Friday, October 1, 2010

Two Year Old Toddler and Infant Siblings 'are Quadruplets'

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A Brittish woman has had triplets, two years after the birth of her first daughter from the same set of eggs, making them quadruplets, doctors said.

Experts at Nottingham's Care Fertility Clinic described the latest births as "most unusual".

The Baxter family, from Grantham, said they were "gobsmacked" by the arrivals.

"It is most unusual to see a set of triplets born from frozen embryos after a successful previous pregnancy from the same batch," a Care spokesman said.

The babies' mother, Helen Baxter, had frozen her remaining embryos after falling pregnant with Alice, now two, and then doctors defrosted them and put three back.

Alice now has sisters Niamh and Maisie and a brother, Noah, who were born in January.


"We were gobsmacked," Mrs Baxter said. "It was a complete shock. We never imagined that we would end up with three babies from that same batch.

"We went through the first cycle of fertility treatment and they harvested nine eggs from me, of which eight were fertilised.

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"We put two back in and we got Alice.

"When we went through the cycle again they put three back in."

Mrs Baxter said: "We have had to buy a new car obviously to accommodate everybody. We have had to go out and buy three of everything - which has been a bit of a shock."

Medical director Ken Dowell said: "To have four babies from one set of eggs is very unusual.

"We run a big unit and we have never seen anything like it before in the 15 years we have been running the unit. It is a fantastic situation."

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Busted with the Goods: 100 Marijuana Plants in His Van

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A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper who pulled over an erratic driver in Reno Monday night found about 100 marijuana plants and 5 pounds of packaged marijuana.

At around 8:10 p.m., the trooper noticed a black 2007 Dodge Caravan weaving in and out of a lane on westbound Interstate 80 near Keystone Avenue, NHP spokesman Matt Kaplan said. The trooper pulled the van over and allegedly spotted several marijuana plants in the back of the van partially covered with a blanket.


The van's driver, Arthur Griffo, 61, of Oakland, Calif., told the trooper that he had 85 plants, Kaplan said. Troopers eventually found 95 plants, along with 5 pounds of packaged marijuana buds and drug paraphernalia including pipes, lights and scales.


Griffo remains in the Washoe County Jail on charges of failing to maintain a single travel lane, possession of marijuana with intent to sale, possession of more than one ounce of marijuana and illegally engaging in interstate commerce.

Farmer grows 3 million pumpkins

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Farmer David Bowman, from Spalding, Lincolnshire,England, has picked his pumpkins in time for October 31st.

The 3 million pumpkins he has grown have not been without their hardships - their growth has been hampered by torrential rain and heatwaves in the changeable British summer.

Fortunately for Bowman, 62, they have ripened at just the right time and are now being picked by 100 staff who are working around the clock to get them all ready for Halloween.

Workers are estimated to be picking around 100,000 pumpkins each day.

Bowman has admitted he 'can't wait' for November 1.

He said: 'It's been a very average year in terms of the pumpkin crop because the weather was either too dry or too wet over the summer.

'But we still expect to harvest around three million pumpkins which is a marvellous crop for an average year.

'We are so busy at the moment getting everything for Halloween and I will just be glad when it's all over on November 1.

'When you are carving out your pumpkin this year think about us harvesting in the wind and rain.'

Two-legged pig learns to walk

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A pig which can walk on two legs has become a local celebrity in China. The 10-month-old porker is known by villagers as "Zhu Jianqiang" (Strong-willed Pig) after it was born with only two front legs and learned to balance on them well enough to walk. According to its owner, Wang Xihai, it was one of nine piglets born in a litter this January.

He said: "My wife asked me to dump it but I refused as it's a life. I thought I should give it a chance to survive and unexpectedly it survived healthy." Several days after its birth Wang decided to train the two-legged piglet to walk by lifting it up by its tail.

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He said: "I trained her for a while each day. After 30 days she can now walk upside down quite well." Wang said since the birth of the pig, which currently weighs 50kg (110lbs), his home has been besieged by visitors.

A circus even offered to buy for the pig for a large sum but Wang refused to sell. He said "She proved to us that no matter what form life is it should continue to live on. I won't sell it no matter how much the offer is."

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Here, there's video of another two-legged pig, born in The Philippines last year.

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JOKE:

Little Jenny came home with a small kitten. Her mom said, "Where did you get that kitten?"

Jenny replied, "One of my friends gave it to me for Daddy."

"Why would you think that Daddy wants a kitten?"

Jenny said, "Because I heard Daddy telling the cute new neighbor lady that it had been a long time since he had a little pussy!"

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