<H1>Chinese Cannibal Eats Man On The Train [Video]</h1><br> <Br> This is one of the most disturbing videos we've ever seen. You have to see it to understand how we feel. <a href="http://youtu.be/2eGS3Pw91uY">Watch Video Here</a><br> <Br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Keypad embedded in the palm</h1><br> IT'S A creepy sensation, having a little keyboard permanently emblazoned on the back of my hand. No matter what I do – shake my hand or wave it – I can't make it go away. Creepier still are the soft tingles on my skin as each "key" is pressed, like a low-frequency electronic buzz. <br> I am in Masatoshi Ishikawa's lab at the University of Tokyo, Japan, where the latest in interactive projections is being demonstrated for the first time. The set-up is in two parts: one is a projection that beams the outline of computer keyboards or cellphone keys onto any object, such as your hand. <br><br> Projecting interactive outlines of devices has been done before, but it is a lot trickier doing it on a moving object. Ishikawa's system detects and maps the position of an object 500 times per second and projects an image onto it. It automatically controls a camera's pan and tilt angles to ensure it is locked onto an object no matter how fast it moves. Ishikawa once demonstrated this technology by tracking a table-tennis ball in play. <br><br> The set-up also has a tactile angle. The information about the exact location of your hand and the orientation of the projected keypad is fed to a second system, called the Airborne Ultrasound Tactile Display. This makes the illuminated points on your hand or body slightly tingle with what feels like a jet of air. It's an odd feeling, but I find it makes the projected image seem more real. <br><br> The sensation on the hand is generated by sound beamed by 2000 or so ultrasonic wave emitters, says its developer Hiroyuki Shinoda, also at the University of Tokyo. The carefully timed and directed sound beams can make any spot vibrate within a given cubic metre. <br> The combined system has already attracted interest from the auto, medical and gaming industries, says Ishikawa. View Picture <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg21829196.100/mg21829196.100-1_300.jpg">here</a><br> Follow me <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

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<H1>South Africans Chase Nigerians Out Of Their Homes</h1><br> No fewer than 23 Nigerians were forced out of their homes and chased out of Port-Nolloth community by some South Africans members of the community, accusing them of dealing in drugs. <br><br> According to Diliora Ndubisi, the spokesman of Nigerians, the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League in the area instigated some community members to force them out of their homes. <br><br> “All the members of the community had a meeting on Friday on the need to curb the selling and usage of drugs in the community. On Saturday a teenager committed suicide in a police custody and by Sunday some members of the community led by the ANC Youth League leader came to our houses asking us to leave the community. <br><br> “They said we are the ones selling drugs to their children. They destroyed and looted our property and one Nigerian was seriously beaten and is on admission in a hospital in Johannesburg now,” Ndubisi said. He said that the attack, which targeted Nigerians only, can be attributed to envy and jealousy about the success of Nigerian businesses in the community amidst poverty and unemployment among South Africans living in the community. <br> Reacting to the attack, the Nigerian Consulate in Johanneburg, South Africa today criticised what it described as the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living in the country. <br><br> Mr. Okey Emuchay, the Consulate-General of Nigeria in Johannesburg, said in Springbok, in the Northern Province of South Africa, that labelling all Nigerians in the country as drug dealers was “unacceptable.” Emuchay said that it was the duty of the South African police to provide safety for South Africans and foreigners living in the country. <br> “We are not asking for too much from the South African government, it is the duty of the South African police to provide safety and security for every one living in South Africa. <br><br> “The Nigerian government will not send the Nigerian police to come and protect our nationals just like the South African government will not send her police to protect South Africans living and working in Nigeria. <br> “In as much as we will not encourage our nationals to engage in criminal activities, it is not acceptable to us that some people should label all Nigerians as drug dealers. <br> “If any Nigerian is caught dealing in drugs he/she should be arrested and prosecuted. But a situation where some people will act on rumours, attacking and harassing Nigerians will be totally resisted by us. If anybody has any information about any Nigerian dealing in drugs, such information should be given to the police to investigate and arrest those involved. It is the duty of the police to investigate, arrest and prosecute, and not the duty of any individual or group of persons to do the work of the police. <br> “In this case no arrest has been made, no prosecution and no sentencing of anybody, only some members of the community taking the laws into their hands and forcing out Nigerians from houses where they pay rent, sending them into the streets in this winter period,” Emuchay said. <br> The Consul-General said that the safety of the displaced Nigerians was the responsibility of the police. <br> “This is coming barely three weeks after President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria paid a state visit to South Africa, after a similar one-day official working visit by President Jacob Zuma to Nigeria. <br> “Nine MoU agreement were signed during the state visit to promote trade and investments between the two countries. <br> “If governments at the top level is working together to strengthen relations between the two countries, the people of the two countries should be encouraged to take full advantage of the bilateral cooperation in various ways, including business culture and interpersonal relations. Nigeria and South Africa have had a long history of friendship and cordial relationship and everything should be done in sustaining the relationship,” Emuchay said. Ikechukwu Anyene, President of the Nigerian Union in South Africa (NUSA), commended the proactive step taken by the Consulate. <br> “I must on behalf of all Nigerians living in South Africa thank the Consul-General for the proactive steps he has taken so far in this xenophobia attack on Nigerians living here. Brig.-Gen. Francis Hender, South Africa Police Service (SAPS), Cluster Commander, assured that no individual or group would be allowed to perform the duty of the police. <br> “I will go to Port-Nolloth personally to assess the situation there, and a team of crime investigators will be assigned to investigate the cause of the attack on Nigerians and the lady mentioned would be invited for questioning. She is not a police officer and cannot be allowed to get away with her actions,” Hender said. Lebogang Abrans, ANC Regional Secretary, apologised to the Nigerian envoy on the attack and said there was need to engage with the community on how to allow the displaced Nigerians return to their homes.<br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Man found dead in house full of snakes</h1><br> Police looking for a missing man were shocked to find him dead in his home surrounded by over forty giant snakes. <br> Many of the reptiles, including a 30ft anaconda and four 35ft pythons, were slithering free around the decomposing body when police entered snake fan Heiko Rieder's apartment in Straubing, Germany. <br> A fire service spokesman said: "At least one was as thick as a human thigh." <br> Worried colleagues alerted police after the 40-year-old caretaker failed to turn up to work for a week. <br> It is thought he died from a heart attack while feeding his pets. <br><br> Experts believe he was only saved from being eaten as he was too WIDE to be swallowed whole. <br> Reptile centre boss Markus Baur, now caring for the snakes, said: "They probably didn't eat him for two reasons. One, they prefer their prey alive to start with. <br> "And two, they like to eat their prey whole and the average European adult is just too long and wide for that." <br> In total, 46 snakes, some in tanks, were recovered from the property. <br> A police spokesman said: "His body decomposed rapidly because of the heat coming from the snakes' terrariums. There don't appear to be any suspicious circumstances." View pictures <a href="http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01736/snakes_m_1736449a.jpg"> here</a> <br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n"> @maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Google glass is now getting porn apps [VIDEO]</h1><br> Google’s next big tech product hasn’t hit the mainstream yet, but that hasn’t stopped the kings of adult Android apps, MiKandi, from making apps for Glass. <br> In fact, MiKandi has been hard at work for a while and their first app is set to hit their Google Glass app store next week, according to ZDNet. <br><br> While MiKandi co-founder Jennifer McEwen was loathe to give specific details about the first app, she confirmed that they are working on the most obvious use of Google Glass, which has the ability to shoot both pictures and videos. <br><br> Google co-founder Sergey Brin wears Google Glass glasses. “Glass is perfect for shooting POV video, so we’re experimenting with that first,” McEwen said. <br><br> “Being hands-free and hassle-free is a simple but big difference Glass has over other similar devices,” continued McEwen. “It’s so easy and familiar to wear, that from a shooter’s perspective it feels like you’re recording with your own eyes.” <br><br> “Because it feels so natural, you can forget about the technology and just be in the moment.” <br><br> But shooting POV adult videos is just the tip of the iceberg for MiKandi who are also looking to take advantage of Google Glass’s other functions — primarily the ability of Glass users to connect with each other and share content.<br><br> Imagine, for example, walking around with your Google Glass glasses on and a notification pops up saying that one of your friends has created a porno which you can then view with a simple verbal command.<br><br> That’s exactly the type of thing that MiKandi is looking into as you can see in their slightly NSFW trailer for their adult Google Glass apps. <a href="http://youtu.be/9-MgWQQCtw8"> Watch video</a><br>

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<H1>Man Claims to Have Survived Without Food And Water For 70 Years! </H1><br> Indian doctors are studying an 83-year-old holy man who claims to have spent the last seven decades without food and water. Military doctors hope the experiments on Prahlad Jani can help soldiers develop their survival strategies. The long-haired and bearded yogi is under 24-hour observation by a team of 30 specialists during three weeks of tests at a hospital in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Two cameras have been set up in his room, while a mobile camera films him when he goes outside, guaranteeing round-the-clock observation. His body will be scanned and his brain and heart activity measured with electrodes. “The observation from this study may throw light on human survival without food and water,” said Dr. G. Ilavazahagan, who is directing the research. “This may help in working out strategies for survival during natural calamities, extreme stressful conditions and extra-terrestrial explorations like future missions to the Moon and Mars by the human race.” Since the experiment began on April 22, Jani has had no food or water and has not been to the toilet. <br> “The exercise of taking this yogi under the medical scanner is to understand what energy supports his existence,” Ilavazahagan added. “Jani says he meditates to get energy. Our soldiers will not be able to meditate, but we would still like to find out more about the man and his body.” Jani, who dresses in red and wears a nose ring, grew up in Charod village in the Mehsana district in Gujarat. He claims to have been blessed by a goddess when he was 8-years-old, which has enabled him to survive without sustenance.<br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n"> @maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Brazilian Company Creates Disk That Smells And Looks Like Pizza When Played</h1> <Br> Pizza and movies are a popular combination, so Domino’s in Brazil decided to mix the two in a single package – a heat-sensitive movie DVD that looks and smells like their delicious pizza.<Br> Domino’s Pizza teamed up with Brazilian advertising agency Artplan to create a truly ingenious campaign for their popular products. Taking advantage of the fact that movie rental stores are still very popular in the South American country, the creative minds at Artplan used thermal ink and flavored varnish to transform 10 new release titles such as Argo, 007, Dread and Dark Knight into appetizing disks that looked and smelled like pizza. They partnered with 10 video rental stores in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro which distributed the media to unsuspecting clients. The DVDs were painted in black thermal ink and featured the movie title, but once the heat emitted by the player started affecting them, they gave away a pizza smell, and the black coloring was replaced by a delicious looking pizza image and the message “Did you enjoy the movie? The next one will be even better with a hot and delicious Domino’s Pizza.” <Br> With video streaming more popular than ever, Domino’s idea might seem a bit outdated, but ArtPlan art director Diogo Barbosa explains that ”in Brazil streaming services like Netflix and iTunes are relatively new, and for people with good social conditions. Also our broadband connection isn’t as fast as that used in the U.S., and because of that we still have video rental stores in your neighborhoods.”  <a href="http://cdn.informationnigeria.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/pizza-disk-550x283-300x154.jpg">view picture here</a><br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n"> @maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Dino Melaye Ridicled on Facebook by Fans </h1><br> HON. DINO MELAYE'S POST <br> We have nothing to celebrate today being democracy day,Nigeria is sick,the midterm performance of mr president is a beautiful nonsense. We must wake up and ask questions on why we are where we are. Power is still less than 4000 MW,even when over $16 billion have not translated into 20MW of electricity. Our roads are dead traps,our hospitals are mere consulting clinics,corruption is now with impunity. Insecurity is on an historic height in our dear nation. Come out of your cocoon Nigeria and lets rescue our dear country from political demons and financial scavengers. We are not subsidizing fuel but the international jet setting lifestyle of the elite. Lets all do something before something do us. We shall overcome above all. Lets keep speaking till we crack down the walls of corruption in Nigeria. God bless Nigeria. Yesterday at 18:44 <br><br> RESPONSES <br><br> Kamar Abubakar <br> Nobody is a sent, even if Dino is given the chance to rule Nigeria same thing ll come up if not worse than GEJ. Fatomiluyi Abiodun Emmanuel Dino, you can't fool Nigerians but you can only fool yourself. You are part of them, politicians are the same Now that things have fallen apart between you, don't fool us. <br><br> Jeff Ikhinmwin<br> How many of these questions motions did u raise while at national assembly? Now u have been schemed out, u suddenly remember Marxism! Jeff Ikhinmwin<br> Quietly remove d "hon" from ur name if u want us to take u serious. U can't be answering d appellation of those who crippled this country, and we want us take u serious. It only shows u are one of them. <br><br> Afam Chukwunwike Bullet proof cars,mansions in Abuja and Kogi state,do you have all these things before the advent of democracy Mr Dino Melaye? Dino,you are a rogue. We understand your frustrations having been pushed out of the PDP. <br> Osita Egeruo Ndidi Opurum<br> Dino has now become a social crusader bcs he has lost his job in d house, if u are serious, then sell all d properties u got from democracy dividend and give it to charity, both you, elrufai, fani kayode, then i will take all of u serious. Gej all d way. <br> HON DINO REPLIED: <br> It is unfortunate that rather than be objective and talk issues all the villa agents are attacking my person,I challenge any of you to carry out simple research on my activities in the National Assembly. Am grown beyond myopic and porous comments. The fight to salvage our dear country from these gerontocratic leaders is a battle of no retreat no surrender. All you hired guns,you and indeed pdp is yet to dig out just one corruption or indictment against me. Those hating on my cars you ain't see nothing yet. A poor man can not deliver a poor man. We shall not stop hitting on the walls of corruption. We shall overcome. <a href="http://img1.nairaland.com/attachments/1130958_dino_jpg51bc0d9e34a3630505d35a71342d2a10"> View image here</a><br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Dead' man comes back to life at his funeral</h1><br> Mr Zanthe said that he has no recollection of how he 'died' nor how he was 'resurrected' Johannesburg4:54PM BST 14 May 2013 Mourners attending a funeral in central Zimbabwe were shocked when the man they had come to bury "returned from the dead." <br> Family and friends were filing past a coffin with the remains of Brighton Dama Zanthe, 34, when one of them noticed the dead man's legs twitching. <br> One of the mourners, Lot Gaka, who employs Mr Zanthe at his transport company, said: "I was the first to notice Zanthe's moving legs as I was in the queue to view his body. This shocked me. We called an ambulance immediately. It's a miracle and people are still in disbelief." <br> Mr Zanthe had been unwell for some time and was laid to rest inside a coffin last Monday after "dying" at home the day before. Mr Zanthe told The Chronicle newspaper, that he has no recollection of how he "died" nor how he was "resurrected," as his memory only returned when he woke up in a hospital in Gweru 140 miles southwest of Zimbabwe's capital Harare. <br> "Everything is history to me. What I can only confirm is that people gathered at my house to mourn but I was given another chance and I am alive. I feel OK now." <br> Mr Zanthe was discharged after spending nearly two days on life support.<br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Baby 59: mother insists child accidentally slipped into toilet</h1> <Br> Firefighters and doctors rescue the abandoned newborn by cutting away a sewage pipe piece by piece <Br> The mother of a Chinese baby that survived after becoming trapped in a sewage pipe has claimed she kept her pregnancy secret after the father refused to stand by her but insisted that the child had accidentally slipped into the lavatory. <Br> The 22-year-old woman, who is from Zhejiang province in east China but has not been named, told police she only realised she was carrying a baby three months into her pregnancy and had not told her parents. <Br> She attempted to conceal her pregnancy by using loose-fitting clothes and confronted the baby's father but he rejected her appeals for help, the state-run Zhejiang News website reported. <Br> With insufficient money for an abortion, the mother said she had been forced to secretly deliver the baby last Saturday inside a lavatory at her home in the city of Jinhua. <Br> The baby had accidentally slipped down the lavatory, she reportedly claimed. Police are not convinced by that version of events. <Br> It is not clear what charges, if any, the woman will face and on Wednesday one police official warned that the public outcry over had left her emotional tatters. <Br> "It will not help anyone if the mother becomes so depressed that she ends up committing suicide," warned a local Public Security Bureau official who gave his name as Mr Fang. <Br> Police are still looking for the father, who is reported to have refused to acknowledge paternity of the child. <Br> His comments came as the fireman who led the rescue said he had feared the trapped infant would die after his feet turned purple. <Br> Speaking to the foreign media for the first time, 31-year-old Zheng Yuzheng, a Public Security Bureau firefighter, told The Daily Telegraph he had been alerted to the unusual occurrence by an emergency call to his station at 4.39pm on Saturday. <Br> "On the way to the building we imagined it might be a three or four-year-old toddler who had fallen into the toilet by accident. But when we arrived on the scene I couldn't believe my eyes. I just couldn't believe how a human being could have become stuck in such a thin pipe," he said. <Br> Mr Zheng said that on reaching a fourth floor toilet he had "heard noises coming from inside [a pipe]... [that] sounded like a baby crying." <Br> His team eventually managed to remove a portion of piping from the third floor with the two-day-old baby still cocooned inside. <Br> But there were no celebrations. <Br> "When we took out the pipe the ambulance workers and doctors were already waiting there and I showed them the pipe and asked whether the boy might be able to survive," he said. "The doctor said: 'Probably not.' I saw his little feet were turning purple and I thought to myself that he wouldn't make it. We almost gave up." <Br> Paramedics rushed the 6lb boy – named Baby 59 after his the number of his incubator he was treated in - to the nearby People's Hospital and began the painstaking task of attempting to extricate his tiny body using a small handsaw bought from a nearby shop. <Br> At 6.20pm, almost two hours after the emergency call, the baby was freed and placed in incubator 59. <Br> "I felt huge relief and really happy. We had saved this newborn baby's life," said Mr Zheng. "[But] this is our job - this is our responsibility as firefighters. <Br> "I didn't think too much at the time about how the baby ended up in there. <Br> "But he is a really strong-willed baby and he was making noises as if he wanted us to know he was there and that he wanted to survive."<Br> <a href="http://maryanneyo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/newborn-baby-rescued-alive-from-sewage.html?m=1">Newborn baby rescued alive from sewage pipe</a> <Br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

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<H1>7 fake ‘Tinsel’ accents that need to go </h1><Br> For those of us who watch Tinsel religiously every week, sometimes it can be so frustrating to see if our favourite cast frustrate with all kinds of avoidable errors. The one I cannot get over however is the accents – and it’s time someone who loves them called them out. So here we go, in order of annoyance: <Br><Br> Amaka <Br><Br> I weep as I write this. What have they done with Funmi Holder? She wasn’t a house-hold name, but those who had watched her on stage and on screen before Tinsel turned her into this Amaka know that she was one of the brightest spots on our acting field. And one of her strongest suits was her delivery of lines. But on Tinsel, the only thing annoying more annoying than Amaka’s abrasive persona, is her sing-song voice. Who talks like that? Cadence is good; this however is … just ridiculous. Does Ms. Holder not watch episodes to hear how utterly otherworldly she sounds? Is there nobody on set there who can cry out: “Amaka, stop!”? <Br><Br> Angela <Br><Br> Off the set, she’s one of the most loveable Tinsel cast you will find, but there are two issues Matilda Obaseki has – none of them is unnatural; after all not everyone can speak perfectly. One is that she has something between a lisp and a sibilant; the other is that she also does not pronounce well enough – so she says ‘aks’ instead of ‘ask’ and ‘estent’ instead of ‘extent’. Incredibly, these kinds of cringe-worthy moments occur so often that you can safely decipher that there are no Take 2s on the Tinsel set. So, here’s the question: since she has this problem, why is she also burdened with the ‘Tinsel’ accent? It’s not exactly an Amaka ‘sing-song’, but it’s a run-on – when Angela speaks, she doesn’t have the normal human pauses in conversation, she just goes on and on like she has to quickly say these words and leave. It’s unnatural and takes away the power of an otherwise magnetic character. Which really calls to question the judgement of the soap’s directors. <Br><Br> Sheila <Br><Br> This is another cause for tears. Surely, even the heavens know that Iretiola Doyle is one of our acting treasures, but on Tinsel, I don’t even know what’s going on. Her character, Sheila is made too talk too fast, and to sound too forced. Added to her own discernible sibilant, it’s like a rush of wind. At which point, I might add that it’s an ill wind that blows all of us no good. Then there’s that strange thing that happens when that rush of wind falls into a whisper especially when Sheila’s is angry. It’s quite awkward to watch. Aunty Ireti, doesn’t it feel awkward with you too? <Br><Br> Telema <Br><Br> The other day, in a scene with Telema speaking to Kwame about how he is such a terrible, horrible, despicable soul (which is all kinds of irritating, because we all knew who he was before she huffed and puffed her way into being his wife), I couldn’t help noticing that she spoke for almost 5 minutes without her hand moving for a minute! Actors know this is incredibly hard to carry off – so Damilola Adegbite gets props for that. What she doesn’t get props for though is her queen of all fake accents. She’s caught between the Tinsel accent epidemic and the strange need for Nigerian actresses to imitate a British or American or Chinese accent depending on their mood. This kind of thing just makes people stop taking her seriously. <Br><Br> Soji <Br><Br> Sometimes I feel so sorry for Poor Gbenro Ajibade – valiantly carrying a cross that’s too heavy for him to bear. There is always a ring-out alarm when he speaks on Tinsel – like this is a young man forced to lift a character he is ill-equipped to handle without at least a year’s worth of acting classes and voice coaching. And is it really necessary? I thought his character is supposed to be a successful but still relatively broke photographer? And isn’t he supposed to be from the ghetto or something? So why do they give him lines for him to speak the kind of English that in an accent that always makes him look visibly constipated? Is this not man’s inhumanity to man? <Br><Br>  Phillip <Br><Br> First, Gideon Okeke has surprised me with just how much he has settled into his character, so he certainly deserves more than a little praise. But he is also caught in the Tinsel web. What exactly is Philip’s accent? British? South African? Victoria Island-ian? And why does he have to pitch sometimes like he is in the opera? Tinsel is a Nigerian soap dude! So if you will be the spoiled child of a rich man you have two options – you come at me with stiff upper lip of the British, with the perfect drawl of the American and you make sure it’s flawless. If you can’t, then I’d be darned, forget that thing and focus on pronouncing your words clearly and speaking normally like a good Nigerian boy that went to a good school. Gideon always sounds like he is trying too hard. Scratch that. He is trying too hard. It’s not necessary, man: you is smart. you is talented. you is a good actor. <Br><Br> Shalewa <Br><Br> To be honest? This act has gotten rather old, fast. The entire love affair between Shalewa and Titan kept us glued, but now her ‘Bad English’ and ‘Yoruba intonation’ are no longer amusing. How does a girl who went to village schools, can hardly read and write and can’t string a word together fluently speak about civil rights and Che Guevara and petitions? Too often the Tinsel guys make Tomi Odunsi sound silly by incongruously mixing perfect English with “Shalewa English”. They have to focus. Soaps are generally about borderline plausibility, so we’re not asking for utmost believability. But the Tinsel directors just slap our intelligence around. Wo, very soon we will begin to stone Shalewa through the TV screens when she comes on. You just watch.<Br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

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<H2>Wow, what a twin-cidence: Twin sisters give birth on the same day</h2><br> Both gave birth Friday to their first child.<br> What a twin-cidence.<br> Twin sisters in Maine gave birth just hours apart at Down East Community Hospital in the town of Machias on Friday.<br> “We thought it would be cool if we had our babies on the same day, but we didn’t expect that it would happen,” Tashina Ackley told the Bangor Daily News.<br> The new babies rest comfortably in the hospital.<br> Tashina gave birth to Ivory Mae Cushing just before 9 a.m. on Friday, while sister Erica gave birth to Keiran Leighton Carter three hours later. <br> The twins, who turn 22 this week, found out they were pregnant on the same day. They gave their mom the good news on the same day as well, with Erica going first. <br> “I waited a few hours,” Tashina told the newspaper. “Then I asked my mother if she would like to have a baby in each arm again, like she did with us. She had no idea what I meant until I told her I was pregnant, too.”<a href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1356572.1369763674!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/twins29n-2-web.jpg"> View Picture</a><a href="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1356570.1369763664!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/twins29n-4-web.jpg"> View Picture </a>br> Follow me <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

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<H1>German man spends 15 years with pencil inside head</h1> A German man spent 15 years with a pencil in his head following a childhood accident. <Br> Aachen University Hospital says the 24-year-old man sought help in 2011 after suffering for years from headaches, constant colds and worsening vision in one eye. A scan showed that a four-inch pencil was lodged from his sinus to his pharynx and had injured his right eye socket. <Br> The unnamed man said he did not know how the pencil got there but recalled that he once fell badly as a child. <Br> The German doctors removed the pencil and say the man has recovered. <Br> Hospital spokesman Mathias Brandstaedter said that the case was presented for the first time at a medical conference this week. <Br> In 2007, a German woman plagued by headaches and nosebleeds had a pencil removed from inside her head after more than 50 years. <Br> Margret Wegner, 59, fell over carrying the pencil in her hand when she was four. <Br> "The pencil went right through my skin - and disappeared into my head," she said at the time. <Br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n"> @maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Most Hated Nigerian Celebrities </H1><Br> Being a celebrity means you get the best and worst of fame. Your every move is scrutinized. Your every word is recorded. Fans love you or they hate you. In the case of the celebrities on this list, fans love to hate them. Many of them have hate pages dedicated specifically to ripping them apart. Some of your favorites probably make the list. <Br><Br> (1) TONTO DIKEH<Br><Br> Poor actress, hopeless musician, non-existent morales and constant bickering sums up our most despised Nigerian celebrity. Her terrible songs have been downloaded millions of times on the internet which earned her the title, T*T* DECAY. To be fair, Tonto stands up for herself and is not afraid to have a face-off with anyone who takes a poke at her. She has even made it easier for her haters to confront her as she took out a customized plate number “POKOLO”. Should make for easy identification if you have a grudge to settle with her. <Br><Br> (2) D'BANJ <Br><Br> The general perception is that he is an arrogant prick. He didn’t help his case by having a public feud with Don Jazzy who many believe made his career what it is today. Many believe his arrogance was a major factor that contributed to the split from Mo’ hits. With a public image like that in a country that still largely upholds traditional values even though it’s mainly a facade these days, D’banj never has a shortage of people who judge his every move. Not to mention his numerous faux pas which he seems to consider ‘swag’. <Br><Br> (3) DAVIDO <Br><Br> It is easy to understand Davido getting so much hate. Rich kid with everything handed to him on a platter. As if that is not enough, he steals people’s songs and beats too. That’s just daft! Can’t sing despite his ‘hit songs’, proud and has a face like two buns attached together. <Br><Br> (4) JIM IYKE <Br><Br> The self-proclaimed bad boy. His ego is sky-high and you get the feeling he beats his women privately from his occasional bouts with Linda Ikeji. His fashion gaffe at the AMVCA did nothing to enhance his reputation. <Br><Br> (5) LINDA IKEJI <Br><Br> A former model who runs a blog that makes its bread and butter from gossip and rumours. Maybe she should be higher on this list considering her unending run-ins with those she talks about. One can hardly blame Richard Mofe-Damijo for threatening the living daylight out of her when she misinformed her readers about the value of his house. <Br><Br> (6) IBRAHIM BADAMOSI BABANGIDA (IBB) <Br><Br> A political celebrity. Disqualifying a democratic presidential election while looting the nation’s coffers and then leaving the country in shambles for a tyrant to unleash terror at will, blows the rest of his contenders for most haters out of the waters. He doesn’t top our list for the sole reason that he no longer has as much exposure on gossip columns and tabloids like the other celebrities. <Br><Br> (7) KENNY OGUNGBE <Br><Br> The Kennis Music boss’ issues with past artistes on his record label are well documented. Accusations of being a liar and a cheat has not gone down well with the majority in the country. That and the antics he puts up trying to be young and hip has created an impression of being fake. The general opinion is that he should act his age and play his position as a fair boss but none of this will happen anytime soon so it’s best to keep hating. <Br><Br> (8 ) MUNACHI <Br><Br> The problem with the ex Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria is her unfamiliarity with the 48 laws of power. Trying to outshine the master by undermining Modenine at the Nokia rap event was a PR disaster. Muna has not exactly cut it in the rap industry and has achieved nowhere near Modenine’s accomplishments in the rap game yet she still has the guts to challenge his thoughts. Putting it in context here, she was employed as an MC for the Nokia competition with Modenine has a judge. Doesn’t that tell her nobody wants her opinion on serious business except to look sexy and usher in the next contestant! Talk about having a saucy attitude with an empty head. What else did we expect from a former beauty queen? <Br><Br> (9) WIZKID <Br><Br> Truth is if Wizkid were someone else, he would hate Wizkid too. Young, cute face, makes sweet music, it was bound to happen that he’ll eventually become disliked once he puts a foot wrong and he did just that. We’re reminded daily about how all boys are the same and Wizkid let himself fall for that crap. Denying your own child is frowned upon by those who still uphold social values like honesty, responsibility and manning-up. <Br><Br> (10) ABACHA <Br><Br> He may be dead but his memories live on. Only the fact that he’s dead makes him bottom of this list. In fact, if he was still alive, he wouldn’t be on this list otherwise Captain Roger would be paying me a visit. Nobody I know likes him. Everybody I know HATES him. The Nigerian Hitler. <Br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Mylene Klass: we all drink breast milk in our tea in my family</h1><br> There's long been debate over whether breast is best for babies. However, Myleene Klass has revealed that in her family even the grown-ups are partial to her own milk – in their tea.<br><br> The television presenter and singer told how her father used to enjoy his tea with a dash of breast milk – and she has now continued the Klass family tradition.<br><br> She has even offered her own milk to family and friends, she said. View Picture <a href="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01925/klass_1925695e.jpg">here</a> <br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

Mylene Klass: we all drink breast milk in our tea in my family There's long been debate over whether breast is best for babies. Howeve...

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<H1>Mylene Klass: we all drink breast milk in our tea in my family</h1><br> There's long been debate over whether breast is best for babies. However, Myleene Klass has revealed that in her family even the grown-ups are partial to her own milk – in their tea.<br><br> The television presenter and singer told how her father used to enjoy his tea with a dash of breast milk – and she has now continued the Klass family tradition.<br><br> She has even offered her own milk to family and friends, she said. View Picture <a href="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01925/klass_1925695e.jpg">here</a> <br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Some quite Interesting Facts about rainbows</h1><br> Until the 17th century, no one had the faintest idea what a rainbow was, how it got there, or what it was made of. Homer thought that the rainbow had only one colour – purple. Xenophanes moved things on a bit and gave it three: purple, yellow-green, and red. In his Meteorologica, Aristotle insists: “The rainbow has three colours, and these three, and no others”; and this idea persisted until the Renaissance, when four colours (red, blue, green, yellow) were fixed upon. <br> By the time Isaac Newton turned his attention to them, pretty much everyone in the West agreed there were definitely five colours (red, yellow, green, blue, purple). To the average Chinese, even today, rainbows have five colours. And in the Baltic countries, for most of history people believed that rainbows had only two significant colours – red and blue. “Rainbow” in Estonian is vikerkaar. <br><br> Seven <br><br> It was Newton’s great rival, René Descartes (1596-1650), who first realised in 1637 that rainbows were caused by light from the sun being split into different colours by rain. But it is to Newton we owe the notion that rainbows consist of seven colours. Newton came up with this perception in 1666, holed up alone in his remote Lincolnshire farmhouse having escaped Cambridge, which was being ravaged by the plague. <br> The idea that the universe runs to the rule of seven goes back at least to Pythagoras – seven notes in the musical scale, seven days of the week, and, until the discovery of Uranus by the German-born, British-based William Herschel (the German for “rainbow” is Regenbogen) in 1781, seven planets – which is why Newton warmed to the idea. He added the colour indigo, along with orange, to give us a neat spectrum of seven colours. <br><br> Not seven <br><br> Of course, there aren’t really seven colours in a rainbow, nor any particular number. Each “colour” shades imperceptibly into the next with no hard boundary other than those imposed by human observers of different cultures.<br><br> Iris <br><br> The Greeks and Romans thought a rainbow was the path made by Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, between heaven and earth, linking gods with humans. The iris of the eye is named after her, because of its colour. “Rainbow” in Latin is arcus iris or arcus pluvius, a “rainy arch”. <br> The Greeks used the word “iris” to describe any coloured circle, such as the “eye” of a peacock’s tail. The flower called iris gets its name from the Greek, as does the chemical iridium (Ir), compounds of which are highly coloured. Iris is also the root of “iridescent”. <br><br> Here comes the science part <br><br> A rainbow doesn’t actually exist, so it doesn’t really have an end where you can find a pot of gold. Optically speaking, it is just a distorted “virtual image” of the sun. Each raindrop acts as a tiny, imperfect mirror. When the sun is right behind you its light passes through the raindrops in front of you, reflects off their rear surface and bounces back at you. The light is refracted or “bent” slightly as it passes from the air into the water; and again as it bounces back into the air again. The different wavelengths that combine to make daylight are “bent” by different amounts (42º for the red end of the spectrum, a shade less for the violet). Each raindrop acts as both prism (refraction) and mirror (reflection). <br> The world’s longest-lasting (or longest-observed) rainbow was seen over Sheffield from 9am to 3pm on 14 March 1994.<br><br> Bow <br><br> A rainbow is a portion or arc (the Italian for “rainbow” is arcobaleno) of a circle whose centre is the shadow of your head. In some situations, for example skydiving, you can see the whole ring. From a mountaintop you might see a half-circle or more; usually, the 42° rule means the sun has to be fairly low in the sky before you can see a rainbow at all. <br><br> Secondary to supernumerary <br><br> As well as the “primary arc” of a rainbow, it’s quite common to see a second bow outside it, with the spectrum reversed. These happen when light bounces around inside a raindrop more than once before making it out. Third and fourth and even multiple bows can sometimes be seen. So, occasionally, can “supernumerary” bows: extra bands of green and violet caused by complex interference patterns.<Br> Follow me on twitter<a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n"> @maryann3n</a>

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<H1>Newborn baby rescued alive from sewage pipe in China</h1> <Br> Residents of an apartment building in the city of Jinhua heard the sound of an infant crying and after rescuers cut open the drain the child was rushed to hospital. <Br> Chinese state media say firefighters and medics have rescued a newborn boy from a sewer pipe below a lavatory. <Br> The state-run news site Zhejiang News says a tenant heard the baby's cries in the lavatory of a residential building in Jinhua City in eastern China's Puijian county on Saturday and notified authorities. <Br> Firefighters removed an L-shaped section of the pipe - about 10 centimetres (3 inches) in diameter - and rushed it to a hospital where it was dismantled and the baby was treated. <Br> Zhejiang News says the child, named Baby No. 59 from the number of his incubator, is safe.<Br> Police are treating the case as an attempted homicide, and are looking for the mother and anyone else involved. <a href="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02574/babycropped_2574398e.jpg">View Picture</a><Br> Follow me on twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/@maryann3n">@maryann3n</a>

Newborn baby rescued alive from sewage pipe in China Residents of an apartment building in the city of Jinhua heard the sound of an infant...

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