28th June 2011 Loud 'Whispers' About The Monaco Wedding

The principality of Monaco covers just 35,646 square metres of ground, but they are expecting more than 20,000 invited guests on the coming Saturday, for the royal  wedding between Prince Albert and his beloved Charlene Wittstock. All commerce have adorned their facades and show windows with the photos of the would-be royal couple, and the citizens have put up flags of Monaco and South Africa in their balconies.

 

The ceremony will begin on Friday with the civil wedding, and on Saturday the religious ceremony, in open air, at the patio of the Palace. There will be a free concert for all of Jean Michel Jarre on the 1st of July, to welcome the successor of the unforgettable Grace Kelly, whose marriage with Rainiero in 1956 converted Monaco as Capital of Glamour.  

 

All preparation is done as it should be, in line with such an important and happy event, but for the fairly loud whispers going around for a whole week now, especially in the media, about why the Spanish Royalty members have not been invited, except just for King Carlos who is, at present, still in convalescence after his knee operation on the 3rd of June. Although for the sake of protocol, the not too harmonious relationship between Monaco and Spain has not been too pointedly made obvious, since 2005, when some sources reckoned the motive sprouted during the Assembly of COI in Singapore, to select the head-quarter for the Olympic Games of 2012. Prince Albert questioned the security measures of Madrid after the terrorists attack of 11-M. Such a question greatly damaged and prejudiced the Spanish candidature and favoured that of London which was selected.

 

So far, only the royal families of Belgium and Sweden have confirmed their attendance to the ceremony on Saturday. I wonder whether they feel uneasy about being the only royals there? I would have if I was one of them.

 

Tags: wedding, spain, monaco

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Biology Class - final  exam ~

Students in an advanced Biology class were taking their mid-term exam.
The last question was, 'Name seven advantages of Mother's Milk', worth 70 points or none at all.
One student, in particular, was hard put to think of seven advantages. He wrote:

1) It is perfect formula for the child.
2) It provides immunity against several diseases.
3) It is always the right temperature.
4) It is inexpensive.
5) It bonds the child to mother, and vice versa.
6) It is always available as needed.

And then the student was stuck. Finally, in desperation, just before the bell rang indicating the end of the test, he wrote:

7) It comes in two attractive containers ... and the cat can't get it.

He got an A. 

 

A friend is like a good bra ~

 

Hard to find.

Supportive.

Comfortable.

Always lifts you up.

Never lets you down or leaves you hanging.

And is always close to your heart.

 

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& Fish ...

28th June 2011 The Progress Of Science - With Flies, Worms, Rats & Fish ...

The biomedical science, agricultural and pharmaceutical, wouldn't have advanced as they had done in the last century, had it not been for the existence of some anonymous organisms, generally of small sizes, that had been converted to 'guinea-pigs' for biomedical experimentation. 

The Superior Counsel of Scientific Investigations in Catalunya has chosen 7 most ubiquitous and indispensable species, to honour them with a virtual exhibition titled 'Seres modelicos' - between nature and laboratory. (Model beings - http://seresmodelicos.csic.es) 

These are: bateria, yeast, plant, worm, fly, fish and rat. They are all very small in size, reproduce quickly (the rat - Mus musculus - takes just 20 days for the reproductive cycle, and about 7 babies in 1 litter), often with multiple births, and grow fast, therefore easy to handle and plenty of supply. Also, they carry genes similar to humans.

I am not normally into this type of science, but what's meant to be a quick glance-over ended up detaining me there reading and looking at everything and, even more surprising, found it quite amazing and most interesting. It's all in Spanish though, I guess you can use web translation to read it in English or other language if you wish to. 

I will never look at these tiny 'beings' again without appreciating how much contribution they had made to human kind. I mentioned this to a lady friend while we were in a coffee bar, and she said:

'Oh no, I can't look at it. It's so cruel. To think that some of them have the life span of only 10 to 15 days (Drosophila melanogaster - the fly) and they spent all that time being used for experiments then just die without having lived their own life at all, and getting no reward for their  sacrifice.' 

I thought about that afterwards and I think, if my life should be that short, just a few days or weeks, but during that time I had done great things like they had, helping millions and millions of people having a better, healthier and happier life, shouldn't that be a worthy reward for me? There are people who live to a hundred or more years, but have done nothing with their life, just wasting time idly existing, or even existing to do bad things to others, maybe be even killing someone just for the fun of it; would that be considered having lived?

Tags: bioscience, rat, fly, worm, fish

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