Tidak Mampu Memiliki Rumah, Pasangan Ini Tinggal Di Dalam Gua Selama 54 Tahun

Liang Zifu 84 tahun dan Isterinya Li Suying 77 tahun, pasangan ini diketahui tinggal di dalam gua selama 54 tahun. Kerana tidak berkemampuan memiliki sebuah rumah, pasangan ini nekad untuk pindah dan tinggal di sebuah gua di daerah Nanchong, Tiongkok, China.

Anda mungkin tidak percaya pada zaman berteknologi hari ini masih ada lagi orang yang tinggal di dalam gua. Tapi inilah realiti kehidupan jika keadaan mendesak, lebih-lebih lagi faktor ekonomi.

Tidak berkemampuan bukan alasan untuk tidak mempunyai sebuah rumah sendiri. Setelah memasuki 3 tahun perkahwinan, Liang secara tidak sengaja menemukan gua ini dan mula berfikir untuk menjadikannya sebagai tempat tinggal.

Liang kemudian mula membersihkan kawasan gua ini dan membuat dekorasi dengan menambah beberapa ruang untuk dijadikan bilik. Tidak disangka selama 54 tahun, gua inilah yang menjadi tempat perlindugan mereka sekeluarga dalam membesarkan anak-anak.

Lubang-lubang besar di gua ini cukup untuk dijadikan 3 bilik, ruang tamu dan dapur. Maka kawasan selebihnya dijadikan tempat untuk anak-anak mereka bermain.

Yang uniknya, gua ini juga dilengkapi dengan kemudahan elektrik, ini membolehkan Liang menggunakan peralatan elektrik dalam rumah mereka.

Untuk memenuhi keperluan harian, Liang mengendalikan hasil sawah kepunyaan mereka yang terletak di kawasan atas gua. Selain itu, mereka juga ada menternak ayam dan khinzir.

Walaupun penduduk setempat cuba memujuk mereka untuk berpindah ke tempat lain yang jauh lebih baik, namun mereka menolak dengan alasan sudah selesa dan berasa aman dengan rumah gua yang dihuni sejak puluhan tahun ini. Kudus!

Antara alasan lain ialah kerana Liang selesa dengan suhu di gua ini. Bila musim panas, gua ini akan terasa sejuk manakala bila tibanya musim sejuk, gua ini akan terasa hangat.

Meskipun hanya tinggal di dalam gua, ternyata mereka sebenarnya sangat bahagia menikmati hidup serba sederhana ini

Minyak Cap Kapak The Legend

PENGASAS minyak angin Cap Kapak, Leung Yun Chee berhijrah dari China ke Singapura pada 1928 dalam usaha untuk mengubah hidupnya

Ketika tiba di Singapura, dia bertemu dengan pakar perubatan Jerman, Dr Schmeidler yang berkongsi dengannya resipi minyak ubatan yang mampu merawat pelbagai jenis penyakit

Mendapat ilham dan inspirasi, dia terus memulakan penghasilan produk dan daripada situlah jenama Minyak Cap Kapak dilahirkan

Pun begitu, ketika awal perniagaannya, jenama itu masih tidak dikenali ramai pada awal 1930-an. Yun Chee terpaksa berhadapan dengan persaingan yang kuat daripada jenama China dan Hong Kong

Dengan semangat yang tinggi, Yun Chee nekad memasarkan produk dengan agresif. Dia mula mencipta logo bersama-sama dengan pasukan ilustrasi dan pereka grafik, yang mana kini telah menjadi antara logo ikonik bagi jenama itu

Bukan itu sahaja, Yun Chee turut mengedarkan risalah di seluruh Singapura dan membuahkan hasil dengan mencatatkan jualan yang tinggi

Namun, pada 1937 hingga 1945 ketika perang tercetus di seluruh dunia, banyak perniagaan berjuang untuk terus hidup. Banyak jenama yang tutup kerana tidak mampu bertahan

Tetapi berlainan pula dengan Yun Chee, dia menganggap perang itu merupakan peluang untuk berkembang. Jenama itu terus bersaing dengan jenama luar dan hasilnya, Minyak Cap Kapak menjadi jenama yang dikenali, sekali gus menjadi pemimpin dalam segmen itu sehingga hari ini

Pada 1950 hingga 1970, syarikat itu terus mengorak langkah dengan mengembangkan perniagaan sehingga ke Asia

Antara negara pertama yang diterokai adalah Arab Saudi selepas ia telah diguna pakai oleh jemaah ketika menunaikan haji

Pada 1971, Yun Chee telah meninggal dunia dan anaknya, Leong Heng Keng telah mengambil alih tugasnya dengan mengembangkan perniagaan

Adiknya Leong Mun Sum turut menyertai syarikat sebagai Pengarah Urusan pada 1986

Hari ini, dengan lima kilang bertaraf Amalan Pengilangan Baik (GMP), Minyak Cap Kapak bangga menjadi peneraju jenama bagi minyak perubatan di Asia

Siapa Nikola Tesla

Nama Nikola Tesla lahir di Croatia jarang dengar paling terkenal ialah Thomas Edison dan Alexander Graham Bell, memang kalau tiada Nikola Tesla sampai harini sesiapa pun tak kenal Thomas Edison dan Alexander Graham Bell.

Saya nak ringkaskan Nikola Tesla salah seorang jurutera paling terulung bina hasil jana kuasa elektrik termasuk barang elektrikal. Akhirnya dia mati dibunuh oleh kumpulan elit di sebuah hotel, ada orang kata dia dibunuh pembunuh upahan diupah oleh JP Morgan kerana perkara yang paling mereka tak suka oleh Nikola Tesla ialah beliau nak buat jana kuasa elektrik kegunaan di rumah untuk setiap penduduk Amerika secara percuma dan tak perlu bayar sesen pun. Kerana Thomas Edison pernah kata setiap kegunaan kuasa elektrik boleh buat duit, tetapi hal ini di tentang oleh Nikolah Tesla.

Synopsis

Inventor Nikola Tesla was born in July of 1856, in what is now Croatia. He came to the United States in 1884 and briefly worked with Thomas Edison before the two parted ways. He sold several patent rights, including those to his alternating-current machinery, to George Westinghouse. His 1891 invention, the "Tesla coil," is still used in radio technology today. Tesla died in New York City on January 7, 1943.

Early Life

Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, in what is now Smiljan, Croatia. He was one of five children which included siblings Dane, Angelina, Milka and Marica, in the family. Tesla's interest in electrical invention was spurred by his mother, Djuka Mandic, who invented small household appliances in her spare time while her son was growing up. Tesla's father, Milutin Tesla, was a Serbian orthodox priest and a writer, and he pushed for his son to join the priesthood. But Nikola's interests lay squarely in the sciences. After studying at the Realschule, Karlstadt (later renamed the Johann-Rudolph-Glauber Realschule Karlstadt); the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria; and the University of Prague during the 1870s, Tesla moved to Budapest, where for a time he worked at the Central Telephone Exchange. It was while in Budapest that the idea for the induction motor first came to Tesla, but after several years of trying to gain interest in his invention, at age 28 Tesla decided to leave Europe for America.

Famed Inventor

In 1884 Tesla arrived the United States with little more than the clothes on his back and a letter of introduction to famed inventor and business mogul Thomas Edison, whose DC-based electrical works were fast becoming the standard in the country. Edison hired Tesla, and the two men were soon working tirelessly alongside each other, making improvements to Edison's inventions. However, several months later, the two parted ways due to a conflicting business-scientific relationship, attributed by historians to their incredibly different personalities: While Edison was a power figure who focused on marketing and financial success, Tesla was commercially out-of-tune and somewhat vulnerable.

After parting ways with Edison, in 1885 Tesla received funding for the Tesla Electric Light Company and was tasked by his investors to develop improved arc lighting. After successfully doing so, however, Tesla was forced out of the venture and for a time had to work as a manual laborer in order to survive. His luck changed in 1887, when he was able to find interest in his AC electrical system and funding for his new Tesla Electric Company. Setting straight to work, by the end of the year, Tesla had successfully filed several patents for AC-based inventions. 

Tesla's AC system eventually caught the attention of American engineer and business man George Westinghouse, who was seeking a solution to supplying the nation with long-distance power. Convinced that Tesla's inventions would help him achieve this, in 1888 he purchased his patents for $60,000 in cash and stock in the Westinghouse Corporation. As interest in an alternating-current system grew, Tesla and Westinghouse were put in direct competition with Thomas Edison, who was intent on selling his direct-current system to the nation. A negative-press campaign was soon waged by Edison, in an attempt to undermine interest in AC power. Tesla, for his part, continued in his work and would patent several more inventions during this period, including the "Tesla coil," which laid the foundation for wireless technologies and is still used in radio technology today.

Unfortunately for Thomas Edison, the Westinghouse Corporation was chosen to supply the lighting at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and Tesla conducted demonstrations of his AC system there. Two years later, in 1895, Tesla designed what was among the first AC hydroelectric power plants in the United States, at Niagara Falls. The following year, it was used to power the city of Buffalo, New York, a feat that was highly publicized throughout the world. With its repeat successes and favorable press, the alternating-current system would quickly become the preeminent power system of the 20th century, and it has remained the worldwide standard ever since.

In addition to his AC system and coil, throughout his career, Tesla discovered, designed and developed ideas for a number of other important inventions—most of which were officially patented by other inventors—including dynamos (electrical generators similar to batteries) and the induction motor. He was also a pioneer in the discovery of radar technology, X-ray technology, remote control and the rotating magnetic field—the basis of most AC machinery. 

The Fall from Grace

Having become obsessed with the wireless transmission of energy, around 1900 Nikola set to work on his boldest project yet: to build a global, wireless communication system—to be transmitted through a large electrical tower—for sharing information and providing free electricity throughout the world. With funding from a group of investors that included financial giant J. P. Morgan, in 1901 Tesla began work on the project in earnest, designing and building a lab with a power plant and a massive transmission tower on a site on Long Island, New York, that became known as Wardenclyffe. However, when doubts arose among his investors about the plausibility of Tesla's system and his rival, Guglielmo Marconi—with the financial support of Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Edison—continued to make great advances with his own radio technologies, Tesla had no choice but to abandon the project. The Wardenclyffe staff was laid off in 1906 and by 1915 the site had fallen into foreclosure. Two years later Tesla declared bankruptcy and the tower was dismantled and sold for scrap to help pay the debts he had accrued.

Death and Legacy

After suffering a nervous breakdown, Tesla eventually returned to work, primarily as a consultant. But as time went on, his ideas became progressively more outlandish and impractical. He also grew increasingly eccentric, devoting much of his time to the care of wild pigeons in New York City's parks. He even drew the attention of the FBI with his talk of building a powerful "death beam," which had received some interest from the Soviet Union during World World II. 

Poor and reclusive, Nikola Tesla died on January 7, 1943, at the age of 86, in New York City, where he had lived for nearly 60 years. But the legacy of the work he left behind him lives on to this day.

Several books and films have highlighted Tesla's life and famous works, including Nikola Tesla, The Genius Who Lit the World, a documentary produced by the Tesla Memorial Society and the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia; and The Secret of Nikola Tesla, which stars Orson Welles as J. P. Morgan). And in the 2006 Christopher Nolan film The Prestige, Tesla was portrayed by rock star/actor David Bowie. In 1994, a street sign identifying "Nikola Tesla Corner" was installed near the site of his former New York City laboratory, at the intersection of 40th Street and 6th Avenue. 

Wardenclyffe Project

Since Tesla's original forfeiture of his Wardenclyffe site, ownership of the property has passed through numerous hands, and several attempts have been made to preserve it, but in 1967, 1976 and 1994 efforts to have it declared a national historic site failed. Then, in 2008, a group called the Tesla Science Center was formed with the intention of purchasing the property and turning it into a museum dedicated to the inventor's work. 

In February 2009 the Wardenclyffe site went on the market for nearly $1.6 million, and for the next several years, the Tesla Science Center worked diligently to raise funds for its purchase. In 2012, public interest in the project peaked when Matthew Inman of TheOatmeal.com collaborated with the TSC in an Internet fundraising effort, ultimately receiving enough contributions to acquire the site in May 2013. Work on its restoration is still in progress.

The 10 Inventions Of Nikola Tesla That Changed The World

Note: This article was originally published in 2010, but we repost annually with added info and links, as well as to present to new readers. Please feel free to add your own information, article links, or video links about Tesla and his work in the comment section.

I would also point you to Rand Clifford’s 3-part series: Nikola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers! which has a wealth of different information than what you will read below.

Nikola Tesla is finally beginning to attract real attention and encourage serious debate more than 70 years after his death.

Was Nikola Tesla for real? A crackpot? Part of an early experiment in corporate-government control?

We know that he was undoubtedly persecuted by the energy power brokers of his day — namely Thomas Edison, whom we are taught in school to revere as a genius. He was also attacked by J.P. Morgan and other “captains of industry.” Upon Nikola Tesla’s death on January 7th, 1943, the U.S. government moved into his lab and apartment confiscating all of his scientific research, some of which has been released by the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act. (I’ve embedded the first 250 pages below and have added a link to the .pdf of the final pages, 290 in total).

Besides his persecution by corporate-government interests (which is practically a certification of authenticity), there is at least one solid indication of Nikola Tesla’s integrity — he tore up a contract with Westinghouse that was worth billions in order to save the company from paying him his huge royalty payments.

1. Alternating Current

This is where it all began, and what ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 World’s Expo in Chicago. A war was leveled ever-after between the vision of Edison and the vision of Tesla for how electricity would be produced and distributed. The division can be summarized as one of cost and safety: The DC current that Edison (backed by General Electric) had been working on was costly over long distances, and produced dangerous sparking from the required converter (called a commutator). Regardless, Edison and his backers utilized the general “dangers” of electric current to instill fear in Nikola Tesla’s alternative: Alternating Current. As proof, Edison sometimes electrocuted animals at demonstrations. Consequently, Edison gave the world the electric chair, while simultaneously maligning Tesla’s attempt to offer safety at a lower cost. Tesla responded by demonstrating that AC was perfectly safe by famously shooting current through his own body to produce light. This Edison-Tesla (GE-Westinghouse) feud in 1893 was the culmination of over a decade of shady business deals, stolen ideas, and patent suppression that Edison and his moneyed interests wielded over Tesla’s inventions. Yet, despite it all, it is Tesla’s system that provides power generation and distribution to North America in our modern era.

2. Light

Of course Nikola Tesla didn’t invent light itself, but he did invent how light can be harnessed and distributed. Tesla developed and used fluorescent bulbs in his lab some 40 years before industry “invented” them. At the World’s Fair, Tesla took glass tubes and bent them into famous scientists’ names, in effect creating the first neon signs. However, it is his Tesla Coil that might be the most impressive, and controversial. The Tesla Coil is certainly something that big industry would have liked to suppress: the concept that the Earth itself is a magnet that can generate electricity (electromagnetism) utilizing frequencies as a transmitter. All that is needed on the other end is the receiver — much like a radio.

3. X-rays

Electromagnetic and ionizing radiation was heavily researched in the late 1800s, but Nikola Tesla researched the entire gamut. Everything from a precursor to Kirlian photography, which has the ability to document life force, to what we now use in medical diagnostics, this was a transformative invention of which Tesla played a central role. X-rays, like so many of Tesla’s contributions, stemmed from his belief that everything we need to understand the universe is virtually around us at all times, but we need to use our minds to develop real-world devices to augment our innate perception of existence.

4. Radio

Guglielmo Marconi was initially credited, and most believe him to be the inventor of radio to this day. However, the Supreme Court overturned Marconi’s patent in 1943, when it was proven that Tesla invented the radio years previous to Marconi. Radio signals are just another frequency that needs a transmitter and receiver, which Tesla also demonstrated in 1893 during a presentation before The National Electric Light Association. In 1897 Tesla applied for two patents US 645576, and US 649621. In 1904, however, The U.S. Patent Office reversed its decision, awarding Marconi a patent for the invention of radio, possibly influenced by Marconi’s financial backers in the States, who included Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie. This also allowed the U.S. government (among others) to avoid having to pay the royalties that were being claimed by Nikola Tesla.

5. Remote Control

This invention was a natural outcropping of radio. Patent No. 613809 was the first remote controlled model boat, demonstrated in 1898. Utilizing several large batteries; radio signals controlled switches, which then energized the boat’s propeller, rudder, and scaled-down running lights. While this exact technology was not widely used for some time, we now can see the power that was appropriated by the military in its pursuit of remote controlled war. Radio controlled tanks were introduced by the Germans in WWII, and developments in this realm have since slid quickly away from the direction of human freedom.

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6. Electric Motor

Nikola Tesla’s invention of the electric motor has finally been popularized by a car brandishing his name. While the technical specifications are beyond the scope of this summary, suffice to say that Tesla’s invention of a motor with rotating magnetic fields could have freed mankind much sooner from the stranglehold of Big Oil. However, his invention in 1930 succumbed to the economic crisis and the world war that followed. Nevertheless, this invention has fundamentally changed the landscape of what we now take for granted: industrial fans, household applicances, water pumps, machine tools, power tools, disk drives, electric wristwatches and compressors.

7. Robotics

Nikola Tesla’s overly enhanced scientific mind led him to the idea that all living beings are merely driven by external impulses. He stated: “I have by every thought and act of mine, demonstrated, and does so daily, to my absolute satisfaction that I am an automaton endowed with power of movement, which merely responds to external stimuli.” Thus, the concept of the robot was born. However, an element of the human remained present, as Tesla asserted that these human replicas should have limitations — namely growth and propagation. Nevertheless, Nikola Tesla unabashedly embraced all of what intelligence could produce. His visions for a future filled with intelligent cars, robotic human companions, and the use of sensors, and autonomous systems are detailed in a must-read entry in the Serbian Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2006 (PDF).

9 and 10. Wireless Communications and Limitless Free Energy

These two are inextricably linked, as they were the last straw for the power elite — what good is energy if it can’t be metered and controlled? Free? Never. J.P. Morgan backed Nikola Tesla with $150,000 to build a tower that would use the natural frequencies of our universe to transmit data, including a wide range of information communicated through images, voice messages, and text. This represented the world’s first wireless communications, but it also meant that aside from the cost of the tower itself, the universe was filled with free energy that could be utilized to form a world wide web connecting all people in all places, as well as allow people to harness the free energy around them. Essentially, the 0’s and 1’s of the universe are embedded in the fabric of existence for each of us to access as needed. Nikola Tesla was dedicated to empowering the individual to receive and transmit this data virtually free of charge. But we know the ending to that story . . . until now?

Nikola Tesla had perhaps thousands of other ideas and inventions that remain unreleased. A look at his hundreds of patents shows a glimpse of the scope he intended to offer. If you feel that the additional technical and scientific research of Nikola Tesla should be revealed for public scrutiny and discussion, instead of suppressed by big industry and even our supposed institutions of higher education, join the world’s call to tell power brokers everywhere that we are ready to Occupy Energy and learn about what our universe really has to offer.

http://www.biography.com/people/niko...clyffe-project

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/...esla-that.html

5 Mysteries Surrounding the Life and Death of Dr. Sebi

Dr. Sebi, born Alfredo Bowman, claimed to have a cure for AIDS, cancer and even blindness, so how did he end up dead in police custody in Honduras?
("What if I told you I had a cure for AIDS? Would you believe me? What about cancer? Or diabetes?")

There are those who believe that Dr. Sebi, born Alfredo Bowman—a world-renowned vegetarian herbalist, healer, pathologist and biochemist—had the cure for all of them, all the diseases that bring devastation and an altered existence before snatching the lives of those who don’t break free.

There are many who believe that Dr. Sebi, who was not a licensed physician, became a threat to a multibillion-dollar medical industry that not only relies on continued sickness but also needs it; it profits from it.

On May 28, 2016, Dr. Sebi was arrested at Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport in Honduras for carrying some $37,000 in cash. He was released pending a court hearing, only to be rearrested June 3 by the Ministerio Público, Honduras’ version of the FBI, and charged with money laundering. Dr. Sebi remained in custody until Aug. 6, when he was rushed to a local hospital reportedly suffering from complications of pneumonia. Dr. Sebi died en route. He was 82.

Below are five mysteries surrounding his life and his death.

1. Dr. Sebi Cures AIDS?
Dr. Sebi rose to cultlike fame pushing a simple dietary premise: that food is alkaline for the body, and dead foods kill your body’s natural ability to heal and regenerate healing. By eliminating what Dr. Sebi considered toxic foods—like meat, poultry, seafood, all processed or synthetic items, alcohol, sugar, fried food and iodized salt—the body could begin detoxing. Replacing those foods with plain ripe fruit; nonstarchy vegetables, especially leafy greens; raw nuts and nut butters; and grains like quinoa, rye and kamut promotes the body’s natural healing properties. In doing so, he claimed to have cured several patients of AIDS, cancer, diabetes and blindness.

2. Dr. Sebi’s Court Case
The myth of Dr. Sebi grew stronger in 1988 after the self-taught herbalist ran ads in the Amsterdam News, the Village Voice and the New York Post noting that “AIDS has been cured.” The story goes that the New York State attorney general and New York City Department of Consumer Affairs told Dr. Sebi to remove the ads; he refused and was arrested. The charges leveled against him included practicing medicine without a license, selling products not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, and fraudulently claiming that he could cure AIDS and other diseases. The judge asked Dr. Sebi to bring in one patient who could testify that he had cured him or her of these potentially fatal diseases. He reportedly provided 70 patients and won the case. And the legend of Dr. Sebi was born.

3. Dr. Sebi’s Arrest
Dr. Sebi’s arrest records have not been released, so it remains unclear as to why he was arrested, released and then rearrested for carrying so much cash, since it wouldn’t have been unusual for a healer who had treated several high-profile clients—who reportedly included Michael Jackson, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, John Travolta and Eddie Murphy—to have a large amount of money on him. Lopes was actually in Honduras visiting Dr. Sebi when she died.

4. Dr. Sebi’s Family Couldn’t Get Him Out of Jail
Dr. Sebi was born in 1933 in Honduras and spent his life there. He had 17 children. Dr. Sebi’s family was reportedly trying to get him released from custody, but to no avail. He was held for over a month with no court date, although no serious crime had been committed. Because he had no court date after his second arrest, bail was never set.

5. Dr. Sebi Never Received Major Acclaim
Major newspapers didn’t cover his death; in fact, major newspapers barely covered his life. Surely a man who not only claims to have cured cancer but also beat a lawsuit alleging that he was a quack by bringing in apparently healed patients into the courtroom would be someone the world would want to hear more from? Newspapers didn’t even invest energy in debunking his claims.

Conspiracy theorists believe that the lack of attention paid to Dr. Sebi’s teachings, the lack of publicity surrounding his reported successes, and the mystery surrounding his arrest and death are because, as any street hustler can tell you, there’s no money in the cure—the money is in the sickness. The pharmaceutical business not only needs you sick but doesn’t make money if you’re well.

It’s easy to write off conspiracy theorists as loons who invest too much time in “internet thinking,” but I wonder if some of us are too connected to conventional thinking just because it’s what we know. Conventional thinking has me questioning why prescription medications have commercials if you have to have a prescription to obtain them. Drugs are big business in this country, and Dr. Sebi was pushing a healthy lifestyle that moved people toward better eating and, in turn, less medication. I don’t know if I’m ready to choose between the red and the blue pill, but it does lead me back to my original question: If I told you I had a cure for AIDS, would you believe me?

Seven-year-old girl is declared a living GODDESS in Nepal because she has 'eyelashes like a cow' and 'a voice as clear as a duck'

The goddess or Kumari continues the centuries-old tradition of child deities living among mortals in Nepal where she is worshiped by Hindus and Buddhists alike. At the Hindu festival of rain in July thousands came to pay their respects to the child including the Prime Minister of Nepal, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who had to bow and scrape to the child when the pair met. 

Despite her lofty status the seven-year-old, who is called Yunika and is said give good luck to all those who lay their eyes on her, still lives with her parents. 'When my daughter was selected as a Kumari, I felt very happy,' her father, Ramesh Bajracharya, said through a translator. 'It's because Kumari is hugely regarded and respected living goddess in Nepal.' To become a Kumari, which means 'unmarried girl' or 'virgin,' children must meet very specific criteria such as sporting 'eyelashes like a cow,' 'thighs like a deer,' and a 'voice as clear as a duck.'

A Mother helps her child to take a blessing from the Living Goddess of Patan. The girl's parents left their jobs in the town of Patan to become full-time carers to their daughter which has proven to be a tricky task as the Kumari are not permitted to leave their homes, except for special occasions, and her feet are never allowed to touch the floor. Yunika's mother has become something of a make-up artist having to apply unique patterns on her face that mark her out as goddess among mere men. As soon as the Kumari hit puberty they revert back to a being normal member of society.

Devotee honours Living Goddess by touching her feet and placing money in a pot. In 2008 Nepal's Supreme Court overruled a petition to end the practice, citing its cultural value although some activists claim the tradition is child labor. The practice's purpose has taken on a great cultural role in Nepal since a 7.8 earthquake rattled the landlocked country in April 2015. Around 8,000 people were killed and the tremor reduced many ancient buildings to ruble. 

A Nepalese girl dressed as a Kumari, or living goddess, looks on as she takes part in Kumari Puja rituals at the Hanuman Dhoka in Durbar Square in Kathmandu

Kerbau suka minum teh O ais jadi viral

SEORANG pekerja melayan karenah Mek yang berkunjung ke premis terbabit. FOTO Shaiful Shahrin Ahmad Pauzi

Bagan Serai : Kerbau betina yang diberi nama Mek mencuri perhatian ramai apabila gemar meminum teh o ais yang diperolehi di gerai makan di Jeti Nelayan, Kampung Selinsing, dekat sini.

Gelagat Mek yang ternyata mencuit hati turut menjadi viral di laman sosial sejak beberapa hari lalu.

Pemilik kerbau berkenaan, Fikri Ezani Wan Chik, 34, berkata, kerbau itu mula meminum minuman itu sejak dia dibeli pada usia sembilan bulan.

Katanya, ketika dibeli dan dipisahkan daripada ibunya, haiwan itu merajuk tidak mahu makan dan minum selama beberapa hari.

"Kebiasaannya kerbau meminati minuman air gula merah dan air garam namun Mek langsung tidak. Selepas pelbagai usaha dilakukan akhirnya dia berjaya dipujuk dengan sebungkus tea o ais yang kebetulan saya beli untuk diminum sendiri.

"Sejak dari itu, dia sering minum minuman seperti manusia seperti Milo, Kopi, namun lebih menggemari Teh O Ais," katanya.

Sementara pemilik gerai, Jamilah Osman, 49, berkata, kerbau itu sering berkunjung ke belakang premis perniagaannya untuk meminta minuman kesukaannya itu.

Katanya, setiap hari, Mek akan berjalan hampir satu kilometer dari rumah pemiliknya dan singgah dipremisnya untuk menikmati minuman kegemarannya itu.

"Haiwan itu akan berkunjung ke premis ini untuk minuman Teh O Ais sebanyak dua kali setiap hari iaitu pada sebelah pagi sekitar 10 pagi dan 5 petang.

"Namun menariknya Mek hanya berkunjung ke belakang premis perniagaan dan tidak datang ke bahagian hadapan untuk mengambil minuman kegemarannya itu. Malah hanya akan minum minuman itu jika seseorang menuangkan ke dalam mulutnya," katanya.

Menurut Jamilah, setiap hari Mek akan minum dua atau tiga bungkus minuman di kedainya namun dia langsung tidak merasa terbeban dengan Mek.

China covers 3.7 million square miles and is home to a vast 1.3 billion people, the world's largest population

Swimmers wrestle with colourful rubber rings at a pool in Daying county, Sichuan Province, this past August, in a situation that looks anything but relaxing. Between the late 1970s and January of this year, it controlled its fast rising numbers with a one-child policy. One-child policy China adopted in the 1970s that it claims has prevented 400million births, but demographers have called the claim into question.

More than 1,700 secondary school students in Yichuan, Shaanxi province, sat this exam in 2015, which had to take place in its open-air playground due to lack of space inside. A two-child policy has since replaced old laws, so its massive population is set to rise steeply once again

Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station, which sees an enormous number of travellers and commuters pass through its halls

Outside Beijing's International Airport, taxi drivers - one shirtless - line up to await passengers in the sweltering summer heat

Amid a sea of wheels and handlebars in Beijing, a woman who has somehow located her own bike prepares to cycle away

At a university is Wuhan, Hubei province, students sleep on mats laid out on an air-conditioned gym floor to escape the heat

Thousands upon thousands of job-seekers collect eagerly around booths at a job fair in Chongqing, southwestern China

This summer in Dalian, Liaoning Province, countless beaches were packed full of sunbathers and crowded with parasols 

College students queue up for a job fair in 2014, which roughly 50,000 people attended in Zhengzhou, Henan province

People queue up before viewing the soaring tide near the bank of Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in 2010

Vehicles are seen on a snaking avenue during the evening rush hour at sunset in Beijing in 2014, surrounded by skyscrapers