Saturday, October 26, 2013
The Man Who Grew a Second Nose
Medical science has cured many diseases. In fact, everyday scientific advancements are leading to newer therapies, treatments, alternatives and the like. You have heard about the famous Tree-man surgery, restoration of a destroyed face, giving sight to the blind and what not! Medical science continues its journey towards achieving some feats that earlier looked impossible. One of the latest achievements to join the group is the man from China who was given a new nose to replace the damaged one. The seemingly impossible was again made possible.
The man who grew a second nose
Breathing is important – extremely important. Even seconds without taking in air can be fatal. Everyone is aware of this fact. A Chinese man unfortunately had a terrible car crash. Though he survived the accident, he lost his nose. Losing an arm or leg is common news but losing one’s nose was something different and more difficult to comprehend. This man – the patient called Xiaolian (nickname) was unable to afford the required plastic surgery that had to be immediately done to repair the deformed and damaged nose. The accident happened last year. Since he could not afford it, gradually infection set it and soon his nose was completely deformed.
Breathing is important – extremely important. Even seconds without taking in air can be fatal. Everyone is aware of this fact. A Chinese man unfortunately had a terrible car crash. Though he survived the accident, he lost his nose. Losing an arm or leg is common news but losing one’s nose was something different and more difficult to comprehend. This man – the patient called Xiaolian (nickname) was unable to afford the required plastic surgery that had to be immediately done to repair the deformed and damaged nose. The accident happened last year. Since he could not afford it, gradually infection set it and soon his nose was completely deformed.
Surgeons tried fixing the actual nose; however they failed to do so as the corrosion was severe on the cartilage. Xiaolian almost lost all his hope to live normally. The medical experts were in no mood to give up. Medical experts are known to innovate brilliantly at the time of severe adversity. This time the lucky man was Xiaolian who benefited from this innovative thinking. A skin tissue was carved out and placed on the patient’s forehead as an expander. This was then cut to resemble the shape of a nose. The cartilage tissue was obtained from Xiaolian’s ribs. So they successfully ‘grew’ a second nose on a patient who had lost all hopes. Now that nine months have passed. Xiaolian’s new nose is in great shape. In a short while, the new nose will be removed and placed in the actual position. The Director of Plastic Surgery Department, Guo Zhihui belonging to Xiehe Hospital stated that the hardest part was already over and now the transplant procedure can be carried out without much difficulty. The best part is that Xiaolian’s life will once again be normal post the transplant surgery. Amazing – the work of medical science!
Top 20 Hottest Girls in USA
#20 Ali Larter
Born on February 28th 1976, Aliison Elizabeth “Ali” Larter is a popular American actress. Popularly known as Ali Larter, she has been a part of a multitude of television shows in the era of 90’s. She made her screen debut for “Varsity Blues” in the year 1999. She was well known for her dual role played in science fiction drama “Heroes” as Tracy Strauss and Niki Sanders. Her popularity reached sky high with her portrayal as the heroine Claire Redfield in the video game, Resident Evil – Extinction and Afterlife.
#19 Kelly Rowland
She is an dancer, a recording artist, song writer, television personality and an American actress. She was born on February 11th 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia. As the founding member of “Destiny’s child”, she rose to instant fame. She has sold over 24 million records as a solo artist, worldwide. She is a recipient of Four Grammy awards, Soul Train Music Award, Billboard Music Award and a Hollywood walk of Fame with Destiny’s Child. Her music contributions have been honored by ASCAP and Essence Magazine.
#18 Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman is an American Model and Actress. She was born on April 29th 1970. She has been a part of several action, comedy and drama movies. She found an international fame with “Pulp Fiction”, for which she was also nominated for the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Academy Awards. She won the Golden Award for “Hysterical Blindness” in 2002. She also received acclamations and recognition in her career for the central role in two Kill Bill films in 2003 & 2004, for which she was nominated in BAFTA and Golden Award.
#17 Sandra Bullock
She is a producer and a renowned American Actress and one of the world’s biggest movie stars. Sandra has been a part of some of the greatest films of the 90’s – Speed, Demolition Man, The Net, A time to kill, While you were sleeping and Hope Floats to her credit. She has been ranked as the 14th richest woman in the entertainment fraternity. Born on July 26th 1964, Sandra is a recipient of some of the most prominent awards. She has also carved herself a niche place as the highest paid actress in the Guinness Book of World Records.
#16 Chyler Leigh
Popularly known as Chyler Leigh in the professional field, ChylerLeigh West was born on April 10th 1982. She rose to fame with her character portrayal of Dr. Lexie Grey on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, a medical drama and Janney Briggs in Not Another teen movie. She has many movies to her credit with her debut in 1996 with Hall Pass as the co-host.
#14 Megan Fox
Born in the year 1986, on May 16th, Megan Fox began her acting career in 2001. She played several different roles in many televisions and films. She has been acclaimed globally as one the modern female sex symbols. She has appeared in many magazines like FHM, Maxim and Rolling Stone. Her film debut was with Confessions of a teenage Drama Queen in the year 2004. There has been no turn back since then.
#13 Halle Berry
Popularly known as Berry, Halle Maria Berry is the recipient of the best actress Academy award in 2002 for her role in Monster’s Ball. She was born on August 14th 1966 and moved to New York in 1989 to pursue a career in acting. She is the only Afro-American descent to win an Oscar for her lead role in Monster’s Ball. She is touted to be one of the highly paid actresses. She rose to fame with her roles in Die Another Day, Swordfish, X-men Film series, Storm, Cloud Atlas, The Call.
#12 Olivia Culpo
Born in the year 1992 on May 8th, this Taurus woman was the Miss Universe 2012 and Miss USA 2012. She was the Miss Rhode Island, USA in 2012 and represented her home land Rhode Island in the Miss USA pageant. She was the first USA winner of Miss Universe 2012 since 1997. She was crowned by Alyssa Campanella, Miss USA 2011, the outgoing titleholder.
#11Rima Fakih
Born on September 22, 1985, Rima is the recipient of Miss USA title in the year 2010. She was also titled Miss Michigan in 2010 and represented Michigan in the Miss USA pageant. She is a trained WWE professional wrestle and is acclaimed to be the WWE Diva. She was seen on the fifth season of WWE Tough Season competing till the fourth episode.
#10 Alyssa Campanella
She was born on march 21st 1990. She has won the title of Miss USA in 2011 where she represented California. She represented new Jersey in the Miss Teen USA beauty Pageant and won the first runner up title in 2007. She finished in the top 16 for Miss Universe 2011 pageant. She is renowned to be an actress, a working model and a host who is based in Los Angeles.
#9 Erin Brady
A Finance Graduate from the central Connecticut State University, Erin Brady is a professional financial accountant. She was the first lady from the state of Connecticut to be crowned as Miss USA. She won the title Miss USA in 2013 and will be representing USA at the Miss Universe beauty Pageant 2013 to be held in Russia.
#8 Hayden Panettiere
She is a prominent singer, model and an American actress. Before starring in the Disney film “Remember the Titans” at the age of 10, she was seen playing Sarah Roberts on One life to live and Lizzie Spaulding on Guiding Light. She rose to prominence with her role in Heroes, the NBC series as the cheerleader Claire Bennet. She was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in Series, Miniseries or Television Film in the year 2012 for Golden Globe Award
#7 Eva Mendes
A Homeware and Fashion Designer, a model, a singer and an American Actress, Eva began her acting career in the late 90’s. She was born on march 5th 1974. She was seen in a series of B-grade films and later hopped on to the Hollywood mainstream with “Training Day”, a small appearance in 2001. Since then, she has starred in many films till date including “Hitch” and “Ghost Rider”. She has been a spokes model for many well-known brands like Calvin Klein, Revlon, Cartier to name a few
#6 Jennifer Love Hewitt
Hewitt, as she is popularly known, began her career in acting as a child artist and was seen in a multitude of television commercials and the Kids Incorporated series by Disney Channel. She is a well-known producer, television director, singer, song writer and a popular American actress. Born on February 21st 1979, she was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for The Client List, a television movie. She is the recurring star on Hot in Cleveland. She leads the “The Client List”, a Lifetime Television series. She was named as the television’s sexiest woman by TV Guide in 2008
#5 Jessica Alba
She is an American Actress for both Films and Television and a successful model. She was born on April 28th 1981. Jessica Marie Alba, popularly known as “Alba” is touted to be the sex symbol. She was one amongst the as 99 most desirable woman in 2006 on AskMen.com, Hot 100 section of Maxim and ranked # 45 on 50 Sexiest stars of All time by TV Guide. FHM titled her as the Sexiest Woman in the World in 2007. She has won several awards and recognitions for her acting skills, including the Saturn Award and Teen Choice Award for Television and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for her lead role in “Dark Angel”, the television series.
#4 Angelina Jolie
She is one of the highly paid actresses in Hollywood, acclaimed by Forbes in 2009, 2011 and 2013 respectively. Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4th 1975 and is a well-established American actress, a screen writer, author and film director. She has won several awards to her credit including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie promotes many humanitarian causes and is cited to be the most beautiful woman in the world. She won the best supporting actress Academy Award for her prominent role in Girl, Interrupted.
#3 Jessica Biel
Biel as she is popularly known was born on March 3rd 1982. She is a well-established model, singer and an American Actress and has starred in several films with prominent roles, including Total recall and Blade-Trinity. She won the young Artist award for her role in Uless’s Gold. She was first seen in the family drama series, 7th heaven as Mary Camden, prior to which she was a vocalist. She is a trained vocalist and has appeared in a multitude of musical productions.
#2 Kristin Cavallari
Born on 5th January in the year 1987, Kristin Cavallari is a fashion designer and an eminent American actress and television personality. She rose to fame after her role in Laguna Beach: The real Orange County, the reality television series. She has been a prominent part of the spin-off series of Laguna Beach, The Hills, where she replaced the former cast member. She began her career in acting in the year 2006.
#1 Britney Spears
Britney as she is popularly known as was born in Mississippi on December 2nd 1981. She is a dancer, an actress, an American pop Icon and also an occasional author. She is a prominent personality in the mainstream music with albums like Baby One More Time and Oops!… I did it again, both of whose titles tracks broke the record sales in the International market. She is a recipient of many awards and recognitions including the Lifetime achievement award in the MTV video music awards, nine Billboard music awards, a Grammy Award and the Hollywood walk of Fame. She also is very well known for a break down where she shaved her head and went a little crazy…but still, she makes the list.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Google Earth rats out Oregon marijuana grower to cops
Next time you start daydreaming about quitting your desk job, moving to northern California, and making millions as a ganja farmer, you might want to think twice – because Google is a total narc. Authorities in Grants Pass, Oregon, were able to bust Curtis W. Croft’s backyard marijuana growing operation after seeing satellite images of his property on Google Earth.
According to the Grants Pass Daily Courier, local police were initially tipped off after Croft was reported to have been bragging about his bountiful crops around town. After catching word of his activities, somebody in the force had the bright idea to do some research and check out an aerial view of his property online. Once they saw the neatly-planted rows of greenery, they had to dig deeper.
Google Earth images are rarely up to date, so to confirm that the drugs were still being grown, The Rogue Area Drug Enforcement Team then sent up a small aircraft to take pictures of Croft’s property. The images they snapped affirmed that the grow op was indeed still up and running. There’s no telling exactly how outdated Google’s satellite images were, but it’s safe to say that Croft had been in the growing game for quite a while.
Medical marijuana is actually legal in Oregon, and as a registered caretaker with five patients, Croft was legally allowed to grow up to 30 mature plants. But when the cops raided his property last week, they discovered 94 – more than triple his legal limit. Croft was arrested on drug charges and released last week according to the Seattle Times.
So a word to the wise for all you aspiring drug kingpins out there: If you plan on growing ganja, make sure you plant it erratically so web-savvy cops can’t spot your garden from Google.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
4 Apps to Help You with What to Wear
Ever stood looking into your closet and felt like you have nothing to wear?Inspiration can come from a reorganization of your closet–I’ve found sorting by color can be an eye-opening experience–and tapping into one of the following apps. They’ll help you put together great outfits, even taking the day’s weather report into consideration.
Cloth
Cloth
The idea for this iPhone and iPod touch app came from a fashionista who had more than 1,000 items in her closet and wanted to catalog the seemingly endless combinations she could put together. Cloth lets you add Instagram-like effects to your photos and encourages you to share photos of your favorite outfits with friends on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr; the more you share, the more badges and points you receive.
You can also tag outfits with descriptors such as “vacation,” “everyday” or “events” so as to pull up all related looks in one place. And, with a $0.99 in-app purchase, you can tag outfits with weather conditions, such as “Freezing” or “Rain,” so you’re automatically presented with outfits appropriate for the day’s weather conditions.
Price: Free at iTunes
Stylebook
Stylebook
People who enjoy planning their outfits will appreciateStylebook’s powerful features. Not only can you use your iPhone, iPod or iPad to snap photos of individual items in your closet, you can remove the image backgrounds and then pull the images onto a white canvas several items at once to see how they’ll look together. If an item you pull into the ensemble appears out of proportion on the canvas, the resizing tool lets you scale it down to the appropriate size.
Stylebook lets you shop for new items and even has a calendar so you can commit to wearing a particular outfit days, weeks or months in advance. Want inspiration about low-tech gear that can help you organize your closet? Stylebook has some ideas.
Price: $3.99 at iTunes
Stylicious
Stylicious
Stylicious has many of the same features as Cloth and Stylebook but for Android users. It lets you snap photos of your clothes, shoes and accessories and tag and categorize them to let you pull up similar items together. It includes a calendar to help you plan outfits and keep track of what you wore when.
Stylicious is highly geared toward shopping and includes a copious fashion ideas, a tab in which you can see which items are most wished for in a handful of countries, and a handy feature that lets you bookmark particular brands and show you only items that are on sale. You can also share images you have stored in Stylicious on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.
Price: Free at Google Play
Houzz
Houzz
If you’re thinking about going further than just reorganizing your closet and looking into remodeling, Houzz is a web platform and mobile app you absolutely must try. It features more than 2 million photos uploaded by remodeling and design pros that you can save to idea books. At the moment, for example, a search for the term “closet” returns nearly 50,000 photos. If for example you wanted to see only photos of shoe racks, Houzz offers more than 1,300 unique ideas.
If you need professional help with your project, Houzz lets you filter its community of professionals according to location and type of service you need as well as which services have been recently reviewed or most reviewed.
Price: Free for the web or at iTunes or Google Play
Of course, when organizing your wardrobe, there’s bound to be a few things you don’t wear anymore. For your designer clothes, a quick and easy way to turn your clothes into cash is the Sold app. For other items, you can always go the eBay route.
This article was written by Christina DesMarais and originally appeared on Techlicious.
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4 Reasons You Need the iPhone 5S and 5 Reasons You Don’t
For those of you keeping score, that's nine total reasons
Welcome to the bifurcated future of Apple smartphones: aluminum vs. polycarbonate, gilded vs. candy-colored, fingerprint scanner vs. fingerprint magnet, 64 bit vs. 32 bit, high end vs. low end, expensive vs. slightly less expensive, iPhone 5S vs. iPhone 5C. Post–Steve Jobs Apple clearly recognizes the one-size-fits-all approach is a losing proposition; add the company’s perpetuation of its now free (with contract) iPhone 4S to the parade, and you’ve got the Cupertino trifecta.
Or do you? The iPhone 5C, basically an iPhone 5 wrapped in colorized plastic, while cheaper when viewed as a core iPhone, isn’t as budget-priced as most predicted (predictedbeing punditry’s euphemism for wishfully projected). And the 3.5-inch (8.9 cm) iPhone 4S, while still competent in the performance department, looks pretty squeezed in 2013 contrasted with the 4-in. (10.2 cm) iPhone 5 family and embiggened phones from competitors like HTC and Samsung.
Which leaves the souped-up iPhone 5S. Time to spring for one? Here’s the pros angle:
Your contract’s up.
Bullet point, meet Captain Obvious. If you’re due for an upgrade, you can get your foot in the door with a 16-GB iPhone 5S for just $199, same as I did when I bought my 16-GB iPhone 5 a year ago. If you’re thinking the $99 16-GB iPhone 5C looks tastier, price-wise, think again — the iPhone 5S’s feature and performance leaps are probably worth at least the $100 gulf. Were I off contract, I’d buy the iPhone 5S in a heartbeat, no ifs, ands or buts.
You want to play the most graphically advanced games as smoothly as possible.
The A7 processor beating at the core of Apple’s iPhone 5S sounds like a mobile beast. According to Apple, it’s up to twice as fast as the already peppy A6 processor found in the iPhone 5 and utilizes over a billion transistors (without getting any bigger). I’d just be guessing about Infinity Blade III’s performance iPhone to iPhone, since no one’s benchmarked it yet, but doubtless more advanced games are on the way, and if you plan to hold on to the 5S for a full two-year contract cycle, you won’t be as far behind the curve if you choose to skip the iPhone 6.
You need a better low-light camera.
This one’s a stretch, because the physical improvements are more like tweaks, but for optics wonks, the iPhone 5S’s iSight camera (rear facing) is slightly larger than the iPhone 5’s, its f-number dropping from f/2.4 to f/2.2 (lower is better), which basically means it’ll outperform the iPhone 5 in low-light situations. It’ll also do auto image stabilization, allowing you to take multiple photos at once and combine the sharpest parts of each. It has a more nuanced flash, and you can access a new burst mode (hold the shutter to snap up to 10 frames per second) or use a SloMo camera app that lets you shoot video at up to 120 frames per second at 720p.
You desperately want a gold (or silver, or — uh — “space gray”) iPhone.
Hey, some people still buy jewelry, so I guess having an iPhone in bling colors is important for someone out there.
And now, the dimmer view:
You already own an iPhone 5.
This one’s a rule of thumb: never buy the phone that comes after the one you last bought. If you have an iPhone 5, the iPhone 5C is pointless, while the iPhone 5S is to your phone what the iPhone 4S was to the iPhone 4. The faster processor, the better low-light camera, the fingerprint scanner — all modest improvements, not must-haves like a leap to AMOLED-screen tech might be, or a width bump to hit a 5-in. (12.7 cm) diagonal.
Unless you’re carelessly wealthy, in other words, there aren’t enough reasons — especially if you’re on contract, which you probably are, since the iPhone 5’s only been with us since September 2012 — to make the incremental switch.
64 bit is meaningless right now.
People still conflate memory address and data-path widths with metrics like processor speed, seeing the bigger numbers and assuming they mean faster in terms of raw integer or floating-point performance. I blame the Nintendo 64, sporting a number mostly designed to p.r.-hassle Sony’s 32-bit PlayStation and Sega’s dual 32-bit processor Saturn.
A 64-bit processor offers significant benefits if you want to address more memory, but applications have to be written to take advantage of its architecture. Don’t fall for the marketing hype: the A7 processor’s 64-bit-ness is about future-proofing, which is an argument for waiting and giving developers a chance to catch up.
Battery life’s probably no better.
All Apple’s said about the iPhone 5S’s battery life so far is that the A7 processor delivers more without draining the lithium-ion pond any faster. Translation: battery life’s probably about the same as the iPhone 5’s.
Secure fingerprint scanners aren’t necessarily secure.
When I was with a Fortune 500 transportation company in the early 2000s (and post-9/11), I worked with a security team looking into biometric authentication tools (consumer-grade fingerprint-scanning technology has been around for over a decade in consumer tech — it’s hardly as “innovative” as Apple’s Phil Schiller suggests). When I left in 2004, the company was still looking for something secure enough. As security analyst Bruce Schneier aptly puts it in an op-ed for Wired, “Your fingerprint isn’t a secret; you leave it everywhere you touch.”
I’m not saying a fingerprint scanner on a smartphone can’t be interesting or cool or a smidgen more convenient (or safer while driving) for authentication than tapping out a pass code, but don’t kid yourself: fingerprint scanners are eminently hackable, and buying an iPhone 5S for this feature alone, mistaking it for Batman- or James Bond–caliber tech, is a bad idea.
Your contract isn’t up.
Have $649, $749 or $849 burning a hole in your pocket to pay the out-of-contract full price for the 16-GB, 32-GB or 64-GB iPhone 5S respectively? Me neither.
New Nexus 7? Here Are 25 Great-Looking Android Tablet Apps
Celebrating apps that take full advantage of the larger screen.
Down With Stretched-Out, Blown-Up Apps
If you just purchased Google’s second-generation Nexus 7, you’ll soon discover that not all tablet apps are created equal. Some developers haven’t put in the work to make their apps look good on larger screens, which is too bad, because when they do, it’s a wonderful thing. In the interest of positive reinforcement, here are 25 apps that look terrific on the Nexus 7, making full use of the 7-inch display.
Oh, and just to be clear, we’re not going to include games (because they all generally look fine on tablets) and Google apps like Chrome and Drive, which are pre-loaded on the Nexus 7. AccuWeather
Don’t laugh; although Accuweather’s website is a cluttered mess, its Android app is a great example of sharp design.
What’s in it for tablets: Each column fills the screen with useful information in portrait mode, and in landscape you get a handy sidebar for switching between sections.
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The 25 Best Bloggers, 2013 Edition
Our honorees include everyone from one of the people who invented blogging back in the 1990s to a clever creator of animated GIFs who launched his Tumblr blog in May.
For years now, pundits have been knowingly declaring that blogging is dead, rendered irrelevant by alternative means of personal publishing such as Facebook and Twitter. The best way to quash that silly notion is to read scads of blogs, as we did to compile this story. Gifted bloggers are busy everywhere from their own hand-crafted sites to sites operated by major corporations, and their best work is at least as good as anything from the era when blogging was trendy rather than tried-and-true.
Our honorees this year include everyone from one of the people who invented blogging back in the 1990s to a clever creator of animated GIFs who launched his Tumblr blog in May. Read all about ‘em — then let us know about your favorites in the comments.
The 25 Best Bloggers, 2013 Edition
- Worthwhile Reading
- Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess
- Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
- Mark Gurman, 9to5Mac
- Martin Cherrett, World War II Today
- Erik Wemple, The Erik Wemple Blog
- Tynan
- Jenny Williams, What My Daughter Wore
- James Bridle, Dronestagram
- Jessie Rosen, 20-Nothings
- Sophie Sarin, Djenne Djenno
- John Teti, The Gameological Society
- Jason Kottke, Kottke.org
- Heidi Swanson, 101 Cookbooks
- Bruce Schneier, Schneier on Security
- Mark Forsyth, The Inky Fool
- Mark Evanier, News From Me
- Deborah Blum, Elemental
- Allie Hagan, Suri’s Burn Book
- James Fallows, The Atlantic
- Emily Nussbaum, Culture Desk
- Andrew Revkin, Dot Earth
- Patrick Smith, Ask the Pilot
- Trevor Carmick, Beer Labels in Motion
- Tim Starks, The Queensberry Rules
- Theron Humphrey, Maddie on Things
25 Games to Watch for Summer 2013
Summer's most anticipated PC, console and handheld video games are nearly here.
Video Games Summer 2013
- Dark
- NCAA Football 14
- Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Brave New World
- Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection
- Velocity Ultra
- Shin Megami Tensei IV
- Pikmin 3
- Tales of Xillia
- Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
- Europa Universalis IV
- Disney Infinity
- Saints Row IV
- Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Blacklist
- Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
- Lost Planet 3
- Madden NFL 25
- Rayman Legends
- Diablo III
- Total War: Rome II
- Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix
- Puppeteer
- NHL 14
- Killzone: Mercenary
- The Wonderful 101
- Grand Theft Auto V
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