Archaeologists in southern Germany, the Paleolithic flutes found, this should be the world’s oldest musical instruments, dating back 20,005 years of history.
Of these flutes is the production of bird bone or ivory, these design and processing techniques show that in the Palaeolithic, human life is very rich in the arts.
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CNN Headline News, including the Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press and other media reported that the music superstar Michael Jackson (Wiki) on Thursday (U.S. time) due to cardiac arrest and was rushed to hospital, died, only 50. However, CNN is very carefully added that there is no final confirmation message.
I would like to make at the time, CNN confirmed the news is true.
Generation of kings, this fall.
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Michael Jackson, known as the King of Pop, the West’s most influential pop musicians, and its success has surpassed Elvis Presley. He is a good all-rounder of the music, lyrics, composers, scene production, arrangement, singing, dancing, musical instruments have a remarkable achievement. He combination of black blues and white rock MJ unique style, sometimes sonorous, mellow voice from time to time and unprecedented high standard of music video, large-scale concerts, all around the world caused a sensation in the global scope of his has hundreds of millions of fans.
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GOO portal from Japan to investigate the network. June 11 this year to June 15, 1083 accepted online on the computer antivirus software and computer security anonymous survey.
47% of them are women, 53% are male. Age structure, the 20 years of age 16.3% 20-30 years old 18.4% between 30-40-year-old 20.9%, 40-50-year-old 16.3% 50-60-year-old 15.8%, 12.3% over the age of 60.
Survey, 80.2 percent of PC users in Japan will be in their own anti-virus software installed on your computer; 11.4% chose not installed antivirus software; 3.8% said that it will install antivirus software, but not in all the computers are installed; there 4.5% said that their computers do not know Is there any antivirus software installed.
In addition, 30% of computer users indicated that they had a computer virus, 60.1 percent of users said they had never had a computer virus, and 9.9 percent said they were not aware of have not.
Over 30% of users of computer viruses, there are 35.4% of users choose to use free antivirus software to get virus; another 35.4% of users choose to reinstall system; 30.8% of users choose to use fees to get the antivirus software virus; 10.5 % of users choose to help a friend; 2.6% of users choose to go with the flow; 2% of users that have forgotten what has been done at that time; 4.6% of the user to choose the other way.
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Between the 11th and 15th of June 2009 1,083 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their tweens, 18.4% in their twenties, 20.9% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 12.3% aged sixty or older.
In Q2, it would have been useful to know if any of the people with viruses got them despite having virus software installed.
In Q2SQ, it’s interesting that so many used free software to remove the infection – I wonder how many only discovered they were infected when the bot scanner from Windows Update ran? You may wish to cross-reference this with another survey earlier this year that discovered a large number of people pay for security software.
Research resultsFrom the sample, 1,017 people, or 93.9%, had a computer for personal use. They were asked the following.
Q1: Do you have security-related software (virus checker, etc) installed on your personal use PC or PCs? (Sample size=1,017)
Have installed on all 80.2%
Don’t have installed on any 11.4%
Have installed, but not on all 3.8%
Don’t know 4.5%Q2: Have you ever caught a virus on your personal use PC or PCs? (Sample size=1,017)
Yes (to SQ) 30.0%
No 60.1%
Don’t know 9.9%Q2SQ: How did you clean up you PC after the virus, viruses? (Sample size=305, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage
Removed it with free security software 108 35.4%
Reinstalled the operating system 102 33.4%
Removed it with paid-for security software 94 30.8%
Got friends, family to deal with it 32 10.5%
Didn’t do anything in particular 8 2.6%
Don’t know, can’t remember 6 2.0%
Other 14 4.6%
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This year, a sequel to the film are generally not a good reputation, many of the sequel to the film fails, maybe that is why it was done so to highlight a list, we need a good sequel.
Transformers 2 has just been released falls, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is also immediately released when the site of a film released this article (I do not represent the point of view, the basic sci-fi films are based, there are several that I had never seen a)
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1990 Gremlins 2
1991 Terminator 2
1992 Batman Returns
1993 Addams Family Values
1994 Star Trek: Generations
1995 Die Hard: With A Vengeance
1996 Star Trek: First Contact
1997 Batman and Robin
1998 Lethal Weapon 4
1999 Toy Story 2
2000 Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
2001 The Mummy Returns
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2004 Spider-Man 2
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2006 Mission Impossible 3
2007 The Bourne Ultimatum
2008 The Dark Knight
2009 will be who?
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Lost puppy, 5 months later, lost in the location 550 miles away from the outside. Figure that it has crossed more than half of the United Kingdom.
550 miles = 885.1392 km
This 17-year-old shepherd in Scotland on February 6 this year, lost, then where is the British Cornwall County town of Redruth.
4 months later, it was the East Lothian in Scotland found it, and through the electronic chip dog who found the dog owner.
In order to let everyone know more intuitive distance between two cities, I simply made a landmark figure, A is the dog’s home, B is a place was found.
But the Edinburgh dog pet rescue center said that the dog may be taken away by others. BBC sources Link
It is a matter of fact I think the dog would like to go out walking, not enjoy, they are looking for the owner returned.
Tags: dave ewing, dog owner, east lothian scotland, landmark figure, wandererAn adventurous dog has been found four months after she went missing – 550 miles away from where she vanished.
Lucy disappeared from Sonya and William McKerron’s house in in Cornwall in February, and was found in East Lothian, Scotland, on Saturday.
She wandered in to a family garden, and was taken to a dog’s home to be scanned to see if she had a microchip.
Mrs McKerron said: “It feels overwhelming to see her as we didn’t think we would ever find her again.
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“She is not a wanderer but from now on I will be keeping an eye on her so that nobody steals her.”
Dave Ewing, Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home manager, said he suspected Lucy had been taken by someone rather than having just become lost.
He added that it proved that chipping pets – implanting a small microchip which contains details of where they live and who owns them – “pays off”.
Impression of what the user’s browser. This video is Google earlier this year shot. Times Square in New York, 50 randomly selected passers-by, and then ask them the same question: What is a Browser?
Although passers-by to answer that is full of imagination, but also unexpected. Thought that we would say for example, IE Firefox Safari Chrome Opera word like the results, the reality is that more people out of the Browser is a Search Engine (so there are philosophical). There are several people directly out of the Google, of course, the old lady said she used a Yahoo:)
Then Google asked a second question: the search engine and browser What is the difference? This time everyone is more confused: D most people said “how do I know, as long as the result is that I want it OK” Source digg, Video Yutube.
Since this is a promotional video for Chrome, so they have to talk about the real browser. Therefore, the next question is more boring: what browser you choose. Some people answered i use google, there’s firefox. The last question is a clear purpose: You have heard of Chrome browser? No, most of those interviewed said that, no.
The following is an example of the video, at 2 minutes 23 seconds long:
The original video link
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June 20, the concern of the wedding, and finally in the United States John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida held. In a modified Boeing 727-200 which zero-gravity, which couples floating slowly to the center stage as the zero-gravity in the same role before becoming pastor upside down, has made a common commitment to life: I do.
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Used by the groom ring, is issued in Namibia use 3 years ago the earth falling debris caused by the meteorite. The entire wedding cost about £ 10,000.
The bride said: This is even better than I expected magic. The following are 3 pictures:
Bride Erin Finnegan and bridegroom Noah Fulmor are helped by the rest of the wedding party as they float after performing the first weightless wedding aboard a specially-equipped Boeing 727. To recreate the weightless experience without going into space, the plane executed parabolic flight maneuvers, climbing sharply and descending several times during the one-hour flight.
Finnegan and Fulmor floated into matrimony on Saturday thousands of feet (metres) above the Gulf of Mexico in what organizers said was the world’s first weightless wedding held in zero gravity conditions.
Bride Erin Finnegan and bridegroom Noah Fulmor are helped by Zero Gravity Corporation co-founder Richard Garriott and Bryan Rapoza as they seal their wedding with a kiss, while floating upside down, during the first weightless wedding aboard a specially-equipped Boeing 727, while flying over the Gulf of Mexico, June 20, 2009.
Tags: boeing 727 200, digg, kennedy space center, wedding party, weightless experience, zero gravity conditionsTHE bride wore white and earrings resembling tiny planets, the groom a tuxedo and cuff links shaped like spacecraft, and the wedding party attended in blue jumpsuits.
New York City couple Erin Finnegan and Noah Fulmor floated into matrimony yesterday thousands of metres above the Gulf of Mexico in what organisers said was the world’s first zero gravity wedding.
The couple exchanged wedding vows and rings – with some difficulty – and fumbled their kiss flying weightless inside the padded fuselage of a specially modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft, G-Force One, operated by ZERO-G, a company offering weightless flight experiences.
Gallery: The world’s first zero gravity wedding
“I’ve been to a lot of boring weddings, so I wanted to do something different,” said Ms Finnegan, who wore a “space fashion” white pantsuit whose trouser bottoms fluffed out during the weightless moments.
Wires kept her hairdo from unravelling.
“It was weirder than I expected,” she said.
To recreate the weightless experience without going into space, the plane executed parabolic flight manoeuvres, climbing sharply and descending several times during the one-hour flight.
Inside the 27m padded “floating zone”, the ceremony was accomplished with a lot of bumping and fumbling, as bride and groom, guests and witnesses tried to coordinate their movements in a microgravity environment.
Officiating at the ceremony was Richard Garriott, a second-generation US space traveller and ZERO-G co-founder, who is also a registered notary.
Mr Fulmor, whose tuxedo tails were specially stiffened so they would not float out of control, admitted he had trouble lining up his lips for the all-important wedding kiss.
“The physics of the first kiss were off. I could feel where I was going, I knew where I needed to be, but it was hard to reconcile the differences,” he said.
“Noah knocked into my nose and I thought it would bleed,” Ms Finnegan said.
The couple didn’t drop the ring – but there was momentary confusion when someone else’s wedding band floated off a finger and into the wedding group, before it was rescued.
“I’ve waited my whole life for this… what I remember most was the feeling of weightlessness, both physically and emotionally,” Mr Fulmor said.
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Listing NDS remember when they introduced a plankton electronic games, a peculiar form of the game. Now, there are companies that make the entity version floating aquatic toy.
Bandai company from Japan such a product release. In fact, did not I think of as strange, as it is a plastic octopus toys like, when you play it, you have it filled with water in a Artificial Aquarium, shake, and then will be able to see it in the water swimming. Product Link / Source Link
Ok, I’ll be honest, I’m not entirely sure what these new micro toys from Bandai are all about. They come in various colors and species, including a jellyfish, squid and an octopus, and they’ll supposedly autonomously swim and float around in a bottle of water, providing minutes and minutes of entertainment.
Given their size and the fact that they retail for about $6 each in Japan right now, I’m going to assume they’re not that technologically advanced, but at the same time there’s plenty of room to cram a small electric motor and battery inside one of these, so maybe there is some potential novelty here.
Tags: electronic games, hollow eyes, new toy, sea life, source linkHow would you react on seeing a 2 inch long jellyfish swimming and playing around in your bottle. The folks at Bandai are out with a new range of micro toys which just float and swim around in bottles, designed to freak your friends out or help you give company.
The toys are made from ABS plastic, have hollow eyes and are designed to look ‘cute’. They will be made available in the various colors and will come in the shape of a jellyfish,squid and a octopus. The Bandai micro toys are available in Japan only for around ($ 6).
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Recently, the United States The National Institutes of Health allocated 420,000 U.S. dollars to the University of Indiana, Kinsey Institute, the researchers asking them to investigate and answer the ultimate question: Why men do not like using condoms.
With the ultimate question of the survey at the same time: Why do men feel the pain on the use of condoms? And the use of condoms during the erection of the penis length and sensitivity.
This series the ultimate goal of the ultimate project is to make it clear: the use of condoms and erectile length and the relationship between sensitivity and impact. Thus, help and supplies to help the company better to improve their own condoms.
It is understood that the first stage of the study will be continued for 2 years. Known as Barriers to Correct Condom Use.
Source foxnews, also referred to the United States National Institutes of Health every year in the various scientific studies on the health of a lot of money to spend, which is only 420,000, a small number, they usually spend annually 29 billion U.S. dollars … … No wonder the result of the financial crisis
For example, they had spent 400,000 U.S. dollars studies Buenos Aires, Argentina, like why the homosexual sexual intercourse in the drink, as well as 26 million U.S. dollars to help China’s sex workers, their education as little as possible at work to drink. 170,000 U.S. dollars, as well as research, why the sex workers in Thailand will be the abuse of drugs (thereby increasing the risk of HIV).
Tags: kinsey institute, national institutes of health, penis length, risk of hiv, sex workers, sexual intercourseThe federal government is spending $423,500 to find out why men don’t like to wear condoms, a project government watchdogs say is a nearly-half-a-million-dollar waste of taxpayer money.
Researchers at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, are investigating why “young, heterosexual adult men” have problems using condoms. The study will include “skill-based intervention” to teach grown men how to use protection.
The first phase of the two-year study called “Barriers to Correct Condom Use” will be a simple Q&A, but doctors say the second phase will plumb uncharted territory.
“The second phase involves a laboratory study, and focuses on penile erection and sensitivity during condom application,” reads the abstract from Drs. Erick Janssen and Stephanie Sanders, both of the Kinsey Institute.
“The project aims to understand the relationship between condom application and loss of erections and decreased sensation, including the role of condom skills and performance anxiety, and to find new ways to improve condom use among those who experience such problems.”
The study, which was first reported by UWire, is one of many being funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
But it has government watchdogs rolling their eyes at what they say is a clear waste of taxpayer money.
“This government is so out of whack with what the priorities are that this actually makes sense that we’d be wasting money on a condom study rather than the real problems facing the country,” said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste, which tracks wasteful spending in the federal budget.
For American men — many of whom have already undergone years of awkward sex ed in the care of gym teachers — the study might not offer much of a boost, Williams said.
“Are they going to hand out the study and are people going to go, ‘Ohhh … I’m going to do things differently this time?’” he asked, noting that the private sector was successfully handling issues related to erectile dysfunction.
“I don’t think they should have any delusions of grandeur that what they’re doing is going to change behavior and that it’s really going to fundamentally change the way men and women get together.”
But the study’s directors say their project performs a vital public health service and could help develop prevention and intervention programs to stop the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
“Our study addresses important public health concerns in the U.S. and is the first study to test claims about arousal and sensation loss in a controlled scientific environment, while exploring factors that may be addressed in prevention and intervention programs,” Janssen told FOXNews.com.
Janssen said the research will be conducted among 500 men aged 18-24, though only 120 subjects will be involved during the laboratory phase, when scientists will conduct neurological exams and “test an instructional method on the correct and consistent use of condoms.” Janssen said funding for the study is “commensurate with the scope of a research project of this size.”
But the $423,500 grant for the study is just a crumb in the NIH pie. The NIH spends $29 billion each year to help fund thousands of health studies at home and abroad.
But some questionable queries have come under close scrutiny, including a $400,000 study being conducted in bars in Buenos Aires to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior while drunk; a $2.6 million study dedicated to teaching prostitutes in China to drink less while having sex on the job; and a $178,000 study to better understand why drug-abusing prostitutes in Thailand are at greater risk for HIV infection.
Williams, the taxpayer advocate, doubted whether eliminating one potentially wasteful project would have a large effect overall.
“Getting rid of this study is not going to change the country and solve all of our monetary problems, but it just kind of reminds people that government is out of touch with the real needs of the country,” he said.
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Brazil is located in the northern part of the Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses, this is one of about 1,550,000 hectares of the white desert. In 1981, the Brazilian government in the establishment of a national park here. Lençóis this word in Spanish is the meaning of bed sheets, used to describe the first sight of this broader sense of the white desert.
The enchanting Lençóis Maranhenses is in July each year to September, a large number of rainfall in this desert will create thousands of ponds of different sizes. These small ponds like reservoirs, big lakes like. White sand, blue water, so you do not know is in the desert or the beach.
You can here, here and here is to see more pictures here. If you go there to swim, no one will believe you and competition swimming pool, as are swimming pools everywhere. 2 The following is a picture:
The Lençóis Maranhenses National Park (Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses) is located in Maranhão state, in northeastern Brazil, just east of the Baía de São José, between 02º19’—02º45’ S and 42º44’—43º29’ W. It is an area of low, flat, occasionally flooded land, overlaid with large, discrete sand dunes. It encompasses roughly 1000 square kilometers, and despite abundant rain, supports almost no vegetation. The park was created on June 2, 1981. It was featured in the Brazilian film The House of Sand.
Located on the eastern coast of the state of Maranhão by the banks of the Preguiças River, the park embraces the municipalities of Humberto de Campos, Primeira Cruz, Santo Amaro and Barreirinhas, the latest serving as the main jumping off point into the protected park.
There are several regular bus/truck routes between Barreirinhas and São Luís, Brazil (Maranhão’s capital), a distance of about 260km. There are also air taxis from São Luís to Barreirinhas. The Rio Preguiças river connects the park to Atins, a city at the edge of the park. The most important access roads near the park are BR-135, BR-222, MA-404, MA-225.
The National Park is quite extensive and has no access roads. Because of the nature of the park’s protected status, most vehicles are not permitted access. Entrance to the park is made exclusively by 4-wheel drive trucks.
Composed of large, white, sweeping dunes, at first glance Lençóis Maranhenses looks like an archetypal desert. In fact it isn’t actually a desert. Lying just outside the amazon basin, the region is subject to a regular rain season during the beginning of the year. The rains cause a peculiar phenomenon: freshwater collects in the valleys between sand dunes, spotting the desert with blue and green lagoons that reach their fullest between July and September.
The area is also surprisingly home to a variety of fish which, despite the almost complete disappearance of the lagoons during the dry season, have their eggs brought from the sea by birds.
The national park status serves only as a means of protecting the area’s ecology; consequently many people are park residents, as is also the case with nearby Jericoacoara.
The inhabitants of the park work primarily as fishermen during the rain season. During the dry season, many leave for neighboring regions to work small plots of land.
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