The most Expensive Desserts in the World

Adorned with leaves made ​​of gold and diamonds of two carats. Decorated with gold leaf from the original, sparkling diamond and strawberry caviar, luxury snacks made ​​it into the record books as the world's most expensive dessert. The price is very high for the serving of dessert, which is £ 22,000. The cake studded by Gold and Diamond With prices that high, it's not 'bear' to cut. However, by the owner, Carl Weininger, the cake will be cut and served to the guests who come to the party 60th birthday, December 5, 2011, forthcoming. Based on the Faberge Easter, lavish desserts are made using the best ingredients. The maker, chef Marc Guilbert using Belgian chocolate, which combined with peach, orange and whiskey to make champagne...

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How sex affects the way you spend

How sex drives your spending Marketers know how to appeal to your emotions and hormones -- and can even create 'false memories' -- to make their products seem more desirable. There's a reason casinos hire attractive women as waitresses, says Gad Saad, a professor of marketing at Concordia University in Montreal. It turns out -- surprise --that men respond in highly predictable ways when influenced by thoughts of sex. Populate a casino with the right servers, and men are likely to act in ways that penalize their wallets and boost the house's profits. Saad, who studies how evolution has influenced human behavior, says that aroused men "engage in greater discounting." That's psych talk for short-term thinking. Men are also willing...

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War Dogs May Struggle With PTSD

After duty, dogs suffer like soldiers At least 5 percent used in Iraq and Afghanistan struggle with PTSD SAN ANTONIO — The call came into the behavior specialists here from a doctor in Afghanistan. His patient had just been through a firefight and now was cowering under a cot, refusing to come out. Apparently even the chew toys hadn’t worked. Dereck Stevens bonds with his military working dog before a practice drill at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Post-traumatic stress disorder, thought Dr. Walter F. Burghardt Jr., chief of behavioral medicine at the Daniel E. Holland Military Working Dog Hospital at Lackland Air Force Base. Specifically, canine PTSD. If anyone needed evidence of the frontline role played by dogs...

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The Greatest Mass Migrations That Leave Us Awestruck

These are 10 great migrations that leave us awestruck; 1. Great Migrations: Wildebeest Seeing just one animal in the wild can be a unique experience; seeing thousands moving at one time is unforgettable. Here are 10 of nature’s greatest animal spectacles. Text by Heidi Schuessler, Bing Travel; photo editing by Connie Ricca. One of nature’s greatest spectacles is the migration of 1.5 million wildebeest as they move from the Masai Mara in Kenya to the plains of the Serengeti, near the Ngorongoro Crater. While drought often forces them to start moving in May or June, their journey is virtually continuous as they travel constantly in search of food and greener pastures. Safari companies in Kenya and Tanzania build trips around viewing...

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Can the Packers Pull Off a Perfect Season?

Who stands between Green Bay and 16-0 Green Bay will take an 11-0 record into December. If this happened a few years ago, the 1972 Miami Dolphins might have started to sweat a little. Media hoopla about whether the Packers can complete a perfect season would also be much higher. Blame the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts for killing that buzz. The 2007 Patriots already accomplished what some thought impossible in today’s parity-driven NFL — a 16-0 regular-season record. The 2009 Colts had a chance to match the mark when opening 14-0. But unlike a Patriots team that was pursuing perfection and didn’t want to risk losing momentum entering the postseason, Indianapolis management decided to rest starters for the playoffs...

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Do Men Think About Sex All the Time? Maybe Not

Study debunks notion that males focus on the subject far more often than females do-- Robert Preidt HealthDay News -- A new study is challenging the widely held notion that men's minds are preoccupied with one topic: sex. The research in college-age participants suggests that while men do think about sex more often than women, the subject crosses their mind an average of only about 19 times per day, compared to 10 times per day for women. The results seem to disprove the popular notion that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would total more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours, the Ohio State University researchers said. "It's amazing the way people will spout off these fake statistics that men think...

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LA Galaxy win 1-0 from Indonesia Team Selection

In the second half, LA Galaxy and Indonesia Team Selection conducted a series of substitutions. LA Galaxy team win 1-0 from Indonesia Selection in a friendly match, Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Teams from the United States is superior to a single goal by Robbie Keane in the first round. L.A Galaxy Vs Indonesia Selection  In a match at the Bung Karno Main Stadium, Keane scored in the 13th minute. The former Tottenham Hotspur player was able to capitalize on the chaos in front of goal Indonesia Selection escorted by Andritany Ardiayasa. LA Galaxy are actually more dominated the first round matches. But until halftime, the Galaxy 1-0. At the beginning of second half, both teams made ​​some changes. LA Galaxy again...

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Was TD dance offensive to NYC?

Jets NT: Crash celebration went too far Jets nose tackle Sione Pouha wasn't laughing at Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stevie Johnson's touchdown celebration over the weekend in New York. Bills WR Stevie Johnson is under fire for his crash celebration against the Jets. He wasn't laughing then and he's certainly not laughing now. In fact, Pouha isn't even that mad at Johnson for pretending to "pull a Plaxico Burress" and shoot himself in the leg. What has him fuming? The fact that Johnson pretended to be a crashing jet, according to the New York Post. Pouha believes that when Johnson acted as if he was a plane crashing to the ground, that it was insensitive to the victims of 9/11. "Us being from New York, we like to hold ourselves...

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Mystery Pyramid Garut - West Java

Sadagurip alleged pyramids in older and larger than the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Gunung Sadahurip Garut Based on the results of active fault research in West Java to study the disaster in ancient times led to the surprising discovery: anomaly in the form of a pyramid structure on Mount Sadahurip, Garut, West Java. Large and exceed the estimated age of the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt - which is believed to be the tomb of Pharaoh, the fourth dynasty of Egypt, Khufu, built for more than 20 years during the period around the year 2560 BC. Now, the mystery of the pyramids in Garut, West Java, is expected to be immediately revealed. Ancient catastrophic disaster team members who formed the Office of the Special Staff of President of...

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Soft-bodied robots squeeze closer

The US defence agency DARPA decided last year that it needed "Chemical Robots" (ChemBots) that could change shape in order to squeeze through small gaps. It's now chosen the people to provide them - US firm iRobot. The company makes the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner (video) and the 'Packbot' used for bomb disposal. The DARPA programme manager overseeing the project gave a hint at what the robots could be used for: "During military operations it can be important to gain covert access to denied or hostile space... We believe that a new class of soft, flexible, meso-scale mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than their dimensions to perform various tasks will be quite valuable in many missions." But as...

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Two unique minds meld in 'A Dangerous Method'

TORONTO – By all rights, David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen should be mortal enemies. Cronenberg, 68, a Toronto native with a storied career as a director, made his mark with body-mangling horror (The Fly, Videodrome) and roots for pro hockey's Maple Leafs. Actor Viggo Mortensen teams up with director David Cronenburg for the third time on 'A Dangerous Method.' Mortensen, 53, the Danish-American actor who lorded over The Lord of the Rings as warrior Aragorn, backs the rival Montreal Canadiens. And he likes nothing better than to rile the locals whenever attending the film festival here by proudly sporting his team's memorabilia. Instead, they have melded into a potent creative unit as they talk about their just-opened third effort...

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Feds seize 150 websites in counterfeit crackdown

WASHINGTON – Federal authorities have shut down 150 websites accused of selling knock-off or pirated merchandise to unsuspecting online bargain hunters. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton and Assistant U.S. Attorney Lanny A. Breuer announced the results of the ICE and FBI three-month investigation on "Cyber Monday," the day that for many shoppers kicks off the online holiday shopping season. The government seized the domain names for the sites that sold everything from fake replica NBA jerseys to replica Louis Vuitton handbags and imitation Ugg boots. "This is straight crime," Morton said. "This is people being duped into buying a counterfeit." The federal government has seized the domain names of 350 websites...

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40,000 troops to leave Afghanistan by end of 2012

Afghan villagers look on as a U.S. soldier keeps watch during a mission. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Drawdown plans announced by the U.S. and more than a dozen other nations will shrink the foreign military footprint in Afghanistan by 40,000 troops at the close of next year, leaving Afghan forces increasingly on the frontlines of the decade-long war. The United States is pulling out the most — 33,000 by the end of 2012. That's one-third of 101,000 American troops who were in Afghanistan in June — the peak of U.S. military presence in the war, according to figures provided by the Pentagon. Others in the 49-nation coalition have announced withdrawal plans too, even as they insist they are not rushing to leave. Many nations have vowed...

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Wifi-enabled laptops may be nuking sperm

The digital age has left men's nether parts in a squeeze, if you believe the latest science on semen, laptops and wireless connections. In a report in the venerable medical journal Fertility and Sterility, Argentinian scientists describe how they got semen samples from 29 healthy men, placed a few drops under a laptop connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi and then hit download. Four hours later, the semen was, eh, well-done. A quarter of the sperm were no longer swimming around, for instance, compared to just 14 percent from semen samples stored at the same temperature away from the computer. And nine percent of the sperm showed DNA damage, three-fold more than the comparison samples. The culprit? Electromagnetic radiation generated...

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States With the Highest Car Insurance

A national survey of premiums lists the most expensive places to get coverage. Is where you live among the leaders of the pack? By Des Toups, CarInsurance.com Where you pay more for coverage You can probably get the same deal, within a few dollars, on a new car in any of the 50 states. But you can't do the same for car insurance. In some states, you'll pay nearly three times as much for the same coverage on the same car, with the same driver. Here's a look at where rates are highest. Our data from Quadrant Information Services sampled 10 ZIP codes and six carriers in each state, calculating rates on more than 2,000 new vehicles for a 40-year-old single male driver who commutes 12 miles. Coverage limits were $100,000 for injury liability...

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