Finally Friday June 5 th 2009

Man gets a new face and a new life Article from: May 22, 2009 11:10am A MAN who was horrifically disfigured after falling on electrified rail tracks today spoke of his joy as he revealed his new look following a face transplant. American James Maki - thought to be only the third person in the world to have undergone the procedure - said he couldn’t wait to look in the mirror afterwards. ‘I just wanted to see what the new Jim looked like,’ said the 59-year-old from Boston. Until the transplant, Mr Maki had lived as a recluse and battled substance abuse after losing his nose, upper lip, cheeks, the roof of his mouth in an accident four years ago, the Daily Mail reports. But today he said: ‘I’m so happy. My life has been a journey with many ups and downs. I hope this will be a chance to start fresh' He also revealed that when he saw his new face for the first time four days after the 17-hour transplant, he told lead surgeon Dr Bohdan Pomahac: ‘I can’t believe you made me look so close to what I used to look like.’ He also said that his daughter, who just graduated from university, cried with joy when she first saw him following the April 9 procedure.

Circumcision to prevent "exhaustion of the body" 01.06.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru American corn baron John Harvey Kellogg (the maker of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes) decided to fight masturbation in the end of the 19th century. As an influential politician, Kellogg unleashed the “counter-masturbation hysteria” in the society. At that time medical doctors tempted by Kellogg’s ideas wrote that “exhaustion of the body, heart diseases and heart failure may be the results of self-satisfaction”. Protecting boys against the awful consequences could be possible through surgery, Kellogg believed – by meant of circumcision. Positive results could be achieved only if foreskin and the mucous membrane of the penis were removed, the doctor wrote. “After the wounds are healed, the skin will sit tight on the penis either limiting or eradicating masturbation,” he said. As Kellogg affirmed, “circumcision in infancy is the remedy which almost always helps”. The operation, he added, should be done without anesthesia so that pain that follows should get its impact on psyche. It should be somehow connected to the idea of punishment. “Perverse forms of sexual delight in women could be treated through the calopuncture of clitoris with carbolic acid,” he wrote. Kellogg’s paradoxical ideas of were accepted by American doctors at surprising tempo. More so, circumcision in infantry became popular in other English-speaking countries. Whereas Europe gave up the practice early, it is still popular in America . This time the fighting is not against masturbation but against diseases: for more than a century doctors reinforce the information on the usefulness of circumcision providing more scientific evidence and Americans wouldn’t stop paying for the “essential procedure

Man charged in penis 'puppet' incident May 22, 2009 at 2:53 PM UPI FEDERAL WAY, Wash., May 21 (UPI) -- Police in Washington state said a suspect used his genitals as a puppet while standing over an air conditioner intake at an apartment complex. The police report of the incident said Timothy Wayne Martin, 44, of Auburn, Wash., was arrested after residents of the Arcadia Apartment Complex in Federal Way called police at about 10:30 a.m. May 13 and reported a man standing over an air conditioner intake wearing only an unbuttoned flannel shirt and "was apparently manipulating" his penis with a string "like a puppet," Seattlepi.com reported Thursday. Police said Martin was arrested at the scene and still had the string attached to his penis. He was charged under the state's felony indecent exposure statute due to having two prior convictions for similar crimes. Martin was also in possession of a small quantity of methamphetamine at the time of his arrest. Police said he also had a pornographic magazine. The suspect was taken to the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in lieu of $25,000 bail.

Get Superhuman Vision with the “Bionic" Contact Lenses Researchers have developed new contact lenses that contain circuits, LEDs, and a "powder" of electrical components that can enable an average human being to possess superhuman vision. The contact lenses would allow images to be displayed in a person's vision, superimposed on the real world. The team suggests that the "Bionic Eye" lenses could have a much greater potential of uses. How about a personalized wide-screen TV? The researchers explained that one of the most difficult parts of designing the lenses is making them biologically safe. So far, they have only tested the lenses on rabbits, with no negative effects. Electrical circuits consist of toxic chemicals, but the scientists built them from layers of metal only a few nanometers thick. In the future, the scientists hope to enable the lenses to communicate wirelessly with other devices. They also plan to power the system using a combination of solar cells located on the contact lenses, and radio-frequency power. Although a full display is a ways off, the scientists hope to create a basic version in the near future.

Girls Get the Anime Look with Extra-Wide Contact Lenses Wide-eyed and not-so-innocent? Anyone who's seen Japanese comics, cartoon videos or anime art is instantly struck by the common look of the girls - big eyes that, by making the rest of the face look small, add the cuteness and sex appeal prized by many Japanese men. Since no amount of cosmetic surgery will make actual human eyes larger, some girls are trying another way to up their cute quotient: extra-wide contact lenses! These are no ordinary contacts - they're not only tinted, but tinted prominently in the extra-wide outer ring. The result is the appearance of a bigger, wider iris. To quote the sales copy, "Wanna get big, watery shiny eyes without any surgery? CRAVE AND ENVY NO MORE!" The extra-wide contact lenses are made by a variety of companies including Geo and Dueba , and cost in the $30-$50 per pair range. It seems they're not just cosmetic - send in your prescription and the lenses will be made to order.

Top 10 Scariest Contact Lenses: Fashion For Your Eyes by Fashion Finds The world of eyewear has been forever changed by the introduction of contact lenses, however, not all of them are practical or fashionable; some contact lenses are just downright disgusting, creepy, and especially scary. The top 10 contact lenses mentioned here are in no particular order.

The Corvette Stingray was named after the corvette, a “a small, maneuverable, lightly armed warship, originally smaller than a frigate and larger than a coastal patrol craft,” and the stingray, a marine vertebrate related to sharks. Now Bo Zolland has doubly returned the compliment with his stunning 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Boat Design. The boat features gullwing doors and can be ordered with a choice of engines including 496 HP or 502 HP Mercruisers, an LS-9 marine or a Volvo Penta Diesel with up to 550 HP. Seats 5 and would look fairly amazing on a trailer behind an actual ‘63 Vette.

Family axes wedding plans, Egyptian cuts off penis Associated Press Writer / May 31, 2009 CAIRO— A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday. After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his reproductive organ, said a police official. The young man came from a prominent family in the southern Egyptian province of Qena, one of Egypt's poorest and most conservative areas that is also home to the famed ancient Egyptian ruins of Luxor. The man was rushed to the hospital but doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official added citing the police report filed after the incident. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press, added that the man was still recovering in the hospital. Traditionally, marriages in these conservative part of southern Egypt are between similar social classes and often within the same extended families -- and are rarely for love.

'I bought my daughter Botox jabs for her 18th birthday‘ ... says mother who has spent £45,000 on plastic surgery 26th May 2009 Most mothers would aspire to pass on something of themselves to a teenage daughter. But for Margaret King, that didn't mean offering young Jodie advice on the opposite sex or even guiding her on her wardrobe choices. For her 18th birthday, she bought her Botox injections to get rid of the 'wrinkles' on the teenager's forehead. Mrs King, who has spent £45,000 on cosmetic surgery procedures for herself, said: 'Jodie's forehead is like mine - she gets pronounced lines when she makes a facial expression. I knew Botox would solve the problem.' Many surgeons do not recommend using Botox under the age of 30 because the skin has not sufficiently wrinkled and it could lead to an unnecessary loss of facial expression. But Jodie, who had been worried about her complexion, is now addicted to the jabs and has spent £1,000 on them.

UK NEWS PHIL SPECTOR'S BIZARRE BLOG ENTRYS Sunday May 31,2009 JAILED music legend Phil Spector has posted a string of astonishing internet blogs before and after being sentenced to 19 years for murder. The producer, who has been allowed to keep a laptop computer and iPod in his cell at Los Angeles County Jail, has been rattling off revealing messages via the chat site Twitter. In them, Spector, 69, who was convicted by a retrial jury last month for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, tells how: The authorities took his wig; He has befriended a cockroach – “I’m naming him Wilson” – and is playing air chess with him; His “wall of sound” music style is comparable to the artistic works of Leonardo Da Vinci; He is “dysfunctional by choice and I love my attitude problem” He refuses to be depressed, calling it a “wasted emotion,” like pity; He has an “itch” in his head that is driving him “crazy” and medication he has been ordered to take is “taking its toll”. This last comment possibly refers to pain medication he is likely to be on after an operation to remove polyps from his throat last week. At one point he writes: “Pain is just there, it’s constant.” Spector was secretly escorted from jail last Wednesday to UCLA Medical Centre in Beverly Hills for the two-hour operation. It is not known if the polyps were malignant or in a pre-cancerous state. His ­special privileges at LA County Jail are not uncommon, especially for celebrity inmates, but they will almost certainly not be as generous when he is placed in a long-term prison in the next few weeks after medical and psychological screening. However, he will be able to carry on blogging. America’s Federal Bureau of Prisons announced earlier this year that its estimated 2,450,000 inmates will all have access to email by 2011. Daily Express

Fighting Cancer With Daughter’s Breast Milk May 28, 2009 “When Tim Browne sits down to a bowl of corn flakes in the morning, he slurps up one unusual, and controversial, extra ingredient: his own daughter’s breast milk . He doesn’t do it for the taste — Browne initally said his daughter Georgia’s breast millk tasted “not unpleasant, but slightly pungent” — but for his health…” w/ photos + video

Nurses to get free boob jobs Published: 27 May 2009 The Sun.co.uk A HOSPITAL is so desperate for new staff its offering out free BOOB JOBS in return for filled vacancies. Plastic surgeons in Prague will perform enhancing operations if qualified nurses and doctors put their names to a three year contract. The new employees at the Iscare clinic in the Czech capital will be able to choose between breast enlargements, face-lifts or tummy-tucks. Manager Jiri Schweitzer said: "Our staff will be real life models to show exactly what we can achieve."

'DEFLOWER DEAL' GUY PULLS OUT NATALIE DYLAN STILL A VIRGIN AS BUYER BACKS OUT May 30, 2009 She won't be taking her golden chastity belt off anytime soon. The 22-year-old California virgin who auctioned off her virtue online for $3.8 million has yet to meet her winning bidder in the flesh - because his wife won't let him. Natalie Dylan (not her real name) admitted the deal had fallen through. Last week, she got a phone call from the rogue Romeo, a 38-year-old Australian real-estate businessman, who said he had to back out. "I told him to go back into marriage therapy," sniped Dylan. The Aussie cad then sheepishly asked for his $250,000 deposit back. Dylan said no hard feelings; it would be returned. Now Dylan, who launched the online campaign last fall through the Moonlite Bunny Ranch - a legal brothel in Carson City, Nev., owned by Dennis Hof - is back on the auction block.

Gold can be available through vending machines in Germany now 03.06.2009 Source: Pravda.Ru A vending machine selling tiny gold bars was launched at the main railway station in Germany’s Frankfurt-am-Main. The ATM machine, the size of a phone-booth and shaped as a gold bar, was installed in the financial metropolis of the European Union, Itar-Tass news agency reports. The new service appeared because of the aspiration of the Germans to rescue their savings during the crisis converting the funds on their bank accounts to gold bars. About 59 tons of gold bars and coins were sold to natural persons during the first quarter of the current year in Germany. The gold sales exceeded the same-period level of the previous year four times. The prices on gold bars available through the ATM change several times a day according to market fluctuations of gold prices. One gram of gold is currently priced at 31 EUR. The ATM accepts credit cards and cash. Each gold bar comes with the certificate of authenticity. The Germans hold the absolute leadership when it comes to purchasing gold. For comparison, the French bought only 1.1 tons of gold from January to March. About 500 gold-dispensing ATMs will be installed in Frankfurt-am-Main and other large German cities in the foreseeable future.

$2 Million McLaren F1 Self-Immolates In Sickening Conflagration Jun 2 2009 It happened yesterday, when the owner took it out after six months of storage and an onlooker alerted the owner to smoke coming from the engine bay. The fire spread quickly and consumed the carbon fiber body work and 6.0 liter BMW V12 with horrifying efficiency. The car was a total loss, valued at $2 million and insured for $3 million, but the financial implications are nothing compared to losing one of these rare gems. The McLaren F1 is a testament to the magnificent results of form following function, it is quite possibly the purest supercar that will ever be constructed, and to have it die from an engine fire is just sad. Driver error at 231 MPH on the Nurburgring, a tire puncture at full-G on the Pacific Coast Highway followed by a magnificent plummet into the ocean, the first failed attempt at a wheeled vehicle orbital launch... there are many ways for a McLaren F1 to die a glorious death, but to die like so many Pontiac Gran Prixs just doesn't do the car justice.

From Bangkok to Berlin, Hard Times Hit the Sex Trade Thursday, May. 28, 2009 In Patpong, one of Bangkok's most notorious red-light districts, go-go girls count their livelihood by the number of sex tourists they entertain. "Three inches, three minutes, 3,000 baht ($87)," laughs Goy, a 25-year-old bargirl. Last summer, she and her fellow pole dancers at the Camelot Castle entertained scores of men every night — first in the bar, where they earn a monthly salary, then at the customer's hotel, where they negotiate their own rates. But as cash-strapped tourists have turned their backs on Thailand — tourism officials say revenues will plunge 35% this year — the ranks of men cruising Patpong have thinned dramatically. On a recent Wednesday evening, just three tourists watched a visibly disgruntled Goy wiggle around her pole. "My base salary was 8,000 baht ($232) a month, but now they are giving me 6,000 baht ($174)," she says. "I haven't had a customer in five nights, and I'm lucky if someone buys me a drink."

New boobs please Net assets ... Simona Halep hates her big boobs Big hit ... talented star is set for Wimbledon June 1, 2009 TENNIS babe Simona Halep is to undergo surgery - to shrink her 34DD bouncers. The 17-year-old claims they are a disadvantage and has vowed to have a reduction later this year. She declared: "The breasts make me uncomfortable when I play. "It's the weight that troubles me - my ability to react quickly." Fans of the 5ft 5in Romanian - ranked 317th in the world and hoping to play at Wimbledon - last night flocked to sign an online petition: Save Simona Halep Boobs. One stormed: "It will be a crime against nature."

1957 Ferrari 250 TR - World's Most Expensive Car MARANELLO, Italy (May 17, 2009) - RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby's, made history at the Ferrari factory in Maranello today as a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR, chassis no. 0714TR sold for 9,020,000 Euros at the third annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event to set a new world record for the most expensive motor car ever to be sold at auction. Returning to its Maranello birthplace for its auction debut, the 9,020,000 Euros sale price for 0714TR represents 1,980,000 Euros more than the previous auction world record which was set at the same sale last year.

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Never before seen photos of Marilyn Monroe revealed On Monday, which would have been Marilyn Monroe’s 83rd birthday, Life magazine published never-seen-before pictures of the actress on its website, People.com reports

"The negatives for these photos were recently discovered during our ongoing effort to digitize Life's immense and storied photo archive, including outtakes and entire shoots that never saw the light of day," according to the magazine.

When Monroe was just a 24-year-old aspiring model and actress, recently signed by 20th Century Fox, she was part of a photo shoot at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, with Life magazine photographer Ed Clark. She had only done small parts in some movies. Clark took pictures of her while she walked in the park, and read scripts in a bikini top and shorts. It was reported that then editors of Life sent the pictures back to Clark with a telegram that read, “Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe?”

Diane Kruger- German actress & model