`An arrest warrant was issued Sunday for an Allentown man who police say took dominos to a violent extreme.
Reynaldo Nieves, 38, of 25 Cleveland St., allegedly attacked his girlfriend, Ana Alicea, early Sunday after she and her sister won their third game of dominos at 1045 Livingston St., Bethlehem, police said. [..]
According to the police report, Nieves and his friend Danny Ortiz were ”having a nice time” playing dominos with Alicea and her sister Glenda Alicea. but during the fourth game, Nieves, who the report said had been drinking, accused Ana Alicea of cheating. He then cursed at her, threw a domino at her and punched her in the face before jumping on top of her, the report states.’
`A Drug Enforcement Administration agent who stars in a popular online video that shows him shooting himself in the foot during a weapons demonstration for Florida children is suing over the tape’s release, claiming that his career has been crippled and he’s become a laughingstock due to the embarrassing clip’s distribution. Lee Paige, 45, blames the video’s release on DEA officials in an April 7 federal lawsuit filed against the U.S. government. A copy of the pro se complaint by Paige, a DEA agent since 1990, can be found below. According to the lawsuit, Paige was making a “drug education presentation” in April 2004 to a Florida youth group when his firearm (a Glock .40) accidentally discharged. The shooting occurred moments after Paige told the children that he was the only person in the room professional enough to carry the weapon. The accident was filmed by an audience member, and the tape, Paige claims, was turned over to the DEA. The drug agency subsequently “improperly, illegally, willfully and/or intentionally” allowed the tape to be disseminated. As a result, Paige–pictured above in a still from the video–has been the “target of jokes, derision, ridicule, and disparaging comments” directed at him in restaurants, grocery stores, and airports.’
`The paper is all about visualizing the arrangement of organs during coitus. People have tried to figure out how the pieces all fit together internally using cadavers and their imagination, by using a speculum and poking around with their fingers, and by clever tools, like hollow glass tubes shaped like a penis. This paper tries something different: the investigators had people have sex in an MRI tube, and snapped a few pictures while they were at it. [..]
Science porn! Maybe the stuff about 1.5 Tesla magnets and T2 weighted imaging gets in the way of the romance, but it lets us cut straight to the action. Unfortunately, it sounds like action was hard to come by—while the ladies were willing, the guys seemed to have, umm, flopped. The researchers say the experiment was only possible thanks to the availability of a drug called sildenafil (aka Viagra), with one exception.’
`Nearly five years after President Bush announced his restrictive embryonic stem-cell policy, the field is still feeling the fallout. The leader of the stem-cell unit at the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today he will leave the NIH to join the private sector at a biotech company called Invitrogen in Carlsbad, California.
Dr. Mahendra Rao says the president’s executive order that embryonic stem-cell lines created after Aug. 9, 2001 are not eligible for federal funding, is the reason behind his decision to leave the government agency. He spoke to Wired News about young scientists’ hesitation to enter the field, the danger of hyping stem-cell research, and why he’s still excited about the future of stem-cell research in this Q&A with Wired News.’
`A 75-year-old Romanian pensioner literally knocked out a burglar with karate moves she said she learned from television.
Anica D, who lives in Popeni village in Vaslui county, told police she was sleeping when the intruder broke into her house and attacked her.
The woman said she shouted for help but nobody came so she tried some karate she had learned from a self-defence TV programme.
Anica successfully managed to “immobilise” the burglar and then phoned police who arrested the man, the Ziarul newspaper reports.’
`Last year, a likable and accomplished scientist named Serguei Popov, who for nearly two decades developed genetically engineered biological weapons for the Soviet Union, crossed the Potomac River to speak at a conference on bioterrorism in Washington, DC. [..]
“When I came to Texas, I decided to forget everything,” Popov told me. “For seven years I did that. Now it’s different. It’s not because I like talking about it. But I see every day in publications that nobody knows what was done in the Soviet Union and how important that work was.”
Yet if Popov’s appearance last year at the Washington conference is any indication, it will be difficult to convince policymakers and scientists of the relevance of the Soviet bioweaponeers’ achievements. It wasn’t only that Popov’s audience in the high-ceilinged chamber of a Senate office building found the Soviets’ ingenious applications of biological science morally repugnant and technically abstruse. Rather, what Popov said lay so far outside current arguments about biodefense that he sounded as if he had come from another planet.’
`A wild turkey shattered the calm – and a window – at the St. Joseph County Library when it crashed through, toppling books until a custodian captured the disoriented bird.
“I’ve heard of deer going through houses, but never turkeys going into a library,” branch manager Judy Falzon said.
Falzon was preparing to open the library shortly before 9 a.m. Friday when the bird crashed in. She and custodian Irvin Cygirt watched as the animal hopped around, hit stacks of books and flew onto a cabinet.’
`Australian scientists have discovered an “anti-freeze gene” that allows Antarctic grass to survive at minus 30 Celsius (minus 22 Fahrenheit), saying it could prevent multi-million-dollar crop losses from frost.
“It’s a gene from the saltgrass that managed to colonise the Antarctic peninsula called Antarctic Hairgrass,” said Professor German Spangenberg from La Trobe University in Victoria state.
“We identified a novel class of a gene protein which binds twice and that prevents ice crystal growth. It has the capacity to survive being frozen rock solid and then thawing. It prevents the damage from ice crystals,” Spangenberg told Reuters.’
`Honestly, I’ve considered doing this before, but placed it above my personal level of expertise. Someone, or a group of someone’s in or around the University of Toronto has figured out how to hack the construction signs and is using them for environmental messages. Not only the ones shown here proclaiming “Don’t Drive” and “Take Your SUV Back to Detroit” but also advertising a campus event on sustainability.
I’m impressed. Rumor has it that a campus activist group, Cars Off Campus, is responsible. But I sure hope no one gets in trouble for that rumor.’
with a link to a video aswell.
`Government officials in Germany have reported what appears to be the first health-related recall of a nanotechnology product, raising a potential public perception problem for the rapidly growing but still poorly understood field of science.
At least 77 people reported severe respiratory problems over a one-week period at the end of March — including six who were hospitalized with pulmonary edema, or fluid in the lungs — after using a “Magic Nano” bathroom cleansing product, according to the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin.
Symptoms generally cleared up within 18 hours, though some had persistent breathing problems for days.’
`Two Catoosa County neighbors got in a gunbattle after one shot the other’s dog, Sheriff Phil Summers said.
One man was transported to Erlanger Medical Center after the gunplay on Sunday night. [..]
During the altercation, the two men exchanged gunfire. McDaniel was not injured, however, Mr. Beyer suffered from gunshot wounds to the head and chest area from McDaniel’s shotgun.
McDaniel was transported to Catoosa County Detention Center and charged with cruelty to animals.
Sheriff Summers said the case is still under investigation. At this time, the Sheriff’s Office is attempting to determine if additional charges should be filed.’
`A chunk of ice dropped out of the sky and left a huge hole in the ground this weekend at Oakland’s Bushrod Park in California, and not even astronomy experts know where it came from.
Witnesses said it sounded as if someone had dropped a liter of Coca-Cola out of a 10-story building — and the ice chunk had left behind a big hole. [..]
Jacek Purat, a witness to the falling ice, grabbed a piece and is storing it in his freezer. He says it came out of the southwestern sky, slammed into the ground and exploded into pieces. [..]
It burrowed about two-and-a-half feet into the ground, where Oakland firefighters retrieved it.’
`An 82-year-old woman received a $114 ticket for taking too long to cross a street. Mayvis Coyle said she began shuffling with her cane across Foothill Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley when the light was green, but was unable to make it to the other side before it turned red.
She said the motorcycle officer who ticketed her on Feb. 15 told her she was obstructing traffic.
“I think it’s completely outrageous,” said Coyle, who described herself as a Cherokee medicine woman. “He treated me like a 6-year-old, like I don’t know what I’m doing.”‘
Ever wondered what Hugo Chavez thinks of George W. Bush? Wonder no more. 🙂
Straight from Venezuela to you, and fucken funny to boot.
(4meg Windows media)
`Two people who police say conspired to get off of work for a few days by filing a fake obituary with a newspaper have been arrested.
James Ralph Snyder, 36, and Mary Jo Elizabeth Jensen, 33, both of Waterloo, participated in the scam by filing an obituary saying Jensen’s 17-year-old son had died, police said.
Snyder was charged with tampering with records. Jensen was charged with being an accessory after the fact.
Snyder, claiming he was Daniel Reddout’s father, submitted the obituary to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier in December, police said.
Snyder, who is Jensen’s boyfriend, said Reddout died at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., after a lengthy illness, police said.
Later in the week, people who know the family and the teenager saw him at a downtown restaurant and called authorities, police said.’
`Pharmaceutical companies are systematically creating diseases in order to sell more of their products, turning healthy people into patients and placing many at risk of harm, a special edition of a leading medical journal claims today.
The practice of “diseasemongering” by the drug industry is promoting non-existent illnesses or exaggerating minor ones for the sake of profits, according to a set of essays published by the open-access journal Public Library of Science Medicine.
The special issue, edited by David Henry, of Newcastle University in Australia, and Ray Moynihan, an Australian journalist, reports that conditions such as female sexual dysfunction, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and “restless legs syndrome” have been promoted by companies hoping to sell more of their drugs.’
`In this exclusive Parade.com poll accompanying the teaser for their story on Tom Cruise, his troubled childhood, and dead-eyed war bride (actual press release title: EXCLUSIVE PARADE.COM POLL FINDS VAST MAJORITY SYMPATHIZE WITH TOM CRUISE; 84% BLAME THE MEDIA ON NEGATIVE PRESS), more than 8 out of 10 Celebrity Centre drones tasked with sabotaging online surveys agree: Cruise’s year of almost universally unfavorable coverage is the fault of the media. Putting aside for a moment the somewhat tautological assertion that the media is to blame for the bad press, we see their point: Had the media-industrial complex not forced Cruise to brutalize Oprah’s furniture, publicly browbeat Brooke Shields and Matt Lauer with his incredible knowledge of the history of psychiatry, and quickly marry and impregnate someone previously most famous for being Dawson’s hyperverbal girlfriend at the outset of the press tours for the suspicious couple’s summer blockbusters, the actor would probably have enjoyed a relatively controversy-free year.’
`A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.
Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father’s phone line in January after he died and settled the $23 bill, the New Straits Times reported.
But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a $218 trillion bill for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported.
It wasn’t clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya’s father’s phone line was used illegally after after his death.’
`Everyone knows how this trick looks! David goes up in the air above the stage, soars above it, turns over, flies through the rings and in the closed glass box and in the end flows in the air with a girl in his hands.
People have been trying to reveal this mystery for many years, there have been a lot of interesting suppositions and they keep coming; the most popular version is the hauberk made of magnets, which David wears under his sweater; and there is a special device under the stage with the help of which Copperfield leaves the floor and goes a couple of meters up. Some even think, that David hypnotizes the whole audience during this trick and people simply don’t notice, that his assistants almost carry him with their bare hands. Of course, all of these versions are false and even amusing.
In this article we’ll go through David’s Flying from the show, called “Flying: live the dream.” If you have the video of this trick, please, prepare it for viewing; if not, you can find some fragments of it in this article.’
goes to the Google cache, because the original page has “magically” vanished. 🙂
`It is surprisingly difficult to get an anosognosiastic patient to recognize their own paralysis. If you ask them to do something with their paralyzed hand, for example, they will say that they can see and feel the action, despite their inactivity. You could ask them to clap and they would hopelessly wave one hand in the air – but say that nothing is wrong with their technique. When pressed about their inactivity they may make up excuses, such as that they are tired, or arthritic. Also, anosognastiac patients seem unaware of other patients’ paralysis as well – as if paralysis was not something that happened to humans.
In the worst cases, one may even forget that certain appendages are their own – most commonly their paralyzed arm. They will vehemently deny that their arm is theirs, even when it is pointed out to them that it is attached to their body.’
`He could’ve filled three Pepsi cans. Maybe three and a half.
That’s how much blood Talula estimates he lost the first time he tried to castrate himself.
Life had hit an all-time low. Depression hung around his shoulders like a lead suit. His libido had spiraled out of control, and he was masturbating as many as five times a day.
So in June 1994, at 37 years of age, Talula made a decision. He’d had enough. They had to go. He stripped naked and sat in his tub, Betadine solution in one hand, an Xacto knife in the other. He doused his genitals with the antiseptic until they glowed amber, then slowly, carefully, slit open his scrotum.
No anesthesia. No alcohol. Nothing.’
`The White House on Sunday sought to dampen the idea of a U.S. military strike on Iran, saying the United States is conducting “normal defense and intelligence planning” as President Bush seeks a diplomatic solution to Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons program.
Administration officials — from President Bush on down — have left open the possibility of a military response if Iran does not end its nuclear ambitions. Several reports published Sunday said the administration was studying options for military strikes; one account raised the possibility of using nuclear bombs against Iran’s underground nuclear sites.
Britain’s foreign secretary called the idea of a nuclear strike “completely nuts.”‘
Also Bush administration ‘secretly plans air strikes’ as it seeks regime change in Iran:
`The Bush administration has sent undercover forces into Iran, and has stepped up secret planning for a possible major air attack on the country, according to the renowned US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh.
While publicly advocating diplomacy to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, Hersh reports in the next issue of The New Yorker magazine that “there is a growing conviction among members of the United States military, and in the international community, that President Bush’s ultimate goal in the nuclear confrontation with Iran is regime change”.’
`A Lincoln, Nebraska, man who has six prosecutions for urinating in public – has been caught again.
But this time Darwin Shum was caught with his pants down doing a “number two” on the concrete veranda of Lincoln’s Hall of Justice.
If convicted, Shum could face a minimum £57 fine. Police said they did not believe Shum was making a political statement or intoxicated at the time.’
`Japan’s space agency reports that the sleepy Tokyo suburb of Kogane has been hit by a laser from an orbiting spacecraft. Click below for the full details of this first-ever extraterrestrial event.
Another first for Japan’s future military space-communications apparatus: the Optical Inter-orbit Communications Engineering Test Satellite, also known, fortunately, as Kirari, zapped the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in the Tokyo suburb of Kogane with a laser. Not to worry, though, the beam was fired for communication purposes, not destructive ones.’
`An Australian federal police officer has been suspended for consulting a clairvoyant as part of an investigation into a death threat made against the country’s prime minister, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The officer, whose identity has not been released, was reported to have consulted clairvoyant Elizabeth Walker after inquiries into the threat against Prime Minister John Howard hit a dead end, the Sunday Age reported.
In a statement to the newspaper, an Australian Federal Police spokesman confirmed an officer was being investigated.’
`If you’re launching yourself as Britain’s FBI and say you will make the lives of organised criminals “hell” then you need a dynamic logo to match the job.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) has chosen a fierce big cat bearing its fangs and leaping over a stylised silver globe, with a crown capping it all.
It’s bold but bears a striking resemblance to the logo of the 1980s children’s cartoon series Thundercats. So was the comparison to the show – which featured humanoid cats battling evil mutants in the Earth’s distant future – intentional? Soca declined to comment.’
`Imagine if you discovered one day that two of your three children were genetically not yours. Recriminations, marital troubles, perhaps a divorce, right? Now add a twist. What if you were these children’s mother? Suddenly the question becomes not “Who?” but rather “Huh?”
Yet that’s what happened to “Jane”. At the age of 52 when her children were full-grown, she and her children underwent genetic testing for a possible kidney transplant. Completely unexpectedly, two of her three children tested as genetically not hers. A mix-up of babies was ruled out, and she and her husband had not undergone in vitro fertilization, so it was absolute that her children were hers.
Jane, it turns out, is a human Chimera.’
Pretty cool little puzzle.
