Fatville : Town Only for Fat People

Everywhere you look in Huntington, there are oversized people — in the cinema complex, outside Starbucks, squeezing into booths at Buddy's All American Bar-B-Que.

A few are just large, but more are properly obese — bulging out in all the wrong places and too big to run, jog, ride a bike or even walk without wheezing in pain. It isn't just grown-ups. Grossly overweight children waddle about clutching huge bags of crisps, their legs chafing at the tops and their tummies straining beneath stretched T-shirts. Huge teenagers slope about on street corners, smoking and drinking fizzy drinks from enormous containers. More shocking, though, is that no one's staring. Not even covertly. Because fat is normal here. Almost half the population is clinically obese.







Welcome to Fatville: Burgers as big as dustbin lids, coffins that need cranes, and obese children having heart attacks - it is the supersized U.S. town causing Jamie Oliver such despair

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Temple Karni Mata : Places to Worship Rat in India

During my travel to Bikaner, the city of camels, I discovered another very strange mythological of rat worship in the place called Karni Mata Temple and I cannot but draw a separate picture of that story. The Karni Mata  Temple is about 30 kilometers away from the main city of Bikaner  in the Deshnoke town. It is worth a visit because you will never ever get to see such a unique scene of thousand rats crawling in the floor of the temple.

The Legend behind Rat Worship:

According to the mythological story, the origin of the ritual of rat worship dates back to the 15th century. Karni Mata was an incarnation of Goddess Durga. The story goes like this… once Karni Mata asked help from the Death God Yama to give back the life of one of her devotees (the traditional storytellers). Then Yama granted her wish by reincarnating the devotee as a rat. From then on, all the devotees of Karni Mata were blessed that on their death, all of them would be reincarnated as rats until their rebirth as human beings again.




 History of the Temple:

Another story that is believed is that once Mahara Ganga Singh of Bikaner had a vision I his dream that the Deity Karni Mata tells him to create a temple in order to provide a proper shelter to her devotees (rats). Then Ganga Singh constructed this Karni Mata Temple. The temple is made of white marble along with silver and gold domes.



The visitors of the temple are not allowed to wear shoes inside. However, you can be assured that strangely enough the holy rats never bite any devotees inside the temple. It is believed to be lucky if any of the rats runs over your feet.

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Japanese Restaurant in Bangkok Now Use Robot to Serve Visitors

Hajime Japanese restaurant is the first Japanese robot restaurant in Bangkok. Customers can order their food on a touch-screen display on each table and the robot waiters will serve the food.Lapassarad Thanaphant, the owner of the Japanese restaurant, had spent 30 million baht (US$927,600) to invest in her restaurant and purchased four robots from Japan to serves her customers. Besides serving food, the robot waiters also dance to entertain as they work and collecting empty dishes at the customers’ table.But I still prefer to be served by young and beautiful waitresses. By the way, the lady in the photo below is the owner of the restaurant Lapassarad Thanaphant.










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Xiaoqiang : Dolphin That Has Skill in Drawing

QINGDAO, – dolphin’s Aquatic Park, China, named Xiaoqiang is known as an intelligent animal and has more memory. On Wednesday (31/3/2010), this dolphin showed their versatility in front of the visitors Aquatic Park in Qingdao, Shandong Province, East China. A child shows a painting, and Xiaoqiang, the dolphins, under the guidance of an instructor trainer of animals, began to paint in front of the visitors. The result is extraordinary, a nude painting of a dolphin.

Xiaoqiang – Dolphin Make A Painting in Aquatic Park, China

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Kara DioGuardi : Beautiful American Idol Judge

Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi (born December 9, 1970) is an American songwriter, record producer, and singer who has contributed to a long list of internationally successful popular songs. She writes music in the light pop-rock genre. She is the new Judge on the eighth season of American Idol. DioGuardi has worked with Celine Dion, David Archuleta, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and Paula Abdul, American Idol's other female judge.

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Play Metal Gear Solid Game on iPad Is Available Now

Play Metal Gear Solid game on iPad now? Here's the news I got from famous blog. One massive franchise already available for the iPad on the App Store is Metal Gear Solid Touch, which takes advantage of the same duck and cover, touch control scheme as the iPhone Metal Gear Touch game. Will the title be all that much better when played on the iPad’s larger screen? Take a look at some screenshots below or get it on iTunes for iPhone or iPad now.





Play metal gear solid after you get it from iTunes

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Suan Dusit University in Bangkok: Many Transgender Students Inside!

Thailand must be the only country in the world where these people are treated ok and where they can get higher education and find work after finishing their studies. At Suan Dusit University in Bangkok transgender students are accepted as equal to other people. Ladyboys dress in girls’ uniforms here. They behave in a feminine way and don’t have to hide their real “nature”.

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