I'm sure we all had at least one, those irrational fears we look back on now and laugh at but at the time they messed with our heads so badly it sent us running to hide under the bed. In my case, No. 23 still haunts me.
1. Turning into an old person
2. Sharp objects too close for comfort (read OCD)
3. Can't leave my bed to go pee lest i come back to find an intruder snuggling on my pillow
4. If i swallow a seed plants would grow on me
5. If i wet my bed worms would come out of nowhere and eat me alive
6. If i fall on my face i'd bite my tongue and the 911 responder would think it's a prank call
7. Which one is worse, embalming or cremation?
8. Maybe not me, donno about you?
9. Get swallowed into the escalator and turn into a guard
10. I stole my body and it's only a matter of time before the real owner shows up
11. My life is just an illusion, and I'm a pet dog
12. I took everything literally
13. My excuse to be less than perfect
14. hhhhmmmm....
15. My aunt was a creep
16. This one's an all time favorite
17. The revolving gate
18. Gore
19. Never been a good swimmer
20. They can read my mind
21. Dying slow
22. Unseen dead people walking around me
23. My reflection never sleeps
24. If I don't get a respond i might have died
25. I might poop babies (I'm yet to get over this one)
India’s Daughter is the story of the gang rape and murder of a young woman that shocked the world and sparked riots and protests all over India. Grieving parents and one of the rapists tell the story of the night six men brutally assaulted 23 year old medical student, Jyoti Singh while driving around Delhi, India's Capital, in a bus.
"So many of our people grow up thinking that a girl is less important than a boy is. Because she's less important you can do what you like with her." -Sheila Dixit, DELHI Chief Minister (1998-2013)
On December 16, 2012 Jyoti and a male friend boarded a private bus to return home after going to a movie. The six men on the bus objected to a girl and unrelated boy being out alone and in order to teach them a lesson they beat her friend unconscious and brutally assaulted and gang raped her for almost an hour as the bus rode round and round the highways, before throwing them out of the bus and into a ditch. Against all odds, Jyoti survived two weeks but died after multiple surgeries.
"For a father who once upon a time let his baby girl sleep over him, who held her in his arms and played with her, who held her finger and taught her to walk...to have to set fire to that daughter during cremation by his very hands...this is very difficult. The most difficult."
-Badri Singh From birth Jyoti's parents considered her a gift, a light in their lives. When their daughter decided she wanted to be a doctor, her parents, against the wishes of their extended family, sold their ancestral lands to send their girl to medical school. After working night shifts at a call centre, and sleeping just three hours a night for four years Jyoti had just finished her final exams when her evening out turned fatal. The brutal and brazen crime inspired Indians to take to the streets for over a month and protest their country's tragic problem of systemic violence against women. Ordinary men and women withstood tear gas, water cannons and police brutality to demand changes in India's attitudes towards women. The collective outrage has led to changes in law and the first glimmers of change in a deeply ingrained mindset. India’s Daughter also examines the values and mindsets of the rapists whom the filmmakers had exclusive and unprecedented access to interview between their conviction and expected hanging. It exposes a skewed patriarchal society in which an institutionalized view of women as second-class, and even undesirable, citizens leads to such heinous crimes against women. It makes an impassioned plea for change and reveals the deadly price one young woman and her family have paid for the continuing tragedy of violence against women. "Our daughter's name is Jyoti Singh. In death she has lit a torch...she posed a question. What is the meaning of 'a woman?' I wish that whatever darkness there is in the world should be dispelled by this light." -Badri Singh India's Daughter is being aired around the world to coincide with International Women's Day (March 8) and will be shown in more than 15 countries around the world. It is a UK-India co-production of Assassin Films and Tathagat Films. Before the film was even released it has been banned in India and has caused much upheaval. I encourage you take part in this important issue.
She says she is “95% certain it’s not a scam”.
In an interview with TV host and author Phil McGraw on his show Dr. Phil, the woman, Sarah, said she met the man, who calls himself Chris Olsen, 18 months ago.
During that time, Sarah wired large sums of her inheritance to Olsen, who told her he was currently based in Africa. She said: “He told me early on that he was a widower and that he had two daughters, and he was on a business trip in South Africa.”
Sarah, who has been divorced twice, said she was in love with Olsen and was “95% certain it’s not a scam”.
Olsen told her he has been prevented from coming home because he keeps being arrested on false charges. “He’s from Milan, Italy, and moved to the United States about 18 years ago,” Sarah said. “He’s very poetic when he talks to me.”
But the relationship set off alarm bells for her cousin Crystal, who told Dr Phil she believes Sarah is being conned.
Crystal said: “If Sarah continues sending ‘Chris’ money, she’s going to have nothing left.”
According to McGraw’s website, he has been in contact with the embassies of the numerous countries Olsen has claimed to have lived in and has spoken with the FBI about the risk of online scams. Viewers are also trying to track down the man for an upcoming episode. Watch the video below...
A white kid from Ohio shocked his family and sparked their beliefs in reincarnation when he told them he retuned to the world after living a past life as a black woman from Chicago.
According to Fox 8, Erika Ruehlman says her son started talking about a woman named “Pam” when he was two years old. Since the family didn’t know anyone named Pam in their family tree, the Cincinnati native asked her son more details about “Pam.” Luke told his mother that he lived a past life as the woman and died after leaping from a building fire.
“He was like, ‘Well I used to be, but I died and went to heaven and I saw God and eventually God pushed me back down. When I woke up I was a baby and you named me Luke’,” she told Fox 8.
Ruehlman was stunned. She pressed him more, and asked how she died.
“He looked right at me and said, ‘Yea it was fire.’ And at that point he made like a motion with his hand like he was jumping off a building,” Ruehlman told the station.
She claims he then detailed how Pam had lost her life in “a tall building” and had previously “traveled on the train in Chicago.”
With the details, Erika discovered there was an actually an African-American woman named Pamela Robinson. Robinson was in her 30’s when she died in 1993 at Chicago’s Paxton Hotel fire. Robinson leaped to her death during the blaze. During an appearance on the docu-series, “The Ghost Inside Me,” Luke pointed out Pam in a batch of random photos. Luke also shares the same love of Stevie Wonder songs, soul music, and the keyboard as Pam did.
While Erika says Luke hasn’t talked about the Pam since, she wants everyone to consider the “unification” her son has with Pam. She also says the family didn’t receive money for their TV appearance and doesn’t want any for their story.
Check out the story in the video below.
A new medical accessory developed by researchers at Columbia Engineering can detect HIV and syphilis in patients using a $34 smartphone accessory that duplicates test functions that normally requires $18,000 worth of medical equipment.
The new dongle draws power from a headphone jack and performs three types of tests — an HIV antibody test, a treponemal-specific antibody test, and a non-treponemal antibody test. These latter tests are for syphilis, but the lab equipment required to implement them is far too expensive for many hospitals or clinics in the developing world to implement.
The smartphone accessory uses a “one-push vacuum” to create a negative-pressure chamber that moves a set of reagents (required for the testing process) into the test chamber from a pre-stored cassette. The use of the headset for power is also considered an important innovation, as this eliminates the need for a dongle-specific battery of any sort. The headphone jack can also be used for data transmission, which is how the dongle interfaces with every smartphone on the market — since audio jacks are also standardized, there’s no need to implement iPhone or Android-specific variants. A video of the sample-taking and test process is shown below
The project developer, Samuel K. Sia, has emphasized that the goal is to offer a lab-quality immunoassay in a mobile, handheld device that can deployed anywhere with minimal training. Targeting a disease like HIV is particularly important in pregnant women, as early treatment can significantly reduce the chance of passing the virus to their offspring. Similarly, syphilis can be transmitted between mother and child at birth. The two conditions are now often linked, and 90% of syphilis cases are now in the developing world thanks to the widespread deployment of antibiotics in more developed countries.
According to the team, their initial test work in Rwanda focused on 96 patients, 97% of whom said they would recommend the test again to others based on ease-of-use, speed, and the ability to test for multiple disease. The device apparently does have a tendency to throw false positives that needs to be tuned further, but the end result is that technology like this could greatly reduce the cost of care for people in the developing world over the long term.
The research team also wants to bring the same technology to the United States and other developed nations and while there’s likely to be a lengthy approval process, spiraling medical costs in the US, at least, mean that any such test devices would be extremely well received. This particular breakthrough mirrors others we’ve seen in recent years, where the advent of modern cell phone technology and integrated sensors has allowed for simple, relatively cheap medical devices to mimic the effects of complex lab equipment that costs thousands of dollars.
Stanford University is trying to “demystify the kitchen.” A new program launched with the of help of health food celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, the Teaching Kitchen, is teaching students how to grocery shop, cook and eat healthily.
“Ultimately, the Teaching Kitchen is there for any student. It doesn’t matter what they’re studying,” said Oliver. “It doesn’t matter if they’re rocket scientists. It doesn’t matter if they’re gonna be splitting atoms and working out the next incredible metal that’s going to send people to another planet. Doing the perfect poached egg is still kind of important.”
In an attempt to help students saddled with readings, labs and midterms with the basics of health, the Teaching Kitchen tries to inspire through hands on work. The inaugural class featured Oliver himself teaching the students how to make a simple risotto. Future classes will feature healthy cooking on a budget, hosting dinner parties for beginners and a Valentine’s Day special: cooking with chocolate.
"I've had a student say to me, 'I don't even know how to fry an egg,' " Eric Montell, executive director of Stanford Dining told The Salt. "You know, they have such a rich academic program here at Stanford. But students sometimes forget the practical part of, 'Wait a minute. I'm going to graduate and I'm going to have to cook for myself.'”
Going viral today is this interesting footage of a young Indian girl shaming a man who allegedly tried to grope her on an airplane. The description on the YouTube page reads, in part:
“This is a forward by this brave girl of what happened in the indigo flight yesterday with her ... ‘This man on the seat behind mine, put his fingers in the seat gap to touch me!!! I was very shocked for sometime to react ... Then the moment flight touched down, i got up. Saw his hand was again on the side ready to take up any opportunity to touch me!!! I created such a scene, humiliated him in front of the whole flight!’”
The description goes on to say that the man is currently in police custody, although that has yet to be confirmed.
Video here:
Transcript (fromBuzzFeed India):
Girl: “You’re asking for forgiveness. Why? Because I’m a girl? And you have the right to touch me any time, anywhere you want to?” Man: “I’m asking for forgiveness.” Girl: “What forgiveness are you asking for? Did you do it only once? Was it by mistake? Look at how old you are. Old moron. Half way into your grave and still not wise enough. Say more? Say more, come on. I’m videotaping you, mister! If you ever do this again, you’ll remember this episode. You think us girls stay silent and you can do anything, right? Look here. Why are you so bashful now? I will call security. I’ll make sure I make a complaint.” Man: “I’m sorry about it. Please, stop it.” Girl: “Why? Why, please? I’m sorry, please. I’m sorry that I’m a girl! Please, forgive me, for I dare to travel alone as a woman. I’m so sorry for that! I will not leave you. Don’t think [sic].” Man: [unintelligible] Girl: “Yes, I have purposefully done that. You thought you could do it again, right? You were touching me here again the second time. You thought I didn’t know what was going on and I would stay quiet, right? Only us girls are expected to have shame. You have a right to be shameless.”
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New Year Facts
New Year signifies an end of the 365 days of the present year and
the start of a new year, yet again. It is celebrated all over the world with
the same zeal, vigor and enthusiasm. There are lots of preparations undertaken
for the event and it can be categorized as one of the occasions that the whole
world celebrates together. All across the globe, cities are decorated. Most of
the news channels get special reporters and correspondents geared up to show
the live coverage of the celebration. For many it’s a new day, a new life and a
new beginning. Let us explore more on what makes New Year Day special, by
dwelling on the trivia given in the lines below.
