South Africa, Pietermaritzburg - A 14-year-old Pietermaritzburg teenager is recovering after he was attacked by a swarm of bees, leaving him with 75 bee stings.Stuart Duncan was at home on Tuesday afternoon when the swarm came from his garden into the house and attacked him.His mother, Roanne Duncan, who was at work at the time,said she received a panic-stricken call from her in-laws who live in a cottage in her yard.She said she was happy that her son survived the ordeal.“We are grateful that he is fine. It could have been far worse.”Jumped into poolShe said her son escaped thebees by fleeing through the front door.“But when he got outside, hewas met by another swarm that attacked him there.”He jumped into the swimming pool as a way of protecting himself.His two dogs, Milo and Norman, were also attacked.Milo escaped to a neighbour’s yard, while Norman collapsed and died from the multiple stings.When she arrived home, Duncan said, her son was in the shower trying to get rid of the remaining bees.“He was frightened. Fortunately, he is not allergic to bees.”An ambulance arrived and asthey were making their way inside, the bees came and attacked Stewart again.“They came in and went straight for him.“He was screaming and shouting,” Duncan explained.Rushed to hospitalThey got rid of the bees and Stuart was rushed to St Anne’s hospital, where he was put on a drip and given an antihistamine injection.Stuart was stung on his head, neck, arms, back and torso.“He’s got red marks, but is not swollen,” Duncan said.The Grade 9 Maritzburg College pupil missed his first day of school on Wednesday because he was still recovering, but managed to go to school on Thursday.His mother said that although he is a quiet boy, he was “quieter” on Wednesday.“He is dealing with the loss of his pet. He felt he could have done something to help.”She said nothing like this hadever happened in her 18 years of living on that property.“We don’t know where they [bees] came from. I have never heard of anyone in Maritzburg who was attacked.”
Friday 18 January 2013
A Ruthless Desire To Win At All Costs Was My Biggest Flaw - Lance Armstrong Tells Oprah Winfrey
Lance Armstrong who was recently found guilty of doping and was stripped of seven Tour De France titles revealed all in an exclusive interview with Oprah Winfrey Network.
Lance cheated as a cyclist and lied about it, he also set up a charitable organization-Livestrong-through which he raised half a billion dollars and saved countless lives.
Today, Armstrong talked about his cheating and doping for the first time since the accusations surfaced at a taped interview with Oprah.
He said that the last time he doped was the year 2005 claiming he was clean between 2009 and 2010
Below are some of his words as he confessed to Oprah:
"I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated many times"
"All of the fault and all of the blame falls on me."
"I didn't invent the culture but I didn't try to stop it. And the sport is now paying the price. I'm sorry for that."
"My cocktail so to speak was EPO, transfusions and testosterone""
"It was a competitive time and we all made our choices but there were people on the team who chose not to dope,"
"I am now out of the business of lying to people."
"Yes I used banned substances"
"Yes I will do anything to win, at all costs?"
"It was win at all costs. When I was diagnosed (with cancer) I would do anything to survive.
'My career was reckless, I am flawed, deeply flawed'
"It did not feel wrong to win the Tour de France and I did not feel bad about it. I did not feel I was cheating,"
'Doping didn't feel wrong and it didn't feel like cheating. At the time. Viewed it "as a level playing field.""
"The definition of cheat is to gain an advantage on a rival or foe. I didn't do it that way."
"...I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologise to people for what has happened,"
"I see the anger in people ... the betrayal ... the anger ... and they have every right ... and it's my fault.""
“There are people in this story, they are good people, we’ve all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil."
He has just admitted to 15 years of deceit.
Olympics, Tour de France has asked him to return all the medals that he won and received in major biking competitions.
Nations Cup: “I Will Strip To My Shorts If We Win The Trophy” – Enyeama
Enyeama, who is on loan at Maccabi Tel Aviv from Ligue 1 side Lille, is likely to be in between the posts for Stephen Keshi’s team, after Austine Ejide picked up a thigh injury.
“It will be a dream come true and I am certain I will strip to my shorts. Yes, let everyone hear it that I will strip to my shorts if we are champions,” the former Enyimba goalie said.
Beyond the continental fiesta, Enyeama is looking to keep playing till he is 40 years or more.
The stopper however said he takes each match as it comes, even as Nigeria awaits its first trophy in 19 years.
“Personally, I do not think we are looking at the trophy for now. We want to win the first game, then the next and then the one after that,” he said.
“Nigerians should have faith in us, believe the best of us and pray for us. It is not beyond our abilities to win the competition with God on our side.”
Thursday 17 January 2013
24-Year-Old Man Films Himself Raping A Woman
A 24-year-old Iranian immigrant who filmed himself raping a
woman at knife-point on his Apple iPad was today jailed for six years.
Hesam Khosravi kicked and beat his victim and threatened to tape her mouth up during the attack in Trafford, Greater Manchester.
He pulled her around by her hair and forced her to strip and perform a sex act before raping her, Minshull Crown Court in Manchester heard.
During the harrowing half-hour of footage, which was shown in court, Khosravi can be heard laughing and commentating on the assault in Farsi as the woman cries and sobs throughout.
Police found the recording on his iPad after he was arrested for an unconnected offence - but Khosravi claimed it was consensual ‘role-play’.
Before the video was shown, the judge warned the court of the 'very distressing' footage and told the public gallery: ‘This is the time to leave if anyone does not want to watch the video.’
Jonathan Dickinson, prosecuting, said Khosravi rested his iPad on a windowsill, lit the room with a halogen lamp and pressed record in a deliberate bid to capture the assault last April.
He said: ‘He begins by asking her questions - what's your name, etc. If she didn't answer his question, he threatened her with a knife which he can be seen to be holding.
‘He ordered her to take her clothes off. She believed that if she didn't take her clothes off he would strangle her.’
Mr Dickinson added: ‘She was saying “leave me alone”. She was distressed throughout - it's clear in the footage.’
After raping the woman, Khosravi ‘strikes her hard about the head, then stands up and kicks her with considerable force on a number of occasions’, Mr Dickinson said.
Khosravi, who faces a deportation application on his release, had taken crystal meth before the attack, which made him ‘more aggressive’, Robert Lancaster, defending, said.
He said the defendant, of no fixed address, had a £600-a-month habit. He also said Khosravi had not shared the video of the assault.
Khosravi initially pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape but changed his plea to guilty before he went on trial.
Judge Adrian Smith said Khosravi was a well-educated man from a ‘decent, supportive family’ who turned ‘violent and frighteningly menacing’ during the attack.
He said the filming of the rape was an aggravating factor in a ‘degrading and humiliating’ assault, adding: ‘She was sobbing and crying throughout and clearly frightened that you might use the knife that you had to injure her. Her fear is obvious.’
He jailed Khosravi for six years and ordered him to register as a sex offender on his release.
Judge Smith added that, due to the growing accessibility of digital recording, sex attackers filming their crimes was an ‘increasing feature coming before the courts’.
Hesam Khosravi kicked and beat his victim and threatened to tape her mouth up during the attack in Trafford, Greater Manchester.
He pulled her around by her hair and forced her to strip and perform a sex act before raping her, Minshull Crown Court in Manchester heard.
During the harrowing half-hour of footage, which was shown in court, Khosravi can be heard laughing and commentating on the assault in Farsi as the woman cries and sobs throughout.
Police found the recording on his iPad after he was arrested for an unconnected offence - but Khosravi claimed it was consensual ‘role-play’.
Before the video was shown, the judge warned the court of the 'very distressing' footage and told the public gallery: ‘This is the time to leave if anyone does not want to watch the video.’
Jonathan Dickinson, prosecuting, said Khosravi rested his iPad on a windowsill, lit the room with a halogen lamp and pressed record in a deliberate bid to capture the assault last April.
He said: ‘He begins by asking her questions - what's your name, etc. If she didn't answer his question, he threatened her with a knife which he can be seen to be holding.
‘He ordered her to take her clothes off. She believed that if she didn't take her clothes off he would strangle her.’
Mr Dickinson added: ‘She was saying “leave me alone”. She was distressed throughout - it's clear in the footage.’
After raping the woman, Khosravi ‘strikes her hard about the head, then stands up and kicks her with considerable force on a number of occasions’, Mr Dickinson said.
Khosravi, who faces a deportation application on his release, had taken crystal meth before the attack, which made him ‘more aggressive’, Robert Lancaster, defending, said.
He said the defendant, of no fixed address, had a £600-a-month habit. He also said Khosravi had not shared the video of the assault.
Khosravi initially pleaded not guilty to two counts of rape but changed his plea to guilty before he went on trial.
Judge Adrian Smith said Khosravi was a well-educated man from a ‘decent, supportive family’ who turned ‘violent and frighteningly menacing’ during the attack.
He said the filming of the rape was an aggravating factor in a ‘degrading and humiliating’ assault, adding: ‘She was sobbing and crying throughout and clearly frightened that you might use the knife that you had to injure her. Her fear is obvious.’
He jailed Khosravi for six years and ordered him to register as a sex offender on his release.
Judge Smith added that, due to the growing accessibility of digital recording, sex attackers filming their crimes was an ‘increasing feature coming before the courts’.
9-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Microsoft World Specialist
Times of India reports that Pranav Kalyan is currently a 4th grade student of Willow Elementary School in California and has been writing software programs from the age of six.
He passed the exam in ASP.NET Framework 3.5 on January 12, the source adds.
“As a toddler, Pranav was more fascinated by computers than toys. He started writing small software programs at the age of six. He is capable of solving problems in differential calculus and integral calculus. His efficiency in mathematics helped him write programs,” Kalyan, the boy’s father, said in a statement.
Becoming the youngest Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in the world is not an easy task. The boy studied for the exam for a total of 18 months, while spending approximately eight hours a day working on the computer.
A Chinese restaurant where robots cook and serve food
No need to tip this waiter! A sci-fi restaurant in China has employed
robots to work as waiters, cooks, entertainers and receptionists.
The restaurant has 18 types of robots, each gliding out of the kitchen to provide dishes, with speciality robots including a dumpling robot and a noodle robot.
As a diner walks in, one of the robots extends its arm to the side and, with a sci-fi flourish, says "Earth Person, Hello, Welcome to the Robot Restaurant", the 'Daily Mail' reported.
After the diners have placed their order, the robots in the kitchen start cooking and once the dish is prepared, a robot waiter, which runs along tracks on the floor, carries it from kitchen to the table.
Prepared dishes are placed on a suspended conveyor belt and when the plate reaches the right table, the mechanical arms lift it off and sets it down.
As people eat, a singing robot entertains diners. The robots have been designed and manufactured by a Chinese company.
Chief Engineer Liu Hasheng, said they invested USD eight million in setting up the gen-next restaurant.
"Staff in the computer room can manage the whole robot team. After the busy times during the day, the robot will go for a 'meal', which is electricity," Liu said.
Liu added that after a two-hour charge the robot can work continuously for 5 hours.
Lassar fever strke in Benue
No fewer than three persons including a medical doctor have been
confirmed dead between 24 and 48 hours interval in Benue State from an
ailment suspected to be Lassa fever. Daily Sun gathered that the
deceased were among four who were referred to the Benue State University
Teaching Hospital (BSUTH) after they presented similar symptoms. Chief
Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Malu Orkuga, who spoke with
newsmen in his office yesterday said investigation showed that one of
the patients who died was treated by the deceased medical doctor. He
said though it was too early to categorically say that the patients died
of Lassa fever, a specimen had already been sent to Edo State to
ascertain the real cause of their death.The CMD listed some of the symptoms they presented to include fever, kidney failure, difficulty in blood clotting as well as convulsion, stressing, however, that the symptoms could also occur in many other diseases that were referred to the BSUTH. “These symptoms can occur in many other diseases so they don’t necessarily mean it is Lassa fever. We can only confirm it with the blood tests, which are not available at present. We have taken specimen to the only diagnostic centre we know in Edo State. It is when we have the result that we will be able to know whether this was actually Lassa fever or not.”
Meanwhile, he said the hospital was treating the patients as if it was Lassa fever or any other infection that could rapidly spread from person to person. Orkuga allayed the fears of members of the public that they could easily contact the infection, saying it was only those who were taking care of the infected people that could contact the infection. According to him, the doctors and nurses and other staffers of the hospital as well as visitors and other patients were not at risk of contacting the deadly infections. He, however, said the hospital had taken precaution by isolating others, who were suspected to have the same ailment while it had also contacted the epidemiology unit of the Benue State Ministry of Health, which, he said, had responded swiftly by providing drugs.
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