Ebola virus a threat

"The risk to UK travellers and people working in [affected countries] of contracting Ebola is very low but we have alerted UK medical practitioners about the situation in West Africa and requested they remain vigilant for unexplained illness in those who have visited the affected area. "It is important to stress that no cases of imported Ebola have ever been reported in the UK and the risk of a traveller going to West Africa and contracting Ebola remains very low since Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected person." BBC global health correspondent Tulip Mazumdar said the West African outbreak had been going on for four months. In that time local people had been looking after the sick and carrying out burials, which could actually help to spread the virus, she added. Ebola kills up to 90% of those infected, but patients have a better chance of survival if they receive early treatment. The outbreak - the world's deadliest to date - was first reported in Guinea in February. It then spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. Ebola virus disease (EVD) Symptoms include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage Fatality rate can reach 90% Incubation period is two to 21 days There is no vaccine or cure Supportive care such as rehydrating patients who have diarrhoea and vomiting can help recovery Fruit bats are considered to be virus' natural host

A company is selling toasters which can put your selfies on a piece of toast.

EXPAND

A company is selling toasters which can put your selfies on a piece of toast.

According to Jenn Harris at the LA Times, (which is nobly stepping up its bread beat, from the looks of it, going after that elusive Pulitzer for Baked Goods reporting), a company named Burned Impressions in Vermont is selling toasters that make bread selfies. For the bargain price of $75, you can buy a signifier of the end times, aka a toaster that will burn an image of you onto a piece of bread.

It's the same company that created the Jesus toaster and the Rapture toaster with images of Jesus and bodies floating up toward the sky.

If you want a selfie toaster, you'll need to send a high-resolution photo of your face to the company, which will then make your custom selfie toaster in about a week. But not all photos will work.

Every morning, instead a bland old breakfast, you can truly indulge in narcissism by devouring your own beautiful face or the face of a dear loved one. The product is available via the company's website which boldly declares "you don't have to famous or Jesus to have your face on toast!" Yes, screw winning an Oscar or being the savior of humanity, having your face on a piece of pumpernickel slathered with butter is a real sign of success.

Gerard Butler has just been unveiled as the face of Hugo Boss Bottled and we couldn't be more excited..

Gerard Butler Lands His First-Ever Fragrance Campaign

Thursday 17 July, 2014

Gerard Butler has just been unveiled as the face of Hugo Boss Bottled and we couldn't be more excited...

Tweet4 0 Stumble Email0 

Gerard's new role as the face of Hugo Boss Bottled will be his first foray into high-fashion

Rex Features

Gerard Butler has just bagged his first ever - how did we let that one slide? - fragrance campaign, and boy did he hold out for a good one.

Following in the footsteps of fellow Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Reynolds, it has just been announced that the 44-year-old Scottish actor will be the new face of Hugo Boss's Bottled scent, appearing in the brands TV and print campaigns this autumn. 

While the announcement was made today, rumours started to circulate that the 300 star could be in talks with the brand back in February when he made a very rare and uncharacteristic Fashion Week appearance at the Hugo Boss AW14 show. How sneaky... 

Speaking of their new ambassador, Guillaume Tardy, Boss Parfum's global marketing director, said that 'Boss Bottled remains loyal to the belief that success comes to the man who grasps life with confidence. Gerard Butler is that man. His road to success is a constant, ever-evolving journey, but one that he approaches with confidence and drive.'

Well known as a laugh-a-minute no matter what film he's working on, it seems Gerard's naturally likable and fun-loving attitude is what bagged him the sought-after role. 

The shots are still being kept firmly under wraps but as he's been training non-stop for his new flick Gods Of Egypt - set for release in 2016 - we definitely hope Hugo Boss make use of his, erm, hard work with some torso-baring action..

Read more at http://www.instyle.co.uk/celebrity/news/gerard-butler-lands-his-first-ever-fragrance-campaign#eYaIk6RJQzXBBYth.99

Let's talk about sex, baby. The Wellcome Collection, which has regularly had to put up notices warning sensitive souls about the graphic nature of its exhibitions

will relaunch in November with its most eye-popping show to date – devoted to human sexuality and the scientists who have studied it.

In the past, visitors have toppled over like ninepins at exhibitions including the heart and the brain – both with unblinking film of surgery – and one on historic models of medical conditions, where the most gruesome were displayed behind velvet curtains.

This time many of the objects will come from the enormous erotica collection accumulated by Henry Wellcome, the American patent medicine millionaire whose fortune founded both the Wellcome Trust, a global medical charity, and the museum in London billed as a "destination for the incurably curious".

Carved ivory statue, described as Far Eastern. Photograph: Wellcome Collection

The exhibits will include paintings, films, carvings, prints and photographs of sex in every conceivable (and many inconceivable) positions, plus centuries of sex toys, and terrifying objects such as the early 20th-century spike-rimmed penis rings intended to discourage masturbation, or helpful instructions suggesting a punctured diaphragm could be repaired with a patch "from a bicycle tyre-mending outfit".

Some, including a hand-tinted photograph of a masked man strikingly dressed in a pink tutu, and another of a moustachioed guy wearing nothing but stockings and a corset, came from the collections of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, the German psychiatrist whose studies of human sexual behaviour popularised the terms "sadist" and "masochist".

The exhibition will also look at the work of Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes and sexologists including Alfred Kinsey, and Masters and Johnson, as well as the team behind the current National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles.

Wellcome's interest in sex was well known: the archives include a letter from a Major RG Gayer-Anderson in 1943, offering "a quite small collection of pornographic Greco-Roman pieces that have been carefully chosen and are of good workmanship".

He added: "I wonder has your museum a private room for such objects?"

A spokesman for the Wellcome said the generous gift was apparently accepted, even though the major artlessly revealed that "the British and Victoria and Albert museums, Fitzwilliam, Ashmolean etc" had all said thanks but no thanks.

Veedee Vibratory Massager Box. Wellcome Collection

The Wellcome Collection only opened its present museum six years ago, but has been a victim of its own success: it expected about 100,000 visitors a year, but received more than 500,000, swamping the facilities by the time it embarked on a £17.5m rebuild. The Institute of Sexology, which will run for almost a year, will include "commissions, live events, discussions and performances" and will open on 20 November.

Related articles

• Institute of Sexology: Wellcome Collection hails the masters of sex
• Intimate Worlds: exhibiting erotica from Henry Wellcome's collection
• Korea - The Daelim Museum of Contemporary Art
• Object of the Month: 183 Euston Road (Past)
• Image of the Week: N is for Natural Curiosity