Michele Kobke Physical Relationship With a Plane

Michele Kobke Physical Relationship With a Plane | Woman Want to Marry Airplane 

It’s a long distance relationship, as Schatz often needs to be flown to faraway locations, but Michele makes do by taking a replica of the plane to bed each night. She hopes that one day, the distance between them will disappear and she and Schatz will be able to get married. ‘Schatz is my first love,’ says Michele. ‘This is the most beautiful relationship you can imagine.’

It was love at first sight for Michele, who met the plane at Berlin Tegel Airport in 2014. She had loved flying for months before, having only been on her first flight in 2013, but Schatz was something special. ‘The last time I was in a relationship with a man was in 2011 but there was no love there,’ she explains.

Two Legged Pig

A Two Legged Pig which can walk on two legs has become a local celebrity in China. The 10-month-old porker is known by villagers as "Zhu Jianqiang" (Strong-willed Pig) after it was born with only two front legs and learned to balance on them well enough to walk.

According to its owner, Wang Xihai, it was one of nine piglets born in a litter this January.

He said: "My wife asked me to dump it but I refused as it's a life. I thought I should give it a chance to survive and unexpectedly it survived healthy."

Several days after its birth Wang decided to train the two-legged piglet to walk by lifting it up by its tail.

He said: "I trained her for a while each day. After 30 days she can now walk upside down quite well."

Wang said since the birth of the pig, which currently weighs 50kg (110lbs), his home has been besieged by visitors.

A circus even offered to buy for the pig for a large sum but Wang refused to sell.

He said "She proved to us that no matter what form life is it should continue to live on. I won't sell it no matter how much the offer is."

World First Full Face Transplant Man

Oscar Gun accident victim shows off world's first full facial transplant

The first man ever to have a full face transplant appeared in public yesterday.

As he returned home from hospital four months after his ground-breaking surgery, the 31-year-old bravely showed his new face to photographers.

The Spanish farmer, known only as Oscar, had been horribly disfigured five years ago in a shooting accident.

This prevented him breathing normally and made it difficult to swallow or speak.

But after two years of planning, a team of 30 doctors started work on him in March, in an operation which was to last 24 hours.

The transplant, at a Barcelona hospital, included complete facial skin and muscles, eyelids, nose, lips, upper jaw, all his teeth, the palate, cheekbones and lower jaw.

As he was discharged, Oscar said: 'I'm very happy to be here and I wanted to express my gratitude to the hospital and medical team and to all donors in Spain, especially the family of the man whose face I received.'

Doctors at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital said Oscar's face does not resemble that of the donor, whose identity has not been revealed.

He has regained feeling in most of his face and is able to speak, drink liquids and eat soft foods.

His family said that he is looking forward to sitting down and eating a meal at home with them, and to hunting and fishing again, two of his favourite hobbies.

Oscar's sister, who was with him yesterday, said: 'We are very happy and content and very grateful to the hospital because now he can start his new life.

'He is looking forward to doing the normal little things in life again, the things we do every day without having any problems - things like walking down the street without people looking at him five times.

'He's looking forward to sitting down with his family and having a family meal.

'He's very comfortable with his face, he feels very good. He used to love hunting and fishing and he wants to hunt and fish again.'

Photographs of the patient before his surgery revealed the extent of his facial injuries from the accident. He was left with no nose and no upper lip and his lower jaw was shattered.

The operation, led by Dr Joan Pere Barret, involved doctors from 14 departments including plastic suroutgery and burns, infectious diseases, psychiatry and clinical psychology and microbiology and parasitology.

Just a few days after the operation, Oscar was able to admire his new face in the mirror. He was able to begin shaving shortly afterwards.

Movement is also returning. He can now move his eyebrows, upper eyelids, jaw and external cheek muscles.

Previous face transplants carried in France, Spain, the U.S. and China were only partial.

Isabelle Dinoire was the first to receive one in France, in 2005, after being savaged by her dog.

Doctors transplanted a triangle of facial tissue around her nose and the mouth including muscles, arteries and veins.

But in Oscar's case the entire face was transplanted, including the entire facial tissues, muscles and the eyelids.

He had suffered a number of setbacks including two acute rejections in the four months since surgery.

However, his doctors described Oscar's recovery as 'excellent'.

He is having speech therapy, physiotherapy and facial therapy to help him recover full movement in his facial muscles, which will take another 12 to 18 months.

He began a soft food diet a month ago and started speaking two months ago.

Like all transplant patients he faces the prospect of taking powerful drugs for the rest of his life to help prevent infection.

Dr Barret said: 'It was a very brave thing to face everyone today because he is a quiet man who wants to live a normal life.

'He has been very isolated and wants to do what all young men want to do. He is single, he wants to go out with his friends and have fun.'









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Upland Moa

The Lesser Megalapteryx or Upland Moa (Megalapteryx didinus) was a species of ratite bird endemic to New Zealand. Ratites are flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. They also have a distinctive palate. The origin of these birds is becoming clearer as it is now believed that early ancestors of these birds were able to fly and flew to the southern areas that they have been found in. It was the last moa species to become extinct, vanishing around 1500; possibly, some isolated populations managed to persist until about the early 19th century.

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30 Weird and Awesome Soap Designs

How to make Weird Soap ! is important We need it to keep our bodies clean, wash the grime of subway poles off our hands and stuff into our kid's mouths when they curse. There's a huge market for the stuff; soap exists for extra-sensitive skin, can be scented or unscented, infused with herbs and comes in liquid or solid form.

However necessary, it all sounds kind of boring -- which might explain why so many people have begun making their own soaps in a variety of fun and unique shapes. Here are 30 weird and awesome soap designs.

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Oldest mummy

Show oldest mummy in the world exhibition More than 6,500 years ago in Peru, this tiny baby's brief battle for life finally came to an end.oldest mummy ever found who is the oldest mummy in the world and how old

The child, no more than 10 months old, had a serious heart defect and suffered from growth problems.

After contracting pneumonia and then suffering circulation failure the sick child died and was wrapped in linen and buried with an amulet hung around its neck.

Now the baby's mummified corpse, known as the Detmold child, is to go on display in the biggest exhibition of mummies in the world.

'Mummies of the World' will display 45 mummies and 95 artifacts from 15 museums in seven countries in a show that opens today at the California Science Centre.

The Detmold Child itself is on loan from the Lippisches Landes museum in Detmold, Germany.

Another set, the Orlovits family, was with a group of mummies found in 1994 in a forgotten church crypt in Vac, Hungary.

And another on display is a 17th-century nobleman, Baron von Holz, who apparently died during the Thirty Years' War in Sommersdorf, Germany.

The mummies also include a South American woman with a tattoo on each breast and one on her face, a woman who had tuberculosis, a child who had a heart condition and a youngster with a facial tumor.

The mummies are both natural and intentional and they often come with as many questions as answers, said Heather Gill-Frerking, an anthropologist and forensic archaeologist.

Some curators agreed to contribute to the exhibition so that scientific tests could be conducted on remains, said Diane Perlov, senior vice president for exhibits at the science centre.

One mummy is that of an Egyptian woman, her arms crossed over her chest like royalty and her fists closed. Noninvasive tests revealed that in each clenched fist, she clutched the tiny tooth of a child. It was not immediately known why.

Another mummy, also from Egypt, was found to have a number of teeth stuffed in a head cavity. 'One theory is that in order to reach the afterlife, you have to be a complete body. These may have been his teeth and they needed to be reacquainted with the body.

Many of the tests - CT scans, X-rays, radio carbon dating, MRI, mass spectrometry, isotope analysis and DNA tests - were conducted as the mummies were being readied for shipment.

The exhibit is based on the work of the German Mummy Project, a group of experts from 15 European institutions based at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim, Germany.

Beside human mummies, there is a mummified bog dog, lizard, fish, rat, hyaena, cat, squirrel, falcon and a howler monkey from Argentina.

Mystery, history and curiosity will lure what Corwin expects will be record-breaking crowds.

People are naturally curious and they often ask questions you don't anticipate, Gill-Frerking said. 'Did kids go to school 5,000 years ago? Maybe. Possibly. Probably not in the way we think about it,' Gill-Frerking said.

People also have come to expect a lot out of DNA, she said. 'Ancient DNA questions come up a lot. It works brilliantly on 'CSI,' but it doesn't always work on mummies. First of all, it can be destructive. And it doesn't always give us answers.'

Because the exhibit is playing to a sophisticated audience, 'Mummies of the World' has ramped up its multimedia displays, allowing people to learn what a mummy feels like, view a mummified tooth under a microscope and look at a photo of a 3-D body scan, among other things.

No matter how many tests are invented, there are going to be answers that went to the grave with some mummies - such as the woman tattooed with ovals containing small circles.

'It's clearly got some kind of meaning and it had a purpose - I'm willing to bet,' said Gill-Frerking.

The show will embark on a three-year tour across the U.S.










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Cobra hamburgers

A Cobra meat harvested for hamburgers worker picks up a bunch of skinned cobras as they are prepared to be made into meat in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The snakes are caught and processed into burgers, which are served at local restaurants. Behold the slightly terrifying process and its ultimately delicious recipes looking results



































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Tarantula cocktail

The arachnophobe’s nightmare is made using rice wine, jack fruit and a tarantula – which many Cambodians believe can help your heart and work as an aphrodisiac.

Photographer Tim Whitby, who took the pictures, said the tarantulas are added live to the mixture to preserve their freshness.

They are also fried and sold at roadside kiosks.

The trade for spiders as food has been in effect since the 1970's in Cambodia - but only very recently have tourists been finding a way to see where the spiders are hunted in the nearby countryside. This particular tuk-tuk driver has even started offering spider-hunting tours.

Mr Whitby said: ‘I bought a spider from a particularly greasy looking tray and pulled off a couple of legs. They tasted sweet and a little crunchy.’

Turtle Boy

A youngster dubbed turtle boy by cruel bullies is starting a new life after a miracle two hour operation to remove a giant shell of hard skin from his back.

Maimaiti Hali, eight - from Heping, northern China - was born with a hard, mutated growth covering most of his back.

Dad Maimaiti Musai said: "We were told surgery wasn't possible when he was very young so we waited. But the growth got bigger and harder and became like a turtle shell.

"People bullied him and we were determined to end it. He is such a good and brave boy and he never complained. We are so glad that he is now on the mend."

Medics at Urumqi Military General Hospital say they have cut away the growth and replaced it with skin grafts from Hali's scalp and legs.

Chief surgeon Ye Xiangpo explained: "The skin we removed was as thick as a bull's hide. We used scalp hair on the graft because it grows back very quickly. We expect him to make a full recovery."

Hali added: "It was a bit painful, but I won’t worry about other kids laughing at me any more. I am looking forward to going out in the sun without my shirt on and to going swimming with my friends."






Source:- Daily Telegraph

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Body Modifications From Around The World

Extreme Ethnic Body Modifications Around the World When westerners hear “body modifications”, hardcore kids with stretched earlobes and assorted nose rings may come to mind. Think again! Traditional cultures around the world still practice body modification that seriously puts our punks to shame. Although many of these practices may seem exceptionally invasive and painful to us, they are seen as a right-of-passage for young adults in the eyes of their elders; if they can handle the suffering of the modification, they can handle the challenges of being an adult in their community, making us think that Bar Mitzvahs aren’t so bad after all!

For the most part, the cultures in the world that still engage in intense body modifications are those that have been left relatively untouched by the outside world or who have actually gained influence from the practice. Body mod tourism isn’t as rare as you’d think, and is controversial. Although this influx of tourists have brought wealth to impoverished tribes and attention to cultural practices, some argue it has also lead to a deteriorating way of life for many rural people or the cheapening of certain traditions.

Whether or not you support this kind of tourism, one thing is clear: travelers can still catch a glimpse of some pretty unbelievable ethnic body modifications that are currently in practice all over the world.

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Montauk Monster

New Montauk Monster sighting? Bizarre creature washes up in small Ontario town

Locals in a small Canadian town have been stumped by the appearance of a bizarre creature, which was dragged from a lake.

The animal, which has a long hairy body with bald skin on its head, feet and face, has prompted wild internet speculation that it is a more evolved version of the famous 'Montauk monster'.

The creature was discovered by two nurses in the town of Kitchenuhmaykoosib in Ontario, Canada, while out on a walk with their dog.

When the dog began sniffing in the lake, the two women started investigating, before the dog pulled the dead animal out.

After taking some photographs of the odd animal, the nurses left it alone. When locals decided to go back and retrieve the body, it has disappeared.

The photographs have now been posted on a local website, with an explanation which reads: 'This creature was first discovered by Sam the Dog, a local dog.

'It was discovered first week of May in the creek section of town, hikers noticed Sam sniffing something in the water and they approached to see in what the Sam had detected and they noticed the creature in the water face down.

The dog jumped in the lake and pulled the creature to the rocks and dragged it out for the hikers to see and these are the photos they took.

'The creature's tail is like a rat's tail and it is a foot long.'

There has been much speculation about what kind of species the animal is.

The body of the creature appears to look something like an otter, while its face - complete with long fang-like teeth, bears a striking resemblance to a boar-like animal.

Even the local police chief Donny Morris is baffled, saying: 'What it is, I don't know. I'm just as curious as everyone else.'

The pictures of the animal have caused mass speculation online, from bloggers who are all stumped as to what the creature could be.

One internet blogger wrote: 'That certainly is a face only a mother can love. It looks like some sort of otter, weasel-type thing.'

While another added: 'Some kind of mustelid - I thought otter first.

'Being in the water and bashed around has made the fur on the face and tail come off so clean like that.'

Many people have suggested the animal could be a new 'Montauk monster' - due to the similarities between these photographs and those of a different creature which washed up in Montauk, New York, in 2008.

The animal, which quickly earned the nickname the 'Montauk monster', thanks to the beach's location to a Long Island government animal testing facility, has never been officially identified - although the general consensus is that it was some kind of racoon.

However, other bloggers have speculated that the new creature discovered is a type of chupacabra, or 'goatsucker'.

The chupacabra is rumoured to inhabit parts of the U.S. , with many several hundred eyewitness accounts over the past few years.

But despite these sightings, the majority of biologists and wildlife experts believe the chupacabra is a contemporary legend.



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Rafael Face Transplant Patient

A Spaniard who had one of the world's first partial face transplants has spoken of his joy on seeing his new visage.

Speaking at a press conference at a hospital in Seville, the patient named only as Rafael said: 'I am full of joy and happiness. I want to thank the family of the donor and the medical team.'

And Dr Gonzalez Padilla said the patient 'recognised himself' when he first saw himself in a mirror after the surgery, adding: 'He didn't see himself as a monster, in fact he thought he looked younger.'

Rafael was the second person in Spain and the ninth in the world to receive a partial face transplant.

He appeared before the media at the Virgen del Rocio Hospital in the southern city, where he underwent a 30-hour operation on January 26 and 27.

He has since been released from hospital, feels pain, heat and cold in his face, and has started shaving.

Rafael still has difficulty in talking clearly as he is not expected to regain complete control over his tongue for another three months. His face is still inflamed.

He told reporters he is a fan of Seville football team Real Betis and is looking forward to going back to their stadium to watch a match.

Rafael appeared at the press conference alongside his mother Juana and sister Belen, who held his hand throughout.

He asked for his privacy to be respected, saying: 'Please, after this press conference I want you to leave me, my family and my friends in peace.'

The doctors said the transplant involved the patient receiving donor tissue for the lower two-thirds of his face.

The first part of the transplant involved removing the facial tissue, blood vessels and nerve endings from the donor. The second part involved attaching them to the patient.

The doctors said receptors do not end up with the face of the donor, as the tissue adapts itself to the bone structure of the receptor.

Rafael spent five weeks in intensive care and a week in the burns unit before being moved to a regular hospital bed on 15 March.

Surgeon Tomas Gomez Cia, who lead the transplant team, described the patient as 'an incredibly brave person'.

He said: 'It is difficult enough for us to appear before all these cameras, so you can imagine how Rafael feels.'

The team of plastic surgeons spent a year practising for the operation on dead bodies and 3D computer simulators.

Juan David Gonzalez Padilla, director of maxillofacial surgery at the hospital, said: 'He has recovered his sensitivity in the lips, the cheeks, he can distinguish cold and heat, and he's even shaving, something which he wasn't able to do before because of his illness.'

He added that Rafael 'is already swallowing normally', within three months he will have normal mobility in his face.

Rafael suffered since birth from the congenital disease neurofibromatosis type 1, formerly known as von Recklinghausen disease, a genetic problem which causes cells to grow abnormally. He had benign tumours on two thirds of his face as a result.

Dr Gomez Cia said for Rafael 'there was no reconstructive alternative except for a tissue transplant from a dead donor'.

Since Rafael's operation, surgeons in Barcelona have carried out the world's first full face transplant.

A farmer whose face was deformed in a shooting accident five years ago was the patient at the city's Vall d'Hebron Hospital.

A team of 30 took 24-hours to complete the operation in late March. The patient has not been identified.

Isabelle Dinoire was given the world's first facial transplant in November 2005 in France. Her original face had been ravaged by her pet dog.

Four partial face transplants have been carried out in France, two in the U.S. and one in China.

Spain's first partial face transplant took place in August 2009 in the Hospital La Fe in Valencia, when a 43-year-old man received facial tissue from a 35-year-old donor who had died in a car crash.















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