PALAVER - Say Your Piece

With myriad of new events taken place in the country and around the world, blog sphere becomes the immediate threshold to purvey the news and information to the readers.

PALAVER - Say Your Piece, will be the mouthpiece for the dissemination of information, opinions and happenings in and around the country.

Your participation by giving your point of view and comments are welcomed indeed!

Look out for the first segment of PALAVER which will be coming soon.

XINJIANG RIOT

URUMQI, July 6 (Xinhua) - Xinjiang Communist Party of China (CPC) chief Wang Lequan said Monday the riot in Urumqi revealed the violent and terrorist nature of the separatist World Uyghur Congress leader Rebiya Kadeer.

"The riot has destroyed the spiritual support with which the terrorist, separatist and extremist forces cheated the people to participate in the so-called 'Jihad'," Wang said in an interview with Xinjiang TV.

"The incident also revealed Rebiya's nature of fake human rights, fake democracy, true violence and true terrorism," he said.

Wang called the riot a profound lesson learned in blood and said all Party members should take the strongest measures to deal with the enemies' attempt at sabotage and keep regional stability.

"We must always bear in mind that national unity is our lifeline," he said.

Netizens condemn biased reporting on riots.

BEIJING, July 9 -- Netizens slammed some Western media, including CNN, for biased reporting about the riots in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, which left 156 people dead.

After analyzing the structure, selection of sources, and wording choice, some netizens urged Western media to stop repeating their mistakes in covering the Lhasa riots last year.

Some western media blamed the government and security forces for the violence, without even mentioning the brutal killings by those rioters, netizens said. The CNN report, "Unrest among Uyghur residents in China" (July 7, 2009), mainly used one anonymous witness and a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress as the news source, portraying the event as a bloody crackdown over the peaceful protestors.

XINJIANG RIOT

Death toll has risen to 156 following the Sunday evening riot in Urumqi, Capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

By Tuesday morning that the dead included 129 men and 27 women while 1,080 people were injured in the riot.

A Lizard Floored A Grown Man

It is just amazing to see how a grown man is floored by a lizard. It is hilarious and such unexpected situation can happen to you and me.

It is the slimy feeling that makes most of us crunched!

Video Clip: Estrelita

The Most Poisonous

The Top Ten most poisonous animals carry harmful chemicals called toxins. Usually, these toxins are used for defense, and are stored in the skin or in special glands that are designed to hurt, kill or slow down would-be predators. They deliver their toxins by stinging, stabbing, or biting.

Poisonous creatures have no intent to hurt other creatures, which is why they have bright colors and markings that send a clear message of its fatality.

If a predator ignores that warning, he might not get a second chance. One swallow, or even a little taste testing, and it is all over. The toxin will stop the heart or lungs from working and death will follow.

How To Keep Healthy Butts

Video Clip: Angela Ooi

Physical exercises are important to the body. No matter how and where exercises are done, as long as they benefit the body, then the time spent is worth it.

However, to have firm buttock cheeks, the song, These Boots Are Made For Walking is appropriate for such exercise.

Not only such exercise is excellent for butts, but also an avenue to test the eyesight of the males. If your right and left eyes can twitch to syncronize with her right and left butt cheeks, then you have perfect 20-20 vision, otherwise get your eyes tested.

The Life Cycle Of A Chick

Through natural mating, better fertility will result when mating occurs after the hen has laid a hard shell egg.

What goes on inside the egg will be the transformation of nature.



Fertilization in commercial chickens is usually the result of natural mating. However, in some cases, artificial insemination is commonly practised.

The rooster (like man) will initiate mating by exhibiting courtship behaviour: dropping one wing and dancing in a circle (the lowered wing will be on the inside of the circle dance).

The hen will crouch (dip her head and body) to indicate receptiveness to the male. The rooster will then mount the hen and grab her comb, neck feathers, or the skin on the back of her head or neck to help hold onto the hen's back.

The next behaviour is the tread (the rooster walks quickly in place on the hen's back) and finally the completed mating of the behavioural sequence. The completed mating occurs when the rooster dips his tail to the side of the hen's tail and spreads his tail feathers so that their cloacae come into contact. At this point the rooster's ejaculate is released directly into the hen's vagina via her cloaca.

A rooster may mate from 10 to 30 or more times per day (for males born in the year of the rooster, eat your heart out), depending on the availability of hens and competition from other roosters.

Photos contributed by: Wong Pei Tjin