Showing posts with label people. Show all posts
Showing posts with label people. Show all posts

Friday, September 10, 2010

Sammy Stacey - Teen Sumo Schoolgirl



Sammy Stacey - SCHOOLGIRL thrilled when she became a Sumo Kid star at just 14. The youngster couldn't believe her luck when she became the first Western girl ever to be invited to join a top sumo school in Japan.

But Sammy's delight soon turned to misery when her sumo teachers began to force-feed her — and she ballooned to a giant 23 STONE.

Sammy, now 16, said: "I was so excited about gaining a place. But it was horrible.

"Because I was low-ranking, I had to get up at five and prepare breakfast for the other students.

"No-one spoke English and I didn't understand what was going on in lessons.

"I felt constantly sick from all the food we had to eat."

Sammy, from Queensland, Australia, bagged the coveted place at Tottori Johoku High School in Japan after winning gold in the Sumo Wrestling World Championships in Estonia in 2008.

But she claims when she arrived at the school her sumo teachers forced her to eat greasy porridge with eggs and lumps of meat, and screamed at her until she finished up to five bowls at a time.

She said: "Every morning it was the same thing — eat, eat, eat.

"As soon as I put my bowl down, they were prodding me to pick it up again."

Sammy was told to snack on beans covered in oil before lunch, which was more meat and rice.

Her daily calorie intake was around 5,500, nearly three times the average recommended for a woman.

After six months Sammy called her parents and begged them to take her home.

Her dad Warren told her to pack all her belongings without telling anyone and take them to her next sumo tournament.

He said: "I was shocked when I saw her. She had put on a lot of weight.

"She was slow and had lost her agility. She just looked so unhappy."

Warren brought her home to her anxious mum Suzanne and the rest of her family in September 2009.

But on her return she suffered even more upset when the Australia Sumo Federation banned her from wrestling over the "escape".

Sammy said: "My heart is broken. I love sumo so much and now I won't be able to wrestle again."







Source : The Sun

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Japanese Men Dates with Virutal Women



Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends ATAMI, Japan—This resort town, once popular with honeymooners, is turning to a new breed of romance seekers—virtual sweethearts.

Since the marriage rate among Japan's shrinking population is falling and with many of the country's remaining lovebirds heading for Hawaii or Australia's Gold Coast, Atami had to do something. It is trying to attract single men—and their handheld devices.

In the first month of the city's promotional campaign launched July 10, more than 1,500 male fans of the Japanese dating-simulation game LovePlus+ have flocked to Atami for a romantic date with their videogame character girlfriends.

The men are real. The girls are cartoon characters on a screen. The trips are actual, can be expensive and aim to re-create the virtual weekend outing featured in the game, a product of Konami Corp. played on Nintendo Co.'s DS videogame system.

"Atami has always been a romantic place, but it is now a romantic place for a modern generation," says Sakae Saito, Atami's mayor.

Love Plus+ re-creates the experience of an adolescent romance. The goal isn't just to get the girl but to maintain a relationship with her.

After choosing one of three female characters—goodie-goodie Manaka, sassy Rinko or big-sister type Nene—to be a steady girlfriend, the player taps a stylus on the DS touch-screen in order to walk hand-in-hand to school, exchange flirtatious text messages and even meet in the school courtyard for a little afternoon kiss. Using the device's built-in microphone, the player can carry on sweet, albeit mundane, conversations.

If the real-life Romeo earns enough "boyfriend power" points—by completing game tasks like homework or exercise to become smarter and more buff—the reward is a virtual trip to Atami.

In the game, the couple tours the local landmarks. The girlfriend changes into a yukata, a casual summer kimono, to go see the fireworks, and then they stay overnight at the Hotel Ohnoya. It is known for its cavernous, white-columned baths in the style of Ancient Rome.

In his first visit to the real-life Atami, Love Plus+ gamer Shunsuke Kato planned to walk around the city and see the sights familiar to him from playing the game. One small hitch: his girlfriend, Manaka, was giving him the silent treatment.

She was upset that he had been so busy at work that he had been playing the game only 10 minutes a day. "On days off, I spend one to two hours with her. I guess, compared to the people who come here, our relationship is a bit lukewarm," said Mr. Kato.

Located at the bend of the Japanese archipelago and a one-hour train ride from Tokyo, Atami has definitely seen better days.

The number of overnight visitors has dropped by half from the peak in the late 1960s. The main shopping area has many boarded-up storefronts—a lot of them defunct bars, clubs and other remnants of the city's heyday as an entertainment mecca.

The city is going all-out to indulge ardent Love Plus+ fans.

At the real Hotel Ohnoya, which opened its doors in 1937, the staff is trained to check in Love Plus+ customers as couples even if there is only one actual guest. Says Atsurou Ohno, the hotel's managing director, "We try not to ask too many questions because we want them to be able to remain immersed in that game world."

Some devoted fans will go so far as to pay twice the rate—most hotels in Japan charge per guest not per room—to indulge the fantasy that they are not there alone. A night's stay, at most, can cost $500 though many rooms are cheaper.

In Atami, the Love Plus+ fans—mostly men in their twenties and thirties—stand out. Unlike the deeply tanned beach crowd wearing very little, they are often pasty and overdressed for the heat in heavy jeans and button-down shirts.

Tatsuya Fukazawa, a 19-year-old college student, was visiting Atami for the first time on a recent weekend. In a small waist bag, he carried his Nintendo DS. Once he turned on the device, his virtual girlfriend Manaka Takane—a Libra who enjoys making pastries—greeted him in a syrupy sweet voice.

"There isn't a lot of romance in my life and this helps me cope with some of the loneliness," said Mr. Fukazawa with a chuckle.

Adding real elements to the virtual relationships is central to the Love Plus+ series. The games can be synched up to an actual calendar and clock, which means playing the game too late at night might mean that the virtual girlfriend is already asleep. Players are expected to remember important dates like birthdays and holidays.

Local businesses are feeling the love.

Yamadaya, a shop selling processed fish cakes on Atami's main shopping street, started offering special Love Plus+ fish cakes at the end of July. On top of a rubbery square white cake about the size of piece of toast, Yamadaya draws the characters' faces using black squid ink. At 450 yen ($5.30), the store has been selling out its daily allotment of 150 cakes—50 for each girl.

Korean barbecue-inspired restaurant Hien says a quarter of its customers are currently game-related. For 5,000 yen, customers get a special Love Plus+ menu of Japanese beef and side dishes.

Kanji Nagasawa, Hien's owner, says he is accustomed to making small talk with customers, but the Love Plus+ crowd often sits in silence and plays the game while eating.

"We've been stunned," Mr. Nagasawa said, "how happy this makes those customers."

Alas, the boom ends this month, when the imaginary characters have to go back to school.

Source :- Uncoached Via WSJ

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Body Language


how to read Romantic Love Female body language is a form of non-verbal communication which consists of body posture and expressions in relationships pictures improve your body language

Source :- Picshag

Thursday, July 15, 2010

People who changed the world

Today we allocution about a lot of of these inventors. About the humans who ad-lib avant-garde things alteration our apple and to accomplish it this appropriate money. Perhaps some of these examples will affect you. There is artlessly no bigger way to actualize your own business than to ad-lib a new avant-garde product. In those aforementioned dollars to accessible your business today is actual difficult (huge competition). And in IT appears a huge amount of new companies. Simply, this industry is accountable to innovation. So, actuality is a account of inventors, which we accept called for you. This included those humans that, firstly, are absorbing from a business standpoint, and secondly, fabricated their analysis is not so continued ago (In the annotation adds to this account of their examples, because it can be actual large).

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web
Briton Tim Berners-Lee did not ad-lib the Internet itself. If he offered his innovations, the arrangement already existed for several decades. But Tim gave her the affectionate to which we are so acclimatized to. He invented the URI, URL, HTTP, HTML. In fact, Internet-based hyperlinks to abstracts and links amid sites - it's all the accomplishment of Berners-Lee. Its aboriginal operating time, Tim alien in 1989, if he formed for a Swiss aggregation CERN. And from 1991 to 1993 they were appear the aboriginal blueprint URI, HTTP and HTML.

This amazing ability today is the columnist of the abstraction of the semantic web. In Britain, it was accepted the appellation of knight. Berners-Lee can not be alleged an administrator (although he was not poor people), but its analysis was so important for association that we artlessly could not cover the architect of the World Wide Web in the list.

Robert Plath, the inventor of a suitcase on
Robert Plath was an accustomed pilot in the company's Northwest. That all afflicted one day if he absolved to the even with abundant abundant luggage. Plat just best up and busted to the attache wheels. His colleagues admired the abstraction so that it will anon Robert founded his own aggregation TravelPro, affianced in absolution accoutrements on wheels.

Probably every being who had already catholic by plane, was able to appraise the allowances of such a suitcase, which allows to backpack far added accoutrements with beneath effort. In 1992 kompaniyaTravelPro Inc was rated at 500, but already in 1999, Robert Plath awash it.

Hinda Miller and Lisa Lindahl, the inventors of sports bras
In 1977, Hinda Miller and Lisa Lindahl her acquaintance formed as a artist of apparel for Shakespeare anniversary in Vermont. While the two accompany puzzled one important botheration - the abridgement of accouterment for women. No, of course, not complete absence, but the credible absence of supply. It was again during the collective plan of the girls and came to the acclaimed sports bra all day. Ultimately, baby business Miller and Lindahl was awash to Sara Lee. Well, sports bras accept become a accomplished class.

Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, the inventors of computer chip
ilby and Noyce are the creators of computer chip. For his invention, fabricated by Jack Kilby in 1958 (then he formed for the aggregation Texas Instruments) architect won the Nobel Prize in 2000. The fate of Robert Noyce interesting, because he eventually founded two arresting companies - Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. In essence, the conception of these two men afflicted our world, giving altruism an era of claimed computers. Without their apparatus about any accepted computerization and accent could not be.

Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin, inventor of spreadsheets
Graduates of MIT Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin are the creators of the already acclaimed affairs VisiCalc, in fact, is the aboriginal appliance for alive with spreadsheets. Yes, the abstraction of Frankston can not attempt with such giants as Microsoft. But, first, their affairs for some time been the accepted in the industry, and brought a lot of money to the creators. And secondly, it apparent the alpha of a accomplished chic of programs that we apperceive today as spreadsheets.

Melitta Bentz, inventor of the coffee filter
Anyone who craves every morning hot cup of coffee, knows what the analytical role played by the coffee filter. If you're one of them, you should acknowledge housewife Melitta Bentz of Germany. That she came up with coffee filters. His abstraction Melitta patented aback in 1908. Since then, the above charwoman has become a absolute entrepreneur, and humans about the apple were able to calmly bubbler coffee, adequate its aftertaste and not annoying about accepting into alcohol grains.

George Furrs, inventor of the Ferris wheel
Probably anybody knows what a Ferris wheel. Anyone loves to ride on it, but anyone has never sat as abashed of heights and the achievability of accepting ashore at the top. Artist of the Ferris caster is George Ferris, who fabricated it, aggressive by the Eiffel Tower. Today, the apparatus of this ability can be begin in abounding countries, including Russia. Alas, the artist himself never accustomed from their baby due accomplishment until the end of his activity pleaded with the company, which produces its offspring.

Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes, inventors of bubble
We all adulation balloon blanket (even it is alleged an air foil, balloon foil). It was invented in the not-so abroad and 1957, Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes. Then they formed on the apparatus for the accessible abatement of wallpaper, and eventually got a abundant amalgamation for accumulator of brittle products. A few years afterwards its barrage ally founded the aggregation Sealed Air Corporation in New Jersey. Today, anniversary acquirement beyond $ 5 billion

Sunday, April 4, 2010

23 People Dead in unique ways

1. Died of intention to reach the moon shadow in the water

Chinese poet Li Po (VII-VIII century AD) is a famous poet, who liked to get drunk. At one point he was drunk when boat ride across the river Yangtze. He saw the shadow of the moon on the water. Because drunk, he tried to reach out to hug her shadow, but failed. As a result he fell into the water and drowned.

2. Died of a beard

Austrian Hans Steininger was famous for his beard was the longest in the world. Length is about 140 cm. On one day in the year 1567, a fire that requires everyone to run. He forgot to tie a long beard. In her haste, he stepped on himself and fell off his beard. Her neck was broken and he died instantly.

3. Died due to hold back urination

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was an astronomer. In 1601, he was attending a banquet of a very old, in Prague (now Czech Republic). Customary in those days believed that the blur in the middle of dinner, including for waste water, is very rude. As a result he was forced to hold pee during the banquet. Bladder extends to the threshold, and there was an infection (cystitis) are fatal. He died 11 days later.

4. Death by conductor rod

Jean Baptiste Lully is the conductor who led the orchestra in a celebration of healing from the pain of Louis XIV in 1687. Being too excited, he just dropped the rod conductor toe. Occurs abscess (infection with pus) and followed by gangrene (decay). Lully refused amputation, and he finally died from an infection that spreads throughout the body.

5. Died of his tongue bitten

Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) was a renowned detective agency with his Pinkerton detective agency. One day he was walking on the sidewalk. He slipped. Not accidentally bitten tongue, and there was an infection which later killed him.

6. Died due to kick box

Similar to Lully, but this occurred in the early 20th century to Jack Daniel, a businessman famous whiskey from Tennessee, USA. On one morning he wanted to open a coffin, but he forgot the combination. He was raging and kicking the crate. One of the injured fingers, inflamed (infected), and finally killed him.

7. Died of orange peel

Bobby Leach (1858-1926) was a stunter. He also person second in the world to successfully conquer Niagara Falls with his barrels. He died in 1926, two months after her leg amputated. Why? Apparently she slipped on the skin caused by stepping on oranges in the streets, in New Zealand. Broken legs and severe infection. At that time there has been no antibiotics ....

8. Died due to parachute failed to inflate

In 1912 Franz Reichelt claims to have developed berparasut jacket. A new discovery. He wanted to try to jump from the top of the Eiffel tower. Previously he was planning to wear a doll, but ultimately did not. He tested himself decided the jacket. Apparently, as many people feared, the jacket is not functioning and he died instantly.

9. Died after being poisoned, shot 4 times, beaten and eventually drowned

Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916) was first poisoned with cyanide. Dose equivalent to killing 10 people. But as it is known later that sianidanya been damaged by the heating of food, he did not die. Then he was shot from behind by Felix Yusupov and his friends. He did not die as well. He was shot again 3 times, but not dead. Rasputih finally beaten with sticks and finally sunk into the River Neva is cold. From the results of an autopsy, the cause of death is actually sinking.

10. Died of a baseball

Ray Chapman (1891-1920) is known as the only player who was killed in a baseball game. He died because his head hit the ball from Carl Mays pitch. At that time, baseball pitchers are always covered the ground by the ball before the throw, make it difficult for opponents to see the ball.

11. Death by scarf

Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) known as figures of modern dance. She likes to wear scarves on the move. In September 1927, he was in a car, with windows open (!), And the cars move in high speed. At that time he wore a large shawl. Because shawl "flying" up to a car tire, he choked once from a car window.

12. Died when he talked about Hitler

In 1943, a critic of Nazism and fascism was called Alexander Woolcott died after suffering a heart attack during the middle of talking about Adolf Hitler's.

13. Died on the concert stage

Leslie Harvey, guitarist of Stone the Crows, died in 1972 due to an electric shock from the microphone he used on the concert stage.

14. Died in TV broadcasting

Christine Chubbuck (1944-1974) was the only television reporter who died in the midst of live television. He shot himself in the head on the broadcast Suncoast Digest (WXLT-TV) on July 15, 1974 with a 38 mm revolver. Chubbuck was already in trouble with protracted depression.

15. Died due to "kill the robot"

Robert Williams was trying to retrieve an item in storage rack for Ford Motor's Flat Rock because the robot is not working. Suddenly, the robot moves and the robot arm struck the head of Williams. He died instantly on January 25, 1979. Only 2 years ago, a similar accident occurred in Japan. Kenji Urada which ultimately failed to turn off the robot inadvertently pushed him into a grinding machine (!).

16. Died of a severed helicopter

Victor Morrow (1929-1982) and the 2nd person with whom the child actors were killed by helicopter blades severed when she was filming for the movie Twilight Zone, in 1982. The case prompted the United States government to revise laws and child labor protection, security and assurance of safety regulations on location.

17. Death by cactus

Still in 1982, David Grundman and a friend were out hunting cactus. They met a large cactus. Saguaro cactus cactus is nearly 8 feet tall which was about 100 years. In front there is a small cactus. They opened fire on a small cactus once, successfully. Now turn that big. But what happened, even the giant cactus had shot up to a hole, and finally fell on Grundman. He died instantly. Really revenge by cactus!

18. Death by bottle caps

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), American playwright, died of strangulation swallowed a bottle cap when he was drunk at a hotel in New York. This is apparently related to the habit of putting the lid on both eyes and his mouth while drinking.

19. Died jape

Dick Shawn (1924-1987) was droll about political campaigns in the United States. After saying "I Will not lay down on the job!" (I will not resign!), He immediately lay on the floor. The audience thought it was part of the joke. But because he did not wake up again, some officers had checked the stage and perform emergency breathing assistance. Not long after he died.

20. Died during the "reconstruction"

In 1991, a 57-year-old Thai woman named Yooket Paen, slipped on cow dung was walking in her garden. After that he was naked prisoner of a cable (without the wrapper), and was electrocuted to death. After the funeral, the younger brother came to the gardens Paen. He also slipped on the same cow manure, the same cable prisoner, and died as well.

21. Death by sheep

In 1999, Betty Stobbs was feeding his sheep on a motorcycle. Food for the sheep is located on the tailgate on his motorcycle. At that time, the sheep are apparently being starved. They also raided the tailgate, to the extent Stobbs was thrown into the abyss as deep as 30 meters. He had not died due to "throw" it. But where are the bike? Turns out there right behind him, and he hit his motorbike killed himself.

22. Died of a bookshelf

November 2006, Mariesa Weber (38 years) thought to be lost. 2 weeks, he has not found his family (though he died at home alone!). But he eventually found under a pile of fallen bookshelf. Apparently he was trying flashy television cable into an electrical outlet, which can only be achieved by standing on the desk next to a bookshelf. But unfortunately he fell head first, and shelves fell on Weber's part.

23. Died of an online game

In 2005, Lee, a 28-year-old South Korean, were killed after 50 hours of nonstop playing Starcraft at an internet cafe in Daegu. Starcraft is an online game