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A YOUNG LAW STUDENT, HAVING FAILED HIS LAW EXAM, GOES UP TO HIS CRUSTY

OLD PROFESSOR, WHO IS RENOWNED FOR HIS RAZOR-SHARP LEGAL MIND.*

STUDENT: "SIR, DO YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SUBJECT?"

PROFESSOR: "ACTUALLY, I PROBABLY DO. OTHERWISE I WOULDN'T BE A PROFESSOR,

WOULD I?"

STUDENT: "OK. SO I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU A QUESTION. IF YOU CAN GIVE ME THE

CORRECT ANSWER, I WILL ACCEPT MY MARKS AS IT IS. IF YOU CAN'T GIVE ME THE

CORRECT ANSWER, HOWEVER, YOU'LL HAVE TO GIVE ME AN "A".

PROFESSOR: "HMMMM, ALRIGHT. SO WHAT'S THE QUESTION?"

STUDENT: "WHAT IS LEGAL BUT NOT LOGICAL, LOGICAL BUT NOT LEGAL, AND NEITHER LOGICAL NOR LEGAL? "

THE PROFESSOR WRACKS HIS FAMOUS BRAIN, BUT JUST CAN'T CRACK THE ANSWER.

FINALLY HE GIVES UP AND CHANGES THE STUDENT'S FAILING MARK INTO AN "A" AS

AGREED, AND THE STUDENT GOES AWAY, VERY PLEASED.

THE PROFESSOR CONTINUES TO WRACK HIS BRAIN OVER THE QUESTION ALL AFTERNOON,

BUT STILL CAN'T GET THE ANSWER. SO FINALLY HE CALLS IN A GROUP OF HIS

BRIGHTEST STUDENTS AND TELLS THEM HE HAS A REALLY, REALLY TOUGH QUESTION TO

ANSWER: "WHAT IS LEGAL BUT NOT LOGICAL, LOGICAL BUT NOT LEGAL, AND NEITHER

LOGICAL NOR LEGAL? "

TO THE PROFESSOR'S SURPRISE (AND EMBARRASSMENT), ALL THE STUDENTS

IMMEDIATELY RAISE THEIR HANDS.

ALL RIGHT" SAYS THE PROFESSOR AND ASKS HIS FAVOURITE STUDENT TO ANSWER

IT'S QUITE EASY, SIR" SAYS THE STUDENT "YOU SEE, YOU ARE 75 YEARS OLD AND

MARRIED TO A 30 YEAR OLD WOMAN, WHICH IS LEGAL, BUT NOT LOGICAL. YOUR WIFE

HAS A 22 YEAR OLD LOVER, WHICH IS LOGICAL, BUT NOT LEGAL. AND YOUR WIFE'S

LOVER FAILED HIS EXAM BUT YOU'VE JUST GIVEN HIM AN "A", WHICH IS NEITHER

LEGAL, NOR LOGICAL."*

She came to the part of the story where first pig was trying to gather the building materials for his home.

She read. 'And so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow full of straw and said: 'Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?'

The teacher paused then asked the class: 'And what do you think the man said?'

One little boy raised his hand and said very matter-of-factly...
'I think the man would have said........
'Well, F#ck me!! A talking pig!'

The teacher had to leave the room.

On first hearing the news that Paul the "psychic" octopus has died at his home at the Oberhausen Sea Life Centre in Germany, it is tempting to think that the Dutch got to poor Paul for predicting their loss to Spain in the world cup!

Some of Pauls life achievements and highlights
 
1. A career highlight: Paul correctly predicts that Spain will beat The Netherlands in the World Cup final. Here he moves immediately to the Spanish box and is thrillingly decisive with his tentacles. Clearly for Paul the issue was never in any doubt. In many ways this was the perfect swansong to a predictive career that took off two years earlier at Euro 2008: Paul announced his competitive retirement shortly afterwards.

2. A less happy moment: Paul would receive death threats shortly after predicting Germany's defeat to Spain in the World Cup semifinals. Publicly he appeared completely unshaken by the experience and continued to carry out his duties with great professionalism. Privately, however ... Well, privately nobody really knows the truth, although as an octopus he did have very little actual consciousness and an emotional range that remains unguessably limited.

3. A difficult moment: Paul refuses to be swayed by feelings of jingoistic loyalty and picks Germany to beat his native England in their World Cup second-round match. In the end, of course, Paul was right. Germany beat England 4-1 to advance to the next stage. Although there are of course those who might say you didn't need to be a psychic octopus to see that

'Hippos are not usually that friendly and the two they had in the tank - the male Otis and the female Funani - had been having a bit of a fight with each other that day.

'The hippo behind me is Otis, when we saw his face we just thought we had to get a picture.'

Mr Parker said he wasn't sure if Otis was happy or not after his day's ordeal with Funani - in fact he might even have been asleep.

He said: 'If you look at Otis's back you can see the scaring from his fight with Funani, this is normal hippo behaviour but I don't think he won.'

To add another dimension to the memorable snap, the picture has become something of an internet hit and pops up on blogs and chatrooms from USA to China.

Mr Parker, 35, from Little Rock, Arkansas, even gets fan mail from people telling him he is their computer screensaver or Facebook profile picture.

He said: 'It's kind of strange to think there are people out there with a picture of me on their computer, but I guess I'm just the hippo man as far they're concerned.

Faan Coetzee of the Endangered Wildlife Trust said Monday that 5-year-old Phila will stay at the zoo until she recovers from her wounds, which may take six months.

Although she had been dehorned so she'd be less attractive to poachers, Phila was shot twice in the wild and seven times in captivity at a game farm.

Conservationists say rhino poaching has increased dramatically because of high demand for rhino horn in Asia, where it is used for medicinal purposes.

South Africa, which hosts more than 90 percent of the world's rhino population, has been losing some 20 rhinos per month.

A South African community group has mounted a campaign to get 50 Cent to adopt Phila-because Phila, like 50 himself, has survived being shot nine times. "Many Men." It was poachers who shot Phila, in two separate incidents this past summer, both attempts to harvest her valuable horn.

"We want to ask him if he wants to become the godfather of our rhino so that he can create awareness worldwide about rhino poaching," said Andre Snyman of the anti-poaching organization, eBlockwatch.

Fans are an important part of an entertainer. Therefore www.pecintarossa.com Ross launched a website to facilitate the communication with the fans.

Ross admitted he actually include people who stutter technology. Therefore only now he was active with twitter. Since it was first made about 2 months ago, twitteFans are an important part of an entertainer. Therefore www.pecintarossa.com Ross launched a website to facilitate the communication with the fans.

Ross admitted he actually include people who stutter technology. Therefore only now he was active with twitter. Since it was first made about 2 months ago, twitter follower Rossa reached number 20 thousand.

"Firstly because I'm clueless about computers, this is only 2 months. Because I'm busy too, my manager insisted that I finally got twitter, fitting the month of fasting, my twitter name Ross. Initially Pake short name Anescot. Within three days until finally've 2 thousand 7 thousand , now my total new 20 thousand followers. Let me (fans) can keep the communication and closer to me, "he said when met at the show meet and great fans in PH Rossa, South Jakarta, some time ago.

Ross looked a little nervous when I have to perform and sing in front of my fantasies Jagat fans who numbered 50s person. He had a little forgotten by the lyrics. But fortunately she could cover up the mistake and overall performance continues to run well.

In an event held in PH, South Jakarta, also held competitions for fans like parody, karaoke songs Rossa and parody to portray a model for the songs.

When the second song, entitled Me Waiting, Ross collaborated with his son Rizky Sky Ramadan, along with two other small children. One of the child named Almira and is the smallest rossa lovers.

"Firstly because I'm clueless about computers, this is only 2 months. Because I'm busy too, my manager insisted that I finally got twitter, fitting the month of fasting, my twitter name Ross. Initially Pake short name Anescot. Within three days until finally've 2 thousand 7 thousand , now my total new 20 thousand followers. Let me (fans) can keep the communication and closer to me, "he said when met at the show meet and great fans in PH Rossa, South Jakarta, some time ago.

Ross looked a little nervous when I have to perform and sing in front of my fantasies Jagat fans who numbered 50s person. He had a little forgotten by the lyrics. But fortunately she could cover up the mistake and overall performance continues to run well.

In an event held in PH, South Jakarta, also held competitions for fans like parody, karaoke songs Rossa and parody to portray a model for the songs.

When the second song, entitled Me Waiting, Ross collaborated with his son Rizky Sky Ramadan, along with two other small children. One of the child named Almira and is the smallest rossa lovers.

After that, the singer who is familiar with the name calling in Ocha is the third song, entitled Embrace the Moon and the fourth song titled "Hey Ladies, followed by screening a melody of love Rossa concert in Kuala Lumpur

This works for real
Dark Choc is good for you

Eating as little as a quarter of an ounce or seven grams of chocolate each day -- an amount equal to about one small Easter egg -- may lower your risk of experiencing a heart attack or stroke, a new study has found. For best results, the chocolate should be dark, experts say and of about 70% coco.

"Dark chocolate exhibits the greatest effects, milk chocolate fewer, and white chocolate no effects," says the lead author of the study, Brian Buijsse, a nutritional epidemiologist at the German Institute of Human Nutrition, in Nuthetal, Germany.

In the study, Buijsse and his colleagues followed nearly 20,000 people for an average of eight years. The researchers surveyed the study participants about their chocolate consumption (as well as the rest of their diet), and also tracked the heart attacks and strokes that occurred in the group.

Compared with people who rarely ate chocolate (about one bar per month), the people who ate the most chocolate (slightly more than one bar per week) had a 27 percent and 48 percent reduced risk of heart attack and stroke, respectively, the researchers found.

The heart benefits observed in the study may be due in part to lower blood pressure, the study notes. Previous studies have suggested that eating chocolate can lower blood pressure, and the researchers observed a similar -- though less pronounced -- association in this study.

"The good news is that chocolate is not as bad as we used to think, and may even lower the risk of heart disease and stroke," says Buijsse. "The bad news, at least for some of us, is that the amounts that are needed to benefit from these effects appear to be quite low."

In other words, these findings don't mean that you should stuff yourself with chocolate Easter eggs. Chocolate is high in calories, and, as with any such food, eating too much of it can swell your waistline and harm your health in other ways.

"This is only one small egg per day," says Buijsse. "Eating higher amounts will most likely result in weight gain. If people start eating small amounts of chocolate, it should replace something else, preferably other high-calorie sweets or snacks."

The people in the study were part of a larger study on the effect of diet and lifestyle on cancer risk. For the current study, Buijsse and his colleagues excluded anyone with a history of heart disease or stroke, and also controlled for age, diet, lifestyle, and other factors. Still, they note that factors not recorded in the surveys -- rather than chocolate consumption alone -- could have been responsible for some or all of the health benefits they observed.

The study had some other important limitations. Most notably, the researchers did not determine whether the study participants ate dark, milk, or white chocolate.

Using one of the surveys administered during the study, the researchers estimated that 57 percent of the participants ate milk chocolate, 24 percent ate dark chocolate, and 2 percent ate white chocolate.

This data, however, came from a subset of just under 1,600 participants, so they are merely estimates that may not have been borne out in the full study population.

Experts believe that natural compounds known as flavonoids (or flavonols), which appear to promote artery health and reduce inflammation, are responsible for the cardiovascular benefits that have been associated with chocolate consumption.

Flavonals are found in cocoa, and dark chocolate contains more cocoa than milk chocolate does.

"The benefits of chocolate come from flavonoids, and those are mainly found in dark chocolate, not Easter eggs, which are usually milk chocolate and have a lot of saturated fat," says Julia Zumpano, a registered clinical dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic, in Ohio.

"I usually recommend less than one ounce of dark chocolate a day -- a tiny square -- for heart health," she adds. "The chocolate should be at least 70 percent cocoa with limited added sugar."

This study is merely the latest to point to the heart benefits of chocolate. In addition to lower blood pressure, cocoa consumption has been linked to improved blood vessel function, lower LDL (or bad cholesterol), and higher HDL (good cholesterol) in recent years.

Despite their findings, Buijsse and his colleagues caution that more research, namely randomized trials on the heart benefits of chocolate, is needed. Buijsse admits to being conservative about his own chocolate consumption.

"If I eat chocolate, which is not on a daily basis, I limit my intake to a small piece," he says.

Cliff rants about 'ugly Blade and Zuma's bastards'

Radio DJ and Idols judge Gareth Cliff appears to have entered the world of politics by launching a scathing attack on President Jacob Zuma and his government. Here is the letter published on his blog

Dear Government

OK, I get it, the President isn't the only one in charge. The ANC believes in "collective responsibility" (So that nobody has to get blamed when things get screwed up), so I address this to everyone in government - the whole lot of you - good, bad and ugly (That's you, Blade).

We were all so pleased with your renewed promises to deliver services (we'll forgive the fact that in some places people are worse off than in 1994); to root out corruption (so far your record is worse than under Mbeki, Mandela or the Apartheid regime - what with family members becoming overnight millionaires); and build infrastructure (State tenders going disgustingly awry and pretty stadia standing empty notwithstanding) - and with the good job you did when FIFA were telling you what to do for a few months this year. Give yourselves half a pat on the back. Since President Sepp went off with his billions I'm afraid we have less to be proud of - Public Servants Strikes, more Presidential bastard children, increasing unemployment and a lack of leadership that allowed the Unions to make the elected government it's bitch. You should be more than a little worried - but you're not. Hence my letter. Here are some things that might have passed you by:

1. You have to stop corruption. Don't stop it because rich people moan about it and because it makes poor people feel that you are self-enriching parasites of state resources, but because it is a disease that will kill us all. It's simple - there is only so much money left to be plundered. When that money runs out, the plunderers will raise taxes, chase and drain all the remaining cash out of the country and be left with nothing but the rotting remains of what could have been the greatest success story of post-colonial Africa. It's called corruption because it decomposes the fabric of society. When someone is found guilty of corruption, don't go near them - it's catchy. Making yourself rich at the country's expense is what colonialists do.

2. Stop complaining about the media. You're only complaining about them because they show you up for how little you really do or care. If you were trying really hard, and you didn't drive the most expensive car in the land, or have a nephew who suddenly went from modesty to ostentatious opulence, we'd have only positive things to report. Think of Jay Naidoo, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi and Zwelinzima Vavi - they come under a lot of fire, but it's never embarrassing - always about their ideas, their positions, and is perfectly acceptable criticism for people in power to put up with. When the media go after Blade Nzimande, Siphiwe Nyanda and the President, they say we need a new piece of legislation to "make the media responsible". That's because they're being humiliated by the facts we uncover about them daily, not because there is an agenda in some newsroom. If there had been a free press during the reigns of Henry VIII, Idi Amin or Hitler, their regimes might just have been kept a little less destructive, and certainly would have been less brazen and unchecked.

3. Education is a disaster. We're the least literate and numerate country in Africa. Zimbabwe produces better school results and turns out smarter kids than we do. Our youth aren't usemployed, they're unemployable. Outcomes-based-education, Teachers' Unions and an attitude of mediocrity that discourages excellence have reduced us to a laughing stock. Our learners can't spell, read, add or subtract. What are all these people going to do? Become President? There's only one job like that. We need clever people, not average or stupid ones. the failure of the Education Department happened under your watch. Someone who writes Matric now hadn't even started school under the Apartheid regime, so you cannot blame anyone but yourselves for this colossal cock-up. Fix it before three-quarters of our matrics end up begging on Oxford Road. Reward schools and teachers who deliver great pass rates and clever students into the system. Fire the teachers who march and neglect their classrooms.

4. Give up on BEE. It isn't working. Free shares for new black partnerships in old white companies has made everyone poorer except for Tokyo Sexwale. Giving people control of existing business won't make more jobs either. In fact, big companies aren't growing, they're reducing staff and costs. The key is entrepreneurship. People with initiative, creative ideas and small companies must be given tax breaks and assistance. Young black professionals must be encouraged to start their own businesses rather than join a big corporation's board as their token black shareholder or director. Government must also stop thinking that state employment is a way to decrease unemployment - it isn't - it's a tax burden. India and China are churning out new, brilliant, qualified people at a rate that makes us look like losers. South Africa has a proud history of innovation, pioneering and genius. This is the only way we can advance our society and economy beyond merely coping.

5. Stop squabbling over power. Offices are not there for you to occupy (or be deployed to) and aggrandize yourself. Offices in government are there to provide a service. If you think outrageous salaries, big German cars, first-class travel and state housing are the reasons to aspire to leadership, you're in the wrong business - you should be working for a dysfunctional, tumbledown parastatal (or Glenn Agliotti). We don't care who the Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces is if we don't have running water, electricity, schools and clean streets. You work for us. Do your job, don't imagine you ARE your job.

6. Stop renaming things. Build new things to name. If I live in a street down which the sewage runs, I don't care if it's called Hans Strijdom or Malibongwe. Calling it something nice and new won't make it smell nice and new. Re-branding is something Cell C do with Trevor Noah, not something you can whitewash your lack of delivery with.

7. Don't think you'll be in power forever. People aren't as stupid as you think we are. We know you sit around laughing about how much you get away with. We'll take you down, either at the polls - or if it comes down to the wire - by revolution (Yes, Julius, the real kind, not the one you imagine happened in 2008). Careless, wasteful and wanton government is a thing of the past. The days of thin propaganda and idealized struggle are over. The people put you in power - they will take you out of it. Africa is tired of tin-pot dictators, one-party states and banana republics. We know who we are now, we care about our future - and so should you.

G

See original Letter here Garethcliff - Letter

Kevin Richardson plays with white lions at a park in South Africa. The lions seem to love him.

Animal behaviourist Kevin Richardson says he relies on instinct to win the hearts and form an intimate bond with the big cats. He can spend the night curled up with them without the slightest fear of being attacked. His magic works not only work for lions but other animals such as cheetahs, leopards and even hyenas do not hold a threat against him. Lions are his favourites and its a wonder how he can play, caress, cuddle with them whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through thick steel. Its a dangerous job but to Kevin, its more of a passion for him.