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Why is everyone so surprised about Tiger Woods? When it comes down to it, monogamy doesn't always work. 點解又係Tiger Woods o架?! 有冇第樣呀?! 2009年12月21日 Mon 2:42:07
耀安邨墮樓
28歲男子當場死亡 2009年12月21日 (02:01 pm)
下午 12時 24分,一名 28歲男子被發現由沙田馬鞍山耀安邨耀平樓高處墮下,奄奄一息。救護員接報到場,證實男子已經當場死亡,毋須送院,警方事後尋獲男子的家人,正調查男子墮樓的原因。
七旬老夫婦 手拉手服藥自殺 2009年12月21日 (02:01 pm)
南京山區一對年過70歲的老夫婦,中風後因遭病纏身多年,疑為免續給兒媳添負擔,雙雙穿上壽衣後服農藥自殺,被發現時二人還手拉手。
揚子晚報報道,老夫婦結婚逾50年,育有4名兒子,兒子亦各有家室,老夫婦中風後,家中的醫療開支雖大增,但家人對二人不離不棄,悉心照顧。
有媳婦對兩老選擇自盡感到非常哀痛,「他倆實在不該這樣做,太傷我們的心了」。
REPORTS: Brittany Murphy Dead at 32 (Multiple sources report actress Brittany Murphy has died.)
Murphy went into full cardiac arrest last night and could not be revived, according to TMZ. The Los Angeles Fire Department tells the site they received a call from a home belonging to Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack. The actress was pronounced dead on arrival at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
She was 32.
昂船洲大橋通車
藍澄灣連錄成交
2009年12月21日 (02:18 pm)
昂船洲大橋昨日通車,縮短了青衣及沙田一帶往返機場之距離。毗鄰昂船洲大橋之藍澄灣亦因而受惠,於過去週六日連錄三宗成交。
中原地產表示,藍澄灣6座高層D室,面積957平方呎,日前以337萬元獲承接,折合呎價3521元。買家為區內換樓客,睇樓已多月,見近期成交量逐漸增多,怕遲買會貴,恰巧遇上心儀單位,遂加快入市步伐,購入上述單位自住。原業主於03年以232.7萬元一手購入單位,現易手帳面獲利104.3萬元。
另一宗錄得的成交為藍澄灣3座中層E室,面積957平方呎,為三房山景戶,以338萬元易手,折合呎價3532元。買家為用家,憧憬昂船洲大橋通車後帶來的升值潛力,日前落實入市決定。
藍澄灣於12月迄今暫錄成交10宗,平均呎價3533元。十二月份區內睇樓量明顯較十一月份增加,加上昂船洲大橋通車效應,相信成交量將持續向升。
走落港鐵架空路軌 智障青年危坐欄邊
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Kirk Maxey with two of his known donor offspring: Caitlyn and Ashley Swetland. By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt | Newsweek Web Exclusive Dec 16, 2009
It's a crisp fall day in Northville, Mich., a small suburb of Ann Arbor, and Kirk Maxey, a soft-spoken, graying baby boomer with a classic square jaw, is watching his 12-year-old son chase a soccer ball toward the goal. Maxey is doing what he does every Saturday, along with hundreds of other family men and women across the country, but he's not your average soccer dad. Maxey, 51, happens to be one of the most prolific sperm donors in the country. Between 1980 and 1994, he donated at a Michigan clinic twice a week. He's looked at the records of his donations, multiplied by the number of individual vials each donation produced, and estimated the success of each vial resulting in a pregnancy. By his own calculations, he concluded that he is the biological father of nearly 400 children, spread across the state and possibly the country. (to be cotinue ...) Beer-buzzed boy, 4, wanted to visit jailed dad
Mom says he got drunk, stole girl's dress because he 'wants to go to jail'
From New Orleans to Iraq, France to South America, we crisscross the globe and count down our favorites of the year
By MSN Movies contributors
Welcome to the third annual MSN Movies top 10 films poll. We are continuing our, ahem, long tradition of presenting 10 viewpoints from 10 critics that add up to some sort of hodgepodge representing the best movies of 2009. The method is simple: 10 critics vote for their 10 favorite films. Films are assigned points based on their ranking, and BAM!: We have a list that no one is TOTALLY happy about but sure causes much heated debate, at least among ourselves and hopefully with you as well. The rub this year? Well, for the most part, we all agreed that the top movie of the year was between two films. Wonders never cease.
If you want to jump to the individual lists, you can do so. But we hope you count down the top 10 with us. And then write in and let us know what we missed. -- Dave McCoy, MSN Entertainment
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This sunset - the first that Sadhya Rippon had seen in many weeks - features a combination of altocumulus and stratocumulus clouds. It was taken on the Menai Straits at Llanfairfechan, Conwy, looking west towards Bangor on 9th December.
Bo Melnyk snapped this upside down rainbow - known as a circumzenithal arc - on 1st December while in Todmorden, Lancashire.
A double rainbow brightened up an otherwise dreary journey for people travelling north on the M6 on 3rd December. Taken by Nan Goodall,
Roy Franklin tells us he followed the large cumulonimbus cloud and its associated weather from Poole to Hayling Island as it developed on 3rd December. His journey took just over an hour and the cloud formed in full glory as he arrived at Portsmouth.
Storms over Treluswell, Penryn in Cornwall on 29th November damaged a tree and blocked this lane. Jaynie Inns sent us this photo.
Mohammad Modrek managed to capture this image as cars struggled through a flooded street in Jedda, Saudi Arabia on 25th November.
A double rainbow brightened up the city of Bristol on 29th November. Photographed by Caroline Vowles.
The River Ouse broke its banks on 1st December, flooding pathways in York. Danny Adams sent us this photo.
Michael Cohen took this photograph on 26th November as a rainbow illuminated famous landmarks in London.
Geoff Terry spotted these unusually symmetrical cloud formations over Salisbury on the 5th December.
Robin Smith photographed this rarely seen cloud on the 4th December at Sittingbourne in Kent, which may have been caused by atmospheric disturbances.
Astronomers say they have detected a planet just six and a half times as massive as Earth - at a distance so close its atmosphere could be studied, and with a density so low it's almost certain to have abundant water.
The alien world known as GJ 1214b orbits a red dwarf star one-fifth the size of our own sun, 40 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, the astronomers reported in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
"Astronomically speaking, this is on our block," David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, lead author of the study, told reporters this week. "This is a next-door neighbor. For perspective, our own TV signals have already passed beyond the distance of this star."
He said the planet was detected using an array of eight off-the-shelf, 16-inch telescopes equipped with commercially available cameras.
"Since we found the super-Earth using a small ground-based telescope, this means that anyone else with a similar telescope and a good CCD camera can detect it too," Charbonneau said in a news release. "Students around the world can now study this super-Earth."
Super-Earths - planets that are roughly two to 10 times Earth's mass - represent the hottest frontier in the years-long search for worlds beyond our solar system. Planet-hunters reported finding their first transiting super-Earth in February, and earlier this week, other researchers added two more super-Earths to the list.
Those planets orbit stars like our own sun, but the brightness of GJ 1214b's parent star is hundreds of times dimmer. The planet is also much closer to the star than any of our own solar system's planets, orbiting at a distance of only 1.3 million miles (2 million kilometers). That combination suggests that the planet's surface temperature would be about 400 degrees Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius), Charbonneau's research team reported.
Charbonneau speculated that GJ 1214b was a little too hot for life as we know it, "but it didn't miss it by very much."
The planet's discovery was hailed as a potential breakthrough by Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley who is a pioneer in the planet quest. In a commentary written for Nature, Marcy said Charbonneau and his colleagues "provide the most watertight evidence so far for a planet that is something like our own Earth, outside our solar system."
How it was found GJ 1214b was detected thanks to an innovative telescope system, a cleverly focused observation campaign - and perhaps a little bit of luck. The eight-telescope array, dubbed the MEarth Project, was set up at the Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins in Arizona. The telescopes were programmed to gaze at 2,000 low-mass stars and check for slight, regular dips in light that could be caused by a dark planet's transit across the star's disk.
Relatively dim, relatively close stars were favored because the planet's dimming effect would be more noticeable than it would be with brighter, bigger, farther-out stars.
Just a few months after the MEarth Project began, graduate student Zachory Berta spotted the signature of GJ 1214b's 38-hour orbit. Based on the pattern of the dimming, the team figured out that the planet was 2.7 times as wide as Earth.
The astronomers then turned to another instrument, the HARPS spectrometer on the European Southern Observatory's La Silla telescope in Chile, to figure out the planet's mass. Such mass calculations depend on another technique that checks for the slight wobble in a star's motion caused by a planet's gravitational pull. The HARPS observations indicated that the planet was 6.55 times as massive as Earth.
Putting those measurements together, the team was able to model the planet's density and composition. The best fit for the data was a mixture consisting of about three-quarters water and other ices, one-quarter rock and a gaseous atmosphere.
Implications of a water world Although the surface temperature on GJ 1214b would be well above water's boiling point on Earth's surface, Charbonneau said the planet could nonetheless possess an exotic form of liquid water due to extreme atmospheric pressure at the surface. In today's news release, Berta said the pressure may turn at least some of the water into a rare crystalline form known as ice-seven.
"Despite its hot temperature, this appears to be a water world," Berta said.
On Earth, organisms have been found living near deep-sea hydrothermal vents, where superheated water is held under high pressure. But Charbonneau said he wouldn't want to bet that life could endure under GJ 1214b's crushing conditions.
In fact, it's too early to bet heavily on any detailed description of GJ 1214b. Fortunately, Charbonneau said, the star is close enough that the Hubble Space Telescope could someday analyze the composition of the planet's atmosphere. "That will make it the first super-Earth with a confirmed atmosphere - even though that atmosphere probably won't be hospitable to life as we know it," he said.
Knowing what the atmosphere is made of, and how thick it is, could help astronomers determine whether their characterization of GJ 1214b as a water world is correct. "It's possible that what you have is a ball of rock with a much bigger envelope of light gas," Charbonneau said.
The larger implication of the Nature study is that other super-Earths may be waiting out there with just the right conditions for life. "We found this planet in the first six months," Charbonneau noted. "We had only looked at a small fraction of the stars that we planned to look at through the entire project. That means that either we got really lucky - which is possible - or these planets are common."
Two planet-hunting spacecraft, NASA's Kepler and the European Space Agency's COROT, are expected to find hundreds of super-Earths and Earth-sized planets in the years to come. The first scientific results from the Kepler mission are due to be reported next month in Washington at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
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《吸血新世紀 2 新月傳奇》(The Twilight Saga: New Moon) 故事簡介 / Synopsis :
在《吸血新世紀2新月傳奇》中,人類和殭屍之間的愛恨情仇再度升級。女主角貝娜 (姬絲汀史超域飾)對超自然世界的享往令她身陷險境,迫使對她一往情深的吸血殭屍愛德華 (羅拔柏迪臣飾)不得不在貝娜 18歲生日派對之後,跟古倫家族的成員離開居住的霍斯鎮,以免貝娜再惹上危險。
愛德華離開後,貝娜心碎得自閉起來,無法正常過日子。貝娜無意中更發現當自己身陷險境時,愛德華的影像便會再次出現在自己身邊。為了與愛德華再遇,貝娜不顧一切,全情投入各種高危玩意,一次又一次的冒上生命危險。在他的兒時好友雅各(泰勒洛特飾)協助下,貝娜翻新了一部舊的魔托車繼續冒險旅程,並且在狼人族成員的雅各的鼓勵下逐漸恢復生氣。
In the second installment of Stephenie Meyer’s phenomenally successful TWILIGHT series, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as BELLA SWAN (Kristen Stewart) delves deeper into the mysteries of the supernatural world she yearns to become part of – only to find herself in greater peril than ever before.
Following Bella’s ill-fated 18th birthday party, EDWARD CULLEN (Robert Pattinson) and his family abandon the town of Forks, Washington, in an effort to protect her from the dangers inherent in their world. As the heartbroken Bella sleepwalks through her senior year of high school, numb and alone, she discovers Edward’s image comes to her whenever she puts herself in jeopardy. Her desire to be with him at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
With the help of her childhood friend JACOB BLACK (Taylor Lautner), Bella refurbishes an old motorbike to carry her on her adventures. Bella’s frozen heart is gradually thawed by her budding relationship with Jacob, a member of the mysterious Quileute tribe, who has a supernatural secret of his own.
When a chance encounter brings Bella face to face with a former nemesis, only the intervention of a pack of supernaturally large wolves saves her from a grisly fate, and the encounter makes it frighteningly clear that Bella is still in grave danger. In a race against the clock, Bella learns the secret of the Quileutes and Edward’s true motivation for leaving her. She also faces the prospect of a potentially deadly reunion with her beloved that is a far cry from the one she’d hoped for. With more of the passion, action and suspense that made TWILIGHT a worldwide phenomenon, NEW MOON is a spellbinding follow-up to the box office hit.
導演 : 基斯韋士 / Director : Chris Weitz
演員 : 羅拔畢迪臣, 姬絲汀史超域 / Cast : Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner
【明報專訊】聖誕節快到,若想加點心思,不如親手「POP」一張卡,讓收卡人收到你的暖暖心意。本身從事廣告工作的伍伊娃和黃韻媚,3年前「玩玩吓」設計出POP卡,「POP」走窿窿便會形成創意圖案,沒料到大受歡迎,更獲得國際設計獎項,去年毅然辭去高薪厚職,自立門戶,設計出多款賀卡,如Highlight卡、Hat卡及SPIN卡等,除在港發售,日本、澳洲及英國等地亦受到熱捧,二人的目標希望每年賣出100萬張,「現時和目標的距離,都只差少少」。
國際紙品創作比賽奪金 Goldfish Creative兩名創辦人伍伊娃和黃韻媚,6年前在廣告公司工作認識,前者主攻品牌策略,後者從事創作,本身背景南轅北轍,但同樣天生創意爆棚,故一拍即合,3年前設計出「POP卡」。POP卡卡面有200多個未穿的小孔,可按照附送的建議設計,又或自由創作,「POP」走窿窿,造出不同圖案,完全不受主題或節日所限。
黃韻媚表示,她們最初只是閒餘創作,覺得意念不俗便找公司印製,怎料一推出便好評如潮,而且有錢賺,「每張卡給人買回去,經加工後便會獨一無二,我們只是幫人將創意發揮出來。」。2007年,此設計在全球紙張供應商Neenah Paper 舉辦的紙品創作比賽中勇奪金獎。
Goldfish辦公室的陳列架上,放滿數十款七彩繽紛的特色賀卡。她們每拿起一款介紹,總是笑不攏嘴,更會大讚:「真係好靚,自己都好鍾意,哈哈!」黃韻媚說,比以前做廣告,現在做老闆,人工低很多,但是,「我們很成功,因為可以做到自己想做的事」。
除了POP卡外,她們想出的SPIN卡,同樣好玩,設計類似「扭扭樂」(Twister)遊戲,8款卡各有主題,例如以「Kiss me」為主題的一款,有不同身體部位的圖案。伍伊娃笑說,這張卡在情人節最受歡迎,「指針轉到哪裏,便要對方吻那個部位」。另一款Highlight卡,卡面幾十句祝福說話,寄卡者可圈出、或Highlight(以熒光筆畫出)自己想說的句子。
紙卡含心意勝電子卡 電子卡(e-card)的興起,令紙卡銷售大跌,伍認為,親手設計的心意卡,蘊含一份珍貴的心思及價值。
她指自己從小開始收藏別人送的聖誕卡、生日卡及明信片,相信不少人和她一樣仍鍾情紙卡,又指外國仍很流行寄卡給親朋好友,故現主力開拓海外市場,在日本、韓國 、英國及澳洲等地的銷情不俗。
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Sensitive teeth Cause: Exposed nerve roots, often from receding gums.
Treatment: Lay off the whitening, tartar-control and baking-soda toothpastes—they're abrasive and can contain phosphates, which make teeth sensitive. Don't brush too hard, which can lead to recessed gums, says Sherri Worth, D.D.S., a celebrity cosmetic dentist. If pain persists, visit your dentist for a prescription fluoride treatment to toughen up your choppers. While you're at it, fortify your entire body against time.
Lost tooth Cause: Dikembe Mutombo, inline skates, Jell-O shots or all three
Treatment: Rinse it off and push it back in right away, then bite down gently on a soft cloth or moistened tea bag to hold it in place. Knocking out a tooth tears the periodontal ligaments, but some might still cling to the tooth. If reconnected early enough, they can reattach to the gums. The tooth will feel strong in a few days and could be good as new in a month or two, says Dr. Worth. Want to make sure? See a dentist.
Burned palate Cause: Hot pizza, impatience
Treatment: Burning the roof of your mouth softens the tissue, making it more prone to infection, says Pia Lieb, D.D.S., a cosmetic dentist in New York City. She recommends using Kenalog in Orabase, a corticosteroid paste that creates a protective coating on the burn and speeds healing. For more help, follow these tips from top medical experts to control the worst pains.
Burned tongue Cause: Hot coffee, improper flame-breathing technique
Treatment: Rinse your mouth with a solution of 1 teaspoon of salt and a cup of warm water. "It's actually very soothing," says Dr. Worth. The salt can draw infection to the surface of the tissue, where the body eliminates it, and salt helps neutralize the acidic environment that fosters bacteria.
Jaw soreness Cause: Possibly temporomandibular joint disorder, or TMD, which can lead to splitting headaches marked by pain radiating down the front of your ears to your jaw. The improper alignment of your jaw leads to unconscious grinding of the teeth, often at night.
Treatment: "Your muscles are looking to find comfort, so you move your jaw around constantly," Dr. Lieb says. Try sleeping on your side or back with a supportive pillow, instead of facedown. If you still don't sleep soundly, try these strategies for a peaceful night's rest every night.
Canker sore
Cause: There are numerous possible causes but Cap'n Crunch, Doritos, salsa, and other sharp and spicy foods can further irritate the sore. Avoid mixing them.
Treatment: Apply vegetable oil to a cotton ball and hold it against the sore three or four times a day. "The oil helps coat the sore and protect it from irritation," says Mary Ellen Camire, Ph.D., a Men's Health nutrition advisor.
Chipped or cracked teeth Cause: Temperature disparity that occurs when you bite into hot food then swig an ice-cold drink. "Between the expansion and contraction, cracks will form on your enamel," says Richard Price, D.M.D., a consumer advisor for the American Dental Association.
Treatment: A chip can be the San Andreas Fault; your tooth can be California, sliding gently into the ocean. Or the chip or crack could simply leave you susceptible to infection and decay. A dentist can bond or seal the tooth, repairing chips while keeping your choppers safe from ending up a dental dead zone. And remember not to brush too hard—being a clean freak can be bad for you. Find out if your habits are actually breaking down your body. 6 Great Foods for Men
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Year in Review: Hookups and Breakups 隻死嘢! 個日曆又寫住今日九點前要去到立法會
點不知又詐病/借病唔番工 ~
又係一開口就鬧人
你係唔鍾意食珍珍喎 ~ 有講錯咩 ~ 又要鬧
又話借人部電腦用一陣
又要logout人個yahoo ~ 只係隨口講句「麻煩」又被你用粗口鬧 (話咩你可以唔借 ~ 你一開聲 屋企人莫敢不從 邊有人夠膽逆你意呀!!!)
自己又唔係冇電腦喎 重兩部添 ~ 結果被人話一句 就拍檯走人
之後自己開番自己部notebook ~ (一早開番你自己嗰部埋好囉) 做咩要鬧人
而家到十點半 你足足開咗兩個半鐘啦
你一開你個FB 玩隻醜八怪就閒閒地幾個鐘啦 ~ 講真 *借用一陣喎 ~ 兩個幾鐘喇 (到你收機可能唔止五、六個鐘添) 點借畀你鬧呀
重好意思話調番轉人哋有開聲問佢佢一定借
係咩?! 晚晚拎住個屋企電話唔放 (自己又唔係冇手機,係要飛綫) 屋企人要打個電話都要迫住冇得打話用自己手提 ~ 有冇道理呀?!
阿媽今晚第一次將原隻薯仔切成條同啲紅椒青椒一齊煮
個得閒冇嘢做就幫佢拎碟餸出廳
唔小心跌條薯條落地 ~ 佢自己都講咗跌咗條薯條落地 (又話咩叫人唔好踩落去)
人哋都已經行過咗啦 (又唔係睇唔到 又唔係聽到) ~ 當我盲、當我聾使乜講咁多嘢呀
你唔係驚個仔踩到條薯條會跣親 而係驚整污糟個地下之嘛 ~ 真係關心個仔咩?!
就好似上次個玻璃樽跌落地恁 你都係關心啲茶葉而唔係搶心個玻璃樽會唔會割傷你個仔!!!
好在上次個玻璃樽一啲事都冇 而那些茶葉又未開 仍在茶包內 *其實根本就冇必要搞啲茶葉 好地地你攪咩先?!