The Boston Marathon bombing victim that married his nurse please log in to view this image It's nice to hear that at least one good thing came out of the horrific tragedy of the Boston Marathon Bombing.
The couple that won the lottery but are fighting to win the lottery in love please log in to view this image When asked how they met, Eddie Harrison, 95, and Edith Hill, 96, told CNN affiliate WUSA, “We were gamblers!” The happy couple from Virginia met when they played the lottery together, won and split the $2,500 prize. They spent the next ten years as companions before getting married in June 2014. They are true soul mates with Eddie saying that they “never had an argument the whole time they were together.” Sadly, some have a problem with the couple being together, even in their own family. Harrison and Hill are an interracial couple. Edith's daughters, Rebecca and her sister, are her co-guardians. Rebecca's sister is fighting Rebecca for full custody of Edith. She said that her sister “wants to sell (Edith's) house and get the money.” If she gets custody, Edith would be separated from her husband and has to either move in with her daughter in Florida or be sent to a home. The fight goes on. In the meantime, Eddie Harrison sums up their relationship: “We see hearts, we don't see color.”
FFS,leave them alone! Woman wins the lottery and gets a toyboy. Family see their inheritance (all $2.5k of it ) under threat and see only their own interests. My parents died in their late 60's/early 70's decades ago. Wish either of them alive now to find such good luck and companionship. I'd even pay 10x $2.5 k (and more) to see it happen.
My first day of high school after moving to the US I was early to class well what they call "home room" not really a class... Sat down at a desk. As people started arriving I didn't at first notice but the black kids all Sat on one side and the whites the other. Unknowingly I had sat on the "black side". That was a problem for some of the black students and they told me to move. I didnt... But I did not sit over that side again after that. I think they were quite pissed off at me. This was actually the only class this happened in. There was other white on black and black on white racism at the school (equal measures of each) but nothing as blatant as the black student enforced segregation in home room. Just was quite a culture shock that that happened in my very first class. Growing up in an all white area I naively thought racism was something from the past and didn't think so many blacks were racist against whites.
China’s Dwarf Village please log in to view this image Villages in general are not strange. Villages in China are also not strange. There are many remote ones in this country, but one stands out from the others. Scientists and experts are extremely interested in the inhabitants of Yangsi, situated in the Sichuan Province. The reason? Not only are there only 80 residents in the village, but almost half of them are dwarfs. Rumor has it, according to those who live in Yangsi, that a mysterious disease befell the little village more than 60 years ago. Young children between the ages of five and seven were most affected, and the disease caused them to simply stop growing. Experts now know that stunted growth is only likely to appear in 1 in 20,000 people, so what happened in Yangsi is something very much out of the ordinary. Especially considering that historic sightings of the dwarfs claim that several hundred of them were residing in the Sichuan region at one point. As if the mystery affliction wasn’t bad enough, some of the children struck by it started suffering from a variety of disabilities. As adults, some of the afflicted gave birth to children who also only grew to around 1 meter (3 ft) in height. The Chinese government has never allowed visitors to the village, inevitably opening up the story to a host of urban legends. It has been said that the citizens felt dark forces had invaded their homes and started believing that they were cursed due to their ancestors’ anger over improper burials. Others apparently believe a turtle to be the source of the problem. Some of the villages cooked and ate a black turtle and, soon after, the strange disease hit Yangsi. After all this time, however, it seems that the residents are growing out of the disease. The younger generation has seemingly been spared.
There used to be one of them in Southport. When I was a kid, back in the day when the world was in black and white, there was a kid's programme called The Singing Ringing Tree. There was a vicious dwarf in it, a really scary ****er. I grew up petrified of dwarves ever since. I'd have made an exception for Kylie though.
One-Year-Old Brazilian Boy Bites Venomous Pit Viper to Death By Spooky on November 6th, 2015 Category: News Vipers are usually the ones who do the biting, but a one-year-old boy from Brazil gave the venomous snake a taste of its own medicine, biting it on the head and killing it. 17-month-old Lorenzo was playing with the family dog in the garden of his home, in the town of Mostardas, Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state, when he apparently came face to face with a pit viper. His mother Jaine Ferreira Figueira, who was doing some work inside the house, heard some noises and turned around to go check on the boy, only to see him in the room with a snake in his mouth and blood on his clothes. She instinctively shouted for her husband Lucier. They quickly got in their car and took Lorenzo to the Sao Luiz hospital, some 175 km from Porto Alegre, but not before putting the snake in a jar, so doctors could identify it and administer the right anti-venom. please log in to view this image
Just when you think stuff gets recycled.. please log in to view this image Millions of mobile phones, laptops, tablets, toys, digital cameras and other electronic devices bought this Christmas are destined to create a flood of dangerous “e-waste” that is being dumped illegally in developing countries, the UN has warned. The global volume of electronic waste is expected to grow by 33 percent in the next four years, when it will weigh the equivalent of eight of the great Egyptian pyramids, according to the United Nations StEP initiative, which was set up to tackle the world’s growing e-waste crisis. Last year nearly 50 million tonnes of e-waste were generated worldwide — or about seven kilograms for every person on the planet. These are electronic goods made up of hundreds of different materials and containing toxic substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic and flame ******ants. An old-style CRT computer screen can contain up to three kilograms of lead, for example. Once in a landfill, these toxic materials seep out into the environment, contaminating land, water and the air. In addition, devices are often dismantled in primitive conditions. Those who work at these sites suffer frequent bouts of illness. An indication of the level of e-waste being shipped to the developing world was revealed by Interpol last week. It said almost one in three containers leaving the EU that were checked by its agents contained illegal e-waste. Criminal investigations were launched against 40 companies. “Christmas will see a surge in sales and waste around the world,” says Ruediger Kuehr, Executive Secretary of StEP. “The explosion is happening because there’s so much technical innovation. TVs, mobile phones and computers are all being replaced more and more quickly. The lifetime of products is also shortening.” According to the StEP report, e-waste — which extends from old fridges to toys and even motorized toothbrushes — is now the world’s fastest growing waste stream. China generated 11.1 million tonnes last year, followed by the US with 10 million tonnes, though there was significant difference per capita. For example, on average each American generated 29.5 kilograms, compared to less than five kilograms per person in China. By 2017, Kuehr expects the volume of end-of-life TVs, phones, computers, monitors, e-toys and other products to be enough to fill a 15,000-mile line of 40-tonne lorries. In Europe, Germany discards the most e-waste in total, but Norway and Liechtenstein throw away more per person. Britain is now the world’s seventh most prolific producer, discarding 1.37 million tonnes, or about 21 kilograms per person. No figures are available from government or industry on how much is exported. Although it is legal to export discarded goods to poor countries if they can be reused or refurbished, much is being sent to Africa or Asia under false pretences, says Interpol. “Much is falsely classified as ‘used goods’ although in reality it is non-functional. It is often diverted to the black market and disguised as used goods to avoid the costs associated with legitimate recycling,” said a spokesman. “A substantial proportion of e-waste exports go to countries outside Europe, including west African countries. Treatment in these countries usually occurs in the informal sector, causing significant environmental pollution and health risks for local populations,” he said. Few countries understand the scale of the problem, because no track is kept of all e-waste, says the European Environment Agency, which estimates between 250,000 tonnes and 1.3 million tonnes of used electrical products are shipped out of the EU every year, mostly to west Africa and Asia. “These goods may subsequently be processed in dangerous and inefficient conditions, harming the health of local people and damaging the environment,” said a spokesman. A new study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that the US discarded 258.2 million computers, monitors, TVs and mobile phones in 2010, of which only 66 percent was recycled. Nearly 120 million mobile phones were collected, most of which were shipped to Hong Kong, Latin America and the Caribbean. The shelf life of a mobile phone is now less than two years, but the EU, US and Japanese governments say many hundreds of millions are thrown away each year or are left in drawers. In the US, only 12 million mobile phones were collected for recycling in 2011 even though 120 million were bought. Meanwhile, newer phone models are racing on to the market leaving old ones likely to end up in landfills. Most phones contain precious metals. The circuit board can contain copper, gold, zinc, beryllium, and tantalum, the coatings are typically made of lead and phone makers are now increasingly using lithium batteries. Yet fewer than 10 percent percent of mobile phones are dismantled and reused. Part of the problem is that computers, phones and other devices are becoming increasingly complex and made of smaller and smaller components. The failure to recycle is also leading to shortages of rare-earth minerals to make future generations of electronic equipment. http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/toxic-e-waste-dumped-in-poor-nations-says-united-nations
