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2/21/2012

Born in Britain, the largest 7 kilograms

أضخم مولودة في بريطانيا 7 كيلوجرامات
Become the largest sleeping child in Britain after it was born last week, weighs about 7 kilograms, in the past is the first of its kind in this country. The Sun newspaper Monday, the girl slept was born by Caesarean section, and weighing more than twice as nearly normalweight born.

She added that sleeping broke the previous record recorded by Susie Vindel when I was born this month, weighs about six pounds and was named at the time that it is heavier bornin Britain.

The newspaper quoted the father of Sean slept Ohaloren (34 years), saying 'we informed the doctors that the weight would be normal, and when I was born asleep We were shocked when we learned that the weight is the record'.

It also quoted Ellen (32 years) and mother are sleeping they 'did not notice that her childwas very large, but after that I told her that her stomach was large far exceeds the size ofthe belly of a pregnant woman.'

Source: Jerusalem Arab

Gloves Muhammad Ali $ 750K

قفازا محمد علي كلاي بـ750 ألف دولار
Sale of glove used them American boxing legend Muhammad Ali at a public auction heldin Las Vegas at 750 thousand dollars.

According to the newspaper 'Las Vegas Sun' gloves, the U.S., who were in the hands ofClay on face with Floyd Patterson sold at public auction was held in his honor at the feastof 70 to 750 thousand dollars.

She pointed out that the proceeds of sale of gloves due to the center 'if Rufo brain health'in Cleveland.

And held a dinner in honor of Clay, in which big stars, so that U.S. President BarackObama sent a letter illustrated by the way.

The newspaper pointed out that Clay was present but was not a word.

It pointed out that the proceeds of the auction altogether not recorded yet, but similarauctions in the past years, its sales exceeded $ 20 million.

Source: Jerusalem Arab

Flowers bring life to 30 thousand years old

إعادة الحياة لزهور عمرها 30 ألف سنة
Scientists from Russia, succeeded in making life runs again in the old flowers 30 thousanda year.

He said biologists under the supervision of Svetlana Aashina of the Russian Academy of Sciences in their study, published its findings Monday in the journal Proceedings of theAmerican Academy of Sciences that these flowers were preserved in ice cores in Siberia, although their success underscores the importance of these areas ice depots of the plants, scientists thought they had disappeared long ago long on the surface of the earth.

The researchers pointed out that ice covers about 20 'from the soil at ground level.

The scientists got the flowers in the underground caverns believed to be dug by squirrelsabout 31 thousand years and used as hideouts for their food.

These caves are located at a depth of about 38 meters below the surface ice that have notTzb throughout this period.

The researchers chose from among all plant species found in caves type Celine Sitinovalabelonging to plants pink and took a sample of the fabric embryonic and developed, including seedlings and then planted and compared them with plants currently exist, afterthat planted the seeds of plants, a current of the same species to compare with these plants, which was believed to have disappeared .

Source: Jerusalem Arab

Lose their housing because of the singing contest


 
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 the month of May next March will host the State of Azerbaijan - a former Soviet republic - Competition "Alaorovizion" world music for the first time. Authorities are busy preparingequipment necessary to do so in the capital Baku, including a major concert hall music. Butresidents of a building located near the site of the project say they were forced to leave their homes to make way for the establishment of a garden will surround the Hall of the celebrations.
Despite freezing temperatures and recent heavy snow Azerbaijan's authorities have taken the roof off the apartment block and cut off water and phone lines, forcing residents of the building's upper floors to leave, whether they like it or not.
Pensioner Natalya Allibiakova is one of the few home owners still left. She says the compensation offered by the government is not enough to buy a similar property elsewhere.
She told the BBC that Eurovision will now for her always be a painful reminder of how she lost her home.
Azerbaijan's authorities argue that the compensation is adequate and Eurovision's organisers say the evictions are nothing to do with the contest.
But human rights organisation Human Rights Watch says the eviction risk overshadowing the song contest.
Azerbaijan sees Eurovision as a chance to attract international attention, but that spotlight is proving less welcome, as it's also revealing alleged human rights abuses.



Source: BBC Arabic

New technology to help blind people to write text messages

التقنية الجديدة
Researchers at the "Georgia Institute of Technology" in the United States developed a new technique based on Braille to help blind people to write messages on mobile phones with touch screens.It is believed that the "application" "Brailletouch", which will be available on devices "Apple" and "Android", six times faster than existing tools to write messages without seeing it.This comes in light of growing interest in the ability of the visually impaired to use modern technology in light of the spread of computers and mobile phone with touch screen.Experts say the methods currently available, such as technology "Voiceover" devices "Apple", a useful but slow and can not be used effectively.The application uses the "Brailletouch", which he hopes the team released during the next two weeks, a system can be controlled using six fingers and does not require moving the hand.The head of the research team Mario Romero that users who know Braille "do not move their hands at all."The makers say "Brailletouch" it would be free, and may not be needed during use to look at the keyboard to suit even the sighted who want to write letters during their concern given to something else.Romero said the "BBC": "Learn to use the Braille points mean little places." He adds: "My colleagues and I need to save for a few hours places so that we can begin to write about 10 words per minute. Not something that take years."But Romero played down the possibility to use the program to write messages while driving, adding that it needs to focus and this can not be achieved while driving the car.He pointed to the growing concerns of the blind that the widespread use of touch screens, which is an obstacle in front of them.He added that despite the existence of research on the touch screen, "but we did not get after the touch screens suitable for the visually impaired."He explained that the blind say they "see things with their fingers, but with devices with touch screens, they do not really see anything."

Source: BBC Arabic

Prince of Monaco being beaten during a fight nightclub in New York

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, Police said on Monday that Prince Pierre Kazeraja one princes in the royal family of Monaco was beaten in the face during a nightclub brawl in New York over the weekend and that the man appears in court for assault.
Media reports that Kazeraja (24 years), the grandson of the late Hollywood actress Grace Kelly was hospitalized briefly after the accident. Police said he was beaten with three other men at the hands of a former restaurant owner named Adam Hook in a dispute Bmlhy Double Seven in the morning about two o'clock on Saturday.
According to the criminal complaint that among those who had been beaten Stavros Niarchos Greek shipping scion of a family friend and former actress and supermodel U.S. heiress Paris Hilton and Hilton famous.
He said Kazeraja police he was beaten repeatedly in the face, as stated in the criminal complaint, "which led to a rupture in the cheek and causing bruising and swelling, redness and severe pain in his face."
The three men were similar complaints in the right hook (47 years), who said his lawyer that he was acting only in self-defense.
Police declined to comment on whether the four men were wounded, saying only that "both of them had been beaten in the face, fist closed."
There was no lawyer Kazeraja communications. Kazeraja live in Italy and finished third in the state of the throne of Monaco, which lies on the Mediterranean with an area smaller than the area of ​​Central Park in New York.
And Princess Caroline Kazeraja son and her second husband, who died in an accident when he was riding boats Kazeraja a small child.


Source: Reuters

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