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Mexican exorcist priest receives 20 calls a day for help
El Father Pedro Mendoza Pantoja, exorcist of the Archdiocese of Mexico City, said today that it received “15 to 20 calls a day” from people looking for help, but many sent to psychologist .
In the press conference that concluded Congress of Exorcists and Assistants was held this week in Mexico City, the cleric said that a considerable proportion of those who come to him believe they are possessed by the devil for a “mental obsession” or because “someone told you.”
“Who should help them then it is a psychologist,” said Mendoza, 75, who added that he can take a real hell on earth rather than mental.
But although it has never attended a “true demonic possession and have not heard of any case in Mexico City, where they operate” eight exorcists, “it knows examples in other states.
Mendoza said that “the devil exists and has mental and psychological powers to take us to do bad things.”
He suggested that every diocese should have an exorcist or a team of priests trained to provide “healing and releases of spirit,” and noted the current lack of training in this regard in the seminars.
Through conferences like this, he said, the Catholic Church “becoming aware” of this need.
“Some say that we’re charlatans, but nobody knows what a person gets influenced by the devil if it is not in their shoes,” she said.
For someone to be a victim of demonic possession and demonic influence not simple, there must be understanding of symptoms such as Latin, knowledge of events that happen long-distance or impossible for the patient is physically controlled by more than ten people.
In each case, told Mendoza, an interview is conducted with the affected equivalent to a medical history, which includes his life story, the psychological status and even if there is any kind of family history.
The Exorcist referred to consumerism, overcrowding in cities and family breakdown as some of the ills of modern society.
“Before there were fifty possessed, and went to forget our ministry because there was no need for him,” Mendoza recalled, noting that before the fifties was not the disintegration of families, which cites as guilty of homosexuality.
In recent days, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation of Mexico approved the constitutionality of the reform that allows same-sex couples marry in the capital to be valid throughout the country and can also take minors.
“We are acting against Nature herself, and we forget that nature is beginning to set and restore any imbalances that we drive in it,” said Mendoza.
He illustrated how the human being acts as if he were God, putting aside the principles of nature “with the example of climate change:” These natural disasters and earthquakes in which many people have suffered are the result of human sin. ”
The effects were also warned, marriages and adoptions of children of same sex.
Still, Mendoza admitted that pities “a lot” to homosexuals because they are victims of an unbalanced situation in society. “It’s terrible, as one told me, having a woman’s soul in a man’s body,” he said.
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Whisky waste could boost vehicles – biofuel for cars made from whiskey
LONDON (AP) – The Scottish scientists claim to have developed a biofuel for cars with the remains that produces the distillation of whiskey.
Researchers at Napier University in Edinburgh have produced a type of fuel called butanol using “pot ale” _ the liquid left over after distillation in copper stills _ and “Draffan” cereal grain used in the manufacturing process.
They argue that butanol can be used in ordinary vehicles without having to modify the engines. And unlike some biofuels is extracted from waste products and is not necessary to plant or harvest specific plants for it.
Researchers say they have applied for a patent for fuel and intend to establish a company for distribution at British service stations.
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Giant ice island could threaten oil platforms
STOCKHOLM (AP) – An island of ice four times larger than Manhattan drifts across the Arctic Ocean after detached from a glacier in Greenland.
On the way there could be unstoppable giant oil rigs and shipping routes, and any shock would cause untold damage. In the worst cases, enormous chunks could reach the busy waters of Greenland where another iceberg sank the Titanic in 1912.
It’s been a summer of almost biblical devastation climate worldwide, with forest fires, heat and smoke in Russia and deadly floods in Asia. But at the time of the Petermann Glacier broke last week _creando the largest Arctic ice island in the middle siglo_ this could symbolize a global warming better than any other symptom.
“It’s so big you can not avoid going to drift. It can not be stopped,” said Jon-Ove Hagen Methlie, a glaciologist at the University of Oslo.
Few pictures can capture the global climate fears as a piece of ice of 260 square kilometers (100 square miles) shedding of the vast Greenland ice sheet, a reserve of fresh water if completely melted would raise global sea level six meters (20 feet), which would have devastating effects.
The newest ice island in the world and is being used as a powerful symbol in the debate on global warming. The U.S. congressman Edward Markey has suggested that skeptics about climate change could go and live there.
Researchers are working quickly to determine the path of the floating ice shelf, which is moving toward the Nares Strait which separates the northwest coast of Greenland and Ellesmere Island in Canada.
If you enter the strait before the winter freeze _ which should probably start next Mes_ the ocean currents move south, moving near the east coast of Canada until the busy waters to oil and shipping off Newfoundland.
“This is the moment when it starts to become dangerous,” said Mark Drinkwater, European Space Agency.
The Canadian Ice Service estimated that the trip will take one to two years. It is likely to split when it hits other icebergs and islands. The winds and waves fragments would move further south, and begin to melt as they move to warmer waters.
“But the fragments could still be quite large,” said Trudy Wohlleben, Canadian ice specialist, who first spotted the big piece on Thursday in satellite images.
The ice could be large enough to threaten Canada’s oil platforms offshore in the Great Sand Bank off the coast of Newfoundland, Wohlleben said.
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Greece will receive second part credit of the IMF and EU
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will now receive the second installment of the rescue of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), given that it has complied with the conditions established in its austerity plan, the finance minister said in remarks published on Saturday .
EU officials, the IMF and the European Central Bank (ECB) will travel to Athens on Monday that Greece is implementing its program of 110,000 million euros (U.S. $ 141 600 million) to receive assistance elsewhere, ie 9,000 million euros.
Greece in May was 20,000 million euros in the first part of the bailout brokered by its euro zone partners and the IMF.
“The release of the second depends on whether we meet the objectives that were set for June 30,” said Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said in an interview with the weekly Ependyti Kosmos tou.
“Those conditions were met and we have taken another step in approving a bill to reform the pension system,” he said.
The mission of the EU, the ECB and the IMF gave the country a good grade debt in late June, saying it appeared to be well on its plan to reduce public expenditures, increase revenues and structural reforms.
But they said some obstacles, including high spending on health and social security.
The minister also reiterated his call for Greek banks to join forces to inject liquidity into the market and help boost the economy.
“Any decision that takes large groups to adequate capital, (…) the international expansion will help us forge ahead in this direction,” said Papaconstantinou.
Earlier this month, Greece’s fourth-largest lender, Piraeus Bank, offered to acquire the state’s participation in Hellenic Postbank (TT) and ATEbank, paving the way for an era of mergers in the sector.
Papaconstantinou said that the Government would decide on the proposal until its advisors have completed their evaluation.
Results of stress tests of banks published on Friday showed ATEbank and six other European lenders have failed and ordered to raise its capital by 3,500 million euros, far less than expected, confirming fears that the expected resistance checks were too soft.
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Guatemala – 4 killed in landslide caused by storm
Two children and two adults to be members of a family were killed by falling on his house a landslide of rocks and mud caused by heavy rains from Tropical Storm Agatha, the first of this hurricane season, cataclysm Saturday joined by the eruption of the volcano Pacaya.
Apart from that incident, the rains have left more victims in time. However, caused damage throughout central and south. David de León, a spokesman of the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) said that 877 people have been evacuated because of rains and another 2,500 have been affected in some way by the floods or landslides.
People like Mazatenango in Retalhuleu and Pacific coast of Quetzaltenango in the western highlands and the capital in the center have been localized flooding in some districts while in the department of Solola, in the west, there have been landslides.
Romeo Garcia of the Meteorological Institute said the storm shifted course and is expected to make landfall on Saturday at 23:00 (5:00 GMT) on the border between Guatemala and Mexico.
“The storm will begin to suffer weakening and we hope that by Sunday is already a tropical depression but that does not mean no heavy rains in the amount of moisture in the environment,” he added.
Thus, the country must now deal with two natural disasters after the eruption destroyed about 800 homes and left homeless by nearly 2,000 people. President Alvaro Colom announced that emergency due to the two suspended their trips to the Dominican Republic and Canada planned for next week.
“Two children and two adults died underground due to detachment of a rock that fell on the homes of the victims in the Quetzaltenango department,” said The Associated Press Saturday a spokesman for the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction, David Leon.
The collapse occurred in the municipality of Almolonga, located in the densely populated western highlands about 200 miles northwest of the capital, where the rains caused by the storm Agatha have saturated soils, causing landslides.
The heaviest rains have occurred in the coastal towns of San Jose and Champerico.
In a press conference, the director of the CONRED said that although it has increased the level of rivers and are forecasting more rain “at the moment everything is under control.”
In addition, the hydrology department of the institution indicated that there are four rivers which flow exceeded the alert level and two _uno in a southern suburb of the capital and another in southern país_ already overstretched.
Early Saturday, the National Hurricane Center United States announced that Tropical Storm Agatha, the first of the hurricane season this year, was formed in the Pacific coast of Guatemala.
Roads have also been blocked by landslides, so the Road Protection Unit (PROVIAL) declared on alert.
In the capital one home was destroyed by a landslide but the inhabitants had been evacuated while at least 20 trees have fallen in the streets, and 2,000 people remain in shelters enabled after the volcano erupted on Thursday.
The Pacaya threw sand and rocks on six villages on its slopes and covered with ashes and sand throughout the City of Guatemala, located about 30 miles north.
“We lost everything, lost the house, missed the harvest of maize, beans, squash (pumpkin) … at all was because of the sand,” said Ruben Guzman, a resident of boilers, one of the localities most affected by the eruption.
At the school where Guzman is housed with about 400 people, the rain seeps through leaks in the roof and foam pads that gave the CONRED became soaked. In addition, weather conditions make it difficult to bring them food.
Heavy rains have washed tons of sand deposited on the streets of the capital towards the drains and authorities fear it will cause flooding to be covered vent routes rainwater.
La Aurora International Airport will remain closed for five days, while continuing with the cleanup of sand from the volcano. Officials estimate that about 1,000 will be required truck trips to remove all the sand on the runway and the terminal.
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AP Impact – cheap Mexican heroin and deadly trade
Mexican drug traffickers are trading a very potent form of heroin, which sells for just $ 10 and the bag is so pure it can kill instantly, even before the user will take the needle out of the veins .
A study made by the AP of overdoses have been reported indicate that the heroine “tar” – named for its dark color and thick consistency – and other forms of the drug have contributed to record an increase in deaths and are attracting a new generation of users who do not know its power.
“We found people who aspired stomach with a cigarette next to them,” said Patrick O’Neil, coroner of Will County, outside Chicago, where deaths from heroin tripled since 2006, rising from 10 29. “It is so powerful that we have come to find people dead, with the needle still in his arm.”
Officials fear the power and the price of the heroin from Mexico and Colombia will increase the attractiveness of the drug, as with cocaine and crack a few years ago.
The heroin is sold as a brown powder or as a black substance, dense and sticky, and is very popular especially in rural and suburban areas.
Was associated initially with the rockers, hippies and urban addicts. In the 1970s, was imported from Asia and the Middle East, and had a purity of 5%. The rest was added as sugar, starch, milk powder or clay. The limited power meant that many users inject it to increase sensation.
In recent times, Mexican traffickers improved the way they process the poppy, the base for heroin, opium and painkillers like morphine. Purity levels have increased and prices fell.
The authorities find that the actual purity level of 50%, sometimes up to 80%.
The high degree of purity allows users to sniff or inhale and have a great feeling, and this is something very attractive to those who do not want to inject and run the risk of contracting HIV or have marks on their arms.
“There is a new group of users,” said Harry Sommers, agent in charge of the office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA, according to its acronym in English) of San Luis.
One victim was William Henderson, a welder of 29 years in a rural area of Missouri who died in his sleep in 2009, hours after inhaling heroin. He was very tall and heavy, who had tried the drug a few times.
His wife recalled that he awoke to the sound the alarm and saw the body of her husband had a bluish color. His stomach felt cold.
“She said she would be late to work. Not moving, not breathing,” recalled the woman, Amanda Henderson, Winfield, Mo., northwest of San Luis. ‘I called the police, but knew it was too late. ”
She and the couple’s three children were left to their fate.
This deadly form of heroin appears to be from Mexico in particular. Although most of the heroin comes from other countries, Mexicans are gaining presence in the U.S. market.
Authorities said the heroin sold here comes from Colombia, Asia and Mexico. But the availability and quality of cocaine and methamphetamine has declined, and Mexicans fill that hole with heroin.
The independent Mexican traffickers have almost the entire market because large posters focus on marijuana and Colombian cocaine, and do not bother much with heroin, according to a DEA agent in El Paso, Texas. The officer requested anonymity for security reasons and for its role in ongoing investigations.
Heroin is metabolized so rapidly that doctors can not determine whether the death was caused by the drug unless there is other evidence to confirm this, such as needles or syringes near the corpse. Moreover, many victims have ingested a quantity of drugs and alcohol, so it is impossible to know the exact cause of death.
At the start of the decade, some 2,000 people died each year from overdoses of heroin in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. By 2008, there were 3,000 deaths attributed to heroin in 36 states that responded to an AP query. No data on victims of 2009.
The AP contacted government agencies in all 50 states and officials from Washington and New York City. The study revealed an increase of 18.2% in the number of deaths from heroin between 2007 and 2008, and 20.3% between 2006 and 2008.
Authorities and experts in rehabilitation treatments believe the actual number of deaths is much higher and that the problem is getting worse. The seizure of heroin at the border with Mexico has quadrupled between 2008 and 2009 and from 20 to 86 kilos (44-190 pounds).
“Something similar to what happened with the crack cocaine when he appeared in the 1970s, and sold a purer product for less money,” said Carol Falkowski, director of the division of drug and alcohol abuse in the Department Human Services of Minnesota.
Heroin sells for $ 10 sachet, a tempting price for people such as Billy Roberts, 19, son of a retired Chicago police. Roberts died last year from an overdose in a friend’s house.
Independent Mexican smugglers as José Antonio Medina Arreguín paid to the signs to allow them to use their drug routes to enter the country.
Medina, known as “Don Pepe”, was arrested this year in Mexico on suspicion of running an operation that brought the country heroin worth 10 million dollars a month, from the Mexican state of Michoacan. It is believed that the cartel had obtained permission to The Family and bring to the country reached 200 kilos (440 pounds) of heroin in one single month.
Drug Traffickers offer secondary students.
“They say the smoke like a cigarette, as if it was marijuana,” says the sergeant of police in Glendale, California, Tom Lorenz. When kids become addicted, “they have a customer for life.”
Users often are not aware of the potency of the drug, says the Oregon medical examiner Karen Gunson.
“We’ve seen cases where the drugs had a purity of 80%,” he said. “If one consumes daily, the odds of dead ends.”
That’s what happened to Nikki Tayon, who started on drugs marijuana and methamphetamine and two years ago began using heroin.
In April last year, his mother, Sue Tayon, received a phone call from a Ranger Cuivre River State Park. They had found the wallet and cell phone of his daughter, and tried to locate her. Hour after his body was found in a trench. He was 28.
He had taken an overdose after using heroin with a purity of 90%, his mother said. Police say the boyfriend was scared and threw the car. He was not charged with any crime.
“I knew I did,” said Sue Tayon. “But I do not deserve to die like that.”
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Found dead the widower of Brittany Murphy
The husband of Brittany Murphy was found dead in his home in Los Angeles Sunday night, five months after the death of the actress in Hollywood, police said.
The British writer Simon Monjack died of natural causes, according to preliminary information, told The Associated Press police spokesman Louie Lozano.
“We conclude that there were no signs of crime,” said Sergeant Alex Ortiz, another police spokesman.
The firefighters answered a distress call from a woman at 9:40 pm found Monjack, 39, died at his home in Hollywood Hills, said Lozano. Ortiz said he did not know who made the call. Monjack and Murphy shared his home with Murphy’s mother, Sharon.
Ortiz said the coroner’s office in Los Angeles was taking charge of the investigation because it ruled out any criminal activity, and that it would provide details later on death and its circumstances.
At the funeral of his wife in December, obviously moved Monjack spoke of their relationship and the actress called her best friend and soul mate. The couple married in 2007.
Monjack had said they planned to have children and maybe move to New York.
Monjack produced, and co-wrote the 2001 movie ‘Two Days, Nine Lives “and was the executive producer of” Factory Girl “, from 2006.
Murphy, best known for her starring roles in “Clueless,” “Girl, Interrupted” and “8 Mile”, died on December 20 at age 32 after collapsing at home. The county coroner’s office in Los Angeles concluded that Murphy was accidental death, but probably inevitable.
The coroner’s report said the drugs found in his system coincided with a treatment for a cold or respiratory infection. Monjack and Murphy’s mother had reported that the actress had flu symptoms in the days before his death.
There was no evidence of drug abuse in his autopsy. The researchers found numerous prescription drugs at home.
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Mladic’s family announced that he would ask to have him declared dead
The family of Serb war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic, wanted by the International Justice since 1995, asked to be declared dead as the past seven years has not been seen alive, media reported local.
The family’s lawyer, Milos Saljic, said the Belgrade daily Novosti that the family wants to take that step “not only for the properties and their pension frozen, but also by the daily persecutions to which it is exposed.”
Counsel explained that the family bases its request on the fact that Mladic, 68, has not been seen alive since 2003.
“It’s been seven years and given the circumstances in which it could live-in mountains, caves, underground shelters,” and that his health was affected and ten years ago, you can conclude that he is not alive, “said Saljic .
The government and the Justice of Serbia said today that the request for Mladic’s family intended to “ridicule the State” and that in no way influence the search activities of this defendant.
The former military leader of Bosnian Serbs is a fugitive for nearly 15 years and is accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for genocide in connection with the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men in Srebrenica.
In addition, you will responsible for the siege of Sarajevo and of other crimes committed during the Bosnian war (1992-1995).
According to the report, Mladic’s family submitted its request in the coming days before the First Court of Belgrade.
In the past two years, police have been recorded on several occasions the house of Mladic in Belgrade in search of information and clues that might lead to his whereabouts.
His capture is a key condition for Serbia to move towards its integration into the European Union (EU).
The ICTY also calls on Serbia Goran Hadzic, a former leader of Serbs in Croatia.
Both are the only defendants in this court still at large, after which in 2008 was arrested Radovan Karadzic, former political leader of Serbs in Bosnia.
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Plane crashes in India: 158 people died and eight survive
One hundred fifty-eight people were killed Saturday when an Air India Express continued long after landing, he fell off a cliff and caught fire, authorities said.
Only eight passengers survived, when they managed to jump off the ship before it was enveloped by flames after splitting in two.
A column of dense black smoke coming out of the wreckage of the Boeing 737-800 with Bajpe Mangalore Airport, which is surrounded by hills.
Firefighters battled the flames with water and foam while others were trying to find survivors. An Associated Press photo shows two rescuers running with an infant in her arms covered with foam. Status unknown small.
The plane coming from Dubai carrying 160 passengers and six crew _All indios_, said an official at Air India, Anup Srivastava. The British pilot and copilot were among the dead Indian.
Crews removed dozens of charred bodies from the twisted wreckage of the plane, fallen trees and mud. Many of those killed were sitting with the seat belt fastened, but so burned it was not possible to identify them visually.
Relatives of the victims, who had arrived at the airport to receive them, crying near the wreckage.
“This is a tremendous disaster,” said V.S. Acharya, interior minister of Karnataka state, the CNN-IBN channel.
The accident occurred around 6 am when the unit was to land at Bajpe, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Mangalore, and passed over the track he said Srivastava.
Mohamed Farouk Umar, a survivor who suffered burns to his face and hands, said he felt as if a tire had burst after the aircraft landed.
“It was an intense explosion and the plane caught fire,” he added.
“The plane shook with vibration and broke in two,” said another survivor, GK Pradip, CNN-IBN. He added that, along with four others, jumped from the apparatus into a well.
At first the seat of the fire was small, but after an outburst and the flames spread, he added.
On Saturday afternoon, rescuers had found 158 bodies. Eight survivors were rescued and were treated at local hospitals, the airline said.
The civil aviation minister, Praful Patel, said talks with cabin and other recordings indicate that the flight was operating normally before the landing.
Air India offers cheap flights under the banner of Air India Express to Dubai and other destinations in the Middle East where millions of Indians working.
It is the deadliest accident in India since November 1996 when an air crash between a Saudi airliner and a Kazakh cargo plane near New Delhi left a trail of 349 dead.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed condolences and promised compensation for the families of the victims. Boeing said it was sending a team to assist in the investigation.
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Ash cloud threat of new air traffic in Europe
The cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland on Sunday caused the suspension of flights in southern Germany, Austria and parts of Spain and Portugal, but Italy has reopened its airspace.
Airports in southern Germany such as Munich, Stuttgart and some regional air terminals were closed at 1300 GMT on Sunday until further notice, the agency said German aviation control, DFS.
The aviation agency Austrian, Austro Control, said it would close the airports in the nation, most until Monday morning, while his British equivalent, NATS said air terminals in Scotland also closed on Sunday.
The spread of a cloud of ash from an erupting volcano under a glacier in Iceland Eyjafjallajökull stopped much of the European air traffic for about a week in mid-April. Airlines had to cancel about 100,000 flights, stranding millions of passengers.
About 24,000 expected flights in European airspace on Sunday, about 1,000 (4 percent) below the average for this time of year, an official said in Brussels the European air traffic agency, Eurocontrol.
Transatlantic flights have been forced to be diverted, causing some delays, Eurocontrol said earlier in a statement.
“However, there was a significant number of cancellations,” the agency said.
The number of flights on Saturday in Europe totaled 22,424, nearly 200 below normal levels, said Eurocontrol.
NORMAL OPERATIONS IN ITALY
From Italian airports reopened on Sunday at 1200 GMT, after the closure of much of the airspace in the north in the morning, said the civil aviation authority ENAC.
The airports in the eastern part of northern Italy and Venice, Trieste and Rimini remained open, said
ENAC.
Several airports in northern Spain, including Barcelona, reopened on Sunday after being closed on Saturday. But the authority of the Spanish civil aviation said that a change in the direction of the ash cloud had forced to close seven airports at 1400 GMT: Asturias, Santander, Bilbao, Salamanca, Valladolid, Leon and Burgos.
All other airports were open.
Ireland provides air traffic restrictions at airports in the west of the country on Sunday after the closure of several days this week.
In Portugal, the airport’s second largest city, Oporto, was closed until noon (1000 GMT), while the French aviation authority said about 30 flights from Paris to southern Europe were canceled, although French skies are open.
Volcanic ash is abrasive and can affect the aerodynamic surfaces and paralyze an aircraft engine. The electronics of the aircraft can also be affected.
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Doctors shocked by the conditions of life of Hindu ascetic age 83 – 70 years without eating or drinking water
Indian scientists expressed shock after the analysis carried out for two weeks in a 83 year old Hindu ascetic who claims to have spent more than 70 years without eating or drinking water.
The yogi Prahlad Jani resisted without eating or drinking, but mostly not urinate or defecate during the observation period ended on Thursday, according to scientists.
“We understand how to survive without urinating or defecating. This phenomenon is a mystery,” he told reporters Sudhir Shah, a neurologist team of 30 doctors who observed the yogi in a hospital in Ahmedabad (western India).
Prahlad Jani was guarded 24 hours a day by cameras during this experiment launched by the Research and Development Agency of the Ministry of Defence (DRDO).
Then the yogi returned to his hometown near Ambaji in Gujarat (north) where he resumed his meditative activities. The octogenarian says that God blessed him when he was 8 years and allowed him to live without food.
During the two weeks of the experiment, “the only contact with liquids Jani was when he made gurgling or washed,” he said in a statement Dr. G. Ilavazahagan, director of the National Institute of Defense specializing in physiology. This institute is part of the DRDO that last year was full of grenades designed to stun the red pepper demonstrators.
“If Jani does not draw their energy from food and water, do so from other sources that surround it and the sun is one of them,” said Dr. Sudhir Shah. “As healthcare professionals we can not exclude the hypothesis as an energy source other than the calories,” he said.
The yogi underwent a magnetic resonance scanner. His brain and heart activity were measured with electrodes and had undergone blood tests.
The detailed results will be published in the coming months and the DRDO hopes to use them to increase the resistance of the military or helping victims of natural disasters.
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Pope speaks of the “frightening” truth of the abuse
Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday that the crisis of sexual abuse of minors by priests that the church should admit the “frightening” truth that their biggest threat comes from the “sin within the Church” .
In some of the broader public comments since the scandal broke two months ago, Benedict XVI told reporters that the Church had a “deep need” to recognize it must do penance for their sins and “accept clean.”
“Today we see a terrible way that the great persecution of the Church does not come from its enemies from outside, but is born of sin within the Church,” the pontiff told reporters on the plane that brought him to Portugal, in response Asked about the sexual abuse scandal that has shaken the Catholic Church seriously.
In recent weeks, several Vatican officials have accused the media of promoting a campaign of calumny against the Church s, reaching a senior Vatican to deny reports that they had covered up abuses, calling the news “petty gossip.”
The German pontiff, 83, who faces the worst crisis in its five-year papacy, said the church had to seek forgiveness from victims of sexual abuse, but also acknowledged that “forgiveness is not a substitute for Justice” .
“SUFFERING OF THE CHURCH”
The pope accepted the resignation on Saturday of the Bishop of Augsburg, Walter Mixa, who has been accused of abuses against children. This is the first prelate to resign than in Germany, and comes just two weeks after a Belgian bishop resigns after admitting he had abused a minor.
Irish Bishop James Moriarty also resigned in April, claiming that the abuses do not stop when he was auxiliary bishop of Dublin between 1991 and 2001.
The main purpose of the journey of four days of the Pope to Portugal to visit the shrine of Fatima, which states that the Virgin appeared to three shepherd children on six occasions in 1917.
One of the three messages that Christian tradition says the Virgin revealed to the shepherds the so-called Third Secret of Fatima, which has been interpreted by the Vatican as a prediction of the 1981 assassination attempt of Pope John Paul II.
Benedict told reporters that the interpretation of the third secret, revealed in 2000, could include the suffering that the Papacy and the Church would have to bear as a result of the sexual abuse crisis today.
“What we see (in the Third Secret) are the predictions of the suffering of the Church,” concluded
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Shocked by the case of a teenager who does not grow
The world was shocked by the case and international medicine might use it to unravel some mysteries of aging.
This is a 17 year old American teenager who has the conduct and the body of a drink: measures 75 inches and weighs seven kilos.
The girl’s teeth, did not learn to talk and babble like a drink. But despite its eternal youth, with the passage of time will start to have complications of age, such as stroke or ulcers.
The case of Brooke Greenberg is the focus of a lecture at the Royal Society, to be held in London this week, with the participation of some of the best researchers in the world, and became public knowledge by an article in the British newspaper The Times .
Scientists hope to gain new insights into the mysteries of aging by sequencing the genome of the teenager as their lack of growth may be related to defects in genes that make the rest of humanity becomes older.
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Eurozone Greece offers 30,000 million euros in support
In a desperate attempt to stop the Greek debt crisis that has shaken the euro, the Eurozone nations to Greece on Sunday offered a financial lifeline of 30,000 million euros in loans available this year, but refrained Athens to accept the money immediately.
Olli Rehn, the EU director of monetary affairs, said the International Monetary Fund would also make a “substantial contribution”, probably around 10,000 million euros.
The financial rescue plan, focused on a draft that the EU leaders agreed on March 25 was another attempt to calm markets, which Greeks have been selling bonds in recent days. Markets saw the promise of March as unclear and with so many restrictions that would be difficult for Greece to access the money.
As a result, investors demanded high interest rates before paying back to the Greek government, while he was suffering difficulties in order not to fall in default of payments. Greece also has to pay 54 million euros (72 million) in debt this year. The country said it could not accept such high interest rates.
In a video teleconferencing, the finance ministers of the 16 eurozone nations agreed to create a complex formula that generates three-year interest rate “of about 5%.”
That figure is lower than the commercial market rates, which have risen above 7% in loans to 10 years over the past weeks due to the debt crisis. The interest rate is, however, higher than what the International Monetary Fund beneficiaries typically paid.
Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank president, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed that Greece did not fall in interest rates below the market leading to a grant from the EU due to previous bad behavior of the country .
‘This is certainly no subsidy “to Greece, Rehn said at a news conference.
The key test will be whether Sunday’s announcement restores confidence that Greece did not fall in default of payments and be granted an opportunity to receive loans at lower interest rates. With rates last week, Greece should have paid more than twice what Germany pays.
Greece made no immediate application to activate the new rescue plan for the EU. Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou told reporters in Athens that the government will seek to continue attracting loans, probably taking for granted a reduction in these rates when markets reopen on Monday.
Greece has been spending beyond their means for years, finishing with a budget deficit in 2009 of 12.9% of its Gross Domestic Product. The revelation of his financial plight hit the euro and hurt market confidence, further raising the costs of collecting funds for Greece.
Athens plans to cut its deficit to 8.7% of GDP this year and has launched an austerity program of 4,800 million euros (6,500 billion dollars) to reduce public sector salaries, freeze pensions and raise taxes.
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Five billionaires who live modestly
At least once in their life, maybe even once a week, or in any case, once a day, has fantasized about a big amount of money. What if you had millions, even billions, of dollars? Believe it or not, there are millionaires and billionaires among us, who pretend to be relatively normal people, ordinary. Take a look at some of the rich more frugal in the world.
Warren Buffett
Millions of people read books and follow Buffett’s every move of his company, Berkshire Hathaway. But the real secret of Buffett’s personal fortune could be his penchant for frugality. Buffett, whose value is estimated at $ 47 billion, avoids the opulent houses and luxury goods. He and his wife still live in his modest home in Omaha, Nebraska, who bought more than 50 years at a price of just $ 31.500.
Although he has dined at the finest restaurants around the world, if I had to choose, he would opt for a good burger and some fries accompanied by a Coca-Cola Cherry soda cold. When asked why he had a yacht, responded that “most of the toys are just a nuisance.” (Discover how you went from selling soft drinks to buy companies and make billions of dollars).
Carlos Slim
Although almost everyone knows Bill Gates, Carlos Slim’s name rarely is it known to people. However, it is a name worth knowing. Slim, native of Mexico, has just been named the world’s richest billionaire, and is richer than the ultra famous founder of Microsoft. Slim value exceeds $ 53 billion and could pay even more extravagant luxuries the world, are rarely given these tastes. Like Buffett, does not have a yacht or an airplane and has lived in the same house for over 40 years.
Ingvar Kamprad
The founder of Swedish furniture phenomenon achieved success Ikea furniture at affordable prices to assemble at home. To Kamprad, discover ways to save money is not something done only by their customers, but a personal value priority. He has been quoted as saying that “people do not drive cars Ikea striking or staying in luxury hotels.” This also applies to the founder of the company. Kamprad flies economy class for your business and when you need to get around the city take a bus or driving your car for 15 years, a Volvo 240 GL.
Chuck Feeney
Growing up in the shadow of the Great Depression being an Irish American probably explains in part the frugality of Feeney. With a personal motto of “my purpose is to work hard, not to become rich”, co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers has quietly become a billionaire, but even more quietly donated almost all his money to his foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies. In addition to giving more than $ 600 million to his alma mater, Cornell University, has delivered billions of dollars for schools, research departments and hospitals.
Reluctant to spend if you must, Feeney exceeded both Mr. Buffett as Kamprad in the category of charitable donations, giving more subsidies to the Ford and Bill and Melinda Gates. Frequent user of public transport, travel in economy class Feeney, buying clothes at retail stores and spend money on shoes, declaring that “you can only wear one pair of shoes at a time.” Raised her children the same way, made them work on the same normal summer jobs that most teenagers.
Frederik Meijer
If you live in the U.S. Midwest is likely to shop at the Meijer supermarket chain. Meijer has more than $ 5 billion and almost half of his fortune was accumulated in 2009, when the net value of the rest of the people plummeted. Like Buffett, buy cars at reasonable prices and use them until they stop working as Kamprad, choose cheap motels when traveling for work. Also, like Chuck Feeney, instead of spending their wealth carelessly, Meijer focused on the idea of the good that can provide for the community.
In brief
The secret no one tells about some of the world’s richest people is that they rarely act as such. Instead of overspending, are busy finding ways to save and invest to have even more in the future. It’s a habit in which you might want to think to be creating its own cash reserves.
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