tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16407281582663334682024-02-26T12:35:37.228-05:00XIAM007 - Making Unique Observations in a Very Cluttered World<b>XIAM007 - Generation X I am </b>XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.comBlogger4946125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-33132257650860105672016-02-25T18:29:00.001-05:002016-02-25T18:29:34.623-05:00'Super Lice' Hits 25 states, Including South Carolina - only known treatment costs $170 -<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So-called super lice have taken over half the country and are resistant to over-the-counter treatments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year, Shannon Lesnevich received the call from her son's school. Four-year-old Soren had gotten lice from one of his classmates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I was like, 'Oh no.' I knew it would take some work to get rid of it," said Lesnevich.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For millions of parents like Lesnevich, the news gets worse. In 25 states, including Georgia, scientists are finding super lice that can't be killed with the chemical used in most over-the-counter treatments. Pyrethroids used to work 100 percent of the time back in 2000, but by 2013, it only worked in 25 percent of cases.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But even super lice are no match for a new weapon used by the Lice Clinics of America. It's called AirAllé.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's FDA approved, costs about $170 and may be covered by insurance. Prescription medication or nit-picking and combing can still get rid of these nasty creatures, but both options take time and multiple treatments. However the best treatment is prevention. Lice experts say parents should teach their kids a few basics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Don't share hats, don't share hairbrushes," Roberts said. "Try to avoid the actual contact with hair or another head. That's how the lice are transferred."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If your child does get lice, experts say you don't have to go crazy sanitizing your house. Just vacuum, especially anywhere hair might have fallen. Wash bedding in hot water and throw stuffed animals and clothing in a hot dryer for 20 to 30 minutes. Lice can't live without a blood supply after 24 hours.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-44630614242598976262016-02-18T12:43:00.001-05:002016-02-18T12:46:59.780-05:00Gaza TV offers up proper wife-beating tips - No hitting that will bring the police, break her hand, cause bleeding - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gaza TV offers up proper wife-beating tips - No hitting that will bring the police, break her hand, cause bleeding - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A top spiritual leader in the Palestinian territory of Gaza told a television audience last week how and when men can beat their wives, advising not to hit them in a way that “makes the face ugly.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The shocking interview with Hassan Al-Laham, who holds the title “mufti of Gaza,” came during a weekly Palestinian Authority TV program on social issues. Explaining that divorce must be a last resort in Islam, Al-Laham laid out the four steps that should come first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Allah said: Warn them [the wives], and separate from them, and hit them, and bring an arbitrator from his family and an arbitrator from her family," he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Al-Laham, whose title makes him the top spiritual leader appointed by the Palestinian Authority, then went into detail about how a husband should hit a wife.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Not hitting that will bring the police, and break her hand and cause bleeding, or hitting that makes the face ugly," he said.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-10600508049150738682016-02-13T18:34:00.001-05:002016-02-13T18:34:15.385-05:00New 10 minute test for cancer developed by scientists - can be taken at home with just a drop of saliva - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A 10 minute cancer test which can be taken at home using just a drop of saliva is being developed by scientists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">David Wong, a professor of oncology at California State University says it is possible to detect tumour DNA when is it circulating in bodily fluids – an approach known as a liquid biopsy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The saliva test is 100 per cent accurate and is so simple that it could be carried out at a pharmacist, the dentist or even in the privacy of someone's own home if they were concerned, he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Currently scientists can only use blood tests to detect cancer if they have already taken a biopsy and sequenced a tumour, so they know which genetic signature to look for. Although this can be used to monitor cancer spread it cannot be used for an initial test. And it can throw up false positive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Professor Wong's tests have shown that just a single drop of saliva contains enough data to give a definitive diagnosis as soon as a tumour develops, he said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The test is non-invasive and cheap, costing around just 15 pounds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is due to enter full clinical trials in lung cancer patients later this year, and is expecting approval within two years from the Food and Drug Administration in America. He is hoping it will be available in Britain by the end of the decade, and believes it could be useful for many other cancers, such as oral cancer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“If there is circulating signature of a tumour in a person blood or saliva, this test will find it,” Professor Wong told the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Washington.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We need less than one drop of saliva and we can turn the test around in 10 minutes. It can be done in a doctor’s office while you wait.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Early detection is crucial. Any time you gain in finding out that someone has a life-threatening cancer, the sooner the better.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“With this capability, it can be implemented by the patient themselves in a home check, or dentist or pharmacy.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The test looks for genetic mutations in blood plasma which are consistent with a tumour.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I would love to do it in the U.K…..by the end of this decade. I would hope sooner than that,” he added.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Down the road it might be possible to test for multiple cancers at the same time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The advantages of our technology is that it is non-invasive. If you have a credible early screening risk assessment technology that people can use on their own or at dentists’ office or pharmacists - that’s the key, early detection.”</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-52888713342966465892016-02-12T12:01:00.001-05:002016-02-12T12:01:15.712-05:00Friday Tricks - DNC rolls back a ban on contributions from federal lobbyists and political action committees - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Democratic National Committee has rolled back restrictions introduced by presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 that banned donations from federal lobbyists and political action committees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The decision, which may provide an advantage to Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, was viewed with disappointment Friday morning by good government activists who saw it as a step backward in the effort to limit special interest influence in Washington.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It is a major step in the wrong direction,” said longtime reform advocate Fred Wertheimer. “And it is completely out of touch with the clear public rejection of the role of political money in Washington,” expressed during the 2016 campaign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The change in the rules, already apparent to leading Washington lobbyists, was quietly introduced at some point during the past couple of months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ban was both a symbolic and substantive way for Obama to put his stamp on the party in 2008 when he promised voters “we are going to change how Washington works.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since it was introduced, lobbyists and corporate advocates in Washington have complained about the ban and other limitations imposed by Obama. The only portion of the old rules now remaining in place is that lobbyists and PAC representatives will still not be able to attend events that feature Obama, Vice President Biden or their spouses, according to Mark Paustenbach, deputy communications director for the DNC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The DNC’s recent change in guidelines will ensure that we continue to have the resources and infrastructure in place to best support whoever emerges as our eventual nominee,” Paustenbach said in an email. “Electing a Democrat to the White House is vital to building on the progress we’ve made over the last seven years, which has resulted in a record 71 straight months of private-sector job growth and nearly 14 million new jobs.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last summer the DNC announced it was lifting a ban on lobbyist contributions to convention-related expenses. At the time, DNC officials said the move was necessary because Congress had eliminated about $20 million in federal funding for the quadrennial party gatherings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The DNC’s recent, sweeping reversal of the previous ban on donations from lobbyists and political action committees was confirmed by three Democratic lobbyists who said they have already received solicitations from the committee. The lobbyists requested anonymity to speak freely about the committee’s decision, which has been otherwise kept quiet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the most part, they said, the DNC is back to pre-2008 business as usual. The DNC has even hired a finance director specifically for PAC donations who has recently emailed prospective donors to let them know that they can now contribute again, according to an email that was reviewed by The Washington Post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The decision is the latest move likely to inflame tensions between the DNC and supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who has railed against lobbyist influence, particularly those representing Wall Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, has set up a joint fundraising committee with the DNC and the new rules are likely to provide her with an advantage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new rules have already opened up opportunities for influence-buying “by Washington lobbyists with six-figure contributions to the Hillary Victory Fund,” said Wertheimer, suggesting that lobbyists could also face “political extortion” from those raising the money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sanders has made his small-dollar-infused campaign a hallmark of his stump speech, boasting that he is the candidate of the little guy, to the point where supporters in Iowa could finish the portion of his stump speech in which he crowed that the average donation was $27.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In recent months Sanders’s supporters have accused the DNC of trying to prevent more primary debates, trying to tilt the race in Clinton’s direction. Just this week his backers were enraged that the DNC allowed the senior members of the Congressional Black Caucus to use the committee’s Capitol Hill headquarters to announce that their PAC had endorsed Clinton over Sanders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sanders backers have also expressed concern that the DNC is not playing a more vigorous role in checking out disputes over voting in the recent Iowa caucuses, which Clinton narrowly won.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Hillary Clinton’s campaign looks to the black vote in South Carolina to fend off Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16%</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">’ momentum, a look at her staff list reveals an exclusively white leadership team mostly comprised of white males. In fact, her top six campaign officials are all white guys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps black leaders in South Carolina should take a look at the Clinton 2016 team before making endorsements in the coming days ahead of the February 27 primary. Let’s break it down:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chairman: John Podesta</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Podesta served as chief of staff in the Bill Clinton White House during the impeachment crisis, and went on to found the left-wing propaganda organ The Center for American Progress. He also started up the lobbying firm The Podesta Group with his brother Tony. Podesta, 67, also happens to be a white male who went to law school at Georgetown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Campaign manager: Robby Mook</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mook, like Podesta, is a man of Caucasian descent. Mother Jones recently called Mook “Clinton’s Secret Weapon in Nevada” who “could launch her comeback.” Mook headed Clinton’s 2008 effort in Nevada against Barack Obama. Mook, 36, grew up in Vermont, the son of a Dartmouth professor, and went to college at Columbia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chief Strategist: Joel Benenson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Benenson, 63, serves as Clinton’s chief strategist despite being a white male from New York City. He’s mostly been a corporate consultant and also served as a strategist for Obama in 2008. The impending Clinton staff changes will actually give Benenson more power over the strategy team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Media Advisor: Jim Margolis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another former Obama adviser, Margolis joined Team Clinton last year and is now one of her most senior advisers. He previously worked for fellow white people Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)2%</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA)2%</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, John Kerry and Walter Mondale. White-haired Margolis’ blue eyes are now focused on helping Clinton to overcome the Sanders Surge. When the campaign is over, maybe he’ll finally have some time to help out with Oberlin College alumni events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pollsters: John Anzalone and David Binder</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anzalone is a white man who used to work for Obama in 2008 and has worked with James Carville and Paul Begala. His Clinton campaign teammate David Binder is also a white man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to these senior staffers, Clinton’s communications team is stunningly white. When reporters need to get in contact with the Clinton campaign, they have to go through travelling press secretary Nick Merrill, a white man who also worked for her in 2008. White male Brian Fallon also serves as a spokesman, and Jen Palmieri, a Caucasian woman, is the communications director.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clinton lost big to Sanders with white voters and young women in New Hampshire, where she still ended up with more delegates despite her staggering vote loss. Though she leads Sanders with black voters in South Carolina, Al Sharpton’s decision to campaign with Sanders and Sanders press secretary Symone Sanders’ concerted effort to appeal to the “Black Lives Matter” contingent could still swing the race.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-45122205156158937132016-02-11T18:50:00.001-05:002016-02-11T18:50:32.269-05:00The Adult Diaper Market Is About to Take Off - could equal those of baby diapers in a decade - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to the endless determination of parents to keep baby bottoms dry, Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies diapers brand has become a global powerhouse, with billions of dollars in annual sales. But the target consumers for one of the company’s latest diaper lines aren’t infants—or even their aged grandparents. Instead, ads for its Depend Silhouette line of disposable incontinence briefs feature laughing, long-legged models who look barely over 40. The personal-care giant has been aggressively running the fashion-style marketing pitches in mainstream magazines and on television, because adult incontinence is a market that’s recently become too big—and lucrative—to remain in the shadows.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We’re trying to make the product more normal, and even fun, with real people in our ads saying, ‘Hey, I have bladder leakage, and it’s no big deal,’ ” says Jay Gottleib, head of Kimberly-Clark’s adult and feminine-care business in North America.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Growth in the adult-diaper market is outpacing that of every other paper-based household staple in the U.S. Euromonitor International forecasts a 48 percent increase in sales in the category, to $2.7 billion in 2020 from $1.8 billion last year. That compares with expected growth of 2.6 percent, to $6.3 billion, during that period for baby diapers. And in only a decade, sales of diapers for adults could surpass those for babies at Kimberly-Clark and rival Procter & Gamble. As birthrates fall and life spans lengthen, the companies figure there’s plenty of room for expansion, because babies grow out of diapers, but incontinent adults usually don’t.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As many as 1 in 3 adults—more than 80 percent of them women—have bladder control issues, the Urology Care Foundation says. Causes include pregnancy and childbirth, health conditions such as diabetes and obesity, and changes that accompany aging, according to the Mayo Clinic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To tap that market, manufacturers have rolled out marketing campaigns to make a leaky bladder seem if not fashionable, then at least not humiliating. Kimberly-Clark sponsored a free concert in New York featuring the Grammy-nominated indie pop band Capital Cities to promote its adult products. It even produced a rap video featuring Kimberly-Clark employees strutting their stuff around one of the company’s factories while wearing nothing below the waist except its adult briefs. The rap lyrics explain that incontinence hits people of all ages and encourage listeners to “drop their pants for underwareness.” The company also introduced a social media campaign to raise money for an incontinence-awareness charity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“They’re driving home the point that attractive people in their 40s and 50s or even younger, not just nursing-home residents, can be wearing this under their clothing,” says Marlene Morris Towns, a teaching professor of marketing at Georgetown University.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Incontinence briefs, available in different styles for men and women, look a lot like regular underwear and come in a range of colors. Instead of being stacked on shelves like baby diapers, some of Kimberly-Clark’s latest adult incontinence gear comes in packaging that hangs on hooks in store displays and has transparent windows that show the absorbent disposables folded like cotton underpants. A box of 10 Depend Silhouette Active Fit briefs sells for $11.97, or about $1.20 each, at Walmart.com. A 44-count box of the company’s Huggies Snug & Dry diapers for infants costs $7.97, or about 18¢ each.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When casting the ads for its active-fit Silhouette briefs, the company hired models and brand ambassadors a generation younger than its former white-haired spokeswoman, the late actress June Allyson. Among them: comedian and television star Sheryl Underwood, 52, and slam poet “Mighty” Mike McGee, 40.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Svetlana Uduslivaia, a head of tissue and hygiene research at Euromonitor, says newer goods such as Depend Silhouette and P&G’s Always Discreet are thinner and less discernible under clothing, and in general are designed for more physically active consumers. They “wouldn’t be very suitable for those with more serious forms of adult incontinence usually associated with older seniors,” she says. So the products’ strong sales growth might suggest that younger people are drawn to them. A Kimberly-Clark spokesman says the company doesn’t yet have numbers to show its more youthful push is working. It suggests many younger incontinence sufferers still use products not intended to handle the problem (such as sanitary pads) because of a reluctance to buy goods designed for seniors—a stigma that its media campaign hopes to end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kimberly-Clark has more than half the U.S. incontinence-garment business, with 56 percent of sales last year, compared with 9 percent for P&G and 7 percent for Sweden’s Svenska Cellulosa, maker of the Tena brand of incontinence goods, Euromonitor estimates. Unlike Kimberly-Clark, P&G targets only women with one of its product lines—Always Discreet, introduced in 2014. Women already are familiar with the company’s Always brand, which includes such female personal-care products as menstrual pads and liners. “Always Discreet has been very successful in bringing along a lot of the younger women, because it’s a brand that they trust,” says Yuri Hermida, vice president of North American baby and feminine care at P&G.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hoping to grab an even bigger slice of the incontinence market, Kimberly-Clark last year introduced Poise Impressa bladder supports for women, one of the first incontinence products to be worn internally. It’s designed to help prevent urinary leaks rather than simply absorb them. Inserted into the vagina like a tampon, it lifts and gives support to the nearby urethra, which in turn helps stop urine from leaking out. The target audience includes women who suffer so-called stress urinary incontinence, often triggered by coughing, sneezing, or even dancing. Ads for the product feature a smiling middle-aged woman and a marketing pitch that promises to “let you laugh without leaks.” More than laughter, for Kimberly-Clark the products may bring in serious profits.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-89303703141333850192016-02-08T19:45:00.001-05:002016-02-08T19:45:29.040-05:00Bananas May Help Detect, Cure Skin Cancer - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The black spots on old banana peels may unlock a faster, easier diagnosis of human skin cancer, boosting survival chances, scientists said Monday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When bananas ripen, their skin is covered in small, round black spots caused by an enzyme known as tyrosinase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same enzyme is present in human skin, and in greater quantities in people suffering from melanoma — a potentially deadly form of skin cancer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A fungus called Panama Disease Tropical Race 4 is threatening to eliminate all the Cavendish bananas! Why is this a big deal, and are we able save this delicious fruit?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A team of scientists used this observed commonality to build a cancer scanner, which they then refined and tested at length on banana peels before moving on to human tissue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, researchers at the Laboratory of Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry in Switzerland concluded that the enzyme is a reliable marker of melanoma growth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the earliest stage 1 of cancer, the enzyme is not very apparent, becoming widespread and evenly distributed in stage 2, and unevenly distributed in stage 3 — by when the cancer has started spreading to other parts of the body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The earlier the cancer is detected, the greater the chances of survival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the American Cancer Society, people have a 10-year survival rate of 95 percent if the melanoma is detected in stage 1 — falling to 43 percent by mid-stage 3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The team developed a scanner and tested it on banana peel spots — which are roughly the same size as melanoma spots on human skin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“By working with fruit, we were able to develop and test a diagnostic method before trying it on human biopsies,” team leader Hubert Girault said in a statement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The scanner has eight flexible microelectrodes, spaced like comb teeth, that pass over the skin to measure the quantity and distribution of tyrosinase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This system could obviate the need for invasive tests like biopsies,” the team said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Girault believes the scanner could be used one day to destroy tumors, hopefully rendering biopsies and even chemotherapy unnecessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Our initial laboratory tests showed us that our device could be used to destroy the cells,” he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The research was published in the German science journal Angewandte Chemie.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-11135992531712188472016-02-08T10:59:00.002-05:002016-02-08T10:59:20.465-05:00Meteorite strike kills man - the first person ever to have died in a meteorite strike - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eteorite crashed into an engineering college in Vellore district on Saturday , causing an explosion that killed one man and injured three others, the Tamil Nadu government said on Sunday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scientists, however, said it wasn't clear how the government concluded that a meteorite strike caused the blast. There has been no established death due to a meteorite hit in recorded history, they said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If a meteorite indeed caused the death, bus driver Kamaraj will be the first person ever to have died in a meteorite strike. Saturday's blast also injured two gardeners and a student.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You have a better chance of getting hit by a tornado and a bolt of lightning and a hurricane all at the same time," is how astronomer and author of the book, Falling Stars: A Guide to Meteors & Meteorites Michael Reynolds describes the likelihood of such an event in a National Geographic report.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Regardless of the scepticism of experts, chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday said the government would pay compensation of Rs 1 lakh to Kamaraj's family .The three people injured in the explosion will receive Rs 25,000 each, she said.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Witnesses said the blast left a crater 5ft deep and 2ft wide. Policemen recovered a black, pockmarked stone weighing 11g from the blast site.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A police officer said the department would consult experts from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru and ask them for a detailed analysis of the stone to ascertain whether it is debris from a meteorite. A team of experts from the institute will visit the site on February 8.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A bomb squad from Chennai took debris samples on Sunday for analysis at Regional Forensic Science Laboratory in Mylapore. Police said preliminary investigation by police forensics experts ruled out the possibility that explosives caused the blast.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We did not find any trace of explosive substances, so we ruled out the possibility that explosives caused the blast," an investigating officer said. "We will wait for a final autopsy report on the body of driver Kamaraj and the report from the forensic lab to confirm what triggered the explosion."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The blast, which took place during class hours on Saturday when students, teachers and other staff were within the college's main building, shattered several windowpanes and damaged the windscreens of buses parked nearby . Police said Kamaraj went to wash his face at a tap near a water tank in the parking lot of the college when the explosion occurred around noon on Saturday . Thick smoke engulfed the area, witnesses said. A student, Santhosh, and two gardeners, Sasi and Murali, were injured. The blast deafened Santhosh, although doctors could not immediately say if the condition would be permanent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first person in history that a meteorite is confirmed to have hit was American Ann Hodges, 'National Geographic' reported. A softball-size hunk of black rock broke through the ceiling of her house in Sylacauga, Alabama, in November 1954 and hit her in the thigh, leaving a pineapple-shaped bruise. Scientists closely watch space bodies that come to earth and predict in advance when a meteor large enough to stay intact after burning up in the atmosphere is going to hit the planet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Organizations like International Meteor Organization have already put out the calendar for 2016 -for the days we can expect meteor showers and if there are any chances of them hitting earth. These occurrences are catalogued for the benefit of stargazers," said Isro Mars Orbiter Mission project director V Adimurthy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"They even predict the time of the meteor showers and are almost never wrong," he said. "The last meteor shower was on January 3 and the next one is between April 22 and 23. There is nothing for February."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">News of the poisoned water crisis in Flint has reached a wide audience around the world. The basics are now known: The Republican governor, Rick Snyder, nullified the free elections in Flint, deposed the mayor and city council, then appointed his own man to run the city. To save money, they decided to unhook the people of Flint from their fresh water drinking source, Lake Huron, and instead, make the public drink from the toxic Flint River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the governor's office discovered just how toxic the water was, they decided to keep quiet about it and covered up the extent of the damage being done to Flint's residents, most notably the lead affecting the children, causing irreversible and permanent brain damage. Citizen activists uncovered these actions, and the governor now faces growing cries to resign or be arrested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are 10 things that you probably don't know about this crisis because the media, having come to the story so late, can only process so much. But if you live in Flint or the state of Michigan as I do, you know all to well that what the greater public has been told only scratches the surface.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. While the Children in Flint Were Given Poisoned Water to Drink, General Motors Was Given a Special Hookup to the Clean Water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few months after Gov. Snyder removed Flint from the clean fresh water we had been drinking for decades, the brass from General Motors went to him and complained that the Flint River water was causing their car parts to corrode when being washed on the assembly line. The governor was appalled to hear that GM property was being damaged, so he jumped through a number of hoops and quietly spent $440,000 to hook GM back up to the Lake Huron water, while keeping the rest of Flint on the Flint River water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which means that while the children in Flint were drinking lead-filled water, there was one -- and only one -- address in Flint that got clean water: the GM factory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. For Just $100 a Day, This Crisis Could've Been Prevented.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Federal law requires that water systems which are sent through lead pipes must contain an additive that seals the lead into the pipe and prevents it from leaching into the water. Someone at the beginning suggested to the governor that they add this anti-corrosive element to the water coming out of the Flint River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"How much would that cost?" came the question. "$100 a day for three months," was the answer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess that was too much, so, in order to save $9,000, the state government said f*** it -- and as a result the state may now end up having to pay upwards of $1.5 billion to fix the mess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. There's More Than the Lead in Flint's Water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to exposing every child in the city of Flint to lead poisoning on a daily basis, there appears to be a number of other diseases we may be hearing about in the months ahead. The number of cases in Flint of Legionnaires Disease has increased tenfold since the switch to the river water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eighty-seven people have come down with it, and at least 10 have died. In the five years before the river water, not a single person in Flint had died of Legionnaires Disease. Doctors are now discovering that another half-dozen toxins are being found in the blood of Flint's citizens, causing concern that there are other health catastrophes which may soon come to light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. People's Homes in Flint Are Now Worth Nothing Because They Cant Be Sold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Would you buy a house in Flint right now? Who would? So every homeowner in Flint is stuck with a house that's now worth nothing. That's a total home value of $2.4 billion down the economic drain. People in Flint, one of the poorest cities in the U.S., don't have much to their name, and for many their only asset is their home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, in addition to being poisoned, they have now a net worth of zero. (And as for employment, who is going to move jobs or start a company in Flint under these conditions? No one.) Has Flint's future just been flushed down that river?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. While They Were Being Poisoned, They Were Also Being Bombed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a story which has received little or no coverage outside of Flint. During these two years of water contamination, residents in Flint have had to contend with a decision made by the Pentagon to use Flint for target practice. Literally. Actual unannounced military exercises- - complete with live ammo and explosives -- were conducted last year inside the city of Flint. The army decided to practice urban warfare on Flint, making use of the thousands of abandoned homes which they could drop bombs on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Streets with dilapidated homes had rocket-propelled grenades fired upon them. For weeks, an undisclosed number of army troops pretended Flint was Baghdad or Damascus and basically had at it. It sounded as if the city was under attack from an invading army or from terrorists. People were shocked this could be going on in their neighborhoods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wait -- did I say "people?" I meant, Flint people. As with the governor, it was OK to abuse a community that held no political power or money to fight back. BOOM!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. The Wife of the Governor's Chief of Staff Is a Spokeswoman for Nestle, Michigan's Largest Owner of Private Water Reserves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Deep Throat told Woodward and Bernstein: "Follow the money." Snyder's chief of staff throughout the two years of Flint's poisoning, Dennis Muchmore, was intimately involved in all the decisions regarding Flint. His wife is Deb Muchmore, who just happens to be the spokesperson in Michigan for the Nestle Company -- the largest owner of private water sources in the State of Michigan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nestle has been repeatedly sued in northern Michigan for the 200 gallons of fresh water per minute it sucks from out of the ground and bottles for sale as their Ice Mountain brand of bottled spring water. The Muchmores have a personal interest in seeing to it that Nestles grabs as much of Michigan's clean water was possible -- especially when cities like Flint in the future are going to need that Ice Mountain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. In Michigan, from Flint water, to Crime and Murder, to GM Ignition Switches, It's a Culture of Death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not just the water that was recklessly used to put people's lives in jeopardy. There are many things that happen in Flint that would give one the impression that there is a low value placed on human life. Flint has one of the worst murder and crime rates in the country. Just for context, if New York City had the same murder rate as Flint, Michigan, the number of people murdered last year in New York would have been almost 4,000 people -- instead of the actual 340 who were killed in NYC in 2015. But it's not just street crime that makes one wonder about what is going on in Michigan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last year, it was revealed that, once again, one of Detroit's automakers had put profit ahead of people's lives. General Motors learned that it had installed faulty ignition switches in many of its cars. Instead of simply fixing the problem, mid-management staff covered it up from the public.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The auto industry has a history of weighing the costs of whether it's cheaper to spend the money to fix the defect in millions of cars or to simply pay off a bunch of lawsuits filed by the victims surviving family members. Does a cynical, arrogant culture like this make it easy for a former corporate CEO, now Governor, turn a blind eye to the lead that is discovered in a municipality's drinking water?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. Don't Call It "Detroit Water" -- It's the Largest Source of Fresh Drinking Water in the World.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The media keeps saying Flint was using "Detroit's water." It is only filtered and treated at the Detroit Water Plant. The water itself comes from Lake Huron, the third largest body of fresh water in the world. It is a glacial lake formed over 10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age and it is still fed by pure underground springs. Flint is geographically the last place on Earth where one should be drinking poisoned water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. ALL the Children Have Been Exposed, As Have All the Adults, Including Me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's just a fact. If you have been in Flint anytime from April 2014 to today, and you've drank the water, eaten food cooked with it, washed your clothes in it, taken a shower, brushed your teeth or eaten vegetables from someone's garden, you've been exposed to and ingested its toxins. When the media says "9,000 children under 6 have been exposed," that means ALL the children have been exposed because the total number of people under the age of 6 in Flint is... 9,000!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The media should just say, "all." When they say "47 children have tested positive", that's just those who've drank the water in the last week or so. Lead enters the body and does it's damage to the brain immediately. It doesn't stay in the blood stream for longer than a few days and you can't detect it after a month. So when you hear "47 children", that's just those with an exposure in the last 48 hours. It's really everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. This Was Done, Like So Many Things These Days, So the Rich Could Get a Big Tax Break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Governor Snyder took office in 2011, one of the first things he did was to get a multi-billion dollar tax break passed by the Republican legislature for the wealthy and for corporations. But with less tax revenues, that meant he had to start cutting costs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, many things -- schools, pensions, welfare, safe drinking water -- were slashed. Then he invoked an executive privilege to take over cities (all of them majority black) by firing the mayors and city councils whom the local people had elected, and installing his cronies to act as "dictators" over these cities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their mission? Cut services to save money so he could give the rich even more breaks. That's where the idea of switching Flint to river water came from. To save $15 million! It was easy. Suspend democracy. Cut taxes for the rich. Make the poor drink toxic river water. And everybody's happy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Except those who were poisoned in the process. All 102,000 of them. In the richest country in the world.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-5604231242658035772016-02-03T09:37:00.001-05:002016-02-03T09:37:38.737-05:00So crime DOES pay: Washington D.C. passes proposal to give residents up to $9,000 in cash not to commit crime - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They say crime doesn't pay, but that might not be entirely true in the U.S. capital as lawmakers look for ways to discourage people from becoming repeat offenders.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a bill that includes a proposal to pay residents a stipend if they don't commit any crimes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's based on a program in Richmond, California, that advocates say has contributed to reductions in crime there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the bill, city officials would identify up to 200 people a year who are considered at risk of either committing or becoming victims of violent crime. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those people would be directed to participate in behavioral therapy and other programs. If they fulfill those obligations and stay out of trouble, they would be paid.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bill doesn't specify the value of the stipends, but participants in the California program receive up to $9,000 per year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, a Democrat who wrote the legislation, said it was part of a comprehensive approach to reducing violent crime in the city, which experienced a 54 per cent increase in homicides last year. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Homicides and violent crime are still down significantly since the 2000s, and even more so since the early 1990s when the District was dubbed the nation's 'murder capital.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McDuffie argued that spending $9,000 a year in stipends 'pales in comparison' to the cost of someone being victimized, along with the costs of incarcerating the offender.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'I want to prevent violent crime — particularly gun violence — by addressing the root causes and creating opportunities for people, particularly those individuals who are at the highest risks of offending,' McDuffie, a former prosecutor, said in a letter to constituents last week.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser has not committed to funding the program, which would cost $4.9 million over four years, including $460,000 a year in stipend payments, according to the District's independent chief financial officer. Without the mayor's support, it would be up to the Council to find money for it through new taxes or cuts to existing programs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The program would be run independently of the police department, and participants would remain anonymous. Its goal would be to recruit people who are at risk of violence but don't have criminal cases pending.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Richmond, 79 per cent of 'fellows' participating in the program have not been suspected of involvement in any gun crimes since joining the program, and 84 per cent have not been injured by gunfire, the program's executive director, DeVone Boggan, said in a report to the Council.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richmond experienced a 77 per cent drop in homicides between 2007, when the program was launched, and 2014, although how much can be specifically attributed to the stipends is unclear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The proposal in Washington has generated scant debate as lawmakers have focused on other crime-fighting tools included in the bill. Longtime civic activist Dorothy Brizill was the only person to testify against the stipend program at a lengthy hearing last fall, saying it would waste taxpayer dollars.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'These incentive programs don't work,' Brizill said Tuesday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3428670/DC-bill-pay-people-stipends-not-commit-crimes.html</span></div>
XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-61637316968912145442016-02-02T18:20:00.002-05:002016-02-02T18:20:33.274-05:00First Sexually Transmitted Zika Virus Case Confirmed in Texas - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Health officials confirmed that a man in Texas contracted the Zika virus through sexual transmission in the first case the U.S. has seen on its shores since the virus recently began to sweep across continents at an alarming rate, according to an announcement Tuesday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Previously, the Zika virus had been spread predominantly via mosquito bites, although researchers had been studying the possibility that it could be spread through sexual intercourse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Dallas County Health and Human Services confirmed the U.S. man’s condition after it received a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention saying that the man had been infected with the virus after engaging in sexual conduct with a person who had just returned from a country where the Zika virus was present, according to the AP. There are currently no reports of the Zika virus being spread via mosquito bites in Dallas or elsewhere in the U.S.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Previously, there had been reports that the Zika virus had been discovered in a man’s semen in Tahiti, and there had also been an earlier report that a researcher from Colorado who had contracted the virus overseas may have spread it to his wife in 2008, the AP noted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brazil, especially, has been severely struck by the Zika virus and its links to to cases of microcephaly, in which babies are born with underdeveloped brains and skulls, according to the BBC. Since October 2015, more than 4,000 cases of microcephaly have been diagnosed in Brazil alone with likely links to the pandemic spread of the Zika virus.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-74969926709722644152016-02-02T14:24:00.000-05:002016-02-02T14:24:24.303-05:00Seafood could reduce Alzheimer's risk - older adults who eat at least one portion a week - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seafood may play a role in reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s disease , research reveals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new study found older adults with a particular risk gene for the disease who ate at least one seafood serving a week showed fewer signs of Alzheimer’s-related brain changes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But experts were cautious about the findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr Laura Phipps, of Alzheimer’s Research UK, said: “This study links moderate seafood consumption with lower levels of Alzheimer’s-related brain changes in elderly people who carry a risk gene for the disease.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“But we must be careful when drawing conclusions about the wider population.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read more: Has the elixir of youth been found in a Japanese herbal remedy?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“But we must be careful when drawing conclusions about the wider population.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She added: “The omega-3 fatty acids found in oily fish are an important part of a balanced diet, and previous studies suggest they could play an important role in keeping the brain healthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Current research is underway to investigate the benefits of a diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids in those at risk of memory and thinking problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“But at this time there is no evidence to suggest fish oil supplements could prevent dementia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“While higher seafood consumption is linked to greater levels of mercury in the brain, it is encouraging to see that this did not appear to be associated with Alzheimer’s changes in the brain in this study.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She added: “Dementia risk is a complex mix of age, genetics and lifestyle factors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The best current evidence suggests that what’s good for your heart is good for your head and that getting plenty of exercise, eating a healthy balanced diet, not smoking and keeping blood pressure and cholesterol in check could help reduce dementia risk.”</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-5682833899366330392016-02-02T11:32:00.001-05:002016-02-02T11:32:34.414-05:00Cannabis Vagina Suppositories inserted to 'ease pain' - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the latest battle in the war against agonising period pains, suppositories filled with cannabis designed to be inserted into the vagina have hit the US market.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many women experience period pain - or dysmenorrhoea - as the muscular wall of the womb contracts and presses against neighbouring blood vessels. This cuts off the blood supply to the womb, and causes pain, according to the NHS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Similar in shape to tampons, the suppositories are said to deliver the pain-relieving properties of cannabis without making users feel high.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sold in packs of four for $44 (£30), each FORIA Relief capsule contains 60mg of THC and 10mg of cannabidiol, as well as cocoa butter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Our intention is to share the powerful medicinal properties of this plant while utilizing modern extraction techniques to standardize purity and potency, thereby ensuring a safe and accessible experience for all women,” the FORIA website reads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cannabis treatment – which is made using plants grown outdoors in Northern California – interacts with the nerve endings around the uterus, cervix and the ovaries and also blocks mechanisms which cause inflammation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But does it work? A reviewer for the website Broadly wrote that: “Within 20 minutes, my cramps totally disappeared.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She added that while other pain relief methods wore off, “one Foria suppository did its job well into my evening.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Foria is currently only available in US states where cannabis is legal, including California and Colorado. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, women may be put off by the fact that the product is not yet evaluated by the US Food and Drug Administration which regulates medications and is responsible for protecting public health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Discussing her concerns about such a product, Dr Helen Webberley, of the Oxford Online Pharmacy, told the Huffington Post that all medicines in the US must be passed by the FDA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This capsule has not even been studied yet and it hasn't been passed by the FDA. The assumption is that, as cannabis can cause muscle relaxation, it may help to ease period pains.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I would be very worried about women using this product before it has been fully evaluated,” she said. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr Webberley's concerns come after women were warned against using "herbal detox pearls" sold by a separate firm, which are inserted in the vagina. The product is marketed as a treatment for endometriosis, ovarian cysts and thrush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, Dr Jen Gunter, a US gynaeologist urged women in a blog post not to use the pearls and said they could cause toxic shock syndrome - a potentially fatal condition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tamieka Atkinson, the owner of Embrace Pangaea, told The Independent at the time that the Embrace Pangae balls are "holistic".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Our product is not a drug by any means, and we make no claims of curing, diagnosing, or treating disease," she said. </span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-22384097326485177132016-02-02T11:12:00.000-05:002016-02-02T11:12:01.411-05:00Shocking Study — “BPA-free” Plastics No Safer than BPA, Causing a Slew of Debilitating Side Effects - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2012, the Food and Drug Administration banned the use of Bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles, sippy cups, and infant formula packaging. Manufacturers had already dropped the use of BPA after studies linked it to early puberty and a rise in breast and prostate cancers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“BPA-free” became all the rage, but even in 2014, there were hints that BPA alternatives were not as safe as presumed. A new study by UCLA researchers is adding to the evidence that BPS—the most common alternative—is most likely no safer than BPA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Our findings are frightening and important,” said senior author Nancy Wayne. “Consider it the aquatic version of the canary in the coal mine.“</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The study, published in the journal Endocrinology, was “the first to examine the effects of BPA and BPS on key brain cells and genes that control the growth and function of organs involved in reproduction.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In controlled experiments on zebrafish, both chemicals sped up embryonic development, which led to the fish equivalent of premature birth. The effect was observed even at low levels of BPA or BPS equivalent to polluted river water. Zebrafish are commonly used to study the impact of plastic additives because their transparent embryos allow direct observation of cell growth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Exposure to low levels of BPA had a significant impact on the embryos’ development of brain cells that control reproduction, and the genes that control reproduction later in life,” said Wayne. “We saw many of these same effects with BPS found in BPA-free products. BPS is not harmless.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The researchers also discovered that both BPA and BPS acted through an estrogen system and through a thyroid hormone system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wayne told CNN: “Because of thyroid hormone’s important influence on brain development during gestation, our work holds important implications for general embryonic and fetal development, including in humans.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the past 20 years, the U.S. has seen a rise in premature births and early onset of puberty. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including BPA and now BPS, are believed to be contributing to these phenomena.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The safety of BPS was beginning to be called into question in 2013 when Texas researchers found that tiny amounts could interfere with the normal functioning of cells. A study in Canada found that BPS caused a higher degree of abnormal effects on neural cell growth than BPA. A rat study found that normal doses of BPS caused heart arrhythmia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It’s all pointing in the same direction: BPS is not harmless,” said Wayne. “Consumers should be cautious about the assumption that ‘BPA-free’ means a product is safe.“</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-50725525878305656702016-02-01T20:12:00.000-05:002016-02-01T20:12:26.920-05:00Fish or just Foul? - 'Mutant' sea creature with a nose, feet, tail and WINGS baffles Caribbean island - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An 'alien fish' caught on a small Caribbean island has left experts baffled, as they struggle to determine its species.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The creature reportedly has 'feet' which allows it to walk across the seabed, a ' perfect human nose', and scales like a fish. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sea creature was caught in the port of Windward on the tiny island of Carriacou, a few miles from Grenada.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One islander said 'Everyone crowded round to look - nobody had ever seen anything like it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Quite a few people were pretty scared and thought it looked like something out of a sci-fi horror film.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Veteran fisherman Hope McLawrence, 74, who found himself staring into the eyes of the 'alien' creature when he hauled in his nets, admitted he was astounded and baffled.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The foot-long beast had two feet with toes, no fin, a long bone on its back and 'a perfect human nose immediately above its mouth' according to Mr McLawrence</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'I have never discovered anything like this before. The wings and tail looks extremely complicated.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr McLawrence, who has more than fifty years experience in the fishing industry added 'By the look of the creature it cannot swim but apparently walks on the sea bed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'This has shocked me to a considerable extent since I never thought that a creature like this even existed, much less in the harbour of these shallow, friendly waters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'This is like a mystery and breathes a chill with this discovery' he added. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fish is believed to be a frogfish, an ambush predator that can eat almost anything that will fit into their large mouths. This includes other fish as well as crabs and shrimp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don Harris, the president of the Maricopa County Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had just finished an event at Tempe Union High School District to discuss an incident at the school in which several girls wore black t-shirts bearing the letters “N-I-*-*-E-R” on them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The outrage was instantaneous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The six students in question pulled ranks to spell out NI**ER on their own, smiling gleefully to pose for an Instagram picture. Their punishment was 5-days suspension,” a petition demanding their expulsion reads, EAGnews reports.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This hurtful use of a racial slur is a complete disregard for the dignity of the black community in Arizona and across the nation and the punishment does not fit the total ignorance and cruelty of the crime.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harris was on hand to accept apologizes and demand action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But after the meeting, while participants were speaking with the media, he was caught on camera saying Channel 12 reporter Monique Griego had “nice tits.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I can’t believe that someone in his position would not understand how inappropriate that comment was at the time that he made it,” says Ray Stern, a reporter for the Phoenix New Times, who was talking to Griego at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Here’s the leader of the NAACP talking about the N-word and then making this comment, that was more inappropriate than I could even believe,” he tells ABC 15.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The news station reports Harris doesn’t believe Griego heard him at the time and says he feels like he let down the NAACP. He calls his comment “ugly” and says it just slipped out “guy to guy.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the reaction, Harris now says he feels “down in the dumps.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The New Times contacted Harris after that incident and reports the NAACP leader said, “I apologize if anyone was offended. I could have said nothing . . . I’m really f*cking sorry.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He argued that the meeting was over when he complimented the reporter’s rack and then really blew a gasket (edited for a family audience):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I’m going to slash my wrists,” he spews. “Better yet, I’m going to throw myself out of a f*cking window, except I’m on the first floor . . . I’m one of the best g*dd*mned people in the state.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People criticized him when he first took over the NAACP chief post from the Reverend Oscar Tillman, who retired in 2014 after 22 years in the position, he says, because “I was the wrong flavor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“They’ve seen me now, they’ve seen what I’ve done. I’ve given up my law practice. I’m down here six, seven days a week. That’s what my commitment is. I support NOW, the women’s organization — g*dd*mn! — are you sh*tting me? Are you going to write this up?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Griego didn’t comment on the situation but Harris insists he wants to apologize face-to-face. (Of course he does.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last June, when white NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal was exposed for pretending to be black, Harris appeared on CNN and claimed “credibility” is one of the most important assets the organization has.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This is a race-based organization — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. And being a race-based organization, when you have a leader in any capacity, you’ve got to have credibility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Once you lose that credibility, the efficacy of your leadership fails,” Harris said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are now calls for Harris’s resignation and at least one minister seeking his ouster blames not Harris’s sexism, but his “white privilege.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Don can be a bit of a character, but I think he’s also a well-to-do, older, white male and he exhibited some of the signs of what we’ve called ‘white privilege,’ Rev. Jarrett Maupin says, according to KTAR. “He should know better than anyone, as the NAACP, to do what he did.”</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-25600030242471518902016-01-29T18:47:00.000-05:002016-01-29T18:47:04.120-05:00Sleep deprivation could lead to diabetes - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our sleep deprived lives could lead to a rise in getting diabetes, according to a new study. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The study, published in Diabetes Care and conducted by the University of Chicago, found that not sleeping well can increase your risk of developing diabetes, particularly affecting people who work long hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People who are tired will eat more because they want to get energy from somewhere. "This could mean consuming sugar or other foods that can spike blood sugar levels,“ Dr Maarouf, the diabetes education director of the Stark Diabetes Center at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, told WebMD. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She explains: “I really push people to eat properly throughout the day and get their blood sugars under control so they sleep better at night. If you get your blood sugar under control, you will get a good night sleep and wake up feeling fabulous with lots of energy.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Author of the study, Dr Josiane Broussard, an assistant research professor at the department of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado, said: "In this short-term study, we found that two long nights spent catching up on lost sleep can reverse the negative metabolic effects of four consecutive nights of restricted sleep."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diabetes occurs when your body doesn’t produce enough insulin. A lack of sleep can lead to insulin resistance, which means your body finds it harder to break down sugars. As well as leading to weight gain, when you’re tired, there’s insulin resistance, which means the body can’t break glucose down into energy. If you’re tired and insulin can’t do its job properly, then sugar levels can build to such a point that the insulin could harm the eyes, kidneys, nerves, and heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the study is encouraging, says Dr Broussard: "It shows that young, healthy people who sporadically fail to get sufficient sleep during the work week can reduce their diabetes risk if they catch up on sleep during the weekend."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The University of Chicago study recommends sleeping two nights of extended sleep, or more than 8.5 hours to lower the risk of diabetes. </span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-55792227945422352932016-01-29T15:41:00.003-05:002016-01-29T15:41:57.640-05:00Dogs may have evolved to handle our bad tempers - they limit their eye contact with angry humans - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Man’s best friend has a clear strategy for dealing with angry owners — look away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New research shows that dogs limit their eye contact with angry humans, even as they tend to stare down upset canines. The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to appease humans, that evolved as dogs were domesticated and benefited from avoiding conflicts with humans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To conduct the tests the University of Helsinki researchers trained 31 dogs to rest in front of a video screen. Facial photos — showing threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions — were displayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds. Nearby cameras tracked the dogs’ eye movements.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dogs in the study looked most at the eyes of humans and other dogs to sense their emotions. When dogs looked at expressions of angry canines, they lingered more on the mouth, perhaps to interpret the threatening expressions. And when looking at angry humans they tended to avert their gaze. Dogs may have learned to detect threat signs from humans and respond in an appeasing manner, according to researcher Sanni Somppi. Avoiding conflicts may have helped dogs — which are the most popular pet in the United States — develop better bonds with humans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The researchers also note that dogs scan faces holistically to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature. They suggest this indicates that dogs aren’t sensing emotions from a single feature, but piecing together information from all facial features just as humans do.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-54714412264703011882016-01-29T12:40:00.003-05:002016-01-29T12:40:50.077-05:006 Cities in Michigan have EVEN HIGHER LEVELS OF LEAD than Flint - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the nation rightly focuses on Flint’s ongoing water crisis, other cities in the state of Michigan face even higher levels of lead contamination. The alarming pervasiveness of potentially toxic drinking water extends across the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Detroit News reports that “Elevated blood-lead levels are seen in a higher percentage of children in parts of Grand Rapids, Jackson, Detroit, Saginaw, Muskegon, Holland and several other cities, proof that the scourge of lead has not been eradicated despite decades of public health campaigns and hundreds of millions of dollars spent to find and eliminate it.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of over 7,000 children tested in the Highland Park and Hamtramck areas of Detroit in 2014, 13.5 percent tested positive for lead. Among four zip codes in Grand Rapids, one in ten children had lead in their blood. In Adrian and south-central Michigan, more than 12 percent of 640 children tested had positive results.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These overall numbers are higher than Flint’s, where Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha found lead in up to 6.3 percent of children in the highest-risk areas;while The Guardian reported Dr. Hanna-Attisha has also said the rate is as high at 15 percent in certain “hot spots,” the size of those samples was not listed. Even so, the overall figures across Michigan are lower than in previous years. In 2012, children tested across Michigan had lead in their blood at a rate of 4.5 percent, about five times less than the rate ten years prior, which reached an alarming 25 percent. In spite of the decrease in recent years, however, thousands of children in Michigan are still affected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“In 2013, that level sank to 3.9 percent and fell again to 3.5 percent in 2014. But that is still 5,053 children under age 6 who tested positive in 2014,” theDetroit News explained. “Each had lead levels above 5 micrograms per deciliter. (Though no amount is considered safe, 5 micrograms is the threshold that experts say constitutes a ‘much higher’ level than most children.)” One Detroit zip code had a rate of 20.8 percent of children who tested positive in 2014, and 20.3 percent the following year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The outrage in Flint is especially warranted because of the pronounced effects of lead on children. Lead, a known toxin, is associated with bothphysical and mental ailments, and according to one Detroit teacher, has harmed the cognitive abilities of students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kieya Morrison, a veteran kindergarten teacher, who now teaches preschool, described a recent student known to have elevated levels of blood in her system. The girl experienced difficulties grasping simple cognitive tasks, like differentiating between a triangle and a square. “She had cognitive problems. She had trouble processing things,” Morrison said. “She could not retain any of the information.” The University of Michigan recently found a link between lead in children and lower academic test scores.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michigan’s lead problem “…is still an issue. It’s not going away,” said Dr. Eden Wells, chief medical executive of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, lead levels are elevated across the United States. Anti-Media reported this week on Sebring, Ohio, where a similar lead crisis spawned official cover-ups. For years, discoveries of lead in public water supplies have made headlines, even if these finding were not national news. In 2008, the Los Angeles school district’s water supply was found to have levels of lead hundreds of times higher than the allowable. In 2015, officials could not guarantee they had adequately purified the water. In another example, in 2010, New York City tested 222 older homes known to have lead pipes, and found 14 percent had lead levels higher than the allowable limit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Vox noted that in 2014, “Nine counties nationwide told the CDC that 10 percent or more of their lead poisoning tests came back positive. Four of them are in Louisiana, two in Alabama, and the rest scattered across West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Oklahoma.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The problem extends beyond anecdotal cases or any specific region. As Huffington Post reports, millions of lead pipes — like the ones that contaminated the water in Flint — are still in service across the United States:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“There are roughly 7.3 million lead service lines in the U.S., according to an estimate by the Environmental Protection Agency, down from 10.5 million in 1988. Service lines are the pipes connecting water mains to people’s houses. They’re mostly found in the Midwest and Northeast.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jerry Paulson, emeritus professor of pediatrics and environmental health at George Washington University, told the Detroit News how common the problem is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This is a situation that has the potential to occur in however many places around the country there are lead pipes,“ he explained. “Unless and until those pipes are removed, those communities are at some degree of risk.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Haan of the Healthy Homes Coalition of West Michigan, an organization that works to eliminate household hazards to improve children’s health, warns that the levels of lead in Michigan children’s blood continue to rise, citing weekly statewide reports from pediatricians. In spite of his efforts to help reduce contaminants, he pointed out a dismal flaw in the process:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The problem is,” he said, “we’re still using kids as lead detectors.”</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-87598270803054657292016-01-29T11:43:00.002-05:002016-01-29T11:43:12.132-05:00Too much exercise makes harder to lose weight - burning up calories backfires as body adapts to higher activity levels - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gym bunnies who spend hours working out in an attempt to shed unwanted flab are wasting their time, research suggests.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The body adapts to higher activity levels - changing metabolism so that fewer calories are burned, the US study indicates.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Researchers measured the daily energy expenditure and activity levels of more than 300 men and women.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Those with moderately active levels – such as a daily walk to work, and a trip to the gym twice a week – were found to burn about 200 calories more per day than those living couch potato lifestyles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But after a certain threshold – described by scientists as a “sweet spot” – the extra time working up a sweat made no difference to the amount of calories burned.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Experts said it might explain by those who embark on gym routines in a bid to weight loss often see weight loss hit a plateau after a few months.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The most physically active people expended the same amount of calories each day as people who were only moderately active"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lead scientist Dr Herman Pontzer, from the City University of New York, said the findings showed that exercise alone was not enough to prevent or reverse weight gain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said he decided to explore the link between activity and energy expenditure after working among a community of traditional hunter-gatherers in northern Tanzania.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said: "The Hadza are incredibly active, walking long distances each day and doing a lot of hard physical work as part of their everyday life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Despite these high activity levels, we found that they had similar daily energy expenditures to people living more sedentary, modernised lifestyles in the United States and Europe. That was a real surprise."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The study measured the activity and food consumption of more than 300 men and women over a week.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-3572895804671169922016-01-26T10:29:00.000-05:002016-01-26T10:29:00.312-05:00Lizard found in kindergartner's salad becomes new class pet - 3-inch green anole lizard named "Green Fruit Loop" - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A central New Jersey elementary school science class has a new pet after a lizard was discovered in a student's salad after being refrigerated for days.<br />
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Riverside Elementary School science teacher Mark Eastburn tells NJ.com the 3-inch green anole lizard was found in a bundle of tatsoi greens last week by a kindergartner.<br />
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The lizard had been cold and lifeless after being confined in a refrigerator for days. The lizard has since been warmed and lives in a cage in Eastburn's class.<br />
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The lizard, dubbed "Green Fruit Loop," came from Florida.<br />
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The tatsoi had been bought from Whole Earth Center in Princeton.<br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-69787145244212800152016-01-25T12:17:00.000-05:002016-01-25T12:17:03.759-05:00Coyotes running at cars near San Francisco could be 'high on magic mushrooms' - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coyotes behaving strangely and charging at cars near beach towns in the San Francisco Bay Area could be hallucinating from ingesting "magic" mushrooms, it has been reported.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least two of the animals appeared to be repeatedly running at cars near Stinson Beach and Bolinas, two Pacific Ocean coastal communities about 25 miles (40km) from San Francisco. The coyotes stare down passing cars, often causing drivers to stop to avoid hitting them. The animals then run at the cars, snapping and sniffing before moving off. "It's a terrifying, yet beautiful, thing to behold," a witness told the Pacific Sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Marin County Humane Society has launched a probe into the bizarre behaviour. "We're trying to figure this out," said spokeswoman Lisa Bloch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Experts quickly discounted rabies. Though the illness causes strange behaviour, it's extremely rare in the region, and infected animals die quickly. The attacks have been going on for weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The coyotes could be "tripping their tails off" eating mushrooms, in the words of the Sun, a theory not discounted by animal experts. Coyotes have been photographed munching on fly agaric mushrooms (amanita muscaria) in the wild. The speckled red-capped toadstool, believed to be the mushroom Alice in Wonderland eats, has psychoactive, hallucinogenic properties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingestion of the mushroom has a long history of use in the shamanistic practices of Siberia and northern Europe, as well as in India and Iran, where it was once revered as a sacred hallucinogen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both coyotes and domestic dogs eat mushrooms, and can suffer from "neurological excitability", seizures and even death from toxic mushrooms. Bloch has been counselling dog owners recently on how to protect their pets from poisonous mushrooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The charging coyotes may also have been motivated by a driver who once fed them, experts fear, and now they're chasing vehicles in a hunt for more food. The Humane Society is continuing to investigate and is asking drivers who witnesses the aggressive coyotes or experiences a challenge from one of the animals to report the incident immediately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coyotes were eradicated in Marin County in the 1950s because of the threat they posed to cattle. Now there are as many as 750,000 of the animals in California, including throughout Marin County.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-4967162209432414702016-01-23T10:13:00.001-05:002016-01-23T10:13:58.087-05:0035 China restaurants under probe for seasoning food with Opium Poppies - to get customers addicted -<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">35 China restaurants under probe for seasoning food with Opium Poppies - to get customers addicted -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Five restaurant owners are being prosecuted, and 25 are under criminal investigation, according to the Chinese Drug and Food Administration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opium poppy capsules and powders have been banned in China since 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adding the powder to dishes is said to add flavor, just like MSG or other food additives used in Chinese cooking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, what were these owners thinking? Poppy products like powders can cause individuals to fail drug tests and, in large amounts, get addicted. It's not clear if these owners were trying to get customers addicted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, one restaurant owner used the substance in his food to get customers hooked in 2014. The owner was later arrested, according to local media.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-86881419981575442952016-01-20T18:23:00.000-05:002016-01-20T18:23:02.709-05:00Study finds scented candles may release a dangerous cocktail of cancer-causing agents - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Study finds scented candles may release a dangerous cocktail of cancer-causing agents - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cost of using scented candles to keep your house smelling fresh could be much higher than just the price tag on those expensive Yankee Candles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A professor at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science teamed up with the BBC Two series "Trust Me, I'm a Doctor" to measure levels of "volatile organic chemicals" making their way through six houses in the English city of York over five days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Researchers asked each resident to write down any scented candles, air fresheners and cleaning products they used and how often, and then tested the air in each home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The team says the chemical it found the most of was limonene, a substance used to give products that citrus smell. The homes that used the most scented candles and cleaning products also had the highest levels of that chemical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, limonene itself isn't particularly dangerous, but when it's released into the air, it reacts with ozone to create formaldehyde -- yes, the same formaldehyde used in embalming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that's definitely not good, considering the National Cancer Institute has said formaldehyde is associated with several types of cancer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately, the researchers say you can control the amount of limonene in the air by using fewer scented products and opting for fragrance-free cleaning agents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judging by the risk-to-reward ratio here, it might be best to do that.</span><br />
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XIAM007http://www.blogger.com/profile/03939775056263655127noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640728158266333468.post-84836790768246138832016-01-19T18:02:00.001-05:002016-01-19T18:02:06.515-05:00Hundreds of tiny spiders, lice and more crawling through US homes, study says - 579 types of arthropods in 50 houses - <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hundreds of tiny spiders, lice and more crawling through US homes, study says - 579 types of arthropods in 50 houses - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’re ever feeling lonely at home, you can now rest assured that you are far from alone. The average home is crawling with more than 100 species of invertebrates, such as spiders, lice and centipedes, according to research conducted by US scientists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In what’s thought to be the first study to quantify exactly what is scurrying or flying around the standard American home, researchers scoured 50 houses and found they were inhabited by 579 different types of arthropods, as well as humans. Arthropods are invertebrate animals with segmented bodies and jointed limbs, such as insects and spiders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The homes, on average, each had around 100 arthropod species. The most commonly found species were flies, spiders, beetles, ants and book lice. Cobweb-producing spiders were found in 65% of the homes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matthew Bertone, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, said he was amazed at the variety of species found in what he stressed were “clean and normal” homes in Raleigh, North Carolina.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We were pretty surprised with what we found, such as the smallest wasp in the world, which is just 1mm long,” he said. “I saw a lot of things in homes that I had never seen in the wild before, things we’ve previously tried to trap. There is a weird species of beetle, called telephone pole beetles, where the babies can produce babies. And tiny crickets called ant-loving ants because they are found near ant nests. I’ve never seen one of those before.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A team of entomologists found the species just by looking from floor to ceiling in each room, without prying open drawers or ripping up carpets. In one home, the presence of several flesh flies led to the discovery of a rotting rodent carcass killed by a pet cat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The houses picked for the research were detached homes measuring up to 5,000 square feet in size. Apartments were ruled out for the research due to the shared bugs within apartment buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many of the small animals found in homes come in from outside and promptly die, while others live the life of predators.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“There are lots of cobweb spiders and also the house centipede, which is a really creepy looking creature to some people but I find them fascinating,” said Bertone. “They are very fast and if you’re a cockroach, you’re likely to be on their menu. Most of these things aren’t pests, they peacefully co-habit with people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I never thought I’d see such biology in homes that were clean, not filled with junk, just normal homes. My hope is that this doesn’t freak people out but people need to know their houses aren’t sterile environments.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The research, led by Bertone with the aid of the California Academy of Sciences and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, was published in the journal PeerJ. The entomologists hope to build upon the research by learning more about the role that each species plays in the home and the significance of living so closely to them.</span><br />
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