Would you like a drink?

If you would just stretch your feet and help yourself!

That's what you could really say to this young indian man if you had to invite him at your party!

He has been named the "rubber man" because of the very high flexibility of his body firstly noticed while training for martial art in India.

And now he aims to fill the Guinness Book of World Records.

To learn more about the real-life flexible friend: India's very own 'Rubber Man' makes the Guinness Book of World Records
By Daily Mail Reporter on 28th February 2010

Vijay Sharma can wrap his legs over his head, wriggle through a tennis racket and wind his arms around his back.
His flexibility has earned him the title of 'Rubber Man' in the Limca book of Records, India's version of the Guinness book of World Records, and he hopes to one-day achieve global fame.
'It was when I was training for martial arts I realised my body was so bendable I might be capable of setting a world record in flexibility,' the 27-year-old said.

Write caption hereThe village boy from Rajashtan's Jhunjhunu district started taking martial arts lessons in 1999 in a bid to learn Chan's acrobatic fighting style
ts became a source of motivation for me.' Shop assistant Vijay claims his bendy obsession stems from watching Jackie Chan movies when he was a youngster.
The village boy from Rajashtan's Jhunjhunu district started taking martial arts lessons in 1999 in a bid to learn Chan's acrobatic fighting style.
It was during these lessons he discovered the extent of his flexibility and started experimenting.
He squeezed into tiny spaces, curled his body into boxes and attempted to drink from bottles held between his toes.
After seeing the tennis racket stunt in Guinness book of world records, he became curious and bought a tennis racket the next day. He quickly removed the strings and tried to pass through the nine-and-a-half-inch surface.
'I tried to get through it, but got stuck for the entire night,' he said. 'I had to shut myself in my room and sleep with it. I got up at 3 o clock and tried to get out of it.
'I began to bleed but that didn't stop me.' Vijay, who practices up to four hours a day to improve his elasticity, has performed on TV Shows and various tournaments at national level. But he believes, he has performed the toughest stunt on a Zee TV show.

Least interested in his father's clothes shop business, Vijay wants to achieve fame by working on martial arts and body flexibility
'I added a kick to my stunt, that is I pulled my leg up all the way so it was perpendicular to the floor and pushed my torso along with my leg out of the racket,' he explained.
'It was such a stunt that I couldn't breathe for a moment while doing it.' He has won a silver medal in body flexibility at a country level tournament, held at Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh in 2001. He also claims to have broken the world record for wrist-egg-crushing - which involves pushing your hand backwards to lie flat against the arm - set by a Lissa Patterson (CORR) in 2005.
'I made the claim and even got some documents from Guinness Book of World Records to complete, but I couldn't get back because of constraints of time and money,' he said.
Least interested in his father's clothes shop business, Vijay wants to achieve fame by working on martial arts and body flexibility.
'Anything for fame,' he said.

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A regretful man

Though an old one, I think a man can choose to to do what he likes of his life; even deciding to become a woman.

But what does it happen if a man, after many gender reassignement operation to become a woman, decides to revert to his life as a man?

That's what really happened to Charles Kane, DM on line reports.

Of course Nature does make some confusion, sometimes.

But let me say one thing then: we can make much more confusion in our brain.

So let's stay things as they are, specially if there are our kids involved.

To know more by Helen Wheathers on Daily Mail On Line:

"British-based businessman Charles Kane has spoken publicly of how ultimately he found a woman's life boring, tired of fashion, hated the female hormonal fluctuations, and missed being taken seriously by men.
'There are some regretters, but I have spoken to other people who are very happy having made the transition,' says Jane,'I don't know if I will miss what is perceived as male privilege. I know that writing as John Ozimek I will receive 40,000 hits on the internet, while as Jane Fae I have received around two.'
For now, though, Jane feels liberated. The newness of being able to browse a make-up counter, buy a nice dress and wear pretty shoes is exciting. She is planning on growing her hair into a bob, and might even go blonde.
And Andrea will be by her side, advising her on how to look and act as a woman.
'I can see strangers looking at her, moving their eyes up and down the body,' says Andrea. 'They see the women's clothes and the elegant walk and then they see the head and the two don't go together at the moment, but they will.'
Jane has yet to take all John's men's clothes to the charity shop - ' just in case' - but she thinks she will start getting rid of them soon. Andrea wants to keep a couple of her favourite shirts. The ones she liked to see John wearing.
No, this is not proving to be at all easy for either of them. Can there be a happy ending?
Last week, after seven years of waiting, Andrea finally received her marriage proposal. From Jane, not John. She accepted. They will both now wear dresses, with Jane joking that she wants the bigger 'meringue', before conceding that a slim, column gown would suit her better.
It is not what Andrea envisaged for herself when she first met John Ozimek, but she loves Jane Fae now. In her eyes, they remain one and the same."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1252462/Andrea-Fletcher-devoted-fiancee-whos-sticking-man-John-Ozimek-despite-fact-wants-woman-named-Jane-Fae.html#ixzz0eq45YToa

Thanks Mr Obama

Thank you Mr Obama for receiving the Dalai Lama at The White House (though at a low profile, as papers say).

I'm not talking for political reasons. I know reasons are never all at on side only.

Nevertheless I can't help observing the U.S.A., also in this event, have given an example of democracy.

Nobody is perfect in the world but we have to be able to distinguish(and sometimes choose) between good and evil; between freedom and oppression; between democracy and dictatorship.

Every people in the world have the right to self governement, basically according to their own culture, traditions and beliefs.

To know more By Mail Foreign Service on DM on line

The Dalai Lama and U.S president Barack Obama met for the first time at the White House today, defying furious protests from China.
The two Nobel Peace Prize winners seemed intent on keeping the meeting low-key, in order avoid worsening tensions between the two countries.
The Tibetan spiritual leader, who was also denied a meeting in the Oval office, left via a side entrance where rubbish bags were piled up and The White House didn't release photos of the meeting until several hours afterwards.

Men of peace meet: The Dalai Lama and Barack Obama during their meeting at The White House
Wearing sandals and burgundy robes, he said he had expressed to Mr Obama his admiration for the U.S. as a 'champion of democracy, freedom, human values'.
The Dalai Lama also pictured touching snow heaps shovelled to the side of White House paths following recent blizzards in Washington.

Not-so-grand exit: The Dalai Lama leaves the White House via an exit where rubbish bags are kept on the ground following his meeting with Barack Obama
China, which is increasingly at odds with the U.S. over currency exchanges, Taiwan arms sales and internet censorship, said the meeting would further damage ties.
But, by going ahead, Mr Obama may be trying to show his resolve against increasingly assertive Chinese leaders after facing criticism for being too soft on them during his trip to China in November.
Earlier, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said dismissively of the visit: ‘Chinese officials have known about this and their reaction is their reaction.’

His meeting with Mr Obama was delibately low profile because of China's outrage
Although admired by millions around the world as a man of peace, the Dalai Lama is accused by Beijing of being a dangerous separatist who foments unrest in Tibet.
The White House insisted America and China - the world’s largest and third-biggest economies respectively - have a ‘mature relationship’ capable of withstanding disagreements.
But mindful of Chinese sensitivities, the White House sought to strike a balance in the Dalai Lama’s visit.

The Dalai Lama said he admired America's stance on freedom
The President is also currently attempting to secure China's help in settling North Korean and Iranian nuclear standoffs.
So, seeking to avoid alienating Beijing, Mr Obama had delayed meeting the Dalai Lama until after first seeing Chinese leaders during his Asia trip last year.


During today’s visit, Mr Obama - like his White House predecessors - denied the Dalai Lama the symbolism of meeting in the Oval Office.
Instead, they met in the lesser-known Map Room. Such distinctions signalled to China that the Tibetan monk was not being received as a political leader.
The Dalai Lama entered the White House out of sight of journalists, and the talks were closed to media coverage.
The White House planned to release a photograph later.
But honouring the Dalai Lama could still help Obama burnish his administration’s credentials among human rights activists.
They accuse him of focusing on global issues with Beijing at the expense of promoting Chinese democratic reforms.
Ahead of the talks, Tibetans living near the Dalai Lama’s birthplace welcomed the White House meeting with a defiant show of fireworks.
The midnight display along a valley dotted with Tibetan Buddhist monasteries was a reminder that the Dalai Lama remains a potent figure in his homeland. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1251888/Dalai-Lama-meet-Barack-Obama-U-S-defies-protests-China.html#ixzz0eddaTmcn

The Poem of Creation - Second Part

Continues from Monday, February the 8th 2010 - God, after creating all the animals, does want to make the man in His image and likeness!

The World’s Creation
II
“Fly off all birds”- said God- “freely in the air
And splash about in to sea any fish;
Graze lambs, calves and livestock everywhere
In grassy lawns that will never languish;
Grow up any reptiles fair and unfair,
living beings either monstrous or polish!”
After the earth had all animals found
God said to them to multiply around.


And finally He said: - “ Let’s make now man
In our image and likeness, every
And each animal to lead on command!”
After doing that He rested quietly.
Henceforward, after six days, on the land
man, on the seventh, stays steady Godly,
being it consecrated for prairie and rest,
Both the last hours and also the first!


But the Creation was not yet complete
Still being missed the breath of the Animator
Who can transform into a giant a bit!
Waters from earth going up by Creator
To mist all over the ground were admit
So could mould the man God the Great Factor
and by that divine blow the man was made
but nevertheless, he still lonely stayed.

.....to be continued.....

Mind the jab!

It seems the time has come for men to do their part in the contrapcetive matters.

After testing 80 couples in Edinburgh Dr Richard Anderson says the male pill will be soon ready under the form of two injections every two months.

See the link for more

British couples are taking part in trials of a male contraceptive jab said to be as effective as the Pill.
Doctors believe it will liberate women from the burden of family planning by letting partners share responsibility.
Professor Richard Anderson, who is heading one of two year-long trials, said: ‘A lot of women may think it’s time men took their turn.’
The news will also be welcomed by women worried about the Pill’s links to breast cancer and fatal blood clots.

The drawback is that it depends on men making regular trips to their GP - and women trusting them to do so. Studies have shown that many men would also welcome a male jab or pill, while increasing the types of contraception available could help cut unplanned pregnancies.
But the shift in responsibility also raises the possibility of pregnant women trying to sue their former partners.
Sixty couples in Manchester and 20 in Edinburgh are taking part in the trials, part of intensive global research.

The contraceptive, given in two injections every two months, tricks the brain into shutting off sperm production.
It contains the male sex hormone testosterone and a man-made version of the female sex hormone progesterone and when the brain senses them, it reduces the levels of other hormones which control sperm production and maturation.
Doctors say it is effective in 99 per cent of cases and sperm counts should rapidly return to normal once the injections are stopped.

The jab is one of several male contraceptives being developed by drug companies eager for a share of the £20billion-plus spent globally each year on the female Pill.
Professor Anderson, of the University of Edinburgh, believes the jab will prove popular with both sexes.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1251064/On-trial-Pill-men-80-British-couples-test-drug-frees-women-burden-family-planning.html#ixzz0faGTHmYc

I'll smile only if you wake up, grandad!

Must be right when they say that grandchildren rejuvenate men's lives.

What happened to David Russel, from Didmarton, Gloucetershire goes much more far than the commonsense believes.

He woke up from a coma as his wife whispered in his ear that grandchild Edie was born.

Read more of this on DM On LineBy Luke Salkeld

"Some things are worth waking up for.
And after two weeks in a coma David Russell finally opened his eyes - after his wife told him he had just become a grandfather.
Doctors had previously warned Helen Russell that the prognosis for her 60-year-old husband was not good.
But on hearing the news of the latest addition to the family, the farmer is making a full recovery.

Against the odds: Farmer David Russell with wife Helen and a photograph of new granddaughter Edie. Doctors thought he would wake brain damaged
Mr Russell was left fighting for his life after he fell 12ft onto concrete while replacing guttering on a barn roof.
He then underwent a five-hour operation to remove a blood clot from his brain before lapsing into the coma.
His 57-year-old wife was warned he would probably wake up with serious brain damage, but after their first grandchild Edie was born two weeks later she whispered in his ear: 'Come on granddad you have got to wake up now.'
Mrs Russell says that on hearing the news her husband stirred from his coma and gave her a wink.
She said yesterday: 'The doctors didn't even think that he would survive the operation, which was absolutely horrific news to be given.

'He did survive but when he failed to come out of an induced coma they said the best case scenario was that he would be brain damaged and severely impaired.
'But then Edie was born and I went into the hospital and said: 'Come on granddad you have got to wake up now - you have got to do that'.
'Soon after that he started to come out of the coma and opened his eyes and winked at me.
'He came round when I told him we were grandparents for the first time.'
She added: 'He's incredibly proud and thrilled to be a grandfather.
'The whole family was elated. Words don't even begin to describe how devastated we were after the accident.'
Mr Russell, a father-of-three was at his farm in Didmarton, Gloucetershire, when he fell head-first onto a concrete floor in December.
He was airlifted to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol where specialist surgeons operated for five hours to remove a blood clot from his brain and then put him in a coma from which he couldn't be woken.
It was only when his granddaughter Edie was born to son Edward, 30, and his wife Ellie that he finally came round after 15 days.
Mr Russell, who is now expected to make a full recovery, said: 'The doctors told my wife that there was a risk that although I was going to survive I may be severely brain damaged.
'The next day Helen told me that we had become grandparents and I apparently opened my eyes and blinked and winked, but I don't remember it.'
Mr Russell was well enough to see his granddaughter three weeks later while he was undergoing rehabilitation at Gloucester Royal Hospital.
He said: 'It was just fantastic to meet Edie and I have got her to thank for saving my life. When she is older I will tell her that she helped bring me out of a coma.
'My concern now is just on getting better." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250223/Farmer-wakes-coma-wife-whispers-ear-grandfather.html#ixzz0fIiN0gIL

Banzai!

The cry is not an echo resounding in traditional Japanese meetings; not even a shout echoing from some second world war's battlefields!

It's simply the self defending howl of a desperate man trying to save himself and his family from cruel threats of thugs home intruders, in East Yorkshire- England.

Read the whole story on Daily Mail On Line by Chris Brooke

Last updated at 9:03 PM on 10th February 2010

"A father who defended his family from drug-crazed thugs by wounding one with a Samurai sword has been cleared by a jury.
David Fullard, 47, was prosecuted for attacking the two strangers who forced their way into his home and threatened to rape his partner and kill his two teenage children.
He insisted he was a desperate man acting legally in self-defence and struck out once with the ornamental sword, because it was the only weapon to hand.

David Fullard, seen here at an earlier hearing with his partner Susan Neal, was prosecuted for attacking the strangers who forced their way into his home
The blow almost sliced off the ear of Michael Severs, one of the thugs.
The prosecution refused to accept that his actions amounted to lawful self-defence and argued it was 'over the top' to attack a man armed with a knuckleduster by using a 'battlefield weapon'.
The two thugs were both high on a cocktail of drink and drugs at the time, the court heard.
But after a five-day trial at Hull Crown Court, Mr Fullard, a builder, broke down in tears as he was found not guilty of unlawful wounding.
It ended a nine-month ordeal for a man described by neighbours as 'honest and caring'. He had faced the threat of a long prison term.
The case represents another landmark in the debate over how far a householder should be allowed to go in defending his home from an intruder.
Yesterday jobless Severs, 22, and Michael Smith, 19, escaped with a suspended prison sentence and 100 hours of community work after admitting affray at the court.


'Slap on the wrists': Jobless thugs Michael Smith (left) and Michael Severs (whose ear was almost severed) received suspended prison sentences
Judge Michael Mettyear then lifted a reporting restriction on the case.
Outside court Mr Fullard criticised the judge for allowing the men to get away with a 'slap on the wrists'.
He added: 'You cannot stand around and do nothing when someone-comes to your house and starts threatening your family.'
Mr Fullard has been supported throughout by partner Susan Neal, 53, and his sons Danny, 14, and Tom, 17, who were in the house during the incident in March last year.
He added: 'I only struck one blow with the sword. If there had been a walking stick or umbrella by the door I would have hit him with that.'
'You cannot stand around and do nothing when someone comes to your house and starts threatening your family'
The court heard Severs and Smith, who both have previous convictions for violence, vaguely knew Mr Fullard's elder son and knocked on the door of the family home in Brough, East Yorkshire, claiming he owed them £5 from earlier in the day.
It was a ruse to get cash but Smith barged into the living room while Mr Fullard was upstairs and threatened Miss Neal. She told the jury he picked up the ornamental sword and said: 'Do you want some of this?'
She said: 'They threatened to rape me, burn the house down, kill the kids and kill Dave.'

The house where the incident took place. The case represents another landmark in the debate over how far a householder should be allowed to go in defending his home from an intruder
Smith then ran out and Mr Fullard was confronted by Severs in the garden. The thug was armed with a spade and a knuckle-duster.
Mr Fullard told the jury he picked up the sword and 'hit him once' and intended for the 'flat of the sword' rather than the blade to connect. He then called police.
Mr Fullard was arrested and only later did police arrest Smith and Severs, who had his ear re-attached in hospital." http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249958/Cleared-Builder-chopped-thugs-ear-Samurai-sword-threatened-rape-kill-family.html#ixzz0fCxgoYux