Saturday, 30 April 2011
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ROYAL WEDDING: Lip reader deciphers secret wedding whispers
LONDON: Tina Lannin, a professional lip reader who was born deaf, caught the private whispers during the royal wedding that television microphones couldn’t capture.
Lannin, who has worked for 7 years as a forensic lip reader for police forces and media outlets with O’Malley Communications, picked out comments from Prince William, his bride and Queen Elizabeth II in a partial transcript. Her assessment couldn’t be verified.
10:20 a.m. – Prince William: ”Looking forward to it.” To Harry, ”shall we go in then? Prince Harry: ”Sure, everyone has arrived.”
William (to Bishop): ”Make sure everything’s alright. It’s beautiful the way it is.”
10:25 a.m. – William to lady in congregation: ”You look very pretty, very pretty.”
10:55 a.m. – Michael Middleton to Kate Middleton as they left hotel: ”You okay?”
1:00 a.m. – Pippa Middleton to sister Kate: ”You look amazing.”
Michael Middleton to Kate Middleton as they entered Westminster Abbey: ”You okay?”
Kate Middleton to her father: ”Yeah.”
11:05 a.m. – Kate to Bishop before walking down the aisle: ”Yes I suppose so … I expect I’ll be worn out today. Thank you.”
Harry to William: ”Right, here she is now.”
William to Middleton at the altar: ”You look lovely …(unclear)… You look beautiful.”
William joking to Michael Middleton: ”We’re supposed to have just a small family affair.”
12:00 a.m. – Queen Elizabeth II to Prince Philip: ”It was excellent.”
Prince Philip: ”Yes?”
12:15 a.m. – William to Kate Middleton: ”Alright?”
Kate Middleton: ”Yes.”
William: ”Wish I was out.”
Kate Middleton: ”I’m beginning to find (unclear).”
William: ”Yeah, alright.” Hands bouquet to Kate after they climb aboard their carriage, ”here you are.”
Kate Middleton: ”Thank you.”
Kate Middleton: ”Now, are you happy?”
William: ”Yes … (unclear conversation) … wave to everybody.”
Outside abbey – queen: ”I wanted them to take the smaller carriage.”
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: ”It all went very well.”
Queen: ”Very well.”
In wedding carriage – William: ”I don’t think you should bow quite yet. I think you should just bow your head, okay?”
Kate Middleton: ”Okay.”
William: ”I hope I remember … It’s mad, it’s mad! Oh my goodness it … really loudly here (unclear) these people are clapping.”
Kate Middleton: ”Did they?”
William: ”I think so. I went out here the first (unclear).”
In separate carriage – Prince Charles: ”Yeah it looked nice.”
Camilla: ”Yes, but you have to know how to do it.”
In wedding carriage – Kate Middleton to William: ”You look happy.”
1:30 p.m – On Buckingham Palace balcony, Kate Middleton: ”Oh wow.”
William: ”Alright? You’ll be okay?”
Kate Middleton: ”Oh I’m fine, thank you.”
William: ”Yeah! Yeah! There’s a lot of people down here.” To pageboys, ”I know but look up there as well.” To his bride: ”Okay? Look at me, let’s kiss, okay.”
William, shouting balcony: ”Harry! Your go!”
Kate Middleton: ”What’s next?”
William: ”They want more time I think.”
William shouting across balcony, possibly to Camilla: ”You could have brought up (unclear) as well.”
Camilla: ”Oh, very heavy.”
William: ”Just do a bit of everything. Do you like the balloons (unclear) they go up in the air.”
Kate Middleton: ”Look at these people.”
William: ”I want to see the plane, I think I’m (unclear).”
William to Harry: ”Okay.”
William to pageboys: ”…to stop them coming in here, to stop them coming in this side, I mean it’s hard.”
William to Kate Middleton: ”One more.” The couple kiss for a second time. ”That’s it, come on!”
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Grotto galleries show early Somali life in Laas Geel
A Somali archaeolgist pointing to an ancient rock painting, one of a galaxy of colourful animal and human sketches to adorn the caves in the rocky hills of this arid wilderness in northern Somalia, in Laas Geel, home to Africa's earliest known and most pristine rock art.
A galaxy of colourful animal and human sketches adorn the caves in the rocky hills of this arid wilderness in northern Somalia, home to Africa’s earliest known and most pristine rock art.
But in a region ravaged by two decades of relentless civil unrest and lawlessness, the archaeological site is at risk of destruction, looting and clandestine excavation.
The 10 caves in Laas Geel, Somali for “camel watering hole”, outside Hargeisa, the capital of Somalia’s self-declared Somaliland state, show vivid depictions of a pastoralist history dating back some 5,000 years or more.
The paintings were discovered in 2002 by a French archaeology team and have since been protected to bar looters after their value became apparent to locals who previously feared they were the work of evil spirits.
“The people around here thought the caves had evil spirits and never used to come near. They offered sacrifices not to be harmed,” recounted Ali Said, an assistant archaeologist with the Somaliland government.
The cave galleries provide a peek into the little known history of this part of the world, which in recent times has mostly been famous for bloody conflicts and instability.
Paintings of decorated cows – some with radiant neck stripes – herders and wild animals point to the interglacial period when the now arid Horn of Africa region was lush and had plenty of wild animals, explained Sada Mire, a Somali-born British archaeologist working to preserve the rare heritage.
Much of Somalia is now a vast badland and the parched Laas Geel region no longer draws heards of cattle coming to graze and water, while human settlement is sparse.
“We know that the painters were pastoralists who lived in a much better climate than the present,” Mire said.
“It is quite an important discovery as little is known about the history of this region and lots of archaeological heritage is being lost to destruction, looting and neglect,” she added.
The Laas Geel rock caves are located near a confluence of two now dry rivers, which lend credence to its name and the practice of herders taking to etching cave walls with animal and other depictions.
While some of the Laas Geel cave paintings are stunningly vivid, others have faded off due to rock degradation and effects of weather. The caves house a constellation of brown, orange, white and red pre-historic sketches on the walls and ceiling.
“The paintings are vanishing if urgent conservation measures are not taken. At the moment we are protecting and recording them. Weathering as well as human threat in terms of unplanned development are immediate threats,” Mire said.
Mire now works with the government of Somaliland to train locals to protect the artefacts as well as help authorities draft laws to preserve the region’s historical sites.
A former British protectorate, Somaliland declared independence from the rest of Somalia when war erupted following the overthrow of president Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, but it is not recognised by the international community.
The small region in northern Somalia also boasts other pre-historic sites, also with cave paintings and other early human life. In the northern Dhambalin region, rock caves also host colourful paintings of cattle and wild animals as well as dogs and a man on a horseback, which Mire said in a recent article is one of the earliest known depictions of a mounted huntsman.
Somaliland has been spared much of the violence that has flayed the south and central Somalia regions and authorities are looking to capitalise on the relative stability and the recently discovered historical treasures to woo tourists.
“People now appreciate these (rock) paintings and they hope they will attract tourism which will benefit them,” Said noted, pointing to a cluster small drawings of wild animals in one of the caves.
“The government is encouraging those who can to build hotels and resorts around here (Laas Geel) to host tourists,” he added.
Saturday, 23 April 2011
planet Earth: What Should We Know
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Eleven per cent of the Earth’s surface is used to grow food.
For every 100 metres down into the Earth, the temperature gets three degrees hotter.
The wind carries 100 million tonnes of sand particles around the Earth yearly.
Only three per cent of the water on our planet is fresh water. Of the 3 per cent, two per cent of it is frozen in glaciers and ice sheets around the poles. The other 97 per cent is salt water.
About 70-71per cent of the Earth is covered by water.
Sunlight takes eight minutes and three seconds to reach Earth.
The coldest temperature ever recorded was -129 degrees Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antartica in 1983.
The lowest dry point on Earth is the Dead Sea in the Middle East which is 1300 feet below sea level.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world. It covers about 1/3 of the Earth’s surface.
The most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust is aluminium.
Worldwide, 400 billion gallons of water is used each day.
The difference between average global temperatures today and during those ice ages is only about five degrees Celsius (nine degrees Fahrenheit).
While less than one-third of the world’s population lived in cities in 1950, about two thirds of humanity is expected to live in urban areas by 2030.
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