Creative Farmer Makes Herself a Gorgeous Wedding Dress Out of 40 Discarded Cement Bags


A creative female farmer in China recently broke the internet with a gorgeous wedding dress she made out of 40 cement bags leftover after repairing her country house.

28-year-old Lili Tan has never taken fashion design courses, and spends most of her time farming, not creating wedding gowns, but looking at the amazing dress she created on a rainy day, when she couldn’t work in the fields, you could swear she makes dresses and accessories for a living. Using 40 discarded cement bags, the contents of which had gone toward renovating her village house near Longnan city, in China’s Gangsu province, Tan was able to create an elaborate wedding dress like the ones she saw in magazines, an impressive train for it, as well as a fancy hat. She showed them off on social media in a video which instantly went viral with several millions of views.


“I did not expect the overwhelming response online, it’s such a nice surprise,” the amateur fashion designer told Pear Video, jokingly adding that “I could probably get more likes and views online if I were prettier”.

Even so, the 28-year-old’s video got over 5 million views in China and is now doing the rounds on western social media as well. People just can’t get enough of her cement bag dress and accessories, and the fact that she created them all in just three hours, out of boredom, because it was raining and she couldn’t work the fields just adds to their charm.

And just in case you’re wondering, Lilil Tan will not be using her unusual wedding dress at her own wedding, as she has been happily married since 2012, and also has a son.
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Planet Nine DOES exist: 'Eternally optimistic' astronomers say we WILL find evidence of the mysterious world but warn it could be 'essentially invisible' to current telescopes

It is one of the biggest mysteries in the universe - and could be hiding in plain sight.

Many astronomers are still convinced 'Planet Nine' exists beyond Jupiter.

'Every time we take a picture,' Surhud More, an astronomer at the University of Tokyo told the Washington Post, 'there is this possibility that Planet Nine exists in the shot.'

While evidence for its existence stacks up, no telescope has yet been able to spot it.


Astronomers are still convinced a mysterious 'Planet Nine' exists beyond Jupiter. 'Every time we take a picture,' Surhud More, an astronomer at the University of Tokyo told the Washington Post, 'there is this possibility that Planet Nine exists in the shot.'
Michael Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, says he feels 'eternally optimistic' that someone will soon find it - but experts say it could be essentially invisible to existing observatories.

'It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the orbits of distant bodies, perhaps even tilting the entire solar system to one side,' NASA said. 

Astronomers have debated whether an elusive ninth planet orbits beyond Pluto for years, but a recent study may finally prove the mysterious world is real.

Researchers spotted a distant rocky object that they suggest was pushed into an 'extraordinary orbit' by the gravitational pull of an uncharted planet.

They say that their finding bolsters the ever-convincing case that a so-called 'Planet Nine' exists. 

Planet Nine was first theorised by experts at Caltech in 2016 when they spotted that a group of icy objects on the edges of the solar system have tilted orbits.

They suggested the orbits of these lumps of ice - so-called Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) - were warped by the gravitational pull of a ninth planet in the solar system.


An undiscovered world may be lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system. Astronomers have debated whether an elusive 'Planet Nine' (artist's impression) orbits beyond Pluto for years, but a new study may finally prove the mysterious world is real 
The objects had elliptical orbits that pointed in the same direction and were tilted 30 degrees 'downward' compared to the plane in which planets circle the sun. 

While Planet Nine has never been spotted, a number of astronomers - including scientists at Nasa - have since released research that supports the theory.

In a new paper a group of experts led by the University of Michigan describe a distant object that they spotted in 2014 that could be as large as a dwarf planet.

WHAT IS MYSTERIOUS 'PLANET X'?
Astronomers believe that the orbits of a number of bodies in the distant reaches of the solar system have been disrupted by the pull of an as yet unidentified planet.

First proposed by a group at CalTech in the US, this alien world was theorised to explain the distorted paths seen in distant icy bodies.

In order to fit in with the data they have, this alien world - popularly called Planet Nine - would need to be roughly four time the size of Earth and ten times the mass.

Researchers say a body of this size and mass would explain the clustered paths of a number of icy minor planets beyond Neptune.

Its huge orbit would mean it takes between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make a single pass around the sun. 

The theoretical Planet Nine is based on the gravitational pull it exerts on these bodies, with astronomers confident it will be found in the coming years.

Those hoping for theoretical Earth-sized planets proposed by astrologers or science fiction writers - which are 'hiding behind the sun' and linked with Doomsday scenarios - may have to keep searching.

The rocky body, dubbed 2015 BP519, peaked the team's interest because its orbit is unusually tilted away from the plane that most objects that orbit the sun lie.

They used computer simulations of the solar system to explore how this strange trajectory may have arisen.

Simulations where our star system had eight planets did not reproduce 2015 BP519's tilted orbit.

When researchers added a ninth planet that matched the properties of those proposed by the Caltech researchers, the simulation reproduced 2015 BP519's current orbit almost exactly.

'It's not proof that Planet Nine exists,' Professor David Gerdes, an astronomer at the University of Michigan and a co-author on the new paper, told Quanta.

'But I would say the presence of an object like this in our solar system bolsters the case for Planet Nine.'


This image shows the orbit of 2015 BP519 (blue) as well as other TNOs as comparisons. For each orbit, the darker regions on the curve show where an object falls below the plane of the solar system. 2015 BP519 has the highest inclination of any extreme TNO discovered to date
The study adds to piling evidence for the existence of Planet Nine, though astronomers remain latched to their telescopes in search of the object.

In October 2017 Nasa weighed in on the debate, highlighting five different lines of evidence pointing to the existence of the object.

It said that imagining that Planet Nine does not exist generates more problems than it solves.


In 2016, researchers examined the orbits of six objects in a distant region of icy bodies stretching beyond Neptune. The objects had orbits that point in the same direction and are tilted 30° 'downward' compared to the solar plane in which the eight planets circle the sun
Dr Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech in Pasadena, whose team is closing in on finding Planet Nine, said: 'There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine.

'If you were to remove this explanation and imagine Planet Nine does not exist, then you generate more problems than you solve.

'All of a sudden, you have five different puzzles, and you must come up with five different theories to explain them.'

Researchers are now using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii in the hopes of finding Planet Nine, and hope that its detection will also shed light on its origin. 

In 2016, Dr Batygin published a study that examined the orbits of six objects in the Kuiper Belt - a distant region of icy bodies stretching from Neptune outward toward interstellar space.

His findings revealed that the objects all had elliptical orbits that point in the same direction and are tilted 30 degrees 'downward' compared to the plane in which the eight planets circle the sun.

To investigate this further, the researchers used computer simulations of the solar system with Planet Nine included, and showed that there should be more objects tilted at 90 degrees to the plane of the eight planets.

The team realised that five objects already known to astronomers fit the bill.

Following this study, two more clues emerged about Planet Nine.

A second article by Dr Batygin's team, led by Ms Elizabeth Bailey, showed that Planet Nine could have tilted the planets of our solar system during the last 4.5 billion years.

Dr Batygin said: 'Over long periods of time, Planet Nine will make the entire solar-system plane precess or wobble, just like a top on a table.'

Finally, the researchers demonstrate how Planet Nine's presence could explain why Kuiper Belt objects orbit in the opposite direction from everything else in the solar system.

Dr Batygin said: 'No other model can explain the weirdness of these high-inclination orbits. It turns out that Planet Nine provides a natural avenue for their generation.

'These things have been twisted out of the solar system plane with help from Planet Nine and then scattered inward by Neptune.'

The researchers now hope to find Planet Nine itself using the Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, which they describe as the 'best tool' for the job.

Dr Batygin added: 'I think Planet Nine's detection will tell us something about its origin.'
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Woman Gets Arrested for Sheltering and Treating Pets During Hurricane


They say no good deed goes unpunished, and this kindhearted North-Carolina woman who took in dozens of abandoned pets as Hurricane Florence ravaged the US state is a prime example of that. She was arrested and is now facing several misdemeanor charges for practicing veterinary medicine without a license.

As Hurricane Florence was getting ready to make landfall in North Caroline, Tammie Hedges decided to turn a warehouse she had been remodeling into a shelter for pets. Pets came from the streets, where they were picked up by volunteers, but also from their owners, who had to evacuate but couldn’t take their animals with them. All in all, she sheltered 27 pets – 17 cats and 10 dogs – during the storm, and also administered some medical treatments to ensure their well-being. But whereas most people considered her actions an act of kindness to animals, local authorities saw them as a violation of the law and charged her with several misdemeanors.


On September 17, three days after Florence hit Wayne County, an Animal Services official visited Hedges’ warehouse at the request of the state Department of Agriculture. He apparently reported “serious concerns” that Tammie Hedges was practicing veterinary medicine without a license.

According to the Facebook page of Crazy’s Claws n Paws, a non-profit founded by Hedges, she had indeed administered medications such as amoxicillin and a topical antibiotic ointment to the animals, but only because she had to. One of the cats brought in by volunteers was bleeding from a wound at the neck, while others were seriously neglected and infested with fleas.

“She had to do what she did. If she hadn’t done what she did, then they’ll be charging her with animal neglect and cruelty. … The Wayne County animal shelter has taken issue with that because it wasn’t a hundred percent by the book and by the law,” said Kathie Davidson, a volunteer with Crazy’s Claws n Paws.

“What was she supposed to do?” Davidson asked The Washington Post. “The animals were sick and hurting. We just want to help animals, we don’t want to do anything wrong.”

The animals sheltered by Tammie Hedges basically had nowhere else to go. All veterinary offices in the area had closed before Florence struck, and it was impossible to transfer the 27 pets to the only emergency clinic in Wayne County during the storm. But authorities didn’t seem to care much about these details. To them, it was just about the violation of the law.

Control officers told Hedges that she was breaking the law by operating a shelter without a permit, and they took the animals away to be reunited with their owners, which the woman did not oppose. However, that was not the end of the story. On Friday, Tammie Hedges was arrested and charged with multiple misdemeanors. She was soon released on a $10,000 bond, but news of her arrest for helping animals when no one else would rallied people behind her.

Hedges was notified that she was due to appear in court on October 17, but following a public outcry – including a petition signed by over 26,000 people – on September 25 she was made aware that the charges against her had been dismissed. Also, a campaign on crowdfunding site GoFundMe raised over $40,000 toward a new Crazy’s Claws n Paws shelter.

“She loves animals and wants to help them. … She takes it to heart. She cries for days when she loses an animal,” Davidson said about Tammie Hedges. “We just want to go back to what we do. … That’s our mission now, to get past this, to get back to doing what we do.”
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Couple Leave 5-Year-Old Boy Alone in the Woods as Punishment for Wetting Himself


A Minnesota couple has been accused of abandoning a 5-year-old child in the woods as punishment for wetting his pants. The couple did reportedly come back for the boy after driving away a short distance, but couldn’t find him.

Lynda Michel and Gregory Wilson can kiss away their chances of winning a parents of the year award after showing off their parenting skills – or lack thereof – late last month, when they left a young child all by himself in a forest to teach him a lesson after he reportedly wet himself. The couple allegedly came back to get him after driving off a short distance, but the boy was nowhere to be found. He was spotted by a motorist on Aug. 28 walking along a highway south of St. Peter in Minnesota, all wet and sobbing.


When asked by police how he had ended up all by himself, the 5-year-old said that he had been dropped off by his mom and dad because he had been “naughty”. Wilson, who is the child biological father, and his partner Michel were still searching for him when they were found by police, but they had yet to report his disappearance. A third adult, who was in the car when the couple abandoned the boy, told authorities that he had tried tried talking them out of it, but  failed.

“Multiple black and blue and red bruises” were found on the boy’s back, buttocks and hips, indicating that he had been caused over a longer period of time. Wilson admitted to regularly spanking the boy with an open hand. He and his partner charges of gross misdemeanor malicious punishment of a child and misdemeanor domestic assault. The 5-year-old boy was taken into protective custody and is currently in foster care.

So the next time you feel like leaving your child all alone in the woods, no matter how naughty he\she is, don’t, just don’t!
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Low-Tech Tinder – Hong Kong Vending Machine Helps Singles Find Dates

Vending machines are unequivocally renouned in Asia, with businesses regulating them to sell usually about anything, even live crabs. However, one Honk Kong businessman has found a approach to take vending machines to a whole new level, by conceptualizing one that sells dates to singles looking for a low-tech choice to online dating services like Tinder.
The “Fate Capsule” vending machine outside BT Reptile, a tiny pet store in Kowloon’s Shek Kip Mei neighborhood, perceived worldwide courtesy progressing this year, when word of a strange judgment went viral online. It’s fundamentally a multi-tiered vending appurtenance with apart compartments for group and women that dispenses colored cosmetic capsules containing a strike sum of singles looking for love. All we have to do is insert HK$20 ($2.5) in coins, and it will separate out a predestine plug with a outline and strike information of a impending date.



The regretful vending appurtenance was brought to Hong Kong by Ben Tang, a owners of BT Reptile, after creatively saying a same judgment turn renouned in Taiwan. He is also a one who, along with his girlfriend, spends adult to 5 hours vetting people who wish their sum combined into a predestine capsules. Such possibilities can leave their information – name, age, height, weight, hobbies, and a brief self-introduction – in a Google document, a couple to that is on his Facebook page, and he will afterwards strike them on WeChat to determine that they are who they explain to be and to make certain “they don’t act too weirdly”.
Tang launched a Fate Capsule vending appurtenance usually before Valentine’s Day, and it shortly became a outrageous hit. Local news stations started essay about it, videos of people perplexing their fitness with predestine capsules widespread on amicable media, and soon, a owners had to extent a series of capsules sole per day, usually to say a regretful sense of his device.
“I can simply sell some-more than 1,000 capsules any singular day if we wish to,” Ben Tang told Coconuts Hong Kong. “But I’d rather not. we like to see people come by accidentally when they are free; It feels some-more destined.”
Tang says that by determining a series of predestine capsules that a appurtenance dispenses any day, and manually selecting whose strike information goes into a cosmetic capsules, he wants to delayed down a speed of blind dating and boost people’s chances of success.
If dozens of people supplement we in one day, we will feel zero yet disturbed. But we wish them to have adequate time to unequivocally know any other,” he said. “When people start to use dating apps, a initial sense they will substantially have is like, ‘wow that’s too much’. There’s unequivocally no time to know any chairman we accommodate good adequate to cruise dating.”
While a recognition of a Fate Capsule vending appurtenance is undeniable, it also has a share of critics. Several people have taken to Facebook, withdrawal bad reviews and describing it as a ‘fraud’, arguing that dates possibly never supposed their loyalty ask on WeChat or cut off strike abruptly. Obviously, this isn’t something Bent Tang can control and we feel it’s a risk that comes with a territory.

However, a trustworthiness of a use isn’t a usually thing people have been angry about. Privacy issues have been lifted as good after people’s private strike information was blatantly common on sites like YouTube.
But a debate seems to have usually increased a success of a Fate Capsule, so most so that other entrepreneurs in Hong Kong have already launched copies of it. Tang isn’t too endangered about that though.
“I am a initial one to move plug fondle dating to Hong Kong. I’ve built my code now. Of march there will be people stirring things up. we see this as a intensity business opportunity,” a owners of BT Reptile said.

While a good aged vending appurtenance is doubtful to ever plea a leverage of renouned online dating apps like Tinder, it’s transparent that some people cruise a Fate Capsule thought a lovable and distant some-more regretful alternative.

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World’s First Illuminated Baseball Lets You Play Catch in the Dark


Ever wish you could play a game of catch at night, without needing a powerful light source? Well, with the new SparkCatch LED-illuminated baseball, now you can.

SparkCatch, aka Meteor Baseball, is the brainchild of two Chinese baseball enthusiasts who spent over four years trying to come up with a solution that would allow like-minded baseball fans play the beautiful game anytime, even in the dead of night, without proper lighting. After years of researching materials and concepts, about 100 tests and three generations of prototypes, the two young entrepreneurs managed to come up with an illuminated baseball that can actually withstand being hit with a baseball bat.


Link, one of the co-founders of SparkCatch started working on an illuminated baseball in 2013, despite all of his friends telling him it couldn’t be done. That year, he created his first prototype, which looked beautiful when thrown in the dark, but broke after just the second throw. But the failure didn’t demoralize Link, who, by 2014 already had another prototype and had met Tim, the company’s other co-founder, a designer with fund-raising experience. Together, they would go on to create the world’s first illuminated baseball.


The SparkCatch has the same leather exterior and stitching as a regular baseball, but it’s actually made of an elastic material that is able to withstand bat hit at up to 140km/h without breaking or allowing the electronic components inside to be damaged. Even if water somehow finds its way inside the ball, it can be used again as soon as it dries up, or so its creators claim, anyway.


The lighting components are what make the SparkCatch baseball unique, so its developers have dedicated most of their research to it. The arrangement and the size of the holes through which light is emitted have been tested hundreds of times, as have the number and types of LEDs. Ultimately, the ball was equipped with 4 high-efficiency LED bulbs with a lighting power of 100 lumens.

The SparkCatch baseball is powered by a 23A battery which provides up to 10 hours of use. I assume the battery is rechargeable, although I have not been able to find any information on this, so I’m just speculating.


SparkCatch is currently only available in China and Taiwan, but the company has plans to expand to foreign markets in the future. Until then, you can always import your illuminated baseballs.
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The Puzzling Case of an Orange That Turned Purple Overnight

Australian food scientists are scratching their heads about an orange that turned bright purple just hours after being sliced open. The bizarrely-colored fruit has been collected as forensic evidence but so far no one can explain what caused the coloring.

The mysterious orange was purchased last week by Neti Moffitt, a resident of Brisbane, from a fruit and vegetable market. She planned to use it as a snack for her two-year-old son and claims that the fruit looked and smelled normal. It was only after leaving a piece of it out overnight that she noticed the bright purple coloring spreading on the orange pulp. After searching online for answers, Moffitt stumbled on a 2015 article that mentioned a similar case, where someone had bought an orange from a fruit market only to see it turn purple hours after being cut.


“It looks like someone’s dipped it on an ink pad, which I guarantee you we haven’t,” Neti Moffitt told ABC.net.au. “I went rifling through the rubbish bin for the three bits eaten by my son, and sure enough they were more-so purple than the ones left out on the bench. My first thought was I hope it has had no ill effect on my child. But he’s fine, absolutely not a drama.”

After reading about the case of the purple orange that left food scientists baffled in 2015, the Brisbane mother called health authorities about her own purple fruit, and sure enough, scientists showed up at her house to collect the orange pieces as well as any items that came into contact with them, hoping to finally crack the mystery.

“The gentleman who came to collect it was very, very excited,” Moffitt said. “He was aware of the case three years ago, and he’d spoken to the chemist who tested the orange three years ago and said ‘look, I think we’ve got another one’.”

That first case of an orange turning purple left scientists with no answers. Their tests for artificial food dyes came back negative, as did those of iodine. Samples were also sent to a lab specialized in molecular biology, but their analysis didn’t yield any answers either. There was speculation that the purple coloring was caused by some sort of contamination in the home of the person who had purchased the oranges, rather than the fruit itself, but that was never confirmed.


This time, scientists were careful to take everything into consideration, hoping to crack the puzzle.

The orange also leaked some purple onto the vine of a lemon I had cut open in the fruit vine. So they took that also,” Muffitt said. They were really curious with fruit trees we have in our garden. I also have a bunch of roses besides the fruit bowl, so they took that into consideration. But they’re baffled, they’re absolutely stumped. No-one knows what caused it.”

A Queensland Health spokeswoman confirmed that the samples had been collected and that they are currently being analyzed. So far, no explanation for the unexplained ink-like coloring has been released.
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Artist Carves Incredible Life-Size Sculpture of Arnold Schwarzenegger Out of a Single Tree Trunk


Arnold Schwarzenegger has been honored with several statues throughout his long and successful career, but few as impressive as the one recently carved by wood sculptor James O’Neal out of a single black oak trunk.

Standing at 1.88 meters, the statue took O’Neal six months to complete, and bears an uncanny resemblance to the “Austrian Oak” in his prime years, when he won back to back Mr Olympia titles. From his signature vacuum pose, to his 70’s hairdo and even the veins on his arms, the sculpture captures the look of Arnold Schwarzenegger almost to perfection. The entire process of shaping the black oak trunk into an ultra-realistic sculpture of the bodybuilding legend was documented on James O’Neal’s Instagram.


“This piece of black oak has the craziest grain of anything I’ve ever carved,” O’Neal wrote. “Burls, knots, bark, bug tunnels, and grain that changes direction every few inches. Arnold fans will probably feel it interferes with the statue, but this piece is why I carve trees. So much character, and after all, Arnold is the Austrian Oak.”


This isn’t the sculptor’s first experience trying to capture the look of an accomplished artist, as his portfolio includes wood sculptures of boxers Muhammad Ali and Floyd Mayweather, as well as UFC superstar Connor McGreggor. However, I think it’s fair to say that this life-size sculpture of Arnold is his greatest work yet.

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