LOS ANGELES – The millions of sardines that were found floating dead in a Southern California marina this week tested positive for a powerful neurotoxin, researchers said Friday.
High levels of domoic acid were found in the sardines, which may have distressed them off the Los Angeles coastline and caused them to swim into the Redondo Beach marina, University of Southern California biologist David Caron wrote in a summary of his laboratory's findings which were reported by the Los Angeles Times.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110312/ap_ ... sh_die_off
Since the day the first Star Wars movie was released, fans have been donning bathrobes and making lightsaber noises with their mouths while swinging broom-handles around their kitchens. We all desperately want it to be real, and a large part of that desire comes from all the bitchin' technology -- the land-speeders, blaster rifles, lightsabers and force fields -- that we first saw in those movies. And it turns out, that science is no exception to fandom: They've been working 'round the clock to bring Star Wars tech to life, and they're actually succeeding ...
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_19115_5- ... z1H4JuQaom
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Working in an industry that uses some well known acids on a regular basis (i.e. nitric, hydrochloric, sulphuric, phosphoric and hydroflouric acids) I was curious about domoic acid as I hadn't heard of it before. From what I read here, it's a byproduct of algae or plankton blooms and is basically a marine toxin.Story wrote:LOS ANGELES – The millions of sardines that were found floating dead in a Southern California marina this week tested positive for a powerful neurotoxin, researchers said Friday.
High levels of domoic acid were found in the sardines, which may have distressed them off the Los Angeles coastline and caused them to swim into the Redondo Beach marina, University of Southern California biologist David Caron wrote in a summary of his laboratory's findings which were reported by the Los Angeles Times.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110312/ap_ ... sh_die_off
The reason I mention it here is that it strikes me as another way the Minions can cause havoc in the game world. Increase the conditions that allow algae and/or plankton to bloom and you get a whole lot of domoic acid produced and that equals a whole lot of dead fish. Anything that eats the contaminated fish can be poisoned by domoic acid as well so...
A new factory has been supplying cheap but fresh fish for human consumption, then there's an outbreak of strange behaviour amongst the human population (head weaving and bobbing, bulging eyes, mucus from the mouth, disorientation and atax (“drunken”) movements and seizures).
The factory actually makes the chemicals to cause algae and plankton grow, the bloom poisons the fish and they float to the surface.
The fish are collected immediately after they've died from domoic acid poisoning
The corporation spends a whole lot less money on its fishing fleet and it's just unfortunate that a "very small" number of people have some "side-effects" but hey, the fish is fresh and it's cheap!
It's not whether you win or lose,
It's whether I win...
It's whether I win...
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New adventure - SAVE SAMMY'S BRAIN!
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – No doubt Sammy Hagar, a former lead singer for Van Halen, has enjoyed a lot of far out experiences in life, but on Monday, the rocker told perhaps his farthest out tale to MTV. He was abducted by aliens.
Or, at least, his brain was.
In an interview for his new book, "Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock" at mtvhive.com, Hagar lets go of what even he admits might make him "sound like a crazy person" to some readers.
He and the reporter are talking about dreams he claims to have had about UFOs, and when asked whether he believed he had been abducted, Hagar answers: "I think I have."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110321/mus ... gar_aliens
In the past two years, scientists have created pigs with human blood, fused rabbit eggs with human DNA and injected human stem cells to make paralyzed mice walk.
Particularly worrisome to some scientists are the nightmare scenarios that could arise from the mixing of brain cells: What if a human mind somehow got trapped inside a sheep’s head?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7681252/ns/ ... stem_cells
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Characters trying to escape?
The researchers were able to control everything from the car's brakes to its door locks to its computerized dashboard displays by accessing the onboard computer through GM's OnStar and Ford's Sync, as well as through the Bluetooth connections intended for making hands-free phone calls. They presented their findings this week to the National Academies Committee on Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unintended Acceleration, which was brought together partly in response to last year's scandal over supposed problems with the computerized braking systems in Toyota Priuses.
The team, including Tadayoshi Kohno, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Washington, and Stefan Savage, a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego, had previously shown that they could take control of a car's computer systems, provided that they had physical access to the vehicle's onboard diagnostics port—a federally mandated access point located under the dashboard in almost all modern cars.
http://www.techreview.com/computing/350 ... stRcnt&a=f
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And in DC terms, the 'bubbleheaded bleach-blonde that comes on at 5' newscaster would laugh this off while the coverup was in progress.
http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/03/21/ ... ahead.html
See also
http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2009/ ... signs.html
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – No doubt Sammy Hagar, a former lead singer for Van Halen, has enjoyed a lot of far out experiences in life, but on Monday, the rocker told perhaps his farthest out tale to MTV. He was abducted by aliens.
Or, at least, his brain was.
In an interview for his new book, "Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock" at mtvhive.com, Hagar lets go of what even he admits might make him "sound like a crazy person" to some readers.
He and the reporter are talking about dreams he claims to have had about UFOs, and when asked whether he believed he had been abducted, Hagar answers: "I think I have."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110321/mus ... gar_aliens
In the past two years, scientists have created pigs with human blood, fused rabbit eggs with human DNA and injected human stem cells to make paralyzed mice walk.
Particularly worrisome to some scientists are the nightmare scenarios that could arise from the mixing of brain cells: What if a human mind somehow got trapped inside a sheep’s head?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7681252/ns/ ... stem_cells
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Characters trying to escape?
The researchers were able to control everything from the car's brakes to its door locks to its computerized dashboard displays by accessing the onboard computer through GM's OnStar and Ford's Sync, as well as through the Bluetooth connections intended for making hands-free phone calls. They presented their findings this week to the National Academies Committee on Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unintended Acceleration, which was brought together partly in response to last year's scandal over supposed problems with the computerized braking systems in Toyota Priuses.
The team, including Tadayoshi Kohno, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Washington, and Stefan Savage, a professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego, had previously shown that they could take control of a car's computer systems, provided that they had physical access to the vehicle's onboard diagnostics port—a federally mandated access point located under the dashboard in almost all modern cars.
http://www.techreview.com/computing/350 ... stRcnt&a=f
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And in DC terms, the 'bubbleheaded bleach-blonde that comes on at 5' newscaster would laugh this off while the coverup was in progress.
http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/03/21/ ... ahead.html
See also
http://myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2009/ ... signs.html
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Two very weird phenomena stories out of the Florida beginning on March 9 when residents in Flagler County located on the east coast of Florida reported a loud noise–’very strange sounds’ that lasted ‘up to 20 minutes’. [Video, which is pretty amazing, below] Nine days later, one day before the Super Moon, scared Floridians near Tallahassee, located over 200 hundred miles to the northwest of Flagler County, reported the ground and buildings shaking.
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2011/03 ... ise-video/
This spring, scientists will try to retrieve the deepest types of rock ever extracted from beneath the seabed. The drilling project is taking place off Costa Rica, and will attempt to reach some 2km under the ocean floor.
Writing in the journal Nature, the co-chief scientists say their ultimate goal is to return even deeper samples - from the mantle layer below the crust. Obtaining these rocks would provide a geological treasure trove "comparable to the Apollo lunar rocks" they write.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12841150
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2011/03 ... ise-video/
This spring, scientists will try to retrieve the deepest types of rock ever extracted from beneath the seabed. The drilling project is taking place off Costa Rica, and will attempt to reach some 2km under the ocean floor.
Writing in the journal Nature, the co-chief scientists say their ultimate goal is to return even deeper samples - from the mantle layer below the crust. Obtaining these rocks would provide a geological treasure trove "comparable to the Apollo lunar rocks" they write.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12841150
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - Springfield Police say that they found containers of human waste outside a room above a elevator shaft at the Sheraton Hotel, where two people were living illegally.
http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/local/hamp ... l-elevator
Priceless
http://media2.wwlp.com//photo/2011/03/2 ... 20_240.JPG
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A deadly drug-resistant bacteria is spreading to more patients in nursing and long-term care facilities in Los Angeles County, according to local health officials. Dr. Brad Spellberg, an infectious disease expert at Harbor UCLA Medical Center says there is no current teatment for CRKP bacteria — and there might not be any in the future either.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/03/ ... ing-homes/
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A baby boy with one eye in the center of his forehead and no nose was born in India last week. He survived only one day. Doctors were shocked when they delivered the infant by cesarean section from the 34-year-old mother, Veena Chavan. Dr. Ashok Anand, professor of gynecology at the hospital, told reporters, "The child must have possibly suffered from cyclopia."
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/24/baby- ... ves-1-day/
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A 31-year-old man under the influence of bath salts broke into a home in East Hanover Township and later damaged two cars — including a marked state police cruiser — because he thought he was being chased by electricity, police said.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... ought.html
http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/local/hamp ... l-elevator
Priceless
http://media2.wwlp.com//photo/2011/03/2 ... 20_240.JPG
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A deadly drug-resistant bacteria is spreading to more patients in nursing and long-term care facilities in Los Angeles County, according to local health officials. Dr. Brad Spellberg, an infectious disease expert at Harbor UCLA Medical Center says there is no current teatment for CRKP bacteria — and there might not be any in the future either.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/03/ ... ing-homes/
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A baby boy with one eye in the center of his forehead and no nose was born in India last week. He survived only one day. Doctors were shocked when they delivered the infant by cesarean section from the 34-year-old mother, Veena Chavan. Dr. Ashok Anand, professor of gynecology at the hospital, told reporters, "The child must have possibly suffered from cyclopia."
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/24/baby- ... ves-1-day/
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A 31-year-old man under the influence of bath salts broke into a home in East Hanover Township and later damaged two cars — including a marked state police cruiser — because he thought he was being chased by electricity, police said.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index. ... ought.html
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Spiders have been a plague on the earth ever since they marched their eight feet out of hell. In some areas, spiders have been known to cocoon entire trees. And it turns out there's a benefit to their efforts.
One such giant spiderweb site was found near Lake Tawakoni in Texas. Webs of long-jawed orb spiders stretched out over several trees. The superindendent of the park had this to say, "At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland. Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes it's turned a little brown...you can hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."
Or small dogs...
http://io9.com/#!5785596/why-are-these- ... pider-webs
Privately run prisons...
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/25/134850972 ... or-profits
The headline from the Australian Northern Star, UFO mystery deepens. Part of the mystery, ‘no one was able to successfully capture the unidentified objects with a camera’. Unidentified objects described as ‘strange’, glowing orange balls of light witnessed by hundreds of people. Chinese lanterns ruled out as the usual UFO suspects. Lights that appeared in the sky above Maryborough four nights in a row beginning last Thursday. The Australian military won’t comment on the lights which leads to, what is the role of the military when dealing with alarmed citizens seeking answers on unusual activity in the sky which, so far, can’t be explained?
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2011/03 ... -in-a-row/
Three red lights in a triangle were spotted hovering in the sky by several Lafayette residents Monday around 8:30 p.m. The sky was clear, but witnesses could not see anything connecting the lights.
Leroy Vandervegt, 50, has lived in Lafayette for the past 16 years. His 17-year-old son, Nick, spotted the lights on his way home from work and called his father. Leroy Vandervegt grabbed his camera, ran outside and looked up. He began filming. Sure enough, he too saw three red lights. Aliens? Maybe.
"I don't know what they are," Leroy Vandervegt said. "All I know is that I had no idea what it is. It wasn't a satellite, it wasn't an airplane and it wasn't a helicopter."
Read more: Some baffled after UFO sighting claims in Lafayette - Boulder Daily Camera http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_17692697? ... z1HjUlhsIp
DailyCamera.com
One such giant spiderweb site was found near Lake Tawakoni in Texas. Webs of long-jawed orb spiders stretched out over several trees. The superindendent of the park had this to say, "At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland. Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes it's turned a little brown...you can hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."
Or small dogs...http://io9.com/#!5785596/why-are-these- ... pider-webs
Privately run prisons...
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/25/134850972 ... or-profits
The headline from the Australian Northern Star, UFO mystery deepens. Part of the mystery, ‘no one was able to successfully capture the unidentified objects with a camera’. Unidentified objects described as ‘strange’, glowing orange balls of light witnessed by hundreds of people. Chinese lanterns ruled out as the usual UFO suspects. Lights that appeared in the sky above Maryborough four nights in a row beginning last Thursday. The Australian military won’t comment on the lights which leads to, what is the role of the military when dealing with alarmed citizens seeking answers on unusual activity in the sky which, so far, can’t be explained?
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2011/03 ... -in-a-row/
Three red lights in a triangle were spotted hovering in the sky by several Lafayette residents Monday around 8:30 p.m. The sky was clear, but witnesses could not see anything connecting the lights.
Leroy Vandervegt, 50, has lived in Lafayette for the past 16 years. His 17-year-old son, Nick, spotted the lights on his way home from work and called his father. Leroy Vandervegt grabbed his camera, ran outside and looked up. He began filming. Sure enough, he too saw three red lights. Aliens? Maybe.
"I don't know what they are," Leroy Vandervegt said. "All I know is that I had no idea what it is. It wasn't a satellite, it wasn't an airplane and it wasn't a helicopter."
Read more: Some baffled after UFO sighting claims in Lafayette - Boulder Daily Camera http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_17692697? ... z1HjUlhsIp
DailyCamera.com
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At least 42 disease clusters have occurred in 13 U.S. states since 1976, according to a report Monday by environmentalists calling for further study of the cause of these health problems.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... ironment/1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42310293/ns ... alth_care/
http://www.nrdc.org/health/diseaseclust ... epaper.pdf
ANAHEIM, March 27, 2011 — Your next new car hopefully won't be a lemon. But it could be a pineapple or a banana. That's because scientists in Brazil have developed a more effective way to use fibers from these and other plants in a new generation of automotive plastics that are stronger, lighter, and more eco-friendly than plastics now in use. They described the work, which could lead to stronger, lighter, and more sustainable materials for cars and other products, here today at the 241st National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 030911.php
And for your MERC:2000 crossover
China warned against any oil exploration without its consent in waters it claims in the South China Sea, after the Philippines announced plans for possible drilling.
http://www.energytribune.com/commentary.cfm?xcid=4299
http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... ironment/1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42310293/ns ... alth_care/
http://www.nrdc.org/health/diseaseclust ... epaper.pdf
ANAHEIM, March 27, 2011 — Your next new car hopefully won't be a lemon. But it could be a pineapple or a banana. That's because scientists in Brazil have developed a more effective way to use fibers from these and other plants in a new generation of automotive plastics that are stronger, lighter, and more eco-friendly than plastics now in use. They described the work, which could lead to stronger, lighter, and more sustainable materials for cars and other products, here today at the 241st National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 030911.php
And for your MERC:2000 crossover
China warned against any oil exploration without its consent in waters it claims in the South China Sea, after the Philippines announced plans for possible drilling.
http://www.energytribune.com/commentary.cfm?xcid=4299
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Who you gonna call? Family send in paranormal experts after 'capturing ghost' in home video
Family given small crucifixes to wear by priest who visited house
House is a 'portal hole' for ghosts and ghouls, claims medium
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1HziZw3LF
FULTON, Ark. (AP) -- The barbed-wire fence surrounding the Hempstead County Hunting Club divides more than property lines. It separates rich from poor.
On one side: wealthy duck hunters who have preserved a private forested paradise largely untouched by chain saws. On the other: the people of this struggling Arkansas town where jobs are scarce and families live in run-down trailers.
The hunters are now waging a bitter legal battle over construction of a coal-fired power plant, and the dispute has laid bare the class tensions that have long beset this rural area.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... SECTION=US
Family given small crucifixes to wear by priest who visited house
House is a 'portal hole' for ghosts and ghouls, claims medium
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1HziZw3LF
FULTON, Ark. (AP) -- The barbed-wire fence surrounding the Hempstead County Hunting Club divides more than property lines. It separates rich from poor.
On one side: wealthy duck hunters who have preserved a private forested paradise largely untouched by chain saws. On the other: the people of this struggling Arkansas town where jobs are scarce and families live in run-down trailers.
The hunters are now waging a bitter legal battle over construction of a coal-fired power plant, and the dispute has laid bare the class tensions that have long beset this rural area.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... SECTION=US
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Obvious mission for the Scooby Gang.
-- lead investigator of the "Ghost Adventures Crew" -- insists the alleged paranormal activity inside the Beverly Hills mansion where the "A.I." finalists were staying sounds LEGIT and "possibly demonic."
As TMZ first reported, the "Idol" gang MOVED OUT of the place last week after several spooky incidents -- including flickering lights, mysterious spider infestations, and a FLOATING WHITE SHEET!!
http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/27/american- ... -exorcist/
1971 : Brazilian cancer clinic buys radiation therapy machine. Closes down and abandons site. 1985 : Scrap merchants discover magnificent, sparkling, blue powder. Tout it around as supernatural. Turns out to be cesium chloride - a lethal killer
http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2011/0 ... n-goiania/
Plant City, Florida - A woman gardening in her backyard says the ground underneath her feet suddenly opened up Monday morning, swallowing her into the ground.
Carla Chapman of Plant City says the sinkhole in her backyard left her seven feet underground screaming for help. She says if it wasn't for her cell phone, she might be dead.
http://plantcity.wtsp.com/news/news/wom ... hole/50027
-- lead investigator of the "Ghost Adventures Crew" -- insists the alleged paranormal activity inside the Beverly Hills mansion where the "A.I." finalists were staying sounds LEGIT and "possibly demonic."
As TMZ first reported, the "Idol" gang MOVED OUT of the place last week after several spooky incidents -- including flickering lights, mysterious spider infestations, and a FLOATING WHITE SHEET!!
http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/27/american- ... -exorcist/
1971 : Brazilian cancer clinic buys radiation therapy machine. Closes down and abandons site. 1985 : Scrap merchants discover magnificent, sparkling, blue powder. Tout it around as supernatural. Turns out to be cesium chloride - a lethal killer
http://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2011/0 ... n-goiania/
Plant City, Florida - A woman gardening in her backyard says the ground underneath her feet suddenly opened up Monday morning, swallowing her into the ground.
Carla Chapman of Plant City says the sinkhole in her backyard left her seven feet underground screaming for help. She says if it wasn't for her cell phone, she might be dead.
http://plantcity.wtsp.com/news/news/wom ... hole/50027
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A Southwest plane made an emergency landing after a hole ripped open in the fuselage, resulting in rapid decompression - and some scary moments on the flight.
The flight landed at a military base in Yuma, Arizona
Passengers said they saw a 3-foot hole in the side of the airplane, which was flying from Phoenix to Sacramento on Friday.
"You could look out and see the blue sky," Larry Downey, who was seated directly below the hole, told 12 News.
In a statement, Southwest Airlines said it was working with the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing to figure out what happened in what's sure to be a publicity blow to the airline.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... z1INtbMwpx
Sardines that suffocated and died en masse this week in King Harbor have tested positive for a powerful neurotoxin that scientists believe may have distressed 1 million or more fish off the Los Angeles coastline and caused them to swim chaotically into the Redondo Beach marina.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/12 ... h-20110312
Butterfly swarm attacks man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOVF0MOoBG4
The flight landed at a military base in Yuma, Arizona
Passengers said they saw a 3-foot hole in the side of the airplane, which was flying from Phoenix to Sacramento on Friday.
"You could look out and see the blue sky," Larry Downey, who was seated directly below the hole, told 12 News.
In a statement, Southwest Airlines said it was working with the National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing to figure out what happened in what's sure to be a publicity blow to the airline.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... z1INtbMwpx
Sardines that suffocated and died en masse this week in King Harbor have tested positive for a powerful neurotoxin that scientists believe may have distressed 1 million or more fish off the Los Angeles coastline and caused them to swim chaotically into the Redondo Beach marina.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/12 ... h-20110312
Butterfly swarm attacks man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOVF0MOoBG4
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Old, but good.
Numbers of wild boars surge
Fri Oct 3, 2008 6:59pm EDT
BERLIN (Reuters) - Wild boars are breeding at a huge rate in Germany and wreaking greater havoc than in any other European country by destroying crops, killing pets and even attacking people, according to a new study.
Findings by the Hanover-based Institute of Wildlife Research show that Germany's boar population rose by 320 percent last year because of better access to food and bigger litters of young.
"It's impossible for their habitat to adapt to a surge of this degree," the institute's Gunter Sodeikat said.
Increasingly encroaching on suburban areas, boars have been reported attacking people, killing pets, and digging up corpses in cemeteries. Graveyards and gardens are being ravaged daily , police say.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zei ... 77,00.html
Scientists are growing human hearts in laboratories, offering hope for millions of cardiac patients.
American researchers believe the artificial organs could start beating within weeks.
The experiment is a major step towards the first ‘grow-your-own’ heart, and could pave the way for livers, lungs or kidneys to be made to order.
The organs were created by removing muscle cells from donor organs to leave behind tough hearts of connective tissue.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z1IZ2TG2I2
UFOs come in all shapes and sizes, but have you ever heard of a doughnut-shaped aerial phenomenon?
Unusual weather-radar images have shown up on viewing screens in several countries, with one ring-like object appearing to be larger than Belgium.
Though these formations may look out of this world -- leading some to speculate they are UFOs "cloaking" and "uncloaking" themselves over Earth -- the odd shapes have more to do with meteorology than mother ships, according to experts.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/04/dough ... ormations/
Like many rural communities in the USA, Rikuzentakata and countless towns and villages along Japan's ravaged coastline were home to largely elderly populations, left behind by younger people who moved inland and to the south for better jobs than the fishing and agricultural work this area could offer.
Now, the question of how — or whether — to rebuild such rural communities hangs over reconstruction efforts.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011 ... 5_CV_N.htm
Numbers of wild boars surge
Fri Oct 3, 2008 6:59pm EDT
BERLIN (Reuters) - Wild boars are breeding at a huge rate in Germany and wreaking greater havoc than in any other European country by destroying crops, killing pets and even attacking people, according to a new study.
Findings by the Hanover-based Institute of Wildlife Research show that Germany's boar population rose by 320 percent last year because of better access to food and bigger litters of young.
"It's impossible for their habitat to adapt to a surge of this degree," the institute's Gunter Sodeikat said.
Increasingly encroaching on suburban areas, boars have been reported attacking people, killing pets, and digging up corpses in cemeteries. Graveyards and gardens are being ravaged daily , police say.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zei ... 77,00.html
Scientists are growing human hearts in laboratories, offering hope for millions of cardiac patients.
American researchers believe the artificial organs could start beating within weeks.
The experiment is a major step towards the first ‘grow-your-own’ heart, and could pave the way for livers, lungs or kidneys to be made to order.
The organs were created by removing muscle cells from donor organs to leave behind tough hearts of connective tissue.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... z1IZ2TG2I2
UFOs come in all shapes and sizes, but have you ever heard of a doughnut-shaped aerial phenomenon?
Unusual weather-radar images have shown up on viewing screens in several countries, with one ring-like object appearing to be larger than Belgium.
Though these formations may look out of this world -- leading some to speculate they are UFOs "cloaking" and "uncloaking" themselves over Earth -- the odd shapes have more to do with meteorology than mother ships, according to experts.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/04/dough ... ormations/
Like many rural communities in the USA, Rikuzentakata and countless towns and villages along Japan's ravaged coastline were home to largely elderly populations, left behind by younger people who moved inland and to the south for better jobs than the fishing and agricultural work this area could offer.
Now, the question of how — or whether — to rebuild such rural communities hangs over reconstruction efforts.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011 ... 5_CV_N.htm
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On April 4, 1949, FBI agents in Utah sent a cable marked “urgent” to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. It said an Army guard at the Ogden Supply Depot, a Logan policeman and a Utah Highway Patrol officer in Mantua each saw from miles apart a UFO — which they said exploded over Utah.
Under the title “Flying Discs,” the cable said they “saw a silver colored object high up approaching the mountains at Sardine Canyon” that “appeared to explode in a rash of fire. Several residents at Trenton … [reported] seeing what appeared to be two aerial explosions followed by falling object.”
That and other documents show the FBI was investigating whether UFOs were real, and it figured they could be. Such documents are now available in “The Vault,” vault.fbi.gov, a revamped FBI website for documents that have been released through the Freedom of Information Act and have been recently or often requested.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/5 ... t.html.csp
Investigators have unearthed human bones and teeth from pits used by a man known as the "Stew-maker," who confessed to dissolving 300 bodies of drug cartel victims, prosecutors said Friday.
Miguel Angel Guerrero, head of the Baja California state prosecutors' office on disappearances, said about 30 bone fragments and 15 tooth fragments were dug up Monday at a ranch in eastern Tijuana that was once occupied by Santiago "El Pozolero" Meza Lopez.
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Under the title “Flying Discs,” the cable said they “saw a silver colored object high up approaching the mountains at Sardine Canyon” that “appeared to explode in a rash of fire. Several residents at Trenton … [reported] seeing what appeared to be two aerial explosions followed by falling object.”
That and other documents show the FBI was investigating whether UFOs were real, and it figured they could be. Such documents are now available in “The Vault,” vault.fbi.gov, a revamped FBI website for documents that have been released through the Freedom of Information Act and have been recently or often requested.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/5 ... t.html.csp
Investigators have unearthed human bones and teeth from pits used by a man known as the "Stew-maker," who confessed to dissolving 300 bodies of drug cartel victims, prosecutors said Friday.
Miguel Angel Guerrero, head of the Baja California state prosecutors' office on disappearances, said about 30 bone fragments and 15 tooth fragments were dug up Monday at a ranch in eastern Tijuana that was once occupied by Santiago "El Pozolero" Meza Lopez.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/08 ... z1J8E2iF00
Re: DC : Life imitates art, art imitates life
The Japanese government's nuclear safety agency has decided to raise the crisis level of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident from 5 to 7, the worst on the international scale.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_05.html
The FBI was so overwhelmed with sightings of flying saucers in the 1940s that agents routinely destroyed reports because of lack of filing space, according to documents released by the organisation.
The policy is outlined in a memo sent on 16 August 1949 to J Edgar Hoover, the director of the bureau, along with documents on UFOs compiled by agents after statements from witnesses.
In one intriguing note, sent on 22 March 1950, special agent Guy Hottel, head of the FBI's Washington field office, wrote to Hoover with information on three "so-called flying saucers" that a witness claimed had crash-landed in New Mexico.
According to the memo, an air force investigator stated that three flying saucers had been recovered in the area, along with the bodies of the alien crews. The memo goes on to add: "Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots."According to the witness, the saucers were brought down by a "high-powered government radar" in the area that interfered with the spaceships' controls. "No further evaluation was attempted," the memo concludes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ap ... fo-reports
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_05.html
The FBI was so overwhelmed with sightings of flying saucers in the 1940s that agents routinely destroyed reports because of lack of filing space, according to documents released by the organisation.
The policy is outlined in a memo sent on 16 August 1949 to J Edgar Hoover, the director of the bureau, along with documents on UFOs compiled by agents after statements from witnesses.
In one intriguing note, sent on 22 March 1950, special agent Guy Hottel, head of the FBI's Washington field office, wrote to Hoover with information on three "so-called flying saucers" that a witness claimed had crash-landed in New Mexico.
According to the memo, an air force investigator stated that three flying saucers had been recovered in the area, along with the bodies of the alien crews. The memo goes on to add: "Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots."According to the witness, the saucers were brought down by a "high-powered government radar" in the area that interfered with the spaceships' controls. "No further evaluation was attempted," the memo concludes.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ap ... fo-reports
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — A man was hospitalized Wednesday evening with life-threatening, third-degree burns after catching fire inside a San Francisco porn store, authorities told CBS 5.
The fire occurred at an adult arcade at Sixth and Mission streets just after 6 p.m.
Police officers across the street from the porn shop saw a man run out the front door of the store “engulfed in flames,” an SFPD spokesman said.
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Arson investigators said it was not exactly clear how the man caught fire. Police indicated he had apparently been watching videos in a private booth when the fire ignited.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/0 ... porn-shop/
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A 20-year-old has written off his dad's £275,000 Gumpert Apollo after taking it for a spin in Germany.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13078895
A woman has been hospitalized with severe burns after setting herself on fire in front of the Reichstag parliamentary building in Berlin over the weekend.
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110411-34321.html
Swedish county health authorities should be allowed to pay for funerals in return for the relatives allowing the donation of the deceased's organs, Swedish researchers have argued in a new study.
http://www.thelocal.se/33194/
The fire occurred at an adult arcade at Sixth and Mission streets just after 6 p.m.
Police officers across the street from the porn shop saw a man run out the front door of the store “engulfed in flames,” an SFPD spokesman said.
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Arson investigators said it was not exactly clear how the man caught fire. Police indicated he had apparently been watching videos in a private booth when the fire ignited.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/0 ... porn-shop/
Nomens in action -
A 20-year-old has written off his dad's £275,000 Gumpert Apollo after taking it for a spin in Germany.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/13078895
A woman has been hospitalized with severe burns after setting herself on fire in front of the Reichstag parliamentary building in Berlin over the weekend.
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20110411-34321.html
Swedish county health authorities should be allowed to pay for funerals in return for the relatives allowing the donation of the deceased's organs, Swedish researchers have argued in a new study.
http://www.thelocal.se/33194/
Re: DC : Life imitates art, art imitates life
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said the global economy is “one shock away” from a crisis in food supplies and prices.
Zoellick estimated 44 million people have fallen into poverty due to rising food prices in the past year, and a 10 percent increase in the food price index would send 10 million more people into poverty. The United Nations FAO Food Price index jumped 25 percent last year, the second-steepest increase since at least 1991, and surged to a record in February.
Food price inflation is “the biggest threat today to the world’s poor,” Zoellick said at a press conference following meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. “We are one shock away from a full-blown crisis.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-1 ... is-1-.html
In dramatic scenes in Menton, in south east France, border guards including riot police halted hundreds of mainly North African men who have crossed from Libya and Tunisia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... rants.html
Zoellick estimated 44 million people have fallen into poverty due to rising food prices in the past year, and a 10 percent increase in the food price index would send 10 million more people into poverty. The United Nations FAO Food Price index jumped 25 percent last year, the second-steepest increase since at least 1991, and surged to a record in February.
Food price inflation is “the biggest threat today to the world’s poor,” Zoellick said at a press conference following meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. “We are one shock away from a full-blown crisis.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-1 ... is-1-.html
In dramatic scenes in Menton, in south east France, border guards including riot police halted hundreds of mainly North African men who have crossed from Libya and Tunisia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... rants.html
