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what caught my eye today
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02 Mar 2009 Mon 12:49 am |
long live spring!
though we have snow round here... until it melts, roses will blossom.
(i hope Libra will not move this topic to my poems-passages )
spring is coming
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2811. |
02 Mar 2009 Mon 01:31 am |
long live spring!
though we have snow round here... until it melts, roses will blossom.
(i hope Libra will not move this topic to my poems-passages )
ehh...libra is too down to earth..spring will not touch her ,i think
Edited (3/2/2009) by adana
[ehh..bad spooling..]
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02 Mar 2009 Mon 03:03 am |
Victorian bushfire survivor, Sam the koala, a global star
Mr Tree said he was in the middle of backburning at Mirboo North when he saw the stricken koala.
"I could see she had sore feet and was in trouble, so I pulled over the fire truck. She just plonked herself down, as if to say ´I´m beat´," he said.
"I offered her a drink and she drank three bottles.
"The most amazing part was when she grabbed my hand. I will never forget that."

I want a Koala!
Beautiful! Thank you. Humans can be so nice sometimes.
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02 Mar 2009 Mon 04:10 pm |
Real Mermaid
A woman who lost both her legs as a child has been turned into a mermaid by the Lord of the Rings special effects team so she can go swimming.
Nadya Vessey was born with a condition that meant her legs would never develop properly ..



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new....d-tail-to-help-her-swim.html
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02 Mar 2009 Mon 11:53 pm |
Some facts about eye color
"You probably knew that brown is the most common eye color worldwide, but did you know that green is by far the rarest? In fact, less than 2 percent of the global population possesses green eyes. As a country, Turkey has the highest percentage of citizens who have green eyes, at 20 percent. There are a number of countries – generally located in Asia, South America, and the Middle East – where green eyes are almost completely absent among the population."
Did you know that blue eyes are the most common eye color for Caucasians"
Don´t know if this caught your attention when you visited Turkey.
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 12:20 am |
Some facts about eye color
"You probably knew that brown is the most common eye color worldwide, but did you know that green is by far the rarest? In fact, less than 2 percent of the global population possesses green eyes. As a country, Turkey has the highest percentage of citizens who have green eyes, at 20 percent. There are a number of countries – generally located in Asia, South America, and the Middle East – where green eyes are almost completely absent among the population."
Did you know that blue eyes are the most common eye color for Caucasians"
Don´t know if this caught your attention when you visited Turkey.
Interesting.... I also understand that the brown eye gene is more dominent so that if a blue eyed and brown eyed couple have a child, he/she will usually have brown eyes 
Edited (3/3/2009) by TheAenigma
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2816. |
03 Mar 2009 Tue 12:39 am |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhX1tvTgqC8&feature=PlayList&p=5E2E348FE2BE5925&playnext=1&index=10
Jan Svankmajer - Dimensions of Dialogue
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 12:52 am |
Interesting.... I also understand that the brown eye gene is more dominent so that if a blue eyed and brown eyed couple have a child, he/she will usually have brown eyes 
Brown is dominent to blue eye, but the standard eye color theory tells that the mother and the father have two eye color allenes in their genes.
B= brown eye allele
b = blue eye allele
If his/her eye color genes are BB, then it´s a very high probability that with a blue eyed person which is bb, he/she will have a brown eyed child, but if the brown eyed person have genes as Bb, which means that pysically he has brown eyes but genetically half of its eye color genes are blue, it just does not reflect to his pysical apperance. So, in this case, with a blue eyed person (bb), the probability of having a blue eyed child is two times higher than the probability of having a brown eyed child. With this theory, even two brown eyed person if both of them have Bb genes, can have blue eyed child.
Though, this theory is very simplistic, and it does not explain the color variations and some eye colors such as "hazel" (which is not one color in fact but a mixture of different colors). Now, it´s thought that the eye color determining allenes are more than two and the process is much more complicated.
Edited (3/3/2009) by mltm
Edited (3/3/2009) by mltm
Edited (3/3/2009) by mltm
Edited (3/3/2009) by mltm
[my attempts to add a picture failed]
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2818. |
03 Mar 2009 Tue 12:57 am |
Some facts about eye color
Don´t know if this caught your attention when you visited Turkey.
Actually what caught my eye in Turkey were not green but brownish eyes. Not really brown but more like honey, I haven´t seen that colour in Europe. I liked it a lot.
Hmm..I´m blue-eyed, Mr Daydreamer is brown-eyed and I wonder what colour our son inherited. For now he´s got blue eyes but I´ve heard that it may change...
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 12:59 am |
Brown is dominent to blue eye, but the standard eye color theory tells that the mother and the father have two eye color allenes in their genes.
B= brown eye allele
b = blue eye allele
If his/her eye color genes are BB, then it´s a very high probability that with a blue eyed person which is bb, he/she will have a brown eyed child, but if the brown eyed person have genes as Bb, which means that pysically he has brown eyes but genetically half of its eye color genes are blue, it just does not reflect to his pysical apperance. So, in this case, with a blue eyed person (bb), the probability of having a blue eyed child is two times higher than the probability of having a brown eyed child. With this theory, even two brown eyed person if both of them have Bb genes, can have blue eyed child.
Though, this theory is very simplistic, and it does not explain the color variations and some eye colors such as "hazel" (which is not one color in fact but a mixture of different colors). Now, it´s thought that the eye color determining allenes are more than two and the process is much more complicated.
Very interesting....it explains a great deal...but what about green eyes? From what little research on the matter I´ve done, it seems Neanderthal had green eyes. Aren´t blue eyes are a relatively recent mutation?
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03 Mar 2009 Tue 01:10 am |
Actually what caught my eye in Turkey were not green but brownish eyes. Not really brown but more like honey, I haven´t seen that colour in Europe. I liked it a lot.
Hmm..I´m blue-eyed, Mr Daydreamer is brown-eyed and I wonder what colour our son inherited. For now he´s got blue eyes but I´ve heard that it may change...
DD..
Gosh!!
My blood started travel very fast in my body now..
I will send you a close range picture of my eyes..
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