Here is a list of weird stories.
for instance;
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/slideshow ... extra.html
the rebbi
Weird Stuff....
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Rabbi Dali Rick
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Rabbi Dali Rick
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Ugly Dougly
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Not weird, really, just pathetic.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/162197 ... tory.jhtml
Horrorcore Rapper Syko Sam Arraigned On Murder Charges
Horrorcore Rapper Syko Sam Arraigned On Murder Charges
"Syko Sam" has been living with his mother, Chevelle.When he took the mic, aspiring California horrorcore rapper Richard McCroskey was known as Syko Sam, a violent, ax-wielding alter ego whose lyrics were flush with tales of killing people and whose MySpace page bears the warning, "I hate everything and I hate everyone." Now McCroskey, 20, is in jail after being arrested on Saturday at Richmond International Airport in Virginia, one day after police found the bodies of four people in a Farmville, Virginia home. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that McCroskey's MySpace page bore a number of messages from an adoring teenage fan from Virginia, Emma Niederbrock, who the rapper flew to visit on September 6. A friend said that McCroskey attended a horrorcore show in Michigan with Niederbrock and her best friend on September 12 called Strictly for the Wicked, with Niederbrock's parents driving them to the gig. Police believe that sometime after attending the concert, McCroskey killed the girl and three others in her home.
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Ranger Genius
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Ranger Genius
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Ugly Dougly
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Simon of the Playa
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- Camp Name: La Guilde des Hashischins
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Microchip That Can Detect Type and Severity of Cancer Created
ScienceDaily | 09.27.2009
UofT researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treatment.
Their groundbreaking work, reported Sept. 27 in Nature Nanotechnology, heralds an era when sophisticated molecular diagnostics will become commonplace.
"This remarkable innovation is an indication that the age of nanomedicine is dawning," says Professor David Naylor, president of the University of Toronto and a professor of medicine. "Thanks to the breadth of expertise here at U of T, cross-disciplinary collaborations of this nature make such landmark advances possible."
The researchers' new device can easily sense the signature biomarkers that indicate the presence of cancer at the cellular level, even though these biomolecules genes that indicate aggressive or benign forms of the disease and differentiate subtypes of the cancer are generally present only at low levels in biological samples. Analysis can be completed in 30 minutes, a vast improvement over the existing diagnostic procedures that generally take days.
"Today, it takes a room filled with computers to evaluate a clinically relevant sample of cancer biomarkers and the results aren't quickly available," says Shana Kelley, a professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Medicine, who was a lead investigator on the project and a co-author on the publication.
"Our team was able to measure biomolecules on an electronic chip the size of your fingertip and analyse the sample within half an hour. The instrumentation required for this analysis can be contained within a unit the size of a BlackBerry."
Kelley, along with engineering professor Ted Sargent a fellow lead investigator and U of T's Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology and an interdisciplinary team from Princess Margaret Hospital and Queen's University, found that conventional, flat metal electrical sensors were inadequate to sense cancer's particular biomarkers. Instead, they designed and fabricated a chip and decorated it with nanometre-sized wires and molecular "bait."
"Uniting DNA -- the molecule of life -- with speedy, miniaturized electronic chips is an example of cross-disciplinary convergence," says Sargent. "By working with outstanding researchers in nanomaterials, pharmaceutical sciences, and electrical engineering, we were able to demonstrate that controlled integration of nanomaterials provides a major advantage in disease detection and analysis."
The speed and accuracy provided by their device is welcome news to cancer researchers.
"We rely on the measurement of biomarkers to detect cancer and to know if treatments are working," says Dr. Tom Hudson, president and scientific director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. "The discovery by Dr. Kelley and her team offers the possibility of a faster, more cost-effective technology that could be used anywhere, speeding up diagnosis and helping to deliver a more targeted treatment to the patient."
The team's microchip platform has been tested on prostate cancer, as described in a paper published in ACS Nano, and head and neck cancer models. It could potentially be used to diagnose and assess other cancers, as well as infectious diseases such as HIV, MRSA and H1N1 flu.
"The system developed by the Kelley/Sargent team is a revolutionary technology that could allow us to track biomarkers that might have significant relevance to cancer, with a combination of speed, sensitivity, and accuracy not available with any current technology," says Dr. Fei-Fei Liu, a radiation oncologist at Princess Margaret Hospital and Head of Applied Molecular Oncology Division, Ontario Cancer Institute. "This type of approach could have a profound impact on the future management for our cancer patients."
The research was funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Genomics Institute, Genome Canada, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation and the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada.
Copyright ScienceDaily.com 2009
ScienceDaily | 09.27.2009
UofT researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treatment.
Their groundbreaking work, reported Sept. 27 in Nature Nanotechnology, heralds an era when sophisticated molecular diagnostics will become commonplace.
"This remarkable innovation is an indication that the age of nanomedicine is dawning," says Professor David Naylor, president of the University of Toronto and a professor of medicine. "Thanks to the breadth of expertise here at U of T, cross-disciplinary collaborations of this nature make such landmark advances possible."
The researchers' new device can easily sense the signature biomarkers that indicate the presence of cancer at the cellular level, even though these biomolecules genes that indicate aggressive or benign forms of the disease and differentiate subtypes of the cancer are generally present only at low levels in biological samples. Analysis can be completed in 30 minutes, a vast improvement over the existing diagnostic procedures that generally take days.
"Today, it takes a room filled with computers to evaluate a clinically relevant sample of cancer biomarkers and the results aren't quickly available," says Shana Kelley, a professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Medicine, who was a lead investigator on the project and a co-author on the publication.
"Our team was able to measure biomolecules on an electronic chip the size of your fingertip and analyse the sample within half an hour. The instrumentation required for this analysis can be contained within a unit the size of a BlackBerry."
Kelley, along with engineering professor Ted Sargent a fellow lead investigator and U of T's Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology and an interdisciplinary team from Princess Margaret Hospital and Queen's University, found that conventional, flat metal electrical sensors were inadequate to sense cancer's particular biomarkers. Instead, they designed and fabricated a chip and decorated it with nanometre-sized wires and molecular "bait."
"Uniting DNA -- the molecule of life -- with speedy, miniaturized electronic chips is an example of cross-disciplinary convergence," says Sargent. "By working with outstanding researchers in nanomaterials, pharmaceutical sciences, and electrical engineering, we were able to demonstrate that controlled integration of nanomaterials provides a major advantage in disease detection and analysis."
The speed and accuracy provided by their device is welcome news to cancer researchers.
"We rely on the measurement of biomarkers to detect cancer and to know if treatments are working," says Dr. Tom Hudson, president and scientific director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. "The discovery by Dr. Kelley and her team offers the possibility of a faster, more cost-effective technology that could be used anywhere, speeding up diagnosis and helping to deliver a more targeted treatment to the patient."
The team's microchip platform has been tested on prostate cancer, as described in a paper published in ACS Nano, and head and neck cancer models. It could potentially be used to diagnose and assess other cancers, as well as infectious diseases such as HIV, MRSA and H1N1 flu.
"The system developed by the Kelley/Sargent team is a revolutionary technology that could allow us to track biomarkers that might have significant relevance to cancer, with a combination of speed, sensitivity, and accuracy not available with any current technology," says Dr. Fei-Fei Liu, a radiation oncologist at Princess Margaret Hospital and Head of Applied Molecular Oncology Division, Ontario Cancer Institute. "This type of approach could have a profound impact on the future management for our cancer patients."
The research was funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Genomics Institute, Genome Canada, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation and the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada.
Copyright ScienceDaily.com 2009
Frida Be You & Me
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cowboyangel
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Just when I thought I had enough of Zombie films, Zombieland is great by the way, along comes, you guessed it, a zombie nazi film called Dead Snow.
Norweigan, gotta see it.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believe is false."- William Casey, CIA Director 1981
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cowboyangel
- Posts: 6986
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Just when I thought I had enough of Zombie films, Zombieland is great by the way, along comes, you guessed it, a zombie nazi film called Dead Snow.
Norweigan, gotta see it.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believe is false."- William Casey, CIA Director 1981
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littleflower
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cowboyangel
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cowboyangel
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littleflower
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Ugly Dougly
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http://www.examiner.com/x-12720-DC-Envi ... ate-change
Sometimes you have to go deep to make a point. The president of the Maldives Mohammed Nasheed plans to hold the first-ever cabinet meeting underwater to publicize climate change.
Yes, it's true. Maldives government ministers are taking scuba lessons and practicing underwater signs so they can communicate with hand gestures during the October 17 meeting to be conducted 20 feet underwater. During the meeting, the cabinet reportedly will call for all countries to cut their carbon emissions before the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
"The intention is to draw attention of the world leaders to the issue of global warming and highlight how serious are the threats faced by Maldives as a result," says an official from the president's office. "If we can stop climate change, the lowest-lying nation on earth will be saved."
Rising sea levels are forecast to submerge most of the Maldives islands in the Indian Ocean by 2100. The average island in the Maldives lies 7 feet above sea level. Nasheed is responding by outlining plans to make the Maldives, population 350,000, the world's first carbon-neutral nation within a decade.
Meanwhile, the government has introduced a new green tax on all tourists who use the resorts -- $3 per each tourist a day, which would raise about $6.3 million annually, if approved by the parliament. Nasheed has launched a $1.1 billion initiative to convert the island solely to renewable energy from fossil fuels, and buy and tear up EU carbon credits to offset emissions from tourists flying to visit its resorts.
Getting the paperwork signed during the cabinet meeting may be cumbersome, but the president plans to have documents covered in waterproof plates. That's a small glitch compared to the monumental task Nasheed faces in trying to convince the world that climate change is real.