jueves, 19 de noviembre de 2009

Controversial campaign against domestic violence




A campaign against domestic violence is stirring consciences in Denmark because of the stark images that seeks to draw attention to the mistreatment of women.

Since the slogan (Hit the bitch), one notes that the intention of the danish NGO, Born og Unge I Voldsramte families seeking to create a flow of revulsion against domestic violence with a message that produces an immediate rejection.


The campaign portrays this crudely brutal truth and realism. The controversy generated quickly on the Internet, since it believes it can be as reprehensible as the attack itself of which affect millions of women in their homes.

jueves, 12 de noviembre de 2009

Iceberg is close to the coast
















Just 8 km from Macquarie Island, Australia, has discovered a huge iceberg 500 feet long and 50 high stunned the scientific community, he had never seen a mass of ice as far from the Antarctic Peninsula.

The large plate was photographed and sighted in the Pacific Ocean near Macquarie Island in Australia, puzzling scientists who were in this area.

"I've never seen anything like it. I just saw in the horizon a large floating island of ice, "narrated in turn by Britain's Times newspaper biologist Dean Miller, who was the first to see the iceberg about 8 km from the north-west of Macquarie Island.








According to investigators, the giant iceberg comes from the Antarctic Ross area. The ice island looks solid, but if it were to crumble could become a serious danger to the boats.

Macquarie Island is home to millions of seals, sea lions, penguins and seabirds. It is also a World Heritage Site because of its amazing marine life populations and plants. In this area we find one station of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD, for its initials in English), whose scientists discovered the iceberg.

miércoles, 11 de noviembre de 2009

Prohibited fat


Concern about being overweight is reaching unimaginable, as in Japan where laws apply to lower rates of overweight among its citizens, including setting limits for waist size.

Japanese lawmakers just impose a maximum waist of 85 inches for men and 90 inches for women as standards for determining whether a person suffers from obesity.

This sudden concern arises from the fear or Metabolic Syndrome as it is called in Japan, "metabolites" which is a combination of risks of having high cholesterol, high blood pressure, among others, which in turn can lead to heart disease and diabetes .

Against this the companies have begun to perform annual checkups for their employees and those not within the size limit should go to counseling. It is estimated that more than 56 million Japanese will be measured waist.

Fat is an economic factor, for example, many companies plan to reduce obesity in their workforce by 10% for 2012, or must pay more money to health care for the elderly.

However, the measure also has its critics as Yoichi Ogushi, a professor of medicine at Tokai University, who notes that in this country there is an obesity problem, but otherwise as the level of calories they eat in the Japanese dropped past 10 years and there is a serious problem of low birth weight among younger women.

miércoles, 4 de noviembre de 2009

Auto-spa


The latest automotive invention combines the convenience of managing the pleasure of being at a spa. The Renault and Biotherm have just launched a car that will protect both the dry skin of the occupant, and stress.

This car is called Zoe and was presented at the last Frankfurt Motor Show, Germany, where the main innovation was that the vehicle has an electrical system assets fresheners suited to the needs of the driver.

Zoe has anii-stress dispositives scheduled time to return from the job and alert when driving at night. Fresheners create a bubble spa also helps the drivers to always remain vigilant
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martes, 3 de noviembre de 2009

The escape of the lover


The photo that is circulating on the Internet in recent days, any movie that resembles today's comic is real. A lover was caught by the amorous husband in session and had to flee naked from the window of the room in one of the apartment buildings in the chinese city of Chengdu.

Being surprised by the husband of his partner, Sun Meng fled naked out the window and climbed into the motor of the heating of a neighboring apartment to keep from falling into the void, while the offended spouse cursed him from one of the neighboring balconies .

According to what he said after sinking the building, said he had no other option because he feared being killed by the husband of the woman he was in bed.

According to count the wires, after the photo came to everyone, none of the neighbors surprised lover wants to talk to him since the incident, although it was contrite in his absence.

Andre's wig

The tawny hair who has for many years the American tennis player Andre Agassi was just a lie, as I tell the athlete in his own autobiography entitled "Open".

And that's nothing, as Agassi himself has been more concerned that he was not the wig fell during the match he lost against the Ecuadorian Andres Gomez in his first Grand Slam final at Roland Garros in 1990.

"During warmups I prayed. Not for victory but for me not to fall. Every time I jumped, I thought that I liked. Imagine millions of visitors coming to their televisions, opening her eyes and wondering how it was lots of languages that Andre Agassi had fallen hair, "the famous tennis player.

As recounted in his book began to wear a wig to hide her growing alopecia than to lose the hair that constantly.

lunes, 2 de noviembre de 2009

Looking for a hotel, go to jail












The latest trend in hotels is in the city of Kaiserslautern in western Germany has created a hotel in a former prison whose unusual name is Alcatraz and in precisely which one can live the whole experience of being a prisoner, including wearing the uniform stripes and be locked in a cell.

Apparently this is a former prison that was refurbished and fitted out as a theme hotel where rooms are also barred cells, target plates, bed and a toilet next door, and all other tools of the establishments criminal.

Stay in this prison-hotel costs 50 euros a night where one can know how it feels to be deprived of their liberty for a short time.