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The color red is associated with Valentine's Day because it's scientifically linked to passion and sexuality. But given what we now know of Valentine's Day's sinister history, we're wondering if the association doesn't have more to do with blood spatter... BY LAUREN CAHN Ah, Valentine’s Day. Such a glorious excuse to dwell on love and romance. But ironically, this day of roses, chocolates, and heart-shaped cards has a dark history. How Valentine’s Day got its name Valentine’s Day actually marks the date of the execution of St. Valentine by the Roman emperor Claudius II during the third century AD. And what was St. Valentine’s crime? The most popular theory holds that he’d been officiating at the weddings of soldiers, despite that marriage had been outlawed for them. Apparently, the emperor felt that love and romance made for weaker soldiers. Why February 14 became Valentine’s Day Long before St. Valentine’s execution, February 14 had come to be associated with fertility— and blood. Between February 13 and 15, Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia by sacrificing a goat and a dog and then whipping naked women with the hides, all in the interest of making the women more fertile. In the fifth century AD, Pope Gelasius I outlawed Lupercalia and officially declared February 14 to be the feast of St. Valentine, or Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day as a double-edged sword throughout history As the years went on, Valentine’s Day may have become conflated with the Norman celebration of “Galatin’s Day,” according to NPR (Galatin referred to a “lover of women”). As such, by the time Geoffrey Chaucer wrote Parliament of Fowls, which referred to St. Valentine’s Day as the day when birds found their mates (late 14th century), St. Valentine’s Day had already entered the public consciousness as a day associated with love. By the late 16th century, William Shakespeare used a reference to St. Valentine’s Day to foreshadow Ophelia’s suicide in Hamlet. Valentine’s Day in the modern day: blood and roses Although Valentine’s Day continues to be associated with hearts and flowers, in the last century, it has also continued to be associated with blood spatter and murder. A few notable bloody Valentine’s Days include: The Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929. The unsolved murder of young lovers Jesse McBane and Patricia Mann, which occurred on Valentine’s Day 1971. The unsolved murder of teens Nicholas Kunselman and Stephanie Hart (who were dating) on Valentine’ Day 2000. The murder by Oscar Pistorius of Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’ Day 2013. The murder-suicide of an elderly couple in Alabama on Valentine’ Day 2015. But hey, we don’t want to kill the mood—so please, instead of thinking about Valentine’s Day’s surprisingly dark history, consider some wonderful Valentine’s Day gifts you can get for your boo, or what you can do for yourself on Valentine’s Day if you’re single. 2
"Vader tref hulle met die banvloek"...op dit sê Jumbo toe dadelik "Amen"...die soort Amen wat sê, nou is die gebedstyd om en oor vir die aand. Oom Klem, een van die mooiste, pragtigste mense wat ek die voorreg gehad het om te ken, hy praat met Ons Koning soos ek met jou sou gesêls, innig en eerlik. Dit werk nou so…
Daar het dames van die nag, langs hom ingetrek, en die Woensdag aand klink sy gebed toe so: "My Vader, U weet mos ek het die beddings met bemesting reggekry vir die plant van die wortels, van die beet, van die tamaties. Vader ek was nie ontrou nie, ek het hulle water gegee, getrou soos ek moet. U was getrou en ek het gesien hoe begin hulle groei, en ons het ge-oes, mates vol, nou het daar langs ons kom h..... (noem hy hulle op die Bybelse beskrywing van hulle beroep) ingetrek, en alles verwoes". En toe volg die vonnis, wat hy voel hulle toekom...die banvloek…
As ons nog getwyfel het, het ons presies geweet hoe hy voel oor die situasie. Hy het so getrou vir my ou moeder gebid: "Here U moet tog vir Magriet Etsebeth gaan besoek, sy bly daar in 15 de straat, dis haar huis wat die blou hekkie het, sy ken vir U". En as julle dink Oom Klem was 'n mens wat ander dood sou wens, hy was nie, hy was eintlik vol barmhartigheid vir ander. Hy het die groente so by behoeftiges gaan afgee, en nou was dit verwoes.
Ek wonder vandag soos Thomas Merton… "Hoekom is mense so vreesbevange vir die hel? Dis mos nie verpligtend om daarheen te gaan nie? Oom Klem is beslis nie daar nie, en ek weet dat ek weet, hy bewandel die goue strate. As ons dae kortgeknip word, gaan ons saam met hom wandel? Ek wonder?
Mooi naweek vir almal en groete van huis tot huis. Rika. 3
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Jumping in the river was easy. Getting back on land? Not so much. BY JULIANA LABIANCA
It was 7:15 a.m. on June 1, 2016, and Gary Messina, now 58, was on his morning run along New York City’s East River. Suddenly something caught his eye—a large 60-year-old man balancing on the four-foot-high railing that guarded the path from the water. As Messina, a New York City Police Department captain (now a deputy inspector), got closer to the scene, the man took a step forward and plunged into the dark, choppy river below. When Messina reached the railing, the man was bobbing in the water, clearly unable to swim. If he had intended to kill himself that morning, he had now changed his mind. He screamed frantically for help as the current pulled him away from the seawall. Other joggers also heard the man’s pleas. David Blauzvern, now 25, and John Green, now 31, dropped their phones and keys on land, along with Green’s sneakers, and jumped in. “People had called the police, but it was unclear when they’d get there,” says Green, a commercial insurance broker. “We just reacted.” Messina joined them in the river. Just as the jumper was losing strength, Blauzvern, an investment banking analyst at CSG Partners, grabbed hold of him. The pair were about 30 yards from the seawall when Messina and Green caught up to them. They stabilized the man, with Blauzvern supporting his back and Messina and Green holding him up from either side. He was unresponsive but not unconscious and no longer thrashing about. As the men made their way toward the concrete seawall that stretched for blocks in each direction, Blauzvern had an awful realization: With the water flowing a good eight feet below the lip of the wall and no ladder or dock in sight, there was no way out of the river. By now, a crowd had gathered on land. “A rescue boat is on its way,” someone yelled to them. Treading water was getting tougher by the minute. The jumper, who was six foot two and weighed around 260 pounds, was deadweight in his rescuers’ arms, which meant they could use only their legs to maneuver themselves. After ten minutes, they managed to get to the river’s edge. Green tried wedging a hand and a foot into a tiny crack in the wall, cutting himself in the process. But he couldn’t hold on for long. Fighting the current and holding the man above the water quickly became exhausting, so they gave in to drifting while staying as close to the wall as they could. “I’ve never been so out of breath,” says Blauzvern. Fifteen minutes after the men had jumped into the river, the two-man rescue boat appeared. But because it couldn’t risk getting too close to the seawall, the men had to swim out to it. As they approached the boat, they encountered a new threat: The under-tow created by the current was sucking them under the boat. Blauzvern remembers being pulled down just as someone in the boat grabbed onto the man, allowing Blauzvern to let go. “I was completely out of energy at this point,” he says. Somehow, he grasped a pole attached to the boat deck and hauled himself aboard. The men in the water pushed the jumper while the men in the boat pulled him up and, finally, to safety. Messina and Green then got themselves aboard, and within ten minutes, the group was back on land. The man they had saved was taken to the hospital for evaluation. Details on his condition have not been released. As for the rescuers, each of them was at work by 10:30 a.m. “I was a bit late,” admits Blauzvern, smiling. “But I had a good excuse.”
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OPTICAL ILLUSIONS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR BRAIN HURT Your eyes will keep jumping to the spinning sunbursts of seeds, even though they’re all staying still.
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Hint: They're both on your head. BY MEGHAN JONES
After your parents have ticked off the last mark on your childhood growth chart, after you’ve stopped outgrowing shoes, and when the horrors of puberty are a distant memory, you may think it’s safe to claim that you’ve “stopped growing.” But there are two significant parts of your body that apparently didn’t get the memo. Once the growth of the rest of your body has slowed to a stop, your nose and your ears continue increasing in size. Dr. Ryan Neinstein, a plastic surgery practitioner at NYC Surgical Associates and Neinstein Plastic Surgery, explains what makes these two facial features different from the rest of your body. Dr. Neinstein describes how the multiplication of our cells drives the growth of our bodies. “Most cells in our body stopped multiplying at puberty,” Dr. Neinstein says. When the cells throughout our bodies, such as bone, muscle, and fat cells, stop duplicating, we stop growing. This doesn’t mean that cells themselves can’t get larger (they can; it’s how we build muscle) or shrink (they can; it’s how we burn fat). But most of them stop dividing, and in most parts of our body, “the number of cells is ‘locked in'” after puberty, says Dr. Neinstein. Our noses and ears are unique compared to the rest of our bodies because they’re composed of soft tissue enveloped in cartilage. And it’s this soft tissue that keeps growing throughout our entire lives. “When you look at someone when they’re 80 vs. when they’re 20, they’ll have more cells in their ears and nose,” Dr. Neinstein says. If you’ve noticed that some older people seem to have larger ears and noses, well, this is why. And no, it’s not just “drooping” due to gravity. Dr. Neinstein says that noses and ears grow up as well as down. If you’re wondering why hair and nails don’t make the list of parts that don’t stop growing, Dr. Neinstein has an explanation for that, too. Hair and nail growth, he says, is genetic and differs for everyone; for instance, baldness is hereditary. (Of course, there are other reasons you could be losing your hair.) While continued ear and nose growth is consistent, the situation of hair and nails is “not as clearcut,” Dr. Neinstein says. 8
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The age-old myth of swallowed gum staying in your body for seven years is officially busted. BY BRITTANY GIBSON
The human body can do some incredible things—like making up to three million blood cells each second or the brain lighting up when you’re in love. But unfortunately, sometimes its abilities are undermined. A perfect example of this is the age -old myth that if you swallow chewing gum it’ll stay in your body for seven years. “This is about as scientifically true as swallowing watermelon seeds will make you grow a watermelon in your stomach,” says Caleb Backe, health and wellness expert for Maple Holistics. While it’s not true that chewing gum will stay in your body for seven years, it is true that the synthetic portion of it isn’t digestible. But that doesn’t mean that the synthetic portions are just going to sit around for years—gum rarely stays in your body for more than a week. This is because the stomach periodically empties its contents into the small intestine, so if you swallowed gum it would then move to the colon, and finally pass in the stool, according to u.osu.edu. With that being said, “Some components of gum, such as sweeteners, are actually digested,” writes Fabian Ortega for yalescientific.org. However, frequently swallowing wads of chewing gum won’t do your body any favors. “Repeatedly swallowing gum can lead to a bezoar, a small mass of indigestible material that can potentially lead to a bowel obstruction,” says Edwin McDonald, a gastroenterologist at the University of Chicago and Associate Director of Adult Nutrition. So can you occasionally swallow chewing gum and be OK? Yes. Should you? Probably not. “It would be wise to avoid making this a habit,” Ortega writes for yalescientific.org. “In order to avoid a potentially sticky situation, it is good practice to spit out your chewing gum.”
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No, it's not because it's terrible and everyone wants it to end immediately. BY JULIANA LABIANCA
February is a short month—just 28 days. But why? Turns out, it’s not because everyone in the history of the human race has hated February. The month’s quirky timing dates back to the 10-month Roman calendar, which began in March and ended in December. That’s right. For a while, January and February didn’t even exist. To the Romans, who made their lot by planting and harvesting, winter was a nameless, dateless slog. For part of the year, there was literally no system for keeping track of the days. By the time the second king of Rome took the throne around 750 BC, the Romans decided to add two more months to their year in order to sync their calendar more accurately with the 12 lunar cycles. Those two months—January and February—had 28 days each, until the king decided to add an extra day to January to make the year 355 days long. Even numbers were considered unlucky at the time, and a 354-day year was unacceptable. The calendar still had its flaws. Following the lunar cycle worked well for a few years, but soon the seasons became out of sync with their typical months. To fix it, the Romans added a leap month called Mercedonius. Rome’s high priests would decide when the month would arrive, and no one else in the city could keep track of what day it was. As you might have guessed, this was a nightmare. When Julius Caesar took power, he reconfigured the entire thing again and aligned the length of the year with the sun, so that each year would add up to 365 days. For some reason, he left February at 28 days. And you know what? We totally agree with that arbitrary decision. February should always be as short as possible; no one likes it that much anyway.
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Dr. William "Bill" Dorfman brings the bling to Hollywood. Guinness World Records has now officially confirmed that the reputable cosmetic dentist has created the world’s Most valuable grill (jewellery) – and we expect a lot of celebs to be putting in their orders soon. Encrusted with diamonds and precious gemstones, it’s no wonder that the intricate grill is worth a hefty $1,000,000. Dr. Dorfman, who is known for his appearances on the TV show Extreme Makeover, designed the glittering dental accessory with the help of DaVinici Labs and XVI Karat Jewelers. He was first asked to make the grill after being called up by Katy Perry’s makeup artist Johnny Wujek, who requested a custom piece for an upcoming music video. This dazzling grill may be a bit ostentatious to wear on the daily, but it fits just right in Katy Perry’s extravagant music video for hit single "Dark Horse", for which it was intended. Dr. Dorfman isn’t a first time record holder, and in fact achieved his first title in 2010 when he attempted the Most money raised for charity through head shaving (individual). At that time, he managed to amass $121,000 while on set of Los Angeles talk show The Doctors, to help the LEAP Foundation - a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping high school and college students across the USA gain valuable life skills. Upon earning a record for the second time in his life, a feat that few get to boast about, he says: "At that time I was totally blown away. I never imagined that I would get a second Guinness World Records title, so this time I am just as thrilled. In fact, I am thinking of getting the record for having the most Guinness World Records titles!" - Dr William Dorfman. Katy Perry has several Guinness World Records titles to her name too - most recently she became the First to accumulate 100 million followers on Twitter, hitting a major milestone in social media history. 17
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