Man marries the love of his life, his favorite video game character.
Tiger toys from human hair.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
what's new at globe?
50 needles found in Brazilian boy.
Solar power gives light to poor.
Artificial retina gives woman limited vision after decades of darkness
It may look like something from Star Trek, but it's helping some people see.
Barbara Campbell's vision began to dim when she was just 12. The first hint that her sight was deteriorating came at school.
Barbara says, "The teacher called my parents in and said she's just not seeing stuff on the page."
As the years went by, her sight only got worse. Barbara remembers, "There was like an open man hole, which I was about to go in," and the whole event was very scary.
Cells on Barbara's retina that detect light had deteriorated. Five months ago, however, that changed. She began seeing glints of light using what some are calling a 'Bionic Eye'.
Ophthalmologist Dr. Lucian Del Priore explains, "It's an artificial device that essentially stimulates the retina electronically."
First, Barbara had an operation to implant a tiny computer chip into the eye. She wears a pair of special sunglasses outfitted with a small camera that transmits images to the chip inside her eye.
Barbara's retina essentially receives electronic stimulation.
Vision researcher Dr. Aries Arditi says, "For patients who have really had no vision for years and years, these are really major milestones. We can take someone who is totally blind and turn them into someone with very, very poor vision. That's really the first time in history we've been able to do that."
Doctors caution that retraining Campbell's eye and brain to see could take years. Right now, her vision is in black and white and will never be perfect.
Barbara says, "My number one hope is to see colors again. If I could see colors again, my plan was to go to the grand canyon!"
Solar power gives light to poor.
Artificial retina gives woman limited vision after decades of darkness
It may look like something from Star Trek, but it's helping some people see.
Barbara Campbell's vision began to dim when she was just 12. The first hint that her sight was deteriorating came at school.
Barbara says, "The teacher called my parents in and said she's just not seeing stuff on the page."
As the years went by, her sight only got worse. Barbara remembers, "There was like an open man hole, which I was about to go in," and the whole event was very scary.
Cells on Barbara's retina that detect light had deteriorated. Five months ago, however, that changed. She began seeing glints of light using what some are calling a 'Bionic Eye'.
Ophthalmologist Dr. Lucian Del Priore explains, "It's an artificial device that essentially stimulates the retina electronically."
First, Barbara had an operation to implant a tiny computer chip into the eye. She wears a pair of special sunglasses outfitted with a small camera that transmits images to the chip inside her eye.
Barbara's retina essentially receives electronic stimulation.
Vision researcher Dr. Aries Arditi says, "For patients who have really had no vision for years and years, these are really major milestones. We can take someone who is totally blind and turn them into someone with very, very poor vision. That's really the first time in history we've been able to do that."
Doctors caution that retraining Campbell's eye and brain to see could take years. Right now, her vision is in black and white and will never be perfect.
Barbara says, "My number one hope is to see colors again. If I could see colors again, my plan was to go to the grand canyon!"
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
what's new at globe
Time’s ‘Person of the Year’
Philippine volcano eruption expected
Ghana's first female pilot
Patricia Mawuli is breaking barriers in a male dominated industry by becoming her country's first female pilot and engineer
Toilet humour big for Beijing diner
Beijing's toilet restaurant aims to amuse customers' senses and provide a new dining experience.
Philippine volcano eruption expected
Ghana's first female pilot
Patricia Mawuli is breaking barriers in a male dominated industry by becoming her country's first female pilot and engineer
Toilet humour big for Beijing diner
Beijing's toilet restaurant aims to amuse customers' senses and provide a new dining experience.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
what's new at globe?AMAZING
A Woman kills home intruder, 911 tapes show.
A $1 million home raffle winner ruffled by tax bill.
A $1 million home raffle winner ruffled by tax bill.
what's new at globe? visions everywhere
Holy cow! Divine bovine has cross on his head
Dubbed ‘Moses’ by neighborhood kids, young calf inspires hope, headlines.
Moses the calf was born this month with a distinct white marking on his forehead. “We’re going to make sure he gets a good life and doesn’t get eaten,” said one of his owners.
The month: December. The place: A humble farm. The setting: Just perfect for an auspicious event.
On a cold, dark night in the wee hours of the morning, a baby calf was born. His nurturing mother, Fuzzy, welcomed him into the world by licking and licking his head — an act that obscured a special detail about the little guy that would soon generate headlines all over the planet.
“When we first saw the calf ... the mother had licked the hair and it was all sideways and we thought it was a regular calf,” recalled Connecticut dairy farmer Brad Davis. “Then a little later on in the morning we went in and there it was, standing right out. It was really quite a sight.”
“It” was none other than the distinctive markings of a white cross on the newborn calf’s forehead. The image had quite an effect on Davis, Davis’ relatives and friends and families all around the dairy farm.
“The first night that he was here, when we shut the lights out that night late at night, the only thing you could see in here was that cross showing in the dark,” Davis told the local Norwich Bulletin newspaper. “It was really quite a feeling. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck, actually.”
Davis’ 70-year-old father, Andrew Gallup Davis, told the Bulletin that he’s never seen a pattern like this on any of the thousands of calves he’s encountered in his lifetime.
“It’s not one you look at and you try to make something out of it,” he said. “It’s pronounced.”
Neighborhood children have become enamored with the little calf with the special marking on his forehead. They decided to bestow upon him a biblical — albeit Old Testament — name: Moses.
The calf is living in Sterling, a small Connecticut town on the Rhode Island border, on Buttercup Farm, a dairy operation Davis co-owns with Megan Johnson.
Johnson said Fuzzy, Moses’ mother, is a red-and-white Holstein cow, and Ferdinand, his father, is a Jersey. Both Fuzzy and Ferdinand have the reputation of being exceptionally friendly animals. Davis thinks the pair produced an exceptional calf.
“He’s got a different disposition from other calves. You can see it in his eyes,” Davis said. “He has a very kind look in his eyes. Like he has something he wants to say to you.”
people have been seeing religious images in the most unlikely places in recent weeks — and not just on the heads of baby calves. A sampling:
* Also this month, a couple in the Fort Worth, Texas, area said one of their hens laid an egg bearing the image of a cross on it. The egg was unusual — not smooth like all the others — and it had an indentation on one end with what appeared to be a cross. The couple, Pam and Tracy Norrell, said they believe it’s a sign of encouragement during the holiday season. (They added that eating the egg is not an option.)
* Late last month, a Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work said an image of Jesus Christ she discovered on the bottom of her iron reassured her that “life is going to be good.” The woman, Mary Jo Coady, said she planned to store the special iron in a closet and buy a new one.
* In October, an Ikea furniture store in Glasgow, Scotland, made headlines when some shoppers thought they saw the face of Jesus on the wooden door of the men’s restroom. “It takes you by surprise. It is really clear in the wood,” one shopper told the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper. “I was only heading to the toilet and found God. My wife thought he looked like Gandalf from ‘Lord of the Rings,’ but it is definitely more like the Turin Shroud.”
Dubbed ‘Moses’ by neighborhood kids, young calf inspires hope, headlines.
Moses the calf was born this month with a distinct white marking on his forehead. “We’re going to make sure he gets a good life and doesn’t get eaten,” said one of his owners.
The month: December. The place: A humble farm. The setting: Just perfect for an auspicious event.
On a cold, dark night in the wee hours of the morning, a baby calf was born. His nurturing mother, Fuzzy, welcomed him into the world by licking and licking his head — an act that obscured a special detail about the little guy that would soon generate headlines all over the planet.
“When we first saw the calf ... the mother had licked the hair and it was all sideways and we thought it was a regular calf,” recalled Connecticut dairy farmer Brad Davis. “Then a little later on in the morning we went in and there it was, standing right out. It was really quite a sight.”
“It” was none other than the distinctive markings of a white cross on the newborn calf’s forehead. The image had quite an effect on Davis, Davis’ relatives and friends and families all around the dairy farm.
“The first night that he was here, when we shut the lights out that night late at night, the only thing you could see in here was that cross showing in the dark,” Davis told the local Norwich Bulletin newspaper. “It was really quite a feeling. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck, actually.”
Davis’ 70-year-old father, Andrew Gallup Davis, told the Bulletin that he’s never seen a pattern like this on any of the thousands of calves he’s encountered in his lifetime.
“It’s not one you look at and you try to make something out of it,” he said. “It’s pronounced.”
Neighborhood children have become enamored with the little calf with the special marking on his forehead. They decided to bestow upon him a biblical — albeit Old Testament — name: Moses.
The calf is living in Sterling, a small Connecticut town on the Rhode Island border, on Buttercup Farm, a dairy operation Davis co-owns with Megan Johnson.
Johnson said Fuzzy, Moses’ mother, is a red-and-white Holstein cow, and Ferdinand, his father, is a Jersey. Both Fuzzy and Ferdinand have the reputation of being exceptionally friendly animals. Davis thinks the pair produced an exceptional calf.
“He’s got a different disposition from other calves. You can see it in his eyes,” Davis said. “He has a very kind look in his eyes. Like he has something he wants to say to you.”
people have been seeing religious images in the most unlikely places in recent weeks — and not just on the heads of baby calves. A sampling:
* Also this month, a couple in the Fort Worth, Texas, area said one of their hens laid an egg bearing the image of a cross on it. The egg was unusual — not smooth like all the others — and it had an indentation on one end with what appeared to be a cross. The couple, Pam and Tracy Norrell, said they believe it’s a sign of encouragement during the holiday season. (They added that eating the egg is not an option.)
* Late last month, a Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work said an image of Jesus Christ she discovered on the bottom of her iron reassured her that “life is going to be good.” The woman, Mary Jo Coady, said she planned to store the special iron in a closet and buy a new one.
* In October, an Ikea furniture store in Glasgow, Scotland, made headlines when some shoppers thought they saw the face of Jesus on the wooden door of the men’s restroom. “It takes you by surprise. It is really clear in the wood,” one shopper told the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper. “I was only heading to the toilet and found God. My wife thought he looked like Gandalf from ‘Lord of the Rings,’ but it is definitely more like the Turin Shroud.”
Saturday, December 5, 2009
what's new at globe
7-year-old dubbed ‘young Picasso
Texas Couple Say Hen Laid Egg With Cross On It
(AP) BURLESON, Texas (AP) - A Fort Worth-area couple said one of their hens laid an egg with a cross on the end of it. Pam and Tracy Norrell of Burleson, who displayed the odd-shaped egg, said they believe it's a sign of encouragement during the holiday season.
Tracy Norrell said he was gathering eggs Monday night when one he picked up seemed to be unusual, not smooth like other eggs. The misshapen egg has an indentation on one end with what appears to be a cross on it.
Virgin Mary Likeness on Pancake
The Lopez family awoke to a breakfast 'miracle' when the Virgin Mary appeared on one of their pancakes. Affiliate KNXV from Glendale, A.Z. reports.
Texas Couple Say Hen Laid Egg With Cross On It
(AP) BURLESON, Texas (AP) - A Fort Worth-area couple said one of their hens laid an egg with a cross on the end of it. Pam and Tracy Norrell of Burleson, who displayed the odd-shaped egg, said they believe it's a sign of encouragement during the holiday season.
Tracy Norrell said he was gathering eggs Monday night when one he picked up seemed to be unusual, not smooth like other eggs. The misshapen egg has an indentation on one end with what appears to be a cross on it.
Virgin Mary Likeness on Pancake
The Lopez family awoke to a breakfast 'miracle' when the Virgin Mary appeared on one of their pancakes. Affiliate KNXV from Glendale, A.Z. reports.
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