Tuesday, January 24, 2012

James funeral planned; Al Sharpton to eulogize (AP)

NEW YORK ? A public viewing will be held Friday for singer Etta James, and the Rev. Al Sharpton will eulogize the late legend at a private funeral Saturday.

A statement from Sharpton's representative Tuesday said the funeral will include performances by celebrities, but those names were not announced.

James died last Friday at age 73 after battling leukemia and other ailments, including dementia. She was most famous for her classic "At Last," but over her decades-long career, she became revered for her passionate singing voice.

The public viewing will be held in Inglewood and the funeral will be held in Gardena, both in the Los Angeles area.

The family is asking that any donations be sent to the Philadelphia-based Rhythm & Blues Foundation.

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Gingrich wins South Carolina primary

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Gingrich wins South Carolina primary
AP

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at Tommy's Country Ham House, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Greenville, S.C., on South Carolina's Republican primary election day. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at Tommy's Country Ham House, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Greenville, S.C., on South Carolina's Republican primary election day. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich takes part in a TV interview during a campaign event at the Grapevine Restaurant in Spartanburg, S.C., on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, the unpredictable voting day of the South Carolina presidential primary. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at The Citadel Patriots Dinner in Charleston, S.C., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks during a campaign stop at Tommy's Country Ham House, where former House Speaker Newt Gingrich also scheduled an appearance on South Carolina's Republican primary election day in Greenville, S.C., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republican presidential candidate former, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, seen with his wife Callista at center, campaigns at a Chick-Fil-A in Anderson, S.C., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, on South Carolina's Republican primary election day. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina Republican primary. The former House speaker has defeated former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to gain the victory in a dramatic turnaround from his earlier, poor showings in Iowa and New Hampshire. Florida holds the next GOP contest on Jan. 31.

Associated Press

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Minn. bear delivers at least 2 cubs on Internet

(AP) ? A 3-year-old bear in Minnesota has given birth to two cubs before an Internet audience.

Lynn Rogers of the Wildlife Research Institute, affiliated with North American Bear Center, said in a news release that Jewel gave birth in a den near Ely to the first cub at 7:22 a.m. Sunday, and a second at 8:40.

It's not the first time Rogers and his colleagues have monitored hibernating pregnant black bears.

In 2010, they recorded the birth of a bear named Hope in 2010. A Hunter killed Hope last year.

Jewel is the younger sister of Hope's mother, Lily.

Lily also gave birth last year to two cubs named Faith and Jason.

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Online:

North American Bear Center: http://www.bear.org

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Information from: Duluth News Tribune, http://www.duluthsuperior.com

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Monday, January 23, 2012

PCE in drinking water linked to an increased risk of mental illness

Friday, January 20, 2012

The solvent tetrachloroethylene (PCE) widely used in industry and to dry clean clothes is a neurotoxin known to cause mood changes, anxiety, and depression in people who work with it. To date the long-term effect of this chemical on children exposed to PCE has been less clear, although there is some evidence that children of people who work in the dry cleaning industry have an increased risk of schizophrenia. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health found that exposure to PCE as a child was associated with an increased risk of bipolar disorder and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

From 1968, until the early 1980s, water companies in Massachusetts installed vinyl-lined (VL/AC) water pipes that were subsequently found to be leaching PCE into the drinking water supply. Researchers from Boston University followed the incidence of mental illness amongst adults from Cape Cod, born between 1969 and 1983, who were consequently exposed to PCE both before birth and during early childhood.

While there was no increase seen in the incidence of depression, regardless of PCE exposure, people with prenatal and early childhood exposure to PCE had almost twice the risk of bipolar disorder, compared to an unexposed group, and their risk of PTSD was raised by 50%.

Dr Ann Aschengrau from Boston University School of Public Health warned, "It is impossible to calculate the exact amount of PCE these people were exposed to - levels of PCE were recorded as high as 1,550 times the currently recommended safe limit. While the water companies flushed the pipes to address this problem, people are still being exposed to PCE in the dry cleaning and textile industries, and from consumer products, and so the potential for an increased risk of illness remains real."

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Abandoning Ship: an Etiquette Guide

Yes, but they say nothing about gender or age. The International Maritime Organization has issued fairly extensive rules about the location and size of lifeboats a cruise ship must offer, and how quickly a company should be able to clear its ship. If an evacuation alarm sounds, cruise-ship passengers are supposed to proceed to the loading area and board a lifeboat that was assigned to them based on their cabin numbers. Some evacuations are far more chaotic than that, and the crew just loads whoever is ready to go. In those emergency situations, men sometimes step aside for the women to go first, but it?s not a matter of maritime law, nor is the tradition observed in many parts of the world. Similarly, the captain has no obligation to go down with the ship, and he or she doesn?t have to be the last person to step into a lifeboat. (In many cases, like the Costa Concordia incident, people go unaccounted for, so requiring the captain to be the last person off would be a death sentence.) Nevertheless, it?s possible that Captain Francesco Schettino failed in his duty to his passengers. The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea requires the captain to exercise his professional judgment to protect passenger safety, and most maritime experts would agree that presence on the ship is a prerequisite for to fulfilling that obligation.

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PFT: Tebow shows how far he has to go

Divisional Playoffs - New Orleans Saints v San Francisco 49ersGetty Images

For six seasons, Alex Smith was the No. 1 overall pick that looked like a fourth-rounder.

For his first two seasons, Vernon Davis looked like the most physically gifted tight end in the league. But he also looked like a guy who may never ?get it? and become a star.

On a magical Saturday evening in San Francisco, Smith and Davis created their own 49ers history.

There is so much to talk about after this instant classic. But it?s hard not to come back to Smith and Davis combining for two touchdowns in the final two minutes to win.

Smith has a reputation as a ?game manager? but he was absolutely sensational with the pressure on in the final minutes. Smith dropped a gorgeous 37-yard pass in the bucket to Davis up the sideline with 3:14 left.

That set up The Run, an Alex Smith 28-yard touchdown around the left end to give the 49ers the lead.

MDS started writing what was going to be a beautiful post about The Run as a memorable game-winner. ?Until the Saints quickly scored a touchdown and Smith had to win the game again.

After the Saints score, we thought the 49ers were finally done. They had pulled off one amazing late drive; they thought they won and now had to do it again. Nothing about their offensive performance all day indicated they could do it so quickly.

Smith did it again, of course. He found Davis for a 47-yard gain to set up the 14-yard game-winner with nine seconds left that reminded us so much of the T.O.?s playoff moment in San Francisco. ?Davis finished 180 yards and two scores.

?I want to see all good things happen to [Smith] because he?s a warrior,? Davis said after the game.

These weren?t ?game manager? throws. They were perfectly thrown gutsy tosses into small windows. The 49ers had a chance to play for the tie at the end of the game. Instead, they played aggressively like they did all afternoon.

The 49ers drafted Alex Smith first overall in 2005. Since then, Smith has seen two contracts, three head coaches, three personnel chiefs, and six offensive coordinators.?The team drafted Davis eighth overall the following year.

It took a great head coach, a lot of patience, and a lot of?perseverance?from Smith to finally get to this moment.

Smith-to-Davis may not quite be Montana-to-Clark, but this generation of 49ers accomplished something special on Saturday.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/15/tebow-shows-how-far-he-has-to-go/related/

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Post Apocalyptica...What a sh*thole

Post apocalyptica?What a shithole. Everyone had their theories about how the world was gonna end. Zombies this, meteors that. Well no-one had the sense to combine them all, cause if they did, they?d have a much clearer picture about what they?d be dealing with.

It all started so innocently, with genetic testing. If that?s the innocent start, you know that what lies to come is pretty bad. Anyways, the scientist pigs of the former U.S. of A. were trying to unlock the secrets of genesplicing, a method of mixing animal genes with human ones. They did the obvious stuff first, like dogs and birds, trying every combination available. It wasn?t until some super genius, a psycho named Phillipe Irving, created a so called ?Philosophers Stone? to solve the bonding problems the scientists had been having.

See, even though a person may share like 90% or something of their DNA with say, a rat, that other 10 or so percent can cause some pretty big changes. The first human ever spliced lasted a week before he came apart at the seams, literally. Like, the enzymes in his body broke down the lining of his skin and he melted. That was a human-chimp mixture, the closest damn thing we?ve got to a genetic ancestor. Anyways, after Irving introduced his miracle cure to the problem, genesplicing was just the start.

Werewolves? No problem. Bird-men? Cake. There wasn?t a creepy gene splice scientists couldn?t do. Soon, it wasn?t enough for them to just make hybrids. They wanted war machines, like any self-respecting anonymous science branch of a corrupt government would. Within a week, they were pumping out soldiers that could jump ten stories, take small arms fire and be none the worse for wear, and flip cars like they were made of cardboard. But was that enough? No. They needed more. More craziness, more bells and whistles! Enter?me. I was the first of my kind, but also the last. My name is Karma. Fitting.

So, a bit about me. My skin is harder than any known substance known, and the texture of a nice granite. My eyes can pick out a fly at seven hundred yards with the sun in my face. My nose is like a bloodhound?s. I?ve got ears that can hear a heartbeat through a steel wall. I can feel the magnetic field of the earth and use it to navigate more accurately than any bird in the sky. Those are the good qualities I?ve got. The bad makes it seem a little more balanced.

People always look at one thing on me the first time they meet me, and it?s not my breasts. It?s my eyes. My damned eyes. They?re a sickly cream color, no pupils or iris, and they

glow. I?ve heard ?em described in many ways, but I think the most accurate is ?like fuckin? lanterns?. You see, I?m a ghoul, the perfect killer. Once dead, but brought back to life through some science-y voodoo, and upgraded to do some death-dealing of my own. I don?t breathe, my heart is still, and I feed on the dead. I?m immortal, in the truest sense of the word.

?But Karma! You said you were gonna talk about what?s bad about you! Immortality is super cool?except for the feeding part? That?s right. To keep myself going strong, I?ve got to eat the people I kill. Goody goody. However, I?m the only one that survived the ghoulification, and since they did such a good job, the scientists couldn?t re-kill me to study why I succeeded. Stupid men.

Audio log #1, Year 2153, Karma~

All quiet on the home front. A lone raven cawed in the distance, rising to the appearance of the sun. On the roof of a desiccated skyscraper, a bundle of rags shifted about. Slowly, a woman unfolded herself and stood up straight, stretching towards the sky with a groan. She smacked her lips and blinked sleepily, scratching her back as she scanned the horizon. With a sigh, she approached the ledge of her temporary home and looked over, peering at the ground far below. Small shapes moved around aimlessly, occasionally clashing and squabbling, but never for very long.

?Breakfast,? grinned the woman as she simply stepped off the ledge, plummeting straight down like a rock. After freefalling for around ten seconds, she slammed into the pavement at ground level so hard that she was buried up to her knees. However, she was unfazed and pulled herself out as if she was simply stuck in loose sand. The shambling, rotting creatures around her looked at her blankly for a second before resuming their business.

Karma scoffed in disdain. ?Fuckin? zombies. No fun attol,? she spat. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed a bit of movement and turned to her left. One zombie had turned and was shambling quicker in a general ?away-from-her? direction. Karma smiled a bit as she trotted after it, hoping it would run. When the rotter noticed its hungry pursuer chasing after it, the creature broke into a full fledged sprint. This one must have been recently turned, as it was making little fear noises and had pretty good balance and speed. No matter.
Like a hungry dog, Karma dropped to a sprinters stance and took off, using all fours to catch up. Her arms elongated to assist in her gait, and her fingers and bare toes dug little divots into the concrete as she tore after the prey. Right as she entered leaping distance, the zombie was splattered by a group of bandits in a buggy. Karma didn?t miss a beat, however and pursued her new targets.

?OI! GUNTER! Got ourselves a chaser! Get rid ovit!? barked the driver, having noticed Karma in his side mirror. The gunner looked over his shoulder, swinging his gatling gun into view and spooling up the weapon. As soon as it was ready, he jammed down on the triggers and sent a blistering lead wind downrange at his pursuer. Unfortunately for him, Karma took that exact moment to pounce, and she cleared the little buggy, landing on the hood gracefully.

Karma turned around and grinned at the driver, exposing her obsidian teeth?all of them, in their sharpened, unholy glory. The bandit screamed high pitched like a little girl and swerved, trying to shake her off. Adopting a ?silly man? facial expression, Karma punched through the steel mesh that served as the windshield and ground her fingers into the man?s skull. His passenger opened up with a hand cannon, blasting at her fruitlessly. The ghoul?s nails elongated into talons, extending into the man?s head and causing him to scream even louder and incidentally wet himself.

?Yummy. I like screamers,? she giggled, before pulling the front half of the man?s skull through the windshield. The buggy slowly revved down and ground to a stop, at which point the bandits spilled out of the car and surrounded her, guns pointed but not firing. Karma ignored them, instead focusing on her breakfast. She glanced at one of the bandit men before popping one of their former leader?s eyes into her mouth and squishing it with her slate grey tongue, sending eyeball jelly out of her open lips and all over the hood of the car. One of the bandits vomited.

Karma tossed the remnant of the face onto the buggy, sporting a disappointed expression. ?Too fresh, he was. Makes me a bit sick inside. No matter. It?ll pass.? She stood up and brushed off her raggedy pants, turning to the men with a blood-stained smile. ?So?What?s new then, hey??

[This is Part one...I guess. Lemme know what you think!]

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