This hotel in Meilenwerk Stuttgart, Germany, is the perfect place for those who are passionate about old cars.In it you’ll find themed bedrooms and luxurious, each decorated with different designs and themes. Its four stars are not there for nothing!

Experts say that this habit only damage the digestion and absorption of food substances.

Your body knows when to start producing digestive juices in the stomach to begin the processing of food ingested, but regular water intake only hinder these processes.

Water dilute juices and washes away part of them, which damages the breakdown of food.

Experts recommend drinking water before meals or 2 hours afterwards. This will help your body to absorb all important nutrients.

To avoid the need for swallowing a glass or two of water during meals observe the following rules: do not put too much salt in meals; do not eat too quickly; Chew longer, because the mouth separate enzymes that help the stomach to cope more easily with digestion.

Looking like a creature from mythology, multi-headed animals occur in real life as conjoined or parasitic twins. It is not just in mythology that creatures are given to have two or more heads. This condition where an animal or human which has more than one head is termed as polycephaly caused due to developmental abnormality during gene mutation.

Many mythologies like Hindu, Chinese, Greek,etc has references to such a 5 headed snake in their epics. We have so far read about such a snake only in historic stories and epics . I’m sure it will be surprising to most of you as much as myself, to see such a rare species still being alive.

Lead author Professor Jonathan Hodgson of The University of Western Australia School of Medicine and Pharmacology said reducing high blood pressure could in turn reduce people’s risk of heart disease.

“There is already mounting evidence that tea is good for your heart health, but this is an important discovery because it demonstrates a link between tea and a major risk factor for heart disease,” Hodgson said in a statement.

The study involved 95 Australian participants ages 35-75 who were recruited to drink either three cups of black tea or a placebo with the same flavor and caffeine content, but not derived from tea.

After six months, systolic and diastolic blood pressure was about 10 percent lower among participants who drank black tea, compared with that of the placebo group, researchers said.

The study was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Steering wheel and control instrumentation.

25-year-old James Buggle in east London demonstrated the world’s smallest and most experimental car – P50 Peel.

Very light, one man can easily lift it.

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And it can also heat them up! The device is available in Japan only.

Traditionally the time of peak demand for dog meat in Vietnam, the dog smugglers of the Mekong work deep into the night shipping thousands of animals — sometimes dozens to a cage — across the river border with Laos to be trucked on to the dinner tables of the nouveau riche in Hanoi.

“I’d say about 98% of them are domesticated — a lot of them are stolen pets,” says John Dalley of the Phuket-based Soi Dog Foundation. Soi is a Thai word meaning backstreet or alley.

“They’ve been trained and respond to commands, some of them are even still wearing collars,” he says.

Gathering dogs for market was once simply a matter of exchanging plastic buckets for the many soi dogs that live around Thai towns and villages. But with demand soaring in the winter months — dog meat is regarded as a “warming” food and one that is believed to confer good luck in Vietnam — it’s a sellers’ market.

“The sheer number of dogs required means this method is no longer sustainable and rustlers will travel across most of Thailand in search of dogs,” says Dalley. “Some are bought. Others are snatched from streets, temples, and even people’s gardens.”

The recent floods in Thailand have also been a boon for dognappers for whom lost and displaced dogs are an easy target. Some operators simply drive around in pickups collecting dogs as they spot them.

“One pickup truck stopped in September had 130 dogs in sacks piled in the back,” says Dalley. “More than 30 of the dogs were already dead from suffocation.”

The trade is illegal in Thailand and while authorities have made a number of raids involving thousands of dogs, the Thai Veterinary Medical Association estimates as many 500,000 dogs are sold across the Mekong every year.

This month, a Thai navy patrol rescued 800 dogs packed into 40 wire cages on a six-wheeled truck on the banks of the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom province. Police said they made one arrest but the other smugglers disappeared into the night.

Mekong patrol unit leader Captain Thirakiart Thongaram told Thai media that more than 100 empty cages were found at the scene of the raid indicating that at least 2,000 dogs had already been shipped to Vietnam.

Once the dogs arrive in Vietnam — if they haven’t died of trauma, suffocation or starvation en route — a painful death awaits them. Dog meat aficionados claim that stress hormones tenderize the strong-tasting meat, and killing methods range from beatings to being skinned alive.

The dogs, especially pedigree breeds, are sometimes shipped on from Vietnam to southern China where a prime animal will fetch a higher price.

“We know that St Bernard’s are highly prized in southern China, but you can see all types of pedigree animals in these captured Thai shipments — poodles, shih tzus, you name it,” says Dalley.

With market prices in Vietnam generally at between 500-1000 baht ($16-32) for a dog that can sometimes be picked up for the price of a plastic bucket or even less, Thailand’s Livestock Development Department has a tough job regulating what has become a booming industry.

Dog traders — who have mounted counter protests in Mekong region provinces where the trade flourishes — claim there is no direct law against the practice. Smugglers are normally prosecuted under laws that prohibit the illegal trade and transportation of animals. While there are no direct animal cruelty laws in Thailand, prosecutors can charge smugglers with cruelty under Criminal Code laws.

The reality, however, is that smugglers often receive light sentences of just a few months in jail and that the thousands of impounded dogs that end up in quarantine centers sometimes find their way back onto the streets and in the dog meat circle again.

Soi Dog Foundation and the Thai Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are currently working through the Department of Livestock Development to get an Animal Welfare Draft Law through the Thai Parliament.

“This is not about whether it is right or wrong to eat dog meat,” Dalley says. “It is about an illegal trade worth millions of dollars per year organized by criminals.

“The way in which these dogs are transported and, if they survive, killed, is horrific.”

In 2010, John James Audubon – The Birds of America – $ 10.3M
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Melinda Star Guido was born last August, 16 weeks early, weighing only 9.5 ounces (270 grammes)- less than a can of soda or the same as two iPhones – and has spent nearly five months in a neonatal intensive care unit.

She is the third smallest baby to survive, according to Global Birth Registry figures cited by LA County health officials.

Dr Rangasamy Ramanathan, neonatology chief at the LA County-USC Medical Center, said he wasn’t initially sure if Melinda was going to survive beyond a few days.

“This doesn’t happen every day. In my 30 years here, … this is the first time it ever happened that we were able to discharge a baby who weighed less than 400 grams, or 300 grams,” he said.

“We have reached a milestone by being able to see Melinda go home,” he added “We are hopeful to see many more milestones accomplished in Melinda’s development as we follow her care over the next six years.”