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By Connie Suggitt VIDEO
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A two-year-old Maine Coon cat from Italy measures an impressive 120 cm - that's longer than a baseball bat! The large cat, who's named Barivel, lives with his owners in Vigevano, Pavia, and was crowned as the Longest domestic cat (living), after the record was verified on 22 May 2018. Barivel's owners, Cinzia Tinnirello and Edgar Scandurra, always knew he was a special cat. "He is a very special cat for us because he is a little shy... when people see him they are very shocked, but for us he is a little gift... a big gift!" said Edgar. In Edgar's local Italian dialect, Barivel means clown or joker. But despite his name and being one of the largest domestic cats you'll ever see, Edgar says Barivel doesn't have a larger than life personality. In fact, Barivel leads a pampered life, eating plenty of biscuits, chicken and fish and even gets taken for walks in a buggy! "People are very surprised to see him because it's strange to see a cat outside in the buggy," said Edgar, adding that Barivel loves going for walks in the buggy. As well as the unusual sight of his buggy, many people are taken aback by Barivel immense size, and Edgar and Cinzia are often stopped so people can take a picture.
This partly inspired the couple to create an Instagram account for their furry friend. However, people online can't believe that the photos of Barivel are real. "A lot of people, when I post a photo, ask in a direct message if he is photoshopped." With a cat like Barivel, the record books were never far from Edgar and Cinzia's minds. "From the start we thought about this Guinness World Records title. We all know the Guinness World Records name and we are so excited to see if Barivel will go in the book." "For us he is like a gift." However, this may not be the end of fame for Barivel. Maine Coons - one of the large cat breeds - usually grow until they are four years old, but Barivel is only two. There may well be more growing - and more recordbreaking - in store for the feline. If you want to see more of Barivel, follow him on his Instagram account at Barivel_Maine_Coon. 2
Die man stap verby ‘n trop olifante wat vasgebind staan. Hy stop skielik en is verbaas dat hierdie enorme diere deur so ‘n dun tou aan die voorpoot vasgehou kan word. Geen kettings, geen hokke, behalwe die dun tou aan die voorpoot en ‘n pen in die grond. Dit was duidelik dat die olifante, indien hulle wou, maklik kon losbreek van die tou wat hul vashou, maar vir een of ander duistere rede, het hulle nie losgebreek nie. Hy sien daar naby een van die afrigters van die olifante staan en vra hom hoekom die olifante net daar staan en nie ‘n poging aanwend om los te breek van die toue nie. “Wel” sê die afrigter, “ terwyl hulle nog baie jonk en heelwat kleiner was het ons presies dieselfde dikte tou gebruik as nou, dit was voldoende om hulle so vas te hou dat hulle nie kon losbreek nie. Soos wat hul groter geword het was hulle so gekondisioneer dat hulle steeds glo hulle kan nie losbreek nie. Hulle glo die tou kan hulle steeds vashou en daarom probeer hulle nie eens meer om los te breek nie.” Die man was verstom. Hierdie diere kan enige oomblik loskom van die bande wat hulle vashou, maar omdat hulle glo hulle kan nie, is hulle presies waar hulle nou is.
Soos die olifante, hoeveel van ons gaan deur die lewe en glo ons kan nie iets doen nie, slegs omdat ons eenkeer onsuksesvol was toe ons dit probeer het? Soms het die toue vir ons ‘n verskoning geword sodat ons nie weer hoef te probeer nie en ons skuil agter die verskoning van die toue om onsself nie bloot te stel aan moontlike mislukking nie. Les: Mislukking is deel van leer. Jy misluk nie omdat jy bestem is om te misluk nie, maar daar is lesse wat jy nodig het om te leer om aan te gaan in die lewe. SUKSES IS DALK NET EEN MISLUKKING VER. MAAR JY SAL NIE WEET AS JY NIE PROBEER NIE. 3
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PAINT Elizabeth Xu If you’re crafty or own a home, chances are you have plenty of old paint cans in your basement or garage. You likely won’t see an expiration date on them, but that doesn’t mean you can expect to see like-new results every time you pop the top. In fact, painting experts recommend disposing of any paint that’s been open for two to four years. Unopened, oil-based paint will stay good for about 15 years, and latexbased paint stays good for around ten years. Regardless of time, always toss any paint that’s moldy, dried out, or has chunks in it. 5
Kat Eschner Your brain knows the difference. It's just not the same if you do it yourself.
Run a hand down your forearm, or press your fingers together—now imagine someone else taking the same actions. The two sensations feel different, even though the touch is the same. The reason why makes intuitive sense: someone else is touching you, and you have no direct information about whether the touch will continue or change. It’s why most people can’t tickle themselves, because there’s no element of surprise. But a new study from researchers at Sweden’s Linköping University reveals that there’s more going on than suspense. “I think that the tactile sense and interpersonal touch is something that’s very important for us humans, but it’s not studied very much,” says principal study author Rebecca Böhme. Touch is the first way humans know other people: even before birth, later-stage fetuses feel the inside of their birth parent’s womb. Even later in life, she says, social and interpersonal touch is a key part of how we navigate the world. From shaking hands to picking up a child, touching other people—and feeling them touch us back—tells us about our relationships and surroundings. But our brains process social touch and self touch at different speeds and intensities. The new study helps to illuminate some parts of this process. Böhme and her colleagues conducted a series of three tests on different groups of experiment participants to learn about what’s going on in the nervous system and the brain during self touch and touch from others. In the first test, they placed subjects in an MRI and found that fewer areas of the brain were activated, and at a lower intensity, during self touch than when experimenters touched the subjects. In the second test, they asked subjects to touch their own arms and simultaneously poked them with a plastic filament. Then, researchers asked the subjects whether they perceived the filament and where they felt their own touch most—in the hand doing the touching or the arm receiving the touching. In the third test, experimenters placed an electrode on subjects’ thumbs and used it to track how quickly the brain processes information from self touch and touch by others. They found that the perception of self touch was lower priority for the brains of their test subjects than the perception of touch by other people. That wasn’t too surprising. What did come as a surprise was the level of difference between the touch signal from others and from self touch. “This extreme difference was not something I expected,” Böhme says. This study demonstrated that test subjects’ brains clearly understood the difference between self-touch and touch by others, and weighted those two experiences differently. “Me” versus “not me” is defined by touch. But not everybody experiences touch the same way. Some people with psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia or autism seem to feel self touch more acutely than most neurotypical people. Böhme says that repeating the experiments conducted in this study with people who have psychiatric disorders is where she hopes to take this line of research next. “There’s lots of science indicating that [touch] might at least be involved in psychiatric disorders,” she says. A better understanding of how touch is perceived by the brain might help people manage their conditions and have a better quality of life. 6
Andy Simmons What We Thought: There are the L and the G cleverly configured into a smiley face, presumably the face of a happy LG customer. Wrong! Eagle-eyed folks point out that if you tilt your head to the side, that smiley face actually looks like a modified version of Pacman. Perhaps an ode to the beloved arcade game character and the earlier days of personal technology?
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Nick Gerhardt Coca-Cola can be awfully refreshing but so can some of the ingenious uses for the caramel-colored favorite. Prevent an asthma attack: A 2010 study found that caffeine can help open airways and relieve asthma symptoms. Caffeine is similar to theophylline, a drug that is used to treat asthma symptoms. Caffeine can improve lung functions up to four hours. 8
INGREDIENTS: • 1 small tin cream-style sweet corn • 1/4 pineapple, cored and cut into smallish chunks (you can use tinned but drain very well and decrease your mayonnaise then to 2 tablespoons) • 2 bananas, sliced • 1/2 chopped small onion (spring onions can be used if preferred) • 1/4 finely chopped red pepper • 3 tablespoons mayonnaise METHOD: Mix all ingredients together. Keep in fridge for at least 2-3 hours for flavour to develop. Recipe and photo: Amanda Conradie
We already know better than to nuke plastic— or heaven forbid, aluminum foil—but certain foods can become downright toxic when blasted in the microwave. Here’s what you need to know. Breast milk: Many new mothers freeze and store their breast milk for later use, which is great, as long as it’s not reheated in a microwave. In the same way that microwaves heat plates of food unevenly, they can also warm a bottle of breast milk unevenly, creating “hot spots” that can severely burn a baby’s mouth and throat. Then there’s the carcinogen hazard that comes with reheating plastic. The FDA recommends that breast milk and formula be thawed and reheated in a pot on the stove, or using hot tap water. As a workaround, you could heat a cup of water in the microwave and then drop the bag or bottle of breast milk in it to thaw. 9
Even within the single language of English, we’re not guaranteed standardized spelling. Or, rather, “standardised,” as people on the other side of the pond usually spell it! The fact that there are British and American spellings of different words is a bane of linguists and study-abroaders in English-speaking countries. For the different spellings, we can thank those pesky American revolutionaries. In 1789, Noah Webster of Webster’s Dictionary fame spearheaded the push toward “American” variations on some words. For the most part, the alterations of the words involved removing “superfluous” letters like the U in “colour” and the final “-me” in “programme.”
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SIMPLE VALENTINE’S DAY DECOR: FELT TOPIARY BY Ashley Phipps Here’s how to make the single topiary: You will need: • 2 Styrofoam balls • Wooden dowel • A pot or metal container of your choice • Felt • Approximately 80 straight pins • Spanish moss • Good scissors • Hot glue • Brown craft paint and a foam brush (optional) • Ribbon (optional) Insert the wooden dowel into a Styrofoam ball and secure it with hot glue. If you desire, paint the wooden dowel with brown craft paint and let it dry. Cut approximately 70-80 circles out of felt. (Hint: Trace and cut one circle, then use that as a template to cut out the remaining circles. These do not need to be perfect. Also, if you cut multiple layers of felt together you will save time.) Fold each felt circle in half, and then fold it in half again. Put a pin through the bottom tip of the felt circle and pin it into the Styrofoam ball. Continue inserting the felt circles in this manner until the entire Styrofoam ball is covered. Trim the second Styrofoam ball until it fits securely into your pot or metal container. Insert the other end of the wooden dowel into the foam and secure it with hot glue. Cover the Styrofoam with Spanish moss. Add a ribbon. Enjoy! 12
Helaina Hovitz
Let’s take a moment to consider the kindness we extend to each other every day. This moving story will reaffirm your faith in humanity. Connecting through music and flowers—The “Connection Thru Music” program, organized by the Caregiver Volunteers of Central New Jersey, pairs young people with Alzheimer’s patients. The patients are better able to recall their history and share their stories when listening to music; the young people who volunteer gain empathy and provide companionship for their elders. When high school freshman Brody Bonelli, volunteered, he was paired with patient Bonnie Ball, visiting her home weekly, listening to her sing old church hymns and singing along with her on “I’ve Been Working On The Railroad” and the John Denver classic “Country Roads.” Over the course of a few months, he learned that Ball had grown up in West Virginia, that her father had been a railroad employee, and that she had worked in the Toms River School system. She calls him “Smiley” and her face lights up when she sees him. When Bonnie had to move to a nursing home, Brody continued visiting her to sing songs—and bring her flowers. “It truly softened the transition for Bonnie and her family knowing that Brody would still be in their life,” reports Caregiver Volunteer’s Program Director, Lynette Whiteman. 13
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Emily DiNuzzo From clothing and shoe choices to sleep and even sex habits, you may be adding years to your looks. This quick fix may help: Wear the right glasses According to a survey conducted by Jacksonville University researchers, wearing glasses in general increases how old people think you are, per U.S. News & World Report. For those who need to wear them, investing in a nice pair that frame your face could take years off your look. Cat’s eye frames are especially known to make people look younger by lifting the face, while aviators negatively focus attention downward, according to Next Optical.
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