The cute couple spent two hours laughing and joking over dinner
Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston giggled their way through dinner
They've been at the centre of a frenzy since making their romance public last month.
But Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston put any drama to one side as they reunited for a romantic dinner date in California.
The stars were spotted grinning and walking hand-in-hand as they arrived at Hillstone in Santa Monica for a bite to eat.
Looking more loved-up than ever, the pair reportedly spent two hours laughing and joking over their meals.
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Tom Hiddleston and Taylor Swift
The look of love?
An insider told E! News: "It seems like they are always sharing a laugh or inside joke. They were giggly and sweet."
As they emerged from the fancy diner Taylor and The Night Manager actor Tom were still holding mitts.
Gentleman
Tom initially forgot to open the car door for Taylor but quickly
remembered and returned to the passenger side, closing the door behind
her.
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The pair are "very happy"
According to insiders, it's officially L-O-V-E between the two.
"They
have gotten very close, the insider continued. "She is enjoying the
time off from working. She has been writing during her travels, and Tom
has been an inspiration in her music."
Meanwhile, Thor star Tom has insisted he doesn't care what anyone else thinks about his relationship.
Speaking
at Comic Con about the attention surrounding his romance with the Shake
It Off star, he said: "I don't know. It comes down to being authentic.
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Thei pair travel to Australia
"Everything you do you have to make sure you truly believe
in it and as long as you know that, it doesn't matter what anyone else
says about it."
He added: "The nature of being a public figure is
that everyone will have an opinion about anything you do, and as long
as you know why you've done something and you've committed to it with
authenticity then you're OK."
The star has previously dismissed speculation their relationship is a 'publicity stunt'.
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Real Estate appraiser - all kinds of screwed up shit. Worst one for me though - I found a guy in the basement of a vacant, foreclosed house, flat on his back & little charred. Apparently he tried to steal the electrical wiring (to go with his copper plumbing stash) & the electricity was still on. I'll never forget the smell.
2 This one was scary, gross and sad all at the same time. I worked as a contractor for the local electric/utility company installing energy efficient lightbulbs and plumbing fixtures in apartments. The landlords would call us, schedule an appointment, and then often not even tell their tenants we were coming.
On one specific appointment my partner and I roll up to the duplex. It's in a nice area, but an absolute shithole. Grass not cut all year, old appliances all over the yard, just a fucking peach. The unit we were scheduled to do was upstairs. We walk up to the porch and you can hear death metal music just blaring (this is probably at noon.) We knock on the door. No answer. After a few minutes we call the landlord, he says he'll come over to let us in. He comes over. Unlocks the door, says "it's all yours" and leaves.
We slowly walk up the stairs, the music getting louder and louder. We walk into what you'd swear was a filming set for a "Breaking Bad" meth-head's apartment. In fairness I never saw any drugs, but it was absolutely disgusting (and I've seen some disgusting shit.) Every dish they've ever owned encrusted in decaying matter, submerged in a sink filled with water reminiscent of something you'd see pouring out of a power plant. The remainder of the dishes piled high on all counters and tables. Flies everywhere. Clothes and rotting garbage strewn across every floor; kitchen, pantry, bathroom, everywhere.
We yell, "Hello!?" no response. We turn to our right and see 3 fully tattooed skinny-as-hell dudes with shaved heads and no shirts on completely passed-the-fuck-out on a single futon in the living room with death metal BLASTING! I turn to my left and I see movement. At first I thought it was a dog or a cat. I walked into the bedroom to get a better look, it was a little girl.
She couldn't have been more than 4 years old. She had long straight brown hair and was wearing a full length dress. She was a pretty little girl, and would smile shyly and hide whenever her and I would make eye contact (as if playing hide and seek.) My heart absolutely fell out of my ass. She was in a room COMPLETELY filled with garbage. Completely. She was playing in a corner near an overturned mattress with a few toys that were in the corner. I wanted to cry and throw up all at once. I tried to talk to her, but I didn't know what to say and it was hard to hear over the music. My partner never even saw her. He said "fuck this" and went back outside the instant we saw the dudes on the futon. I did my job (changed lightbulbs, installed a shower head) all while gagging on the stench in the house, trying to be quiet as to not wake up the possible murderous meth heads on the couch, and holding back my sorrow for this poor kid's environment.
I called Social Services that night. No clue if anything ever became of it, but I hope so.
3 I'm a contractor under Home Depot, so part of my job is to measure peoples bathroom's and or basements. One time I visited this old couple who wanted their 2 bathrooms renovated. I finished measuring the bathroom upstairs rather quick, so I moved to the downstairs bathroom in which I found... well a grow op. These old people were growing weed in their basement. I was in shock, and didn't really say anything... In which the old lady realized and actually offered me some if I wanted it...
4 I used to be a cable installer in the d.c. area. Saw some wild shit, fights, people high and out of their minds. Naked chicks, dudes, etc. etc. but the shit I remember most, the thing that made me flip out and get all kinds of creeped out was when I was installing in this ladies apartment. She never had cable so I had to had to run the lines from scratch. Open up her closet to strategically place the hole I needed and 1000's, literally 1000's of roaches started falling down from the top of the closet. It was like an avalanche of roaches. Some fell on me and on my equipment and I just about lost it. I'm not really scared of insects but it fucked me up for a few weeks. I kept feeling them crawling on me even when I was naked and in the shower. I just kept seeing this waterfall of brown over and over. I had legit nightmares about being drowned in roaches after that. Like panic attacks. The thing about it was, the lady didn't flinch. I mean she looked at me like I was wrong for being creeped out. Didn't finish the job at all. Straight up bounced and told her to get a satellite.
5 Years ago I had a job in apartment maintenance. I saw some crazy stuff over the years but by far the worst was one unit had a work order for a jammed garbage disposal. I knocked on the door but no answer. When I went in there was foil all over the windows and the only light was from several strands of of christmas lights. There was a terrible smell in the place and when I finally got over to the light switch I saw what the deal was. All over the dining and living room were clothes hangers on wires. Dangling from the hangers were strands of meat. I noped the fuck outta there pronto, it was way too chainsaw for my pay rate. I never met them but I think they were from the middle east somewhere and were aging the meat but it was pretty freaky. Their garbage disposal is probably still jammed.
6 Worked for a PC repair company. Got a call to go out to the country (wayyy out in the sticks) to fix a PC. Had bought a new car the day before, so I was already irritated that I had to get on a gravel road. Got to the house, and no less than 4 dogs jumped up on my car. Further irritation. I ring the doorbell several times and nobody comes to the door. I start to walk off and I hear the door open behind me. "WHO ARE YOU?"
"I'm here to look at your computer, ma'am." "Identify yourself NOW!" "My name is ___, I work for ___, you called 30 minutes ago because your PC isn't working."
She reluctantly lets me in. My first step through the door manages to somehow offend all five senses. Possibly a sixth. There were a minimum of 25 cats. Sounds great, right? Well...it would have been if the house wasn't their collective litterbox. CAT. SHIT. EVERYWHERE. Oh and what's that on the couch? It's her ~80 year-old hubby laying in his tighty-whities on the couch, barely clinging to life. She tells me to just ignore him (which is easier said than done, considering he TRULY looks like a corpse).
She leads me into the computer room. I really don't care about stepping on cat shit at this point because my shoes are already caked with it. It would be physically impossible to navigate their house without getting it all over yourself. Did I mention the lady had it ALL over herself? Clothes, hair, you name it. So I roll the computer desk back to get started. Needless to say, it was simply unplugged (I swear to god I'm not making this up), and I plugged it in and bolted as fast as I could. I left my shoes in their driveway, as they were now worthless.
I honestly gag every time I think about that day.
7 A few years ago I was cleaning apartments with a local carpet cleaning company. One day we got a call to go clean a rented house and they said that the door would be unlocked and to go ahead in. The tenants had apparently moved out and we'd have nothing bothering us as we cleaned, "Good deal" I thought to myself, "No need to move furniture, etc." When we arrived we (my partner and I) opened the door and immediately were accosted by this awful stench. We chalked it up to being another hot, humid, Iowa summer day and didn't read too much into it. We donned out respirators and started to it. While I was pre-spraying the carpets, I was opening all the doors to see if there was any carpet inside to see if they needed cleaning, I opened one closet and almost fell on my ass in shock. Laying on the floor in front of me was a maggot-covered, rotting, smelly, severed goat's head. Needless to say I bolted as my partner looked at me and said "The fuck happened to you?" Too late, I was already out side breathing in some much needed outside air. Two seconds later, he was right there beside me, pale as a ghost.
8 As a paramedic, I am constantly required to go into the filthiest places imaginable to drag people out. One of the worst I remember, a cop was in front of this trailer, and as I walked up, he just smiled and said "Be prepared". I walk in to blood, guts, and chicken feathers EVERYWHERE. Inside was a dude with pure crazy in his eyes waiting for me. I asked him what going on, he explained that he had quit taking his meds, and was demonstrating to his children where food came from. Dude had taken his kids PET chickens and proceeded to rip their heads off. Needless to say, that was one nerve wracking ride to the hospital.
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I had to crawl under this woman's duplex to run a wire. In her living room she had 4 dogs in a cage that was nailed to the floor. Under the floor in the same spot were stalactites from where the dogs had been peeing over the years.
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I once had to go to a house to install a computer and I should have known it would be bad when the directions I was given led to a condemned house. I called the customer and said that the only house at the address she gave me was a condemned house and she stated that that was indeed her house and it was just a "little messy".
The lawn: Covered in piles and piles of junk. Absolutely no grass, just garbage, feet and feet high. I had to climb over all of this mess with a computer just to reach the collapsed porch that was held up by piles of moldy mattresses.
Inside: It smelled like puke, onions, BO, and shit. I could barely breathe. Garbage was literally floor to ceiling and a tunnel was carved through it to get to the kitchen.
Kitchen: A little more room to walk but not much. Candles were lit everywhere, illuminating the piles of plates with moldy food and TONS of maggots and insects all over them. The smell was unbearable. The lady insisted that "their house was a little messy because someone in the family died recently." Well it was obvious by the smell they didn't find him/her in all the garbage yet!
Basically I just dropped of the computer and left. I lied and said I couldn't set it up since they didn't have a standard outlet (they really didn't, it was three wires coming out of the wall which I wasn't about to touch!
The smell was so bad I drove to a Sheetz (gas station) afterwards and threw up repeatedly in their bathroom. I then took off all my clothes down to my boxers, threw them out and drove home to take multiple showers and change before going back in to work. I could STILL smell the smell for a day afterwards and for weeks in the work vehicle. You know the show "hoarders"? I've seen all episodes and not one single house came close to the house I mentioned above. Not one.
11 We went to this woman's house. You could smells the horrible smell outside in the driveway. We tried the front door but was told to go around back. We couldn't get in the front door because the door was blocked by used diapers. We then made our way around the garbage to the bathroom where her husband had taken the computer apart in the bathtub. Most of his tools were rusted together sitting in the sink. This is no exaggeration, there was something growing out of the toilet on to the floor of this bathroom. There was garbage everywhere in this home. What was sad was the woman had a baby in there. All she could talk about was being happy that the state gave her baby back to her. I felt uncomfortable on many levels.
12 Two years ago I had a job doing crime scene/ untimely death clean up. We saw some pretty sad stuff. The worst job had to be an eviction clean up. No one had died amazingly but it was worse than when I had the opportunity to hold grey matter in my hand. The former tennant was a heroin addict, hoarder with hep c. Our job was to clear the apartment. Upon arrival we discovered he not only hoarded trash and large amounts of clothing and other miscellaneous items but also his used needles. They were scattered throughout the junk mixed into every little nook and cranny. Given the fact that he was Hep C positive we had to don our most protective suits and sift through and separate everything piece by piece. A total of 42 man hours were spent in the abatement. We found diaries, telephone numbers, hidden stashes and many other things. He mainly shot up in his right arm, I can say this because his lazy-boy was soaked in blood on just the right side. Luckily None of us were pricked in this ordeal and we saved the apartment. I have an AMA about this if you are interested..
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I was painting a house with 2 other guys my age. The house looked untouched since the 1970s. The kids bedrooms looked like nobody had been in them for 40 years. Toys, books, beds, drawings... It was creepy. The medicine cabinets were full of bandaid, medications, lotions and such all from the 70s at the end of the day I go down to the basement to rinse out brushes and rollers and the basement is packed full of junk. It was a hoarders dream. I hear a weird squeak noise coming from the far corner and went to investigate. I found a giant freezer hidden behind a bunch of boxes and stuff. I tried to open it, but it was locked. There were no joke more then 30 bottles of bleach around the freezer. I freaked out and went upstairs to tell the other guys. They tell me I'm being dumb and don't worry about it. I went home that night and Google the guy's name but didn't find anything. I told my boss and he said he would check it out. He saw what I did and called the police early that morning before I got there. When I arrived the police were just leaving. In the freezer was his wife's head. The kids had died in a car accident when they were young and the wife was a vegetable. He was taking care of her at home and he just went crazy. When she died he cut off her head and froze it.
A British woman who suffered unexplained abdominal pain for months
“cried with relief” after doctors removed a 14-pound hairball from her
stomach. Sophie Cox, 23, of Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire, told South West News Service that the giant ball of
human hair was built up over seven years of eating her tresses.
South West News Service
Six years ago, Cox was diagnosed with both trichotillomania, a condition where sufferers have a compulsive urge to pull out their hair, and and trichophagia, where they eat it.
Cox said when she was stressed, she found comfort from plucking
strands of hair and eating them during the day, according to SWNS.
She thought it was harmless until she became pregnant in 2014. During her pregnancy, Cox suffered serious stomach pains and kept losing weight at a time when she should be gaining it. Two months after her daughter was born, the pains became excruciating and left her doubled in agony. “By October 2015, I couldn’t eat without vomiting and my stomach would swell up,” she told the news agency. “I’d lost [84 pounds] in two years and dropped six dress sizes, taking me to a size 12.”
Doctors had no clue what was wrong, but tested Cox for gallstones and stomach cancer.
It wasn’t until Cox had an endoscopy last November that they figured out what was wrong: that giant hairball. “When they showed me the scan I was speechless. It looked like something from a horror film,” she said. “The
specialist hadn’t seen anything like it in 30 years. It was too big to
break down in my stomach, leaving me malnourished and dehydrated.”
Even worse than finding out she had a giant hairball in her stomach was waiting five months to have it removed.
South West News Service
Sophie Cox who had a giant hairball removed from her stomach
The hairball, or “trichobezoar,” was removed in a six-hour operation.
“I felt instantly better when I woke
up, even though I was sore and groggy,” she said. “It was disgusting. I
cried with relief that it was gone.”
Since then, Cox has been monitored regularly to ensure no other hairballs develop.
She is also on a waiting list to receive treatment to help determine the underlying causes of her conditions. “I’m just so thankful the hairball was found before it was too late,” she said. “Now I can get on with being a hands-on mum.”
The horror of a young woman being gang raped twice
in three years by the same men is beyond words. How could this have
happened, and what could have emboldened these five men from committing
the same heinous crime without any fear of the law, which provides for
repeat offenders to be sentenced to death?
Taylor Swift opened up to Rolling Stone.
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For a girl who writes extensively about relationships and has had high-profile flings with the likes of Harry Styles, John Mayer, and Jake Gyllenhaal, Taylor Swift has had surprisingly little experience with true love.
The "Shake It Off" singer, 24, opened up to Rolling Stone for a cover story interview.
While the juiciest takeaway was arguably Swift's not-so-subtle
discussion of new takedown song "Bad Blood" and the unnamed female
artists/enemy depicted therein, the country-turned pop singer also
talked about her love life in a follow-up story of "22 Things You Learn Hanging Out With Taylor Swift," which was shared on Wednesday, Sept. 10.
"Looking back? Not real love," Swift said of her past relationships.
"Not the kind that lasts. I think that's still ahead of me — which is
really exciting."
While she is excited about the prospect of love, Swift also spoke
about how her views on romance have changed since her days of writing
about Romeos and love stories.
"I think the way I used to approach relationships was very idealistic," she told Rolling Stone.
"I used to go into them thinking, 'Maybe this is the one — we'll get
married and have a family, this could be forever.' Whereas now I go in
thinking, 'How long do we have on the clock — before something comes
along and puts a wrench in it, or your publicist calls and says this
isn't a good idea?'"
Below, 20 other facts about Swift from her chat with Rolling Stone.
1. She's not a big online shopper: "I've never ordered anything from Amazon. But my brother does all the time." 2. Wine and Joni Mitchell makes her emotional: "When I first started drinking — when I was like 21 — I used to cry about Joni Mitchell
all the time after a few glasses of wine. All my friends would know,
once I started crying about Joni Mitchell, it was time for me to go to
bed." 3. Her childhood insecurities paid off: "I was the
kid in elementary school who could never do [the splits]. So it was a
big goal of mine. It was really hard and painful. No one could
understand why it was so important to me. Take that, elementary school
insecurities." 4. She's a potty mouth: When sitting at the piano during her interview, she played the wrong note and yelled out, "F--k!" 5. Her Instagram is purposefully G-rated: "I don't
Instagram pictures of myself for people to be like 'Wow, that looks
really sexy.' I take pictures of cute kittens, or when the ocean looks
nice, or of a funny sign I saw in an airport." 6. She's basically Santa: "The amount of baked goods and needlepoints I've gotten from Taylor cannot be counted," Lena Dunham's boyfriend and Swift's collaborator Jack Antonoff said, adding that Swift gave him and Dunham their first housewarming gift: a taxidermied moth. 7. She's a kid when she gets around animals:
Marveling at snapping turtles, bumblebees, ducks, and rats, Swift
wonders, "Do you feel like you're hanging out with a 6-year-old a little
bit?" 8. She likes being that way: "I think you have to do
things that make you geek out like you're a kid again, or else you just
become one of these 45-year-old 24 year olds. That's why I dance like
I'm having fun at awards shows, even though no one else is. Because
being cool usually means being bored by everything. And I'm not bored by
any of this."
9. She's never a "psycho" ex-girlfriend: "Once
you've established that someone doesn't belong in your life, I don't
understand what more there is to talk about. I walk away from things
when they're bad. I don't stick around to watch them burn to the ground.
I'll just check out. Stop communication. I don't want to scream and
yell at someone and give them the opportunity to say I'm crazy, or that I
went psycho. No one will ever be able to say I went psycho on them." 10. It's best friends forever for Swift and Selena Gomez:
"People think they have my relationships all mapped out. There were all
these blogs, like, 'Are they feuding? Are they fighting?' Meanwhile
Selena and I would be on the phone that night, laughing about it. We let
them have that one." See pics of Taylor and her celebrity BFFs. 11. If Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff get married, Swift will perform:
She and Antonoff wrote "a very 'Secret Garden' Springsteen vibe" song
together, and Dunham explained, "Jack and I have a lot of existential
and political issues with marriage. But if we ever do get married,
there's no f--king way Taylor is not playing that song." 12. Her own possible wedding will not be happening anytime soon:
"You'll be riding in the car with someone and all of a sudden it comes
on the radio that he bought you a diamond ring and he's going to
propose. And you look at him and go, '...that's not true, right?' And he
says, 'No that's not true!' Can you blame me for wanting less of that?" 13. Marriage isn't an immediate priority, but neither is clubbing:
"We're both a little bit like 90 year olds," Dunham said of Swift. "If
we're feeling really crazy, I can get her to go to a furniture store." 14. She had no use for a walk-in closet in her multimillion dollar Manhattan apartment: "Now it's my greeting-card writing room!" 15. She inherited a lot from her grandmother: "I've
taken after her in ways I really didn't see coming. We have the same
nose. We both like to dress up. And she loved to entertain: At her
parties, she would get up and sing for her friends… It affected me more
than I realized."
16. She has rules for the paparazzi: "You just make
sure your skirt is down, and you make sure you don't give them a
terrible eating shot. I'm incapable of telling when food is on my face.
It's like I don't have nerves in my skin. So if I get, like, a heinous
piece of chocolate on my face, please let me know. I won't be offended." 17. She has a sixth sense and always knows when fans are trying to sneak unnoticed photos of her:
"Everyone always says the same thing when they get called out: 'I was
not!' But it's like, yeah, you definitely were! As a human being who's
been dealing with this for eight years, I know when someone is taking a
picture of me." 18. Her exes may have some unspoken opinions about her: "If you turn on a tape recorder, they'd say nice things. But you never know what they'd say in a regular conversation." 19. She would've thrived 200 years ago: Swift and
her brother took sailing and horseback riding lessons as they were
growing up "just in case we were put in a time machine and had to live
in the 1800s." 20. Swift's youngest fan is perhaps her most important:
"There's always gonna be an 8-year-old in the front row. Always… I
think there's an interesting lag-time on emotional growth for me.
Because I write my records a couple of years before I put them out, I've
always seemed two or three years younger than I actually was."
The fallout from Calvin Harris and Taylor Swift‘s breakup just took a bizarre turn.
On Thursday, it appeared the Scottish DJ spilled details about his
15-month romance with the pop star on Instagram. In a series of
comments, which have since been deleted, Harris, 32, alleged his former flame controlled the narrative of their love story.
“She controlled the media and this situation, I had no idea what was
going on. So that kind of makes it a lot worse from my perspective,” he
allegedly wrote, according to E! News.
While the EDM superstar supposedly proclaimed freedom, he also
explained why he decided to follow Swift, 26, on social media again.
“I cared too much and then I didn’t care at all. I am a real person after all,” he noted.
Though a source told the site Harris wasn’t behind the replies, he’s been anything but silent since the split. After photos surfaced of Swift kissing new beau Tom Hiddleston, Harris scrubbed his social media of all traces of their relationship. He claims they are on good terms again.
“It’s all good, she’s doing her thing,” he told TMZ.
Meanwhile, Swift and Hiddleston, 35, are going full steam ahead, as the couple caught Selena Gomez’s concert in Nashville on Tuesday.
Reps for Harris didn’t immediately return our request for comment.
First step to to see who you truly are rather than what others have made you and the only way to do that is to change yourself change your environment do things you or others think you would never do...
Second step is to confront your feeling towards your self either you hate what you do or you love what you do
Third change your looks and style be a different person entirely ..
Fourth go on the adventure of he world back a bag and by a bag
i mean just one bag with essential as money id and a few clothes and go hiking in the woods of another city country catch a bus rent a car or take a lift just keep going till you find yourself live you life...
Fifth step job you say? well every once in a while
hey guys if any one of u want to share a story or a fact or just want to
expose your ex or whatever u can do that by messaging me on my facebook page
People claimed she was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, which Kampusch says denied her the ability to judge her own experiences.
She said, "Looking for normality within the framework of a crime is not a syndrome. It is a survival strategy."
The backlash got worse when she started receiving hate mail.
These letters were particularly harsh and ranged from saying she should be locked up again to denying that her experiences were as bad as she said.
Now, Natascha says she wants to reclaim the interpretation of her own story.
This is why she wrote 3,096 Days, a book where she goes into her complex feelings about Prikopil. While he put her through unimaginable torment, he was also the only companionship she had during some of her most formative years.
Please SHARE this and help others get a sense of what she went through.
Bizarrely Valeria Lukyanova, 30, also claims she looks
nothing like the iconic plastic girls' toy - and believes she has barely
changed since being a 14yr-old teenager
Valeria insists she is not a Barbie girl living in a Barbie world
A woman nicknamed the 'Human Barbie' denies having plastic surgery to look like a real 'walking, talking' living version of the famous doll.
Bizarrely
Valeria Lukyanova, 30, also claims she looks nothing like the iconic
plastic girls' toy - and believes she has barely changed in looks since
being a 14-year-old teenager.
And she says any comparison is not only unintentional and one she disagrees with - but she also finds it insulting.
The
Ukranian model, DJ and singer - who has almost 350,000 followers on
Instagram - first came to attention three years ago after pictures
showing her tiny waist were posted online.
Fans have long believed she must have had surgery to get her looks.
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Valeria insists all comparisons with the toy doll are coincidental - and insulting
But she insists her slender figure is just the result of a
good diet involving small amounts of raw fish and fresh fruit juice -
and lots of exercise.
In an interview discussing her appearance she said she is "just a classy girl".
Valeria
told showbiz and lifestyle website TooFab: "We all have changed since
our childhood from the age of 14 years I have not particularly changed
except for my body and hair colour."
Valeria has a thin waist - which she credits to her raw fish diet and lots of exercise
"I do not think that I look like a Barbie I think I just look like a classy girl it takes about an hour and a half to do that."
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Valeria puts her looks down to healthy eating and a punishing exercise regime
When
asked what the biggest misconception surrounding her was, she replied:
"That I did a bunch of surgeries to look like a doll and know nothing
more about me it is actually completely different and my look is only a
side effect of my inner world."
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Fans believe Valeria has had plastic surgery to look like Barbie - which she denies
But she added that she wouldn't completely rule out surgery in the future.
"If
I require it (plastic surgery) for my body then of course. I am not
against surgery. But for now there is nothing I need to do," she said.
Barbie.com
The makers of Barbie recently releases three new body shapes - including a curvier doll
In the past she has admitted to following a
'breatharian' lifestyle which is based on a cult that believes food -
and possibly water - are unnecessary to survive.
Lukyanova neither drinks or smokes - and claims that she is working towards being able to survive on no food whatsoever.
Childhood dreams don't always make sense when we grow older.
We all remember a time when we wanted to invent a new meal or spend our
lives exploring for buried treasure. But those dreams also have
their own insistence, a dull roar that follows us through adulthood.
Maybe we'll never dig in the sand for pirate treasure, but we might
retire to a sunny tropical paradise one day.
Some people feel
those dreams more keenly than others, of course. They can't ignore the
prodding of their aspirations and feel compelled to follow them. And
they'll do just about anything to make their dreams come true... COMMENT to let us know what you think of this extreme transformation!
Nannette Hammond's life really puts the "plastic" in "plastic surgery."
The mother of five from Cincinnati has taken a childhood
obsession with Barbie to incredible lengths to turn herself into the
living embodiment of the classic doll.
Nannette has always loved Barbie. When she was young, she owned more than 50 of the dolls.
We've been told for a long time that kids would look to
Barbie as an ideal image, but few would have guessed how far some girls
would take it.
So what did it take to transform Nannette into a real-life Barbie?
A WOMAN who has been called a ‘human Barbie’ claims that she looks so
doll-like that people often run away from her.
Andressa Damiani, 23, from Blumenau, Brazil has a 20-inch waist, wears a size
32F bra and has huge eyes and long legs – however she states that her
appearance is surgery free and insists that does not starve herself to be
skinny.
The Barbie girl first found fame in her native country when people in the
street calling her ‘Elsa’ because of her striking resemblance to the
Disney’s Frozen character.
Andressa said: “People don’t believe me when I say I have never had any
plastic surgery and they think I starve myself because I’m so thin. They
call me a liar.
“For as long as I remember I have always looked like a doll. I hardly wear any
heavy make-up on a daily basis, I don’t diet and I walk my dogs for
exercise.
“I like resembling a doll and I receive many lovely messages from fans.”
Andressa does however admit to wearing blue contact lenses to exaggerate the
size of her eyes and says that she achieves her doll-like look without
surgery – instead relying on beauty aids such as with hair extensions to get
her long flowing locks.
To look even more like a ‘doll’, Andressa uses white eyeliner pencil on the
waterline of her eyes to draw them wider; she then uses three different
shades of eyeshadow followed by a dark purple shade to add depth.
To create further depth and the illusion of bigger eyes, dark brown shadow is
applied under the eye and the lower lashes are glued on below the natural
lash line.
The cartoon-like eyes are then finished by applying winged eyeliner and false
eyelashes on the top line.
She then finished her make-up with girly pink lip-liner and lippie.
One of her most popular with one videos demonstrates a how to achieve her
‘Elsa’-style makeup – and has had more than one million views.
Facebook – the blue network – has been a prime contributor to the open
source community. Over the years, they have managed to build various
open source tools for different platforms. A new addition that has been
made to their open source product list is OpenCellular. It is an open source wireless access platform developed by the minds at Facebook.
With
their new OpenCellular system in action, Facebook eyes a cost-effective
and dependable network solution for deployment in remote areas. Their
system is flexible enough to provide multiple connectivity options
ranging from the old 2G network to the 4G high-speed LTE network and
even as a Wi-Fi access point. Well, I can call it the Optimus Prime of
the cellular networks.
The
hardware design and specifications of the OpenCellular platform will
also be open sourced over time, says Facebook. They will focus on both
the software and hardware front. The OpenCellular hardware is designed
to withstand extreme weather conditions and operating situations. It’s
no wonder you may be able to use the internet in the dense Amazon
forests or the Himalayan peaks in the near future.Facebook is
working very hard to make sure that the OpenCelullar hardware requires
minimalistic repairs as the location might be inaccessible sometimes.
“It’s important for the system to function without much maintenance or
service overhead, especially if it’s located in a remote area where
technical experts aren’t readily available. To this end, we are
extending an existing open source, real-time operating system that is
easy to monitor and run remotely. The system can also reconfigure itself
and issue alarms when additional support is needed,” – writes Kashif
Ali in his blog post.
The
hardware could be used to deploy a cellular access point or a complete
network-in-a-box – like the one built by Nokia Networks a couple of
years ago — in the regions were a little to no network coverage is
present. It will come handy in situations of natural disasters where the
cellular networks get out of service. Facebook will work with Telecom
Infra Project (TIP) for the selection of trail location for “further
validation of technical, functional, and operational aspects of the
platform.”
This is another Facebook mission to make the internet available for the world. The internet.org initiative launched by Facebook will be definitely benefitted by the OpenCellular platform. In
fact, a large chunk of the world population doesn’t have access to the
internet or even basic things like clean water and nutritious food.
Facebook’s open source efforts will be beneficial for such people. It
can be used to provide education in hard to access areas where internet
connectivity is only a dream of the future.
NASA
has recently released a total of 56 patented space and rocket
technologies into the public domain. This step by NASA could be of much
greater use for companies like SpaceX which are already into this industry for some time.
Some
of the inventions that NASA shared into the public domains are
impressive and a few of them include techniques for manufacturing carbon
nanotubes, super-efficient rocket engine, and aerogels which can
sustain harsh conditions in the space.
It
should be noted that the NASA’s carbon nanotubes technology is almost
20 times cheaper than current techniques which are being used in the
space technology.
On the other hand, aerogels are a diverse class
of porous and solid materials with extreme materials properties. The
futuristic version of aerogel is planned to capture comet dust in the
space.
One of the most notable techniques which are opened up by
NASA for the public is the ‘smart’ nozzle for turbine engines. The smart
nozzle is known to improve the performance and efficiency of aircraft
by a great degree.
All the above-mentioned technologies, which were released, were developed for the NASA’s space missions.
Speculations
are high that some technologies like enriched baby food, portable
cordless vacuums and memory foam mattresses might hit the commercial
market soon.
Daniel Lockey, from NASA’s ‘Technology Transfer’ programme, says,
By
making these technologies available in the public domain, we are
helping foster a new era of entrepreneurship that will again place
America at the forefront of high-tech manufacturing and economic
competitiveness.
It is sure that these recently released technologies are surely going to help SpaceX, let’s wait and watch for the future.
If you are interested in knowing more about these awesome and cool technologies, here is the link to the patent portfolio from NASA.
At the sunset of his life, 21-year-old cat Tigger was left behind by
his owner at a local veterinary clinic. Depressed and disoriented, he
couldn’t comprehend why. But then Adriene Nicole showed up. She read his
story on the Canton Neighbors page and chose to adopt him. She wished
to provide him the love and care he deserved.
Unfortunately, Nicole shortly found out that Tigger had kidney failure and a tumor. But that didn’t hold Nicole back: “Though
he has kidney failure and we found a tumor, he kicks it like a 12 yr
old. We decided to create a bucket list full of random adventures [for
Tigger],” she wrote on Facebook. “Though it might not be much to others, all the little trips
outside are a blast for him because he loves to be outdoors… the beach
being his favorite so far,” she said. “The most important part
is that Tigger’s story just shows how amazing it is to adopt a geriatric
pet and give them the best remaining days! He has forever changed our
hearts and will hopefully change the hearts of others when it comes to
adopting older pets!”
A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman
was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have
“a severe impact on him,” according to a judge. At his sentencing
Thursday, his victim read him a letter describing the “severe impact”
the assault had on her.
One night in January 2015, two Stanford University graduate
students biking across campus spotted a freshman thrusting his body on
top of an unconscious, half-naked woman behind a dumpster. This March, a
California jury found the former student, 20-year-old Brock Allen
Turner, guilty of three counts of sexual assault. Turner faced a maximum
of 14 years in state prison. On Thursday, he was sentenced
to six months in county jail and probation. The judge said he feared a
longer sentence would have a “severe impact” on Turner, a champion
swimmer who once aspired to compete in the Olympics — a point repeatedly
brought up during the trial.
On Thursday, Turner’s victim
addressed him directly, detailing the severe impact his actions had on
her — from the night she learned she had been assaulted by a stranger
while unconscious, to the grueling trial during which Turner’s attorneys
argued that she had eagerly consented.
The woman, now 23, told
BuzzFeed News she was disappointed with the “gentle” sentence and angry
that Turner still denied sexually assaulting her.
“Even if the
sentence is light, hopefully this will wake people up,” she said. “I
want the judge to know that he ignited a tiny fire. If anything, this is
a reason for all of us to speak even louder.”
Belarusians are now stripping off in their offices after the president ordered them to "get undressed and work."
Using the hashtag #раздеватьсяиработать -- roughly translating to #GetUndressedAndGoToWork -- people all over the country are sharing nudies on social media.
A photo posted by Nikolayonok Konstantin (@nikolayonok) on
The president's exclamation
seems to have been a Freudian slip, as the phrase "get undressed"
(razden'sya) sounds similar to "develop themselves" (razvivat' sebya) in
Russian.
Lukashenko expressed his wish during a speech at the 5th Belarusian People's Congress
in Minsk. All in all, the speech addressed the importance of technology
and innovation in order to lift Belarus from one of its worst economic
situations in decades.
The
nude flash mob has been picked up outside of Belarus as well, with more
and more social media users undressing around the Baltic Sea.
Researchers are in the very early stages
of using adult stem cells to grow human organs. The twist: These human
organs are being grown inside animals.
Every day, about 22 people in the United States die while waiting for organ transplants, according to federal statistics.
In
an attempt to solve the global donor-organ shortage, researchers at the
University of California, Davis have created embryos that have both
human and pig cells.
These cells are created by taking human stem cells from an adult's skin or hair, using them in a pig embryoand injecting it into the uterus of a pig.
The
embryo needs a few weeks to mature for scientists to determine whether
the procedure worked, but after 28 days, the pigs' pregnancies were
terminated, and the cell remnants were analyzed.
Besides
growing organs for transplant patients, this technology may help treat
people with life-threatening diseases like diabetes, said scientist Juan
Carlos Izpisua Belmonte of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
Getting
to the point of creating human-animal hybrid organs is possible because
of the combination of two breakthrough techniques in stem cell biology
and gene-editing technology.
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Scientists
are able to knock out a section of an animal's DNA, such as the
pancreas, so a pig embryo won't have the information it needs to make
that particular organ.
Then, stem
cells come into play. Once injected into the embryo, the adult stem
cells will start working on creating a pancreas. Since embryos don't
have immune systems, they can't reject the foreign cells.
The
next step, which Belmonte said is still a dream, is that old, damaged
or sick human organs could be easily replaced, possibly saving thousands
of lives each year.
When man and beast unite
What makes stem cells so special is that they can form any type of tissue.
The
stem cells are injected into an embryo at such an early stage, when the
embryo is just a few cells in a Petri dish, that they can essentially
develop into any part of of an animal's body.
That possibility also makes the research controversial.
The
mix of human and animal DNA in modern medicine is known as chimera. The
name is inspired by a monstrous creature from Greek mythology that is
depicted as part lion, part goat and part snake.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health
announced in November that it would not support this human-animal
research after reviewing a presentation from scientists working in the
field.
The institutes' main concern
involves the concept of chimeras acquiring a cognitive state.
Scientists are essentially asking themselves what happens if human stem
cells somehow start to create a human brain inside an animal.
"If
you were creating a pig with a heart made from human cells, is that OK?
I think it is. There's nothing magical about the human cell," Wolpe
said.
But the landscape gets
murkier if there's a possibility of an animal experiencing human
thoughts, Wolpe explained. Mental cognition is an intrinsically human
experience.
"This is pretty crude
procedure. We are throwing stem cells into embryonic cells and hoping
that it works out. We have to be really careful about that," he said.
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Although
the risk of an animal acquiring human consciousness is slim -- their
brains are smaller than and different from humans' -- anything is
possible, Belmonte said.
"We need
to consider all the possibilities. Where the cells go is a major
question. They can go to the brain or anywhere," he said.
But the National Institutes of Health's funding ban has drawn criticism
from scientists, including Daniel Garry, a cardiologist who leads a
chimera project at the University of Minnesota, who said the agency's
stance is inhibiting medical progress and creating a stigma around the
research.
'Personalizing' the future of medicine
Other
than transforming to essentially anything, human stem cells are
important in chimera research because they can limit the chance of a
human-pig organ being rejected by a transplant patient's body.
"With the compatibility of these cells, this will open the door for personalizing medicine," Belmonte said.
"The
animal is acting as a biological incubator," Low said. "If the stem
cells were taken from a patient with diabetes, those stem cells are
identical to the patient's own cells."
Low has been using stem cells to treat neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, a condition that affects the central nervous system.
This
idea of chimera organs isn't a new concept, Low explained. In 2010,
Japanese scientist Hiromitsu Nakauchi, who is now a stem cell biologist
at Stanford University, was able to grow a rat pancreas inside a mouse.
This was a huge breakthrough in chimera research because rats and mice
are different species.
The fallout from 
