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Ship used in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ stolen

September 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 14 (ANI): The ship used in the film Pirates of the Caribbean has been stolen.

The vessel was legged from Customhouse Quay in Greenock Renfrewshire.

The raiders also took some cash, an 8x12ft American flag, a survival suit and a life ring.

But the US flag, an immersion suit and a life belt were all later recovered.

The ship, which was built for Marlon Brando’s 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty, has apparently sailed the world as a major tourist attraction.

“It is unbelievable. This ship has sailed all around the world and has never been robbed. But as soon as it gets into Greenock it gets turned over,” the Sun quoted a source as saying.

The theft took place on Saturday morning, only few hours after arriving to give Scottish fans a rare glimpse on board.

Captain Robin Walbridge – who has skippered it since 1995 – said: “We don’t hold this against the people of Greenock.”

A Strathclyde Police spokesman said: “Inquiries are on-going.”

The replica vessel had featured in Pirates of the Caribbean- Dead Man’s Chest. (ANI)

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50 things that are being killed by the Internet

September 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Sep 4 (ANI): The Internet has been touted as one of the most useful tool for the last two decades, and has had a huge impact on our lives, but along with its benefits, the World Wide Web has also had some negative impacts on people.

While tasks that once took days can be completed in seconds, traditions and skills that emerged over centuries have become redundant.

The Telegraph has compiled a list of 50 things that are in the process of being killed off by the web and other tools of modern communication, from products and business models to life experiences and habits.

These things are:

1. The art of polite disagreement

2. Fear that you are the only person unmoved by a celebrity’s death

3. Listening to an album all the way through

4. Sarah Palin

5. Punctuality

6. Ceefax/Teletext

7. Adolescent nerves at first porn purchase

8. Telephone directories

9. The myth of cat intelligence

10. Watches

11. Music stores

12. Letter writing/pen pals

13. Memory

14. Dead time

15. Photo albums and slide shows

16. Hoaxes and conspiracy theories

17. Watching television together

18. Authoritative reference works

19. The Innovations catalogue

20. Order forms in the back pages of books

21. Delayed knowledge of sporting results

22. Enforceable copyright

23. Reading telegrams at weddings

24. Dogging

25. Aren’t they dead? Aren’t they gay?

26. Holiday news ignorance

27. Knowing telephone numbers off by heart

28. Respect for doctors and other professionals

29. The mystery of foreign languages

30. Geographical knowledge

31. Privacy

32. Chuck Norris’s reputation

33. Pencil cricket

34. Mainstream media

35. Concentration

36. Mr Alifi

37. Personal reinvention

38. Viktor Yanukovych

39. The insurance ring-round

40. Undiscovered artists

41. The usefulness of reference pages at the front of diaries

42. The nervous thrill of the reunion

43. Solitaire

44. Trust in Nigerian businessmen and princes

45. Prostitute calling cards/ kerb crawling

46. Staggered product/film releases

47. Footnotes

48. Grand National trips to the bookmaker

49. Fanzines

50. Your lunchbreak (ANI)

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Macca says The Beatles became victims of success

September 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): Brit singer Sir Paul McCartney has in an exclusive interview spoken out about the final days of ‘The Beatles’, and insisted that the group became victims of their own success when businessman Allen Klein took over their financial affairs.

According to music magazine Mojo, McCartney said that he and his bandmates struggled to come to terms with all the business decisions they were suddenly forced to make as they were recording their final album ‘Abbey Road’.

The fight between them over cash and contracts really became a huge burden.

“We were musicians, we were kids from Liverpool, we’d gone to grammar schools, we’d done Hamburg – we kind of knew all that,” Contactmusic quoted him as saying.

“But the idea that you were going to get this money and someone was going to take it off you…

“I think we all just thought, ‘You get the money, you put it in a bank, and it gradually gets bigger,’ and you say, ‘Thank you very much, and you live happily ever after.’ Then you suddenly get with accountants and they say, ‘No, you can’t just sit there’.

“Then there’s tax, and some business person is on a raid – it was a huge upheaval,” he said.

McCartney also admitted that the group’s business woes were poured into their new songs.

“George (Harrison) would write Piggies, and I knew exactly what he was talking about, and he wrote Taxman when we first found out about the tax system,” he said.

The rift between the group eventually led to a court battle before the band broke up, with many fans blaming Klein for contributing to the group’s split.

McCartney refused to be drawn into talking about Klein, but hinted that he still had not forgiven the businessman for things that would remain unspoken.

“I don’t want to speak ill of the dead,” he added.

Klein passed away in New York earlier this summer, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. (ANI)

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Lily Cole owes acting career to late Heath Ledger

September 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): English actress Lily Cole insists that she owes her acting career to late actor Heath Ledger.

Cole said he taught her the tricks of the trade while they were filming ‘The Imaginarium Of Dr Parnassus’.

After a small role in Trinian’s movie, the 21-year-old actress was hired for Terry Gilliam’s fantasy epic, opposite Ledger and Christopher Plummer.

She calls Ledger “a great friend and mentor.”

“He definitely helped me,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

“From the beginning, he understood that I would be overwhelmed and scared by the size of the project. He encouraged me and said he was really proud of me, constantly fed me support,” she added.

Cole reveals she came close to giving up on the film when Ledger was found dead of a prescription drug overdose in January 2008.

His role was taken on by three other actors – Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp.

“Everyone loved Heath. For everyone who knew him, (his death) was devastating. The practicalities of continuing the production were difficult, but it seemed irrelevant,” she said.

“Johnny (Depp) slipped seamlessly into the role, but that didn’t stop it being bizarre. I thought I was in at the deep end in the beginning – then look what happened!” she added. (ANI)

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Archaeologists unearth 5,000-year-old “cathedral” in Britian

August 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, August 26 (ANI): A team of archaeologists has unearthed a Neolithic “cathedral” – a massive building of a kind never before seen in Britain, which go back nearly 5,000 years, easily predating the Egyptian pyramids.

According to a report in The Press and Journal, the “cathedral”, at 82 ft long and 65 ft wide, is placed between two of Orkney’s most famous Neolithic landmarks, the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness.

Even the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness would have seemed quite small in the presence of the cathedral-type building, which would have stood on the spot that has now been excavated.

Nick Card, from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology, who is leading the dig, said the building was effectively a cathedral for the north of Scotland.

“It’s spectacular,” he said. “There were hints at the end of last season that we had an enormous building here and now we are able to define it more,” he added.

What is interesting is that the shape and size of the building are visible, with the walls still standing to a height of more than three feet.

They are 16 feet thick and surround a cross-shaped inner sanctum where the excavation team have found examples of art and furniture created from stone.

It seems that the building was surrounded by a paved outer passage. This could have formed a labyrinth that would have led people through darkness to the chamber at the heart of the building.

“This is architecture on a monumental scale and the result is the largest structure of its kind anywhere in the north of Britain. It’s one of those finds of a lifetime,” Card said.

The building probably served as some kind of temple, maybe for remembering the dead. It may have been a place where sacrifices, even human sacrifices, were offered up.

Other buildings, over 50ft long and 30ft wide, have also been discovered.

According to Dr Colin Richards, a leading expert on the period, the building would have stood at the heart of Neolithic Orkney.

“A structure of this nature would have been renowned right across the north of Scotland – and is unprecedented anywhere in Britain,” he said. (ANI)

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CIA operated drones from two Pakistan air force bases: Experts

August 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug.21 (ANI): The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is alleged to have operated Predator drones out of two bases in Pakistan.

According to the New York Times and The Guardian newspapers, the CIA had in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of al-Qaida.

Current and former government officials have reportedly confirmed that remotedly drones were moved out of a remote base in Shamsi and an air base in Jalalabad with the help of Blackwater.

From a secret division at its North Carolina headquarters, Blackwater assumed the role of Washington’s most important counter-terrorism program.

The division’s operations were carried out at hidden bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the company’s contractors assemble and load Hellfire missiles and 500-pound laser-guided bombs on remotely piloted Predator aircraft, work previously performed by CIA employees.

They also provide security at the covert bases, the officials said.

The role of the company in the Predator program highlights the degree to which the C.I.A. now depends on outside contractors to perform some of the agency’s most important assignments.

A spokesman for the C.I.A. declined to comment for this article.

CIA officials, however, said that the spy agency did not dispatch Blackwater executives with a “license to kill.” Instead, it ordered the contractors to begin collecting information on the whereabouts of Al Qaeda’s leaders, carry out surveillance and train for possible missions.

“The actual pulling of a trigger in some ways is the easiest part, and the part that requires the least expertise,” said one government official familiar with the canceled CIA program.

“It’s everything that leads up to it that’s the meat of the issue,” he added.

Any operation to capture or kill militants would have had to have been approved by the C.I.A. director and presented to the White House before it was carried out, the officials said.

The agency’s current director, Leon E. Panetta, canceled the program and notified Congress of its existence in an emergency meeting in June.

The extent of Blackwater’s business dealings with the C.I.A. has largely been hidden, but its public contract with the State Department to provide private security to American diplomats in Iraq has generated intense scrutiny and controversy.

The company lost the job in Iraq this year, after Blackwater guards were involved in shootings in 2007 that left 17 Iraqis dead. It still has other, less prominent State Department work. (ANI)

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India’s Parsis celebrate ‘Navroz’

August 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mumbai, Aug 19 (ANI): India’s Zoroastrian Parsi community celebrated the New Year day, ‘Navroz’, with usual fervour here on Wednesday.

Members of the miniscule Parsi community flocked at the Fire Temple to pay respects to their prophet Zarathushtra.

The Parsi New Year is marked by joyous fervour and gaiety.

On this day, Parsis decorate their homes with “torans” or floral garlands and chalk designs. An important part of the celebrations is also the get-togethers with friends and family.

Ten days prior to their New Year, the Parsis have prayers for the dead as they believe the spirits of the dead are present at this time and if remembered, shower their blessings. These prayers are conducted at all fire temples in the city.

“On those ten days, we generally have prayers in our fire temple, which we normally attend. We offer them flowers. We, Parsi, believe in those days, the departed souls come down. We want their blessings at that time. So, we have our prayers and all that,” said Shenaz, a Parsi woman.

The day before ‘Navroz’ is ‘Pateti’ when Parsis dwell on the wrongs or the sins committed by them the previous year. Navroz is also the first day of the first month of the Zoroastrian year.

“It’s the same belief to have when you go and pray in a church. It’s basically you go to pray our prophet, to god to ask him to protect you, protect your family and everything runs smoothly for the year ahead,” said Jahadastoor, a Parsi youth.

Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Parsi community, is one of the oldest revealed religions in the world and the basic tenet is the law of purity and righteousness.

Zoroastrians worship all the natural elements but the most important is fire.

It is estimated that there are 150,000 Parsis in the world, and about 50,000 of them are settled in Mumbai.

According to legend 3000 years ago, Shah Jamshed of the Peshadian dynasty ascended the throne on “Navroz’- ‘nav’ meaning new and ‘roz’ meaning day.

This particular day also came to be known as Jamshed Navroz and is celebrated even in modern times with lot of feasting. (ANI)

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Suspected Taliban storm central Kabul bank, surrounded by police

August 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kabul, Aug.19 (ANI): At least three gunmen, all reported to be members of the Taliban, stormed a central Kabul bank on Wednesday morning, and are currently surrounded by police.

A web site-W A Today-confirmed a short while ago that police have entered the building and were engaged in a gun battle with the attackers. It also said that dozens of security forces and intelligence agents have gathered in the area.

This morning’s attack came as the Afghan capital was converted into a virtual fortress, being placed under tight security ahead of Thursday’s presidential and provincial council elections. The increased security was necessitated because of a Taliban suicide bombing on Tuesday that killed 10 people, and a rocket attack on the presidential palace.

Interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said the three bank attackers were “robbers or thieves” and played down a Taliban claim that it was an insurgent attack.

“We don’t know whether these are Taliban or insurgents because when they entered the bank, they must have intended to steal,” Bashary was quoted, as saying.

“As they got into the bank, since we have very tight security in Kabul, police were able to get to the area in seconds and they (the gunmen) are surrounded by police,” Bashary added.

“The situation is under control,” he said. He did not comment on any casualties for the police.

The area is close to a bazaar and about 1.5 km south of the city centre, which was quiet with many businesses closed for a public holiday.

A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahed, claimed that four of the militants were in the building in a standoff with police that had left several dead.

They were among around 20 Taliban who had entered the city and were waiting orders to attack, he told AFP by telephone.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan’s 17 million voters go to the polls on Thursday to choose a president for only the second time in its history.

The Taliban have threatened to directly attack the polling stations and warned voters not to cast their ballots.

The threats to sabotage the election have raised concerns that voter turnout could be low, compromising the legitimacy of the 223 million dollars exercise in democracy.

The government on Tuesday appealed for an Afghan and international media blackout on reporting any attacks Thursday “in view of the need to ensure the wide participation of the Afghan people”.

Earlier, the Afghan government appealed for a local and international media blackout on reporting extremist attacks during this week’s elections in a bid to maximise voter turnout.

Taliban insurgents have escalated threats to derail the elections, warning people not to vote and thereby make themselves a victim of attacks.

Dozens of extra foreign journalists have poured into the country in order to help cover the elections, which mark the second time in history that Afghans will elect a president. (ANI)

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Radiohead to debut new songs at Reading and Leeds festivals

August 18, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Aug 18 (ANI): Radiohead have confirmed that they will unveil their new songs at the forthcoming Reading and Leeds festivals.

The ‘Just’ rockers have made their new song ‘These Are My Twisted Words’ available to fans as a free download, and confirmed that they are likely to perform it later this month.

The song was even leaked online last week.

“So here’s a new song, called ‘These Are My Twisted Words’. We’ve been recording for a while, and this was one of the first we finished. We’re pretty proud of it. There’s other stuff in various states of completion, but this is one we’ve been practising, and which we’ll probably play at this summer’s concerts. Hope you like it,” Contactmusic quoted guitarist Jonny Greenwood as having written on the band’s Dead Air Space blog.

The band recently released another new song, ‘Harry Patch (In Memory Of)’, to download from their website.

Earlier it was rumoured that the group would release a new EP this week, but it has not materialised as yet. (ANI)

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July 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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Former star NFL quarterback Steve McNair 36 years old and Saleh Kazemi, 20 years old has been identified as the woman found dead near him, was his girlfriend or some other jealous ex lover. It is believed that McNair had been dating Saleh Kazemi for several months. McNair, with Peyton Manning won the league’s the Most Valuable Player award in 2003.

Saleh Kazemi was recently cited for DUI while driving a car registered in the name of McNair.

As reported before Steve McNair was found by friends Wayne Neely and Robert Gaddy, dead of multiple gunshot wounds. A pistol laid near the body of Sahel Kazemi. Played 13 seasons on the NFL, and most of the time for the Tennessee Titans.

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Simon Pegg excited about becoming dad

July 2, 2009 By admin 1 Comment

London, July 02(ANI): English comedian Simon Pegg, who is expecting a child with wife Maureen McCann, is excited about the impending arrival of his baby.

“It’s the most important thing to me. I’m very excited. I want to be a really good dad, a good influence and a good role model – someone my child can turn to, whatever the hell that means… It’s all to do with your attitude and making sure they stay grounded, but making sure they aren’t deprived of anything,” the Daily Express quoted him as saying.

He is also ready to fulfill every wish of his expected child.

He said: “If you’ve got the money to give them things, and it’s a positive thing, then you should do it – education, whatever they need.”

The actor is also delighted that his offspring will be born in Los Angeles, which entitles the baby to dual citizenship.

He adds: “It struck me that, technically, he or she could eventually become President of the United States. The potential is there!”

The ‘Shaun of the Dead’ actor is already godfather to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s daughter Apple. (ANI)

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One killed, 10 injured during protest in Baramulla

June 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Baramulla, June 29(ANI): At least one person died and 10 other wounded, including police personnel, during a protest by local people in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Monday.

The police had to resort to firing to quell violent protestors.

The dead has been identified as Saleem Rashid Wani. Injured were rushed to a hospital in Srinagar.

According to reports, local residents turned agitated and clashed with the police over alleged misbehaviour of some police personnel with a local woman.

Security forces initially tried to disperse the sloganeering crowd by baton-charging them and lobbing teargas.

However, the crowd later swelled and pelted stones at the police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers, police said An undeclared curfew was imposed in the area following the clashes.

“Curfew has been imposed in the town to maintain law and order. We are monitoring the situation which is very tense,” said Latif-u-Zaman Deva, Deputy Commissioner of Police in Baramulla. (ANI)

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Facedown burials in ancient times was a way to humiliate the dead

June 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, June 24 (ANI): A new research has suggested that burying the dead facedown in ancient times wasn’t unusual or accidental, but a widely used way to humiliate the dead.

According to a report in National Geographic News, the first global study on the facedown burials suggests that it was a custom used across societies to disrespect or humiliate the dead.

Lead study author Caroline Arcini of Sweden’s National Heritage Board detected a common thread in the burials she studied, “that society sanctioned this apparently negative treatment of the dead.”

The unnerving burials often appear to signify “behavior that is out of the norm-it is not accepted, what (the dead) have done,” she said.

Shaming the dead “is most probably a deep-rooted behavior in humankind,” she added.

Arcini searched existing literature to make the first ever catalog of facedown burials from around the world.

She found descriptions of more than 600 bodies from 215 grave sites, from Peru to South Korea.

Dating from 26,000 years ago all the way up to World War I, these so-called prone burials include men, women, and children, though the majority were men.

Facedown burials occurred in all sorts of graves, including single graves, double graves, and mass graves.

In locations with several prone burials, the dead were often buried in shallow graves toward the edge of the cemetery, most of them without coffins.

According to Arcini, the phenomenon has various possible explanations.

Some people had their hands and feet tied together, suggesting they had been criminals or prisoners of war.

Other burials indicate the practice was linked to social status, as in the case of 80 bodies found in a Mexican cemetery that dates to between 1150 and 850 B.C.

There, 6 men are sitting in their graves, while the other 74 are in a prone position, Arcini noted.

“It might be that the people (buried in a sitting position) are high priests, and the others are in a lower social position,” she said.

The archaeologist highlights religious and cultural conflict as another potential factor.

“The highest frequency of facedown burials in Sweden, for instance, dates to the period of the Viking age when Christianity arrived in the region,” Arcini said.

“Pagan Vikings may not have accepted those who converted to Christianity and may have buried the bodies in a way that reflected their dislike,” she explained.

“Rule-breaking nuns and convicted witches were also buried in prone positions,” she added. (ANI)

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Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, June 20 (ANI): Rockstars Jon Bon Jovi and Ritchie Sambora have been inducted into the US Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The gala, which celebrated 40 years of inductions, was held last night in New York.

Hugely overwhelmed by the recognition, Jon Bon Jovi said: “It’s the closest thing to immortality that we’re ever going to see here,” The BBC reports.

The two band members also joined hand to play their all time classic, ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’.

Crosby, Stills and Nash were felicitated with similar award, while Jason Mraz received the award for the most promising talent.

Welsh singer Sir Tom Jones also performed at the event. (ANI)

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Eyes have given us real ‘superpowers’, says expert

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, June 20 (ANI): Making a startling discovery, a scientist has claimed in his new book that the evolution of vision has provided humans with four real superpowers: telepathy, X-ray vision, seeing the future, and speaking with the dead.

And, as it turns out, these superpowers have been instrumental in shaping the way people interact with one another and see the world.

Mark Changizi, a neurobiology expert and assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has detailed the most basic scientific assumptions about human vision in his book, titled ‘The Vision Revolution: How the Latest Research Overturns Everything We Thought We Knew About Human Vision’.

“Our brains don’t come with user’s manuals listing all the powers we’re capable of – much of what our eyes can do is still not yet known. That’s why I think this is new, important, exciting stuff, because we are still today learning about powers we didn’t even know we have,” said Changizi.

The new book is a guided tour in which Changizi sets out to answer four misleadingly simple questions-Why do we see in colour? Why do our eyes face forward? Why do we see illusions? And why does reading come so naturally to us?

The short answers of the above questions are-because we are telepathic, because we have X-ray vision, because we can see into the future, and because we can commune with the dead.

However, the longer answers are more like that of Charles Darwin, for example, our X-ray vision is actually advanced binocular vision that developed to allow our primate ancestors to see the forest through a vast clutter of leaves and trees.

Our telepathy is actually our colour vision, which evolved to allow us to sense the emotions on the faces of others.

And our clairvoyance is actually an ages-old hack that enables our minds to compensate for the one-tenth of a second lag between when we see something and when our brain receives the visual information.

In The Vision Revolution, Changizi has tackled the four questions with a unique, interdisciplinary perspective.

A self-described “square, stick-in-the-mud, pencil-necked scientist,” he has employed humour, a sprinkling of pop culture references, and intuitive everyday analogies to paint a rich picture of leading-edge theoretical neuroscience and evolutionary biology.

“In targeting the book toward non-experts as well as my research peers, I believe it becomes more exciting for both kinds of readers.

Non-experts don’t want a book written just for non-experts. They want to read a book they know is genuinely part of the scientific conversation. And experts don’t always need to have all the enjoyment sucked out of their readings, as in most journal articles,” said Changizi.

The new book, which hit store shelves this month, is published by BenBella Books. (ANI)

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Child’s ghostly image caught on new spirit-catching camera

May 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 13 (ANI): British spook hunter Paul Rowland has revealed that he might have invented a device by which he can capture spirits on camera, especially after he captured the ghostly image of a child with it.

The instrument works by using ultraviolet and infrared lights to enhance images other cameras miss, and the chilling discovery was made while taking a picture with the camera at the Welsh mansion he was working in.

“You can see a child-like figure and what appears to be an arm reaching out towards me,” the Sun quoted him as saying.

“I was standing with my back against the window ledge, just a metre away.

“This picture is my prized-possession,” he said.

The eerie shape was spotted at the haunted Plas Teg mansion, which is popular with paranormal groups, and 49-year-old Rowland said that he developed the gadget after watching TV shows like Most Haunted.

“I used to shout at the screen ‘why don’t you use this, or that’,” he said.

“But when I researched I found the technologies simply didn’t exist – so I started inventing them.

“The equipment I build is specifically for the purpose of paranormal investigations, unlike the borrowed technology used by other investigators.

“My belief is it will take new technology to reveal new evidence,” he added.

Rowland’s ghost-cam device is yet to get a proper name.

“The idea came about because I wanted to be able to carry technology around in one unit,” he said.

“I use blue and ultraviolet lights to enhance our capability in the dark.

“It also has a digital stills camera and camcorder – both of which can see in ultraviolet light.

“And there’s a live EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) system hooked up to it.

“With all great respect to mediums, nobody else can hear what’s going on.

“But I believe my devices can – through feedback – let people hold yes/no conversations with the dead.

“It’s almost as if the machine senses an energy build-up in the room and records it,” he added.

Rowland will be leading an investigation called The Paradox Experience in Scotland running until May 17. (ANI)

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German artist sparks controversy exhibiting corpses having sex

May 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 7 (ANI): Controversial German anatomy artist Gunther von Hagens is once again facing flak for unveiling a work showing two corpses having sexual intercourse.

The artwork will be part of von Hagens’ latest plastination exhibition ‘Cycle of Life’ in Berlin.

The artist defends the exhibit saying that it combines the two greatest taboos of sex and death and is a lesson in biology. He insists that it is “not meant to be sexually stimulating”.

Politicians and church representatives are angry at the exhibit, and have called for it to be withdrawn. They have pronounced it pornographic and an insult to the dead.

“This couple is simply over the top, and it shouldn’t be shown,” the Guardian quoted Alice Strover, an MP for the Green party, as saying.

“Love and death are obvious topics for art, but I find it quite disgusting to use them in this way,” said Fritz Felgentreu an MP for the Social Democrats.

Von Hagens developed the plastination method several years ago after discovering a method for preserving bodies by replacing their fat and water deposits with injections of silicon, which then harden.

His exhibitions have travelled across the world.

His most popular exhibits included corpses playing chess, high jumping, and horse riding.

He has already shown a dead pregnant woman and foetuses at various stages of development earlier.

According to von Hagens, the man and woman consented to appear in a sexual pose. (ANI)

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World War I dead to be recovered from mass graves in France

May 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 5 (ANI): Preparations are under way to recover hundreds of First World War British and Australian war dead from a mass grave in France.
According to The Telegraph, up to 400 soldiers are thought to still lie in pits where they were buried by German forces in the days immediately after the Battle of Fromelles.

Archaeologists will begin a formal recovery of the bodies on behalf of the Australian and British governments tomorrow under the supervision of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).

The painstaking operation in Pheasant Wood, which lies near the village of Fromelles around seven miles south of the French-Belgian border, is expected to last until the end of September.

The land was confirmed as a group burial site in May last year, after a limited excavation revealed the presence of pits hich had been undisturbed for more than 90 years.

The bodies of more than 165,000 Commonwealth soldiers killed on the Western Front during the First World War are still missing, according to the CWGC. Some of their remains have been found as land was ploughed or cleared for development, but there has never before been a discovery on this scale.

The hope is to use casualty records to assign identities to as many of the bodies as possible, with DNA being extracted from a small cross-section of the remains as they are exhumed.

Next year the bodies will be permanently laid to rest in individual graves at a new CWGC cemetery nearby – the first war cemetery the commission has built in almost 50 years.

The site of the pits, which are on private land, will be blessed before the formal recovery of the bodies begins. The operation has the support of the owner of the land, local authorities and the French Government.

The Battle of Fromelles began on July 19 1916 and was the first major battle on the Western Front that involved Australian troops.

Records suggest that between July 19 and 21 the Australian dead at Fromelles amounted to 1,780, and the British loss 503. Many of those killed could not be accounted for, prompting historians to speculate that up to 400 of the missing war dead were recovered by the Germans and buried behind their lines. (ANI)

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Bob Dylan to write musical

May 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 4 (ANI): Legendary singer Bob Dylan is set to create some music for an upcoming off-Broadway production.

The Blowin’ in the Wind hitmaker has reunited with longtime songwriting partner, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter to make music.

“Hunter is an old buddy. We could probably write a hundred songs together if we thought it was important or the right reasons were there,” Contactmusic quoted Dylan as saying.

“He’s got a way with words and I do too. We both write a different type of song than what passes today for songwriting.

“We’ll be writing a couple of other songs too, for some off-Broadway play,” he added.

The duo recently collaborated to put together tracks for Dylan’s new album, ‘Together Through Life’. (ANI)

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Afghan govt: Taliban sustain heavy casualties near Kabul

May 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kabul – Taliban militants have sustained heavy casualties in the latest operations by Afghan and NATO-led forces in the central province of Wardak, an Afghan provincial spokesman said Saturday. The operation started on Friday afternoon in Wardak’s Chak district, which lies on the south-western border of Kabul city, Shahidullah Shahid, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told the German News Agency dpa.

“Based on our intelligence information, so far around 50 Taliban militants have been killed and wounded during the operation which is still ongoing,” Shahid said, adding that two rebel commanders, Mullah Rahmatullah and Mullah Keramatullah, were among the dead.

He said the operation was conducted by hundreds of Afghan security forces and NATO-led ground troops, while NATO warplanes also pounded Taliban positions.

The operation left one Afghan army soldier dead, Shahid said.

Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman confirmed the clashes, but rejected government casualty claims. (dpa)

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