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DhammaSeeker · 05-15-2006, 01:01 PM

Scientists make light go backwards!

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/light...rds-10590.html

RedRooster · 05-17-2006, 11:08 AM

Seat Belt, Bra Save Woman From Gunshot

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Seat Belt, Bra Save Woman From Gunshot

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A 44-year-old woman escaped serious injury from a gunshot Sunday thanks to her seat belt and a thick bra strap, authorities said.

Robin Key, 44, of Riverview, Fla., was shot through the windshield of the car she was riding in Sunday. She said she felt a searing pain in her shoulder.

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies said a .38-caliber bullet smashed through the windshield then bounced off Key's shoulder — thanks to a seat belt and a thick bra strap.

The copper-jacketed slug landed in her lap.

"It's a big bullet, but you had all those forces acting against it," Hillsborough sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway told the St. Petersburg Times. "It's very rare that something like that occurs. She's very lucky. You know, we're just glad she came out OK."

Key said she didn't know why anyone would shoot her. Sheriff's deputies later arrested two men in connection with the shooting several hours later.

Authorities said they do not have a motive for the shooting.

Ainu Laire · 05-19-2006, 10:14 PM

First time posting on this thread. Hello!

Anyways, I was glancing through articles on Yahoo- UN stuff, Iraq stuff, Washington stuff, same old, same old.

But I found another article on gas prices, and found it interesting enough to post. Just think of it as a following to Miles D's post ^^

Anyways:
Oil at $100? It's No Longer a Pipe Dream
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/20060519/...20060519952692

It's a long article, but I found these two sections the most interesting:

From 'Market Override':

Quote:

Given no shortage of crude oil in storage, the only explanation for the current spike is that the physical market's leverage on price has been temporarily suspended, or is being overridden by a futures market driven by a huge influx of capital. These investors are keying on future levels of risk to supply, rather than the immediate supply-demand balance.

While the rise in crude prices, as well as other commodities, has surpassed the expectations of many observers, what has been equally surprising has been the lack of impact of high energy prices on world economic growth. An oil shock of this scope should have caused widespread inflation, resulting in higher interest rates, which in turn would have put a brake on world trade. In previous times, this would have acted as a kind of self-regulating mechanism on demand for crude.

and from 'Inflation Expectations':

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Instead, inflation in both the developed and developing worlds has pretty much been kept under control. Manufacturers have been unable to pass on increased energy prices to consumers and have instead had to accept reduced margins, which have largely been achieved through control of labor costs. This has been helped by the shift in the manufacturing base to countries like China.

In addition, oil prices before the recent rise were historically cheap when adjusted for inflation, which meant that the proportion of consumers' disposable income affected by a rise in oil prices was less significant during the current oil shock than previously.

'tis muy interesante. As it is, what many people seem to forget is that this has happened before; in the 1970's, there was a huge oil inflation, and then the oil market collapsed, dropping oil prices very, very low. Oil prices just steadily increased over the years.

I'm just waiting for the oil prices to spiral once many people can't afford it.

hadapurpura · 05-21-2006, 10:30 PM

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When Kylie Hodgson gave birth to twin daughters by caesarean section, she was just relieved that they had arrived safely.
It was only when the midwife handed them over for her to hold that she noticed the difference between them.

Remee, who weighed 5lb 15oz, was blonde and fair skinned. Her sister Kian, born a minute later weighing 6lb, was black.

Kylie with partner Remi and daughters Remee and Kian

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"It was a shock when I realised that my twins were two different colours," said Kylie, 19. "But it doesn't matter to us - they are just our two gorgeous little girls."

The amazing conception happened after two eggs were fertilised at the same time in the womb.

Both Kylie and her partner Remi Horder, 17, are of mixed race. Their mothers are both white and their fathers are black.

According to the Multiple Births Foundation, baby Kian must have inherited the black genes from both sides of the family, whilst Remee inherited the white ones.

Kylie, from Nottingham, discovered she was pregnant in the summer of 2004 and a scan at the Queen's Medical Centre revealed that twins were on the way.

"It was a shock at first to discover I was expecting as we hadn't been trying for a family," she said I had my 14-week scan and the sonographer ran the scanner over my stomach and announced that I was carrying twins.

"We couldn't believe it. Neither of us could take our eyes off the scanner - you could just see two of everything, even the outline of their little noses. We were both overwhelmed."

The twins were born by caesarean in April last year because one of the girls was lying in an awkward position in the womb.

"I didn't see them at first," added their mother. "They were both whisked away to be checked over and then the midwife came back and placed them both in my arms.

"I noticed that both of them had beautiful blue eyes, but whilst Remee was blonde, Kian's hair was black and she had darker skin.

"It seemed strange, but I was feeling so ill that I didn't really take it in at that stage."

The next day she mentioned the colour difference to her mother, who told her that Remee's skin would darken as she grew older.

But as the weeks passed, Remee became lighter still while Kian went darker. And while Remee's eyes stayed blue, Kian's turned brown.

"There are some similarities between them," said their mother. "They both love apples and grapes, and their favourite television programme is Teletubbies.

"If they haven't seen each other for a few hours, they are so pleased to see each other and will hold out their arms, wanting to hug each other. And their smiles just light up their faces.

"I'll explain it all to them when they get older about why they look so different."

Million to one odds

The odds against of a mixed race couple having twins of dramatically different colour are a million to one.

Skin colour is believed to be determined by up to seven different genes working together.

If a woman is of mixed race, her eggs will usually contain a mixture of genes coding for both black and white skin.

Similarly, a man of mixed race will have a variety of different genes in his sperm. When these eggs and sperm come together, they will create a baby of mixed race.

But, very occasionally, the egg or sperm might contain genes coding for one skin colour. If both the egg and sperm contain all white genes, the baby will be white. And if both contain just the versions necessary for black skin, the baby will be black.

For a mixed-race couple, the odds of either of these scenarios is around 100 to one. But both scenarios can occur at the same time if the woman conceives non-identical twins, another 100 to one chance.

This involves two eggs being fertilised by two sperm at the same time, which also has odds of around 100 to one.

If a sperm containing all-white genes fuses with a similar egg and a sperm coding for purely black skin fuses with a similar egg, two babies of dramatically different colours will be born.

The odds of this happening are 100 x 100 x 100 - a million to one.

Here are the babies, they're soo cute!!!:

Oayis · 05-22-2006, 04:33 PM

Boy Swims From Alcatraz to San Francisco

Get this: he's seven years old.
Um, holy shiz.

**Miles D** · 05-22-2006, 07:26 PM

So big, in fact, it'll be the tallest in the USA outside New York and Chicago. It's called "Signature Tower" and it's 65 floors will consists of condos and a high-end hotel. It's height will be 319 meters or 1,047 ft.

So wanna live up in the clouds, and not spend New York prices? Here's your shot!

This thing is to be completed by 2009. Here is proof:

Source 1) Emporis... the building database.
Source 2) Building getting approval by the Nashville Devlopment and Housing Authority, per Nashville Business Journal.
And here are Photo Renderings from the building's webpage.

So there ya have it. Big digs going up in Nash-vegas!!

**TheLady** · 05-24-2006, 09:09 AM

You know, sometimes when I think things are bad for me, I see something like this to make me realize how bad other people have it.

I can't help but have tears in my eyes, and feel very nauseous, after reading this article.

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BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo (CNN) -- At a makeshift recreation center at a hospital here in eastern Congo, about 500 women surround one of their own, who's lying on the floor.

The young woman's name is Tintsi and she's barely 20 years old. She arrived at the hospital three weeks ago on a stretcher carried by relatives who walked 100 miles to get here. Doctors weren't sure Tintsi would ever walk again.

Tintsi, like everyone else in this room, is a victim of the worst kind of sexual violation imaginable.

"Some of them have knives and other sharp objects inserted in them after they've been raped, while others have pistols shoved into their vaginas and the triggers pulled back," said Dr. Denis Mukwege Mukengere, the lone physician at the hospital. "It's a kind of barbarity that only savages are capable of."...

The alleged perpetrators are men in uniform, part of the Congolese army. These troops are a compilation of various militia groups that had been fighting each other for years until a truce was reached two years ago.

Also in the room is 28-year-old Henriette Nyota. Her spirit is all but broken. Three years ago, she said, she was gang raped as her husband and four children were forced to watch. The men in uniform then disemboweled her husband and continued raping her and her two oldest daughters, 10 and 8. The assault went on for three days...

Nineteen-year-old Nzigire bears the result of repeated sexual violations -- her year-old daughter, Ester. The teenager acknowledges she often contemplates putting an end to what she calls a death sentence.

"I sometimes feel like killing myself and my daughter," she said. "I look at her and all I see is them. I look at myself and all I see is misery."

Misery permeates this tiny hospital in this huge country the size of Western Europe. Last year there were more than 4,000 reported rape cases in this province alone, or about 12 a day, officials say.

And it's not just women who are being raped; so are some men with equally devastating consequences.

Fifteen-year-old Olivier was sitting down to dinner with his family when the front door of their house was smashed in. Olivier's father was the first to be killed followed by his mother, right in front of the children.

They then raped Olivier's three sisters, and when he tried to fight them they turned on him. One at a time, more than a dozen in all, he said.

Mukengere takes us from ward to ward, where the beds are filled with sexual abuse patients in various stages of recovery. Colostomy bags hang off their cots and bed pans are everywhere. Once in a while, you hear a woman scream in pain as she's raised by the team of tireless nurses to have something to eat or drink.

Mukengere, who attends to an average of 10 new cases a day, explains bed-by-bed the cruelty that has become the Congo.

Equally troubling is that aid money designated for victims of sexual abuse here may run out at the end of June despite the relative success of this program, the only one of its kind in the region.

Sadly though, many of the people responsible for these rapes -- what is being described as the new weapon of war in a time of peace -- have yet to be arrested, tried or convicted. The peace process is too delicate at this stage, officials say.

The peace process is too delicate. And at this hospital in the eastern Congo, the rooms are too full.

**Miles D** · 05-25-2006, 11:26 PM

Oh Noes!

Toe-licking Suspect on the loose in Tulsa. Watch out Wal-mart Shoppers!

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Originally Posted by KOTV Tulsa

A Tulsa woman has a warning for all women after a creepy encounter in a Tulsa parking lot.

She was loading her groceries into her car at a Tulsa Wal-Mart near 81st and Lewis when she felt something lick her toes. She assumed it was a dog. But when she looked down she saw it was a man who was lying under her car.

Lorrie: "I just pointed my finger at him and said what are you doing? I just kept saying that, then I got really, really angry. I was so angry that he had touched me."

The man ran off. He's described as Hispanic or Indian, about 5-foot-9, 150 pounds. He was wearing a black t-shirt and blue jeans.

The woman wants others to know this man is still out there. She doesn't want them to be afraid, just on their guard.

Wildangel · 05-26-2006, 04:47 PM

TOO Short for Prison

Okay, I saw this on cnn. And I think it is absurd.

Shape · 05-26-2006, 06:55 PM

ALIEN FOUND IN BIRDS ASS!

ok so it's not an alien but it sure as shit looks like one.

05-22-2006, 04:33 PM	#395 (permalink)
Oayis Fledgling Post Monkey Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Philly, yo. Age: 18 Posts: 1,493 Points: 1,750.00 Bank: 318,072.66 Total Points: 319,822.66 Donate	Boy Swims From Alcatraz to San Francisco Get this: he's seven years old. Um, holy shiz. __________________ s i y a o Sucka.

05-22-2006, 07:26 PM	#396 (permalink)
Miles D Cookie-head Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Memphis, TN Age: 31 Posts: 3,078 Points: 526.19 Bank: 452,978.86 Total Points: 453,505.05 Donate	Nashville, TN to get BIG skyscraper... So big, in fact, it'll be the tallest in the USA outside New York and Chicago. It's called "Signature Tower" and it's 65 floors will consists of condos and a high-end hotel. It's height will be 319 meters or 1,047 ft. So wanna live up in the clouds, and not spend New York prices? Here's your shot! This thing is to be completed by 2009. Here is proof: Source 1) Emporis... the building database. Source 2) Building getting approval by the Nashville Devlopment and Housing Authority, per Nashville Business Journal. And here are Photo Renderings from the building's webpage. So there ya have it. Big digs going up in Nash-vegas!! __________________ I need a new signature. Eek! Last edited by Miles D : 05-22-2006 at 10:35 PM.

05-26-2006, 04:47 PM	#399 (permalink)
Wildangel Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,637 Points: 2,827.74 Bank: 13,966,606.43 Total Points: 13,969,434.17 Donate	Too Short for Prison TOO Short for Prison Okay, I saw this on cnn. And I think it is absurd. __________________

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Shape ¬¬ Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: San Jose, California Age: 26 Posts: 4,582 Points: 22,445.52 Bank: 500,630.96 Total Points: 523,076.48 Donate	ALIEN FOUND IN BIRDS ASS! ok so it's not an alien but it sure as shit looks like one.