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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Website offers a virtual wife before going for the real thing-India

Website offers bachelors a virtual wife

Virtual bride /Ext
An Indian website is offering bachelors a 'virtual wife' to give them a taste of married life before they go through with the real thing.
Men who sign up to the site, biwihotohaisi.com, choose between four different types of partner: devoted homemaker, control freak, shopping and soap opera obsessive or ambitious banker.
Bachelors who subscribe then receive automated phone messages from their virtual lady, supposedly helping them to make an informed decision when the time comes to find a real wife.
First option is "talkative, bubbly, funny" Milli Chulbulli, a 21-year-old secretary whose life revolves around shopping trips and neighbourhood gossip.
Next up is 26-year-old Shalini Sheherwali, an "ambitious, tech-savvy, career-oriented" banker who purrs: "We'll totally connect, honey."
Bijli Thakur, 25, is described as a "dominating, bossy, control freak", and is likely to threaten to "send your bed to the office if you don't leave soon".
Lastly, "homely, caring, traditional" Ritu Gharwali, 23, asks her husband to "please eat your lunch, I have made your favourite dish".
The aim of the website's creators, Bharat Matrimony, is for bachelors to follow up their virtual fun by signing up with the parent site to find an actual wife.

Men spend 11 years in front of the TV....


Meet Mr Average: Men spend 11 years in front of the TV and 10,500 hours in the pub

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 11:25 AM on 26th February 2011
Britain's Mr Average will spend 10,585 hours in the pub, 11 years in front of the TV and learn to cook just four meals in his lifetime.
Research out yesterday claimed the typical British man will sleep with nine partners over a lifetime and waste one month looking for socks.
Mr Average is 5ft 10inches tall, weighs 175lbs (12.5 stone/79.8kgs) and earns £28,270 a year.
Mr Average will spend 11 years of his life in front of the TV and £2,000 online
Britain's Mr Average: The typical 'hunter male' will spend 11 years of his life in front of the TV and £2,000 online
Each year he will spend £570 a year on designer clothes, £1,144 on beer, more than £2,001 shopping online, £2,189 on gadgets and £417 eating out.
But it seems that modern men are feeling guilty about their lazy lifestyles because they will say sorry 1.9 million times during their lifetime.
 
    When it comes to his behavioural traits in relation to shopping, 70 per cent of men fit the 'hunter' profile, with the average 'hunter' male seeing shopping as a way of collecting belongings that assert wealth, dominance and social status - all of which
    were once necessary for survival.  

    Mr Average v Mrs Average

    Mr Average:
    • Says sorry 1.9m times
    • Can cook four meals (including spaghetti bolognese)
    • Has four per cent more brain cells
    Mrs Average:
    • Will spend 8.5 years of her life shopping
    • Will spend more than £43,000 on cosmetics
    • Has four times as many brain cells connecting the right and left sides of the brain
    Although men are increasingly involved in the shopping experience, women are still the main purchasers in most households and tend to do approximately 80 per cent of household shopping.
    When it comes to physical traits, the research among 1,000 people by shopping website Kelkoo found men are on average 30 per cent stronger than women, have four per cent more brain cells weighing approximately 100 grammes more and have better distance vision and depth perception.
    Men also have a larger lung and heart capacity than women and 3.2 per cent more 'fast twitch' muscle fibres making them more suited to shorter intense sprints.
    While the average woman is 5ft four inches tall and weighs 65 kgs, she has four times as many cells connecting the right and left sides of the brain, making her better at problem solving and multi-tasking.
    Women also have better night vision and visual memory and are better suited to endurance tasks.
    Female traits: Throughout Mrs Average's lifetime she will vacuum 7,300 miles and is better suited to endurance tasks
    Female traits: Throughout Mrs Average's lifetime she will spend £103 a year on shoes and vacuum 7,300 miles


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360853/Meet-Mr-Average-Men-spend-11-years-TV-10-500-hours-pub.html#ixzz1F6kjQjOZ

    Friday, February 25, 2011

    driver hog tied in road as piglets feed...


    Road hog! Sow stops to feed her eight little piggies in the middle of the road


    Last updated at 2:43 PM on 25th February 2011
      This little piggy may have gone to market and that little piggy may have stayed at home - but these little piggies had other ideas completely.
    The demanding little piglets were so hungry they managed to persaude their mother to stop and feed them in the middle of a road.
    The sow was oblivious to the oncoming traffic as she stood waiting for her young ones to finish suckling.
    However, the drivers did not seem put out by the extraordinary sight, which photographer Michele Molinar stumbled across by in Saranda, Albania.
    Caution - pigs feeding: An unusual agricultural scene in Saranda, Albania, holds up traffic temporarily - but the motorist doesn't seem too bothered
    Caution - pigs feeding: An unusual agricultural scene in Saranda, Albania, holds up traffic temporarily - but the motorist doesn't seem too bothered
    Michele was stunned when the car she was driving in was held up by the amazing scene while she was on an assignment.
    Never one to let a good opportunity pass, the 49 year old hopped out the car to capture the moment forever.
    She said: 'I was reporting for an Italian travel magazine and trying to find the country's most interesting spots.
    'I was with a translator and we had just driven through an olive tree orchard. Then, just after a curve there she was, a sow with her eight piglets in the middle of the road.
    'She was stood there, silent, with her eyes shut. She stood there letting me walk around and take the picture.
    'After about five minutes she decided it was enough and scampered off, followed by her little team.
    'I was completely shocked and surprised. Albania is like another world and this was a truly unique sight.'


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360649/Road-hog-Sow-stops-feed-little-piggies-middle-road.html#ixzz1F0fWWwfG

    Road rage as elephant flips car-South Africa


    Elephant gets (trunk) road rage and flips car  – caught on camera 

    An amazing sequence of photographs captured a bull elephant flipping over a car like a toy in the Pilansberg Game Reserve in South Africa.

    Elephant pushes over car in South Africa (Picture: Great Stock/Barcroft Media)Elephant v car: Round 1 (Picture: Great Stock/Barcroft Media)
    The elephant v car bout began when Irishman John Somers, on holiday celebrating his 66th birthday and driving through the park with a friend, decided to try and overtake a huge and horny bull elephant.
    Bad mistake.
    Elephant pushes over car a bit more in South Africa (Picture: Great Stock/Barcroft Media)Elephant v car: Round 2 (Picture: Great Stock/Barcroft Media)
    The elephant, called Amarula, at first rubbed itself up against the car, perhaps mistaking it for a female mate.
    But then the beast, pumped full of hormones, became aggressive and flipped the car on its roof as the terrified occupants clung on for dear life inside.
    John Somers' car ended up on its roof in the Pilansberg Game Reserve (Picture: Great Stock/Barcroft Media)John Somers' car ended up on its roof (Picture: Great Stock/Barcroft Media)
    This brush with death wasn’t on the pair’s itinerary, but luckily they suffered only minor cuts and bruises from the incident.
    The snaps were taken by photographer Riaan van Wyk, who was watching from a safe distance!


    Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/856611-elephant-gets-trunk-road-rage-and-flips-car-caught-on-camera#ixzz1F0FsrGR5

    Beer to be classed as alcoholic-Russia

    • 24 February 2011, 9:52

    Russia to class beer as alcohol

    The late Boris Yeltsin /Rex
    Beer is to be legally classified as an alcoholic drink in Russia for the first time.
    It's part of the Kremlin's toughest anti-alcohol campaign since the fall of the Soviet Union.
    Beer had been classified as a foodstuff which meant producers could avoid a crackdown on alcohol advertising and night-time sales.
    But a new bill will abolish beer's special status, dragging Russian alcohol regulation into the 21st century.
    "Normalising the beer production market and classifying it as alcohol is totally the right thing to do and will boost the health of our population," said Yevgeny Bryun, the ministry of health's chief specialist on alcohol and drug abuse.
    "We have been talking about and have wanted such a measure for ages. I take my hat off to the parliament."
    The new law would restrict beer sales at night, ban its sale in or close to many public places such as schools, and limit cans and bottles to a maximum size of 0.33 litres.
    Russia's beer consumption has more than tripled in the past 15 years, boosted by low prices, ready availability and lax regulation.
    But with vodka remaining the national tipple, many Russians regard beer as a soft drink.
    It's not uncommon to see men swigging a can of beer on their way to work or teenagers downing a lunchtime beer or two in the park.

    Breast milk ice cream goes on sale...

    • 25 February 2011, 10:52

    Breast milk ice cream goes on sale

    Breast milk /Rex
    Human breast milk flavour ice cream has gone on sale at a new restaurant in London.
    The £14 concoction, called the Baby Gaga, is available at the Icecreamists restaurant in Covent Garden.
    Breast milk from donors is blended with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest, and then freshly churned into ice cream.
    Founder Matt O'Connor said: "The Baby Gaga tastes creamy and rich. No-one's done anything interesting with ice cream in the last hundred years.
    "We've came up with a method of infusing ice-cream with breast milk. We wanted to completely reinvent it.
    "We want to change the way people think about ice cream. If it's good enough for our children it's good enough for the rest of us.
    "Some people will hear about it and go, yuck - but actually it's pure, organic, free-range and totally natural. I had a Baby Gaga just this morning and I feel great."
    Mr O'Connor said donors were given stringent health checks and paid £15 for every ten ounces of milk extracted by breast pumps.

    Plane spotted over Russell Square, London on Google maps.

    25 February 2011

    A plane is spotted on Google Maps over Russell Square in London, heading towards the British Museum. See the plane for yourself here.
    A plane is spotted on Google Maps over Russell Square in London, heading towards the British Museum.See the plane for yourself on Google Maps here.

    Inca treasures discovered in new find...


    Fresh Inca treasures unearthed as discovery of nine tombs in Peruvian Andes is hailed as 'the most significant since Machu Picchu' 

    By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
    Last updated at 12:49 PM on 25th February 2011
    It could force historians to reconsider the origins of the mighty Inca empire.
    Archaeologists have discovered and excavated nine tombs in Peru from the pre-Hispanic Wari civilisation, the Peruvian government said yesterday.
    The finding in the southern Cusco region suggests the Wari, who flourished in the Peruvian Andes between 700 and 1200 AD, may have controlled areas where the Inca empire later flourished.
    Historically important: Archaeologists have discovered nine tombs in Peru from the pre-Hispanic Wari civilization. The finding in the southern Cusco region suggests the Wari may have controlled areas where the Inca empire later flourished
    Historically important: Archaeologists have discovered nine tombs in Peru from the pre-Hispanic Wari civilization. The finding in the southern Cusco region suggests the Wari may have controlled areas where the Inca empire later flourished
    Juan Ossio, Peru's minister of culture, said: 'The Incas could have been inspired by the Wari culture, enabling them to develop their entire political system.'
    The Incas built the largest empire in the New World between 1400 and 1532 AD.

      Spanish conquistadors had seized control of their territory, pushing them to take final refuge in the Vilcabamba district in Cusco, where the tombs were found.
      The tombs show the Wari also inhabited the thick jungles of Vilcabamba and possibly inspired the political structure of the elaborate Inca empire, Mr Ossio said.
      Prize find: This silver breastplate belonged to a noble from the Wari culture
      Prize find: This silver breastplate belonged to a noble from the Wari culture
      The remains of a Wari noble with a silver breastplate is the prize of the find.
      Archaeologists have dubbed the noble the 'The Lord of Vilca' in reference to the Lord of Sipan, an intact third century mummy found in northern Peru in 1987.
      'This is the most important discovery we've had in recent years - perhaps since Machu Picchu,' said Juan Garcia, regional culture director of Cusco, referring to the Incan citadel that draws some 500,000 visitors per year.
      Peru will celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Machu Picchu's discovery in July. Yale University last year agreed to return thousands of artifacts taken from the site in the early 1900s, ending a bitter controversy.
      A pre-Inca lord: Gold and silver pieces are shown at Peru's National Institute of Culture in Cuzco
      A pre-Inca lord: Gold and silver pieces are shown at Peru's National Institute of Culture in Cuzco


      Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1360529/Discovery-tombs-Peru-shines-new-light-Inca-empires-origins.html#ixzz1EyoV2GV9

      Woman got five year sentence for stealing umbrella....


      Victorian bad girls: Police mugshots of 19th Century women criminals revealed (along with the harsh sentences the no-nonsense justice judges handed down)

      By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
      Last updated at 12:39 PM on 25th February 2011
      Thousands of criminal records detailing the harsh punishments handed our to female convicts in Victorian times will be published online for the first time today.
      Family history website, Ancestry.co.uk is publishing more than 4,400 criminal records and 500 mugshots in its collection, which included one woman who received a five year sentence for stealing an umbrella.
      They provide an astonishing insight into the way justice was done at the time, and indicted that gender and the offence committed was no barrier to the full force of the law.
      Harsh: Elizabeth Murphy was sentenced to five years in prison and seven years police supervision for stealing an umbrella. The records have been released by Ancestry.co.uk
      Harsh: Elizabeth Murphy was sentenced to five years in prison and seven years police supervision for stealing an umbrella. The records have been released by Ancestry.co.uk
      Criminal: The record of Mary Richards, who was jailed for five years in 1880 for stealing 130 oysters valued at eight shillings
      Criminal: The record of Mary Richards, who was jailed for five years in 1880 for stealing 130 oysters valued at eight shillings
      Women and young girls featured in the records include Mary Richards, who was jailed for five years in 1880 at the age 59 for stealing 130 oysters valued at eight shillings.
      Another tells of Dorcas Mary Snell, 45, who was sentenced to five years of imprisonment with hard labour in 1883 for the theft of a single piece of bacon, although she was paroled two years later.
      Elizabeth Murphy, who stole the umbrella, received a five years of hard labour in 1884 and seven years of police supervision. She served three years of her sentence before receiving parole in 1887.
      Locked up: The record of Dorcas Mary Snell details that she was convicted of larceny for taking a solitary rasher of bacon. She received five years
      Locked up: The record of Dorcas Mary Snell details that she was convicted of larceny for taking a solitary rasher of bacon. She received five years
      The records also detail the lengthy, unforgiving sentences given to women who procured abortions, including Mary Billingham who was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment and hard labour in 1875.
      Age also didn't appear to matter to Victorian judges. The youngest girl in the records, named Ann McQuillan, is aged just 11, and among 115 girls under 18 who feature in the collection.  
      By contrast, 76-year-old Ann Dalton who was convicted for stealing 'two sheets' in 1863 is the oldest convict in the records. She received five years, serving three of them.
      Murderer: Elizabeth Ann Staunton, 29, was convicted of killing Harriet Staunton in 1877, but was spared the death sentence and paroled six years later
      Murderer: Elizabeth Ann Staunton, 29, was convicted of killing Harriet Staunton in 1877, but was spared the death sentence and paroled six years later
      Meanwhile, the records detail a number of violent crimes which women were convicted of.
      Mary Morrison, a 40-year-old servant, threw sulphuric acid over her estranged husband for not paying her weekly allowance, shouting 'take that - I'll make you worse than you are'. She received five years in 1883 but served only three.
      Elizabeth Ann Staunton, 29, was convicted of the murder of Harriet Staunton in 1877. Elizabeth was spared the death penalty and instead sentenced to life. She was granted parole six years later.
      Acid attack: Mary Morrison threw sulphuric acid over her estranged husband for not paying her weekly allowance
      Acid attack: Mary Morrison threw sulphuric acid over her estranged husband for not paying her weekly allowance
      Unforgiving: Mary Billingham, who helped to procure abortions, was given 20 years by a judge in 1875
      Unforgiving: Mary Billingham, who helped to procure abortions, was given 20 years by a judge in 1875
      Ancestry.co.uk said the records, the originals of which are held by the National Archives, provide a picture of the 'harsh' British judicial system at the time.
      Ancestry.co.uk international content director Dan Jones said: 'Crime is more often associated with men; however, these intriguing records shed light on some rather colourful female lawbreakers of their day and, given the petty nature of many of their crimes, also serves as a reminder of how harsh our judicial system was not so very long ago.'

      Thursday, February 24, 2011

      Workmen resurface road around car.....


      Didn't you read your tar signs this morning? Workmen resurface around parked car after motorist ignores warning

      By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
      Last updated at 1:22 PM on 24th February 2011
      This is the moment a motorist was left in a sticky situation - after workmen resurfaced around their parked car.
      Contractors were due to lay tarmac on the Market Street car park in Whitworth, Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
      But they found one driver had not taken heed of signs telling people not to park there.
      Sticky situation: Workmen laid tarmac around this Ford Focus after the car's owner failed to heed warning signs informing the public that resurfacing work was taking place
      Sticky situation: Workmen laid tarmac around this Ford Focus after the car's owner failed to heed warning signs informing the public that resurfacing work was taking place
      Undeterred, they carried on the with the job anyway - leaving the Ford Focus standing alone on an island in the middle of the newly laid surface.
      Glynn Normoyle watched the surreal scene unfold from nearby Whitworth Post Office.

        He said: 'When I realised they were resurfacing around the parked car, I couldn't believe it.   
        'The workmen spent a long time on the phone when they first arrived - I suppose they were trying to find out who the car belonged to and what they should do next.'  
        A sign warning drivers not to park went up at 8am on Monday February 14, with workmen arriving two days later.
        Surreal: The car later disappeared, leaving a huge strip of concrete for all to see
        Surreal: The car later disappeared, leaving a huge strip of concrete for all to see
        Whitworth mayor, Councillor David Chorlton, who owns a plumbing business on Market Street, said: 'A few people told me about it when they came in the shop.
        'They found it highly amusing and I thought they were winding me up, so I went to have a look.  
        'It was like a scene from You've Been Framed.'  
        A council spokesman said the remainder of the car park would be resurfaced as soon as possible.   
        He added: 'Unfortunately, one car remained in place when the contractors arrived to carry out the resurfacing work.  
        'The remaining part of the car park will be done as soon as we can arrange it with the contractor.'
         


        Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360145/Workmen-resurface-parked-car-motorist-ignored-warning.html#ixzz1EtSte5Kw