coloured sleeveless shifts and gobstopper pearls. Both are clearly aligning themselves with various traditions – the former, the Nancy Reagan-esque, supportively-seen-but-only-appropriately-heard-spouse; the latter, the Jackie Kennedy-type, asset-beside-the-throne – while also providing an updating of sorts: sensitivity on the one hand, and muscles on the other. It always feels a bit odd to be an American overseas as July 4 nears; strange jingoistic impulses rear their heads and sudden desires ... more -
A far cry from hairy and salty
Parmesan, I said, or chicken. No – hang on a mo, anchovies. I was talking to a radio producer who seemed to want me to present a programme about a favourite ingredient. Parmesan is pretty obvious and I could get them to send me to Parma: even the BBC’s budget would have stood that. But somebody else was doing parmesan. Chicken, I thought, would be nice, just to evoke how wonderful roast chicken is, rather than banging on about intensive rearing. It is, of course, horrible but I feel it would give listeners something uplifting on a Sunday morning and a rest from the evils of capitalism and factory farming.
Dan, the producer, was not so impressed but he liked the anchovy idea. I racked my brain for all of five seconds and said that we would, of course, have to go to Collioure, epicentre of the French anchovy trade. I fancied a trip to the seaside. Strangely, he did not balk at the idea but producers are not averse to a bit of foreign travel either. Being a conscientious type, he did a bit of research and discovered that it was the wrong time of year for anchovies. They were caught and processed in the spring months. Collioure was out, and there was not much doing in Bilbao either, although we had at least discovered by then that the very best anchovies came from the Bay of Biscay, not the Mediterranean. A trip to the Bilbao Guggenheim would have been good.
We ended up going to the London Museum instead. We met a very nice lady called Jenny Hall who showed us amphorae that had been used to transport garum and liquamen (a rather disgusting-sounding unguent made from fermented fish guts) from all corners of the Roman empire, including a fish factory in Antibes. I suggested to the producer that perhaps we should go there and look for it. By this time he had cottoned on to my ulterior motives.
Instead we crossed the river to Borough Market and chatted to my friend Monica Lynton, who imports simply the best anchovies in the world from Spain. We tasted exquisite, intensely sweet, beautiful anchovies that had been packed whole in salt. We opened tins and tins of beautifully filleted and packed pink anchovies and tasted them all. They were a far cry from the grey hairy things that used to pass for an anchovy. I learnt a lot about anchovies but lost none of the sense of wonder and gratitude that I experience every time I roll back the lid of a tin and marvel at the workmanship that lies within. Collioure would have been nice though ... Parmesan, I said, or chicken. No – hang on a mo, anchovies. I was talking to a radio producer who seemed to want me to present a progr... more -
Politics with polka dots
You can understand where they were coming from. After Denver and Minneapolis, who could blame New York for wanting some of that rip-roaring political partying for themselves? And hell, if they didn’t have the conventions, they always had fashion week – and isn’t that kind of the same thing?
Think about it: thousands of people from other places propping up the local hospitality industry. Events. Opportunities galore for product placement. Funny outfits. Masses of media coverage. No wonder IMG, the people pulling the strings, decorated the tents in Bryant Park with images of red, white and blue sloganeering buttons. Hokey, yes (“Vote Fashion”? “Fashion Wins”?), but accurate.
American designers have always had a more overt involvement with politics than their peers in other countries. Maybe it’s due to their lack of heritage – most US houses are still on their first, namesake, designer, and as a result have none of the family history or insider relationships to maintain that, say, the French and Italian houses have, and that demand elder-statesman-like reticence. Or maybe it’s due to the optimism that is a national cliché (and that compels working within the system, as opposed to trashing it entirely à la Vivienne Westwood and Katherine Hamnett, the English political provocateurs). Whatever the reason, the presidential election race was the over-riding theme of the spring/summer 2009 ready-to-wear shows.
Sometimes this was overt, as in Michael Kors’ red-white-and-blue, polka-dotted and striped ode to Americana, with everything from bike shorts to Doris Day gowns, and sometimes it was covert, as in Derek Lam’s parade of luxury separates in the slouchy, easy shapes now synonymous with 7th Avenue sportswear.
Twice it mis-fired. First, when Calvin Klein’s Francisco Costa embarked on the intriguing project of rendering the flat-pack – the symbol of today’s credit-crunch, more-for-less promises – in cloth, and produced an intellectually compelling but aesthetically questionable parade of Noguchi-like origami garments that folded and bunched around his models’ bodies like a futuristic lampshade. And second, when Donna Karan (she of the Woman-for-President ads) eschewed her podium-perfect suiting for a parade of draped, slit, cowled and otherwise startlingly sexy dresses that would look great on a beach in Ibiza, but seemed a little out of place in the current, roll-up-your-sleeves and get with it climate. You can understand where they were coming from. After Denver and Minneapolis, who could blame New York for wanting some of that rip-ro... more -
Hot, Flat and Crowded
Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution – and How We Can Renew Our Global Future
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Tom Friedman has done it again. In 2005, he seized on the big political and economic trend of the moment – globalisation – popularised it with a few dozen folksy stories and some half-awkward, half-endearing acronyms, and gave it a catchy, new name. The world, the New York Times columnist told us, was flat, and the fact that that phrase has become our verbal shorthand for the phenomenon is a testament to Friedman’s accomplishment.
Three years later, Friedman has lit upon what he might describe as another Big Idea, and, given his track record as a zeitgeist thermometer, we should all pay attention. His concerns today in Hot, Flat, and Crowded are the twin problems of climate change and the growing shortage of commodities, particularly fossil fuels: one of the ways Friedman names this problem is to re-dub our millennium the “Energy-Climate Era”, or E.C.E.
As with globalisation, Friedman isn’t exactly opening up virgin terrain. But his métier is not to be an intellectual or reportorial frontiersman – he is best when he talks to us about something we already know is an important issue, helping us to define it more clearly and in the round. Friedman is what Isaiah Berlin called a hedgehog – he knows one big thing (or at least one big thing per book) and he devotes 412 pages to cramming pretty much all of the world, ranging from his younger daughter’s school projects to the Chinese Communist party, into that over-arching paradigm.
Friedman’s central thesis is that the combination of global warming – the “hot” of the book’s title – and mounting demand for scarce natural resources – hence “flat” and “crowded” – is the defining challenge of our time. The first part of the book focuses on what’s going wrong. He offers vivid accounts of some familiar aspects of the malaise: climate change, biodiversity loss and the natural resource crisis. More interestingly, Friedman also points to two important and less frequently diagnosed symptoms: the massive transfer of wealth to the petro-powers and the malign influence that money has on their domestic politics, and “energy poverty”, which he argues is creating a division between the world’s electricity haves and have-nots. Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green Revolution – and How We Can Renew Our Global Future --------------- ... more -
In the Land of Invisible Women
In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom
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Few outsiders have been able to break into the secretive world of Saudi women. In an inward-looking conservative kingdom that goes to great lengths to hide its women – physically and socially – the feelings and the aspirations of that half of Saudi society remain a mystery.
Are they fed up with their condition? Are they rebellious? Are many of them even aware that they represent one of the most egregious cases of discrimination against women?
Qanta Ahmed, a British-born Pakistani pulmonologist, had the rare opportunity to penetrate that world when she took a job at a hospital in Riyadh in the late 1990s, after being denied a renewal visa to the US.
She spent two years in a military hospital that caters to one of the kingdom’s security forces and to many of the Saudi royal family. At that time healthcare was one of the few industries where the government had defied the clerics and allowed men and women to work side by side. The King Fahd National Guard Hospital, moreover, was run by a well-connected and enlightened chief who promoted women.
But it was also a time when Saudi Arabia was at its most angry and obscure, its society radicalised, and the voice of its women suffocated after some had tried to rebel in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf war.
Ahmed was exposed to the decadence of some of Saudi Arabia’s elite and the extraordinary contradictions between what the kingdom preaches and how it behaves. She met some of the country’s most educated and ambitious women who, despite their status, remained trapped in the restrictions imposed by religion and tradition.
Unfortunately, her journey in the Saudi kingdom, In the Land of Invisible Women, fails to live up to expectations. Although daring and brutally honest in some of its descriptions of Saudi life, Ahmed rarely probes deeply enough into the complex subjects she writes about, or stays long enough with the people that she meets to allow readers to understand and connect to them.
Part religious journey, part romance, and part study of Saudi life, the book takes snapshots but never weaves them into a coherent, compelling album.
A westernised Muslim, Ahmed confronts an intolerant brand of Islam in a land that resembles America, with its fast food outlets and its Cadillacs, but where women are not even allowed to drive. Her reaction turns from curiosity to outrage.
There is plenty in her book about the oppression of the abaya, the black garb that women are forced to wear – and only men are allowed to sell. Early on Ahmed describes how families require the face of a woman to be covered during an operation, when even her breasts are bare. And there is an excessive amount of reporting on the religious police, the long-bearded fanatics who seem to appear everywhere Ahmed goes, descending on groups of men and women in Riyadh restaurants. In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom --------------- ... more -
A Time to Dance, A Time to Die
A Time to Dance, A Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518
By John Waller
John Waller, a historian of medicine, examines the wild dancing epidemic that took place in 16th-century Strasbourg. This mysteriously caused hundreds of men and women to dance uncontrollably in the streets for days on end, often until death, in the punishing summer heat of 1518. A Time to Dance, A Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 By John Waller ... more -
Goose is cooked...
DOZENS of geese have vanished from an ancient castle, prompting fears they are being stolen for food by hard-up families.
Up to 100 of the birds have disappeared from the grounds and moat in just six months.
Black bags of feathers have fuelled suspicions the geese are being killed for the table as the credit crunch deepens.
Now cops are probing the losses at 13th-century Caerphilly Castle in South Wales.
Wildlife expert Iolo Williams, 45, said: “A goose is a big lump of meat and will last a number of meals. I suspect this is the kind of thing we’ll hear more of.” DOZENS of geese have vanished from an ancient castle, prompting fears they are being stolen for food by hard-up families. ... more -
Xenoglossy: evidence of past lives?
How should we understand xenoglossy, the capacity to speak a never-before-heard foreign language? Religion, science, and the skeptics of the world have tried to explain this phenomenon in various ways, including genetic memory, telepathy, or cryptonesia (recalling a foreign language learnt unconsciously or during childhood). However, xenoglossy has seen many manifestations throughout history, and none of these responses can adequately explain every case.
According to some historians, the first documented case of xenoglossy is seen with the 12 apostles during the Pentecost. But for those who do not consider the Bible a reliable historical source, there is a wealth of examples in other contexts of the ancient and medieval world, as well as our modern era.
Unknown or Forgotten Languages?
Upon being hypnotized, a woman from Pennsylvania was somehow able to communicate in Swedish. Yet her sudden grasp of the language did not come from study. When under a deep state of trance, she spoke using the lower register of her voice, claiming to be Jensen Jacoby, an inhabitant of Sweden, born in the 17th century.
This case was studied in depth by the late Dr. Ian Stevenson former head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia and author of “Unlearned language: new studies in Xenoglossy.” According to Dr. Stevenson, with no prior training or exposure to the language, this woman could only have known Swedish if she remembered it from a previous existence. Dr. Stevenson’s theory is supported by the subject’s ability to name daily artifacts of the place and time in which Jacoby was said to have lived.
This is not by far the only case of xenoglossy attributed to previous incarnations. In 1953, Professor P. Pal from the University of Itachuna in East Bengal discovered Swarnlata Mishra, a 4-year-old Hindu girl who was somehow capable of dancing and singing in Bengali, without having had any previous contact with that culture. The young girl stated that she had once been a Bengali woman who was taught how to dance by a close friend.
The Origin of Xenoglossy
While some attribute cases of xenoglossy to cryptonesia (as in the case of the young Hindu girl possibility having some forgotten contact with nearby Bengalese culture), there are a number of cases for which such an explanation is inadequate.
One of the most surprising events of these cases took place in 1977. Ohio state penitentiary convict Billy Mulligan was found to have two additional personalities: one identified as Abdul, who spoke perfect Arabic; and the other, called Rugen, who communicated in perfect Serbo-Croatian. According to prison doctors, Mulligan had never left the United States, where he was born and grew up to adulthood.
Likewise, biologist Lyall Watson describes the case of 10-year-old Indio Igarot, a Filipino boy who, when in trance, communicated in the Zulu tongue, which he had never heard.
A more recent case was triggered by a car accident. Prior to an event in 2007, Czech speedway racer Matěj Kus could barely fumble along in broken English. Yet after being knocked unconscious in the accident, paramedics and others at the crash site were amazed that Kus could suddenly speak clear and perfect English with a British accent. However, the ability didn’t last long. Kus retained no memory of his temporary English fluency and is now enduring learning English through conventional study.
Some scientists have proposed that such cases might stem from a genetic legacy, while others have suggested that these individuals could be telepathically connecting to this language through foreign speakers. However, these theories do not benefit from the extensive research, evidence, and study given to Dr. Stevenson’s theory.
In support of this idea, Australian psychologist Peter Ramster, author of “The Search for Lives Past,” found that he could maintain fluid conversations in ancient French with his ***********CONTINUES How should we understand xenoglossy, the capacity to speak a never-before-heard foreign language? Religion, science, and the skeptics... more -
Internet Activists Pick Up Where Miami Police Left Off in the Case of missing moth...
Lilly Aramburo vanished more than 15 months ago. This is the first article about her published in the independent newspaper, The Miami New Times. The article appropriately titled "Missing Peace" was written by Francisco Alvarado. I must say, he did a pretty thorough job. Much more thorough than Miami Dade Police! (Thanks Frank!!)
He accomplished the seemingly impossible...he tracked down Christen Pacheco and got his side of the story. He interviewed Kelly Starling and a neighbor of Christen's who knew them and happened to talk to Lilly just before she vanished. I can't help but wonder, how many resources did it take? Was it costly? Did it take that much time and trouble?
According to the article, "police inaction is one reason she hasn't been found." Amen to that! Even Christen Pacheco admits he's spoken to a detective only once by phone since the initial report. Kelly Starling says she's tried contacting the detective several times but he's never returned the calls. She says "no one has been trying to do anything. I've been wanting to talk to the detective all this time."
Captain Janna Bollinger-Heller from the Miami Dade County Police domestic crimes bureau was interviewed. She says Lilly's case "has been a high priority." "We have followed up on every lead."
Are you outraged? This could be your child or relative! They believe they have treated Lilly's case with priority? If speaking with the last person to see her alive once by phone is priority, then I'd hate to even think about the cases that have not been a high priority.
If what Captain Bollinger-Heller says is true and there are only 4 detectives in Miami Dade for the 5000 reported cases of missing people, then how on earth are they supposed to be found?
I have a solution. Why don't they classify Lilly's case and others that qualify as homicides? They obviously have more detectives in Homicide. Besides, they have much more training and are better prepared to deal with these kinds of investigations.
Make sure to read all 5 pages! After you read it, let us know what you think. Leave a comment on the New Times Article. Click on the bottom left link that says write your comment.
Contact Francisco Alvarado (Author):
francisco.alvarado@miaminewtimes.com
or call 305-571-7562
Contact Miami New Times:
Email: editorial@miaminewtimes.com
Fax: 305-571-7678
Lilly's family and friends urge the South Florida Community to take a good look at her picture. If you know Lilly or any of the key players involved, including a guy who goes by the name "EJ" - PLEASE COME FORWARD!! This EJ was also there but has since disappeared, unwilling to cooperate. Keep in mind, Lilly has a son who deserves to know the TRUTH.
If you think you know something, anything can be a clue that leads us to find Lilly - please contact us right now. There are numerous ways to submit a tip. You can leave a comment on my blog or the Miami New Times article. You can submit a web tip to Miami Dade Crime Stoppers or call 305-471-8477. You can contact Miami Dade Police Detective Aaron Mancha at 305-418-7245 or amancha@mdpd.com. No matter how small a detail you may know, it may lead us to answers please reach out and help bring Lilly back home.
If everyone who reads this would take a moment to make a phone call to the US Attorney's Office - it would be of tremendous help in demanding justice for Lilly. Ask them to investigate the possible homicide of Lilly Aramburo. It only takes a minute to make a phone call.
Contact the US Attorneys Office
EMAIL: usafls-citizencompla@usdoj.gov
99 N.E. 4th Street
Miami, Fl. 33132
Phone: (305) 961-9001
Fax: (305) 530-7679
I'd appreciate your feedback! If you have any questions or comments about the article, leave a comment here too!! And on Lilly's blog, Justice in Miami blog:
http://justiceinmiami.blogspot.com/
And if you feel strongly about this case, like I do, help demand justice for Lilly. Justice has been interrupted for far too long. Lilly Aramburo vanished more than 15 months ago. This is the first article about her published in the independent newspaper, The Miami... more -
Missing girl found safe and well after four years
A girl who went missing four years ago, and became known as Italy's Madeleine McCann, appears to have been found safe and well in Greece.
Police on the Greek island of Kos were alerted after an Italian tourist grew suspicious after the girl approached her with another youngster offering a bracelet for sale. DNA tests are currently being carried out on the eight year old girl to see if she is Denise Pipitone, who vanished in 2004. The DNA tests were ordered after Denise's mother Piera, shown photographs of the girl found in Greece, said the "shape of the eyes was exactly that" of her daughter. Other similarities were a birthmark under the same eye as Denise, the fact the girl spoke fluent Italian and most strikingly the 30-year-old Roma gypsy woman who was with her admitted to police she was not the girl's mother.
Six weeks after Denise disappeared from her home at Mazzaro dell Vallo near Palermo a bank guard in Milan saw a distressed little girl with a group of Roma gyspies. He made a videoclip with his phone but did not approach them. The footage was given to the police who showed it to Mrs Pipitone and she confirmed it as her daughter. In the footage the woman said to the girl: "Danas" and she answered, in perfect Italian "Dove mi porti" (where are you taking me?). The guard also noted the birthmark under the left eye.
Italian police scientists analysed the film and later said that the clip showed seven facial feature points similar to Denise but as no DNA was taken it was impossible to say for certain.
News of the discovery will bring fresh hope to Gerry and Kate McCann after their daughter disappeared in Portugal last year, and for the parents of Ben Needham who vanished in 1991 from the same Greek island where the Italian girl was found. A girl who went missing four years ago, and became known as Italy's Madeleine McCann, appears to have been found safe and well in... more -
Village of twins a mystery
From the report: A small village in India has about a hundred pairs of twins, mostly same sex and 90 percent born in the last 20 years. No one can explain the phenomenon.
Follow link for video. From the report: A small village in India has about a hundred pairs of twins, mostly same sex and 90 percent born in the last 20 years... more -
NJ Woman Still Unidentified After 14 Years
State officials are launching their biggest effort yet to learn the identity of a woman found wandering the Woodbridge Center mall 14 years ago. State officials are launching their biggest effort yet to learn the identity of a woman found wandering the Woodbridge Center mall 14 ... more
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Net mob search for iPhone girl's identity
"China's "human flesh search engine" is in hot pursuit of an unnamed Chinese factory worker after photographs of her showed up unexpectedly on a new iPhone 3G purchased recently in Britain.
In one of the photos, a young woman dressed in a pink striped factory uniform and wearing a matching white cap and rubber gloves, is seen smiling and flashing a "V" sign as she leans over an iPhone assembly line.
The photos were discovered by an iPhone user in Britain who promptly posted his find on the MacRumors forum, setting off a global chain reaction of media interest and culminating in the quest by Chinese internet users to discover her identity.
The term "human flesh search engine" refers to this type of mob reaction by China's so-called netizens (internet citizens) to pool their collective resources in order to track someone down..." "China's "human flesh search engine" is in hot pursuit of an unnamed Chinese factory worker after photographs of h... more -
The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
From ancient perfectly spherical orbs dated to before the known existence of humans to fossilised spark plugs and ancient Peruvian carvings of dinosaurs. This list presents the top ten most bizarre ancient artifiacts that science and archeology has not yet found answers to. From ancient perfectly spherical orbs dated to before the known existence of humans to fossilised spark plugs and ancient Peruvian car... more
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Lake Superior Monster or simple glare - weird photo
I took a high resolution photo last month about 1 mile offshore on Lake Superior with a weird image at the very bottom - read this article I posted on Gather.com
It's not blurry but it's still not clear what it is - one expert says glare.
What do you think? I took a high resolution photo last month about 1 mile offshore on Lake Superior with a weird image at the very bottom - read this art... more -
Is Dog Cloner a Crime Suspect?
A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She may be the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave. A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who... more
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Cloned puppies may have exposed 31-year mystery
"A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She may be the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave.
A paper trail of court documents and jail booking information uncovered by The Associated Press suggests 57-year-old dog-lover Bernann McKinney is Joyce McKinney, who in 1977 faced charges of unlawful imprisonment in the missionary case. She jumped bail and was never brought to justice.
British tabloids first recognized the blonde woman's smiling face when she appeared in news photographs this past week with the five pit bull pups she paid South Korean scientists $53,000 to clone from her pet dog Booger who died two years ago.
There is indeed a striking resemblance between Bernann McKinney and Joyce McKinney. Arrest records and court documents for the two names over the years show other similarities: the same birth date and Social Security numbers, the same hometown of Newland, N.C., and Joyce McKinney's middle name is Bernann.
"It fits," said Utah filmmaker Trent Harris, who made a documentary about Joyce McKinney's case. He said photographs of McKinney and the dogs left him with no question about her identity.
"I said 'Oh my God, that's Joyce,'" he said.
Bernann McKinney has flatly denied any connections to Joyce McKinney and says she planned to take legal action against those who suggested otherwise.
"I'm filing a $10 million libel action and I don't think you want AP to be part of that," McKinney said before boarding a plane to return to the U.S."
More at link, how strange! "A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to so... more
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