My Views & Interesting News: January 2014

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Couch Potatoes Set TV-Watching World Record

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Three men set a new world record for the longest television-watching marathon - after enduring an 87-hour stint over five days. Dan Jordan, Spencer Larson and Chris Laughlin achieved the honour during the Consumer Electronics show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Nevada.

 The trio, all from Las Vegas, watched programing from two TiVo Roamio digital video recorders that had been broadcast and recorded ahead of the attempt They were allowed breaks of five minutes per hour to use the bathroom or nap, in accordance with Guinness World Records rules for the category.

 While allowed to save the five-minute breaks, the longest anyone slept during the 87 hours at any one time was 80 minutes. They underwent regular medical checkups throughout and were allowed to change channels and eat and drink while they watched, but were not allowed to read or talk on the phone at the same time. For completing the marathon, the three shared a prize of $5,000 (£3,038) and received a package including a TV, TiVo Roamio with product lifetime service, iPad, Sonos system, gamer chair and a year's Netflix subscription.

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Family have four Children with same Birthday at odds of more than 133,000 to one

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A family won't have trouble remembering their children's birthdays - because all four siblings were born on the same day. Emily Scrugham and Peter Dunn were amazed when their newborn son arrived on January 12, the exact same date as his three elder brother and sisters. 

New baby Ryan shares his birthday with his five-year-old brother Sam, and his two-year-old twin sisters Brooke and Nicole. The couple from Cleator Moor, Cumbria, beat odds of a staggering 1/133225 in producing a quadruple birthday for their four children. Emily, 22, said: 'I really can't believe we have another birthday on the same day - it certainly wasn't planned. 'None of the births were due on January 12. Sam was two weeks late, the twins one month early and Ryan three days late.

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Artist creates Paintings Underwater

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Animals given Blessings in Mexico City

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Pet-owners in Mexico City have been attending an annual blessing ceremony to mark the feast day of Saint Anthony, known as the protector of animals.

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Turning a Paper Aeroplane into a Drone

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Do you ever worry that your paper planes just aren't high-tech enough? PowerUp is here to help. The device — known in full as the PowerUp 3.0 Smart Module — is an insert that slips into a regular paper airplane, letting you control it remotely using your phone. The carbon-fiber device gives you 10 minutes of flight on a single charge, with a range of 180 feet, and it features a tiny motor to help propel your creation forward. The creators also claim that it has a "crash-proof" design, which should come in handy while you're learning the ins and outs of being a paper pilot.

 The smartphone app, meanwhile, lets you control movement simply by tilting your device left and right. It was developed initially for iOS, but an Android version is also in the works. Creator Shai Goitein was looking to raise $50,000 in crowdfunding dollars to turn PowerUp into a commercial reality, but the Kickstarter project blew past that goal with more than $200,000 raised as of now. And there's still quite a bit of time to go — you have until January 25th to pledge and get rewards like an early beta version of the device. The final retail version of PowerUp 3.0 is expected to launch next June.

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Doga: how Yoga can be good for Dogs too

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Many dog owners enjoy exericsing with their pet - whether that is going for a walk, a run or riding a bike alongside their dog. However, Nic Bello is looking to do something a little bit more relaxing and has been teaching his dog Pancho to do yoga.

Apparently this is a real thing - called "Doga". As chihauahuas are notoriously yappy and excitable dogs, I hope that all that stretching and breathing can help the little creature relax. The pair have now released a series of dog yoga videos together, with this showing some more complex yoga moves:

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Stethoscopes on their way out

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The cold sensation of the doctor's stethoscope has been familiar to patients for decades. But the device could soon be replaced by new technology, a leading scientific journal has predicted. It claims that a new generation of hand-held ultrasound devices, modelled on smartphones, are able to diagnose heart, lung and other conditions quicker and with more accuracy than the 200-year-old stethoscope. 

 The editorial article, in Global Heart, the journal of the World Heart Federation, says: "Many experts have argued that ultrasound has become the stethoscope of the 21st century." Ultrasound works by emitting high-frequency sound waves to monitor the structure of soft tissue and blood flow.

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Govt wants Flyovers for use by Wild Elephants!

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NEW DELHI: The Centre's suggestion to construct underpasses and flyovers for safe passage of elephants to reduce deaths on railway tracks evoked the Supreme Court's derisive comment - why not put up a road sign to inform the pachyderms to use these as safe paths

 Puns apart, a bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Vikramjit Sen lost no time in conveying the seriousness with which it viewed the large number of elephants getting knocked down in the eastern and north-eastern states - Odisha, West Bengal and Assam - and asked the Centre to study the safety module implemented by Karnataka, which reported no such death of elephants on tracks last year.

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Pakistan: FIR against toddler for decoity, snatching

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Karachi: Pakistani police has registered an FIR against a two-and-a-half-year-old boy on dacoity and snatching charges in the most populous Punjab province. The FIR was registered at the Daulat Gate police station in Multan against the toddler, Saud, on the complaint of a person named Arshad who apparently had a property dispute with Saud's mother, the Samaa TV channel reported. 

The matter came to light when the mother approached the court last week and informed it about the incident. The court then sought an explanation from the Station House Officer of Daulat Gate police station. "We have suspended the SHO and are investigating the matter," a senior police officer said. "It is a very embarrassing for the police department because the SHO should have first confirmed the age of the person against whom the FIR was registered and also called him to the station for questioning," he said.

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Aliens hijack Moon? Google Maps capture mysterious spaceship on Moon

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In a bizarre news, a website -- Metro.co.uk reported that Google maps captured several mysterious pictures on Moon. Citing the report, many started asking -- have the aliens hijacked the Moon? According to the reports, a series of images have been captured showing a mysterious triangular wedge-shaped ‘spaceship' on the Moon. The ‘spacecraft', which is believed to be an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), also appears to have a row of 7 light dots along the edge, said the report. 

 Paranormal researcher WowForReel first discovered the controversial snaps that have fueled speculations that the object could actually be an alien spaceship. The researcher also posted a video on YouTube, asserting that the find was unique and unusual because he couldn't find anything else like it in any of the other craters. Here it can be recalled that recently a terrified pilot of a passenger jet reported a near miss in which a rugby ball-shaped UFO passed within a few feet of his aircraft while flying near Heathrow Airport, baffling aviation authorities in London.

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These Literates Earn up to Rs 600/day just Begging

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PATNA: Some of the people seen with begging bowls in the state are literate and earn up to Rs 600 a day. They belong to different religions, castes and age groups but few of them hold ration cards. These findings have come out through a survey conducted in two districts - Patna and Gaya - under the state government's Mukhyamantri Bhikshavriti Nivaran Yojana (MBNY). 

 The recently-held survey conducted by an independent agency on pilot basis identified 2,356 beggars in Gaya and Bodh Gaya and 2,223 in Patna. At least 15 of them are matriculates and one Intermediate pass in Patna and two matriculates in Gaya. In Patna, about 300 of them earn between Rs 200-600 per day and in Gaya, 18 beggars earn up to Rs 500 per day.

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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Australian Man tries to remove Cockroach from ear using vacuum

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Doctors had to surgically remove a 0.8 inch cockroach from a man’s ear after it crawled inside while he was asleep, according to Australian media reports. Hendrik Helmer told the state-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he had unsuccessfully tried to suck out the insect using his vacuum cleaner. “I was hoping it wasn’t a poisonous spider.

I was hoping it didn’t bite me,” he said. He woke up in the middle of the night with pain in the side of his head. ”Later on, when I stood up and it happened it would sort of hunch me over and drop me down to the ground,” Helmer said. Attempts to flush the insect out failed and were repeated at the hospital where doctors tried olive oil. After 10 minutes the creature began to die so the doctor pulled it out with forceps. “Near the 10-minute mark… somewhere about there, he started to stop burrowing but he was still in the throes of death-twitching,” he said. The roach was 2 centimeters long.

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1,400 kg Butter Idol of Goddess in Himachal

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Large numbers of devotees are thronging the Brajeshwari Devi temple here every day to pay obeisance and have glimpse of a 1,400 kg butter idol, temple official said Thursday. The 14 quintal butter idol, made by 18 priests, will remain on the 'pindi' or iconography of the goddess till Jan 20, temple official Pawan Patial told IANS.

 He said the butter idol was made by using `ghee' donated by the devotees. The priests, with a unique technique, purified it with water 108 times. According to legend, when the goddess was injured during a fight with demons, her wounds were treated with butter on Makar Sankranti by gods. The butter, when removed from the 'pindi' Jan 20, will be distributed among the devotees. It's a belief that the butter treats chronic skin ailments and joint pains.

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'Devil Baby' Goes On The Rampage In New York

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As a promotion for the upcoming horror film “Devil’s Due,” filmmakers made a remote-controlled stroller with a horrifying animatronic “devil baby” to scare the bejesus out of unsuspecting New Yorkers. As people approach the unattended stroller, lured in by the sound of a baby crying, the devil infant springs up and screams bloody murder.

The obscene baby also projectile vomits and makes vulgar hand gestures. The reactions are priceless. “It was screams followed by tons and tons of laughter,” Sam Pezzullo, one of the video’s producers told ABC News. The prank was captured with hidden cameras and uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday. The video has gone viral, garnering more than 5 million views.

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Suspended Mumbai varsity professor takes class on pavement

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Mumbai University professor Neeraj Hatekar, suspended by the university for allegedly misleading press about mismanagement at the university, took classes on a pavement outside the varsity campus on Tuesday. Hatekar, an economics stream professor, held classes in Kalina, just outside the Kalina campus.

An NDTV report quoted him as saying, "Dissent and debate is not encouraged at the University. A politically-backed kitchen cabinet runs Mumbai University. When Mr Welukar joined, the university was ranked 96, now it is 150." After his suspension, Professor Hatekar, a widely respected teacher and Cambridge University fellow, said he will not only fight his suspension but will also continue to discuss the issue of the university not being open to criticism.  

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92kg and 1km-long Letter

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Expressing their gratitude, residents of Fuldi village in Harda district have written 1 km long letter weighing 92 kg to chief minister Shivaraj Singh Chouhan, congratulating him on his third term and inviting him to their village.

 The villagers have also approached Guinness Book of Records and Limca Book of Records for registering their letter as the longest in the world. "Almost all villagers have contributed to the letter. All of 1,300 messages from individuals have found place in the letter," Lokesh Gaur, a villager told TOI.

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Man files defamation suit against son for inter-caste marriage

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A man in Bihar disowned his son and filed a defamation case against him Saturday for marrying out of caste. Sidhnath Sharma, a Patna lawyer, also asserted that his son Sushant Jasu could no longer use his name and will have to pay Rs.10,000 copyright fees every time he used it.

 Filing a defamation suit of Rs.1 crore against his son in the court at Danapur here, Sharma said: "My image and honour was hurt by my son, who solemnized an inter-caste marriage against our wishes, now he must compensate for it..." Sushant Jasu, who works for the central government as a senior tax assistant in Gujarat's Palampur town, married a girl, a resident of Danapur, Patna who works in a private bank on Nov 19, 2013.

 An angry Sharma said: "... I and my wife spent time and money to nurse my son for years but he betrayed us. He fell in love with a girl who came into his life two years ago only." He claimed his son's act has ended a nearly 400-year-old family tradition of marrying within their own caste.

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Man spells 40 words backwards in a minute

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The 27-year-old government employee from Bangalore spelt 40 words backwards within a minute to break a previous Guinness record set by an American, who spelt 35 words in reverse in a minute. "People often ask me how I do it. I don't know the answer. My mind just works in a strange way," said Hathwar, breaking into a smile.

Breaking records is not new to Hathwar. In 2011, he clinched the world record for the "fastest backwards spelling of 50 words" in 1 minute and 22.53 seconds. In 2012, he set a new high by spelling 30 randomly chosen words in reverse in a minute.

"This record was recently broken. So I decided to step into the arena again," he said. In keeping with the guidelines issued by the Guinness World Records, two officials from the Tamil Nadu Athletic Association were present at the venue to keep a tab on the time. He spelt 13 four-letter and six-letter words and 14 eight-letter words. Some of the words included quiver, humanity, Botany, fumigate, volume, filament, cylinder, sapphire and appendix.

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Pakistani family jumps into river to escape police

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Islamabad : Eight members of a family jumped into a river to avoid ending up in police custody in Pakistan's Sindh province Sunday, a media report said. The people -- three women and five children -- belonged to a family of a proclaimed offender, Geo News reported.

All are feared drowned. The body of one child was recovered later, the report added. "The women feared that the police would take them away and then use them as hostages to force the wanted criminal to surrender, so they preferred to drown than fall in the hands of the police," the report quoted a source as saying.

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God's Miracles: Cow With 5 Legs Grants Baby Boys To Pregnant Women

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A cow with five legs has been hailed a miracle because when pregnant women touch its fifth hoof they give birth to baby boys. Raj Pratap’s three-year-old male calf, called Raju, now is a star in Raipur, India, since a woman with four daughters touched the animal’s fifth hoof and begged for her next child to be a boy.

The woman delivered twin boys in February this year, word soon spread that the calf’s fifth leg. Raju's anomaly a very rare condition which affects just one in every five million cows. Since news got out about the fifth leg, Mr Pratap, a cattle herder, has been swamped by pregnant women who pay to touch the hoof with 30 women so far stumping up around 500 rupees, for the privilege.

All the 30 women delivered boys. The owner of the cow is so confident of his ‘miracle calf’ that he offers refunds if the baby born is a girl. On December 23, the cow celebrated its 33rd victory, after the woman who touched its ‘magical hoof’ gave birth to triplets….all of them boys. 

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Endoscopy Camera breaks inside Patient's Stomach, Doctor flees the scene

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Jodhpur: Doctor fled after an endoscopy camera broke inside a patient's stomach ! The incident happpened in Mahatma Gandhi hospital in Jodhpur on Thursday. The spring of the endoscopy camera broke inside the stomach of an elderly patient.

When the doctor realized it, he left the wire in the hands of the patient and escaped from the room. After 6 hours of severe pain, the patient was referred to Mathuradas Mathur hospital by the same doctor. The patient, 65-year-old Shyam Singh Kumpawat is a resident of Saraswati Nagar. Shyam was later relieved after undergoing an operation in MDMH hospital. 

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Pakistan Sisters withdraw Rs 17 lakh, burn it in front of the Bank

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In a bizarre incident, two sisters in Pakistan’s Punjab province withdrew Rs 17 lakh from their account and burnt them in front of the bank branch. Naheed, 40, and Rubina, 35, of Jhelum’s Bilal Town area visited the Chak Nasa branch of National Bank of Pakistan three days ago to withdraw Rs 1.7 million from a fixed deposit account, Jhelum’s district police officer Afzal Butt said.

 Due to procedural and other issues involved, the bank manager told the sisters that their request could not be met immediately, the police officer said. So, the two women visited the bank branch again yesterday and asked the manager to give them the money. “The sisters were handed over the money at about noon. They took the currency notes outside the branch and simply set them afire,” Butt was quoted as saying by Dawn daily.

 An eyewitness told police that when a shopkeeper and a passer-by tried to stop the sisters from burning the notes, the elder one took out a pistol and said they had every right to do whatever they wanted to. Soon, a large number of people gathered around the two women, only to look at the currency notes burning. Police later arrived at the scene and collected the ashes, the report said. It said that the women had deposited Rs 28 lakh with the bank about a year ago after selling the property they had inherited from their father Raja Muhammad Iqbal, who was killed in mysterious circumstances a couple of years ago.

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Sunday, January 12, 2014

US Polar Vortex Freezes wet T-shirt Solid in minus 30C

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Footage shows an employee of a sports brand in Dubuque, Iowa freezing a wet T-shirt in one minute. The promotional products distributor is based in a part of Iowa that has been hit by the polar vortex, with an outside temperature of -29C and a wind chill of -45C. See video here at................US polar vortex freezes wet T-shirt solid in minus 30C

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100,000 Bats fall dead from the sky during a heatwave in Australia

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Tens of thousands of dead bats have fallen from the sky as a “catastrophic” heatwave hits parts of eastern Australia. The RSPCA estimated that 100,000 could have died from heat exhaustion in record temperatures in southern Queensland. Spokesman Michael Beatty says the heatwave was a significant blow to the population of bats across the state.

“The heatwave was basically a catastrophe for all the bat colonies in south-east Queensland,” he said. “That's obviously going to have a pretty disturbing impact on those colonies and those colonies are vital to our ecosystem.” The animals’ corpses rot quickly in the heat and councils have organised collections to stop the stench.

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Boiling Water to Frozen water trick Backfires in US

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A trick where boiling water is thrown in the air to instantly turn into snow in the bitingly cold US weather became a viral hit this week, as metereologists and TV reporters illustrated just how freezing it is in the polar vortex. But now it seems Americans are feeling the backlash of the stunt after trying it themselves in the -30 degree weather. 

The LA Times found that at least 50 people on social media complained that they or their friends were scalded by hot water on Monday and Tuesday. Videos have emerged online of people trying the trick out before getting hurt when the water touches them. Others have posted photos of their injuries on Instagram, and some have even mentioned visits to Accident and Emergency to receive treatment for their burns. St Louis Children's Hospital in Missouri said on Tuesday it had treated two children for burns after trying the trick.

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Escaped Kentucky Prisoner opts for the big house over the big chill

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There’s no escaping the polar vortex. Not even for an escaped prisoner. A Kentucky inmate managed to get out of a minimum-security prison on Sunday — and turned himself in the next day at a motel a few miles away, explaining that he wanted to get out of the frigid air. It was 3 degrees in Lexington, with a wind chill of 17 below, when Robert Vick turned himself in at the Sunset Motel and Restaurant. Maurice King, manager of the 25-room motel, told NBC News that Vick definitely looked like he’d had enough. Read more here at Escaped Kentucky inmate opts for the big house over the big chill
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Firefighter hops to it, Extinguishes Truck Fire with Beer

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Capt. Craig Moreau said he was driving on State Highway 71 from Austin, Texas, on Monday night when he witnessed smoke funneling out of a truck’s brakes. He and his wife pulled over to help the driver, and Moreau reached for the closest extinguisher on tap: beer. 

The 18-wheeler, it turned out, was hauling cans of Coors Banquet. The "rear brakes had locked up and were flaming pretty good," Moreau later wrote on Facebook, where he posted a picture of the beer rescue. "We pulled over to help, and got to him as he was starting to spray his tiny extinguisher from the outside of the tire."

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Man Building Loo to Save His Marriage

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A Man in India is building a toilet to save his eight-year marriage. Dev Karan has been given a January 10 deadline by a court to build a toilet if he wants his wife back, who filed for divorce four years ago. Dev is sinking into debt to rescue his marriage despite the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government launching the Maryada scheme in 2012 to build free toilets to prevent women from defecating in the open. 

 His wife Savita and her father Devi Lal welcomed the court decision, Dev was in deep water as his daily wages of Rs 125 were not enough to even take care of his visually challenged father and disabled mother, let alone build a toilet. He needed to mobilize at least Rs 5,000.

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Sunday, January 5, 2014

Camel Beauty Contest In United Arab Emirates

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Every year people travel thousands of miles, from across the Gulf, to the Western Region of the United Arab Emirates to attend the prestigious event. But you won't find any designer dresses, tiaras or make-up artists here because they've come to seek out the region's next top camel.

The Al Dhafra festival is in its seventh year and seeks to celebrate and promote Bedouin culture. The highlight is the camel beauty pageant which sees thousands of contestants strut their stuff in two competitions: one for the light-coloured Asayel breed and another for the dark-skinned Majahim. These "desert ships", as some refer to them, historically provided Bedouins with a source of milk and transportation.

They're also seen, more recently, as a potentially profitable business investment. And it's not just millions of pounds worth of cash prizes and cars that entice people to come. It's a matter of national pride with camel-owning families from the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman and other Gulf states all competing.

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Crop Circles On California Farm In Salinas Valley

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Salinas - An intricate crop circle has been discovered in Salinas, California, last Sunday morning of December 29, 2013. Early walkers saw two bursts of light, first thought to be a message from outer space, but now believed to be man-made, not alien, in origin.

Approximately 200 feet wide and two feet high, the crop circle was designed overnight with intricate patterns of circles and squares on a beautiful green barley field on a Chualar farm in Salinas Valley, two hours south of San Francisco. The bursts of light that eye-witnesses saw during the night were green. A camera video taken of the sighting and placed on YouTube the next day immediately went viral among the UFO audience.

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'Magnetic' Man breaks record for sticking spoons to his body

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A Georgian man broke his own Guinness World Record by sticking 53 spoons to his body. Etibar Elchiyev’s previous record was set in December 2011 when 50 spoons became the most a human had ever managed to stick to their body.

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Man dodges traffic while riding scooter backwards

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Top Bureaucrat's Wife stuck in Traffic, 4 Cops suspended

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AGRA: Four policemen have been suspended for stopping traffic to clear the way for vehicles of a former UP police chief and his family that apparently left many commuters stranded including the wife of a top bureaucrat in the state. Former director general of police Prakash Singh and his family were on their way to a memorial of the founder of the Radhasoami faith in Dayalbagh on Sunday when the traffic was allegedly held up by the cops to let their cars pass.

According to sources, the wife of a top UP government bureaucrat, who was stuck in the traffic jam, made a clipping of the incident and sent it to her husband, who called up local police authorities. SSP Shalabh Mathur said he had ordered the suspension of the four policemen — two sub-inspectors and as many constables - for causing the traffic jam and the incident would be inquired into by the circle officer, east, K P Yadav.

The suspended cops are PRO to the DIG of Agra range, sub inspector Pramendra, SI Sanjeev Dubey of the New Agra police station and constables Suresh Kumar Singh and Raghuvir Singh of the Cheetah mobile squad.

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'Aishwarya Rai' in Chhattisgarh village's voter list

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Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai’s name and picture has figured in the electoral list of Ghughri village in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district. The Ghughri village falls under Pathalgaon Assembly constituency of Jashpur district in the State.

According to the voters’ list of polling station Number 15, Aishwarya Rai is 23 years old, and resides in house Number 376 in the village. Her father is named as one Dinesh Rai, according to the Collector. Nobody by these names live in the area, the Collector said, adding, ‘ Bagicha Sub Divisional Magistrate K P Dewangan has been directed to probe the matter and submit a report within 15 days. ‘ Interestingly, the accompanying photo also makes it clear that it is not the some other person but Ms Abhishek Bachchan herself, he said.

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Minister given ‘Milk Bath’ after Ink attack

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In a public display of blind faith, NCP workers bathed Maharashtra Labour Minister and party leader Hasan Mushrif in milk to ‘purify’ him from an ink attack by a fellow worker. The incident in Kolhapur on Friday ironically occurred in a state which is the first in the country to pass a legislation against superstition. 

As the incident sparked an outrage, Mushrif apologised for the action of his supporters. On Thursday, an NCP worker walked to the stage at a public function in Buldhana where Mushrif was seated and poured black ink on him. NCP workers caught the man, identified as Namdeo Dongardive, and handed him over to the police. 

When Mushrif reached Kolhapur the next day to attend a meeting of the party workers, his followers asked him to sit on a chair and then poured milk on the minister to ‘purify’ him. The milk was brought in cans and steel tumblers with TV footage showing some of his supporters taking photographs of the minister while he was being drenched in milk.

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