ANG ULUPONG SA PAINTING NI QUEEN ELIZABETH I

Ang misteryosong ahas na lumitawsa obra ni Queen Elizabeth I. 

Alam ba ninyo ang grupong Illiminati? Isa na nga sa pinaghihinalaang kasapi rito ay ang Royal Family sapol pa noong Victorian Era o ika-16 siglo. Ating ilalahad ang isang misteryo na kung saan ay patunay umano na ang reynang si Elizabeth 1 ng Englateraen ay miyembro ng sinabing agenda at nagtataglay din ng Reptilian Bloodline.

Isang ulupong nga sa isang painting nito ang nadiskubre na kung saan ay hawak-hawak pa ng naturang reyna noon ng Inglatera. 

Iyon umano ang nakita sa orihinal na pinta ng Tudor Monarch’s. Subalit, nang matuklasan ito ng mga kinauukulan, binago nila ang nakalahad na ahas at tinatapakan ng ibang pinta. Kung kaya, ang hawak na ahas ng reyna ay pinapalitan sa isang pintor ng punpon ng mga rosas.

Subalit, sa paglipas pa ng mga panahon, ang tinapakang pintang ahas ay lumalabas pa rin at lumilitaw minsan. Ang kumukupas nang “bunch of roses” na ipinatapal sa orihinal na pintang ahas ay di mapigilang mahayag na. Anupa’t ang ulupong na lumitaw noon sa obra ay unti-unti nang lumilitaw. Ang naturang obra ay ipininta ng hindi pamosong pintor noong taong 1580’s o kaya’y noong taong 1590’s.

Ang imahe ay hindi na inilagak at naka-display sa London gallery sapol pa noong taong 1921. Ngunit, naging bahagi ang obra sa isang exhibition na may pamagat na Concealed and Revealed: “The Changing Faces of Elizabeth I” noong ika- 13 ng Marso hanggang ika-26 ng Setyembre taong 1921.

Ang ahas ay sinasabing sumasagisag umano sa karunungan o katalinuhan, pagka-maingat, at makatarungang paghatol. Ngunit, ang mas pinapaborang pagka-masagisag nito ay patungkol kay Satanas at sa mga kasalanan.

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Inihayag ng art gallery naang pagpapatanggal sa nakapintang ahas ay dahil umano sa masamang simbolo nito. Anila, ang ahas ay nakapinta ng kulay itim ngunit may halong greenish blue ang kaliskis nito. 

Ipinagtataka nila kung papaano naipinta ang ahas gayung wala naman sa orihinal na plano ng pintor na ipinta ito. Ni hindi umano nito intensiyon na ipinta ang naturang reyna ng Inglatera. Ngunit, sa lumabas na X-ray photography, lumalabas na si Queen Elizabeth 1 nga ang nasa obra dahil sa gayak ng isang babae na parang reyna.

Batay pa sa masusing pagsusuri, ang naturang obra ng orihinal na pintor tungkol sa hindi kilalang babae ay hindi talaga natapos. Ipinagpatuloy lamang ito ng ibang pintor at pinalabas ang obra ng babae na siya ngang si Queen Elizabeth I. ito rin umano ang nalagay ng ahas sa obra na kung saan ay hawak ng reyna. Ang isang malaking palaisipan dito, sino ang nagpinta sa kulay itim na ahas? Malamang na isa nga ito sa sinasabing Reptilian Agenda. 

There are an estimated 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic floating in the world’s oceans

A man collects plastic bags and other rubbish from the waters of Manila Bay

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There are an estimated 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic floating in the world’s oceans, weighing a total of nearly 270,000 tons, according to a new study.

Plastic has “spread throughout all the world's oceans” with as much in the southern hemisphere as the northern, the researchers said, adding that this was surprising as more of it originates in the north.

In an article for the Plos One journal, they said the figures were “highly conservative” and did not take into account “the potentially massive amount” that is no longer afloat.

Julia Reisser, a researcher with the University of Western Australia, told The Guardian: “We saw turtles that ate plastic bags and fish that ingested fishing lines. 

Plastic pollution: Children collect plastic to be sold and recycled at a polluted river in suburban Manila (JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images: The Independent)

“But there are also chemical impacts. When plastic gets into the water it acts like a magnet for oily pollutants.

“Bigger fish eat the little fish and then they end up on our plates. It’s hard to tell how much pollution is being ingested but certainly plastics are providing some of it.”

The article cited trade body Plastics Europe as saying 288 million tons of plastic were produced worldwide in 2012.

“Our estimate of the global weight of plastic pollution on the sea surface, from all size classes combined, is only 0.1 per cent of the world annual production,” it said.

“However, we stress that our estimates are highly conservative, and may be considered minimum estimates.

“Our estimates of macroplastic are based on a limited inventory of ocean observations … they also do not account for the potentially massive amount of plastic present on shorelines, on the seabed, suspended in the water column, and within organisms.”

 Source: The Independent

Lack of Building Space Inspires Chinese School to Build Running Track on Its Roof

Students at No 2 Elementary School in the Chicheng district of Tiantai, Zhejiang province, use the track, which opened on Monday, on top of their school building. Sun Jinbiao / For China Daily

To conserve on land usage, an elementary school in Tiantai, Zhejiang province, built a 200-meter running track on the roof of its school building. 

The students of No 2 Elementary School of Tiantai Chicheng district started using the track on Monday. The school has about 1,800 students. 

Qiu Tianguo, the school's principal, said the track, on top of a four-story, oval teaching building, provides more than 3,000 square meters of space for students to play and exercise.

Qiu said that the school, with a footprint of 7,210 sq m, doesn't have room for a playground with a running track on the ground. 

"The track on the roof perfectly solved the problem. Our students love the new track," he said. 

Ruan Hao, chief architect of the teaching building, said that breaking the tradition of a running track on the ground might provide a solution for other schools with limited land.

"Under the circumstances that limited land cannot provide enough space for students to exercise in, we chose to challenge the concept that playgrounds and tracks have to be on the ground," he said. 

The design represented China at the 14th Venice Architecture Exhibition this year.

Safety is the key concern with rooftop tracks. For the track in Tiantai, three protective layers will keep students safe. The outer layer is a 1.8-meter-tall, tempered glass wall that students can't climb; the middle layer is a green belt; and the inner layer is a 1.2-meter-tall stainless steel rail. 

Qiu said that students using the track are accompanied by teachers, and surveillance cameras around the track will make sure there is no blind spot.

"Safety can surely be guaranteed," he said. 

Source: Chinadaily.com

Elderly Care Home in Germany Uses Therapy Alpacas to Make Residents Happier

Just looking at the picture of an alpaca will make you want to pet the adorable creature. So it comes as no surprise that the camel’s super fluffy cousin is being used for therapy in Germany, at Berlin’s Mana Wedell Tagespflege elderly care home.

A group of alpacas live in the home’s garden and are welcome to go inside for a visit. A video of their interaction with the residents was put up on YouTube, and although it is in German, you can tell that the place is so full of love.

The footage shows the alpacas being taken to each of the residents’ rooms for a visit. It appears that the alpacas are incredibly affectionate and love to be cuddled. They also seem to enjoy being given tasty treats and like riding the elevator. The residents also have a great time petting and spoiling the delightful animals, making them happier and healthier.

Photo: Ruptly video caption

Medical research shows that animal-assisted therapy can reduce anxiety, depression, fatigue and even pain. This is especially effective for people who live in long-term care facilities. While safety and sanitation might raise some concerns, a little extra care from the staff ensures that both the animals and the residents are happy. The alpacas used for the therapy need to be clean, vaccinated, trained and screened for behavior before they are permitted to interact with residents.


Therapy alpacas have been used in care facilities and hospitals around the world for years, and studies show they actually play a major role in making patients happier and healthier. Just look at those gentle eyes, don’t they make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?

 

Source: odditycentral.com

The 14 Absolute Best Things About Dating a Short Guy

Tom Cruise in his ex partner Katie Holmes ( Dualwarez.Com)



1. You will never again tear a neck muscle for love. Kissing is better, eye contact is stronger, talking is easier. One out of every four relationships is derailed by an easily preventable neck strain.

2. He makes a nice little spoon too. Even if you're not really into it, it's nice to have the option.


3. Even small heels make you feel like a super model. You love him and all his lil'ness, but you also love a pair of stupidly high heels and how great they make you feel even when you're awkwardly a head taller than him.






Model Sophie Dahl and musician Jamie Callum, ( Photo Credit: MailOnline/ WENN.com)

4. When you wear your most comfortable shoes (flats, obvs), you are the perfect height for each other. It's easy to underestimate how important it is just to look each other right in the eye.

5. He probably has delicious Napoleonic tendencies. There's some instinctual part of him that will always feel like he needs to compensate for something. Enjoy that compensation in bed.

6. He appreciates your height-blind love more than a taller man. Probably while he was chilling in a bar in college, a tall, beautiful woman pointed at him and drunk whisper-yelled to her friend, "He's so cute but also so short. I just could never, you know?" She's a sad, vague memory now, and you are the most beautiful lady in the world to him.

7. When you need to complain about something beyond your control, he empathizes. He wouldn't change a thing about you, but he understands why you want to talk about the four freckles you don't like.

8. You look unintentionally badass in his clothes. The only reason you paid $110 for cropped boyfriend jeans this spring is because Katie Holmes went out in her shortie ex Tom Cruise's pants looking so badass the trend is still going, six years later.

9. Even when he puts your wine glasses on the top shelf, you can still get to them when you need to. His beer stein is up there too, and he's got to be able to reach that easily.

10. King-size beds take up so much room; you don't need one! You can enjoy sex on a conveniently compact full-size bed!

11. Once you are in bed, you have plenty of room for yourself. Sex is great and cuddling is lovely, but there is nothing more delicious in this whole wide world than spreading out your limbs on your own bed without hitting him in the face or kicking his shins. When it comes to bed-sharing: compact limbs FTW.

12. He'll never use your head as an armrest. That annoying thing really tall people do every so often where they rest their elbow on your head, look down and say, "Hey, how's the weather down there?" Yeah, he's never done that to you.

13. He's got perspective on what's important. He probably cared for a while about how he looked to other people. Now he's all grown up and he doesn't give a shit what people think about anything. Perspective is always an invaluable quality in a partner.

14. You'll never have to sacrifice the top of his head for the sake of a cute Instagram. Because couples who selfie well together, stay together.

 (Source:Cosmopolitan.com)

Eaten alive: Anaconda man explains stunt

The American naturalist who filmed himself being eaten by an anaconda for a television event has explained what inspired him to take part in the risky stunt.


Paul Rosolie donned a special suit to let a 25-foot 400-pound snake eat him in a dangerous performance set to air on Discovery Channel.


He was so confident in the suit's design that he was more worried about the snake's safety than his own, the Daily Mail reported.



'I didn’t want to stress [the snake] out too much. I wanted to make sure that the suit was smooth and wasn’t going to hurt the snake,' Rosolie said. ' I really wasn’t scared. We tested this suit and worked on this with experts so we knew I was going to be safe.'


Amid a backlash from animal rights activists who believe the anaconda was tortured by being forced to eat Rosolie, a man much bigger than its usual prey, Rosolie has responded to say the snake was unharmed and that the experiment was designed to raise money to save the animal's habitat.

Rosolie says he participated in the risky act in order to raise awareness of the anaconda's habitat, which is being demolished by mining. Photo: Supplied

'I wanted to do something that would absolutely shock people,' Rosolie told the New York Post.


'Environmentalists, we love to preach to the choir. What I’m trying to do with this is bring in a bunch of people that wouldn’t necessarily know what’s going on in the Amazon.'

'For the type of attention that this is getting and for the type of emergency that’s going on down there — desperate times, desperate measures.'

'Once they see the show, these are people who are going to be supporters' he said. 'It’s a cool little dissonance there — they’re all coming out against me, but I’m the guy that’s been down there in the jungle trying to protect these things.'


Rosolie, a New Jersey native who first visited the Amazon at age 18, spent 60 days hiking through the rain forest in Peru with a team of about a dozen people searching for the right anaconda to take part in the stunt.

(Source: Yahoo news/ thewestaustralian.com)