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Shocking stories of persons who has abnormal body parts

A man with the Tree Roots on his hands and foots

An Indonesian fisherman who is "half man half tree" has been offered new hope of recovery by an American doctor - and Vitamin A.

32-year-old Dede, who lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children, feared that he would be killed by the tree-like growths that cover his body.

Known locally as 'Tree Man' his condition has baffled local doctors for 20 years.

He has root like structures growing out of his body - branches that can grow up to 5cm a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering his whole body.

In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his Tree Man limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in 'freak' shows.

The former fisherman was the subject of a documentary "Half Man Half Tree", part of the "My Shocking Story" series on Discovery Channel TV.

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Amazing Personalities

Top 10 Miss India Winners of All Time

Girls who have won the coveted title have gone on to live glamorous lives with most of them opting for modelling or acting. We bring forth the list of the Top 10 Miss India winners of all time who were better, in one way or the other, than all the other winners.

1. Leela Naidu

The beautiful Leela Naidu won the Miss India title in the year 1954. She featured in the list of the "World's Ten Most Beautiful Women" as named by Vogue magazine. She starred in a few Hindi and English films and passed away in the year 2009.

2. Rita Faria

Rita Faria was the first Indian woman to bring home the Miss World Crown in 1966. However after the completion of her one year tenure asMiss World, she refused all modelling and film offers and opted, instead, for medical studies

3. Zeenat Aman

Actress Zeenat Aman found fame after being declared the second runner up in the Miss India contest.She was later crowned Miss Asia Pacific in 1970. Aman, then, embarked on a journey of modelling and films and was one of those actresses who helped change the perception of Indian women as meek and submissive in the country.

4. Juhi Chawla

Juhi Chawla won the Miss India crown in 1984 and she is considered to be one of the finest of the lot. Juhi moved to a filmy career, during which, she captured the imagination of millions of fans.

5. Madhu Sapre

Madhu Sapre came close to winning the Miss Universe crown in1992 but she claims she could not do so because she wasn't politically correct and or proficient in English. She was crowned the second runner up and Madhu went on to become one of the most bold and iconic model India had ever seen.

6. Sushmita Sen

Sushmita Sen was the woman who ended India's drought at the Miss Universe contest in the year 1994. The first Indian to win the title, Sush was a cut above the rest from the very start. She not only established herself as an actress but also showed her mettle as a woman by single-handedly taking care of her two adopted daughters.

7. Aishwarya Rai

Aishwarya Rai was the second woman to win the Miss World crown. After coming second to Sushmita Sen in the Miss India contest, Ash did not let that happen again and brought the title home. Today, Ash is one of the most recognized Indian faces on the global platform and has lived yp to her title of being a 'Miss World'.

8. Diana Hayden

Diana can be termed as one of the most charming Miss India winners with her perfect poise andcrisp diction. She was also the only Miss World contestant to score a hattrick at the Miss World contest in 1997- Miss Photogenic, Miss Beachwear and Miss World.

9. Lara Dutta

Lara Dutta is the only other woman after Sushmita Sen to win the Miss Universe title. Lara won the title in the year 2000. She is, today, an actress, a producer and a very supportive wife to husband Mahesh Bhupathi.

10. Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka was the last Indian who won the Miss World title. Its been over ten years that India has returned empty handed from the international contests. Priyanka has created a niche for herself in the industry with spectacular performances in various films. At present, she is ruling the roost in Bollywood as she is amongst the top actresses

Crazy Military Tracking Tech [Army]

Scents that make you trackable, indoors and out. Nanocrystals that stick to your body, and light up on night-vision goggles. Miniradar that maps your location on Google Earth.
You can run, but you'll learn it's hard to hide from a new range of military tech.
The Defense Department calls it "tagging, tracking and locating," or TTL, this business of finding and following high-value targets on the battlefield. Ever since SEAL Team 6 took out Osama bin Laden, we've learned a lot about the technology used by special operators to find and reach their targets, from stealth helicopters to biometric identification devices. TTL gear, though, ranks among the spookiest Special Operations' extremely spooky arsenal.
The military has spent a hefty chunk of change on TTL tech: $450 million has gone to a single company, Blackbird Technologies of Herndon, Virginia, which has emerged as the leader in this covert field. Millions more have gone to the development of bleeding-edge tracking methods, encompassing everything from human-thermal-fingerprint detection and miniature crop-dusting drones to radar-responsive tags.
Al-Qaida says it found spies using infrared beacons to call in drone strikes in Pakistan. A Pakistani Taliban commander claims the United States puts tracking "chips" in cellphones, in order to train Hellfire missiles on militants. But these aren't the only technologies that can to secretly track people.
With one technology, trackers might not even need to see you to get a fix on your location. Like bloodhounds on the hunt, they can smell their way to you. Tracer Detection Technology Corp. marks targets with a paraffin wax crayon, filled with a perfluorocarbon, a thermally-stable compound used in everything from refrigerators to cosmetics. The perfluorocarbon's vapor can then be tracked with sensors, such as a gas chromatograph. The smell lingers for hours. Think locking yourself in a room with the windows closed or removing the tag will help? Too bad, you still reek. According to a research report submitted to the Justice Department (.pdf), the perfluorocarbon tracers can "permeate closed doors and windows, containers and luggage," and even give you away for a while after a tagged item is removed.
Over the years, the company has received a number of research contracts from the Navy. But Tracer president  Jay Fraser won't say much about how those projects have gone. "Tracer is developing a unique TTL capability that will make it very difficult for enemy and criminal enterprises to operate," he e-mails Danger Room. "The nature of our current and pending customers makes it hard for us to answer the rest of your questions."
Now a second tracer: Imagine walking up to a target and patting him on the back with a clear liquid on your hand. He might never notice it, but you'd be able to see - and follow - him from a distance using night vision goggles. Oregon-based Voxtel makes a product, "NightMarks," that can do just that. NightMarks are tiny nanocrystal quantum dots that can be hidden in clear liquids and seen only through a sensor like night-vision goggles.
How do these tiny dots work? "You can change the optical properties of materials by making them small on the order of a nanometer in size," Voxtel CEO George Williams tells Danger Room. "When they get down to that size, they have quantum-confinement effects that cause their absorption and emission properties - the light they absorb, the light they put out - to change," he says. "And so using that, you can make all sorts of spectral barcodes that allow you to identify it and track."
Williams is tight-lipped about Voxtel's relationship with the Defense Department and the military applications of its technology. However, a quick look at one 2008 Voxtel contract with the Navy indicates that the Department already understands how useful the technology can be for tracking targets. The contract asks for "covert microtaggants composed of nanocrystals" visible through sensors like night-vision goggles to "enable war fighters the ability to track entities buried in urban clutter."
Another company has proposed a somewhat counterintuitive solution for military tagging: making sure its signal decays. You might think that being able to see a taggant signal for as long as possible is always a good thing, but according to a briefing (.pdf) from TIAX LLC, it can actually be a problem.
Leftover taggants that last for long periods of time can apparently clutter up an area with signals, and the mess can hinder a tracker's ability to distinguish between the subjects of new and old tags. If they're still advertising their presence long after usefulness, opponents might also be able to find and reverse-engineer the material. To get around the problem, the briefing mentions that TIAX is working on "customizable degradable taggants" - exact composition unspecified - that will lose their signal over time.
Other technologies are useful in defensive tracking, such as for perimeter security on small firebases. SpotterRF, makes a small radar-sensor system, the SpotterRF M600, that's about the size of a small netbook computer and can conveniently point out humans creeping up on your position on Google Earth. The M600 uses radio waves in the X band that can detect walkers up to 1,000 meters [0.62 miles] and vehicles as far away as 1,500 meters. It integrates with Google Earth by using its own built-in GPS to fix the device's position and overlay tracked targets onto the mapping service.
The effect, a company rep e-mails, is "like being able to stick a GPS tracking device on someone without having to come anywhere near the person or vehicle." It's yet another way to hunt someone down who might not want to be hunted.

Google Stands Against PROTECT IP

Last week a bill was tabled in the American senate that would allow the Department of Justice to take out a court order against sites accused of infringing copyright. Google's Erik Schmidt came outstrongly against the bill in London on the 18th. Is this an attempt on Google to do no evil, or is there more at stake for the company here?
The bill, called PROTECT IP, would allow the Department of Justice to seek a court order against sites accused of copyright violations. The order would be served against ISPs, internet advertisers, domain name providers and search engines. The site thus targeted would be required to disappear as soon as possible.
Eric Schmidt said that Google would not support the bill if it were to be passed. He said: ""If there is a law that requires DNSs to do X and it's passed by both houses of Congress and signed by the President of the United States and we disagree with it then we would still fight it." … "If it's a request the answer is we wouldn't do it, if it's a discussion we wouldn't do it."
On one hand, supporters of free speech are applauding Google's stance. There are far too many stories of content creators who have had their content pulled due to DMCA violations that either were not violations or were an unfair use of a draconian law. Giving even more weight to that law seems unwise if your major concern is the freedom of information. Critics fear that the bill would give the government a way to vanish sites at will.
The central problem with Schmidt's pronouncement is that Google's stance has not been quite so clear in the past. Not long ago, the company was threatening to remove the Pirate Bay and other sites like it from AdSense, and attempting to stop block terms connected with piracy from the instant search function.
Even as recently as April, Google's general counsel Kent Walker was in front of Congress testifying as to Google's antipiracy solutions. He outlined what Google has done thus far, but did caution against strong antipiracy measures that might create problems of their own. He was not nearly as outspoken as Schmidt.
So, why the switch? Why is Google all of a sudden not quite so willing to give the boot to piracy sites? Could it have something to do with the fact that when it was in favor of restrictions on piracy sites, it was attempting to garner deals with the record industry for its music service? Now that it's released the service without need for licenses, maybe it's not quite so willing to play ball with the big label companies.
It's refreshing to see someone willing to stand up to the government in favor of free speech. I only hope that Google's motives have as much to do with rights as it does with their business strategies.
What are your thoughts? What do you think of Schmidt's stance? What do you think of the US bill? Do you think the bill will pass?

An Explosion At Foxconn Chengdu Engulfs Building, 16 Hurt, 2 Killed

What appears to be a fire or explosion engulfed one of the buildings at the Foxconn Factory in Chengdu, China. Foxconn is reporting two casualties and 16 hurt and the damage does look severe and quite thorough. MICGadget reported that "10 fire engines, ambulances and 10 police cars" arrived on the scene. Reports state that a few floors in Building A5 (apparently part of the iPad 2 production line) were affected and that the explosion was caused by light dust igniting in one of the manufacturing rooms.
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Bear grylls amazing person

MAN VS. WILD host, author and seasoned adventurer BEAR GRYLLS began a lifetime of exploration at an early age. Bear grew up on the Isle of Wight, and as a young boy would go mountain climbing with his father.

He served three years with the Special Air Service, a special forces unit of the British army. During his service, he broke his back in three places in a parachuting accident over Southern Africa.

Despite the accident and severity of his injury, Bear went on in 1998 to become, at age 23, the youngest British climber to complete a summit and descent of Mount Everest. He wrote about his experience in the book, The Kid Who Climbed Everest.

Not content to slow down, Bear achieved another first when he and his Everest climbing group circumnavigated the United Kingdom on jet skis. He also led the first unassisted crossing of the frozen North Atlantic Ocean in an open rigid inflatable boat. His book about this adventure, Facing the Frozen Ocean, was shortlisted as the U.K.'s "Sports Book of the Year." Bear was awarded a commission in the Royal Navy in honor of leading this record-breaking expedition.

In June 2005, Bear broke a world record by hosting a dinner party at a table suspended below a hot air balloon at 24,500 feet. He rappelled from the balloon's basket to the table, where in full naval uniform he ate a three-course meal before saluting the queen and skydiving to earth. His goal was to support the work of two charities: the Prince's Trust and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

Bear hosted a 2005 television series for the U.K.'s Channel Four, called Escape to the Legion, in which he took a group of young men to the Western Sahara Desert to undergo the French Foreign Legion's infamous basic training. A second Channel Four series, titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls, completed its U.K. run in April 2007.

On May 15, 2007, Bear set another world record when he became the first person to fly over Mount Everest by powered paraglider. Supported by the GKN Mission Everest Team, Grylls and fellow pilot Giles (Gilo) Gardozo flew specially developed paramotors. Though a fault in Gilo's machine forced him to abort only 1,000 feet below the summit, Bear continued to ascend until he reached 29,500 feet and was able to look down on Everest as he circled above some of the most famous peaks in the Himalayas. Then his own engine developed problems and he, too, had to glide back to safety — but he had achieved his goal. The mission raised $1 million for the Global Angels Foundation, a charity that supports children in Africa. Filmed by the Planet Earth team, Bear and Gilo's undertaking will be made into a two-hour documentary for Discovery Channel and Channel Four in the U.K.

Bear's most recent book, Born Survivor: Survival Techniques From the Most Dangerous Places on Earth, was released in spring 2007. It is already listed on the Sunday Times Top 10 Best-Seller List.

He has hosted the Discovery Channel's MAN VS. WILD, in which he strands himself in remote locations to demonstrate localized survival techniques, since November 2006.

Bear lives on a converted barge on the River Thames with his wife Shara and their young sons Jesse, Marmaduke and Huckleberry.

Anil Kapoor bags Hollywood project

Anil Kapoor is riding high post 'Slumdog Millionaire'. After sharing screen space with Tom Cruise in 'Mission Impossible 4', he will next be seen in financial thriller 'Cities' opposite Hollywood star Clive Owen.

The Roger Donaldson directed project will be launched at the upcoming Cannes film festival's market and some parts of the movie will be shot in Mumbai.

The film is being described as a cautionary tale about greed and ambition that takes place on a global scale in three colliding story lines set in the exuberant months leading up to the Dow Jones all-time stock market high, the Hollywood Reporter said.

The three involve a New York-based hedge fund manager (Owen) who has everything he wants -- money, sex and power -- but he wants more; a young couple in London that just wants to buy their first home, something that seems impossibly out of reach; and a Mumbai cop, who fights against corruption between property speculators and his colleagues, one of whom will be played by Kapoor.

Donaldson co-wrote the script from an original script titled 'Extreme Cities', written by Glenn Wilhide. They are planning to begin shooting the movie in October in London, Mumbai and New York.

Kapoor's international career shot up post his role as a mean game show host in Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire', which also helped launch Indian beauty Freida Pinto in Hollywood.

Report says bin Laden's guns found untouched after his death

THE AMERICAN soldiers who killed Osama bin Laden found his two guns only after he was dead, while they photographed his dead body, according to a detailed new account of the al-Qaeda leader’s final moments.

The Associated Press revelation will add further fuel for critics who say US forces acted illegally in killing the unarmed Saudi fugitive. The Obama administration insists the shooting was lawful.

Meanwhile, US relations with Pakistan have found a fresh point of friction following an exchange of fire between Nato and Pakistani forces along the Afghan border. Two Pakistani soldiers were injured after opening fire on two Nato helicopters that crossed into Datta Khel, North Waziristan.

Pakistan’s military condemned the incident as a “violation of Pakistan air space” and lodged a “strong protest”. A Nato spokesman in Kabul said the shooting started after a Nato base came under fire from the Pakistani side of the border.

The AP account of the raid on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, based on interviews with senior US officials, resolves some subsidiary mysteries about the size and sequence of the dramatic US navy seal raid that ended the hunt for bin Laden on May 2nd. But it also throws up fresh questions about how Pakistan’s air defence systems failed to stop the American forces entering or leaving.

The US raiding party slipped into Pakistan in five helicopters – two stealth Black Hawks carrying 23 navy seals, an interpreter and a sniffer dog named Cairo, and three Chinooks carrying 24 backup soldiers that landed in a remote mountain area north of Abbottabad, the garrison town where bin Laden was hiding. In recent days, two Pakistani television channels have identified the mountain area as Khala Dhaka, a semi-autonomous tribal area, having interviewed villagers who saw the crafts land and take off.

The soldiers planned to swoop on bin Laden’s house from three sides: sliding down ropes on to the roof, the compound and outside the wall. But the first Black Hawk swayed erratically as it hovered over the compound because of higher than expected temperatures and crashed against a wall. The pilot ditched the plane in bin Laden’s yard and the entire raiding party entered from the ground floor, using small explosives to blow their way through walls and doors.

The AP reported the Americans found “barriers” at each stair landing of the three-storey building, encountered fire once and killed three men and one woman. The account did not specify how many of the dead were armed. On the top floor they found bin Laden at the end of the hallway. They said they recognised him “immediately”. Bin Laden ducked into a room, followed quickly by three seals.

The first soldier pushed aside two women who tried to protect bin Laden, apparently fearing they were wearing suicide vests, while the second opened fire on the al-Qaeda leader, hitting him in the head and chest. Moments later, as the Americans photographed his body, they found an AK-47 rifle and a Makarov pistol on a shelf beside the door they had just entered. Bin Laden had not touched the weapons, according to the AP account.

Controversy over bin Laden’s death has dogged the White House since May 2nd, especially after early claims that he had been armed and used one of his wives as a human shield proved to be false.

The only witnesses who could contradict the American account are bin Laden’s three wives and children, who are currently in Pakistani custody. After much pressure from Washington, US officials were allowed briefly to speak with them last week.

The women reportedly refused to answer questions and Pakistan says they will be repatriated to their native Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It is not clear when this will happen. – ( Guardian service)

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Obama's upcoming speech will spell out his Mideast rationale

                                  
President Obama will seek to define his administration's stance toward the rapid changes in the Middle East and North Africa in a major address Thursday in which he will cast the U.S. as a facilitator rather than the instigator of political change in the Arab world.

As uprisings have swept through the region, Obama has been criticized from both the left and the right for taking too passive an approach. In Egypt, as demonstrators began demanding the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, a longtime U.S. ally, the administration initially seemed to vacillate on its course, and ended up angering Mubarak's supporters as well as his opponents.

In Bahrain and Syria, the U.S. has largely remained on the sidelines as authoritarian regimes have sought to crush domestic opposition. And in Libya, the U.S. has backed the use of NATO military power against Moammar Kadafi's regime in a limited fashion.

Critics have said the administration is merely reacting to events and lacks an overall strategy. Obama's speech, aides say, will give the president an opportunity to lay out the rationale for his approach.

One senior administration official said Obama wanted to prevent critics of the Arab democracy movement from being able to accuse the U.S. of meddling. He wants the U.S. to be in a position to offer support for expression of the popular will without "inserting the U.S. into the process."

In that regard, Obama's policy contrasts sharply with that of the George W. Bush administration, which put great emphasis on the U.S. freedom to act unilaterally and use military force to pursue its foreign policy goals.

In his speech, Obama will praise the idea of nonviolent protest and call on Arab leaders to take the demands of their people seriously without further violence.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney pointedly called on the Syrian government Tuesday to stop repressing its people, suggesting there is a limit to international tolerance.

Aides indicated the president might also use the speech to characterize Osama bin Laden, slain in a U.S. military assault early this month, as a figure of the past and the current uprisings as a repudiation of the Al Qaeda terrorist network's doctrine of violence.

Obama also will also discuss one of the region's defining disputes: the struggle between Israel and its Arab neighbors. He is expected to indicate that the administration will oppose a proposed U.N. resolution that would recognize Palestinian statehood and will emphasize the U.S. stance that direct talks between the parties, not unilateral efforts, are the best way to forge a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

Officials indicated that Obama would not offer any wide-ranging new American peace proposals.

After a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday, the president vowed to press toward a new round of Israeli-Palestinian talks, but he gave no hint of how or when he intended to try to restart them.

Administration aides have debated how specific the president should be in his call for peace. Some wanted him to lay out his prescriptions in detail, while others preferred generalized statements that would avoid aggravating Obama's tense relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuor large segments of the American Jewish population, according to a person familiar with the White House discussions.

The atmosphere around the speech is politically charged. Republican presidential candidates are looking for weaknesses in Obama's foreign policy positions, and the White House is making an effort to rally Jewish leaders and other groups to its agenda.

Republicans have been hoping to capitalize on tensions between the president and elements of the Jewish community, a relationship that has been fluctuating since his high-profile speech in Cairo in 2009. Some of Obama's critics are already referring to this week's address as the Cairo sequel. Netanyahu will address a joint session of Congress next week as the guest of House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio).

In a private briefing Tuesday for Jewish religious and other community leaders, four top White House aides portrayed Obama as an unwavering friend of Israel. The four included Daniel B. Shapiro, a national security aide and Obama's nominee as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Those who attended the meeting said Shapiro described the Islamic militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah, as well as the rulers of Iran, as hardened enemies of Israel. He also spelled out the administration's opposition to the Palestinian proposal for U.N. recognition of its statehood.

The day after the speech, Obama will meet with Netanyahu, and on Sunday he will address the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, an influential pro-Israel lobby.

In the Arab world, listeners are likely to approach Obama's speech with skepticism. A poll released Thursday by the Pew Research Center shows that the U.S. is viewed no more favorably in the region than before the uprisings. America's image remains negative in key Arab nations and other predominantly Muslim countries, according to the report, and is worse in Jordan, Turkey andPakistan than it was a year ago.

Obama himself remains unpopular in the Muslim nations surveyed, with the exception of Indonesia, and most respondents disapproved of the way he has responded to the uprisings.

"People are looking to see a developed U.S. position," said Daniel Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt. "This is a moment to have a presidential articulation of how the U.S. looks at the respective political changes in Egypt and at the terrible situation that's developing in Syria and that is ongoing in Libya."