UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

Dede, now 37, is an Indonesian who accidentally cut his knee while working as a builder at a building site at 15 years of age. It was only a small wound, but a few weeks later a small wart then developed on his lower leg, then spread uncontrollably throughout his body.

The condition manifested itself as horn-like extensions, or gnarled growths, so big and thick that they looked like “twisted tree roots growing out of his skin.”

It had caused him, over time, to be sacked from his job by his early 20s, left by his wife of 10 years and shunned by neighbours. His 2 children had to be taken care of by relatives.

He was nicknamed the “Tree Man”.

It’s not that he didn’t try to find a cure before: Indonesian doctors tried their best, even burning off some of his growths, but the growths simply came back a few weeks later, and the growth rate was even faster!

Then, it was only natural that Dede’s worst fear was that the warts would completely cover his face, making him blind and starving him to death.

It was diagnosed as an extremely rare severe Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection by Dr Anthony Gaspari, American dermatologist. In fact HPV is a “fairly common infection” where in normal cases, it only causes small warts to develop. However, in Dede’s case, he has a rare genetic fault that gets in the way of his immune system: his body cannot deal with the warts. Hence, the virus was able to:

hijack the cellular machinery of his skin cells, ordering them to produce massive amounts of the substance that caused the tree-like growths known as “cutaneous horns” on his hands and feet.

The condition became so bad that it became life-threatening, as the warts caused a lung infection which necessitated his hospitalisation in early 2008.

By the end of his 9-month stay in hospital, 6 kg of warts were surgically removed from his body. In all, 95% of the warts had been removed.

Finally on 26th August 2008 he was cleared to go home so that he could observe the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan with his family.

Before he went home, he showed journalists how he could now write for the first time in more than 10 years:

If you thought his condition is still bad, you should see his condition BEFORE being hospitalised.

Video of him being interviewed by The Telegraph UK before he was admitted to hospital:

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UPDATE 9th Sept 2008

She’s sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. She was only spared the death penalty when the jury failed to reach a consensus.

Judge Mary Wiseman summed it up:

The crime was shocking and utterly abhorrent for a civilised society. No adjectives exist to adequately describe this heinous atrocity.

Still, Arnold has not given up. Her defence lawyers are appealing, saying there’s evidence that “somebody else was responsible for Paris Talley’s death, and that the cellmate had now changed her story.”

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China Arnold, 28 might not be as bad as Sabine Hilschenz, the German mother who murdered her own 8 newborn, but at least even Ms Hilschenz did not MICROWAVE her child to death.

On 29th August a US court in Ohio convicted Arnold of murdering Paris Talley, her one month old baby daughter for the unspeakable crime. The baby suffered “high-heat internal burns,” after she put her in the oven and switched it on.

When the verdict was announced, she showed no emotion, only lowering her gaze.

She killed Paris Talley in 2005 after fighting with her boyfriend about whether he was the biological father of the baby. Apparently she resorted to the microwave job because she feared he would leave her if he found out that he was not the baby’s father.

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Good reads

- The most controversial pictures of a medallist at the Bejing Olympics

- Probably the closest finish at an Olympics swimming final ever

- The most gruelling event of the Beijing Olympics

- The greatest displays of anger at the Beijing Olympics, the first by Ara Abrahamian who threw his bronze medal right after receiving it (he was later proven right), and the second by Cuban taekwondo exponent Angel Matos who kicked the referee [photo gallery].

Videos [see them while they last ]

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UPDATE 26th August 2008

The project has been suspended.

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Reverend Father Antonio Rungi is an Italian Roman Catholic priest, based in the southern city of Naples.

He wants to organise the world’s first beauty pageant for nuns, dubbed The Miss Sister Italy.

Why? In his own words:

I want to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour. Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God. This contest will be a way to show there isn’t just the beauty we see on television but also a more discreet charm. You really think all nuns are old, stunted and sad? This isn’t the case anymore. Plus, the idea of staging such a contest had been suggested by nuns themselves!

But forget about your fantasies of nuns parading in bathing suits, the furthest they’re expected to go is uncover their heads.

Of course we can always look forward to nuns who look like actress Sophia Loren who played a nun in the movie White Sister (1972) which incidentally is Fr Rungi’s “feminine ideal.”

Rev Fr Rungi’s modus operandi:

1. Ask nuns to send their photos to him, complete with the nun’s own account of her life, personality, daily activities and spiritual development. He expects at least 1,000 nuns to respond, many of them non-Italian. He said there were nuns from Africa and Latin America who were “really very, very pretty. The Brazilian girls above all.” However, contestants must be between the ages of 18 and 40. They can be either full members of an order or novices.

2. Conduct the contest entirely online via his blog (currently down), starting September 2008, then ask internet users to choose the winner.

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The BBC
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George Eyser

The first person ever to do so was George Eyser (b 1871), an American gymnast at the 1904 St Louis Olympics, and amazingly, getting 3 golds! He had a wooden prosthesis installed for his left leg. He lost his real leg after it was run over by a train.

Natalie du Toit

The next person to do so would only come more than 100 years later: at the 2008 Beijing Olympics South African Natalie du Toit, 24, qualified for, and competed in the 10,000m open swimming event, where she timed 2 hours & 49.9 seconds and finished 16th out of 24 participants, 82.2 seconds behind the gold medallist.

Of that result, she said: “I tried my best. I’m not too happy with it, but I’ll be back for 2012.”

She continued with a truly inspiring message:

My message isn’t just to disabled people. It’s to everyone out there that you have to work hard. I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs … but I’ve seen a lot of good things along the way. I was able to use the negativism in a good light and say after my accident, ‘I can still do it if I work hard.’ You have to set dreams, set goals and never give up.

By finishing 16th, she defeated 9 others. One of them was Chloe Sutton, who after finishing broke down in tears, and every part of her body cramping and aching, then said:

I was swimming next to her and she beat me—and she has one leg. It’s incredible she was able to do that.

She qualified for the 2008 Olympics by finishing fourth in the 10km open water race at the Open Water World Championships. She was only 5.1 seconds behind the winner of that race.

She’s the first female amputee swimmer ever to qualify for the Olympics although when she swims, she does so without the aid of any prosthetic limb.

At age 17 her left leg was amputated at the knee due to a scooter accident. She was on her way back to school after swimming practice. 3 months later, before she had even started walking again, she was back in the pool.

Natalia Partyka

Then there is Ms Partyka, 19 of Poland who also competed at Beijing 2008 in table tennis. She lacks her right forearm.

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4 days after the stunning 100m performance, he’s done it again, or as some people said: “lightning bolt struck twice at the same spot.”

If ever there was a Michael Phelps of track and field, it must be Jamaica’s Usain Bolt, 22, who at current form is totally untouchable.

When he really stomps on the accelerator, everyone else’s fighting for mere silver.

Leading all the way from the start, he was already practically miles ahead at the bend.

19.30 seconds. Bolt is the first man ever to break world records in both the 100 and 200 at the same Olympics.

Even more amazingly, he was running into a headwind of about two miles per hour!

Nobody else, apart from living legend Michael Johnson had even broken 19.60 seconds!

Miles ahead of the rest, this time he was not clowning around at the tape

Ironically, Johnson was reported to have said, hours before the start that he didn’t think Bolt would be able to break his record in Beijing:

I don’t think his training has been geared to that part yet. But in a few years it will be, and then I will be ready to kiss my record goodbye.

Well he did

Silver medalist Churandy Martina clocked 19.82, more than half a second behind. In an event where usually hundredths of seconds separate winners and losers, this is absolutely mind-boggling. In fact, it was the largest ever margin of victory in a modern Olympics 200m race.

And we thought Johnson’s 12-year old record would never be broken, at least not in this century.

If it’s even possible to add more superlatives to the historic feat, the win completed the first Olympic golden sprint double in a quarter of a century. He’s the ninth man ever to do so.

It really makes one wonder what could’ve been if he really pushed himself during the 100? The world’s first sub 9-second 100m?

At the same time, this was the greatest 200m of all time: 5 men dipped below 20 seconds, although 2nd placed Churandy Martina and 3rd placed American Wallace Spearmon were later disqualified for leaving their lanes.

Video of the race:

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By far, the worst one must be the one endured by Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai, 24, who was competing in the 77 kilo divison on the 13th of August. It was his first Olympics.

He was attempting to snatch 148 kg (326lbs) during his third lift when his right elbow popped out of its socket (some reports said he “tore his right elbow joint”). That resulted in his right arm no longer able to support the weight of the barbell, causing it to be bent backwards. He then fell to the floor in shock, trembling and crying out in pain while people rushed to his aid.

All videos about the incident on youtube have been taken down, so only photo montages are available, but some people say the photos made it seem much worse.

So, watch at your own discretion.

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It’s a photograph of water polo player Christina Tsoukala of Greece in their first group match, which was against Australia, fighting for the ball with rival Gemma Beadsworth on 11th August.

Somehow she had a case of “wardrobe malfunction” which resulted in her left breast being unintentionally exposed.

At the end Australia defeated Greece 8-6. Greece went on to lose their other 2 group matches, hence finishing last in their group.

I first saw this at chilipaddy.blogspot.com posted on 14th August. Apparently he got it from yahoo.com. When I checked just now i.e. 4 days after the fact, amazingly the photo’s still there at yahoo’s website!

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Finally, after 17 years it was done. The greatest 100m race in the world is no longer the century dash at the 1991 World Championships, previously the first and only time 6 men clocked below 10 seconds.

At the Beijing Olympics, the feat was repeated, of course with much quicker times.

At the 1991 World Championships, the result was:

1. Carl Lewis (USA) 9.86 s (World Record)
2. Leroy Burrell (USA) 9.88 s
3. Dennis Mitchell (USA) 9.91 s
4. Linford Christie (Great Britain) 9.92 s
5. Frank Fredericks (Namibia) 9.95 s
6. Ray Stewart (Jamaica) 9.96 s
7. Robson Da Silva (Brazil) 10.12 s
8. Bruny Surin (Canada) 10.14 s

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At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the result was:
1. Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 9.69 s (World Record)
2. Richard Thompson (Trinidad and Tobago) 9.89 s (Personal Best)
3. Walter Dix (USA) 9.91 s (Personal Best)
4. Churandy Martina (Netherlands Antilles) 9.93 s (National Record)
5. Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 9.95 s
6. Michael Frater (Jamaica) 9.97 s (Personal Best)
7. Marc Burns (Trinidad and Tobago) 10.01 s
8. Darvis Patton (USA) 10.03 s

Bolt timed sub-10 seconds in all rounds except the first. His most impressive performance was probably in one of the earlier rounds where he practically jogged the last 50m but still timed 9.92 s!!!

The heavily hyped Bolt-Powell-Gay showdown didn’t materialise, and Gay even failed to qualify for the finals: he placed a disappointing 5th in the semifinals.

Video:

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The first half of the race was led by eventual silver medallist Thompson, before Bolt switched to another gear. His lead was so commanding that he eased up about 15 metres before the end, held out his hands in celebration and thumped his chest as he crossed the line.

Who knows what his time would’ve been if he kept pressing on the accelerator then? 9.50 secs? 9.40 seconds? Maybe even the first sub 9-second time in the history of the universe? We could only speculate.

Incredible, the guy who finished last still timed an impressive 10.03 seconds!

This was also the fastest 100m race in history, due to the fact that the average time of all the finishers was 9.92 s, bettering the previous best of 9.93 s set at the 2004 Olympics. Note: at the 2004 Olympics 4 men dipped below 9.90 seconds (the most in history) even though only 5 men dipped below 10 seconds.

Before the race Bolt was so confident that he was already dancing at the start and made poses during the introductions.

Dr Herb Elliott, the Jamaican team chief doctor, quickly poured cold water on the idea that Bolt was on drugs:

I don’t care about the rumours. He’s been tested over and over again.

Asafa Powell, perennial failure on the biggest stages, said:

I messed up big time, my legs died on me. Usain ran an awesome race, I’m very happy for him. I’m not sure what happened, I just have to be happy for Usain. It’s a sad time for me, I really wanted to get that gold medal. But its quite obvious I wasn’t ready for the big stage yet.

Silver medallist Richard Thompson said:

It feels good to be here, to be part of history. It was good to finish behind him (Bolt) because there’s no way anyone on earth could have beaten him tonight. To finish second to him that is a great accomplishment in itself.

Legend Michael Johnson, still the world record holder for the 200m, said:

It’s the greatest 100m performance in the history of the event. He shut down with 10m to go. We have never seen anything like it before. It’s absolutely amazing. Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay cannot run with him. He is a show unto himself. I’m ready to kiss my (200m world) record goodbye.

As for Bolt himself, he said:

My one aim was just to be a champion. That is what I came here to do. I told you I was going to be number one and I did just that. I got a great start. I was getting good starts all the way up to the final. I was getting better and better. I wasn’t bragging… when I thought I had the field covered I was celebrating. It was crazy – phenomenal. I didn’t know I’d broken it (the world record) until my victory lap. When I ran the earlier round I felt the world record was possible because it’s a new track, it’s fast. But I came out here just to win. I am just happy I did the country proud. I am Jamaica’s first gold medallist, and I know the whole of Jamaica is going crazy.

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Men’s 100m

Asafa Powell (Jamaica), 25. Dominated the 100m since 2004 with world records of 9.77 (June 2005) and 9.74 (September 2007). Has 39 sub-10 seconds, a record only bettered by Maurice Greene. Only 2 men have ever run legally under 9.80 seconds more than once, and one of them is Powell, having done so on 5 occasions. Powell is the only man to have run under 9.80 without any wind assistance, at 9.78s in September 2007, and that run remains the fastest ever 100m after correction for wind and altitude.

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Usain Bolt (Jamaica), 22, broke Powell’s world record with a time of 9.72 on 31st May 2008. Amazingly, this was only his 5th senior run over the 100m. He has 5 sub-10 seconds in 100m. Apart from Powell, he’s the only athlete to have run legal sub-9.80s more than once: twice in fact.

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Tyson Gay (USA), 24 is the reigning world champion at the 100 metres in which Powell finished 3rd. He set his personal best of 9.77s on 28th June during the US Olympics trials. It was an American record and 3rd fastest legal 100m ever. Then the next day he ran the fastest 100m sprint ever timed, at 9.68s but it’s not officially recognized due to a windspeed which exceeded the IAAF legal limit. That time bettered Obadele Thompson’s 9.69s which had stood for 12 years.

Final: 16th August, 10.30pm (local time)

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Video of the race taken by a spectator at the stadium

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It was at the 2004 Athens Olympics, the men’s 200m freestyle final.

It pitted four of the fastest swimmers ever over that distance, all imposing figures at that:

Ian “Thorpedo” Thorpe, 21, 1.96m, former world record holder of this event.

Pieter van den “The Flying Dutchman” Hoogenband, 26, 1.93m, 93kg, reigning Olympic champion and former world record holder.

Michael Phelps, 19, 1.93m, 88 kg, rising star who was on a quest for an unprecedented 8 golds in one Olympiad.

Grant Hackett, 24, 1.97m, 89kg, former world record holder of this event.

How did the race go:

Thorpe in lane 5, van den Hoogenband in lane 4, Phelps in lane 3 & Hackett in lane 2.

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I blogged about him being the greatest swimmer in the world in April 2007 when he won 7 golds at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships held in Australia.

To show just how good a swimmer he is, back in August 2007 (a year ago), just for kicks, Phelps competed in an event he won’t be swimming at the Olympics, and nearly set a world record in it!!! He won the 200-meter backstroke at the U.S. National Championships, finishing more than 2 seconds ahead of a field that included world record holder Ryan Lochte. Phelps clocked 1:54.65 seconds – the third-fastest ever. Lochte’s mark of 1:54.32 set in March 2007 barely held up. And in that race, Lochte finished 4th at a disappointing 1:59.11.

For the Beijing Olympics, he’s gunning for 8 golds, and even if he got only 4, he’d already be the greatest Olympian of all time, since his 6 golds at the 2004 Olympics would make it a grand total of 10. So far, only 4 Olympians have had 9 golds total: Larissa Latynina (USSR – gymnast), Paavo Nurmi (Finland – athletics), Mark Spitz (USA – swimming) and Carl Lewis (USA – athletics).

And by the 13th of August 2008, he’d already done it: 11 golds total, 5 at Beijing 2008: ALL in world record time.

Gold No.1 – 400m IM – 10th August
He set an Olympic record in the preliminaries, then broke his own world record by almost 2 seconds, in 4:03.84. Top European swimmer Laszlo Cseh of Hungary was more than 2 seconds behind.

Gold No.2 – 4x100m freestyle – 11th August
He swam first in 47.51 (US record). The US team won in a new world record of 3:08.24, slicing almost 4 seconds off the former record set earlier on the same day. This race has been dubbed the greatest swimming relay of all time, since 5 teams broke the world record, and Jason Lezak’s amazing split (46+ secs), which if he didn’t, Phelps’ 8-gold target would’ve been in tatters. The US beat silver medalists France by 0.08 seconds.

Gold No.3 – 200m freestyle – 12th August
He broke his own world record by nearly a second, and won gold by nearly 2 seconds over silver medalist Park Tae-hwan. The new world record now is 1:42.96.

Gold No.4 – 200 m butterfly – 13th August
He looked displeased after getting out of the water, then revealed that his leaky goggles almost cost him victory. Still, he managed to shave 0.06secs of his own world record, at a time of 1:52.03, beating Laszlo Cseh by almost 0.7 seconds. Phelps said: “…I wanted 1:51 or better, but in the circumstances it’s not too bad I guess.”

Gold No.5 – 4x200m freestyle – 13th August
A mere one hour after the above event, Phelps swam first in this relay. The Americans duly won in a world record time of 6:58.56. They were the first team to break the seven-minute barrier in this event relay. The previous record was broken by more than 4.5 seconds!

Gold No.6 – 200m IM – 15th August
Michael Phelps won in 1:54.23, bettering his own world record by half a second, and was more than 2 seconds faster than the silver medalist, who still broke the European Record.

Gold No.7 – 100m butterfuly – 16th August
This was probably his toughest event. He was not the world record holder, and being a notoriously slow starter, was close to losing out, being seventh after the turn, before turning on the style at the end to finish at 50.58, beating Milorad ?avi? by 0.01 seconds. Phelps set an Olympic record and equalled Mark Spitz’s record of seven golds in one Olympics.

Gold No.8 – 4x100m IM – 17th August
With this, he’s broken Mark Spitz’s seven-gold-in-a-single-Olympics record. This is an event the Americans have never lost, and with world-class specialists in each field it’s almost certain they’d win anyway. Just look at this lineup: Aaron Peirsol (Olympic champion and world record holder in the 100m backstroke), Jason Lezak (who produced a world record split in the 100m freestyle relay earlier, Brendan Hansen (former world record holder for the 100m breaststroke), Michael Phelps. The old world record was obliterated by 1.34 seconds, with a time of 3:29.34. Silver medalists Australia, 0.7 seconds behind, also broke the old world record.

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The Star, 2nd August 2007

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Check out these superlatives: more than 15,000 performers. 4 hours long. Reportedly cost over USD300 million to produce. Attended by more than 100 heads of state, heads of government and sovereigns, by far the largest in Olympic history.

An NBC commentator said: “No matter how spectacular others have been, and there have been many, that this is uber-spectacular. Even if they pull off 75% of their plans, it will truly be over the top and it should be something that that anybody who sees it will never forget.”

Well, no matter how good it is, people will remember the fakes and the failures, which include the following.

On 11th August, 3 days after the opening ceremony, it was mentioned in Gizmodo that what must be the world’s most spectacular display of Microsoft Windows XP Blue Screen of Death ever seen was right there on the roof of the Bird’s Nest:

This photo was first posted at powerapple.com. The date is 9th August instead of 8th August because by the time the torch was lit by Li Ning, it was near or after midnight in Beijing.

Rivercool was inside the stadium during the ceremony and reported that the BSOD was there for about 2 hours, from 10pm to midnight local time. Why the technicians didn’t notice it is anybody’s guess. An even more pertinent question is: what was the purpose of the roof projection?

Bill Gates was at Beijing too for the Olympics. Wonder what he thought of this.

Then, on 12th August, 4 days after the opening ceremony, Lin Miaoke, 9, who sang “Ode to the Motherland” that night was revealed to have only been miming, and that it was not even her voice, but rather that of Yang Peiyi, who was not chosen because she wasn’t pretty enough, even though her voice was better than Lin’s. Apparently it’s something to do with her crooked teeth, rather than a need for acne cream. This decision was defended by the organisers as “it was in the best interests of the country.” As for Yang, she was reported to have said that she did not regret the decision, as “she was satisfied to have had her voice featured in the opening ceremony.”

This was the performance:

Before that episode, on the 10th of August, it was revealed that a fireworks display used during the opening ceremony was a digitally-crafted fake a year in the making which was then inserted into live TV feed at the correct moments. Those watching TV would’ve seen 29 (or was it 28?) firework “footprints” travelling across Beijing from south to north. Later a senior official from the organising committee confirmed that footage of the display had been produced before the actual opening ceremony. It was explained that this was done for “convenience and theatrical effects,” because following the footprints’ real trail would’ve been too dangerous for a helicopter camera:

It must be said that the footprints were well and truly set off, which can be clearly seen from the ground:

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The BBC, 12th August 2008
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The 2008 Olympiad must be the most reported – written about, videoed, photographed event of the year. Hundreds, if not thousands of journalists and of course bloggers are covering it. Then there comes a point where one gets sick of it all: Olympics overdose, if you will.

When this happens, only truly iconic, truly memorable images will be good enough to jolt you back to your senses.

So ladies and gentlemen, IMHO, the best photograph of the current Olympics I have seen so far is the following, of US President George W Bush looking at World and Olympic champion beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh. He visited the US team at Beijing’s Chaoyang Park Beach on 9th August 2008.

The only caption possible is: WOW!

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… was played by Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct (1992), in that infamous Catherine Tremmel interrogation scene, no matter that the film received a mere 6.8 at imdb and given 2 stars by eminent movie reviewer Roger Ebert.

To add juice to the matter, it was reported that while appearing in a later movie “Inside the Actors Studio” (1994), Sharon Stone said that she did not know that director Paul Verhoeven was “filming up her dress” during this scene, and that when she saw the rushes, she slapped Verhoeven’s face and asked him (or rather ordered him) to remove the shot. But Verhoeven said that what Sharon said she did, did not happen at all.

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Devenna Jaikob was Miss Sabah / World 2008 in April. She was also the 2006 Unduk Ngadau. She went on to represent Sabah at recent Miss Malaysia / World 2008 pageant, but went out in the earlier rounds. Frankly, I thought she looked prettier than the winner.

The following photo was taken during the rehearsals of Miss Sabah / World 2008, sans make up:

…and the following photo was taken during the pageant:

Does she look like she needs an Orovo drink?

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My favourite is in the movie Total Recall (1990), a movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, when the bad guy Vilos Cohaagen (played by Ronny Cox) is blown out of the alien machine compound onto the airless surface of Mars where dies a very horrible death: asphyxiation and decompression, with his eyes and neck bulging out and tongue pulled out.

Here’s the scene in slow motion:

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But what is a castrato?

A castrato is a man who was forcibly castrated at an early age in order to ensure that he would not experience the hormonal changes of puberty that lead to the lowering of the male voice. This meant that as an adult man he would sing like a modern soprano because he would’ve retained his boy soprano voice.

Alessandro Moreschi (1858 – 1922) was the most famous castrato singer of the late 19th century, and the only castrato of the classic bel canto tradition to make solo sound recordings.

In 1903 the Catholic Church officially banned the practise of castrating for musical purposes.

The following is of his last recordings in 1904 when he was 46 years old, hence rightly his voice sounded incredibly eerie:

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