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Like those on Seattlepi, we are also interested to know who is Gina? A message of love to an unknown "Gina" is scrawled across the lanes of an overpass on Highway 520 in the Arboretum on Tuesday in Seattle. The message was painted on an unused ramp on the highway in the serene park. The painter and the recipient of the message are mysteries
Via Uniquedaily
The sixteen contestants for the 2007 Miss Hong Kong Pageant were taking part in a photoshoot session at Beijing Tian Long Yuan Hot Spring Resorts for their swimwear parade on June 6. Lily Ho Ngo Hee (second from the left in the front row), an 18-year-old law students from the Hong Kong Institute of Further Education. is this year's the youngest contestant and the hot favorite beauty. Source: TVBSpace & Xinhua
Impossible is nothing, now some a Chinese male goat produces milk too! Expert thought that a possible internal secretion stimulated the male goat's breasts to produce milk.
The goat is white, resembles a calf standing one metre high and two metres long and lives in the Cao village of Zhengding County in Hebei province.
Its owner, An Gui-suo reportedly said he bought the four-year-old goat for 1,000 yuan (131 U.S dollars) from a nearby villager for hybridization half a year ago.
At that time, he doubted if the goat with a pair of large breasts could work, but later, the doubt went away when a female goat gave birth to several lambs.
Accidentally, he found white liquid flowed from the male's breasts, and after squeezing them got milk. Since then the owner could get almost half a litre of milk every day.
Souce: CRI
After spending six hours on reefs, those altogether sixteen extremely exhausted people were finally rescued after the police dispatched light boats. Excerpts from CRI
Taking photographs of a wedding is a pleasant memory for new couples.
But six happy pairs were left stranded for six hours on Wednesday while snapping away on reefs, 50 kilometers [50 meters according to the riginal story in Chinese] away from the bank of the Badaguan in Qingdao in Shandong province.
The Hebei province couples and four photographers were too busy to notice the rising tide at Badaguan or "Eight Passes" seashore, the Peninsula Metropolitan News reported.
A witness told the newspaper the couples looked excited when they first saw the tide was up and wanted to use the tidal waves as the background for their pictures. But as the wind strengthened, the waves intensified and the couples were eventually trapped.
A piece of melon with flesh still on the rind thought to be as the world's oldest was dugg out by Japanese archaeologists who dugg an excavation site at Moriyama in western Japan.
Based on a radiocarbon analysis, researchers estimate the half-rounded piece of fruit to be about 2,100 years old.
The melon might have been so well-preserved because it was in a vacuum-packed state in a wet layer below the ground, an environment hostile to microorganisms that might otherwise have broken down the remains.
They were seen on duty during the historic train crossings between North Korea and South Korea this May.
Octopig is a silly name given to a multi-penised, six-legged, two-anused piglet recently borned to the Croatian farmer Ivica Seic. The pig was growing so fast that Mr. Ivica had decided to keep him as a pet. Hei, RC has posted another six-legged piglet and a three-legged pig before. Link via SN
Mr. Xin Guo-liang surprisedly found a red-colored rice field eel among one kilogram of them which he bought from a local farmer in the Ganyuan Town of Deqing County, Zhejiang Province. The gene mutation was believed to be the cause of color change of this rare wild eel which is 130 gram in weight and 40 cm in length. link 
From Wikipedia
Photo 51 is the name given to an X-ray diffraction image of DNA taken by Rosalind Franklin in 1952 that was critical evidence in identifying the structure of DNA. The photo was taken by Franklin while working at King's College London in Sir John Randall's group.
The photo, shown by Maurice Wilkins to James D. Watson, was the critical evidence that led to the confirmation of the postulated double helical structure of DNA, published in a series of five articles in the 1953 issues of the journal Nature. Franklin and Raymond Gosling's own publication in the same issue of Nature was the first publications of this more clarified X-ray image of DNA.
From Spluch
A poor one year boy from Xiamen China, has never shed a tear since his birth - even if he is in great pain or when he's upset. Little Xu was born without eyes and two small dimples with smooth skin are found at the eye regions instead. He has no eyebrows, eyelashes and a small pointed nose that resembles that of a small carrot head is located at the center of his little face.
[Without vision, this toddler whose capacities of mobility and language are normal can only find the fun by throwing his toys to listen the noises.]
Such illness known as cryptophthalmia or the congenital absence of the eyes are very rare, as only over a hundred cases have been discovered.
Professor Liu of Xiamen's Ophthalmology Center had conducted a medical checkup on Xu and discovered that one of his eyes may not be well-developed and hence whether Xu will regain his sight after the "eye opening" surgery is still uncertain.
Source: 2eyes
Update: On the date (June 14) this story was featured, we didn't notice the report that Little Xu had already done an operation on his right eye by Professor Liu On May 29. Although the surgery was quite successful (see the picture below), the capacity of the eye's visual perception is yet to be determined. If Xiao Xu's eyesight cannot be restored, the hospital will transplant an artificial eyelid and an artificial cornea into his eye, to give his eye the proper shape and contour.
From People's Daily Wang Cheng, a 23-year-old girl in Xuzhou, a city of east China's Jiangsu Province, has developed surprisingly thick legs since she was seven. Her right leg first rounded out for no particular reason and the other leg followed two years later. Now, her left leg is 0.7 meters round. A dozen Chinese urban hospitals have failed to figure out what happened.Actually, the girl's ailment is a complication called Elephantiasis, Google Image Seach has abundant photos of those who suffer the illness.
Numerous dead crabs have appeared on the sands of a beach resort in Qingdao, a coastal city in east China's Shandong province. Local residents suspect the deaths are the result of polluted water from a nearby sewage outfall which has flowed for the past week, the Peninsula Metropolitan News reported.
Abundant crabs, sea weed, star fish and clams have made the Shilaoren Beach Resort nationally famous.
Ironically, the dead crabs have become a tourist attraction, with visitors and locals collecting the creatures which have begun to emit foul odours.
Officials say the true cause of the deaths remains under investigation.
As the host for the 29th Olympic sailing events, Qingdao (where you can have a unique experience of drink bagged Tsingdao beer) has begun making overall plans in order to improve the ecological environment, highlight “Green Olympics”, “High-tech Olympics” and “Humanistic Olympics”, and build the city into a green Olympic metropolis with the best sailing facilities in Asia.
Hope the crab death incident will not bring the negative effects to Qingdao.
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Steve Hatch from New London in Connecticut was struck by a one-in-3-million chance when catching a blue lobster at the mouth of the local Thames River. The one and a half pound clawed creature is bright blue, the result of an extremely rare genetic mutation while not the enviroment.
Spared from being cooked, the rare crustacean has been brought to the Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration (see the map) where two other blue captive lobsters currently is being raised.
Some 15,000 get together to eat lobster at a feast during The Seventh China Lobster Festival (which is held from June 11 to 28) in Xuyi County of Jiangsu Province on June 12. People devoured nearly ten tons of lobster made by about 500 cooks during the feast. If you are Chinese-savvy, 52xuyi is a dedidated site to the festival.
A few notes. Actually the 'lobster' referred here is not the clawed lobster that lives in the sea, but a freshwater crayfish: Procambarus Clarkii, which can commomly be found in the place where has the water. Xuyi, is a less developed county with numerous large or middle-scale lakes in my home province Jiangsu, but the crawfish produced from this county has won great fames and made vast revenues from home and abroad. Nowadays even when you are travels in big cities in the province like Nanjing, Wuxi or Xuzhou etc., you can always find Some Xuyi Lobster Restaurants.
Dubbed "Splendid Night", the flowery pearl necklace made of 18K yellow gold and 456 natural pearls was shown on a pearl products exhibition held in Jinan city, capital of east China's Shandong province on June 12, 2007. link .jpg "Photo credit:Xinhua")
This feather duster was made of the top-grade feathers from more than 1,000 cocks through over 20 stages of producing process. It's sold with a price tag of 18, 000 Yuan (7.68 Yuan ~ 1US$) at a shop in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. In contrast, farmers of this bustling province can earn no more than 5000~8000 Yuan per year. Link
The researchers led by Dr. Richard Sidman at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine in Boston isolated stem cells from the brains of aborted foetuses, and grew them into large numbers in the laboratory.
They injected the cells into the brains of monkeys with a severe form of chemically induced Parkinson's disease.
Before the treatment, the monkeys could not walk unaided, struggled to use their hands, and sometimes were unable to move at all. However two months after the treatment, they started walking, feeding themselves, and move more normally.
It surprised the team that the stem cells - rather than replacing the damaged cells as anticipated - actually worked to protect them, preventing further deterioration.
"These results are from a very early stage pre-clinical trial using an animal model of Parkinson's," Dr Kieran Breen, Director of Research and Development for the Parkinson's Disease Society, however, cautioned, "Further trials are needed to establish whether similar results are seen in people who have Parkinson's." Source: Kerala | BBC | NS
Paul Potts, a mobile phone salesman in Carphone Warehouse from South Wales, says he is not a confident man while dreaming of singing as his career. But this inconfident man has won a standing ovation by a huge audience when he finished singing Nessun Dorma on UK's talent show "Britain's Got Talent". Even the show judge Simon Cowell who is notorious for his sceptical comments in American Idol says Paul's singing is fantastic! He has partially fulfilled his dream!
Youtub user Stupidlazybum also comment, "That's rather disrespectful to other opera singers. My friends are voice majors who've spent their lives perfecting their voice and will probably spend the rest of their lives trying to 'enter that world'. "
Before leaving this post, make sure check tenor Luciano Pavarotti's rendition of Nessun Dorma.
Wanna surf the universe? Go to Googl Browsing Center in Pondicherry, India! Other than internet browsing, the internet cafe also provides web designing/hosting, document scanning, multimedia presentations, PDF conversion, laser printing among other services.
Who says there has no Google internet cafe? Below show you two: one in Brasil and the other in Eygpt:
Link via Googlified
Villagers in the Garo hills area of India's Meghalaya state where is close to the borders with Bangladesh and Bhutan claimed that they saw “bigfoot”-type hairy giants “Mande Burung” — or Jungle Man roaming the remote jungles of Northeast India. Taking it serious, the authories are now investigating if the so-called hairy, ape-like and “at least eight feet tall” mysterious monsters are existing or not and hoping the mysterious creature can boost the local tourism. Excerpts from Khaleej & Javno:
“A team of wildlife officials and other experts will conduct a study to find out if there is any truth in the locals’ claims about these hairy giants,” said Samphat Kumar, a district magistrate in the West Garo Hills district.
"Since 1997, we have been documenting Mande Burung sightings and telltale signs such as giant footprints," Dipu N. Marak of A'chik Tourism Society, an adventure tourism group, told the Hindustan Times.
"Mande Burung", the beast's local name, is all set to become the mascot for a sprawling 800 sq km (308 sq mile) biosphere reserve where the group is planning "Chase-the-Monster" tours through rainforests, waterfalls and stalactite caves.
"They are doing a good job. We support them," said state tourism official K.M. Momin.
The monster hunt has led to the discovery of caves and waterfalls such as the 1,085-metre (3,560-ft) high "Staircase Falls", and the Kekengkhol stalactite-stalagmite caves which could be the longest in South Asia, a tour operator said.
Around 30 tailors worked for three consecutive days to complete two wedding dresses for the 2.36-meter (7.74 feet) giant from northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. One is a traditional Chinese Tangzhuang jacket (above), and the other (lower left) is the traditional Mongolian gown, with a design said to be a fusion of modern and traditional.
Fifty-six-year-old Bao Xishun, officially recognised as world's man by Guiness World Records, registered to marry with 28-year-old 1.68-meter Xia Shujuan at a civilian affairs beaurau in late March. Now they are planning a gracious traditional Mongolian wedding on July 12. link
