5 Unfortunate deaths.

Here's a list 5 unfortunate celebrity deaths, occurred while performing acts of their profession.

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Steve Irwin
Steve Irwin famous worldwide for his series "Crocodile Hunter", was an wildlife expert and conservationalist. While filming documentary Ocean's Deadliest, he decided to take shots at shallow waters, approaching Sting ray. The fish in its defensive response hit his chest with tail spine. The crew reacted and administered CPR, but was pronounced dead by medical staff at scene. 4th September 2006

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Owen Hart
At an Over the Edge, pay per view event in Kansas City, 34 year old Canadian WWF wrestler was to enter the ring against The Godfather, from rafters above the ring using the harness at ring level and then suddenly dropped to give a comedic effect,  for Blazer's "buffoonish" superhero character. Instead Hart fell directly on his chest from height of 78 ft, filling his lungs with blood.

Graves of Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee, Lake View cemetery Seattle | Image from Wikimedia Commonss

Brandon Lee
Son of Bruce Lee, an American Actor and Martial artist. Brandon Lee was in filming of scene where his character had to enter the room, where he discoveres his fiance being beaten by thugs. One of thug then shoots at Brandon Lee.
The revolver was to be fired at distant of 12-15 feet with dummy cartridge, consisting of live powder charge and primer without bullet. However since the dummy round, a bullet was trapped inside the barrel. This trapped bullet was accidentally fired at Brandon Lee, wounding his chest. He was rushed to Hospital where he underwent 6 hrs of surgery. However unsuccessful, Lee was pronounced dead.March 31, 1993

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Dimebag Darrell
Dimebag Darrell was an American metal artist and founding member of Pantera and Damageplan alongside his brother, Vinnie Paul. While performing live at Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, barely after performing one song, Dimebag Darrell was shot 5 times at back head by schizophrenic gunman Nathan Gale. Dimebag Darrell died onstage. Nathan Gale shot 15 times killing another 3 and injuring 7 others. Gale was then shot dead by police officer.

Lightning over New Mexico, Photographed by US Air Force | Imafe from Wikimedia Commons.

Entire Football team of Bena Tshadi, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Bansanga and Bena Tshadi were drawing a football match 1-1. Suddenly lightining strucks the players of Bena Tshadi. Entire football team of Bena Tshadi age ranging between 20 and 35years was killed. Surprisingly the home team Basanga came out unhurt. This led to suspicion of use of witch-craft by home team. 30 other people were also reported to had received burn marks.

5 Hazardous things found at home.

There are many hazardous substances hidden in your attics. Most of them are found in cosmetics, cleansing compounds which when inhaled or consumed, may cause injury or prove fatal. Many chemicals act slowly. They affect your immune, and you'll realize after prolong exposure to these chemicals, you immune weakened. Today I am writing about 5 hazardous compound that occur in our day to day lives and which are often overlooked.

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Mothballs

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These small pallets keeps moth and other flies chewing into their clothes. But they do have hazardous property. Para-di-chloro-benzene found in mothballs are found to be cancer causing. Skin Lesions, loss of appetite are some causes. Apart from that, prolong exposure to Mothballs can cause nausea, diarrhea and even destroy your red blood cells.

Deodorants and Air Fresheners

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Deodorant does make you smell good. Also does the air freshner but it depletes the quality of indoor air. Formaldehyde(terpenes in Air-fresheners combined with ozone forms these), petroleum distillates, aerosol propellants, and para-dichlorobenzene are chemicals found in air fresheners. All these compounds are known to cause breathing problems.  Formaldehyde, petroleum distillates in addition also aggravates asthma. Air-fresheners may contain VOC or volatile organic compounds such as Nitrogen Dioxide. Nitrogen Dioxide is known to cause cancer. Similarly it also contains paradichlorobenzene.

Domestic cleaning products

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Domestic cleaning product are known to compose of many harmful chemicals. Detergents are found to kill fish eggs even in low concentration. It contains  nonylphenol ethoxylate known to affect estrogen hormone, thus considered extremely harmful to humans. In addition, it contains phenol and bleach. Phenols can cause damage to lungs, heart, liver and kidney. Phenols are easily absorbed by skin and are linked to serious health conditions. Bleach causes irritation to eyes,nose and throat and known to cause severe skin reaction.

Dust

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Dust is almost everywhere. I may be scarce to be seen or accumulated under your sofa or inside your laptop. Often overlooked, dust causes sneezing, accumulation of mucus which results in coughing. Dust may contain many organic or inorganic compounds. Inhalation of inorganic dust containing coal or silica may cause Pneumoconiosis characterized by inflammation of  lungs  leading to fibrosis which stiffens lungs. Humidifier fever is most common effect of dust.

Toothpaste

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Everyday we start our day with brushing our teeth. But least bother to know about the harmful substances in toothpaste. Sodium Flouride is key ingredient in toothpaste. Surprisingly it is also main ingrediant in rat poison too. In kids ingestion of  this compound causes vomitting, stomach pain. Moreover, a recent Chinese study says, low dose sodium fluoride in drinking water diminishes IQ, especially among children. It is recommended to use only pea size amount of paste for kids and avoid swallowing.

Things you can do with old PC.

   I have an old PC and I don't want to throw it away. I got a lot of memories with. But it was just lying in my room taking up room spce. So I decided to google and find out things I can do with it. Here's what I did with my old PC.

Dismantle and paint.
If you ever own a desktop PC from year 2000's, you would know how bulky the cabinets were. Mine itself is 6 inch wide and around 15inch in height and length. I removed the side panel, and cut a square piece of metal from it and replaced it with acryllic sheet. I used 8 half an inch bolt and nut to fix the acryllic sheet on the side panel. This now exposes the inner hardware of my PC.Further I repainted my cabinet from plain white box to cool blue colour. Also using the output of the excess USB, I put LED lights inside the cabinet. Further i put a switch on exterior so that I can switch on/off the LEDs. It looks awesome when it glows at night.

Installed new OS.
The hardware I had was merely capable of running Windows 7 basic. I replaced my old PC's OS with Lubuntu, which is a light version of Ubuntu, specifically designed for old PC's. To be honest I had problems tweaking graphic drivers for better performance. After going through documentation and the community forum, my problem was solved. The new OS runs smooth without any glitch. Also it takes only 22 seconds for my machine to boot which I guess is quick for my kind of machine.

My retro gaming center.
Look up on eBay, and you might findsome of the old games. I found Need for Speed 4, RC Racing and some other games whose name I don't remember but are very cool to play! Well you can upgrade your RAM and graphic card if you want to. Remember 2005 was the best year in gaming, atleast this is what I believe. Many good games were made and released during this period. You can use use your old PC to enjoy these game, since many new laptops are having compatibility problem.

Download center.
You can use your old PC for download. Slow hardware marginally affects download speed. So its good idea to download torrents on old PC. I downloaded my copy of Lubuntu on old PC itself. Its internet speed that matters.

Data Backup Center.
Alternatively, you can also use the old PC hard drive as place to store your important documents, backup, or music. People with low internet speed and those who are unable to use cloud storage for backup can benefit from old PC. Using third party software and app you can share data among your phone and PC. I'll post in future on how to share data between phone and PC.

Lastly, you can refurbish it and give it away to charity. :)

4 Amazing Scientific advances of 2013.

"Japanese researchers unveil the "smelling screen", a digital display screen capable of emitting pinpointed smells."


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 You watch and listen to programme on TV, but now you can smell it too!
The prototype of this screen was unveiled at IEEE Virtual Reality Conference. The inventers suggests it can enhance advertisements. Though the project is in early stage of development, it will soon be commercially available in near future.

"Phase I clinical trials of SAV001 – the first and only preventative HIV vaccine – have been successfully completed with no adverse effects in all patients. Antibody production was greatly boosted after vaccination."



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 Previously Timothy Ray Brown was reported of cured of HIV after having stem-cells transplant after being diagnosed with leukemia. The HIV cells were dead and cannot replicate. However stem cell transplant is considered risky and performed only on cancer affected people.
Researchers have come a bit closure in tackling HIV with successfull trial of HIV vaccine.Currently 35million people are living with HIV. HIV is spread through shared needles, unsafe blood transfusion, unsafe sex, from infected mother to her child. HIV has been a global issue and has claimed atleast 25 million lives so far. HIV Vaccination will greatly help reduce these figures. Its a boon to mankind.

"British and Canadian researchers create a tablet computer which is as thin as paper and also flexible."


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 Imagine a computer as thin and flexible as a paper. Its yet another reality! Developed by PlasticLogic known as PaperTab, this tablet is flexible, thin, lightweight just like paper. And yes you can tossed it just like a paper. It has several thin sheets of flexible plastic display. Each display can be used for each app  or document. A user can carry as many as hundreds of these display just like a book. It is powered by Intel i5 processor. Now how cool is it? B)

"NEC and Corning Inc. develop a multi-core fiber optic cable that can transfer a record-breaking petabit of data per second."


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 How about sending 500HD movies in just a span of a second? Yes its possible in near future. NEC and Corning Inc, announces that it successfully transmitted 1.050Petabits in a second. This will enable high data transfer capabilities along with cost effectiveness and met the demands of ever growing traffic.

15 Facts a Day #2

About 108 billion humans have so far lived on Earth.

Elephants and Humans are the only mammals to have chins.

The Nintendo Wii, Playstation and XBox are all banned in China.

George Washington predicted the USA would only last for 20 years.

Sarcastic people tend to be more creative.

Gary Kremen, the founder of Match.com lost his girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com.

Jim Morrison, of the The Doors(60's Rock Band), was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body.

When a person lies, the temperature of their nose rises. This is known as the "Pinocchio Effect".

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The very first song played on MTV was ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’ by the Buggles.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo.

James Bond’s car had three different license plates in Goldfinger

There are 52 playing cards in a deck to represent the 52 weeks in a year. The four suits represent the 4 seasons.

5 Famous Indian Serial killers.

Here's a list of 5 of known convicted and executed serial killer from India.


There have been serial murders which had terrorized people and caused panic in the cities from time to time. Today I am writing about Thug Behram, murderer awarded with most killings and series of murder committed between late 1960's and 90's. Some of these murders were committed for money while some for sheer pleasure.

1. Thug Behram.
  Lived between East-India Company rule. He is considered on of the most profilic killers in the world. He the leader of cult of Thuggees in Avadh which comprised of around 50 men. He was suspected of killings 931 people by strangling. Havin him confessed "...of strangling 125 men with his own hands and seen strangulation of 150 more." His terror reign between 1790 and 1840. He was executed by hanging in 1840.
  Thuggee and Dacoity Department was established in India, which eradicated Thuggees by 1870. Most of them were expelled from country, executed or put in prison for life. Thuggee and Dacoity Department was later replaced by Central Criminal Intelligence Department in 1904. (Now Department of Criminal Intelligence.)
  "People of thuggee cult worshipped Kali Mata and had self-belief that they were born from her sweat. Thuggees would kill those people who were believed to be demons and keep their belongings. However they believed during killing not a single drop of blood should fall on floor and so killings were done by strangulation."

2.Raghav Raman also known as Pyscho Raman.
  Series of Brutal Murders were committed in 1965-66. 19 people were attacked out of which 9 died.   Homeless and hut dwellers were attacked. Raghav Raman was arrested. However none of the survivor remembered seeing this man, and so police let him go. The murdere striked back in 1968. All attacks were carried out using hard, blunt weapons.
  This led to Manhunt launched by police. Soon murderer was nabbed and got him confessed. He was indeed Raghav Raman. This time police got him confessed. He admitted killing 23 people in GIP Railway (Central Railway) in 1966 and dozens in the suburbs in 1968. He had previously spent 5 years in jail for robbery He also revealed he had raped and killed his sister.
  It was later discovered through medical analysis that Raghav Raman was schizophrenic. He believed 'people wanted to change his sex'; and since he was representative of 'kanoon', they were unsuccessful. He also believed that India was ruled by Akbar rule, Congress rule and British rule. He was sentenced to death but soon life imprisonment. (he was found to be incurably mentally ill). He died in 1995 of kidney trouble.

3.Kampatimar Shankariya
A native of Jaipur, India, 27-year-old Kampatimar Shankariya murdered 70+ people using hammer for over two years. In his confession he said, he did it for sheer pleasure. He was convicted in early 1979. He was hanged at Jaipur on May 16, 1979, the killer's last words were a gallows lament. "I have murdered in vain," he declared. "Nobody should become like me."

4.Auto Shankar
  In late 1988, over a period of approximately six months, nine teenage girls from the Thiruvanmiyur section of Chennai disappeared. In December, a girl reported that an autorickshaw driver attempted to abduct her in front of Wine shop. Working undercover in the wine shop, detectives learned that about auto driver named Shankar.
  Auto Shankar ran prostitution dens and transported alcoholic substances and drugs. His notorious influence peaked. His first victims were his part of his own inner circle. Lalitha ran away with Sudalaimuthu but soon Shankar and his associates got hold of them. Lalitha was murdered and buried in residential house, while Sudalaimuthu was set on fire.  His remains were disposed off in Bay of Bengal.  It took next 15 months to search and dug out Lalitha's remain.  His next victims were Mohan, Sampath and Govindara. The gang had a quarrel with these men over picking up woman (flesh trade). Shankar and his gang beat them up, murder and buried. Along with it Shankar was also involed in murder of Ravi.  Along with his associates, he was charged with murder of six individual. Shankar had escaped prison once but soon traced to Odisha. Three wardens were arrested in helping Shankar escape.
  Shankar was hanged in 1995. Cinema was considered sole responsible for his motive. A month before his execution, Shankar stated he kidnapped girls for powerful politicians. It was dismissed. 

5.Rajendra Jakkal, Dilip Sutar, Shantaram Kanhoji Jagtap and Munawar Harun Shah.
  Series of ten Murders were committed by them known as Abyankar-Joshi Serial Murder between 1976-77 in city of Pune. Nylon ropes were used in killing the victims. Some bodies were tied up to iron or stones inserted into bodies and weighed down into lake or river, while some were left hanging in residential home. Some of the bodies were stripped. Valuables and money was stolen and motive of murder was clear. The identical type of knot lead police to conclusion that all murders were executed by same people. Actions were taken to prevent murders in future.
  Soon Rajendra Jakkal, Dilip Sutar, Shantaram Kanhoji Jagtap and Munawar Harun Shah were arrested. All four were students of arts from same college. The gang had acquired bad name for stealing and drinking. All four were tried. The case lasted for 4 months and sentenced to death. Appeals for Pardon was made which was denied by High Court, Supreme court and The President. All four were hanged in 1983.

So these are the 5 series of shocking, hurting and inhumane killings from India. I will try to write about them in brief in future. Hope you enjoyed reading.

Sources: Wikipedia.org,murderpedia.org,The Hindu (web),The Times of India (web).

15 Facts a day... #1

Technically, a 'moment' means 90 seconds.

Psilocybin can make a person permanently more creative, curious and inquisitive.

The cornea is the only part of the human body which has no blood supply.

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether their company should be known as Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett, And it was Dave Packard who won the the toss!

Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" spent 741 weeks on the Billboard charts from 1973 to 1988 - longer than any other album in history.

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ was the first CD pressed in US.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896, which lasted for only 38minutes.

Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years!

You need peanuts to make a Dynamite!

French Kiss is known as English kiss in France.

The European Space Agency’s Olympus satellite was destroyed by a meteorite, in 1993.

If amount of water in your body depletes by 10% a person dies.

Cigarette lighter was invented before Match sticks.

Phobophobia is the fear of having a phobia.

A situation in which every choice you can make will be bad is called a 'zugzwang'.

Cleopatra's last name was Ptolemy and she was Greek, not Egyptian.