The stonefire's island

It's a 2.000 village inhabitants in the east of Sardinia; its name "Perdasdefogu", which reminds on its roots the ancient spanish conquerors who called it "Pierdas de fuego", means "Stones of fire".

And Sardinia it's a land of stones: the megalitic culture has left a great print all over Sardinia which praisies the rest of 30.000 nuraghes (7.000 of them still erected); giant's coffins, fairytale houses, and on therir ruines, after millennia of civilisation, you can easily find the rest of Phenician's and Roman's domination, with imponent cities on the strategic coast skyline and even a roman amphetheatre of the II century in the centre of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia. And after the Romans, fierce enemies of unbendable ancient nuragic people, the decline, mostly in the second millennium A.D. with the Spanish and the italian Savoia.

Thera also the singing stones (but that's another story which deserves another post).

And there are the living stones: the Melises (see the link below for detailed newyork's report).

The Melises are stronger than stones: they have deserved a place in the world's guiness of record. The Melises are a family of nin siblings who sum up 825 years all together: the oldest being 105 year old; the youngest being 79 year old.

The american papers underlines the lackness of work making a great contrast with the capacity of living so long.

Also this is another story. I can only say that sardinian people are too much fatalist.

And  if they  will find the way to remember that their ancestors were so strong to be able to built such imponent and majestic buildings as the nuraghes, they are easily sorting out of all economic and financial  crisis. It would enough to value their culture and to organize the international tourism after that (not only after the three months sea season).

But that a hard way to be found.

Read more on this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/world/europe/celebrating-the-elderly-with-a-nervous-eye-on-the-future.html?ref=world&_r=2&

The fattest man in the world

" All began when I fell in love with a woman; I wont tell you her name, but it hearts me so muche, even today, to speak of thi story; when she left for another man I started eating and eating, on and on, just to forget, 'you know what I ean?"

Who tells this story to the DM on line is Paul Mason, the fattest man in the world.
But now he wants to wake up to a new life and he has lost 20 stones after a surgery implantantion af a gastric digestive tube.
"I'm still 50 stones of wheight but I hope to go on" has revealed thestill  fattest man in the world.

To read more on this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343911/emailArticle.html

They call it bath salts......

........and it's not supposed to be used for human comsumption. But it's a very dangerous, dreadful drug!
It's marketed under the name of Ivory Wave, though is also well known as "Purple Wave" on the WEB.
The drug is sweeping Britain where two people are alleged to be killed for ingesting this mysterious chemical stuff, commercialized as plant food or as bath salts but ingested or snorted as cocaine for quicker result on waisting wheight.

Read more on this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1306877/emailArticle.html

He's still the fattest

Big Luciano Pavarotti and Fats Domino were two slim guys comparing to 440 Kilos' (70 stone) weight Paul Mason, a former postman from Ipswich, Suffolk in England.

And even after loosing 20 stone, he's still the fattest man in the world!

A really not envying record to be won!

Read more at Mail on line

World's heaviest man loses 20 stone after gastric bypass surgery... but he's still the fattest
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 10:44 AM on 01st February 2010
The world's heaviest man has lost more than 20 stone after having a life-saving operation.
Paul Mason, 48, now weighs 49 stone after undergoing complicated gastric bypass surgery.
But the former postman is still believed to be the world's heaviest man after his predecessor, Mexican Manuel Uribe, lost more than 45 stone so he could get married.

Crash diet: Paul Mason, 48, has lost more than 20 stone after undergoing gastric bypass surgery to staple part of his stomach
Mr Mason, who lives in Ipswich, Suffolk, had part of his stomach stapled off so that all the food he ate went into a small 'pouch', vastly restricting the amount he could eat.
Doctors put him on a crash diet to bring his weight down to a safe level so the operation could go ahead.
He was driven 143 miles in an ambulance with reinforced beds to have the operation at the specialist St Richard's Hospital in Chichester.
He will spend two weeks in hospital and will require another operation in six months.
'Paul is looking pretty well. He has lost a lot of weight, but has a lot more to lose,' an NHS source told The Sun.
'He said he has been waiting eight years for the procedure, but now that he weighs around 49 stone it's been worth the wait.

Paul Mason: Needed fork lift truck for operation
'He said his aim is to be able to get into a mobility wheelchair and eventually drive a car.'
Mr Mason ballooned to 70 stone last year on a diet of junk food - despite being looked after full time by Suffolk County Council carers.
He admitted to eating 20,000 calories a day, eight times the amount needed by an average man.
His care bill costs taxpayers an estimated £100,000 a year and is believed to have topped £1million over the last 15 years.
Firefighters had to demolish the front wall of Mr Mason's former home in Ipswich so they could drive a fork lift truck inside to lift him out and put him into an ambulance when he needed a hernia operation in 2002.
At the time he weighed 56 stone and told doctors that he was desperate to lose weight.
He ended up slimming down to 45 stone before piling the weight back on with his junk food diet.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247624/Worlds-heaviest-man-Paul-Mason-loses-20-stone-gastric-bypass-surgery.html#ixzz0eJyU3eiy