Balkans Floods

Dear Friends,

Even Google know how frightfully is situation in the Balkan region where in the last few days an epic flood destroyed everything in its path.

My sympathy with the people affected by this disaster…

My countries Serbia and Bosnia were hit with biggest flood in 150 years, thousands of people are without homes – thousands are being evacuated. Roads and bridges are flooded, schools and kindergartens have been shut down, 100,000 homes in Serbia left without power, while rain-swollen rivers and surging water course through towns and villages, overflowing across streets into homes, causing landslides and other disasters. Entire towns are cut off and the slow-moving cyclone is said to last until the weekend. The situation is alarming. 

Even though ex Yugoslavian countries – Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia were in war with each other in last 20 years – Today we are helping each other like we are one country again – and I am proud of that people.

Everybody needs somebody

 

Serbia

Please help by donating on paypal for better future.
floodrelief@gov.rs

Current account for help (City of Belgrade):
Special purpose account: 01-504103-100000300-000000-0000 – Grad Beograd – Sekretarijat za finansije.
IBAN: RS35908504103000030058.

You can find instruction for payment on the official site of city Belgrade HERE

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Account holder: Red Cross Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Account No: 140-101-12001533-88
Name of the bank: SBERBANK BH d.d. Sarajevo
Adress of the bank: Fra Andela Zvizdovica 1/A
71000 Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
SWIFT: SABRBA22
Bank code: BA391401011200153388

An ultrasound pictures of Jesus, Alien, Michael Jackson…

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These incredible photos were taken by ultrasound and show how the human brain can play with imagination!

A close encounter with a doctor. British couple Scott and Larissa Din were shocked when on the ultrasound instead their baby saw an alien.

Kenneth Nikki (21) has just left the hospital with a picture of their unborn baby, when she realized that resembles Jesus. The girl from Glasgow, said that her boyfriend noticed the similarity.

A little John-Paul Daily, who is now 18 months looked like aliens on his ultrasound images when he was 12 weeks. His mother, Annemarie added: “It looks as if he were addressing the camera.’ll Show him snapshot when he is older.”

Charlene Seel (19) was shocked when she saw a picture her child that contained a lamb or something that looked like a dog. “The nurse told me that she saw this picture before, and that the woman gave birth to twins,” says Charlene.

Future mother remained shocked when on the ultrasound of her unborn baby, she saw a face of a man who resembling an alien?

I mean, you can imagine how surprised parents-to-be Dawn Kelley and William Hickman were to discover Jacko in their ultrasound! Such a prankster, that Michael. From Man in the Mirror to Man In-Utero.

As we can see, aliens are those who prefer to have picture with an unborn!

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Girl makes portraits of chewing gum

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Ukrainian artist Anna Sofia Matveyeva first chews gums, then sorts them by color and then heats them up in the microwave.

Her best works are portraits of Steve Jobs and Elton John. For portrait of Steve Jobs it was necessary over 1000 chewing gums while for a portrait of Elton John “only” 250 chewing gums.

Matveyeva currently creating a portrait of Mircea Lucescu, a manager of FC Shakhtar, for which, according to estimates, it will also be necessary 250 chewing gums.  

“Chewing gum is not only use as a material, it represents some sort of symbol,” says Matveyeva.

For creating a portrait she needs about ten days, while Steve Jobs portrait was making over three weeks. Each portrait weighs about five pounds, and Matveyeva hopes soon she will make her first exhibition. 

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HORROR LIVE: Mysterious ghost hole in Croatia

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A mysterious hole swallowed a concrete pillar in Imotski, Croatia. As stated by the locals, they may hear strange noises for which they believe are ghosts.

The newly mysterious hole, 2.5 meters wide and 1.5 meters deep, engulfed the concrete pillar, in Poljica near Imotski. As stated by the locals, from the holes are Strange sounds in believing that they are ghosts.

Strange holes in Croatia have so far opened in Drnis, Istria and Zadar, and so far engulfed one man. A new hole in the ground first noticed a local woman who tended sheep nearby. The villagers do not remember that the land collapsed so suddenly on the meadow, where people planted vines for years.

Repeated opening of holes in the ground in Croatia and in the world, as experts explain is natural phenomena, but also the impact of man on the environment.

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Ancient super crocodile fossil found in museum drawer

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Long-forgotten remains of a long-forgotten species, have been discovered in a museum drawer in Scotland. The beast, a dolphin-shaped crocodilian “super predator,” was able to eat other species its size and larger.

The ancient newfound crocodilian is named Tyrannoneustes lythrodectikos, Greek for “blood-biting tyrant swimmer.” Sounds pretty friendly, doesn’t it? “Tyrannoneustes was a dolphinlike crocodile that lived 165 million years ago,” said researcher Mark Young, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of Southampton in England.

The predator possessed a long snout, large flippers, armorless skin and a tail fin where the bottom half is larger than the top half, resembling an upside-down version of an ordinary shark’s tail fin.It’s uncertain how large Tyrannoneustes was, but the right side of its lower jaw was at least 26 inches (67 centimeters) long. It featured enlarged teeth with serrated edges, and a jaw that evolved to open wider, allowing it to swallow smaller prey whole.
Back when Tyrannoneustes was alive, the area in central England where the fossils were discovered was covered in a shallow sea encompassing much of what is now Europe. Originally found between 1907 and 1909, the fossil has been lost in a drawer at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery in Glasgow for nearly 100 years.

There are no modern descendents of the animal. Instead, this predator was a kind of metriorhynchid, an extinct family of marine crocodiles.

The discovery of Tyrannoneustes shows that during the Middle Jurassic, metriorhynchid crocodiles were beginning to evolve into predators of large-bodied prey. By the Late Jurassic, numerous metriorhynchid species were suited to feeding on large prey, but Tyrannoneustes is the first known from the Middle Jurassic. How this impacted upon other predatory groups such as pliosaurs and ichthyosaurs is still unclear.
 

Future research can scan Tyrannoneustes bones to develop computer models of how it might have fed, Young said. He and his colleagues detailed their findings online Jan. 4 in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

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Rio de Janeiro: Bar Codes on Sidewalks Give Tourist Info

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Rio de Janeiro is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the black and white mosaic sidewalks that are a symbol of the city.

The city installed its first two-dimensional bar codes, or QR codes, as they’re known, at Arpoador, the massive boulder that separates Copacabana and Ipanema beaches. The image was built into the sidewalk with the same black and white stones that decorate sidewalks around town with mosaics of waves, fish and abstract images.

With an accompanying smartphone application, onlookers were able to take snapshots of the mosaic QR codes with their phones or tablets before being directed to a website that disbursed information in Brazil’s native Portuguese, and also in Spanish and English. A map of the area was also included.

They learned, for example, that Arpoador gets big waves, making it a hot spot for surfing and giving the 500-meter beach nearby the name of “Praia do Diabo,” or Devil’s Beach. They could also find out that the rock is called Arpoador because fishermen once harpooned whales off the shore.

Each stone code reportedly takes about seven days to construct due to the level of precision necessary to make it scan, though some future iterations will be constructed out of different recycled materials. The next four, expected by March, will pop up at Redra do Leme, Sao Conrado Beach, Mirante do Leblon and Pepe Beach in Barra da Tijuca.

The Department of Conservation said it plans to implement the co-called QRIO project at 30 locations across the city by the year’s end and 50 locations by July 2014 when Rio hosts the FIFA World Cup.

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Bigfoot In Oregon? Strange Bloodcurdling Noises In Pendleton Swamp

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Is there a bigfoot in Oregon?

The sounds of cries and roars can be heard throughout the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton, The Oregonian reports Jan. 25. The reservation is home to about 1,500 people across 178,000 acres in Oregon’s Blue Mountains. The possible Bigfoot noises were heard near an old reservation community center just north of Wilhorse Resort and Casino. Residents first started hearing the noises last month, and rumors quickly spread that it could be a mythical ape-like humanoid creature, Bigfoot.

Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is the name given to the mysterious ape-like creature that some people believe inhabits forests, mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. Scientists discount the existence of Bigfoot, usually described as a large, hairy, bipedal humanoid, and consider it to be a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax.

Among some Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest, however, the Bigfoot is not to be taken lightly. Stories about the hominid hairy creatures roaming the forests of the region have been passed down from generation to generation in some tribal cultures, so when the screeches first drifted over the swampland, it did not take much to convince the locals that those were the cries of Bigfoot.

According to the Oregon Live, the eerie late-night sounds, which range from high-pitched screams to basso profundo roars, started in November and have caused bigfoot rumors to spread. Several reservation unit tenants and home owners call authorities to report the strange sounds. One man even claimed his dog was too afraid to go outside.

One said the cries were made by “a young Bigfoot that had got separated from the rest of his clan.” The howls also make some believe the animal making those noises are foxes or a female coyote.

So far no one has been able to nail down exactly what the source is of the spooky sounds. For decades many have believed Bigfoot does, in fact, live in Oregon within its thick forests. Reported Examiner…

Carl Sheeler, wildlife program manager for the Walla Walla and Cayuse tribes, said the strange noises may just be from animals known to live in the area.

But some of those who have heard the sounds don’t agree with Sheeler. “Foxes do sound creepy,” said Sylvia Minthorn. “But it’s not the same sound, not even close.”

Did Oregon residents within the reservation actually hear Bigfoot? Enthusiasts of the creature think that they are getting closer to finding the elusive Bigfoot, and sightings continue. Late last year, a group of hikers in Utah encountered what they thought was a bear, but then the animal turned and stood on two legs, looking very much like Bigfoot.

Sasquatch Watch Canada posted a recording of the howls to Youtube. Listen to them below:

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Deaf Bulldog dancing to Guitar vibrations

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Just because you’re deaf doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the vibrations produced by music. Which is what Jamynne Bowle’s English bulldog demonstrates when the deaf pooch feels the blues. Video of deaf dog rocking back and forth in time to the twelve-bar blues a friend chugs out on their acoustic guitar, has more than 30,000 shares since it was posted on Facebook in December.

Some commentators have tried to spoil the fun by claiming the dog is only scratching its butt on the carpet, but he’s surprisingly in-time with the music.

Website that deals with dogs, “For the Love of Dog” assumes that bulldog actually feel vibrations and dance in the rhythm, according to “Daily Mail”.

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App for a perfect Halloween Costume

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If you are not especially imaginative, or do not have time to properly prepare yourself for a masquerade costume, there are applications that will help you to prepare for the following Halloween.

“Digital Dudz” is a conceptual project of NASA engineer Robert Brand, who became famous for his incredible costume that was created for last year’s Halloween. Unfortunately, it cost about 920 euros – far from affordable. 

However, they do something for people with shallow pockets for this year’s costume: all you need is a T-shirt, smartphone, and “Digital Dudz” applications. The preparation of the costume takes about four minutes. 

Just follow the instructions on the video below:

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Tornado Of Fire Caught On Tape In Australia

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An Alice Springs filmmaker managed to shoot one of the rarest natural phenomena! It is a fiery tornado that occurs when a “pillar” of the hot air down to the ground and causing a fire.

Chris Tangey of Alice Springs Film and Television was scouting locations near Curtin Springs station, about 80km from Ularu, last week when confronted by a fiery phenomenon.

A small fire was burning in nearby bushland, so Mr Tangey decided to start filming. He caught the sight of his life. A twister touched down on the spot fire, fanning it into a furious tower of flame. “It sounded like a jet fighter going by, yet there wasn’t a breath of wind where we were,” he told the Northern Territory News.

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