Boy Kills Brother Over Computer Volume Level

Volume thrills but it also kills!

Siblings fight all the time, sure. And nowadays, the disputes tend to center around the family gadgets — anything from control of the TV remote to whose turn it is on the Wii. Most of the time, it doesn’t escalate beyond a few gentle pushes or shoves, or perhaps some shed tears. A recent argument between brothers over a computer, though, ended in shocking tragedy.

William Gorzynski, 15, has been charged with stabbing and killing his 14-year-old brother Matthew after the two got in an argument over the volume of a computer Monday. By all accounts, the two enjoyed a normal, playfully contentious sibling relationship, and the family and its lawyers are portraying the tragedy as an anomalous event that they “can’t even comprehend.”

The incident, which occurred not long after another teen stabbing in the same city, has already prompted a response in the community. Coral Springs, Florida mayor Scott Brook plans to hold a town hall meeting in order to discuss youth violence. [From: South Florida Sun-Sentinel]

Last-Minute Halloween Guide

Hand-sewn costumes, homemade popcorn balls, and bobbing for apples are all so last millennium. It’s time to get with the high-tech late Aughts, our fair readers, especially since Halloween is upon us. If you still haven’t settled on a costume, or done anything ghoul-related, then take a look at our high-tech DIY guide to all things crafty and creepy, and get your spook on this Halloween.

COSTUMES

Do you still have no idea what you want to be for Halloween? Download the Halloween Costume Generator iPhone app for $1.99 from the App Store. After you enter your gender, what kind of party you’re attending, and other details about yourself, the app will find the perfect costume for you. If you’d rather be something literally from the Apple store, you’re not alone. Saturday, you can expect to see iPod and iPhone costumes everywhere, including the adorable earbud couple’s costume.

The more one of these costumes functions like its inspiration, the better it is. Reko Rivera and Bobby Hartman (pictured above) took this idea all the way, spending $2,000 to rig up LCD screens and car batteries in order to display the info from their actual iPhones. Of course, you don’t have to go that far. Hiding a cheap speaker inside your earbud costume, so that you can play music on demand, will still mightily impress your techie friends.

Happy Teachers Day

5 October is a day to celebrate teachers and the central role they play in guiding children, youths & adults through the life-long learning process. This year, World Teachers’ Day will focus on the role of teachers within the context of the global financial and economic crisis and the need to invest in teachers now as a means to secure post-crisis regeneration.

It is critical, during these difficult times, to seek mechanisms that protect the teaching profession. It is also crucial, despite the crisis, to ensure that investment in teachers is sufficient and proportionate to the demands made upon them. It is the teaching force with its knowledge, experience and foresight which can bring new insights to global solutions. Happy teachers day to the all Teachers.

Eid Mubarak

Why 09/09/09 Is So Special?

Have special plans this 09/09/09?

Everyone from brides and grooms to movie studio execs are celebrating the upcoming calendrical anomaly in their own way.

In Florida, at least one county clerk’s office is offering a one-day wedding special for $99.99. The rarity of this Sept. 9 hasn’t been lost on the creators of the iPod, who have moved their traditional Tuesday release day to Wednesday to take advantage of the special date. Focus Features is releasing their new film “9,” an animated tale about the apocalypse, on the 9th.

Not only does the date look good in marketing promotions, but it also represents the last set of repeating, single-digit dates that we’ll see for almost a century (until January 1, 2101), or a millennium (mark your calendars for January 1, 3001), depending on how you want to count it.

Though technically there’s nothing special about the symmetrical date, some concerned with the history and meaning of numbers ascribe powerful significance to 09/09/09.

For cultures in which the number nine is lucky, Sept. 9 is anticipated – while others might see the date as an ominous warning.

Math magic

Modern numerologists – who operate outside the realm of real science – believe that mystical significance or vibrations can be assigned to each numeral one through nine, and different combinations of the digits produce tangible results in life depending on their application.

As the final numeral, the number nine holds special rank. It is associated with forgiveness, compassion and success on the positive side as well as arrogance and self-righteousness on the negative, according to numerologists.

Though usually discredited as bogus, numerologists do have a famous predecessor to look to. Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and father of the famous theorem, is also credited with popularizing numerology in ancient times.

“Pythagoras most of all seems to have honored and advanced the study concerned with numbers, having taken it away from the use of merchants and likening all things to numbers,” wrote Aristoxenus, an ancient Greek historian, in the 4th century B.C.

As part of his obsession with numbers both mathematically and divine, and like many mathematicians before and since, Pythagoras noted that nine in particular had many unique properties.

Any grade-schooler could tell you, for example, that the sum of the two-digits resulting from nine multiplied by any other single-digit number will equal nine. So 9×3=27, and 2+7=9.

Multiply nine by any two, three or four-digit number and the sums of those will also break down to nine. For example: 9×62 = 558; 5+5+8=18; 1+8=9.

Sept. 9 also happens to be the 252nd day of the year (2 + 5 +2)…

Loving 9

Both China and Japan have strong feelings about the number nine. Those feelings just happen to be on opposite ends of the spectrum.

The Chinese pulled out all the stops to celebrate their lucky number eight during last year’s Summer Olympics, ringing the games in at 8 p.m. on 08/08/08. What many might not realize is that nine comes in second on their list of auspicious digits and is associated with long life, due to how similar its pronunciation is to the local word for long-lasting (eight sounds like wealth).

Historically, ancient Chinese emperors associated themselves closely with the number nine, which appeared prominently in architecture and royal dress, often in the form of nine fearsome dragons. The imperial dynasties were so convinced of the power of the number nine that the palace complex at Beijing’s Forbidden City is rumored to have been built with 9,999 rooms.

Japanese emperors would have never worn a robe with nine dragons, however.

In Japanese, the word for nine is a homophone for the word for suffering, so the number is considered highly unlucky – second only to four, which sounds like death.

Many Japanese will go so far as to avoid room numbers including nine at hotels or hospitals, if the building planners haven’t already eliminated them altogether.

source http://news.yahoo.com

Top 15 Facts You Probably Don’t Know

Here at listverse we love fun facts. But even more than fun facts, we love unknown facts – things which make us seem a little smarter than the average person when we pull them out at parties. This list looks at 15 fascinating facts that you probably are unaware of (at least we hope so!) Be sure to add any of your own to the comments.

Facts 1 – 5

1. Armadillos of the Dasypus genus give birth to four genetically identical quadruplets. This is the only reliable manifestation of polyembryony (two or more embryos developing from a single fertilized egg) in mammals.

2. Of the entire human body, around 3 pounds of the weight is microbial life; in other words, parasites and the like. Many of these are essential to the functioning of the body.

3. The germs in feces can pass through up to ten layers of toilet paper. Don’t forget to wash your hands!

4. Earwigs can fly. They have membranous wings folded underneath short forewings which they can use for limited flight. They are not particularly good at it but sufficiently good to move about if necessary. Contrary to popular belief, earwigs don’t transmit diseases amongst humans.

5. Cuttlefish have eyes shaped like the letter ‘w’ (pictured above). Although they cannot see color, they can perceive the polarization of light, which enhances their perception of contrast. They have full use of their eyes before they are born.

Facts 6 – 10

6. The pyramids were originally covered with a highly polished white limestone so they would glisten from a distance. Some of these (albeit worn) are still visible at the top of the Pyramid of Khafre (pictured above).

7. Female koala bears (which are marsupials not bears) have two vaginas. Male koalas have a forked penis. No doubt their mating practices would be similar to those of these two humans who had the most bizarre relationship in history.

8. Human eyes contain a blind spot. The brain fills in with surrounding detail and with information from the other eye, so the blind spot is not normally perceived. To see the blind spot in action, go here.

9. The avocado is a ghost of evolution. It was originally consumed by large creatures in the Pleistocene period (when modern humans appeared). Creatures the size of wooly mammoths would have eaten the avocado whole, and excreted its seed in their dung. As these giant creatures died off, man cultivated the avocados for his own use and it is this cultivation which meant the avocado survived extinction.

10. Many traffic lights and lift buttons are actually placebo buttons – in other words, they do nothing at all when pressed. They exist to give the presser the feeling of control. [Source]

Facts 11 – 15

11. When tickled, rats laugh. Here is an excellent video clip demonstrating this fact.

12. At certain points on Mercury’s surface, an observer would be able to see the Sun rise about halfway, then reverse and set before rising again, all within the same Mercurian day. Having said that, one day on Mercury is 176 earth days. [Source]

13. In his lifetime, Adolf Hitler had four relationships (three confirmed and one suspected). Of those relationships, all four women attempted suicide at least once, and two succeeded.

14. Sand sharks have a very unique gestation. A mother shark develops two embryos when impregnated. The stronger of the two embryos eats the other before it is born. This is called “intrauterine cannibalism”. It will also eat any other eggs that exist in the mother at the time.

15. The center of a rainbow is the shadow from your head. A primary rainbow is always somewhere on an arc 42 degrees around the shadow of your head (called the anti solar point). So brightly illuminated rain must be in this direction away from you to see a rainbow. [Source]

Mysteries of Sleep

Guess what you’ll spend one-third of your life doing. Sleeping! Believe it or not, if you live to be 75, the hours you sleep each night will add up to about 25 years of slumber. It might seem like all that sleep is a giant waste of time. But scientists now know that while you’re snoozing quietly in your bed, there are lots going on inside your brain and body.

A baby girl sleeping

Cycling through Sleep

For one thing, you sleep a cycle of five different types of sleep, over and over each night. When you first lie down and begin to fall asleep, your body enters what sleep experts call Stage 1 sleep. You’re still very close to being awake, but your brain begins to work more slowly. Your body relaxes, and your closed eyes start to roll around. If someone woke you from this stage, you’d probably say that you weren’t even asleep yet. After several minutes, you sink a little deeper, into Stage 2 sleep. You’d still be easy to wake up, but you’d probably know you’d been snoozing.

Then you really relax and fall deeply asleep, into Stage 3 sleep. Your heart slows down, and you breathe more slowly, too. Noises nearby would probably not wake you. Finally, you sink into the deepest sleep of all, called Stage 4. Once you’re in Stage 4 sleep, you’re very hard to wake up. And if someone does manage to wake you, you’ll be very confused about where you are and what’s happening.

The first time you reach Stage 4 sleep after going to bed, you stay there for almost 20 minutes. That’s the longest chunk of deep sleep you’ll have all night. After that, you slowly move back up through Stages 3 and 2.And then your sleep gets really interesting.

Sweet Dreams

As you come back up through a period of Stage 2 sleep, you shift into Rapid Eye Movement, or REM, sleep. It’s called REM sleep because when you’re in it, your eyes-behind your closed eyelids-slide quickly back and forth, and back and forth, as though you were watching the ball in a tennis game. Your brain becomes much more active during this sleep stage, almost as active as when you’re awake. Instead of resting, a brain in REM sleep is racing! And while your eyes are darting from side to side, a very detailed story is running through your head: you’re dreaming.

It’s during REM sleep that you dream your strangest dreams, the ones that sound so very mixed-up when you describe them the next morning. As you drift into a REM-sleep dream of singing toothbrushes or a dog that says he’s your uncle, your body changes, too. Your breathing and heart rate sometimes speed up. Scientists say that your brain waves-measurements of the electrical activity in your brain-look almost the same during REM sleep as they do when you’re awake. When you enter REM sleep, you go from being completely relaxed to being ready for action. And yet, you never move. That’s because you can’t. You’re paralyzed!

When you’re in REM sleep, your brain cuts off all the messages that might tell your body to move. You never pull up the covers or even roll over. Except for your shifting eyes, your breathing, and a twitch every now and then, you lay perfectly still as you dream. Scientists guess that may be to prevent you from acting out any wild scenes in your dream and hurting yourself.

Does Dreaming Make You Smarter?

You’ll spend more than two hours each night in REM sleeps, dreaming. Why do you dream? Scientists are still trying to figure that out.

One idea is that dreaming helps you organize your memories. It gives your brain a chance to sort through everything that happened during the day, storing what you need to remember and tossing out details that don’t matter.

Experiments show that REM sleep definitely can help you learn better. In one test, volunteers were taught a new skill. That night, some of them were awakened whenever they entered REM sleep. The others were awakened the same number of times but only during non-REM sleep. The next day, the people who got their REM sleep tested better than the others at performing the new skill.

Researchers now think dreams may be like exercise for your brain, and dreaming may actually help your brain develop. Newborn babies spend almost half of their sleep time in REM sleep! But adults, whose brains aren’t developing so much anymore, spend only about one-fifth of their sleep time dreaming.

Going without Sleep

During the day your muscles are busy stretching and pulling as you run, jump, or even just sit. Lying down asleep and fairly still gives those muscles a chance to repair and grow stronger. Scientists carried out an experiment on weight-lifters. For one night, they allowed the athletes to sleep only three hours. The next day, none of the athletes could lift as much weight as they had before. If you didn’t sleep, you wouldn’t be as strong either.

As you lie snoozing, you’re busy healing and growing. Your body is releasing more of the chemicals that help it create new bits of skin, muscle, and other parts of you. Sleep is so important for healing that when you’re injured or sick; your body releases chemicals to make you feel sleepier. Just recovering from a sun burn can make you sleep longer.

Article by Angel

Roadhaveellun : Where to go?!!

Click the links for more information about the Restaurants…roadha.com says we can book and pay online too..so its very easy!!

Restaurants			Price
West Park (WPK)			90
Ground Six (GRS)			110
The Olive Garden (OLG)			110
Salsa Cafe (SCF)			120
Food Bank Restaurant (FBR)			120
Salsa 205 (205)			120
Roof Top Relax Inn (RFT)			121
Roof Top Relax Inn (RFT)			121
Kam Hotel (KAM)			130
Dolphin View Cafe (DPN)			130
Juways Cafe (JUW)			130
City Boulevard (CTB)			140
City Snacks (CTS)			140
Dine-More (DNM)			140
City Garden (CTG)			140
Royal Garden (RLG)			140
China Garden (CGN)			150
Saffron (SFN)			155
Ocean Breeze (OCB)			160
Sea House (SHM)			169
Food Bank Millenium (FBM)			170
Gourmet (GMT)			175
Salsa Royal (SRL)			175
Jade Bistro (JDE)			180
Aioli Restaurant (AIO)			198
Shell Beans (SBN)			205

source roadha.com