Blind Photographer holds exhibition

Blind photographer to hold exhibitionA wildlife photographer is to hold an exhibition of her pictures - despite being blind.

Alison Bartlett’s hearing is so acute that she can pick up birds’ wings flapping or a squirrel nibbling a nut, reports The Sun.

Alison, 51, of New Milton, Hampshire, began to lose her sight in 1979 due to diabetes, and it went completely in 1992.

She said: “I was determined to carry on with things I’d always done. I started in my back garden because I knew where everything was, and all the distances and angles, and I learned to listen for the animals.

“It hurts that I can’t see the pictures but if it encourages other blind people to continue hobbies, it’s worth it.”

Pal Jenny Gilleland helps her out by showing her where to point the camera.

Alison, 51, said: “Jenny tells me where animals are and says things like, ‘Birds at two o’clock’. She’ll give me rough distances and I aim, focus the lens and take photos.

“Of course others have to tell me whether they are any good.”

Her work will be exhibited at New Milton library in February.

104 year old sprinter South African man

104-year-old sprinterA 104-year-old South African man has set a new world record for the 100 metre race.

Phillip Rabinowitz, from Cape Town, is now officially the world’s fastest centenarian sprinter, reports the Daily Mirror.

He finished the 100 metres in 30.86 seconds, knocking more than five seconds off the previous best.

It’s not quite the 9.74 seconds set by Asafa Powell in 2007 but Phil is 80 years older than the world record holder.

Phillip said: “I’ve always run and walked everywhere because when I was a kid there weren’t any cars.”

Strange News!

104-year-old sprinter
A 104-year-old South African man has set a new world record for the 100 metre race.
09:58 Thursday 28th February 2008
11:21 Thursday 31st January 2008

Teenager is allergic to Water!

Teen is allergic to waterAn Australian teenager can’t go swimming, soak in a bath or enjoy a shower because she’s allergic to water.

Ashleigh Morris, 19, is even allergic to her own sweat which brings her out in a rash, reports the Daily Mail.

Ashleigh, from Melbourne, Australia, has been allergic to water after an aggravating dose of penicillin when she was 14.

The media student became one of a handful in the world to develop incurable Aquagenic Urticaria.

Now she always keeps umbrellas handy, sleeps with a sheet between her boyfriend Adam to avoid sweat and stays in for hours after showers to let her rash calm.

But Ashleigh still enjoys life: “I picked myself up, kept going,” she said.

Pay per click?

I would like to know , which pay  per click company pays the best?

Women have it hard

It must be  difficult for women,

knowing that there are not many good  available men around.

Where do they find good men?

Where do fine good women ?

Fraud $7.2 billion loss, rogue trader.

But Dave , I had to let others see your  article; I thank you in advance.

David Schatsky | January 25, 2008, 09:56 AM

Most of us will never be in a position to wreak destruction on the scale of the $7.2 billion loss that “rogue trader” Jérôme Kerviel at Société Générale apparently has.

But it’s an inescapable fact that technology, efficiency and leverage carry destructive powers of impressive sweep as surely as they carry constructive ones.

This notion captivated mass attention in the “atomic era,” when mutual assured desctruction was not just a risk but a strategy; concerns about the impact of accidents continue to drive opposition to nuclear power in some quarters.

It gets some attention whenever a massive oil tanker like the Exxon Valdez spills, creating more damage than ever would have been possible with less sophisticated vessels.

It commands the full attention of the media industry who sees its business threatened by a global epidemic of digital piracy and the devaluation of media products even as it opens the door to new business models.

The more powerful the technology, the more desctructive power it carries with it. While some champions of new technologies may be reluctant to put the brakes on technologies that promise exciting advances over how things were done in the past, most new technologies are deployed by responsible people with good intentions and safety in mind.

Recent history suggests, though, that despite enlisting safegards against unintended consequences, some will unvariably occur.

It’s the rocky road of progress.

The White House will change.

If When Barack Obama gets to office , he and the new first lady will make some changes.

I wonder, what new changes would a first time,  black First Family adress?

What style would the new White House have?

You have to try it!

I don’t eat hamburgers, so Mickie Dee’s is not on my list. Neither is Wendy’s.

And certainly not Burger King, the people are under paid, so they will give you

underpaid service.

Let’s take it to the Top!

We have to believe in ourselves, as  expressionists.