[FACT] How much radiation is dangerous?

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Health experts urged governments in the Asia Pacific to monitor radioactivity levels after Japan's quake-damaged nuclear power plant exploded and sent radiation into the air.
Radiation is measured using the unit sievert, which quantifies the amount of radiation absorbed by human tissues.

One sievert is 1,000 millisieverts (mSv). One millisievert is 1,000 microsieverts.

Below are some facts about the health dangers posed by higher radiation levels:

* Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano had, at one point, said radiation levels near the stricken plant on the northeast coast reached as high as 400 millisieverts (mSv) an hour. That figure would be would be 20 times the annual exposure for some nuclear-industry employees and uranium miners.

* People are exposed to natural radiation of 2-3 mSv a year.
* In a CT scan, the organ being studied typically receives a radiation dose of 15 mSv in an adult to 30 mSv in a newborn infant.

A typical chest X-ray involves exposure of about 0.02 mSv, while a dental one can be 0.01 mSv.

* Exposure to 100 mSv a year is the lowest level at which any increase in cancer risk is clearly evident. A cumulative 1,000 mSv (1 sievert) would probably cause a fatal cancer many years later in five out of every 100 persons exposed to it.

* There is documented evidence associating an accumulated dose of 90 mSv from two or three CT scans with an increased risk of cancer. The evidence is reasonably convincing for adults and very convincing for children.
* Large doses of radiation or acute radiation exposure destroys the central nervous system, red and white blood cells, which compromises the immune system, leaving the victim unable to fight off infections.

For example, a single one sievert (1,000 mSv) dose causes radiation sickness such as nausea, vomiting, hemorrhaging, but not death. A single dose of 5 sieverts would kill about half of those exposed to it within a month.

* Exposure to 350 mSv was the criterion for relocating people after the Chernobyl accident, according to the World Nuclear Association.

*"Very acute radiation, like that which happened in Chernobyl and to the Japanese workers at the nuclear power station, is unlikely for the population," said Lam Ching-wan, a chemical pathologist at the university of Hong Kong.

Sources: the New England Journal of Medicine, World Nuclear Association and Taiwan's Atomic Energy Council

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Why is there smell after rain?

A rainbow might accompany the distinctive scent after a rain shower. The vibrant colors of this rainbow set against lush surroundings, photographed near San Quirico d'Orcia, Tuscany, make it seem like an almost magical phenomenon. However, the science behind a rainbow is relatively simple as it's just a matter of refraction, or the bending of light.

Most people notice a distinctive smell in the air after it rains. It's frequently linked with spring, as the smell of fresh cut grass is associated with summer. You'll find it in a lot of poetry and also on many inspirational lists of things to be happy about. But what causes it?
As it turns out, the smells people associate with rainstorms can be caused by a number of things. One of the more pleasant rain smells, the one we often notice in the woods, is actually caused by bacteria! Actinomycetes, a type of filamentous bacteria, grow in soil when conditions are damp and warm. When the soil dries out, the bacteria produces spores in the soil.

The wetness and force of rainfall kick these tiny spores up into the air where the moisture after a rain acts as an aerosol (just like an aerosol air freshener). The moist air easily carries the spores to us so we breathe them in. These spores have a distinctive, earthy smell we often associate with rainfall. The bacteria is extremely common and can be found in areas all over the world, which accounts for the universality of this sweet "after-the-rain" smell. Since the bacteria thrives in moist soil but releases the spores once the soil dries out, the smell is most acute after a rain that follows a dry spell, although you'll notice it to some degree after most rainstorms.

Another sort of smell is caused by the acidity of rain. Because of chemicals in the atmosphere, rainwater tends to be somewhat acidic, especially in urban environments. When it comes in contact with organic debris or chemicals on the ground, it can cause some particularly aromatic reactions. It breaks apart soil and releases minerals trapped inside, and it reacts with chemicals, such as gasoline, giving them a stronger smell.

These reactions generally produce more unpleasant smells than bacteria spores, which is why the after-the-rain smell isn't always a good one. Like the smell caused by the bacteria spores, the smell of chemical reactions is most noticeable when it rains following a dry spell. This is because once the chemicals on the ground have been diluted by one downpour, they don't have the same reaction with the rainwater.

Another after-the-rain smell comes from volatile oils that plants and trees release. The oil then collects on surfaces such as rocks. The rain reacts with the oil on the rocks and carries it as a gas through the air. This scent is like the bacteria spores in that most people consider it a pleasant, fresh smell. It has even been bottled and sold for its aromatic qualities!

These are a few common rain smells, but there are also all sorts of other scents after it rains. There is lots of aromatic material that the moisture and impact of rain can stir up, and the moist atmosphere following a downpour is particularly good at carrying these particles through the air. So, when you talk about the after-the-rain smell with a friend, you may mean one thing while your friend is thinking of something else. You'll both agree, however, that the air has a much stronger aroma to it after a good rain.

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[FACT] SHIT/FAECES use to Fight BUGS

LONDON (Reuters) - Once a year, every year, Professor Thomas Borody receives a single-stem rose from one of his most grateful patients. She is, he says, thanking him for restoring her bowel flora.

It's a distasteful cure for a problem that's increasingly widespread: the Clostridium difficile bug, typically caught by patients in hospitals and nursing homes, can be hard to treat with antibiotics. But Borody is one of a group of scientists who believe the answer is a faecal transplant.


Some jokily call it a "transpoosion." Others have more sciencey names like "bacteriotherapy" or "stool infusion therapy." But the process involves, frankly, replacing a person's poo with someone else's, and in the process, giving them back the "good" bugs they desperately need.

Borody's grateful patient, Coralie Muddell, suffered months of chronic diarrhoea so bad she would often embarrass herself in public, and had even stopped eating to try to halt the flow.

The technique that cured her has had a success rate of around 90 percent in the experimental cases where it has been used so far. Now scientists are taking it to the next level, with randomized controlled trials to establish if it can really be a viable option when antibiotics have failed.

With rates of hospital-acquired C.difficile infection rising in the United States, Europe and other parts of the world, that could save lives as well as reducing expensive days of extra care. "There's rising recognition of how effective this is," Borody, a Sydney-based gastroenterologist, told Reuters.

YUCK FACTOR

There's little doubt this treatment has an image problem. Feces, including important bowel flora, is transferred from a volunteer donor -- screened to limit possible other infections -- into the colon of the infected patient. The treatment can be administered by a colonoscope or an enema, or by the mouth or the nose.

"I used to be frowned upon and called 'the doctor who makes people eat shit'," says Borody, whose scientific papers have included such titles as "Flora Power" and "Toying with Human Motions." But he is also deadly serious. One of his published studies reported that in patients with recurrent C.difficile infection, 60 out of 67 -- 90 percent -- of those who received faecal transplants were cured.

Alex Khoruts, a gastroenterologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the United States, agrees that the science is not to be sniffed at. "The data are very strong," he said in a telephone interview. "There is no question that it works."

Khoruts published a study in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology in 2009 that showed a single infusion of feces reversed the absence of bacteroides -- a group of bacteria vital to the body's ability to withstand infections with C.difficile.

Khoruts often sees patients who have taken course after course of antibiotics. As soon as the treatment stops, the infection returns. It doesn't take much for these sufferers to listen to a new treatment idea, even if it involves feces.

"The patients I see don't have any qualms about it," he says. "By the time I see them, they've often been sick for anywhere from six months to two years, so they're quite desperate. Nothing really scares them."

The main aim, he says, is to keep the poo pure.

"What we try to do is preserve it as close as possible to how it was in the donor. There's no in-between culture or enrichment. We want to transfer as much as we can intact."

The donor feces is filtered to remove some larger particles and then "simply goes through a blender," says Khoruts, with a saline solution to liquefy it before it is administered.

He favors methods which avoid going in through the mouth or the nose, which he says may make patients gag.

Borody's clinic, at the Center for Digestive Diseases in New South Wales, acknowledges that using a nasojejunal tube -- which goes in through the nose, down the throat and into the stomach -- is not the most attractive method, but argues it is the most reliable way of killing the C.difficile bug and its spores once and for all.

C. DIFFICILE ON THE RISE

Repellent as faecal transplants may seem, if C.difficile trends continue, demand could rise rapidly.

A Europe-wide study published in The Lancet late last year found the incidence of C.difficile infections in hospitals in the region had risen to 4.1 per 10,000 patient days in 2008 from 2.45 per 10,000 patient days in 2005.

The infections can have a range of consequences, from severe diarrhoea to blood poisoning, colitis and death.

A 2008 report from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) found that on any single day in U.S. hospitals, there could be 7,000 infections with C.difficile and up to 300 deaths.

The most commonly used antibiotic for C.difficile is metronidazole, and some more severe forms are treated with vancomycin, traditionally seen as the antibiotic of last resort. Like other bacteria, C.difficile can develop resistance to vancomycin, giving it "superbug" or multi-drug-resistant traits that make treatment extremely difficult or impossible.

Khoruts cites data from 1958, when some of the first scientific papers on the use of faecal transplants were published. That showed the death rate for patients with a type of infection called fulminant C.difficile colitis was 75 percent.

"Then if you go forward to 2010 -- 52 years later, with the best current medical care and new antibiotics -- the mortality is still 50 percent," he says. "So we really can't say standard medicine has done that well in 50 years."

"POO IS THE ONLY ANSWER"

Khoruts now fears that unless the medical establishment embraces the technique, "the majority of people who could benefit from this procedure are not going to get it." Borody says "poo is the only answer." So why is it not catching on?

Scientific literature over half a century has documented the use of faecal transplants, but the technique has remained on the fringes of medicine. Some experts say a lack of robust trial data may be holding people back -- as well as the obvious and natural aversion to feces as a medicinal product.

To try to address this, a team of specialists in The Netherlands is recruiting around 100 sick and healthy people into a randomized controlled trial -- considered the gold standard in science -- to see if the method can be proven.

Although the study is still under way, Ed Kuijper of the Leiden University Medical Center, one of those working on it, says the early signs are that faecal transplants will be shown to be effective in patients with recurrent, or relapsing C.difficile infections.

Tackling the image problem is more challenging; but both Khoruts and Kuijper say scientists are "not very far away" from being able develop a kind of artificial feces that might help.

This laboratory-grown poo would be like a super pro-biotic, they say, but more powerful by far than any yoghurt drink you can buy in a supermarket. It would have the qualities of donor poo without the marketing issues.

"It would be a good idea if synthetic poo would work," says Borody. But he has doubts -- and until he sees some good results with artificial feces, he's sticking with the real thing. "We'd like to get away from poo, but it works the best."

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[SHOCKING] Secrets behind the Nike CURSE

Speaking of the 2010 World Cup, while Paul the Octopus was busy picking the winners, several football stars were left blaming their lucky stars for their lack of success at the World Cup. A few months before Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo, Ivory Coast's Didier Drogba and England's Wayne Rooney - the star attractions of the tournament - played at the World Cup, they appeared together in a multi-million Nike advertisement called "Write The Future", but unbeknownst to them, their future had already been written then: their teams did not make it past the quarter finals despite being favourites to lift the trophy. What's even spookier is that Ronaldo, Drogba and Rooney - all top scorers in their respective leagues - scored only two goals between them. Could it be the Curse of the Nike advertisement? We pretty much think so.

Here are some of Nikes HOTTEST selling shoes !

 

[BUSTED] Cheese Aren't Mouse FAVOURITE Food, it is SUGAR, Peanut Butter and Cereals !!!

Who says Mouse and Rat loves Cheese ? This all Time Favourite Fact is finally BUSTED.

Cheese maybe one of the food mouse eat, it doesn't mean they love cheese as their Favourite Food.

In Fact, Mice enjoy food that are rich in sugar as well as peanut butter and breakfast cereals. So a Snickers bar would go down much better than a lump of cheddar.

So the next time you want to setup a mouse trap, do consider using peanut butter and breakfast cereals instead. The results may turn out BETTER than using a Cheese.

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[FACT] Bad Date SECRETS,TIPS Revealed

Ever wondered why you are perpetually single, despite going on dates? It could be that you don’t really know how to navigate dating, or maybe you don’t put yourself across very well on a first date. Here are some signs that you aren’t particularly good at dating and may need to brush up on your skills.

Clothes

You don’t bother getting dressed up or make an effort for a date. While you may feel more comfortable wearing any old thing you decide to throw on, it begs the question: why would he take you on another date if you can’t be bothered to make an effort and look good? Make sure you look presentable.

You’re late

Not only have you not made an effort to look respectable, but you are also running late. Except in specific circumstances, there is not excuse to be late. You have a phone, you have a watch so make sure you keep track of your time management and call if you think you’re going to be late. If it happens more than once, you sending the other person a message they are less important than you or what you were doing.

Me, me, me

You may or may not notice it, but many people rattle on far too much about themselves, leaving the other person wondering when on Earth you are ever going to be quiet. If you’re known to be a bit of a chatterbox or your favorite topic is yourself, then you may want to change your tune. Don’t let it be a one way conversation and they are the audience. You want to engage the person not bore them to death.

Table manners

You were brought up, not dragged up, so make sure that you’re on top of your table manners. Don’t pick food from his plate (unless he offers), don’t slurp your food or drinks, don’t be rude to waiters belch or anything else that you would do in the privacy of your home, alone. Oh, and your phone - just switch it off. There is nothing worse than someone who answers their phone while on a date.

Flirting

Do you repeat the dreaded one-liners or rehearsed lines that make people cringe? Try to come up with original witty lines and jokes, rather than the stuff that has been heard a million times and will likely cause the person to roll their eyes at you. You’re unlikely to get a response from your advances.

You know their every move

Perhaps you check up on your date a couple of days after meeting? However, rather than make a call or drop a text like most people, you follow their every move on any social media site they are signed up to and know what they are doing, when and where. It’s a little creepy, stalker behaviour and quite frankly not going to get you another date if you’re sprung

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[SEXY] Your Lingerie,Bra,Undies tells your Mood and Character.

The colour of a woman's lingerie could clue you in to what sort of a lover she is, according to the Daily Mail.

Red means you're not shy but if you opt for pink, you would never take the lead – white is for willing learners. Find out what else other colours say about her.

If your underwear is white, you are innocent, but open to suggestion. (Photo: Triumph)

Red-coloured underwear means you are passionate, energetic and driven. (Photo: Pierre Cardin)

If your underwear is pink, it means you are romantic, gentle and in need of affection. (Photo: Triumph)

Nude-coloured underwear says you're relaxed and have nothing to hide. (Photo: Triumph)

Black-coloured underwear means you are powerful but sultry. (Photo: Pierre Cardin)

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[4GUYS]Naked Sleeping improves Sex Life, Reproductive health

For the habit of fully clothed sleep, Sleeping naked like a thing that is very difficult to accept for most of us. In fact, a scientific and rational choice of Sleeping naked does have many advantages, especially for male reproductive health, invaluable.

Help protect the male reproductive function. A lot of people start to feel Sleeping naked embarrassed, in fact, the need for comfort is the human instinct, as long as comfortable and healthy in order to, dressing and undressing are reasonable.

Fast-paced modern life, the daily sleep to a resumption of the physical, to ensure a healthy exercise. A busy day, the strip while sleep is conducive to blood circulation, so that the body stretch yang accessible, and if fully clothed and sleep, especially some of the more fashionable to wear tight underwear, which may affect the blood circulation, so that yang was inhibited, For sexual function is even less beneficial. Underwear too tight, the temperature of the scrotum will increase, leading to sperm production and development barriers and reducing men's sexuality; the same time, tight-fitting underwear will be to the genitals with a strong friction and pressure, resulting in erectile dysfunction, frequent nocturnal emission, will affect the blood circulation and normal ejaculation. Sleeping naked you can let the temperature drop testicular sperm has become more lively, naturally enhance sexual desire.

Yang abundant blood exuberant middle-aged, as well as thicker thighs, body fat than The male friends, often awoke to find the groin, inner thighs and other private office sweat more.

Sleep underwear absorbs sweat and secretions, humid and airtight the site easy for bacteria to breed breeding, for a long time have resulted in the damp heat accumulation, triggering the wet itching sores.

In summer, wet underwear into the urethra easier to increase the chance of pathogens, and even causing the urinary system and reproductive system organ infection. Choose Sleeping naked these problems could be avoided to enhance the secretion of sebaceous glands and sweat glands are conducive to the discharge and cooling the skin, replacing itching discomfort.

Is conducive to enhancing male sexual self-confidence

Traditional Chinese health advocates comfortable soft tone, often believes in Santa Claus, "a child's point" refers to the essence of naked as a newborn child in the same pure, comfortable, open-minded attitude, which is the basis for a healthy body and mind. Therefore, choosing the nude of the most important thing is psychologically completely relaxed, first of all can be comfortable facing your own body.

men used to sleep naked since prehistoric age

Sleeping naked a kind of unfettered freedom of pleasure, clinical studies have demonstrated its efficacy in treatment of tension disease is quite obvious, for men due to anxiety and tension resulting from sexual dysfunction are also effective.

For the married life, the naked human body is the best stimulus to arouse sexual desire. Chinese people regard the concept of conjugal life are conservative, a lot of male sexual dysfunction is due to psychological stress, low self-esteem caused husband and wife to one another between the physical, sexual performance evaluations are not unrelated.

Established habit of Sleeping naked a couple pairs of each other's body is more calm, freer sexual life, men are more easy to take the initiative in sex. At the same time, it is more conducive to reducing the marriage from the psychological barriers and differences, increase opportunities for intimate contact, to each other and more tolerance and appreciation, is conducive to the maintenance of marital relations.

Of course, Sleeping naked must also pay attention to, good health habits is the key, do not put the quilt sheet as of the close pajamas not changed or washed. The choice of bedding material on the sheets have to pay attention to comfort, soft, breathable fabric is better to avoid skin irritant, affecting sleep. In addition, if there is infection of the genitourinary system, you should not Sleeping naked.

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Blood-Sucking Superbug Stab Bacteria Prefers Taste of Humans

ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2010) — "Staph" bacteria feed on blood. They need the iron that's hidden away inside red blood cells to grow and cause infections. It turns out that these microbial vampires prefer the taste of human blood, Vanderbilt University scientists have discovered.

The researchers report in the Dec. 16 issue of Cell Host & Microbe that Staphylococcus aureus (staph) favors human hemoglobin -- the oxygen-carrying protein that contains iron -- over hemoglobin from other animals. The findings help explain why staph preferentially infects people and suggest that genetic variations in hemoglobin may make some individuals more susceptible to staph infections.

Staph lives in the noses of about 30 percent of all people -- usually without making them ill, said Eric Skaar, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology.

"A big question in staph biology is: why do some people continuously get infected, or suffer very serious staph infections, while other people do not? Variations in hemoglobin could contribute," he said.

If that is the case -- something Skaar and his team plan to explore -- it might be possible to identify patients who are more susceptible to a staph infection and provide them with prophylactic therapy in advance of a hospital stay or surgery.

Staph is a significant threat to global public health. It is the leading cause of pus-forming skin and soft tissue infections, the leading cause of infectious heart disease, the No. 1 hospital-acquired infection, and one of four leading causes of food-borne illness. Antibiotic-resistant strains of S. aureus -- such as MRSA -- are on the rise in hospitals and communities.

"It seems as if complete and total antibiotic resistance of the organism is inevitable at this point," Skaar said.

This dire outlook motivates Skaar and his colleagues in their search for new antibiotic targets. The group has focused on staph's nutritional requirements, searching for ways to "starve" the bug of the metals (such as iron) that it needs.

Staph obtains iron by popping open red blood cells, binding to the hemoglobin, and extracting iron from it. Skaar and colleagues previously identified the staph receptor for hemoglobin, a protein called IsdB.

In the current studies, they showed that S. aureus bacteria bind human hemoglobin preferentially over other animal hemoglobins, and that this binding occurs through the IsdB receptor. The preferential recognition of human hemoglobin by S. aureus is due to the increased affinity of IsdB for human hemoglobin compared to other animal hemoglobins.

The team studied staph's ability to infect a mouse expressing human hemoglobin (a "humanized" mouse model) and found that these mice were more susceptible to a systemic staph infection than control mice.

The investigators also examined the hemoglobin-binding preferences of other microbes and found that bacterial pathogens that exclusively infect humans, such as the bacteria that cause diphtheria, prefer human hemoglobin compared to other animal hemoglobins. In contrast, pathogens such as Pseudomonas and Bacillus anthracis (the cause of anthrax), which infect a number of different animals, "didn't exhibit a hemoglobin preference," Skaar said.

The human hemoglobin-expressing mice will be a valuable research tool, Skaar said, because staph infects these mice in a way that more closely mimics the infectious process in humans. His team will also explore whether these mice provide a good model for studying the infectious biology of other pathogens.

Skaar hopes to utilize Vanderbilt's DNA Databank, BioVU, to examine whether genetic variations in hemoglobin contribute to individual susceptibility to staph infections. His team will continue to study the molecular interaction between hemoglobin and the IsdB receptor, with the aim of disrupting this interaction with new antibiotic therapeutics.

Graduate student Gleb Pishchany is the first author of the Cell Host & Microbe paper. Other Vanderbilt authors include Amanda McCoy, Victor Torres, Ph.D., Jens Krause, M.D., and James Crowe Jr., M.D. The studies were supported by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of ScienceDaily or its staff.

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[SHOCKING TRUTH] This is so TRUE about GUYS !!!

Isn't this very TRUE ?

All Unrevealed FACTS about Alviss Kong

Some people are adding unnecessary details. Here’s just the facts in summary.

Just the facts:

* A 22 year old (Born 22nd May 1988) , ALVISS KONG (Jiangshi Feng (IT staff) committed suicide by jumping off the 14th floor of Ketumbar Heights, Cheras.
* Before commiting suicide, he posted a note to his Facebook profile page. Prior to jumping, he took one last photo and even posted a message 45 minutes before.
* From the note, it can be inferred that he no longer wanted to live after his girlfriend broke up with him.
* Alviss Kong ’s body damaged a car upon impact, and he lay bleeding until emergency services took him to the hospital.
* He was pronounced dead at 9AM on the morning of December 10th.
* He lived on the 5th floor of the same apartment, and has a brother and a sister
* Prior to jumping off the 14th floor, he went to a tea stall near his apartment.
* Both Alviss Kong and his girlfriend had blogs.
* They had been together for 4 months, and this was Alviss’s second, and last relationship.
* From a source on FB, I found out that Alviss Kong used to work in Berjaya Times Square. He also used to go clubbing a lot, and he liked to wear a plaster on his face as a fashion statement.

There’s a tragic amount of disrespectful comments in the FB page and some of the forums and blogs from “keyboard warriors”, unfortunately. If you’re reading this, please don’t add to it. I thought this tweet summarizes it pretty well:http://www.twitlonger.com/show/7daaj8
On Thursday 9th December 2010, @djvoize said:
People~ please respect the late alviss kong,4 months doesn’t mean that the love is nt deep,respect by nt saying him dumb or what,n fr u guys who wanna scold or slap the girl,for what?it’s nt even her wrong n we outsiders will nvr know what’s the real prob between them~
Screenshot from Alviss Kong’s blog. It’s closed now, but the Google Cache is available:

It’s quite sad reading about Alviss Kong’s perfect day with her (clubbing, school, etc) especially knowing what happened

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XlRM3e787ZoJ:alvisskong.blogspot.com/2010/08/unforgettable.html+lowyat+alviss&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk

Media
* The suicide note on Facebook: here
* Alviss Kong’s Facebook page: here
* Alviss Kong’s blog (private): here
* A link to the auto-translated version: here

The deceased's last words at face book
XXX華文告白書： Chinese Confessions XXX books:

在你的世界裡…愛情是什么? In your world ... What is love?

我拋下一切去挽回你…你卻可以很無情地把我一次又一次的推開，你說你愛我…你說你並沒變…你只是不想了…不想了…無論我怎么做…也是不想了 I threw everything to save you ... but you can be ruthlessly pushed me again and again, you say you love me ... you said you did not change ... you just do not want the ... the ... no matter how I do not want to do ... is do not want the

你的絕情…真的給了我無比的缺（決）心去了斷自己 Desperate ... you really gave me tremendous shortage (summary) had broken his heart to

很傻吧…？ Silly, right ...? 我也覺得自己很傻…我說過的i love u…i said it i meant it…i'll love u till the moment i die I feel stupid ... I said i love u ... i said it i meant it ... i'll love u till the moment i die

現在我也說了…我要幫自己做個了斷 Now I have to say ... I want to help himself to be a break

不是完全因為你…只不過在我的世界裡…的確只有愛情…而你就是我最愛的人 ... But not entirely because of you in my world ... ... and you really only love is my favorite person

今天謝謝你的最后回憶……在cinema裡你給的擁抱那科（刻）…我覺得一切的感覺都回來了 Thank you for the last day ... ... in the cinema in the memories of your subjects to embrace that (moment) ... I think all the feeling back

只沒想到…最后…你依然堅持了你的決定 Just did not think ... ... you still insist on the final decision of your

你變了…你說你依然愛我…但是我卻發覺你根本愛上跟他們一起的感覺 You've changed ... you said you still love me ... but I find that you do not feel love with them

愛情…我玩不起…兩場的愛…我已經把自己搞到不知道象（像）什么了… ... Love ... I can not afford two love ... I've got no idea as their own (like) What the ...

很遺憾的是……既然在最后一天裡…你也不把送你回家的機會給我…算吧… I regret that ... ... since ... the last day to take you home you do not give me the chance ... count it ...

以后也不會再有這機會了…因為當你讀完這些后…我已不在人世 The future will no longer have this opportunity ... because when you read these post ... I'm no longer here

你的愛…我無法了解…但跟你的這4個月裡…是我人生中最開心的就讓我成為你回憶中的永恆…… Your love ... I can not understand it ... but with your 4 months ... is the happiest in my life let me be your timeless ... ...

Rest in peace, Alviss.
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Antibiotics indirectly reduces our Immune System

NUGGET : ANTIBIOTICS are drugs that kill all bacteria - this is not necessarily a good thing. While we want to kill off all the bad bugs, these drugs also kill useful bacteria called probiotics (friendly bacteria).

Experts estimate five to 25 per cent of patients treated with antibiotics develop diarrhoea. The bacteria, Clostridium difficile (C,difficile), only become harmful and cause mild to severe diarrhoea when the other bacteria are killed off by antibiotics.

Children and the elderly who have reduced immune function are more at risk.

Solution

Researchers at Imperial College and Hammersmith Hospital in London found that consuming probiotic bacteria, such as those found in yoghurt, kefir and probiotic supplements can help prevent diarrhoea associated with antibiotic use, reports the British Medical Journal.

Probiotic supplements contain beneficial live bacteria that help replenish gut flora destroyed by antibiotics. Disruption of the friendly bacteria can result in diarrhoea, gas, candida albicans (a fungus) infection and other gastrointestinal problems.

Lesser chance of gastrointestinal problem

12 per cent of those who took the probiotic drink developed antibiotic-associated diarrhoea.

This compares very well with 34 per cent of those that received the sterile drink. Seventeen per cent of those that did not receive the probiotic had C. difficile-associated diarrhoea, while there were no cases of C. difficile among those who received the probiotics. Thus, those taking probiotics were three times less likely to get gastrointestinal problems.

Mechanism

Probiotics assist immune function by:

• Inhibiting harmful bacterial growth
• Promoting good digestion
• Maintaining proper pH
• Enhancing immune function

Probiotics produce bacteria-inhibiting substances (natural antibiotics) and prevent harmful bacteria from attaching to vaginal, urinary, and intestinal tract mucosal linings.

It also has the ability to suppress H. pylori which has been linked to stomach ulcers and may be useful in preventing acute infectious diarrhoea, urinary tract infections and in restoring vaginal flora. Sadly, our foods, especially commercially-derived meat, is contaminated with low doses of antibiotics that are often used as growth promoters of poultry, chicken, cows and pigs.

Antibiotics often destroy friendly bacteria on skin and in urinary, vaginal, and intestinal tracts. Probiotics can be used to restore the natural floral balance in organ and body systems after antibiotic treatment.

Reduction

In their study, 135 men and women over the age of 50 were given antibiotics.

They were randomly divided to receive a commercially available probiotic yoghurt drink or a sterile milkshake (without any probiotics). The probiotic drink and the sterile milkshake were given within 48 hours of the start of the antibiotic therapy. This continued twice daily until a week following the discontinuance of the drugs.

The probiotic drink contains active cultures of friendly bacteria called Lactobacillus casei,Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus.

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Lead in Cartoon character water bottles, toys, kitchen utensils and jewelry 700 times higher than health standard

The amount of lead ranged from twice the federal limit in a metal ice cream scoop to 714 times the limit in a salt shaker lid.

Research reported recently by the Associated Press found that lead and cadmium were present in cartoon character drinking glasses.

Now a new study has found that many other items available for purchase throughout the United States -- such as toys, home décor items, salvage, kitchen utensils and jewelry -- contain surface lead concentrations more than 700 times higher than the federal limit.

The authors of the study were Laurel Sharmer of the State University of New York, Anna Harding of Oregon State University and Steven Shackley of the University of California, Berkeley. Sharmer, the lead author, is now retired and lives in Monmouth, Ore. The results are published in the December issue of The Journal of Environmental Health.

Researchers purchased a collection of used items from second-hand stores, junk shops and antiques stores in Virginia, New York and Oregon. The items included salvaged construction pieces, antique toys, common dishware, jewelry and other collectibles. Many of the items would have significant appeal to children. Before purchase the items were tested in the store using a qualitative swab test. Those that tested positive were purchased.

It was possible to purchase an item that contained lead in every single store the researchers visited....

Children should never be allowed to come into contact with antiques or used products sold by a seller who is not regulated by a government agency such as the Consumer Product Safety Administration or the FDA, the researchers said. Used dishware and kitchen utensils should not be used for preparing, serving or storing food. Construction debris and salvage should be considered to have lead until proven safe.

Examples of used items in the study that contained high levels of lead include a salt shaker lid, small red toy teapot, Garfield cup, a red casserole dish, potato ricer, ice cream scoop, Japanese wine cup, Pewter bowl, and a turtle necklace.


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Beware:Handling Seafood may cause flesh-eating bacteria ( pictures included )

One type of bacteria that can cause flesh-eating bacteria syndrome is Vibrio vulnificus, which is found on certain sea creatures, including crabs, prawns and oysters. Dr Chlebicki said that one has to be careful when handling seafood. If one sustains a cut, one should immediately wash the wound clean and use alcohol to disinfect it thoroughly.

In 2007, local papers reported that an 83-year-old man died after getting pricked by a crab which infected him with flesh-eating bacteria. It was a tiny wound, but it took only 48 hours to kill him.

Another instances that a man become seriously ill in hospital after being infected with flesh-eating bacteria.

The Health Department says the 69-year-old man from Sham Shui Po injured himself while handling a crab at home.

He sought medical treatment after developing fever and painful swelling of his left leg. Blood tests revealed the presence of the bacteria, which can cause death within 12 to 24 hours after infection.

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How to eat without Mouth Open ?

The answer to the question is... IMPOSSIBLE !!!

Unless you injected nutrient fluids. If you mean actually eating though, as in literately chew, swallow, taste or whatever, you can't. Any module used on an organism used to consume food in that manner is referred to as the mouth.

Drinking URINE can cure asthma, arthritis, allergies, acne, cancer, indigestion, migraines, wrinkles, and a host of other conditions

NUGGET: It's true that drinking urine is used as a treatment in India to cure asthma, arthritis, allergies, acne, cancer, indigestion, migraines, wrinkles, and a host of other conditions.

A country where water is so scarce, people dying of dehydration, heat exhaustion, thirst is common. While some survivals resort to drinking urine, to pass this legend to the descendent of theirs that consuming urine is SAFE...

Under some caution and certain conditions, it is deemed safe to drink your own urine.

Evidence for the Health Claim

In some 3rdWorld country, not to be named, that drinking urine a their way of survival because urine comprised about 95% of water, filtered after filtered from our body as part of the body of removing out waste and unwanted products.Although few people like the idea of drinking urine, fewer would prefer to suffer the ultimate consequences of dehydration.

But do you know that use of urine can be used as medical substance in other well-hydrated individuals in 1st or 2nd World Country ?

It all went back to the ancient cultural and medical practices in countries like Egypt, China, India, and the Aztec empire, their physician consider drinking urine—one’s own or someone else’s—as a treatment or cure for a variety of ailments. They call it the self cure practices. Human body is well-known for own recovery of eye corrections, skin and body repair.

Today. there are many of medical practices in the teachings of Ayurveda that allow urine consumptions.

Ayurveda, the ancient holistic healing system of India, is grounded in a spiritual view of life. Its practitioners have advocated urine therapy as a treatment for asthma, arthritis, allergies, acne, cancer, indigestion,migraines, wrinkles, and a host of other conditions.

Even though, there is no medical evidence supporting and backing this urine drinking practice as an effective treatment for any of these (or other) illnesses, scientific studies have shown that some components of urine have medicinal properties.

Most notably, urea (comprises 2% of our urine) contain some antiviral, antifungal, and antibacterial characteristics. And currently some research is on the way to investigate the potential of other urinary substances to treat infertility and specific forms of cancer.

While drinking urine has the properties to recover and cure have yet to be confirmed by further research, drinking in small quantity ( if you do drink it now ), is unlikely to produce serious harm.

Evidence Against the Claim

Although sipping urine may not be immediately harmful, it should not be forgotten that urine can also contain harmful ( not dangerous ) substances in those who have taken drugs—legal or otherwise—or have been exposed to chemical residues in the environment.

Also, if a person were to drink his own urine as a substitute for fresh drinking water, the proportion of water content would rapidly decrease as the proportion of harmful waste products increased. It means, after a few cycle of drinking urine, the urine may become toxic as the the water contain reduces.

Urine therapy advocates who tout urine’s healing properties point to the fact that urine contains vitamins, hormones, proteins, and other constituents generally accepted as beneficial. However, detractors point out that the body’s process of elimination is more than merely efficient, ridding itself of what it can’t store. Rather, the kidneys diligently retain what is useful and dispose of everything else deemed dispensable.

Even urine therapy advocates warn of the dangers of excessive urine consumption. During a worldwide conference of urine therapy practitioners, the Chinese Association of Urine Therapy warned that drinking urine has negative side effects, including diarrhea, fatigue, fever, and muscle soreness; and these symptoms increase with the amount of urine ingested.

Conclusion

Because urine is primarily water, drinking it in small amounts is probably harmless unless you’ve been exposed to medications or environmental toxins that your body is desperately trying to eliminate. When faced with life-threatening dehydration, drinking urine may make some sense, since the temporary benefits are likely to outweigh the risks. However, this last ditch effort will be short-lived, since the kidneys stop making urine as the dehydration worsens.

Male Breast cancer causes DEATH !

What is male breast cancer? Men possess a small amount of nonfunctioning breast tissue (breast tissue that cannot produce milk) that is concentrated in the area directly behind the nipple on the chest wall. Like breast cancer in women, cancer of the male breast is the uncontrolled growth of the cells of this breast tissue. Breast tissue in both young boys and girls consists of tubular structures known as ducts. At puberty, a girl's ovaries produce female hormones (estrogen) that cause the ducts to grow and milk glands (lobules) to develop at the ends of the ducts. The amount of fat and connective tissue in the breast also increases as girls reach puberty. On the other hand, male hormones (such as testosterone) secreted by the testes suppress the growth of breast tissue and the development of lobules. The male breast, therefore, is made up of predominantly small, undeveloped ducts and a small amount of fat and connective tissue. How common is male breast cancer? Male breast cancer is a rare condition, accounting for only about 1% of all breast cancers. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2008, about 1,990 new cases of breast cancer in men will be diagnosed, and that breast cancer will cause approximately 480 deaths in men (in comparison, over 40,000 women die of breast cancer each year). Breast cancer is 100 times more common in women than in men. Most cases of male breast cancer are detected in men between the ages of 60 and 70, although the condition can develop in men of any age. A man's lifetime risk of developing breast cancer is about one-tenth of 1%, or one in 1,000. What are causes and risk factors of male breast cancer? As with cancer of the female breast, the cause of cancer of the male breast has not been fully characterized, but both environmental influences and genetic (inherited) factors likely play a role in its development. The following risk factors for the development of male breast cancer have been identified. 1) Radiation exposure Exposure to ionizing radiation has been associated with an increased risk of developing male breast cancer. Men who have previously undergone radiation therapy to treat malignancies in the chest area (for example, Hodgkin's lymphoma) have an increased risk for the development of breast cancer. 2) Hyperestrogenism (high levels of estrogen) Men normally produce small amounts of the female hormone estrogen, but certain conditions result in abnormally high levels of estrogen in men. The term gynecomastia refers to the condition in which the male breasts become abnormally enlarged in response to elevated levels of estrogen. High levels of estrogens also can increase the risk for development of male breast cancer. The majority of breast cancers in men are estrogen receptor-positive (meaning that they grow in response to stimulation with estrogen). Two conditions in which men have abnormally high levels of estrogen that are commonly associated with breast enlargement are Klinefelter's syndrome and cirrhosis of the liver. Obesity is also associated with elevated estrogen levels and breast enlargement in men. 3) Klinefelter's syndrome is an inherited condition affecting about one in 1,000 men. A normal man has two sex chromosomes (X and Y). He inherited the female X chromosome from his mother and the male Y chromosome from his father. Men with Klinefelter's syndrome have inherited an extra female X chromosome, resulting in an abnormal sex chromosome makeup of XXY rather than the normal male XY. Affected Klinefelter's patients produce high levels of estrogen and develop enlarged breasts, sparse facial and body hair, small testes, and the inability to produce sperm. Some studies have shown an increase in the risk of developing breast cancer in men with this condition. Their risk for development of breast cancer is markedly increased, up to 50 times that of normal men. 4) Cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver can result from chronic alcohol abuse, chronic viral hepatitis, or rare genetic conditions that result in accumulation of toxic substances within the liver. The liver produces important binding proteins that affect the transport and delivery of male and female hormones via the bloodstream. With cirrhosis, liver function is compromised, and the levels of male and female hormones in the bloodstream are altered. Men with cirrhosis of the liver have higher blood levels of estrogen and have an increased risk of developing breast cancer. Familial predisposition Epidemiologic studies have shown that men who have several female relatives with breast cancer also have an increased risk for development of the disease. In particular, men who have inherited mutations in the breast cancer-associated BRCA-2 gene have a dramatically increased (about 80-fold) risk for developing breast cancer, with a lifetime risk of about 5%-10% for development of breast cancer. BRCA-2 is a gene on chromosome 13 that normally functions in suppression of cell growth. Mutations in this gene lead to an increased risk for development of breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers. About 15% of breast cancers in men are thought to be attributable to BRCA-2 mutation. The role of the BRCA-1 gene, which has been associated with inherited breast cancers in women, is not as clearly defined for male breast cancers.

What are the different types of male breast cancer? The most common type of male breast cancer is infiltrating ductal carcinoma, which is also a common type of breast cancer in women. Ductal carcinoma refers to cancers with origins in the ducts (tubular structures) of the breast, and the term infiltrating means that the cancer cells have spread beyond the ducts into the surrounding tissue. On the other hand, lobular cancers (cancers of the milk glands), common in women, are extremely rare in men since male breast tissue does not normally contain lobules. Other uncommon types of cancers of the breast that have been reported in men include ductal carcinoma in situ (cancer in the ducts that has not spread beyond the ducts themselves), cystosarcoma phylloides (a type of cancer of the connective tissue surrounding the ducts), and Paget's disease of the breast (a cancer involving the skin of the nipple). Some other types of breast cancer that occur in men are named for their growth patterns and microscopic appearance of the cancer cells, including papillary carcinoma, inflammatory carcinoma, and medullary carcinoma. About 85% of breast cancers in men have estrogen receptors on their cell membranes. Estrogen receptors on the cell membranes allow estrogen molecules to bind to the cancer cells. Estrogen binding to the cancer cells stimulates cell growth and multiplication. What are the signs and symptoms of male breast cancer? The most common symptom of breast cancer in men is finding a firm, non-painful mass located just below the nipple. The average size of breast cancer in men when first discovered is about 2.5 cm in diameter. The cancer may cause skin changes in the area of the nipple. These changes can include ulceration of the skin, puckering or dimpling, redness or scaling of the nipple, or retraction (turning inward) of the nipple. Bloody or opaque discharge from the nipple may also occur. Breast cancer that has spread (metastasized) to the bones may also produce bone pain at the sites of metastases. Advanced breast cancer can also produce symptoms typical of many cancers, including malaise, weakness, and weight loss. source

New Sex Games on the Microsoft XBox Kinect?

Motion-detecting sex video games may become a reality for X-rated video game fans.

With the debut of Microsoft’s Kinect, the new body-tracking sensor for the Xbox 360, someone was definitely going to ask: How long until someone makes a Kinect sex game?

That’s the very question posed by both CNet and PC World in recent blog posts.

CNet notes that the device tracks and displays the movements of your full body in games like Dance Central and Your Shape: Fitness Evolved. Speculation about the adult market is now taking off online.

But is Kinect really suited for motion-sensing, virtual sex acts? The answer, for now, is no.

Those like Mr Kyle Machulis, who runs a website devoted to the trend of online hanky panky, said that while the gaming console tracks the human body as a whole, it doesn’t look at “major geometric features” on the body.

In other words, it can’t detect certain anatomical features - which doesn’t bode well for X-rated purposes.

Although Mr Machulis believes that a Kinect sex game is going to be challenging, he predicts that someone will find a way to get the job done.

"Microsoft put a ton of work into making the Kinect track the human body as a whole, so you can play games by jumping and running and generally acting the...fool and feel like you're in the game instead of just sad," Machulis wrote.

"Genitalia, for the most part, are not a major geometric feature of the human body when taken in perspective of physical size....Neither are they normally used in the control of video games, be they rated [for all] or [for adults only]."

Machulis said he experimented by waving a sex toy in front of a Kinect, and then by wagging his tongue around in front of it, and concluded that the graphics quality isn't very good, though the device was capable of picking up both the toy and his tongue.

"In short, porn is about sex, but for many customers, it's also about being able to see the sex in a way that doesn't make you think, 'Wait, why does her arm detach completely when her [breast] is in front of it,'" Machulis wrote. "The pattern the Kinect uses to get depth data is made for picking up full bodies to control video games, and therefore isn't quite so good at picking up minutiae about those bodies."

Yet, Machulis also points out that because the Kinect is both very good at picking up hand-based gestures and capable of identifying discrete body parts like "manbreasts" (see video below), there is the distinct possibility that the device could be used to digitize--albeit with less than ideal graphics quality--simulated sexual motions.

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