Bouncing baby falls 20ft out of second-floor window... and survives without a scratch

A mother today told how her baby 'bounced' to safety after plunging 20ft from a window.
Dawn Longhurst, 22, feared the worst when 20-month-old Callum fell from their second floor home - but landed unscathed on a patch of grass in Brighton, East Sussex.
The baby boy was rushed to hospital and kept in overnight for CT scans and X rays, but doctors at the Royal Sussex County Hospital could find nothing wrong with him.
Experts said Callum dodged injury because his supple bones effectively bounced on impact.
Dawn said Callum had been playing with his toys in their lounge when he fell out of the window while she was fetching her mobile from the kitchen on Thursday afternoon last week.
She said: 'We were in the sitting room and Callum was playing on the floor with his toys.
'I went into the kitchen to get my phone and when I came back in he was gone.
'I was only out of the room for a couple of seconds but that was enough time for him to disappear.
'He often hides from me so I checked behind the sofa but then my instincts told me to look out of the window.'
In the seconds that she was out of the room, Callum had climbed onto a coffee table and then onto a sofa before falling from the open window.
Dawn said today: 'I could see him outside. My heart was in my mouth.
'I rushed down to him and picked him up and brought him back upstairs.
'He was crying and screaming but the doctors later told me this was a good sign.
'I tried to comfort him but he was so upset and was holding his arm and his leg.
'The doctors were great. They told me the reason he wasn't injured was because he is so young and has supple bones so he effectively bounced.
'It's a miracle'Read

Apple Sells Over One Million iPhone 3GS Models

CUPERTINO, California—June 22, 2009—Apple® today announced that it has sold over one million iPhone™ 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. In addition, six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release.

“Customers are voting and the iPhone is winning,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over 50,000 applications available from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever.”

The new iPhone 3GS is the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including improved speed and performance—up to twice as fast as iPhone 3G—with longer battery life, a high-quality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control. iPhone 3GS includes the new iPhone OS 3.0, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 100 new features such as Cut, Copy and Paste, MMS*, Spotlight™ Search, landscape keyboard and more. iPhone 3GS customers get access to more than 50,000 applications from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, the largest application store in the world where customers have already downloaded over one billion apps. iPhone 3GS offers twice the capacity for the same price with a 16GB model for just $199 and a new 32GB model for just $299.** And iPhone 3G is available at the breakthrough price of just $99 for the 8GB model—a huge milestone for the high end smartphone market.

*MMS messaging is available only on iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS; fees may apply. MMS may not be available in all areas. MMS support from AT&T will be available in late summer.
**Qualified customers only. Requires a new two year AT&T rate plan, sold separately. -->
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Rs. 70,000 for curing fever!

Tense: A file picture of a parent and child awaiting a dengue report at a hospital.

Bangalore: Can you imagine that a fever and runny nose as well as the common seasonal infections can make you poorer by several thousand rupees?

The parents of Anusha, a nine-year-old, have spent nearly Rs. 70,000 in the last one month on getting her treated for fever and vomiting. Anusha’s problems began with high fever and nausea. A nursing home in Basaveshwarnagar here pronounced that she had viral gastritis. When her condition did not improve, her parents took her to a corporate hospital, where the initial diagnosis was Hepatitis ‘A’, which then became “throat and urinary tract infection” and finally dengue. “Apart from the fact that we had to spend nearly Rs. 70,000, we also had a harrowing experience because of the tension. My wife gets worried even if my daughter sneezes now,” Anusha’s father A.B. Satish said.

Similarly, Nazarulla, a resident of Sultanpalya, had to spend Rs. 6,000 to get treated for fever and related infections at a small nursing home in his area, something he could barely afford. His friend told this correspondent that the nursing home charged him Rs. 1,500 as “professional tax”. The same corporate hospital told another patient that he was suffering from a urinary infection and billed him Rs. 27,000 for a series of tests. The poor man did not get better and eventually went to his native place, Kerala. His doctor there told him it was only a case of simple food poisoning.

These are just a few examples of people paying through their nose to have common ailments treated. With the present weather in Tech City being conducive for viruses and allergens to thrive, hundreds of people are reporting fever, cold and upper respiratory tract infections. Most of them are being diagnosed by hospitals with chikungunya and dengue.

With the virus culture and serological tests being too time-consuming (culture takes a month and serological tests take nearly three weeks), doctors are diagnosing patients clinically and treating them symptomatically. “Probably that is why the treatment gets prolonged and the result is exorbitant costs,” said a disgusted Mr. Satish.

Doctors, on their part, justify treatment based on clinical judgment. “We start symptomatic treatment immediately because the results usually arrive only after the symptoms subside. We have been seeing at least 50 to 60 cases a day with complaints of high fever, sore throat, body ache and vomiting,” H. Paramesh, paediatric pulmonologist at Lakeside Medical Centre and Hospital told The Hindu on Saturday.

Head of Neonatology in Manipal Hospital N. Karthik Nagesh, who has seen at least 12 confirmed dengue cases in the last one month, said: “Though most of the cases show symptoms of dengue and chikungunya, there are some strains of virus that we have not been able to identify. We get the culture and serology tests done only if it is inevitable. But we have no fatalities so far,” Dr. Nagesh said.

Just a dream written down

A friend i knew Wrote this couple of years back, he lives in a completely new world now, This Posting is for him and his memories :)

February 10

just a dream wrriten down

I saw her for the first time
Like a dove left alone
But her smile was cutest of all,
Her face sparkled brighter than diamond
Her beauty marked an angel in her glory
And I knew she was mine
We walked and talked,
Holding hand like birds in the flight
She told she knew only Chinese n a bit of English
And it wasn’t a problem to me
n' in the end she looked into my eyes
Deep in and with a shyly smile n' voice
She told "I think I love u”
That was all I wanted hear from her
I then saw her no more
I woke up; I knew it was a dream
but I have never seen an angel as such
n' I know its just a dream
Will it come into reality????/

/me signin out with confusion

Original Publish: 10th Feb 2006 (Writer : Max)
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	just a dream wrriten down		February 10 8:09 PM