World Around Us: 2011

Friday, December 9, 2011

Interesting cake

See what other people make cakes for their celebration or their loved ones. Maybe you get a new idea in itself.

No matter how adorable dogs can be

No matter how adorable dogs can be, they still have tendencies to chew things to pieces. Inside, you’ll see a selection of photos of little pooches ruining various things.

Lighted portraits of animals, and other four-footed bastards

German ghost town

A small German town with a sly name. Somewhere in East Germany. People here do not live long, and occasionally tourists come to walk through the deserted streets of the dilapidated.

After the New York premiere of her directorial debut, "In the Land of Blood and Honey," Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Pitt's parents led a VIP crowd -- including Julian Schnabel, Jason Lee and Brady Corbet -- to the Standard Hotel for an afterparty.

Storm on the US west coast

Storm warning is valid in California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Wyoming. In Los Angeles, take the hit disaster on the night of Friday, wind gusts to uproot trees, overturned cars and tore power lines. At the hour of energy was violated international airport in Los Angeles. The city declared a state of emergency canceled classes in schools.

Modeling agencies and feminists often find themselves on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to women's issues. Not so when it comes to fashion retailer H&M's practice of interchanging models’ faces onto a single digitally enhanced body on their online store. Virtually decapitating models and creating a so-called “perfect” body has raised the ire of women in the feminist blogosphere and professionals in the modeling industry.

Which is no mean feat.

Chinese man eaten bag of iPad

Strange guy made a strange act … He ate the leather cover on the iPad. Chinese boy found an old cover from the tablet, washed it, cut into pieces, fried and eaten. A normal person can do that? I think not! And why he did it – you can only guess.

Mother heroine

When the Irish Setter Romy was giving birth, her owners were determined to a large litter – puppies for eight, or even nine! But the reality has exceeded all expectations. Heroine Mother gave birth to 15 babies! All of them are alive and well.

Some movies are like a smooth glass of pinot noir. Others are like a good, cheap beer. “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” with its meticulous Cold War details and labyrinthine plot, is like a smoky 25-year-old single malt scotch whiskey. It hits you hard, but goes down smooooth.

Carving on eggshell

Using only egg shells, modern masters make no less filigree than the famous Faberge. Patterns on the eggshell, which create artists Lew Jensen, Don Lisk, Gary LeMaster and Brian Bayti, just incredible. To create an openwork structure of such a brittle material requires great patience and skill.

eggshell carving

One of the more enjoyable spectacles out of Washington lately has been the horror of establishment Beltway Republicans that Newt Gingrich just might be their presidential nominee, having jumped ahead of Mitt Romney in recent polls. The cause of this is simple if often disguised: Newt is the opposite of everything they just know to be true.

House Republicans are on a collision course with the White House and potentially the Senate over an emerging proposal to extend the payroll tax cut, teeing up a protracted debate that could keep lawmakers in Washington for the holidays as they try to avert a Jan. 1 tax increase.

Gibson, legenday guitar in the hands of legendary guitarists

Photo exhibition “Gibson Through the Lens”, which opened in London, is a kind of product catalog company Gibson. All the guitarists whose photos can be found in this exhibition are united by one thing: the guitar. This is certainly Gibson. Dion DiMuchchi, composer, said: “Nothing could compare with Gibson. It was chic. Glitter”
This collection – six-string catalog of masterpieces, which are in the hands of the craftsmen can turn into a terrible weapon. With them as with a banner, you can lead people. And you can caress them as the love of life.

Politicians tend to define spending cuts differently than everybody else.

For many people, a spending cut is when they look at their finances and, because there's less money coming in than last year, decide what they can do without. The result is less spending.

James Byrne and his new finger

This – James Byrne, a carpenter and as he once, during otchekryzhil his finger. The doctors tried to sew the first isolation, but then asked him to transplant his finger with his feet. James agreed, and now trains its new finger to learn how to operate them.

Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren red gold dream

Swiss Ueli Anlicker entrepreneur decided to sell his gold Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Red Gold Dream for U.S. $ 11 million. Let me remind you that the finishing machine was used by 600 rubies and 24 carat gold. Kit by car from FAB Design and ASMA. In order to achieve a red car was covered with 25 layers of paint! Now under the hood with 700 hp, but the Swiss is planning to sell the car to pump up to
mercedes gold

Meet the Supermommels: How Motherhood Can Boost a Supermodel's Career

Not so long ago, having a baby marked the end of a high-end, pin-thin model’s professional career. But these days, it looks like mommyhood only adds value to one’s supermodel status.

Of the 10 beauties featured on Forbes’s Top Earning Models, seven are moms. Gisele Bundchen, Heidi Klum, Kate Moss, Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio filled the top five spots respectively, and fellow mommies Carolyn Murphy and Natalia Vodianova weren’t too far behind when it came to bringing in the millions over 2011.

"Sex and the City" creator Candace Bushnell is divorcing her handsome ballet dancer husband Charles Askegard, alleging in court papers that he had an affair with ballerina Georgina Pazcoguin.

December 6, 2011: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, is greeted by Lithuania's Foreign Minister Audrius Azubalis, left, and US Ambassador Anne E. Derse, center, upon her arrival by her aeroplane at Vilnius airport in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Issuing new warnings to two U.S. partners Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Russia for a parliamentary election she said was rigged and said election gains by Islamist parties must not set back Egypt's push toward democracy after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak this year.

India and Pakistan are going nuclear over this magazine cover showing a naked Pakistani star wearing nothing but a provocative political tattoo.

Readers across the region dropped their jaws at the sight of actress Veena Malik on the cover of FHM India, flashing a smoldering gaze and the tattooed letters “ISI” — apparently in reference to Pakistan’s shadowy spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence.

A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shiite worshiping at a mosque in Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least 54 people in the deadliest of two attacks on a Shiite holy day -- the first major sectarian assaults since the fall of the Taliban a decade ago.

Beautiful Asian girl - Part 1

Believe it or not, little Britney Jean Spears turned 30 years old on December 2.

Yup ... it's been almost 13 years since she redefined the school uniform with her sexy schoolgirl video for "...Baby One More Time" in 1999.

So many things affect our sex lives, and getting older is definitely one of them.

As much as we might not want to talk about it, it’s true. Menopause, which the National Institute on Aging says generally comes on around age 51, gets a lot of bad press when it comes to causing problems with our sex lives as we age.

Sexually explicit material isn't as widespread on kids' cell phones as some surveys have suggested, researchers have found.

But 'sexting' – sending or receiving risqué photos or videos via cell phone – can still mean legal trouble for minors.

"Right now, in most areas, it's a criminal offense," said Kimberly J. Mitchell, a psychologist at the University of New Hampshire in Durham and a co-author on two new reports in the journal Pediatrics. "Child pornography is by definition a sexual picture of a minor."

The threat of cyberattacks on the U.S. power grid should be dealt with by a single federal agency, not the welter of groups now charged with the electric system's security, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported on Monday.

Arkansas authorities took country singer Mindy McCready's 5-year-old son from her and into custody on Friday evening, one thing had already become apparent to many in America: McCready's life has come to resemble a bad country song.

Charlie Sheen reportedly paid his ex-wife Brooke Mueller's bail following her arrest in Colorado on assault and cocaine possession charges.

USA Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American to win the crown in 2010, was arrested in Detroit on Saturday morning on suspicion of drunken driving, her attorney told the Detroit Free Press.

If a spate of recent allegations proves true, Hollywood may have a hideous epidemic on its hands. The past two weeks have brought three separate reports of alleged child sexual abuse in the entertainment industry.

Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain may make an endorsement as early as Monday, and a source told MyFoxAtlanta that it will be of former House speaker and fellow Georgian Newt Gingrich, though Cain's campaign denies an announcement is imminent.

Cars soviet childhood

If in the 1950s. bike for most Soviet children was an accomplishment, in 1960, many kids in the Soviet Union had already traveled from house to house on their personal vehicles. Pedal, of course.

Child Beauty Contest in Melbourne

In Melbourne, held a protest against child beauty contest, organized by the American company to produce reality show “Toddlers and Tiaras”. Several dozen people gathered at the Town Hall Northcote Town Hall, where the qualifying round of the competition was held children’s beauty.

12-years-old child who is aging

In 12-year-old girl named Ontlametse Falaste there are only a couple of years of life. “I call myself the first lady, because I was the first black child with the disease. Do you know more of a dark-skinned child with such a disease? “- Said the girl. Ontlametse, the only black child with a diagnosis of the syndrome Hutchinson-Gilford, a rare and fatal disease, accelerating the aging process. In the entire history of mankind only two black children suffer from this disease, they both died, one in the U.S. and one in the Netherlands.
Experts believe that at the same time in the world from 200 to 250 children suffering from this disease. Children with the disease die from heart failure at the age of 8 to 21 years, suffering from high blood pressure, stroke, angina and heart failure.

Tour of the Airbus A380

At MAKS-2011 Airbus A380 aircraft was presented in which various tests are conducted, so that instead of inside the cabin were barrels of water, a lot of different equipment and wiring. Airbus A380 – wide-double-deck passenger aircraft – the largest airliner in the serial world. Its capacity can reach up to 853 passengers in odnoklassovoy configuration, which means that it can easily carry all the normal students of the Moscow school, or all residents of the village High Yar.

Ron Mueck Hyper-realist sculptor

Ron Mueck is an Australian sculptor, which had its origin in the professional world of special effects for movies. No one is a sculptor, as his “art” are hyper-realistic, faithfully reproducing every detail of the human body goes so far to put his figures in pores, spots, black spots, hairs in the arms and legs, hair and all that the body may have.

The details are as real, as if the sculptures would have the stature of a person (usually larger or smaller),one could mistake.

After the public fallout over the end of her 72-day marriage, Kim Kardashian has admitted she may need to surrender her hopes of ever finding a fairytale romance.

“I believe in love and the dream of having a perfect relationship, but my idea of it has changed,” the 31-year-old told Glamour magazine, in an interview released Tuesday.

“I think I need to not live in a fairytale like that. I think I maybe need to just snap out of it and be a little more realistic,” she continued.

Mila Kunis may be a stone cold fox, but don’t be fooled–the Ukrainian beauty also knows a thing or two about curing the common cold.

Jessica Simpson for Zales

Questlove, bandleader for Jimmy Fallon, apologized to women for playing 'Lyin Ass Bitch' during her intro on 'Late Night' (Reuters/AP)

One has her as the next Lindsay Lohan-type young Hollywood train wreck. The other paints her as simply a teenager doing teenager-y things.

So which is it?

The former Disney star does have a penchant for getting in trouble, whether its talking about puffing illegal drugs last week, getting filmed smoking something out of a bong a few months ago, dancing suggestively with a man twice her age, showing off too much skin, or tweeting about her tattoos. All of this has some concerned Cyrus, 19, is on a similar path as child star predecessors Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, both of whom crashed and burned in their early twenties.

Air Force F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter

U.S. Air Force / Samuel King Jr.

July 14, 2011: Members of the 33rd Fighter Wing get a look at the Department fo Defense's newest aircraft, the U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter, on arrival to its new home at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

Nicolas Cage is hardly the first Hollywood star to face tax issues.

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