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UNFORGETTABLE PHOTOS

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:05:58 GMT

clipped by: thefoxalmighty
clipper's remarks: nice collecion....

Unforgettable Photos

1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.

1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government’s torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.

1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.

February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.

1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.

1973. A few seconds before Chile ’s elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.

1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon .

1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.

1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.

1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola .

2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.

1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.

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The best things ever...

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:10:20 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: interesting and quite true too!

Clip Source: crclark.stumbleupon.com

Found this on the net....so true.
The Best Things Ever:
1. Being invisible.
2. Being the only people who stay to the end of the credits at the
movies and getting a super secret bonus scene!
3. Accidentally hearing someone say something nice about you
4. A magic pen. what ever you write comes true
5. Finding someone who loves you for who you are, not what you are
6. Kissing someone you are madly in love with for the first time!
7. Daydreams becoming reality
8. Finding out you can breathe underwater
9. The ability to instantly teleport anywhere in the world
10.Being able to read
11.The ability to fall from any height without injury or death
12.The ability to travel back through time
13.Laughing so hard that you can't breathe.
14.Finding out that you can fly, and just never knew it
15.Having a back button for real-life events
16.Finding out the person you like likes you back, even though there
was almost no chance in hell that it would come true
17.Quoting an obscure movie and having somebody's eyes light up
18.Finding money in the pocket of a jacket you haven't worn all year
19.The ability to freeze time around you.
20.Staying up all night with the person you care about most.

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Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:15:38 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.eurekalert.org

Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A robotic exoskeleton controlled by the wearer's own nervous system could help users regain limb function, which is encouraging news for people with partial nervous system impairment, say University of Michigan researchers.

The ankle exoskeleton developed at U-M was worn by healthy subjects to measure how the device affected ankle function. The U-M team has no plans to build a commercial exoskeleton, but their results suggest promising applications for rehabilitation and physical therapy, and a similar approach could be used by other groups who do build such technology.

"This could benefit stroke patients or patients with incomplete injuries of the spinal cord," said Daniel Ferris, associate professor in movement science at U-M. "For patients that can walk slowly, a brace like this may help them walk faster and more effectively."

Ferris and former U-M doctoral student Keith Gordon, who is now a post-doctoral fellow at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, showed that the wearer of the U-M ankle exoskeleton could learn how to walk with the exoskeleton in about 30 minutes. Additionally, the wearer's nervous system retained the ability to control the exoskeleton three days later.

Electrical signals sent by the brain to our muscles tell them how to move. In people with spinal injuries or some neurological disorders, those electrical signals don't arrive full strength and are uncoordinated. In addition, patients are less able to keep track of exactly where and how their muscles move, which makes re-learning movement difficult.

Typically, robotic rehabilitative devices are worn by patients so that the limb is moved by the brace, which receives its instructions from a computer. Such devices use repetition to help force a movement pattern.

Tags: science, research, health, robotics, exoskeleton, muscle, nervous system