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"Estimates are there will be over 20,000 carcasses," Robbie Wilbur, spokesman for the state's department of environmental quality, told NBC News.
"It's a terrible smell," David Garcia, mayor of Waveland in Hancock county, told WLOX-TV. "As this heat continues, they're just going to blow up and pop, making it even more of a health hazard."
The officers found Powell's body on the couch of the Requa home. His chest was cut open, and his heart, tongue and the skin of his face were gone, court records said. His heart was found charred in a wood-burning stove.]]>
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The officers found Powell's body on the couch of the Requa home. His chest was cut open, and his heart, tongue and the skin of his face were gone, court records said.
Speaking at a regional meeting of members from the ruling United Russia party on Wednesday, Mr. Medvedev said he thought the women's two-year sentences were too harsh and he doesn't see any point in keeping them behind bars.]]>
"The term is very strong. I would even say a terrible burden," he said in televised comments. "I don't want to replace the judge … but the time they have already served is, in essence, more than enough to make them think about what happened, whether it was from their own stupidity or for other reasons."
"Prolonging their time in prison in connection to this case seems unproductive," he said, noting that a suspended sentence that included the more than six months they've already served would have been adequate.
Still, Mr. Medvedev said he was "sickened" by what the women had done and the "hysteria" that has surrounded their case.
Researchers have taken a key step towards recovering specific brain functions in sufferers of brain disease and injuries by successfully restoring the decision-making processes in monkeys.
In the next phase of the study, a drug known to disrupt cognitive activity, cocaine, was administered to the animals to simulate brain injury. When the animals repeated the image-selection task, their decision-making ability decreased 13 percent from normal. However, during these "drug sessions," the MIMO prosthesis detected when the animals were likely to choose the wrong image and played back the previously recorded "correct" neural patterns for the task. According to the study findings, the MIMO device was exceedingly effective in restoring the cocaine-impaired decision-making ability to an improved level of 10 percent above normal, even when the drug was still present and active. "The basis for why the MIMO prosthesis was effective in improving performance was because we specifically programmed the model to recognize neural patterns that occurred when the animals correctly performed the behavioral task in real time, which is a unique feature of this particular device," said Robert E. Hampson, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and pharmacology at Wake Forest Baptist, and lead author of the study.]]>
Justin Street, a father of two, had gone to Kasia Rivera, 35, on May 5 seeking a penile enlargement procedure, which prosecutors say Rivera advertised for in fliers posted at local businesses. Rivera, who performed the procedures in her apartment, allegedly with no medical license or training, administered a silicone shot to Street's penis, according to prosecutors.]]>
Street died the next day of a silicone embolism.
There are probably going to be a bunch of ethical arguments over applying an expensive invasive potetnially dangerous treatment to peopel who will likely only have a few more years life in any case.
Residents on a remote island in the Northern Territory were shocked to see what looked like a Viking ship sail past yesterday.
Police say they received a report of residents seeing the unusual boat off the coast of Elcho Island in Arnhem Land.
"Police and local rangers patrolled the area and came across the vessel with swords drawn," Watch Commander Gary Smith said.
Ranger Damien Clayton said the initial reports suggested the boat could be carrying asylum seekers.]]>
"We had reports a wooden boat was anchored out just offshore of the community on the western side (of Elcho Island) that looked a bit suspicious," he said.
"It slowly moved around to the eastern side then we got more reports it could possibly be asylum seekers or illegal immigrants.
A Chicago advocacy group says that the restaurant Chick-fil-A has promised to back away from funding socially conservative groups that have pressed to limit marriage to one man and one woman.]]>
The apparent decision by the chain's WinShape Foundation would mark a retreat from the summer's culture war pitting advocates of marriage equality against conservative claims that the chain was under assault for simple free speech. The comments came, the group The Civil Rights Agenda said, in correspondence with a Chicago alderman who had opposed the chain's expansion to the city.
"The WinShape Foundations is now taking a much closer look at the organizations it considers helping, and in that process will remain true to its stated philosophy of not supporting organizations with political agendas," the chain is said to have written in a letter to Alderman Proco Moreno. The Chicago group added in a press release: "In meetings the company executives clarified that they will no longer give to anti-gay organizations, such as Focus on the Family and the National Organization for Marriage."
Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti said he encountered the woman in the street while on his way to the mosque in the town of Shahmirzad, and asked her to cover herself up, to which she replied "you, cover your eyes," according to Mehr. The cleric repeated his warning, which he said prompted her to insult and push him.]]>
"I fell on my back on the floor," Beheshti said in the report. "I don't know what happened after that, all I could feel was the kicks of this woman who was insulting me and attacking me."
The doctors prescribing the drugs don't know they don't do what they're meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they're not telling.]]>
A new respiratory illness similar to the Sars virus that spread globally in 2002 and killed hundreds of people has been identified in a man who is being treated in Britain.Both from the Middle East... Fox News must be warming-up their hysterical headline generator by now.
The 49-year-old man, who was transferred to a London hospital by air ambulance from Qatar, is the second person confirmed with the coronavirus.
The first case was a patient in Saudi Arabia who has since died.
Germany's Roman Catholics are to be denied the right to Holy Communion or religious burial if they stop paying a special church tax.]]>
All Germans who are officially registered as Catholics, Protestants or Jews pay a religious tax of 8-9% on their annual income tax bill. The levy was introduced in the 19th Century in compensation for the nationalisation of religious property.
Until now, any German Catholic who stopped payment faced eventual excommunication. Although the measures laid out in the decree are similar to excommunication from the church, German observers say the word is carefully avoided in the decree.
When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no — and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem.
David Cameron may struggle at passport control when he returns home from his trip to the US and Brazil after fluffing a mock citizenship test on the Late Show with David Letterman.Fingers fucking crossed.]]>
"You have found me out. That is bad, I have ended my career on your show tonight," the prime minister said, after struggling when Letterman fired a series of questions at him.
A news agency in Iran has published a report by the satirical news website, The Onion, saying rural white Americans would rather vote for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than Barack Obama.]]>
Quoting The Onion word-for-word, Fars states that an opinion poll also found 77% would rather go to a baseball game or have a drink with Mr Ahmadinejad.
The ailment that was keeping out the MVP candidate, initially diagnosed as a sinus issue that impaired his vision, turned out to be ocular keratitis, a condition that dries the cornea and can be brought on by consuming too much caffeine.
"Guys, it's me. It's Josh. It's going to be something weird," Hamilton told reporters. "It wasn't impacting my vision. It was impacting my ability to play the game."
Hamilton, a recovering drug and alcohol addict, described the lack of focus he was experiencing as being on an extreme sugar high. The problem was traced to his caffeine consumption.
"Drinking caffeine -- coffee in the morning, coffee midday, energy drink before the game, chocolate after the game -- all these things were compounding and making it worse and worse," said Hamilton, who is tied for the American League lead with 42 home runs.
Even with powerful telescopes, comet 2012 S1 (ISON) is now just a faint glow in the constellation Cancer. But the ball of ice and rocks might become visible to the naked eye for a few months in late 2013 and early 2014—perhaps outshining the moon, astronomers say.]]>
A little after 4 a.m. on July 21, 1996, Damon Thibodeaux, a deckhand on a Mississippi River workboat, cracked at the end of a nine-hour interrogation and confessed to the brutal rape and murder of his 14-year-old step-cousin, Crystal Champagne.
"I didn't know that I had done it," Thibodeaux said at one point, according to a police transcript. "But I done it."
Before that day was over, Thibodeaux had recanted his confession, telling his court-appointed lawyer that he told police what they wanted to hear in response to threats of death by lethal injection and his grief over the death of his cousin. Nonetheless, Thibodeaux was later convicted of both crimes and sentenced to die.
Judge Patrick McCabe — who presided over the original trial in 1997 — issued a sealed order on Thursday vacating the conviction. With Thibodeaux's release Friday, he became the 300th wrongly convicted person and 18th death-row inmate exonerated in the United States substantially on the basis of DNA evidence, according to the New York-based Innocence Project, which provides legal counsel to prisoners it believes can be exonerated through DNA testing.
Friday's release was authorized by Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick Jr. after an extraordinary five-year joint reinvestigation with defense lawyers concluded that the murder confession was clearly false. Nearly every ostensible fact in the statement didn't match the crime scene or other evidence. The inquiry found that the sexual assault to which Thibodeaux also confessed — making him eligible under Louisiana law for the death penalty — never occurred.
We are eight years away from revolution: that is according to the science of cliodynamics.
This is the analysis of rise and fall of empires using mathematical tools to come up with laws of history.
In a statement that accompanies the webpage, Maine Republicans said playing the game led Ms Lachowicz to live a "bizarre double life" that raised questions about her ability to represent the state.
The earth is about 9,000 years old, according to U.S. House Representative Paul Broun, who is also a physician and member of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology of the House of Representatives. "There are a lot of scientific data that I've found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young earth, " Broun said in a videotape of the Sportsmen's Banquet held on September 27 at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Georgia. "I don't believe that the earth is but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them."
The institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.]]>
Member of House science committee says evolution, Big Bang theory and embryology are 'lies straight from the pit of hell']]>
When leading neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander found himself in a 7-week coma in 2008, he experienced things he never thought possible - exclusively excerpted from his upcoming book Proof of Heaven, he shares his journey to the afterlife in this week's Newsweek.]]>
The 18-year-old from Heysham in Lancashire reported feeling breathless after drinking the liquid during a night out with friends on Thursday, Lancashire police said in a brief statement.]]>
She was taken to Lancaster Royal Infirmary and diagnosed with a perforated stomach. Doctors performed emergency surgery to remove a section of her stomach, thought necessary to save her life. The teenager was in a serious but stable condition, police said.
Asked about anti-gay-marriage campaigners being described as "bigots" – on one occasion by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister – Carey said: "Let us remember the Jews in Nazi Germany. What started against them was when they started to be called names.
"And that was the first stage towards that totalitarian state. We have to resist them. We treasure democracy. We treasure our Christian inheritance and we want to debate this in a fair way."
•Heritable Bank, which the council had £15.6m in, has already returned £10.294m. It is currently estimated that the final sum recovered will be around 90% of the original deposit, plus interest.]]>
•The council now also expects to get 100% of the £11m and 98% of the £15m back from Landsbanki and Glitnir banks respectively now that it has been given priority creditor status.
Those counties, as he writes here, went for Obama because trillions and trillions and trillions of teeny sun-loving creatures died there. He's talking about plankton. That's why the Republicans can't carry those counties. Blame plankton.]]>
ITV has admitted that This Morning was the victim of a hoax following a story about a new celebrity sperm bank.]]>
CEO Dan Richards appeared on This Morning on Tuesday to discuss FameDaddy, the "first celebrity sperm donor service".
"Our world is faced with both existential threats of unprecedented seriousness (such as the environment) and huge opportunities (such as for scientific and social progress). We believe that our ability to face the threats and opportunities of the coming century will be profoundly affected by how well, and soon, we can master the art of programming our planet's emerging global brain."]]>
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is one example of a new mass space vehicle that could operate in the UK if the rules were right. Yet, absurdly, the whole of Europe is at risk of missing out because we cannot agree a regulatory framework that will allow the necessary reusable aircraft-type launchers to operate here in Britain.
Today, if a few member states obstruct a new technology, such as the hydraulic fracturing – or "fracking" – used for the extraction of shale gas, they can have a disproportionate effect at the EU level. Whatever the reason, economic advance is threatened.]]>
But it was his comments to reporters after the event at WTTW Channel 11 that sparked the most attention. Walsh said that medical advances had rendered it unnecessary to ever perform an abortion to save a mother's life.
"With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance," Walsh declared.
Asked then if he was saying it was never medically necessary to perform an abortion to save the life of a mother, Walsh responded: "Absolutely, yes."
Doctors at Zhongshan Hospital successfully removed a dildo from the intestines of a 30-year-old man, who had inserted it into his body to enhance sexual pleasure with his wife.[/clench]]]>
The dildo, measuring 23 centimeters in length and 8 centimeters in diameter, somehow got stuck in his intestines, doctors at Zhongshan Hospital in Xuhui District said yesterday.
The dildo was inside the man for five days before he went to the hospital last Friday, when doctors failed to remove it.
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Detroit � Another night, another packed ballpark, another gaudy milestone. The Tigers keep piling up the numbers, while doggedly pursuing the last prize that truly matters.
Sometimes these long pursuits turn joyless, almost monotonous, milestones melding into millstones. The Tigers are determined to not let that happen, to play as if the weight isn�t there, even though it is. This was Max Scherzer�s turn to sigh and smile and hit the big number, notching his 20th victory in the Tigers� 12-5 squashing of the White Sox.
Scherzer is 20-3 and probably will win the Cy Young, and teammate Anibal Sanchez also will get consideration. The Tigers� MVP streak could hit three straight, although injuries have slowed Miguel Cabrera�s pace. The achievements and plaudits are remarkable as the Tigers (90-64) churn toward a third straight division title, as 39,643 sat though the drizzle Friday night at Comerica Park to push the season attendance to the brink of 3 million.
And what, exactly, does it all mean? Plenty, but certainly not everything. This is the dichotomy for the Tigers these days � much to celebrate, much more to do. It was Scherzer�s fifth attempt at No. 20 and he wanted it badly, not as badly as something else.
�I�ll appreciate it more once the season ends,� Scherzer said. �When you play on this team, your goal is to win and win in the playoffs, and try to get to the World Series and win the World Series. You don�t get caught up in your personal achievements, no one here does. That�s what makes it beautiful � even when I have a moment like this, the thought of winning something bigger is more important to me.�
What about something bigger like the Cy Young? Scherzer didn�t hesitate.
�That�s after the World Series,� he said. �We�re in the process of trying to win the division, that�s the most exciting thing.�
Dream job
As the accomplishments broaden, the focus narrows. Some days, Jim Leyland sits in his office and can�t believe all he�s seen, and has no desire to see it end. He�s 68 and in his eighth season here, and as the Tigers nudged closer to another playoff berth, he could sneak a moment to reflect.
�Really, this is one of the dream jobs in baseball,� Leyland said before the game. �If you want to manage and you don�t like this place, there�s something wrong with you. I�m not being corny or mushy, I�m just telling you the facts. The place is packed, you got a beautiful stadium, you got a great owner, you got a smart general manager, you got good guys. What�s not to like?�
Leyland won�t take about his future until after the season, his contract year by year now. But it�s clear he loves it here and wants to stay, and for all the fan bluster about his strategy, he remains the perfectly steady influence on a team with so many high-profile stars.
Everyone knows the World Series-or-bust mentality, more pronounced as the years pass. The Tigers gathered for the team photo Friday, although owner Mike Ilitch wasn�t in attendance. I don�t think the 84-year-old owner needed a hall pass to skip it, but his absence from the annual event was a rarity, and perhaps a reminder of the urgency.
�The only thing we�d like to do yet, obviously, is get the total big prize,� Leyland said. �We got a couple nice prizes but we�d like to get the big one. That�s easier said than done. There are 30 teams, so if everybody that didn�t win the World Series is a failure � I hate to think that�s true.�
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Leyland is not minimizing the ultimate goal, so don�t misinterpret it. But there�s no sense piling pressure on a team that has lugged it � along with a healthy payroll � for years.
Since reaching the World Series in 2006, the Tigers have contended again and again with plenty of flash, but disappointing finishes. Justin Verlander won the MVP and Cy Young two years ago. Cabrera won the MVP and Triple Crown last season. Six Tigers were on the All-Star team and free-agents readily sign, from Victor Martinez to Prince Fielder to Torii Hunter.
Ilitch and Dave Dombrowski have put together something big, and Leyland is an important part of keeping it together. It�s not as simple as filling out lineups and writing checks, either. Three of the Tigers� top four starters � Scherzer, Sanchez, Doug Fister � arrived via trade.
No one should take anything for granted, and the Tigers certainly aren�t. But for it to be a crowning success, all the hefty numbers have to add up to a world championship.
That�s why Scherzer was genuinely happy about becoming the major league�s first 20-game winner, but far from giddy. He probably was a bit relieved after missing on four previous attempts.
�I don�t know if Max was feeling any pressure, but I couldn�t be happier for him,� Leyland said. �I think he deserves (the Cy Young) very much, but I leave it to the guys that vote.�
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There are new teams at the top and bottom of the NFL pack with just three weeks left to play in the regular season.
After a 42-14 stomping of the Houston Texans, the New England Patriots replaced them at the top of the latest USA TODAY Sports NFL Power Rankings.
Suffering the fourth worst shutout in the NFL since 1940 didn't do the Arizona Cardinals any favors, as the Birds sunk four spots to the 32nd and final slot on the list.
The Seahawks, Browns and Panthers were the biggest risers, each moving up four spots from last week, while the Steelers, Dolphins, Bills and Lions dropped that many spots after Week 14 losses.
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Cornelius Bundrage, left, and Ishe Smith face off after the news conference Thursday in Detroit. The two will fight Saturday night. (Clarence Tabb, Jr./Detroit News)
Detroit -- Boxer Cornelius Bundrage sat next to his wife Shawana wearing his K9 gear, a cap tucked low on his head and sunglasses covering his face. He was set to tell the world why he was going to defend his IBF junior middleweight championship against Ishe "Sugar Shay" Smith on Saturday night at the Masonic Temple in downtown Detroit.
The bouts will be shown live on Showtime beginning at 9 p.m.
Bundrage goes by the name of K9. That's why there were German shepherds in the hallway outside the main ballroom, and plenty of barking from his handlers. K9 has been on this big stage before. But it hasn't been in his hometown in front of this many people and with the stakes this high.
There he was on stage Thursday at the MGM Grand with Floyd Mayweather Jr., Smith and the entire undercard. This is a big deal for the hometown guy who is doing this to promote his career and increase his profile and legacy.
But this becomes a bigger deal because Bundrage is also doing this in Detroit. This is his hometown and he loves the city in which he grew up. He's a guy who often shows up at charity events and allows fans to take photos with his championship belt. He loves to shake hands with fans, except leading up to fights. He will give you a friendly fist pump because he does not want a muscle head to shake his hand too hard and risk injury.
"I do that before every fight," he said with a laugh. "You can't shake my hand right now."
This is about helping downtown and he also wants to show his people up close and personal what he can do.
"That's what this is all about right here," Bundrage said. "I want to get this victory right here and hopefully more people will get interested in boxing here in Detroit and we can get this thing going."
K9 is a Detroit guy. He wants to be big here and he wants to make Detroit a boxing mecca like it was in the 1970s and 1980s with Thomas Hearns, Emanuel Steward and the rest of the Kronk Boxing team.
Boxing is in critical condition in Detroit. This card Saturday is being looked at by the boxing world. If there are plenty of empty seats at the Masonic it might be awhile before Detroit gets a chance any time soon.
"It (the show) can't hurt," boxing promoter Jackie Kallen said. "We need a good crowd Saturday night or it will look like Detroit's a dead city. ... I hope they fill it."
Even the bad guys are rooting for Detroit. Eddie Mustafa Muhammad is not from Detroit. But he spent a lot of time here when he boxed and became a light heavyweight champion. He loves Detroit and is all for the comeback in boxing. But he is here for business and will be in Smith's corner for the main event against K9.
"I'm here in town with the next champion of the world," Muhammad said. "He (K9) don't have enough talent. We got too much talent on our side. They do all that barking and stuff. That don't work with us. And they had those German shepherds. I thought somebody was blind or something. I was like, 'What the heck is going on?' We gonna beat your boy."
There is nothing wrong with a little trash talk and hype surrounding boxing. But here's the big bad monster. This boxing fall-off is not just a Detroit thing, it's an MMA and UFC thing. Young people love the action of the UFC and it will take a lot to convince them to switch back to boxing.
Boxing has too much grabbing and clutching. It's filled with controversial decisions and the sport wants you to pay a lot for fighters you don't know about.
Hearns wants to change that. He's getting into the promoter business and wants to find and nurture local boxers. That's what Steward, his mentor, did. Steward, who died last year, put Detroit on the boxing map. His main find was Hearns, who now wants to do the same thing and fill the sport with excitement and high-stakes drama.
K9 and Hearns need to get together to help promote the sport here. But now K9 is in lockdown mode. He knows the best way to promote the sport is to win this fight.
"I got to get this victory," he said, "and everything will take care of itself."


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The album also featured samples of audio recordings made by Poe's late father, film director Tad Danielewski. The cassettes were found by Poe and Mark after their father had died and were literally audio-letters to the two of them that spanned back as far as their birth. Thus, the album is usually interpreted as a real woman (Poe) singing tributes to her deceased father (who sings back) even while telling the story of a group of fictional characters (from House of Leaves).A very creepy album in places...]]>
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- Cartoon Characters: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
- Voice Actors: Bernice Hansen.
- Directed By Walter Lantz, Bill Nolan.
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- Originally Released on July 09, 1934.
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A parasitic cancer or transmissible cancer is a cancer cell or cluster of cancer cells that can be transmitted from animal to animal. Cancer is not normally a contagious disease, but there are two known exceptions: one is in dogs, and the other is in the Tasmanian devil.
These transparent glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena. Jerram is exploring the tension between the artworks' beauty and what they represent, their impact on humanity.
[...] The sculptures were designed in consultation with virologists from the University of Bristol using a combination of different scientific photographs and models.
These super-small cells are extremely suitable for life on otherwise untenable planets, with their minuscule food requirements, extreme resilience, and adaptability to micro-niches which couldn't support even regular sized bacteria. As well as existing where others couldn't, these sublilliputian lifeforms could persist on planets where catastrophes wiped out everything else.]]>
A parasitic twin (also known as an asymmetrical or unequal conjoined twin) is the result of the processes that produce vanishing twins and conjoined twins, and may represent a continuum between the two. Parasitic twins occur when a twin embryo begins developing in utero, but the pair does not fully separate, and one embryo maintains dominant development at the expense of the other. Unlike conjoined twins, one ceases development during gestation and is vestigial to a mostly fully-formed, otherwise healthy individual twin. The undeveloped twin is defined as parasitic, rather than conjoined, because it is incompletely formed or wholly dependent on the body functions of the complete fetus.]]>
In sufferers of the disease, the skin contains massive, diamond-shaped scales, and tends to have a blue color. In addition, the eyes, ears, mouth, and other appendages may be abnormally contracted. The scaly keratin greatly limits the child's movement. Because the skin is cracked where normal skin would fold, it is easily pregnable by bacteria and other contaminants, resulting in serious risk of fatal infection.
Sufferers are known as harlequin fetuses, harlequin babies, or harlequins.
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Luminol is the secret ingredient behind the glow. It's a chemical forensic scientists use to check for blood, glowing bright blue when coming into contact with the iron in red blood cells.
The neck-less baby with its head almost totally sunk into the upper part of the body and with extraordinarily large eyeballs literally popping out of the eye-sockets, was born to Nir Bahadur Karki and Suntali Karki at the Gaurishnkar Hospital in Charikot. The Karki couple is a permanent resident of Dolakha's Bhirkot VDC.
"the baby has a condition called anencephaly, a neural tube defect (like the cyclops baby), with no proper brain formation. The baby would have died a few days later. That's why women are advised to take folate in early pregnancy."
"I think this establishes what had always been considered a psychiatric disease as an infectious disease," said Dr. Mikovits
emale wasps of this species sting a roach (specificially a Periplaneta americana, Periplaneta australasiae or Nauphoeta rhombifolia[1]) twice, delivering venom. A 2003 study[2] proved using radioactive labeling that the wasp stings precisely into specific ganglia of the roach. She delivers an initial sting to a thoracic ganglion and injects venom to mildly and reversibly paralyze the front legs of the insect. This facilitates the second venomous sting at a carefully chosen spot in the roach's head ganglia (brain), in the section that controls the escape reflex. As a result of this sting, the roach will first groom extensively, and then become sluggish and fail to show normal escape responses.[3] In 2007 it was reported that the venom of the wasp blocks receptors for the neurotransmitter octopamine.[4]]]>
The wasp proceeds to chew off half of each of the roach's antennae.[1] Researchers believe that the Wasp chews off the antenna to replenish fluids or possibly to regulate the amount of venom because too much could kill and too little would let the victim recover before the larva has grown. The wasp, which is too small to carry the roach, then leads the victim to the wasp's burrow, by pulling one of the roach's antennae in a manner similar to a leash. Once they reach the burrow, the wasp lays a white egg, about 2 mm long, on the roach's abdomen. It then exits and proceeds to fill in the burrow entrance with pebbles, more to keep other predators out than to keep the roach in.
With its escape reflex disabled, the stung roach will simply rest in the burrow as the wasp's egg hatches after about three days. The hatched larva lives and feeds for 4–5 days on the roach, then chews its way into its abdomen and proceeds to live as an endoparasitoid. Over a period of eight days, the wasp larva consumes the roach's internal organs in an order which guarantees that the roach will stay alive, at least until the larva enters the pupal stage and forms a cocoon inside the roach's body. Eventually the fully-grown wasp emerges from the roach's body to begin its adult life. Development is faster in the warm season.
They say the gesture allows a bug named Cytomegalovirus, which is dangerous in pregnancy, to be passed from man to woman to give her time to build up protection against it.I'd also never thought about the fact that kissing someone shorter than you probably means they're getting more of your saliva than you're getting theirs. Yummy.]]>
The bug is found in saliva and normally causes no problems. But it can be extremely dangerous if caught while pregnant and can kill unborn babies or cause birth defects.
Writing in the journal Medical Hypotheses, researcher Dr Colin Hendrie from the University of Leeds, said: "Female inoculation with a specific male's cytomegalovirus is most efficiently achieved through mouth-to-mouth contact and saliva exchange, particularly where the flow of saliva is from the male to the typically shorter female."
The experiments showed this fecal armor could successfully repel predators.
Often the predators did not even investigate the potential meals, presumably because the beetles fooled them into believing they were just turds.
To escape predators, the hagfish exudes copious quantities of a viscous slime. That's the nice bit. To feed, it enters its victim through the mouth, gills or anus, and devours it from the inside out.
Things start to get complicated when you consider their life cycle. Let's start with a feeding animal living on a lobster's mouthparts: this individual – it's hard to assign a sex – can then produce one of three kinds of offspring: a "Pandora" larva, a "Prometheus" larva or a female.
The Pandora larva develops into another feeding adult – a straightforward case of asexual reproduction. By contrast, the female remains inside the adult and awaits a male – but, attentive readers will be crying, what male?
The answer lies in the Prometheus larva. This attaches itself to another feeding adult, then produces two or three males from within itself. These dwarf males, which are even more internally complex than the other stages, seek out the females and fertilise them – though the details are unknown.
Once the female has been fertilised, she leaves the adult's body and hunkers down in a sheltered region of the lobster's mouthparts. Her body, no longer needed, turns into a hard cyst. Inside this, a fertilised egg develops into yet another stage: the chordoid larva.
In due course this larva hatches and swims off to colonise another lobster. Once it has attached itself to one, it develops into another adult and the cycle begins again.
...Linnaeus's two-toed sloths Choloepus didactylus at the Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco in north-eastern Peru have developed the delightful habit of climbing into an outdoor latrine building, seeking out the latrine contents AND EATING THEM ...
At just 1 millimetre long, the wasp Copidosoma floridanum hardly looks like it's the source of a devastating clone army that devours its victims from the inside out. The army can only manage this because it employs self-sacrificing child soldiers – having no prospect of growing to adulthood, they sacrifice themselves to protect their siblings.]]>
This epic battle takes place inside a caterpillar called the cabbage looper, an agricultural pest that lays its eggs one at a time on the surfaces of leaves. Once laid the egg is vulnerable – if found by a female Copidosoma she will lay one or two eggs in it.
One egg might not sound so bad, but this is no ordinary egg. It is polyembryonic, meaning that the single embryo cell at its heart can repeatedly clone itself. As a result, just one egg can produce up to 2000 offspring.
Once the host embryo develops into a caterpillar, the Copidosoma clones form an army. Yet the clones are not identical. Instead they are divided into castes, just like bees in a hive.
The most common caste of larvae is essentially maggots. They feed by drinking the host caterpillar's blood and, all being well, eventually emerge and become adult wasps. They are called reproductive larvae and there could be 1000 in a single caterpillar.
The second caste is the precocious larvae. These develop earlier than the reproductive larvae – hence their name – and they look quite different, with a thinner body and larger mandibles. They have no sex cells and will never become adults or reproduce. These are the child soldiers.
Copidosoma larvae may well find themselves sharing the caterpillar's body with competing parasites laid by another species of wasp. The precocious larvae are there to kill these competitors, and are produced in greater numbers if competitors are detected.
This turns out to be a pretty effective way of dealing with competing species, but the precocious larvae face other threats too. If more than one Copidosoma egg is laid in the same host, the two armies go to war.
Shaped like flying saucers, both males and females of the new jellyfish have gonads on the outsides of their bodies, unlike any of the approximately 3,000 other jellyfish species known to science .
Gonads are the reproductive glands that produce sperm in males and eggs in females.
Arranged in a "crater" at the center of the jellyfish's top side, the gonads, upon close inspection, resemble "skyscrapers in a downtown business district," said Lisa-Ann Gershwin, curator of zoology at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston, Australia.
September 22, 2009—California has a new star, the Eastern Pacific black ghostshark.
But the newly identified species prefers to stay out of the sun—and the spotlight. And with a club-like sex organ on its forehead, the male ghostshark isn't likely to get any leading man roles.
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a caste of genetically identical "warrior worms" -- members of a parasitic fluke species that invades the California horn snail.The biotherapy applications of this are really fascinating too.]]>
The findings are reported in the early online version of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"We have discovered flatworms in colonies with vicious, killer morphs defending the colony," said Armand M. Kuris, professor of zoology, in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology. "These flukes have a strongly developed social organization, much like some insects, mammals and birds." The tiny warrior worms are only a couple of millimeters in length, yet they are powerful thanks to relatively large mouths.
These worms form colonies in snails. Reproductive worms and soldier worms cooperate to grow and defend their colony within the snail. These two types of individuals look and behave differently, explained first author Ryan F. Hechinger, assistant research biologist with UCSB's Marine Science Institute. The warrior worms attack other invasive parasites trying to invade the snail.
These colonies also act like an immune system, defending the body of the snail from other fluke infections, said second author Alan C. Wood, a marine science lab manager at UCSB. The soldiers behave like white blood cells; they attack other unrelated flukes, biting and killing them.
These flukes with soldier castes may also have a biomedical application. They might be used in the biological control of major human parasitic diseases such as blood flukes. There are 200 million cases of blood fluke diseases worldwide, said Kuris. The soldier worms might eliminate infections from forming in the snail hosts, preventing infections in humans. Liver flukes might also be controlled.
Perhaps human tears contained a chemical signal too, Sobel thought. So he asked six women to watch triple-hanky chick flicks such as "My Sister's Keeper" and let their tears trickle into a test tube.
Satirist Stephen Colbert envisions his "Colbert Nation" mentally marching in lockstep with his special brand of patriotism. But scientists have done him one better, by creating tiny worm-bots completely under their control.The part I don't get is... Colbert?]]>
Rather than comedic persuasion, these scientists are using a dot of laser light. With it they can make a worm turn left, freeze or lay an egg. The researchers report their work online Jan. 16 in Nature Methods.
The new system, named CoLBeRT for "Controlling Locomotion and Behavior in Real Time," doesn't just create a mindless zombie-worm, though. It gives scientists the ability to pick apart complicated behaviors on a cell-by-cell basis.
[...] Transparent and small, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is particularly amenable to light-based mind control. Another benefit of the worm is that researchers know the precise location of all 302 of its nerve cells. But until now, there wasn't a good way to study each cell by itself, especially in a wriggling animal.
"This tool allows us to go in and poke and prod at those neurons in an animal as it's moving, and see exactly what each neuron does," says study co-author Andrew Leifer of Harvard University.
The system is based on the emerging field of optogenetics, in which light is used to turn cells on or off. Leifer and his colleagues genetically engineered light-responsive molecules into particular groups of cells in the worm.
Then, a computer program that the team developed figures out where in the microscope's field of view a target cell is. Once the cell is pinpointed, the program directs lasers so that a tiny beam of light hits the cell.
Researchers believe that the rocks containing these fossils, found in southern Anhui Provence, date between 635 million and 580 million years ago. The new types of organisms discovered in them include two that are fan-shaped, as long as 2 inches (5 centimeters), and resemble seaweed, as well as three other new types of organisms that are difficult to classify as animal or plant.
Until now, scientists had thought the oldest collection of fossils of large, complex life forms was the Avalon assemblage, dating back to about 579 million to 565 million years ago. It contained equally strange and unclassifiable organisms called rangeomorphs.
Baculoviruses infect invertebrates, with each species of virus typically infecting only one species of host. Caterpillars are a particularly favorite target; the insects swallow baculoviruses sprinkled on the leaves they munch. ("How did the viruses get there?" you may ask. Very good question–which we'll get to in good time.)Courtesy, inevitably, of Carl Zimmer.]]>
Once inside the caterpillar, a baculovirus infects a host cell. The cell produces huge numbers of new baculoviruses. They come in two forms. Some of the viruses can slip out of the host cell on their own to infect new cells. Others stay in the cell, which makes huge quantities of a viral protein called polyhedrin. The viruses become embedded in massive polyhedrin blocks, like fruits in a fruitcake. A caterpillar may produce 10 million viruses from swallowing a single viral fruitcake. It even becomes visibly swollen with all its new viruses.
Soon the virus-packed host gets an uncontrollable urge to creep its way to the tops of plants, where it clamps on tight, hanging down as shown in the picture above. In fact, scientists noticed these strange death throes long before they knew that baculoviruses that caused it. They dubbed it tree-top disease.
After an infected caterpillar takes its position at the top of a plant, the virus releases an enzyme that literally makes the animal dissolve. The tough viral fruitcakes come tumbling out, landing on leaves below where they can infect a new host.
Hearing about tree-top disease gave me a deep sense of deja vu. A number of very different parasites have evolved the same strategy for getting to new hosts. Just a couple weeks ago, for example, I blogged about a fungus that sends its ant hosts to the undersides of leaves, whereupon the fungus sprouts branches out of the ant's head and showers spores down on new victims. Lancet flukes send their hosts up to the tips of grass blades so that they can be eaten by grazing cows and sheep. It's fascinating that even a virus–with just a few genes–can trigger this behavior as well.
...Vitargent combined the green fluorescent protein gene from jellyfish and spliced it into the genome of the fish directly next to a gene that detects oestrogen. Chemicals that have oestrogen-like activity cause the 1mm long fish larvae to express the modified gene, making them glow. The higher the concentration of oestrogen, the brighter the glow.
The 11-month-old Gippsland boy was born in a shiny membrane, similar to plastic wrap, which he shed bit by bit over his first few weeks of life.]]>
Cordyceps fungi invades its hosts (mainly arthropods), and its mycelium eventually replaces the host's tissue. Once the arthropod is dead, cylindrical or branching growths emerge from the creature's dead body. Some species also have mind-control capabilities, convincing the host to travel to a place where the fungus will find optimal growth conditions before the host dies. If you haven't seen it yet, this video from Planet Earth shows a Cordyceps fungus in action:
A. eiselti is the largest tetrapod to lack lungs, double the size of the next largest.Caecilians such as Atretochoana are limbless amphibians with a snake-like body, marked with rings like that of earthworms. It has significant morphological differences from other caecilians, even the genera most closely related to it, despite the fact that those genera are aquatic. The skull is very different from those of other caecilians, giving the animal a broad flat head. Its nostrils are sealed, and it has an enlarged mouth with a mobile cheek. Its body has a fleshy dorsal fin.]]>
Most caecilians have a well-developed right lung and a relictual left lung. Some, such as Atretochoana's relatives, have two well-developed lungs. Atretochoana, however, entirely lacks lungs, and has a number of other features associated with lunglessness, including sealed choanae, and an absence of pulmonary arteries. Its skin is filled with capillaries that penetrate the epidermis, allowing gas exchange. Its skull shows evidence of muscles not found in any other organism. The Vienna specimen of Atretochoana is a large caecilian at a length of 72.5 centimetres (28.5 in), while the Brasília specimen is larger still at 80.5 centimetres (31.7 in). By comparison, caecilians range in length from 11 to 160 centimetres (4.3 to 63 in).
A, schmatic representing the linkages that form the feeding position of dragonfishes and utilization of the occipital-vertebral hinge to create high gape angles. B, head-on view of Malacosteus niger, demonstrating its hypothesized feeding position (sensu Günther & Deckert, 1959). ph, protractor hyoideus.]]>
Delivered in the scientific deadpan required of such papers, the Aquatic Mammals report attributes the incidents to three male sea otters "observed harassing, dragging, guarding, and copulating with harbor seals," persisting for up to seven days after the otters killed the objects of their misguided advances. The ordeal must have been horrific for the seals. The victims that were necropsied by veterinarians had lesions around the nose, eyes, flippers, and genitals, including perforations in the vaginal and rectal tracts.]]>
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As much as Urban Meyer has ratcheted expectations, his team's weak schedule is one reason the Buckeyes are popular picks on a national scale. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
The best and the brawniest gather in Chicago this week for the annual Big Ten football media binge, and you can bet the topics won't stray far from the basics.
� Will Urban Meyer ever lose a game at Ohio State?
� Will Braxton Miller win the Heisman at Ohio State?
� Is Ohio State great, or what?
It should be quite the smarmfest for Meyer, who went 12-0 leading the NCAA-incarcerated Buckeyes in his first season after being chased out of the SEC by Nick Saban (did I say that out loud?). When the votes are tallied, the Buckeyes will be heavy favorites to win the Big Ten, and are a fashionable pick to lose to Alabama in the championship game.
I'm not here to dispute that. I'm here to suggest Michigan and Michigan State sit just a notch below in the Big Ten, each with an outside shot at unseating the Buckeyes.
Granted, Ohio State's schedule is an embarrassment, with conference road games against Northwestern, Purdue, Illinois and Michigan � and neither Michigan State nor Nebraska on the slate. As much as Meyer has ratcheted expectations, that wimpy schedule is one reason the Buckeyes are popular picks on a national scale.
But Michigan does get Ohio State in Ann Arbor, and should be a more-settled team in its third season under Brady Hoke. With Devin Gardner making only his fourth start last season in place of injured Denard Robinson, the Wolverines came close in Columbus, losing 26-21.
Word out of Ann Arbor is Gardner has grown tremendously, which leads me to this: I think he could be every bit as dynamic and dangerous as Miller. And with a revamped offensive line that's inexperienced but fortified alongside tackle Taylor Lewan, the Wolverines should take another step toward their old smashmouth ways, and should start showing the benefits of major recruiting gains under Hoke.
The Spartans won't face the Buckeyes unless it's in the Big Ten championship game, but that's not far-fetched. Listen, Ohio State is going to win the final season of the lame Leaders Division, with Penn State still damaged and Wisconsin about to enter the post-Bret Bielema era.
But the Legends division is wide open. You could argue the four best teams after Ohio State are in the Legends � Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern. The Spartans have uncertainty at quarterback, but Mark Dantonio has solid options if Andrew Maxwell falters. He also has one of the nation's best defenses, led by linebacker Max Bullough and cornerback Darqueze Dennard.
If the Spartans handle the Wolverines at home again, they could win the division and meet the Buckeyes in Indianapolis. If the Wolverines win in East Lansing, look out, because their other road games -- Penn State, Northwestern, Iowa -- aren't horribly daunting.
The Wolverines underachieved at 8-5 last season and the Spartans underachieved at 7-6. Both will be better, with 9-3 a reasonable low-water mark. Michigan will get its shot against Ohio State, and Michigan State could earn its shot. Meyer hasn't faced the toughest competition yet in the Big Ten, but it's coming, and may be coming soon.


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Could the Tigers be convinced to part with Nick Castellanos during the Winter Meetings? (Robin Buckson / Detroit News)
Next week will be a stroll into baseball's Time Machine. Last time the Tigers went to Nashville, Tenn., for the Winter Meetings, in 2007, they had a couple of untouchable prospects named Cameron Maybin and Andrew Miller who weren't going to be pried from Detroit's paws in a deal for anyone — unless, of course, you wanted to discuss Miguel Cabrera.
So, with that precedent in mind, fans want to know how quickly Nick Castellanos, Avisail Garcia, and Casey Crosby will be peddled for Giancarlo Stanton now that the Marlins have decided to enlist everyone but Century 21 in their quest to sell off a roster.
Here's why it's doubtful — merely doubtful — the Tigers will make a blockbuster trade next week involving their royal-blue trade chips.
Dave Dombrowski, the Tigers' front-office general, understands that in most cases his prospects hold more value at the July deadline.
The evidence is obvious. When he traded 16 months ago for Doug Fister he was able to package talent that had taken on greater luster through the first half of the 2011 season: Francisco Martinez, Chance Ruffin, and Charlie Furbush in particular.
Four months ago, he was able to market a red-hot catcher named Rob Brantly, along with Jacob Turner and a budding left-handed pitcher, Brian Flynn, and grab two guys that helped put the Tigers into another World Series: Anibal Sanchez and Omar Infante.
Two years ago, similar story: Jhonny Peralta from the Indians for a then-decent left-handed pitcher named Giovanni Soto.
Prospects tend to carry greater trade value at the point teams begin thinking about next year. And teams in position to win who are making intelligent choices on Draft Day (the Tigers qualify) can often better market those prospects in July than in December when veteran talent goes for premium prices.
You can always raise a fabulous counter-argument as the Tigers get ready for next week's flesh feast at The Opryland Hotel.
Castellanos is a third baseman undergoing a sometimes-strained transition to left field. It's not an ideal relocation when good-hitting third basemen are Louvre-grade treasures.
The Tigers could be enticed, at least theoretically, to make Castellanos the centerpiece for a megaton deal that might deliver Stanton, or Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus, or Diamondbacks outfielder Justin Upton, or some such haul that would make the Tigers an even heavier favorite to crack next autumn's World Series.
But what fans don't always appreciate is the price, the exorbitant price, selling teams command during that peak-value period in December. Clubs are pushing full-throttle toward 2013 and sellers have a single advantage: multiple bidders for their prime cuts of beef. If, that is, they really want to trade those prizes, and in the case of the Rangers and Andrus, there doesn't appear to be great motivation to peddle him for anything this side of Fort Knox in trade gold.
Dombrowski understands there can be even greater merit to holding onto prospects when they are as good as Castellanos, and even Garcia, stand to be.
You are building rosters not only for next season but for ensuing seasons. Staying competitive over the long term means you can steal multiple championships, as the Giants and Cardinals have done in winning four of the past seven World Series.
Castellanos, more than Maybin, equates to a long-term, game-changing, middle-of-the-order bat. More than Miller, he is a star who can be projected to perform like a star, or even a superstar.
Selling out for a go-for-broke push to win a single World Series is foolhardy. It has a high-percentage chance of blowing up, all because baseball's variables (health, pitching, etc.) can be so extreme.
Does it preclude a whopper of a deal next week?
Nope. But it's probably a longer shot than it even appeared to be five years ago when the Tigers were getting ready for a nice, quiet week at The Opryland.
Shopping will be expensive next week, and for the immediate future. It was with huge dollar signs in mind that agent Scott Boras reportedly phoned Tigers owner Mike Ilitch on Monday attempting to market bullpen closer Rafael Soriano, who in step with Boras turned down the Yankees' offer of $13.3 million for 2013.
Boras has always loved the phone call to Ilitch, bypassing a Tigers front office that didn't have the payroll authority to sign Pudge Rodriguez, or Johnny Damon, or Prince Fielder.
This time, it's likely Ilitch listened to his front-office generals, who likely said: We can probably handle that closer's job with Bruce Rondon and our current cast of back-enders. We might submit that there are better allocations for your funds, beginning with a new shortstop.
So much marketplace is in flux six days before the Winter Meetings kick off. And, for now, so many reasons why the Tigers will probably be careful about peddling any kids who next summer figure to carry an even higher sticker price.


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