This symptoms of compulsive for hoarding.

People who have a compulsive urge to collect and clutter their homes with junk can partly attribute their problem to genes, according to a British study.

Researchers from King’s College London used a twin study to find that genetic predisposition explained a large amount of the risk for compulsive hoarding — a mental health problem in which people have an overwhelming desire to accumulate items normally considered useless, like old newspapers or junk mail.

Of the more than 5,000 twins in the study, roughly 2 percent showed symptoms of compulsive hoarding and genes appeared to account for half of the variance in risk.

Researcher Dr. David Mataix-Cols said it has long been known that compulsive hoarding tends to run in families.

But he told Reuters Health that what has not been clear is whether that pattern is due to genes or to something in the home environment, like parenting practices. Read more

Winnie Pooh is funny…( russian variant)

We all know many things about Winnie the Pooh, so today we are going to meet another Pooh bear, actually his name is Vinni Puh and also called Vinni Pukh. Vinni Puh is the Russian name for Winnie the Pooh and here’s a little history about He has very distinct appearance about him, one that’s completely different from the English version. Vinni Puh is brown, as supposed to the yellow-red appearance given by Milne and Disney. However, many people find Vinni Puh as cute and adorable as they find Winnie the Pooh. Some 40 years after the last Vinni Puh cartoon was released, parents still remember the stories from the cartoon and recite them to their own children.
The speaking Winnie Pooh is funny … ( russian variant)

Windows 7 pirate version.

Software vendors in Beijing are already selling pirated versions of the Windows 7 operating system after its official China release on Oct 23.

Roughly 30 percent of the 20 vendors METRO interviewed yesterday at Hailong Plaza, the largest market selling electronic products in Zhongguancun, offered a pirated version of Windows 7.

Piracy software vendors have kept a low profile when selling the pirated operating system due to a tough government attitude and Microsoft’s aggressive marketing campaigns.

“I am taking a high risk to sell the pirated version. The government has launched a very harsh campaign recently. We will be fined over 10,000 yuan and probably also sent to prison if they catch us,” a woman surname Zhao, who works for a video store in Hailong, told METRO.

The demand for Windows 7 is high. A vendor in Hailong, surnamed Huo, said she could sell 20 genuine copies a day. It went out of stock on Monday. Read more

‘This is it’ worldwide…(video)

Michael Jackson fans around the world readied for the singer’s last bow Tuesday in a film that captures rehearsals for his aborted concert stand last summer.

From early evening in Los Angeles to late night in New York City, from the pre-dawn hours in Europe to business hours in Asia and elsewhere, “Michael Jackson: This Is It” arrives simultaneously in the biggest cinematic blowout ever for a music film.

Opening in 99 countries Tuesday and Wednesday, the film expands to 110 territories by this weekend, with distributor Sony putting 15,000 prints of “This Is It” into circulation.

The simultaneous showings around the globe will be anchored by a star-studded premiere at the Nokia Theatre, a concert venue across the street from Staples Center, where many of Jackson’s rehearsals — and his high-profile public memorial — were held. Read more

Chance for women under 55 in survival !

More middle-aged American women have heart attacks but the death rate has dropped in the past years, according to studies made by researchers at the University of Southern California.

The two studies also found that heart attacks for women have increased but for men there is a decrease.

“We found that men still have a higher prevalence than women, but what has happened is that the gap has narrowed,” said Dr. Amytis Towfighi, assistant professor of clinical neurology at USC and lead author of one of two reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Towfighi used data from two national surveys conducted from 1988 to 1994 and 1999 to 2004.

She found that while 2.5 percent of the men and 0.7 percent of the women reported a history of heart attacks in the earlier survey, 2.2 percent of men and 1 percent of women reported heart attacks in the more recent survey. Read more

Meteorite falls in Latvia (video)

No one was injured after a meteorite fell near a small town in northern Latvia on Sunday, local Latvian media reported.

According to media reports, the meteorite fell near a residential house on the outskirts of Mazsalaca town in the Valmiera district of Latvia, leaving a crater of some 20 meters (66 feet) in diameter and 10 meters (33 feet) deep.

A spokesperson for the Latvian State Fire and Rescue Service said that rescuers and soldiers immediately cordoned off the territory, however, it is still not clear whether it was an asteroid or a space satellite. Read more

Comic book and costume to crisis.

In these times of crisis and economic recession, many Americans are turning to comic books to escape the hard reality. But while for some it might just good fun, for others it’s also a good investment.

“Everybody wants to escape into fantasy,” one of them said.

“Some people do it through sex. Some do it through costume. Some people do it through comic books. I mean, life’s hard.”

To avoid real life horrors like unemployment, home foreclosures and war, indulging in fake superpowers may be the best medicine.

Thirty thousand people turned out for the three-day Comic Con convention in
New York City. Read more

NASA could return to the moon.

NASA needs to return astronauts to the moon under current plans, NASA has picked the wrong destination with the wrong rocket.

A test-flight version of the rocket, the new Ares I, is on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, awaiting liftoff later this month for its first experimental flight.

Instead, NASA should be concentrating on bigger rockets and new places to explore, the panel members said, as they issued their final 155-page report. The committee, created by the White House in May to look at NASA’s troubled exploration, shuttle and space station programs, issued a summary of their findings last month, mostly urging more spending on space. Read more

To have a larges breakfast in Australia…

More than 6,000 people joined happily to have a breakfast on Australia’s iconic landmark Sydney Harbour Bridge Friday morning, the largest ever breakfast on a bridge in the world.

The bridge unique production is a new event introduced as part of Crave Sydney, a new celebration of Sydney’s unmatched way of life with 31 days of food, outdoor art and fun during the month of October.

This is the first time that we have organized such a big breakfast on the Harbor Bridge, but not the last. We plan to have another one next year, probably with even bigger scale. Read more

Halloween History and party…

Halloween (also spelled Hallowe’en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. But many trick-or-treaters of all ages don’t know where this holiday comes from and what it’s really all about.
Halloween has origins in the ancient Gaelic festival known as Samhain, which is dervied from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end”. A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf . The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the “lighter half” of the year and beginning of the “darker half”, and is sometimes regarded as the “Celtic New Year”.
On All Hallows’ eve, the ancient Celts would place a skeleton on their window sill to represent the departed. Originating in Europe, these lanterns were first carved from a turnip or rutabaga. Believing that the head was the most powerful part of the body, containing the spirit and the knowledge, the Celts used the “head” of the vegetable to frighten off harmful spirits. Welsh, Irish and British myth Read more

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