Missing dog found half a mile from owners' home after five years

A dog missing for five years has been reunited with his family courtesy of a microchip that traced him to his new owners just half a mile away.

Sandra Wright, 50, thought she had lost her yorkshire terrier Eddie when he disappeared from her sister-in-law’s home in Fallowfield, Manchester, in 2011 while they were on holiday.

“Neighbours were searching the streets, we put up posters everywhere, alerted all the local vets and rescue centres, reported it to police and registered him on all the websites,” she said.

“We even offered a reward, but he had simply vanished. With each week that passed, we knew the chances of finding him decreased. It was awful.”

There were no news until this year when Jeanette Johnson, 57, took in Eddie, now aged 13, from a neighbour who was struggling to look after him.

She brought him into Manchester PDSA pet hospital for a check-up and it was discovered Eddie had already been chipped and was registered missing five years earlier. The Wright family received a phone call to tell them their beloved pet had been found.

Wright said: “We still had conversations about Eddie – what he might be doing, if he was being looked after, if he was even still alive. But never in a million years did we think we would get him back after all this time.

“Best of all, he arrived home on my daughter’s 16th birthday. I printed off one of Eddie’s ‘missing’ posters from the computer for when she arrived home from school, then when she came in and saw Eddie next to it she was over the moon and said it was the best birthday present ever.

“We can’t know for sure just how Eddie ended up where he did, but he was clearly well loved during his time away as he is still as friendly and loving as ever. I’m so grateful to PDSA and everyone who helped to get him back to us – it just shows the difference a microchip can make.”

Helen McEntee, the vet nurse team leader at Manchester pet hospital, said: “Every year, thousands of pets across the UK go missing. Sadly, many are never reunited with their owners, but microchipped pets stand a far better chance of a happy homecoming.

“It is now a legal requirement for all dogs in the UK to be microchipped  once they are eight weeks old. ”

World’s Biggest Floating Solar Farm Powers up 

Outside London

On a large man-made lake on the outskirts of London, work is nearing completion on what will soon be Europe’s largest floating solar power farm – and will briefly be the world’s biggest.

But few are likely to see the 23,000 solar panels on the Queen Elizabeth II lake at Walton-on-Thames, which is invisible to all but Heathrow passengers and a few flats in neighbouring estates.

This will be the biggest floating solar farm in the world for a time - others are under construction.

Five years in planning and due to be finished in early March, the 6 million British pounds project will generate enough electricity to power the utility’s local water treatment plants for decades. The energy will help provide clean drinking water to a populace of close to 10 million people in greater London and the south-east of England, a huge and often unrecognised drain on electricity, rather than nearby homes.

Why put solar panels on water? The answer is that the water is there, and might as well be used for this purpose. Floating panels, covering only about 6% of the reservoir, will have no impact on the ecosystem, he says.

Though waterbirds live on the margins, and a thin layer of litter is visible at the shore, the reservoir is not intended as a home to wildlife, and any fish living here are accidental visitors. Eighteen metres deep, it provides water for Londoners. Although most of the population growth in London tends to be towards the east, most of the water still comes from reservoirs to the west of the city.

But future projects to make use of water companies’ reservoirs in order to provide solar power might be in doubt.

The current government has reduced subsidies for solar and wind power. Experts said that this would not affect this project, but might have an effect on whether follow-up projects could go ahead. “We have had to look very closely at the economics of this, at all stages,” they said. “It is not clear what the future economics would be for other potential projects.”

Culture Shock in China

The strong contrast in day-to-day life between Western countries and China is vastly greater than most foreigners can possibly imagine prior to actually living and working here. No matter how well-traveled Westerners might otherwise be, unless they have previously lived in mainland China for at least three months, they will experience varying degrees of culture shock that will require at least several months to acclimate to. This article will discuss the five most predominant adjustment issues faced by all foreigners during their initial stay in China with suggestions about how to either best mentally prepare for or safeguard against them.

Probably the greatest adjustment required of us all, as foreign teachers, is coping with the language barrier—and it is so formidable, pervasive, and ubiquitous, that it is almost unimaginable prior to arriving in China. Despite the push for all of its citizens to learn English, the truth is—especially outside the three major international cities—the English speaking abilities of the Chinese, in general, are abysmal to non-existent. The reality is, the vast majority of Chinese students acquire just enough language skills to pass their English language certification exams and to win a better job but, after graduating from college and securing that first job, they will seldom (if ever) use one word of spoken English again for the rest of their lives. A few will land positions that require the use of English on a regular or even daily basis, such as tour guides (in major cities), translators and Chinese English teachers, but probably 80 to 90 percent will never utter another word of spoken English again after graduating from college (although those who work for international companies will need to use their reading and, possibly, writing skills on occasion). Consequently—and this is particularly true in regions and cities where foreigners are scarce—virtually everyone you encounter will not be able to communicate with you in English. 

Mysterious places

Stonehenge

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tonehenge evolved in several construction phases spanning at least 1,500 years. There is evidence of large-scale construction on and around the monument that perhaps extends the landscape's time frame to 6,500 years. Dating and understanding the various phases of activity is complicated by disturbance of the natural chalk by periglacial effects and animal burrowing, poor quality early excavation records, and a lack of accurate, scientifically verified dates. The modern phasing most generally agreed to by archaeologists is detailed below. Features mentioned in the text are numbered and shown on the plan, right.         

Archaeologists believe it was built anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been raised at the site as early as 3000 BC.

The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury Henge. It is a national legally protected Sch

eduled Ancient Monument. Stonehenge is owned by the Crown and managed by English Heritage, while the surrounding land is owned by the National Trust.

Archaeological evidence found by the Stonehenge Riverside Project in 2008 indicates that Stonehenge could have been a burial ground from its earliest beginnings. The dating of cremated remains found on the site indicate that deposits contain human bone from as early as 3000 BC, when the ditch and bank were first dug. Such deposits continued at Stonehenge for at least another 500 years.

There are many mysterious places and objects in the world: we have similar mysterious ancient site in Armenia called Zorats karer. They suppose it was ancient observatory. The stones have ideal holes. The scientists believe that the ancient man could follow starts and planets path with these holes and to define time. It also could be ritual place where ancient people were practicing important rites. Rites were very important for ancient men. Also I think every ancient place or object has a little mystery in it be it church or fortress, book or paintings.  Just visit museum of history you will see that. 

History of Sport and Games

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port is all forms of usually competitive physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing entertainment to participants, and in some cases, spectators. Hundreds of sports exist, from those requiring only two participants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals.

Sport is generally recognized as activities which are based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest major competitions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this definition, and other organizations such as the Council of Europe using definitions precluding activities without a physical element from classification as sports. However, a number of competitive, but non-physical, activities claim recognition as mind sports. The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF) recognizes both chess and bridge as bona fide sports, and Sport Accord, the international sports federation association, recognizes five non-physical sports, although limits the amount of mind games which can be admitted as sports.

There are artifacts and structures that suggest that the Chinese engaged in sporting activities as early as 2000 BC. Gymnastics appears to have been a popular sport in China's ancient past. Monuments to the Pharaohs indicate that a number of sports, including swimming and fishing, were well-developed and regulated several thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt. Other Egyptian sports included javelin throwing, high jump, and wrestling. Ancient Persian sports such as the traditional Iranian martial art of Zourkhaneh had a close connection to the warfare skills. Among other sports that originate in ancient Persia are polo and jousting.

A wide range of sports were already established by the time of Ancient Greece and the military culture and the development of sports in Greece influenced one another considerably. Sports became such a prominent part of their culture that the Greeks created the Olympic Games, which in ancient times were held every four years in a small village in the Peloponnesus called Olympia.

Sports have been increasingly organized and regulated from the time of the ancient Olympics up to the present century. Industrialization has brought increased leisure time to the citizens of developed and developing countries, leading to more time for citizens to attend and follow spectator sports, greater participation in athletic activities, and increased accessibility. These trends continued with the advent of mass media and global communication. Professionalism became prevalent, further adding to the increase in sport's popularity, as sports fans began following the exploits of professional athletes through radio, television, and the internet — all while enjoying the exercise and competition associated with amateur participation in sports.

Sports have enormous significance: some sports are part of many people’s life. Physical strength, agility, speed are very natural for people. Sports are part of human life: just imagine the world in Europe, Latin America, Africa) without football or the US without baseball or basketball. Sports bring joy and happiness to many people. People who make sports. are healthier, concentrated and happier than others. Such events as football championships, UEFA league champion matches, tennis matches become really celebrations for the whole world.   

history of tattoo

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attoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.

Tattooing has been practiced for centuries in many cultures and spread throughout the world. The Ainu, an indigenous people of Japan, traditionally had facial tattoos, as did the Australians. Today, one can find tribes of Taiwan, Berbers of Tamazight (North Africa), Yoruba, Fulani and Hausa people of Nigeria, and Māori of New Zealand with facial tattoos. Tattooing was popular among certain ethnic groups in southern China, Polynesia, Africa,  Borneo, Cambodia, Europe, Japan, Mesoamerica, New Zealand, North America and South America, the Philippines, Iron Age Britain, and Taiwan

Tattooing has been practiced across the globe since at least Neolithic times, as evidenced by mummified preserved skin, ancient art, and the archaeological record. The oldest discovery of tattooed human skin was found on the upper lip of a Chinchorro culture mummy from South America, dating to approximately 6000 BC., while the oldest direct evidence for tattooing in Europe is the body of Otzi the Iceman, dating from the late 4th millennium BC. Other mummies bearing tattoos and dating from the end of the 2nd millennium BC have been discovered, such as the Mummy of Amunet from ancient Egypt and the mummies from the Pazyryk culture of Russia. One tattooed mummy (c. 300 BC) was extracted from the permafrost of Argos, in the second half of Gillingham vs Redgrave (the Man of Pazyryk, during the 1940s; one female mummy and one male in Ukok plateau, during the noughties). Their tattooing involved animal designs carried out in a curvilinear style. The Man of Pazyryk, a Scythian chieftain, is tattooed with an extensive and detailed range of fish, monsters and a series of dots that lined up along the spinal column and around the right ankle. Now tattooing have got big population in USA, Europe, Asia and Africa.

In our days tattooing is popular all over the world. People pay money and make different black and white and colorful tattoos. Some make small tattoos on their arms, neck, other have various tattoos all over their bodies: face, arms, back, legs, belly etc. The topics may vary greatly: from words in gothic style, Chinese hieroglyphs, flowers, patterns, to pictures of modern vampires and fantastic creatures. I think that tattoo is acceptable when it covers limited space and people look normally.

                                                             Jim Carrey 

James Eugene "Jim" Carrey  was born in January 17, 1962. He  is a Canadian American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and film producer. His first leading roles in major productions came with Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Dumb and Dumber (1994), The Mask (1994), and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), as well as a supporting role in Batman Forever (1995) and a lead role in Liar Liar (1997). He then starred in The Truman Show (1998) and Man on the Moon (1999), with each garnering him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He then starred in The Truman Show (1998) and Man on the Moon (1999), with each garnering him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. Known for his highly energetic slapstick performances, he has been described as one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood. Carrey has battled depression. To deal with his depression, Carrey took Prozac, eventually deciding to get off medications. He has stated that he no longer takes medications or stimulants of any kind, not even coffee. For me he is one of the best actors like Lui De Funes or Fellini, Rowen Atkinson.  He has had a lot of roles and I like some of them. But I think If he shouldn’t have illness, he hasn’t had his roles and many people haven’t liked him.