Strange Laws

Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.

You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.

In Lehigh, Nebraska it's against the law to sell donut holes.

Under the law of Mississippi, there’s no such thing as a female Peeping Tom.

Anti-modem laws restrict Internet access in the country of Burma. Illegal possession of a modem can lead to a prison term.

Lawn darts are illegal in Canada.

In Idaho a citizen is forbidden by law to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.

Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.

It is against the law to whale hunt in Oklahoma. (Think about it...)

A Venetian law decrees that all gondolas must be painted black. The only exceptions are gondolas belonging to high public officials.

In the state of Queensland, Australia, it is still constitutional law that all pubs (hotel/bar) must have a railing outside for patrons to tie up their horse.

According to law, no store is allowed to sell a toothbrush on the Sabbath in Providence, Rhode Island. Yet these same stores are allowed to sell toothpaste and mouthwash on Sundays.

Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.

Chewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt."

The handkerchief had been used by the Romans, who ordinarily wore two handkerchiefs: one on the left wrist and one tucked in at the waist or around the neck. In the fifteenth century, the handkerchief was for a time allowed only to the nobility; special laws were made to enforce this. The classical heritage was rediscovered during the Renaissance.

For hundreds of years, the Chinese zealously guarded the secret of sericulture; imperial law decreed death by torture to those who disclosed how to make silk.

An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.

By law, information collected in a U.S. census must remain confidential for 72 years.

Candy made from pieces of barrel cactus was outlawed in the U.S. in 1952 to protect the species.

A slander case in Thailand was once settled by a witness who said nothing at all. According to the memoirs of Justice Gerald Sparrow, a 20th century British barrister who served as a judge in Bangkok, the case involved two rival Chinese merchants. Pu Lin and Swee Ho. Pu Lin had stated sneeringly at a party that Swee Ho's new wife, Li Bua, was merely a decoration to show how rich her husband was. Swee Ho, he said, could no longer "please the ladies." Swee Ho sued for slander, claiming Li Bua was his wife in every sense - and he won his case, along with substantial damages, without a word of evidence being taken. Swee Ho's lawyer simply put the blushing bride in the witness box. She had decorative, gold-painted fingernails, to be sure, but she was also quite obviously pregnant.

In Breton, Alabama, there is a law on the town's books against riding down the street in a motorboat.

Connecticut and Rhode Island never ratified the 18th Amendment: Prohibition.

A few years back, a Chinese soap hit it big with consumers in Asia. It was claimed in ads that users would lose weight with Seaweed Defat Scented Soap simply by washing with it. The soap was sold in violation to the Japanese Pharmaceutical Affairs Law and was banned. Reportedly, the craze for the soap was so great that Japanese tourists from China and Hong Kong brought back large quantities. The product was also in violation of customs regulations. In June and July 1999 alone, over 10,000 bars were seized.

In most American states, a wedding ring is exempt by law from inclusion among the assets in a bankruptcy estate. This means that a wedding ring cannot be seized by creditors, no matter how much the bankrupt person owes.

In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.

Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine are the four states in the U.S. that do not allow billboards.

Wetaskiwin, Alberta from 1917: "It's against the law to tie a male horse next to a female horse on Main Street."

Women were banned by royal decree from using hotel swimming pools in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, in 1979.

In Riverside, California, there is an old law on the city's books which makes it illegal to kiss unless both people wipe their lips with rose water.

In Saudi Arabia, a woman reportedly may divorce her husband if he does not keep her supplied with coffee.

Two Scientific discoveries

Scientific discoveries take place almost every day.They are often very interesting and useful to us.Sometimes discoveries that baffle our imagination also are arrived at in those laboratories.We come to know of them only when they get published.Some of them does not get published either.

In the recent past IE the last couple of years, a few scientifically proved facts have been discovered.Some of them appear very strange and extremely interesting. Here are two. Perhaps they can hold your breath for a few moments.

1.Where do Ghosts come from.

Many people have had strange experiences in their lives that led them to believe in the existence of ghosts.Often scientists and medical professionals used to ridicule such experiences by calling these experience as mental aberrations, hallucinations etc.

Recently(2006), a 22 year female was being treated for such hallucinations resulting from epilepsy( according to her doctors.).She had no previous history of any psychiatric ailments or problems.

The woman was complaining that she often saw a ghost, who was imitating her in every way and she was frightened and scared stiff and blue to death.That was when her parents took her to the doctors.

During her treatment for epilepsy, some of her brain areas were electrically stimulated. One of the doctors touched a spot in her brain called as the left temporoparietal junction( LTJ).This is the place where the brain coordinates its functions.
When this spot was touched,the woman claimed that she saw the ghost then and there!

Though the stimulation of the brain was artificially induced, the patient did not feel it was an illusion that she was actually seeing.According to the woman,when she tried to sit up or lean,the "ghost" copied her pose and embraced her in his arms.She said this was a very "unpleasant" feeling.

One Swiss scientist ( named Olaf Blanke) has reported that electrical stimulations of the LTJ, can produce the feeling of the presence of another person in the patient's extra-perosnal space.This scientist's conclusion is that the patient was experiencing actually a perception of her own body and had resulted from the corrupted data collection and coordination by the brain.

Based on such studies, scientis now believe that such electrical stimulations of the brain could explain phenomena related to schizophrenia and other paranormal,abnormal experiences such as ghosts and other strange encounters experienced by many people.

Strange indeed!.

2.The secret of Mona Lisa' smile.

Leonardo Da Vinci's famous painting called Mona Lisa and the secret of her ambiguous and enigmatic smile has been a problem that has attracted the attention of thousands and thousands of people all over the world.

And do you know what scientists have now come up with to explain that smile?
It is that the painting was made after Mona Lisa had just given birth to her second son!. Strange !

This conclusion was arrived at,by a team of scientists, after they studied this fabulous painting with infra-red technology. Both the "Globe" and the "Mail" had reported that this enabled them to see beneath a layer of varnish and discover that the model had a gauzy layer over her dress. This robe ( called a guarnello) was typically worn by mothers who had just given birth or by pregant women in those days.

Mona Lisa was actually Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, a cloth merchant of Florence.

Final FDA Approval for H1N1 Vaccine Is Granted

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave final approval to four vaccines developed to fight the H1N1 influenza virus. The four drugmakers granted approval are CSL Ltd, MedImmune LLC, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Ltd, and Sanofi Pasteur Inc. It is expected that the vaccines will be available for shipment within one month.

According to the FDA press release: “Based on preliminary data from adults participating in multiple clinical studies, the 2009 H1N1 vaccines induce a robust immune response in most healthy adults eight to 10 days after a single dose, as occurs with the seasonal influenza vaccine.” Clinical studies have shown that the vaccine is well tolerated, with only occasional side effects.

The vaccine will come in both an injectable dose and a nasal spray. There are also two formulas, one with and one without thimerasol, a mercury-containing preservative. The FDA did warn that “people with severe or life-threatening allergies to chicken eggs, or to any other substance in the vaccine, should not be vaccinated.”

As with any other drug or vaccine, the FDA will monitor adverse events.

Flu Virus Can Raise Risk of Heart Attack Among Heart Patients

The common flu virus may raise the risk of dying from heart disease by increasing the likelihood for heart patients to suffer a heart attack. Those who have diabetes or other risk factors may also be at greater risk.

Results of an analysis conducted by a group of British researchers of 39 previous studies of heart patients conducted between 1932 and 2008 showed an increase in the number of deaths from heart disease, as well as the occurrence of more heart attacks during flu season. In fact, the increased death rate averaged from 35 percent to 50 percent. The report was recently published in the journal Lancet.

Although currently only about one-third of Americans who suffer from heart disease receive flu vaccines, experts are urging all heart patients to get vaccinated against regular flu as well as swine flu. With more flu virus expected to be circulating this flu season, the possibility of experiencing flu-related medical issues is greater among those having heart-related problems. Dr. Ralph Brindis, vice president of the American College of Cardiology, says, “If we can convince cardiac patients to get a flu vaccine, that could ultimately save lives.”

Because flu viruses cause inflammation in the body, and most commonly in the lungs, heart patients who contract the flu become more vulnerable to complications including pneumonia and other types of infection. In addition, flu viruses can cause swelling in the heart or coronary arteries, potentially triggering the breaking off of dangerous clots that lead to a heart attack.

According to study author Andrew Hayward, a senior lecturer in infectious disease epidemiology at the University College London Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, “We know influenza vaccine is effective in preventing influenza and therefore in theory, ought to be effective in preventing the complications of influenza.” Hayward pointed out that two of the studies in the analysis indicated that heart patients who received a flu vaccine suffered fewer heart attacks than those who did not. He also acknowledged that “Influenza may be bringing forward an event that might have happened anyway,” and further explained that some evidence suggests that heart attacks peak when the flu virus does.

It remains unclear as to whether the new study results can be applied to people who are otherwise healthy, with no history of heart disease. However, the researchers noted that flu viruses could potentially trigger heart attacks among people having risk factors such as high blood pressure or those who are overweight. Diabetes is another condition that may put individuals at greater risk.

The researchers concluded, “We believe influenza vaccination should be encouraged wherever indicated, especially in those people with existing cardiovascular disease. Further evidence is needed on the effectiveness of influenza vaccines to reduce the risk of cardiac events in people without established vascular disease.”

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), selected by the Secretary of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, recommends annual flu vaccines for all people who are at high risk of having serious seasonal flu-related complications or people who live with or care for those at high risk for serious seasonal flu-related complications. According to the American Heart Association, about 36,000 people die each year from flu, while over 200,000 are hospitalized due to complications arising from it including bacterial pneumonia, dehydration and worsening of chronic medical conditions, such as congestive heart failure, asthma or diabetes.

Getting Closer to an AIDS Vaccine

For decades, scientists have vigorously searched for a cure for the AIDS virus. Recent research just may have uncovered a significant key to developing that long-awaited vaccine. Scientists have discovered two key antibodies that seem to prevent the AIDS virus from mutating and spreading through out the body.

The AIDS virus has claimed millions of lives around the world. According to the World Health Organization, 33 million people currently are infected with HIV. While search efforts for an AIDS cure are abundant, several previous stabs at developing a vaccine proved to be non-effective.

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a non-profit organization, is funding the efforts to develop a vaccine and kicked off their effort in 2006, called Protocol G. Protocol G utilizes blood gathered from HIV patients in developing countries, to help pinpoint antibodies that could neutralize strains of the AIDS virus. The Scripps Research Institute through this initiative, discovered two critical antibodies, which naturally fight against the spread of the AIDS virus. During the study, released recently in the journal Science, researchers not only discovered two vital antibodies, but also discovered a new part of the virus the antibodies attack. This discovery may lead to a new technique for the creation of a vaccine.

For the study, researchers gathered blood from 1,800 HIV patients who had suffered from the virus, without exhibiting symptoms for at least three years. The participants were mainly from Africa, but also involved HIV patients from Thailand, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.

The team pinpointed those who had not exhibited HIV signs, though suffering from the virus for at least three years, because these patients many times produce natural antibodies in their blood, which fight against almost all strains of HIV around the world. Dennis Button, a scientist at the Scripps Research Institute, the key player in the new research said, “We said if we want broadly neutralizing antibodies, we should look for people, infected individuals, who are making them,” He added, “The key thing about the antibodies we’ve found is that they’re more potent than previous ones and that’s great for a vaccine.”

Once the blood was gathered from the HIV patients, the samples were shipped back to a team with the Monogram Bioscience laboratories in San Francisco, where researchers studied the samples to determine which antibodies lead to more resistance to the virus. The team had developed a process that caused the enzyme embedded in the virus to glow when it entered a cell. If the researchers did not see a glow when performing the process, it was a signal the patient’s natural antibodies had fought off the virus.

Once the samples containing antibodies that fought off the HIV virus were identified, they were shipped to the Theraclone Sciences, in order to isolate the antibodies. Burton, said “If you want to make a vaccine that works, it has to protect against not just one, but most of the strains that are out there.” The team at Theraclone Sciences isolated two antibodies, which were able to block against three-quarters of the different strains of HIV tested against the antibodies. The two antibodies were recognized in the blood of an African HIV patient.

While the new findings do not create an overnight cure for AIDS, it does help scientists with new options for treatment and a potential vaccine. The hope is for a vaccine that will encourage a person’s immune system to fight the virus more vigorously by producing its own antibodies.

Jokes

An old man goes to the doctor for his yearly physical, his wife tagging along. When the doctor enters the examination room, he tells the old man, "I need a urine sample, a stool sample and a sperm sample."

The old man, being hard of hearing, looks at his wife and yells: "WHAT?"

"What did he say? What's he want?"

His wife yells back, "He needs your underwear."


A Really Bad Day
There was this guy at a bar, just looking at his drink. He stays like that for half of an hour.

Then, this big trouble-making truck driver steps next to him, takes the drink from the guy, and just drinks it all down. The poor man starts crying. The truck driver says, "Come on man, I was just joking. Here, I'll buy you another drink. I just can't stand to see a man cry."

"No, it's not that. This day is the worst of my life. First, I fall asleep, and I go late to my office. My boss, outrageous, fires me. When I leave the building, to my car, I found out it was stolen. The police said that they can do nothing. I get a cab to return home, and when I leave it, I remember I left my wallet and credit cards there. The cab driver just drives away."

"I go home, and when I get there, I find my wife in bed with the gardener. I leave home, and come to this bar. And just when I was thinking about putting an end to my life, you show up and drink my poison." :)

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FACTS ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN

A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he wants.

A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't want.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.

A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.

A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little.

To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Married men live longer than single men.

But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Any married man should forget his mistakes.

No sense two people remembering the same thing.

Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.

Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.

A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change and she does.

A woman has the last word in any argument.

Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

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