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<b>Traveler's Diarrhea Overview</b><br />
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Diarrhea occurs in a significant number of people who travel to foreign countries. Travelers to developing countries of the world become ill from eating or drinking food or water contaminated by infected human bowel waste.<br />
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Traveler's diarrhea can be defined as three or more unformed stools in a 24-hour period.<br />
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<b>Traveler's Diarrhea Causes</b><br />
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A person can become infected by eating or drinking food or water that has come in contact with feces. Food and water become contaminated when they are handled by people with fecal content on their hands - not in direct contact with feces. Restaurants are common sites for exposure to this type of food poisoning. Food from street vendors is even more risky. Eating in a private home is the safest food source.<br />
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High-risk food and drink<br />
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Certain items are considered high risk for transmission and include the following:<br />
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Raw or undercooked meats<br />
Raw leafy vegetables<br />
Seafood<br />
Unpeeled fruits<br />
Unpasteurized dairy products<br />
Tap water (A common mistake travelers make is to avoid tap water but to place ice cubes in a beverage. Contaminated ice is still able to transmit disease. Do not use ice cubes.)<br />
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Bottled carbonated beverages<br />
Hot coffee or tea<br />
Water boiled or treated appropriately with chlorine<br />
Specific bacterial causes of traveler's diarrhea<br />
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Up to 85% of traveler's diarrhea is caused by bacteria. The remaining cases are caused by viruses and protozoa. The most common organism causing traveler's diarrhea is Escherichia coli accounting for up to 72% of cases in some regions.<br />
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<b>Is Traveler's Diarrhea Contagious?</b><br />
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Yes, no matter what the pathogenic cause (bacterial, viral or parasitic, see above) traveler's diarrhea is contagious. The vast majority of individuals obtain the pathogens by orally ingesting them. Common routs that lead to oral ingestion are by eating food or drinking water contaminated with the pathogens. Pathogens also survive sometimes for days on surfaces such as handrails, doorknobs, computer keys, children's toys, and many other similar items. The pathogens are then transferred to the mouth by a person simply touching their face on or near an oral mucosal area (lips, tongue, gums, teeth, for example).<br />
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<b>Traveler's Diarrhea Treatment</b><br />
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Drink 2-3 quarts of fluid per day. In the first 24 hours the best fluids to drink are bottled fruit juices and beverages, caffeine-free soft drinks, hot tea, and broth; try to match the amount of fluid lost in the stools with the amount of fluid taken in orally.<br />
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During the next 24 hours, eat bland foods such as rice, soup, bread, crackers, eggs, and cereals. Advance to regular foods after two or three days.<br />
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With more severe cases, over-the-counter medications may help reduce symptoms and shorten the time they last.<br />
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Antimotility agents, such as loperamide (Imodium), give the stools more consistency and provide some relief from symptoms, however, many health care practitioners use these agents for emergencies only (airplane travel) because the decreased motility may prolong the disease.<br />
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Bismuth subsalicylate ( (Pepto-Bismol) is also moderately effective. Use according to package directions or upon direction of a doctor<br />
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<b>How can I avoid traveler's diarrhea?</b><br />
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When you will be traveling to an area where the water may not be clean, see your doctor 4 to 6 weeks before your trip. Your doctor may want to give you some medicines, such as antibiotics or shots, to protect you from illness while you are away. During your trip, be careful about the following things:<br />
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Do not drink tap water and do not use it to brush your teeth.<br />
Do not drink bottled water if the seal on the bottle has been broken.<br />
Do not use ice unless you're sure it's made from purified water.<br />
Do not drink milk or eat dairy products that have not been pasteurized (heated to a temperature that kills all germs).<br />
Do not eat raw fruits or vegetables unless they can be peeled and you are the one who peels them.<br />
Do not eat cut-up fruit salad.<br />
Do not eat lettuce or other leafy raw vegetables (such as spinach).<br />
Do not eat raw or rare (slightly cooked) meat or fish.<br />
Do not eat food from people who sell it on the street.<br />
Boiling water will kill the germs that cause diarrhea, making the water safe to drink. Boil water vigorously for 1 minute and allow it to cool to room temperature (do not add ice). When traveling in high altitudes (6,562 feet or higher), boil water for 3 minutes.<br />
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<b>What is safe to eat or drink?</b><br />
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When you are in a place where you could get traveler's diarrhea, it is probably safe to eat or drink the following:<br />
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Soft drinks that are carbonated (such as cola).<br />
Hot drinks, such as tea or coffee.<br />
Carbonated or noncarbonated bottled water, as long as you are the one who breaks the seal on the bottle.<br />
Raw fruits or vegetables that can be peeled, as long as you are the one who peels them.<br />
Food that is served hot.<br />
Meat that is well cooked.<br />
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<b>sources: http://www.medicinenet.com/travelers_diarrhea/article.htm#glance</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What is Urinary Tract Infection?</b></span><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A <b>urinary tract infection</b> (<b>UTI</b>) is a bacterial infection that affects part of the urinary tract. When it affects the lower urinary tract it is known as a simple cystitis (a bladder infection) and when it affects the upper urinary tract it is known as pyelonephritis (a kidney infection). Symptoms from a lower urinary tract include painful urination and either frequent urination or urge to urinate (or both), while those of pyelonephritis include fever andflank pain in addition to the symptoms of a lower UTI. In the elderly and the very young, symptoms may be vague or non specific. The main causal agent of both types is <i>Escherichia coli</i>, however other bacteria, viruses or fungi may rarely be the cause.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Urinary tract infections occur more commonly in women than men, with half of women having at least one infection at some point in their lives. Recurrences are common. Risk factors include female anatomy, sexual intercourse and family history. Pyelonephritis, if it occurs, usually follows a bladder infection but may also result from a blood borne infection. Diagnosis in young healthy women can be based on symptoms alone. In those with vague symptoms, diagnosis can be difficult because bacteria may be present without there being an infection. In complicated cases or if treatment has failed, a urine culture may be useful. In those with frequent infections, low dose antibiotics may be taken as a preventative measure.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.4em;"><br />
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<h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">What are the symptoms of Urinary Tract Infection?</span></h3><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may have an infection if you have any of these symptoms:</span><br />
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<ol><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You feel pain or burning when you urinate.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You feel like you have to urinate often, but not much urine comes out when you do.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your belly feels tender or heavy.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your urine is cloudy or smells bad.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have pain on one side of your back under your ribs. This is where your kidneys are.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have fever and chills.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have nausea and vomiting.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Call your doctor right away if you think you have an infection and:</span><br />
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have a fever, nausea and vomiting, or pain in one side of your back under your ribs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have diabetes, kidney problems, or a weak immune system.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are older than 65.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are pregnant.</span></li>
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</span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Urinary Tract Infection... in detail</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The UTI symptoms and signs may vary according to age, sex, and location of the infection in the tract. Some individuals will have no symptoms or mild symptoms and may clear the infection in about two to five days. Many people will not spontaneously clear the infection; one of the most frequent symptoms and signs experienced by most patients is a frequent urge to urinate, accompanied by pain or burning on urination. The urine often appears cloudy and occasionally dark, if blood is present. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The urine may develop an unpleasant odor. Women often have lower abdominal discomfort or feel bloated and experience sensations like their bladder is full. Women may also complain of a vaginal discharge, especially if their urethra is infected, or if they have an STD. Although men may complain of dysuria, frequency, and urgency, other symptoms may include rectal, testicular, penile, or abdominal pain. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Men with a urethral infection, especially if it is caused by an STD, may have a pus-like drip or discharge from their penis. Toddlers and children with UTIs often show blood in the urine, abdominal pain, fever, andvomiting along with pain and urgency with urination.</span></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Symptoms and signs of a UTI in the very young and the elderly are not as diagnostically helpful as they are for other patients. Newborns and infants may develop fever or hypothermia, poor feeding,jaundice, vomiting, and diarrhea. Unfortunately, the elderly often have mild symptoms or no symptoms of a UTI until they become weak, lethargic, or confused.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Location of the infection in the urinary tract usually results in certain symptoms. Urethral infections usually have dysuria (pain or discomfort when urinating). STD infections may cause a pus-like fluid to drain or drip from the urethra. Cystitis (bladder infection) symptoms include suprapubic pain, usually without fever and flank pain. Ureter and kidney infections often have flank pain and fever as symptoms. These symptoms and signs are not highly specific, but they do help the physician determine where the UTI may be located.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sources:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>http://www.medicinenet.com/urine_infection/page3.htm#symptoms </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/urinary-tract-infections-in-teens-and-adults-topic-overview</b> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>powervideoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120745425318038772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548733807175053160.post-60782506037213566652012-07-19T09:14:00.001-07:002012-07-19T09:16:26.066-07:00Can a man get infected during cunnilingus or performing oral sex on a woman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j5udP2MDJkE/UAgyOXbfqqI/AAAAAAAACNA/-HeGN8rjX48/s1600/cunnilingus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-j5udP2MDJkE/UAgyOXbfqqI/AAAAAAAACNA/-HeGN8rjX48/s1600/cunnilingus.jpg" /></a></div><h2><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes. Cunnilingus, oral sex on a woman, is considered "possibly unsafe" without a latex or plastic barrier. If the woman has her period or a vaginal infection, it's considered "unsafe." "Possibly unsafe" activities have a smaller chance of transmitting HIV than behaviors in the "unsafe" category (which generally involve semen or blood coming into contact with mucous membranes in the rectum, vagina, or mouth). "Possibly unsafe" activities do, however, carry a risk of HIV (and STD) transmission.</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Vaginal secretions can carry the virus and may be infectious under certain conditions. For example, if the secretions come into contact with open sores or small cuts in the mouth (such as those you may get from brushing or flossing your teeth) or the throat (such as when it's sore), there's a risk of viral transmission. If the woman receiving cunnilingus has her period or a vaginal infection, her secretions can hold a higher concentration of HIV, so there's a higher risk of transmission at these times.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also transmit other STDs during unprotected cunnilingus - like herpes, syphilis, hepatitus B, molluscum contagiosum, and yeast infections. And it is theoretically possible (but almost unheard-of) to transmit gonorrhea or chlamydia during unprotected oral sex.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">To have safe cunnilingus, use plastic wrap (the regular household kind), or a dental dam, or a condom (unlubed, flavored if you want) cut up the side and held flat against the ENTIRE genital area, as a barrier. A little lube on the side next to her genitals will increase sensation for her; putting some jam or honey on the other side might make it even more fun for her partner. Be sure NOT to reverse the barrier. Only one side should come into contact with the genitals, and only the other side should come into contact with the partner's mouth. Also, don't use one barrier on more than one person, or transfer it from anus to vagina.<br />
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<b>Sources: http://www.positive.org/Home/faq/oral.html</b></div>powervideoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120745425318038772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548733807175053160.post-66493063266070122012012-07-18T20:10:00.000-07:002012-07-18T20:10:09.500-07:00Colon Cancer observed survival rate<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l6VueRmxyiI/UAd6gya8AGI/AAAAAAAACKI/gY8r3PuJlJg/s1600/colon+cancer+survival+rate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l6VueRmxyiI/UAd6gya8AGI/AAAAAAAACKI/gY8r3PuJlJg/s1600/colon+cancer+survival+rate.jpg" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Survival rates are often used by doctors as a standard way of discussing a person's prognosis (outlook). Some patients may want to know the survival statistics for people in similar situations, while others may not find the numbers helpful, or may even not want to know them. If you decide that you don’t want to know them, stop reading here and skip to the next section.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The 5-year survival rate refers to the percentage of patients who live <i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">at least</i> 5 years after their cancer is diagnosed. Of course, many people live much longer than 5 years (and many are cured).</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">In order to get 5-year survival rates, doctors have to look at people who were treated at least 5 years ago. Improvements in treatment since then may result in a more favorable outlook for people now being diagnosed with colorectal cancer.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><a name='more'></a><br />
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Survival rates are often based on previous outcomes of large numbers of people who had the disease, but they cannot predict what will happen in any particular person's case. Knowing the type and the stage of a person's cancer is important in estimating their outlook. But many other factors may also affect a person's outlook, such as the grade of the cancer, the genetic changes in the cancer cells, and how well the cancer responds to treatment. Even when taking these other factors into account, survival rates are at best rough estimates. Your doctor can tell you if the numbers below may apply, as he or she is familiar with the aspects of your particular situation.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Survival rates for colon cancer by stage</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The numbers below come from a study of the National Cancer Institute's SEER database, looking at more than 28,000 people diagnosed with colon cancer between 1998 and 2000.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">These are <i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">observed </i>survival rates. They include people diagnosed with colon cancer who may have later died from other causes, such as heart disease. People with colon cancer tend to be older and may have other serious health conditions. Therefore, the percentage of people surviving the colon cancer itself is likely to be higher.</div><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid black; color: #545454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><tbody style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stage</b></div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5-year Survival Rate</b></div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">74%</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIA</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">67%</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIB</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">59%</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIC</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">37%</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIIA</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">73%*</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIIB</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">46%*</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIIC</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">28%</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IV</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6%</div></ul></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="caption" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">*In this study, survival was better for some stage III cancers than for some stage II cancers. The reasons for this are not clear.</i></div><h2 style="background-color: white; border-top-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Survival rates for rectal cancer by stage</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The numbers below come from a study of the National Cancer Institute's SEER database, looking at nearly 10,000 people diagnosed with rectal cancer between 1998 and 2000.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #565454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">These are <i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">observed </i>survival rates. They include people diagnosed with rectal cancer who may have later died from other causes, such as heart disease. People with rectal cancer tend to be older and may have other serious health conditions. Therefore, the percentage of people surviving the rectal cancer itself is likely to be higher.</div><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid black; color: #545454; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><tbody style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stage</b></div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5-year Survival Rate</b></div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">74%</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIA</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">65%</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIB</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">52%</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIC</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">32%</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIIA</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">74%*</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIIB</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">45%*</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IIIC</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">33%</div></ul></td></tr>
<tr style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="80"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IV</div></ul></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px; vertical-align: baseline;" valign="top" width="168"><ul style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="table-1" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #565454; line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6%</div></ul></td></tr>
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<b>source: http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/ColonandRectumCancer/DetailedGuide/colorectal-cancer-survival-rates</b>powervideoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120745425318038772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548733807175053160.post-46652346006584813362012-07-18T19:38:00.001-07:002012-07-18T19:39:07.140-07:008 Natural Remedies And Cures For Constipation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WIL8pa11Nr8/UAdzBk31EEI/AAAAAAAACJ8/LY1mlbFAVn0/s1600/8550044-illustration-of-a-constipated-kid-sitting-on-a-toilet-bowl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WIL8pa11Nr8/UAdzBk31EEI/AAAAAAAACJ8/LY1mlbFAVn0/s320/8550044-illustration-of-a-constipated-kid-sitting-on-a-toilet-bowl.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><br />
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<b>What Is Constipation?</b><br />
Constipation is defined as a condition where bowel movements are not regular or when the bowels are not completely emptied through regular waste elimination. Constipation is one of the most common gastro intestinal problems suffered by both adults and kids in America and the world over.<br />
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<b>What Are The Symptoms Of Constipation?</b><br />
Constipation is identified with infrequent and irregular bowel movements and characterized with hard fecal matter that is difficult and painful to eliminate. Most people suffering from chronic constipation also have a foul breath and a tongue that is coated with white matter, especially when they wake up. Dizziness, loss of appetite, headache, nausea, depression, under eye circles, insomnia, acne, varicose veins, acidity, stomach aches and a feeling of having a full abdomen are other symptoms of constipation.<br />
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<b>How Can Constipation Harm The Human Body?</b><br />
When waste matter and toxins are not eliminated through regular bowel movements due to chronic constipation, then these toxins are eventually carried into the bloodstream, where they become an important predisposing factor in causing ailments like headaches, rheumatism, arthritis, appendicitis, acne and high blood pressure etc. Chronic constipation has also been linked to colon cancer as well.<br />
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<b>What Causes Constipation?</b><br />
After digested food is passed from the stomach to the colon, the colon absorbs water and nutrients from the food as it passes through it before it is eliminated out of the body. This digested food is then eliminated out of the colon through muscle contractions that help in the movement of food through the colon to the rectum. Constipation occurs when the colon absorbs too much water, due to which waste matter gets hard and dries up. The colon finds it extremely hard to eliminate this type of dry and hard waste matter through muscle contractions, resulting in constipation. <br />
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An unhealthy lifestyle and a diet that lacks in fiber and water are the main causes of constipation in the majority of people suffering from this ailment. Constipation is also caused due to certain medications, hormonal disturbances during pregnancy and deficiency of the thyroid hormone. A sedentary lifestyle, frequent traveling over different time zones, excessive consumption of laxatives, anti depressants, iron supplements, pain killers and antacids are other predisposing factors. <br />
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Often emotional stress and depression also contribute towards constipation. Meat, tea, coffee, aerated drinks and refined and junk food, when taken excessively, also cause constipation. <br />
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One may suffer from constipation now and then even when following a healthy lifestyle and eating a healthy diet. But instead of trying out an over the counter laxative, using one of these natural cures is a better alternative because they are totally natural, easy to use and absolutely non-habit-forming.<br />
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<b>Psyllium Husk</b>: Psyllium husk powder is one of the most effective ingredients for curing constipation. While you are suffering from constipation, take a teaspoon of Psyllium Husk mixed in a glass water thrice a day. Make sure that you drink at least three to four liters of water during the day while taking Psyllium husk for constipation relief. Within a day or two, you will be rid of constipation.<br />
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<b>Prunes</b>: Prunes or dried plums are nature’s remedy for constipation. Snack up on prunes or drink a glass of prune juice first thing in the morning and another one at bed time. You will find that you are free from constipation within a few hours. You can also try drinking apple juice in between for faster results.<br />
<b>Papayas</b>: Papaya is a well known laxative that has been hailed as a constipation cure for ages. The best effect of papaya as a natural constipation cure is achieved when it is combined with fresh or dried figs. Take a breakfast of half a papaya and five to six figs and say goodbye to constipation.<br />
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<b>Spinach</b>: Spinach is nature’s storehouse of beneficial vitamins and minerals. Drink half a glass of spinach juice extracted from fresh raw leaves with half a glass of water twice a day for two to three days. Apart from getting an altogether better constitution, you will find that this is the home remedy to tackle even the most severe cases of constipation. <br />
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<b>Oranges</b>: Orange juice is known to increase peristaltic activity (the contraction of muscles in the colon, which helps in bowel movement), and drinking loads of freshly squeezed orange juice is an easy and tasty way of combating constipation. In order to take advantage of the fiber in oranges, you may consume a couple of oranges first thing in the morning and a couple more at bed time.<br />
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Other natural cures for constipation involve the consumption of flax seeds; a solution of salt and lemon in warm water; pears and pear juice; honey in warm water; guavas; grapes; aloe vera and other medicinal herbs.powervideoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120745425318038772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548733807175053160.post-37942408570623866012012-04-30T04:35:00.000-07:002012-04-30T04:35:27.149-07:0034 interesting facts on Osama Bin Laden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">On May 2, 2011, U.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a city of 500,000 people that houses a military base and a military academy. A gun battle broke out when the troops descended upon the building in which bin Laden was located, and bin Laden was shot in the head. News of bin Laden's death brought cheers and a sense of relief worldwide.</span><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here are 34 Facts on the world's most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden</span> </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. The CIA, together with the British Special Air Service, trained 100,000 mujaheddin to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan from 1980-1989, as well as providing weaponry to do so. Osama bin Laden therefore received training and weapons from the U.S. and British governments. Bin Laden supported the mujahideen at the behest of Saudi Arabian royalty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Zbigniew Brzezinski has stated in <em>Le Nouvel Observateur</em> that the U.S. began supplying the mujahideen rebels with weapons six months prior to the invasion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. One of Osama’s brothers, Salem bin Laden, stated in 1985 that Osama was serving as a liaison between the US government, the Saudis, and the mujahideen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Al-Qaeda, which means “the base,” is formed in 1991, shortly after the US invasion of Kuwait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Bin Laden traveled back and forth to London many times in the early nineties, and in fact was interviewed in 1996 in London.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Both bin Laden and his friend Khalid bin Mafhouz (who lived in London) were heavily invested in the Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI). The BCCI is a notorious criminal enterprise which funded dictators and drug and arms trafficking all over the world, a key element of the Iran-Contra scandal. Oliver North had multiple accounts at BCCI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. In 1993, 18 US soldiers were killed in Somalia (the famous <em>Black Hawk Down</em> incident). Bin Laden is implicated by the US for training some of the individuals involved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. In 1994, the Advice and Reform Committee (ARC), based in London, set up a secure communications system for bin Laden to contact London from Saudi Arabia. The phone calls are all routed through Denver, Colorado, using military lines abandoned after being used during the first Gulf war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. Also in 1994, during the civil war in Yemen, the Al-Qaeda fighters help the US-backed North Yemen forces defeat Communist south Yemen. This is not the only instance of the US and Al-Qaeda being on the same side of a conflict.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. Bin Laden was kicked out of Sudan in May of 1996, when he took a C-130 to establish operations back in Afghanistan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11. The Pakistani ISI (their CIA-equivalent agency) convinced the Taliban in 1996 to give back to bin Laden all the old camps that he ran during the Soviet war. The Pakistani ISI was trained in covert operations by the American CIA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12. In 1998, ABC News refers to bin Laden as “the most dangerous man in the world.” Bin Laden allegedly participates or organizes two US embassy bombings in August and issues a general fatwa encouraging attacks against the West.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13. The Taliban actually put bin Laden on trial in 1998, and formally request evidence from the United States in order to continue with the trial. When the US fails to respond, he is released.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">14. A Deutsche Bank joint account of bin Laden and a Pakistani businessman sent $250 million to Pakistan in the year 2000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">15. In March of 2000, Osama bin Laden develops renal failure and is forced onto a dialysis machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16. As widely reported in numerous international sources, bin Laden met with CIA officials in a hospital in Dubai where his kidney problems forced lifesaving medical care. This is in July of 2001.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">17. On September 11, 2001, America is attacked. US media, fed in part by Richard Clarke’s identification, begin stating that bin Laden is behind the attacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">18. September 11, 12, and 16 & 28 (formal statements): bin Laden denies a role in the attacks. This is confusing because terrorists generally take credit for their successful attacks; otherwise, what is the point?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">19. On October 10, 2001, the FBI issued a list of the most wanted terrorists in the world, with bin Laden at #1. However, the FBI wanted poster does not include the 9/11 attacks in his list of crimes, and is never updated to include these crimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">20. On November 28, 2001, US forces have bin Laden trapped in Tora Bora, but he mysteriously escapes, according to a US special forces soldier in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Following this incident, several bizarre murder/suicides take place at the Fayetteville military base over the next six months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">21. Over the next few months after 9/11, several bin Laden videotapes surface, all of which depict wildly different-looking bin Ladens. According to numerous published reports all over the international press, bin Laden dies in December 2001. This allegedly is due to pulmonary problems but one must also remember bin Laden was on dialysis whilst hiding in the caves of Afghanistan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">22. FBI Director Robert Mueller notes that they have not found a single piece of hard evidence linking bin Laden or Al-Qaeda to 9/11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">23. In 2003, the CIA went on record admitting they produced a fake bin Laden tape. They allege that the tape was never actually used publicly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">24. October 2004: Right before the 2004 US elections, bin Laden suddenly appears in a videotape taking credit for the 9/11 attacks. He has never done so before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">25. In 2005, the Executive Director of the CIA, Buzzy Krongard, states that it is better for the world that bin Laden remains free. Krongard is a former executive of Deutsche Bank, a bank well-known after 9/11 because numerous “put options” – bets that airline stock would go down – were placed through the bank on 9/11.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">26. April 2005 – bin Laden is once again reported to be dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">27. March 2006 – bin Laden is reported to have died in Iran.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">28. September 2006 – bin Laden reported dead by the French press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">29. November 2, 2007 – Benazhir Bhutto remarks in passing that bin Laden is dead. She says that her own security forces may assassinate her. She thinks they want her dead because, among other things, she wants to stop terrorism in Pakistan. She is in fact assassinated that December.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">30. May 1, 2011 – US forces allegedly assassinate Osama bin Laden. He is buried at sea. No dialysis machine is found at his home. It is first reported that one of his wives attempted to help him, then that report is later denied. It is reported that bin Laden had a gun, then that report is denied. NPR claims that although he did not have a gun, he “resisted.” How he resisted is not explained. No physical evidence is produced to show that he is dead. Major news organizations all over the US run a photoshopped image of Osama with a bullet hole in his head. Americans across the country celebrate the assassination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Interesting Facts on Osama Bin Laden's neighborhood in Pakistan</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. His "luxurious neighborhood" has a golf course</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />A golf course, a military base with a hospital, and even a Red Onion Restaurant grace the area around bin Laden's house. It's unclear if he ever left his compound. "But if he did," <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/bin-ladens-cave-a-golf-co_b_856139.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0065d7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">says Richard (RJ) Eskow at <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Huffington Post</em></a>, "he theoretically could have taken a stroll in the local park, stopped off at the base for dialysis treatment, played a round of golf, then ended the day with some steamed mussels and grilled blackfish."<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. He didn't return kids' cricket balls</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />"Along with being an evil terrorist the likes of which the world has seldom, if ever, seen," bin Laden "was also that scary neighbor whose yard was a black hole for kids' balls," <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/05/osama_bin_laden_soccer_ball_compound.php" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0065d7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">says Joe Coscarelli in <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Village Voice</em></a>. Neighborhood children knew that if their ball flew into bin Laden's yard, they would not be allowed to retrieve it. Instead, the kids were given 100 or 150 rupees ($2-$3), several times the balls' value. "Maybe that's why so many balls went over the wall," speculates Tanvir Ahmed, a local ice cream vendor, <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/984722--living-near-bin-laden-s-hideout-locals-had-their-suspicions" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0065d7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">as quoted by <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Toronto Star</em></a>.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. His aides bought Coke and Pepsi</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The two men who handled the daily grocery shopping for the compound would buy "enough food for 10 people," always paying cash, says grocer Anjum Qaisar, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-03/bin-laden-aides-bought-big-orders-of-pepsi-coke-grocer-says.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0065d7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">as quoted by <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bloomberg News</em></a>. They generally opted for superior brands — "Nestle milk, the good-quality soaps and shampoos" — and were catholic in their cola tastes, buying both Coke and Pepsi. It appears that "the man who condemned western values openly embraced its branded products, in the process indirectly enriching the very liberal, American-based, capitalist corporations he claimed to be at war against,"<a href="http://www.brandchannel.com/home/post/2011/05/03/Bin-Laden-Enjoyed-Branded-Products-Of-Very-Nation-He-Fought.aspx" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #0065d7; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">says Abe Sauer at <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandchannel</em></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/214907/osama-bin-ladens-hideout-4-surprising-facts">http://theweek.com/article/index/214907/osama-bin-ladens-hideout-4-surprising-facts</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">KFC, founded and also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. KFC has been a brand and operating segment, termed a concept of Yum! Brands since 1997 when that company was spun off from PepsiCo as Tricon Global Restaurants Inc. KFC primarily sells chicken pieces, wraps, salads and sandwiches. While its primary focus is fried chicken, KFC also offers a line of grilled and roasted chicken products, side dishes and desserts. Outside the USA, KFC offers beef based products such as hamburgers or kebabs, poutine, pork based products such as ribs and other regional fare.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was also in the news lately after one store manager was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/kfc-expired-chicken-lawsuit_n_1435133.html"><span style="color: blue;">forced to serve expired chickens.
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">KFC has been under fire for quite some time because of the factory farming used to produce their chicken. Undercover investigators, including investigators from PETA, have reported horrendous conditions at these farms. According to their observations, the animals were packed in warehouses with very little room to move, were completely deprived of sunlight, and were so weak and deformed that they could barely function well enough to eat and drink. There were even cases of the farm employees torturing the animals for no other purpose than their own twisted enjoyment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without a doubt, factory farming is bad news. If the animal cruelty isn’t enough to turn your stomach, then the </span><a href="http://naturalbias.com/are-you-eating-toxic-meat/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="Toxic Meat">poor quality of the meat</a> should be. These animals are fed the cheapest feed available which is likely to contain toxic grain that has failed inspection for human consumption and can also contain fillers such as sawdust, newspaper, and cardboard. They’re also typically fed antibiotics on a regular basis to compensate for the unhealthy conditions they’re forced to live in and are given hormones to accelerate their growth. Whenever you eat food that’s derived from an animal, you’re also eating what the animal ate, and this includes the pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, sawdust, newspaper and cardboard that they were fed.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The very first ingredient, which means it’s also the most abundant ingredient, is sugar! Among the many problems associated with sugar, it suppresses your immune system, promotes imbalance of intestinal flora, causes <a href="http://naturalbias.com/are-you-riding-the-blood-sugar-rollercoaster/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="Blood Sugar Fluctuation">blood sugar fluctuation</a> which can lead to diabetes, promotes weight gain, can cause neurotransmitter imbalance that leads to depression, and can even lead to addiction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While <a href="http://naturalbias.com/the-truth-about-salt/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="The Truth About Salt">natural sea salt</a> is an essential part of good health, the highly refined table salt that KFC most likely uses contains unhealthy additives, is stripped of it’s magnesium and trace minerals, and is bleached to hide the discoloration caused by the processing. Refined table salt is associated with heavy metal toxicity, Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure, and kidney problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Flour is a highly refined source of carbohydrates that causes many of the same problems as sugar. Furthermore, many people have issues <a href="http://naturalbias.com/tips-and-recipes-for-a-gluten-and-dairy-free-diet/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="Gluten and Dairy Free Diet">digesting wheat</a> and anyone who is gluten intolerant may be in for a surprise if they eat KFC’s chicken thinking that it’s gluten free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Here’s where things start to get ugly. Cottonseed oil and soybean oil are vegetable oils that are high in omega-6 fatty acids. Although omega-6 is an <a href="http://naturalbias.com/what-you-should-know-about-essential-fatty-acids/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="What You Should Know About Essential Fatty Acids">essential fatty acid</a> that cannot be produced by the human body and must be part of our diet, it must also be consumed in an approximately equal ratio to omega-3 fatty acids. The typical modern diet is much too high in omega-6 fatty acids and the imbalance this causes is associated with all kinds of problems including heart disease, cancer and impaired brain function.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soy isn’t healthy under any conditions because it contains substances such as <a href="http://naturalbias.com/a-hidden-danger-with-nuts-grains-and-seeds/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="A Hidden Danger with Nuts, Grains, Seeds, and Beans">phytic acid and enzyme inhibitors</a> that interfere with mineral absorption and protein digestion. It also contains phytoestrogens which mimic estrogen in the human body. In addition, a frightening amount of soy is <a href="http://naturalbias.com/the-frightening-uncertainty-of-genetically-modified-foods/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="The Frightening Uncertainty of Genetically Modified Foods">genetically engineered</a> and is typically sprayed with more chemicals than most other crops. While organic soy eliminates the problems associated with genetic engineering and toxic chemicals, It’s extremely unlikely for KFC to be using organic ingredients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As if soybean oil and cottonseed oil aren’t bad enough in their own right, they’re made to be much worse through partial hydrogenation. Through this process, these oils are exposed to extreme temperatures, mixed with metal particles, and bombarded with hydrogen atoms. The result is a highly refined, deformed and unnatural molecule that’s commonly referred to as <a href="http://naturalbias.com/trans-fat-what-the-food-industry-wants-to-hide-from-you/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="Trans Fat: What the Food Industry Wants to Hide From You">trans fat</a> and is associated with <em>many</em> serious diseases and health disorders including heart disease and cancer. Even the often misguided mainstream media suggests that you avoid trans-fat like the plague.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> If you don’t recognize this ingredient, it may sound more familiar to you as MSG. This unnatural flavor enhancer is a neurotoxin that kills brain cells by overstimulating them. It’s commonly regarded as one of the most dangerous food additives in existence and is associated with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and learning disabilities. Even the FDA acknowledges a long list of symptoms that it can cause shortly after consuming it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Coming from a healthy and naturally raised animal, these fats are highly nutritious. Despite the misconception that <a href="http://naturalbias.com/busting-the-cholesterol-myths/" style="color: #b85b5a; text-decoration: none;" title="Cholesterol Myths">saturated fat causes heart disease</a>, they make up a significant portion of cell membranes and are therefore vital to proper cell function. They also support the immune system and the detoxification system. However, because chemical toxins are often diverted from vital organs and stored in body fat, especially in factory farmed animals, the chicken and beef fat used by KFC is likely to be highly toxic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">1. KFC was started in Corbin, Kentucky, in 1930</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">2. The secret recipe for KFC chicken is kept in a safe in Louisville, KY.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">3. KFC is consumed by nearly 8 million people per day in the US alone.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">4. The creator of KFC, “Colonel Sanders”, was actually a gas station manager, whose real name was Harland Sanders.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">5. The first KFC restaurant was opened outside of Sanders gas station, and was originally called Sanders Court & Cafe.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">6. The first overseas KFC was in England.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">7. KFC operates in 80 countries around the world.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">8. The first ever bucket of KFC chicken was sold in 1952.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">9. THe original, still secret recipe, was invented in 1940.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">10. In 2007, KFC decided to keep the original recipe, but fry the chicken in a different type of oil so that trans fat was removed.</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">11. KFC is owned by PepsiCo</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">12. Harland Sanders was made a Colonel in 1936</span><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;" /><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 23px;">13. Some people believe KFC stands for Kid Fattening Center.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://13-fun-facts.blogspot.com/2011/05/13-things-you-never-knew-about-kfc.html">http://13-fun-facts.blogspot.com/2011/05/13-things-you-never-knew-about-kfc.html</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">An ACL tear is most often a sports-related injury. ACL tears can also
occur during rough play, mover vehicle collisions, falls, and
work-related injuries. About 80% of sports-related ACL tears are
"non-contact" injuries. This means that the injury occurs without the
contact of another athlete, such as a tackle in football. Most often ACL
tears occur when pivoting or landing from a jump. The knee gives-out
from under the athlete when the ACL is torn. <br /><a name='more'></a><br />Female athletes are
known to have a higher risk of injuring their anterior cruciate
ligament, or ACL, while participating in competitive sports.
Unfortunately, understanding <a href="http://orthopedics.about.com/od/aclinjury/f/women.htm">why women are more prone to ACL injury</a> is unclear.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Symptoms of a Torn ACL</span></h1>
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The <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">Symptoms</span> of a torn ACL are, unfortunately, very specific, and very
reliable. If you have suffered a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">knee injury</span>, and are wondering if you
may have torn your ACL, read below to see if you match the symptoms of
ACL knee injury. <br /><br />
While
not every ACL knee injury <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10">presents</span> with the same symptoms, chances are
you will have several of those listed below. </span><br />
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Swelling</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swelling is one of the most reliable symptoms of a torn ACL.
ACL knee
injury involves a disruption of the <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">anterior</span> cruciate ligament. Since
this ligament is within the knee joint, <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12">swelling</span> that occurs with a
torn acl is confined within the joint. This means that your entire knee
will swell, often quite a bit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your knee will feel very tight, and will look visibly larger than your
uninjured knee. When put side by side, you will be able to tell if it
is swollen. Many people describe it looking like a grapefruit - large
and puffy. Your knee cap may dissappear. This type of swelling is
called an effusion, as it is contained within the joint. ACL <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">knee
injuries</span> will swell very quickly, usually within the first 10 minutes.
This is important to know when you talk to your <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">physician</span>, because it
helps to differentiate your injury from other types of knee injuries
during evaluation.
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Pain</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another very reliable <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">symptom</span> of a torn ACL, pain is very common with
ACL injury. On a rare occasion I will see patients that did not have
any pain with their initial injury, but this is extremely rare. Pain is
usually rated as moderate to severe, 5-9 on a 10 point scale. It is
usually described as sharp initially, and then may become throbbing or
achey as your knee begins to swell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trying to straighten or bend the knee often increases pain, and this is
especially true after the knee swells up.
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Feeling or Hearing a "Pop"</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the most common symptoms of a torn ACL is feeling or hearing a
pop during the initial injury. Often times my patients will not be able
to tell me exactly what happened when they hurt their knee, other than
they felt or heard a pop, and it hurt...a lot. The pop may or not
actually be the ACL tearing, or it could be from the force of the femur
and tibia rubbing against each other. If you heard or felt a pop, you
very well may have suffered an ACL knee injury.
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Loss of Range of
Motion</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because an acl knee injury causes swelling, another one of the symptoms
of a torn ACL is decreased <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">range of motion</span>. Most commonly you will have
trouble bending it, often unable to bend to 90 degrees. It may also be
difficult to completely straighten it out.
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Loss of Strength</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Symptoms of a torn ACL also include quadriceps weakness.Again, because
of the swelling and injury to the knee, the quadriceps <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">muscles</span> will be
inhibited by the body in order to try to protect the injury. This means
that you will have trouble lifting your leg, or straightening it out,
both because of pain, and a feeling of weakness.
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Giving
Away</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The anterior cruciate ligament is a major stabilizer of the knee. It
helps the joint communicate with the muscles to keep the knee stable.
If it is disrupted, you may have episodes where you knee feels like it
gives out, or buckles. This is especially true when you walk on it, or
try to turn on your injured leg. This is one of the most common
symptoms of a torn ACL.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Abnormal Examination:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="fn">Lachman Test<span style="font-weight: normal;"> -- th</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">e best test to diagnose an ACL tear.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">W</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">ith the patient lying flat and relaxed, the examiner bends the knee
slightly (about 20 degrees). The examiner then stabilizes the thigh
while pulling the shin forward.
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The test places stress on the ACL. Both the amount of movement
(shifting) of the shin bone, as well as the feel of the endpoint of
movement (how solid the ligament feels), offer information about the
ACL. Knees with a damaged ACL may demonstrate more movement and a less
firm endpoint during a Lachman test.</span><br />
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Home Treatment</h2>
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If you have an acute (sudden)
anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, use the
following first aid steps to reduce pain and swelling:</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">Rest and reduce your activity level.
If it hurts to put weight on your knee, use crutches until you can see your
doctor. Crutches can be rented from most drugstores. Crutches should not
be used for long, because a lack of activity can cause muscle tissue to waste
away and cause restricted movement of the knee.</li>
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Ice your knee. To avoid a freeze-burn, don't put the ice directly on your skin.
Put a cloth or towel between the ice and your knee.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Elevate your
knee while applying ice or anytime you are sitting or lying
down.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Wrap your knee with an elastic bandage or neoprene sleeve
(available at a drugstore). This may help ease pain during movement and reduce
fluid inside the knee. Don't wrap your knee too tightly, as this may cause
swelling below the bandage. Loosen the bandage if it is too tight. Signs of an
overly tight bandage include numbness, tingling, increased pain, and coolness
in the foot.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"> Take medicine such as acetaminophen or
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) to
reduce your pain.</li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sources: orthopedics.about.com/od/kneeexaminationtests/g/lachman.htm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> www.sports-injury-info.com/symptoms-of-a-torn-acl.html</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">Source: </span><a href="http://shine.yahoo.com/photos/top-10-superfoods-slideshow/-photo-2305346-165700353.html">http://shine.yahoo.com/photos/top-10-superfoods-slideshow/-photo-2305346-165700353.html</a></b>powervideoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120745425318038772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548733807175053160.post-9315480432494695862012-04-25T22:03:00.000-07:002012-04-25T22:03:29.857-07:00Real Facts about Mad Cow Disease<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad-cow disease, is a fatal neuro-degenerative disease in cattle that causes a spongy degeneration in the brain and spinal cord. BSE has a long incubation period, about 30 months to 8 years, usually affecting adult cattle at a peak age onset of four to five years, all breeds being equally susceptible. In the United Kingdom, the country worst affected, more than 180,000 cattle have been infected and 4.4 million slaughtered during the eradication program. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The disease may be most easily transmitted to human beings by eating food contaminated with the brain, spinal cord or digestive tract of infected carcasses. However, it should also be noted that the infectious agent, although most highly concentrated in nervous tissue, can be found in virtually all tissues throughout the body, including blood. In humans, it is known as new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD or nvCJD), and by October 2009, it had killed 166 people in the United Kingdom, and 44 elsewhere Between 460,000 and 482,000 BSE-infected animals had entered the human food chain before controls on high-risk offal were introduced in 1989.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For all the fuss over mad cow disease, otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), it’s actually not transmittable to humans. Those mad cows can, however, contract a form of the disease that is transmittable to humans called <a href="http://www.webmd.com/brain/mad-cow-disease-basics" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)</a>, which, although technically not mad cow, is just as unpleasant and deadly. The strain is always <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-04-24/mad-cow-disease-California-cow/54508580/1?csp=34news" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">fatal in cows</a>, and usually fatal in humans <a href="http://www.webmd.com/brain/mad-cow-disease-basics" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">within 13 months</a> of symptoms occurring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Often when there’s a mad cow outbreak, panicked people stop eating red meat which is then pulled from supermarket shelves. But humans can’t get the disease by simply eating regular cow meat. Generally, a human will only be infected if they <a href="http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/mad-cow-disease-overview" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">eat the nerve tissue</a>—brains or spinal cord—of an infected animal. People cannot get the disease by simply eating muscle meat like ground beef or steak, or by drinking milk from an infected cow. Additionally, humans cannot spread it to each other through casual contact. However, people who have spent more than 3 months in an area where many cases of mad cow disease have been reported aren’t allowed to give blood in the U.S.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-rt-us-madcow-humansbre83n1hl-20120424,0,6568568.story" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">unlikely</a> that humans can contract Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease by eating mad cow-contaminated meat. There are <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-rt-us-madcow-humansbre83n1hl-20120424,0,6568568.story" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">three types of CJD</a>, including a hereditary version of the disease which accounts for roughly 10 percent of all cases. About 85 percent of these cases are considered Sporadic CJD, where the patient has no known risk factors. There is an acquired form of CJD, which accounts for less than 1 percent of patients struggling with the disease. It’s usually transmitted when a person is exposed to infected brain or nervous system tissue during medical procedures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Symptoms of vCJD <a href="http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/mad-cow-disease-overview?page=2" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">include</a> tingling sensations and trouble moving parts of the body. As the disease worsens, the victim will lose the ability to walk. The disease can also cause brain damage and lead to psychotic behavior, dementia, and coma. Worst of all, there’s no cure for vCJD and people usually die within 13 months of showing symptoms. Furthermore, it can take up to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/mad-cow-disease-california-usda_n_1449871.html" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">15 years</a> for symptoms to manifest themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cases of Mad Cow Disease in humans or in cows are <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/health/2012/04/24/mad-cow-disease-surfaced-in-dairy-cow-in-california" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">exceedingly rare</a> in the U.S. There have only been three cases before the current outbreak—in 2003, 2005, and 2006. The only confirmed cases of vCJD in humans in the U.S. have eventually been traced back totime spent in <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-04-24/mad-cow-disease-California-cow/54508580/1?csp=34news" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">other countries</a>. However, the disease is quite deadly when it does occur. The outbreak in the United Kingdom that peaked in 1993 killed 180,000 cows and 150 people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mad cow in central California didn’t contract the disease by <a href="http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/24/government-new-case-of-mad-cow-disease-in-california/" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">consuming infected cattle feed</a>, the U.S. Agriculture Department has confirmed. Furthermore, the case could have easily gone undiscovered, since the deceased cow showed little symptoms of the disease and tests are performed on a random selection of dead cows. Specialists are attributing this strain of BSE to a “<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlWA6pPT_ht8H98xggr0CnQYSZRA?docId=108bfe5103e74427b5eb8e2f75b58ff9" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">random mutation</a>,” which means there’s little risk of a large outbreak.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What makes mad cow disease so deadly? <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-rt-us-madcow-humansbre83n1hl-20120424,0,6568568.story" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Caused by a deformed protein known as a prion</a>, the disease attacks and destroys the brain and spinal cord in cattle. Humans usually contract the CJD variant by consuming infected brain or spinal tissue, which in turn can cause sponge-like holes in the brain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You could scorch the meat, roast it into shoe leather, nuke it beyond recognition, and boil it for hours on the stove, but that won’t <a href="http://www.webmd.com/brain/mad-cow-disease-basics" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">protect you</a> from the deadly CJD variant. The prions aren’t affected by heat or other methods used to kill food-borne pathogens. Prions can survive in extremes, <a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/5479931/ns/today-today_health/t/how-deadly-prions-are-destroyed/" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">requiring upwards of 1,800 degrees</a> of heat to be neutralized. Even sterilization processes used by hospitals are largely ineffective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good news! Mad cow disease is far less common than it was 10 years ago. Last year, there were 29 cases worldwide, a <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlWA6pPT_ht8H98xggr0CnQYSZRA?docId=108bfe5103e74427b5eb8e2f75b58ff9" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">99 percent decline since the disease peaked in 1992</a> with 37,311 cases. So now we can go back to worrying about salmonella and E. coli.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The milk supply is safe. Prion diseases affect the nervous system, and there's no evidence they've ever been transmitted by drinking milk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the reality is that all prion diseases cause death. There are no effective treatments available. Progression from symptoms to diagnosis to death may be rapid (from 8 months for sporadic CJD to up to 60 months for GSS).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Continuing laboratory testing is looking at a number of medications to prevent development of prion disease in animals. Work continues on experimental <a href="http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5924" style="color: #3a46dc; text-decoration: none;">vaccines</a> to delay or prevent the effects of prion disease.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sources: </span><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/25/10-facts-about-mad-cow-disease.html">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/25/10-facts-about-mad-cow-disease.html</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The appearance of a rare crab species in a Malaysian state half a century later has sparked a frenzy among locals in Malacca.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crabs are unique for a conspicuous cross-shaped light mark on their shells, and were discovered by a fisherman who hauled up a dozen of these crabs on Sunday. Since then, he has been inundated by offers to buy the crabs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Only minimal quantities of the crabs were caught. Many locals don’t buy them to eat, but to preserve the shell as it’s considered sacred,” he told the Malaysian newspaper, <em>The Star</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crustacean, with the scientific name <em>Charybdis feriatus</em> or ‘crucifix crab’, is a species of<em>Malacostraca</em> and is mainly found in Malaysian and Indonesian waters. It was reportedly last seen in the Straits of Malacca in the 1960s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">State Rural Development and Agriculture Committee chairman Datuk R. Perumal said the state would ask the Fisheries Department to record and monitor the landings of the rare crab. They hope to conserve the crab species by breeding it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speculating about what led to their disappearance, a marine biologist suggested that rapid development along the state coastline may have led to the deterioration of the mangrove swamps where the crabs thrived.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Via: <a href="http://www.asianscientist.com/in-the-lab/crucifix-crab-charybdis-feriatus-straits-of-malacca-malaysia-092011/">asianscientist.com</a> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rare type of spider crab, which has not been seen in Cornwall since 1912, is making an appearance at a north Cornwall aquarium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tiny 'gibb's spider crab' was donated to Newquay's Blue Reef Aquarium earlier this summer by a fisherman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The creature is so rare a marine life expert was needed to identify it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Matt Slater, curator at the aquarium, said the only records they had of such a crab dated back to "Edwardian and Victorian times".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photos of the crustacean were sent to Cornish marine life expert Dr Paul Gainey who identified it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Slater said: "It's hardly surprising that we weren't able to find out much about it, apparently it's incredibly rare.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There are 13 records but all are during Edwardian and Victorian times when the crabs were caught in trawl nets."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">via: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-14627445">bbc.co.uk</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Corrugated Crab, which is named after the distinctive ridges on its shell, was found in a prawn pot 90 feet underwater by Tim Bailey, a fisherman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crab has only ever been found in British waters 11 times, nine of which were before 1907.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is now recovering at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, Cornwall. The species is native to Britain but is rarely seen because it is nocturnal and a swimming crab, which does not often come to shore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A spokesman at the aquarium said: "As a crustacean enthusiast it is exciting to finally get to see this particular type of crab in the flesh rather than just in textbooks."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The species, Liocarcinus Corrugatus, grows to a maximum of 6cm, and is reddish-brown in colour, and is nocturnal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also known as the wrinkled swimming crab and it can be aggressive. It has been known to attack divers with its sharp claws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The largest box crab measuring about 1.2m (3ft 11in) was found five years ago by a fisherman from Padstow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spud was pulled up from a depth of 110m (360ft) by skipper Matthew Keast, who was fishing for turbot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“He was in a boat for three days and we don’t want to man-handle him too much by getting out tape measures,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This one probably strolled into shallow water at some point and the fisherman may not have realised what he had caught. It is an astonishing find.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The aquarium believes the crab is only the eighth of its kind brought up in the UK since 1900.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is believed they prefer warmer water, such as those off Morocco, are scavengers and live mainly off dead fish found on the seabed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But astonishingly, the arthropod - which measures a staggering 10ft from claw to claw - is still growing, and could live until it is 100.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nicknamed 'Crabzilla' after the fictional giant monster, the Japanese Spider Crab has a body the size of a basketball and its legs can straddle a car. They will eventually measure a massive 15ft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in its own habitat - up to 2,500ft down in the cold seas of the ocean - it is a lethal predator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Our open-topped ray tank has the icy cold waters Crabzilla needs, and will be his home until the end of March.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'He absolutely dwarfs the other crabs in there, but he's not aggressive and they should have nothing to worry about.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Crabzilla's front limbs are his feeding arms, each over five feet long and ending in sizeable claws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'They are a Japanese delicacy and are usually salted and steamed, but eating them in the spring is banned because that is when they lay their eggs.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Colorectal cancer, commonly known as bowel cancer, is a cancer from uncontrolled cell growth in the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine), or in the appendix. Symptoms typically include rectal bleeding and anemia which are sometimes associated with weight loss and changes in bowel habits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most colorectal cancer occurs due to lifestyle and increasing age with only a minority of cases associated with underlying genetic disorders. It typically starts in the lining of the bowel and if left untreated, can grow into the muscle layers underneath, and then through the bowel wall. Screening is effective at decreasing the chance of dying from colorectal cancer and is recommended starting at the age of 50 and continuing until a person is 75 years old. Localized bowel cancer is usually diagnosed through sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cancers that are confined within the wall of the colon are often curable with surgery while cancer that has spread widely around the body is usually not curable and management then focuses on extending the person's life via chemotherapy and improving quality of life. Colorectal cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world, but it is more common in developed countries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A perfect game is defined by Major League Baseball as a game in which a pitcher (or combination of pitchers) pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and in which no opposing player reaches base. Thus, the pitcher (or pitchers) cannot allow any hits, walks, hit batsmen, or any opposing player to reach base safely for any other reason—in short, "27 up, 27 down". The feat has been achieved 21 times in the history of major league baseball—19 times since the modern era began in 1900, most recently by Phil Humber on Saturday, April 21, 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By definition, a perfect game is both a no-hitter and a shutout. Since the pitcher cannot control whether or not his teammates commit any errors, the pitcher must be backed up by solid fielding to pitch a perfect game. An error that does not allow a batter to get on base, such as a misplayed foul ball, does not spoil a perfect game. Weather-shortened contests in which a team has no baserunners and games in which a team reaches first base only in extra innings do not qualify as official perfect games under the present definition. The first confirmed use of the term "perfect game" was in 1908; the current official definition of the term was formalized in 1991. Although it is possible for multiple pitchers to combine for a perfect game (as has happened nine times at the major league level for a no-hitter), to date, every major league perfect game has been thrown by a single pitcher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Randall David "Randy" Johnson (born September 10, 1963), nicknamed "The Big Unit", is a former American Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. During a 22-year career, he pitched for six different teams.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Johnson finished his career first in strikeouts per nine innings pitched among starting pitchers (10.67), second all-time in total strikeouts (4,875; first among left-handed pitchers), third in hit batsmen (188), tenth in fewest hits allowed per nine innings pitched (7.24), 22nd in wins (303), and 57th in shutouts (37). He pitched two no-hitters, the second of which was the 17th perfect game in baseball history.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Buehrle pitched a no-hitter against the Texas Rangers on April 18, 2007, surrendering just one walk to Sammy Sosa who was then picked off at first base. Two seasons later, Buehrle pitched the eighteenth perfect game in baseball history against the Tampa Bay Rays on July 23, 2009.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In White Sox pitching history, Buehrle is fifth all-time in strikeouts, sixth in games started, and eighth in wins and innings pitched.[1] He has pitched over 200 innings for the nine seasons since becoming a starter in 2001.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 9, 2010, Braden pitched the nineteenth perfect game in baseball history, in Oakland, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays, 4-0.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was the Blue Jays' first draft selection in the 1995 Major League Baseball Draft, the 17th pick overall, and played for the team from 1998 through 2009, after which he was traded to Philadelphia. Halladay is known for his ability to pitch deep into games effectively, and he is currently the active major league leader in complete games with 66, including 20 shutouts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 29, 2010, Halladay pitched the 20th perfect game in MLB history, beating the Florida Marlins by a score of 1–0. On October 6, 2010, in his first post-season start, Halladay threw the second no-hitter in MLB postseason history (Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series being the first) against the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 of the 2010 NLDS. It was his second no-hitter of the year (following the May 29 perfect game), making Halladay the fifth pitcher in major league history (and the first since Nolan Ryan in 1973) to throw multiple no-hitters in the same season. Halladay has won two Cy Young Awards, in 2003 and 2010.</span></div>
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Philip Gregory Humber (born December 21, 1982, in Nacogdoches, Texas) is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. He has pitched for the New York Mets (2006–2007), Minnesota Twins (2008–2009), Kansas City Royals (2010), and White Sox (2011–present).<br />
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Humber struggled to establish himself in MLB, as he was traded to the Twins and spent a year with the Royals organization before being claimed on waivers by the White Sox. On April 21, 2012, Humber pitched the 21st perfect game in MLB history, defeating the Seattle Mariners.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The woman who shamed the Secret Service: 'Colombian hooker' who shook the White House after Obama's agent wouldn't pay for sex</span></h1>
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This is the woman who threw the Secret Service into crisis when she fought with an agent who slept with her at a Colombian hotel but then refused to hand over the $800 they had agreed upon.</div>
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Her identity was revealed as the names of two of the Secret Service supervisors involved in the scandal came to light last night.</div>
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David Chaney was forced to retire over his alleged role in the incident, while Greg Stokes was 'removed with cause'.</div>
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One of the three agents to have left the service so far apparently plans to sue the agency over his treatment in the aftermath of the prostitution scandal, which has made headlines around the world.</div>
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The two supervisors who have left the service in the wake of the revelations were named as Stokes and Chaney by CBS News on Thursday evening.</div>
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Stokes, who could appeal his sacking in the next 30 days, is apparently head of the agency's Canine Training Section.</div>
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The men were identified soon after as 'Dania,' the mother of a 9-year-old son, broke her silence.</div>
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Speaking about the tawdry episode that has seen three agents ousted from their posts after a wild night of partying in Cartagena last week, a 24-year-old high-end escort claims she was offered $30 - a fraction of her $800 fee - for a night with one of the men.</div>
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'I tell him, 'Baby, my cash money,' she recalled in an interview with The New York Times, recounting a heated exchange that has wrecked the agency's reputation and become an election year embarrassment for President Barack Obama.</div>
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The news came today as the Secret Service says three employees have been ousted in the wake of questionable behaviour at the Hotel Caribe last week, with some now under investigation for possible drug use, ABC News reports.<br />
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New details of the sordid night emerged Wednesday as a single mother and self-described prostitute told The New York Times that she met an agent at a discotheque, believed to be the PleyClub, in Cartagena and after a night of drinking.</div>
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'They never told me they were with Obama,' she said, calling the men 'very discreet'.</div>
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The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, said she and one of the agents agreed the agent would pay her $800 for sex at the hotel.</div>
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The next morning, when the hotel's front desk called because the woman hadn't left, the pair argued over the price.</div>
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In an interview in Colombia, she said the two argued after the agent initially offered to pay her about $30 and the situation escalated, eventually ending with Colombian law enforcement involved. She said she was eventually paid about $225.</div>
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Days later, she said a friend told her the argument had made the news, and to her shock, she discovered the man was a Secret Service agent.<br />
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'I'm scared,' she said, adding that she did not want the man in question to be reprimanded, and fears retaliation, the Times reports. </div>
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'This is something really big,' she added. 'This is the government of the United States. I have nervous attacks. I cry all the time'</div>
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Eleven Secret Service agents were eventually sent home from the colonial-era city of Cartagena on Colombia's Caribbean coast after a wild night of partying that saw many of the agents bring escorts back to their rooms, according to reports.</div>
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Special agents and uniformed officers were stationed in Cartagena in advance of President Barack Obama's arrival for the Summit of the Americas. The incident occurred before Obama arrived and was at a different hotel than the president stayed in.</div>
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In the first casualties claimed in wake of the incident, the Secret Service announced today three agents are leaving the service, even as separate U.S. government investigations are under way.</div>
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The Secret Service did not identify the three agents leaving the government or eight more it said remain on administrative leave.</div>
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The agents were implicated in the prostitution scandal in Colombia that also involved about 10 military service members and as many as 20 women. All the Secret Service employees who were involved had their security clearances revoked.</div>
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King said the agent set to be fired would sue. King said Sullivan had to follow collective bargaining rules but was 'moving as quickly as he can. Once he feels the facts are clear, he's going to move.'</div>
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In Washington and Colombia, separate U.S. government investigations were already under way. King said he has assigned four congressional investigators to the probe. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, sought details of the Secret Service investigation, including the disciplinary histories of the agents involved. Secret Service investigators are in Colombia interviewing witnesses.</div>
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In a letter to Sullivan, Issa and Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the committee's ranking Democrat, said the agents 'brought foreign nationals in contact with sensitive security information.' A potential security breach has been among the concerns raised by members of Congress.</div>
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The episode took a sharp political turn when presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he would fire the agents involved.</div>
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Romney told radio host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that 'I'd clean house' at the Secret Service.</div>
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'The right thing to do is to remove people who have violated the public trust and have put their play time and their personal interests ahead of the interests of the nation,' Romney said.</div>
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While Romney suggested to Ingraham that a leadership problem led to the scandal, he told a Columbus, Ohio, radio station earlier that he has confidence in Sullivan, the head of the agency.</div>
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'I believe the right corrective action will be taken there and obviously everyone is very, very disappointed,' Romney said. 'I think it will be dealt with (in) as aggressive a way as is possible given the requirements of the law.'</div>
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When asked, the Romney campaign would not say whether he had been briefed on the situation or was relying upon media reports for details.</div>
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At least 10 military personnel who were staying at the same hotel are also being investigated for misconduct.</div>
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Two U.S. military officials have said they include five Army Green Berets. One of the officials said the group also includes two Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal technicians, two Marine dog handlers and an Air Force airman. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still under way.</div>
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Secret Service's Office of Professional Responsibility, which handles that agency's internal affairs, is investigating, and the Homeland Security Department's inspector general also has been notified.</div>
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Sullivan, who this week has briefed lawmakers behind closed doors, said he has referred to the case to an independent government investigator.</div>
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Colonel Scott Malcom, a spokesman of U.S. Southern Command, which organized the military team assigned to support the Secret Service's mission in Cartagena, said Wednesday that an Air Force colonel is leading the military investigation and arrived in Colombia with a military lawyer Tuesday morning.</div>
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The troops are suspected of violating curfews set by their commanders.</div>
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'They were either not in their room or they showed up to their room late while all this was going on or they were in their room with somebody who shouldn't be there,' Malcom said.</div>
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Lawmakers have called for a thorough investigation and have suggested they would hold oversight hearings, though none has yet been scheduled. The incident is expected to come up next week on Wednesday when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a previously scheduled oversight hearing.</div>
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House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said that for now, he is interested in what actually happened. He did not address how much responsibility Obama should bear for the scandal or whether Congress should hold hearings on it.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Cartagena is a UNESCO world heritage city and one of </span><a href="http://southamericatourist.com/south-america-destinations/travel-colombia/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: blue; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Colombia’s</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> most visited cities. It is rated as one of the most beautiful and historic cities to visit when backpacking South America. It has recently seen the limelight due to the secret service scandal that rocked the town recently. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">When you visit Cartagena, you’ll be able to see museums and art galleries, huge castles, colonial structures, and unique churches, as well as endless parties and nightlife. Situated along the Caribbean Sea on the north coast of Colombia, this city is an ideal destination for honeymoons, wild adventures, and group getaways. There are varieties of activities you can do here, including these seven tourist attractions in Colombia.</span>
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<br /> #1 El Convento de La Popa</h3>
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Built in 1607, the elaborate architecture inside the convent will surely leave you in great awe. In the small chapel, you will find several photographs and memorabilia dedicated to the Pope’s visit. The view over Cartagena from the top is simply magnificent. On February 2nd every year the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fiesta de la Candelaria de la Popa </em>is celebrated, where followers join a procession from the convent to the center of the city.<br />
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#2 Centro Amurallado</h3>
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Commonly known as the “Old Town”, this place is also a must-see attraction in Cartagena. It features an old walled city which was once a great fortress intended to guard the city and protect it from enemies and wannabe conquerors. Within the walls, you will find colonial streets, buildings, convents, and churches that are admirably well preserved. Head over to Plaza Trinidad to see some of the oldest structures in Cartagena.</div>
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#3 Castillo de San Felipe</h3>
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Backpacking South America is incomplete without visiting this beautiful fortress. Designed by a Dutch engineer named Richard Carr in 1657, this huge structure was once intended for protection against pirates when shipping out treasures (specifically gold) to Europe. Experience virtual combat as you can freely stroll through the underground passages and battlefields!</div>
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#4 Teatro Heredia</h3>
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Designed by Luis Felipe Jaspe, this stunning theater is one of most beautiful in the world. It boasts intricate gold-leaf interiors and a notable stage curtain unique to the place, making it unparalleled to today’s modern convention centers globally. If you get the chance, you can catch a local ballet performance to complete your theater experience.<br />
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#5 Playa Blanca</h3>
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Need to cool off after strolling around the sunny streets of Cartagena all day? Head to Playa Blanca, lay out on the beach, and enjoy the crystal-clear waters. If you want to stay for longer than a few hours, hammocks and cabins are available for tourists at a reasonable price.</div>
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This mud volcano is one of the most popular Colombia attractions. Tourists can enjoy mud bathing in the crater itself, which is said to have medicinal properties. A nearby lagoon awaits those who want to rinse off. A staircase services tourists when going up and down the volcano. The mound rises to a height of about 15 m (49 ft), making it the world’s tallest mud volcano.<br />
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#7 Cathedral de San Pedro Claver</h2>
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Built in 1575, this historic church was rebuilt after it was partly destroyed by Sir Francis Drake in 1586. This cathedral was especially commemorated in honor of St. Pedro Claver, a Jesuit priest known to have baptized and ministered thousands of African slaves. The church’s main attraction lies on St. Claver’s actual bones encased in a glass casket beneath the altar, as well as the magnificent stained-glass windows and his collections of paintings that depict his way of life. He was well-known for his compassion with the illiterate, the needy, and the oppressed.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Robots can replace all sex escorts and prostitutes by the year 2050. </span></h1>
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This is dedicated to all those of youthful vigor and adventurous spirit.</div>
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I wish to warn you of amusements that will, apparently, exist in 2050. For, by then, all prostitutes will be robots.<br />
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I know there will be some who have craved this notion since the first time they failed to charm a girl at high school. However, this prediction -- made by scientists at New Zealand's Victoria University -- offers that one of the greatest benefits of a prostibot is, well, cleanliness.</div>
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My regular reading of New Zealand's Dominion Post reveals to me that these android ladies (and, one presumes, gentlemen) will be made of bacteria resistant fiber and would be, um, "flushed for human fluids."</div>
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Naturally, the thoughts of many might be flooded with the question: "flushed by whom?"</div>
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My own first thought was that these prostibots were described as "android." Does this mean they will be created by the same fine brains that brought us the self-driving car?</div>
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In their paper "Robots, Men and Sex Tourism," Professor Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars focused with some resolution on how Amsterdam's red light district might look in 2050.</div>
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They offer more reasons than mere perfectly flushed fluids for their prognostication. They say the prostibots -- working in a sex club with the very onomatopoeic named "Yub-Yum" -- would destroy the trafficking of human prostitutes from Eastern Europe and elsewhere. They also claim that these new androidesses will offer perfect beauty. I wonder how many beholders will agree.</div>
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Oddly, they also suggest that men in search of immediate commercial sexual pleasure would have an emotional connection to their chosen prostibot. This is touchingly difficult to conceive, especially as men will know that these machines cannot possibly respond to them in any true way.</div>
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It is surely the hope for at least some men in 2012 that they are transmitting pleasure to their human prostitute counterpart. Some men are still human.</div>
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You might wonder why these vast minds are feeling the need to consider futuristic prostibottery. Well, Mars is a sexologist. Yeoman, on the other hand, is a management professor with a deep and abiding interest in tourism.</div>
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Perhaps it was he, therefore, who bored down into some of the economic aspects. This utopian scenario involves the local city council setting their rates. I wonder what the council's percentage might be.</div>
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It is unclear, though, whether prostibots of particular sizes, hair color -- or even perhaps racy, gruff dialogue -- would demand higher rates than those of more mundane qualities (and, perhaps, bacteria-resistant fiber near its sell-by date.)</div>
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However, I wonder whether this new world has yet been sufficiently analyzed. I am indebted beyond price to CBS Las Vegas, which delved deeper into the fundamentals.</div>
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It asked Dennis Hof, he who owns the seminal Moonlite Bunny Ranch -- a place where several CES attendees have enjoyed a mopping of their brows -- what he thought.</div>
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He said: "At the Bunny Ranch, we say 'it's not just the sex, it's an adventure' -- and oftentimes it's more about the adventure than it is the sex."</div>
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Hof is surely a man who could teach the professors a thing or two. His thinking is lateral, but laserlike. His instinctive understanding of human impulses is far beyond that of any potential prostibot engineer.</div>
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It will surely be a very long time before a prostibot can look a man in the eye and deduce his sadness, his happiness, his reticence, his incompetence, and, most especially, his appalling dress sense.</div>
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It isn't just about creating a robot that takes on a certain identity. No matter how much they hide it, humans are a little more sophisticated than that.</div>
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<h2>Guy Shoots Cousin in the Head Over Scarface Game</h2><br />
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22 year old Alejandro Garcia and his 17 year old cousin were sitting around with some friends, drinking, smoking weed, and (worst of all) playing the Scarface: The World Is Yours video game. The game is based on the movie in which Al Pacino stars as a Cuban refugee who descends into a world of drugs, crime and power (which for some reason resonates with every mainstream rapper ever). <br />
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Well, the four guys were taking turns playing the game when they forgot whose turn it was. Instead of putting down the bong and discussing this, or just having someone take a turn, Alejandro decided the best coarse of action, since his turn was like two guys away was to use violence. So, he proceeded shoot his cousin in the head at point blank range (of course, killing him). Because it was his turn, afterall.<br />
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Fourth grade student Anthony Maldonado was spending the weekend with his uncle in the projects when 25-year-old Alejandro Morales — one of his uncle's roommates — stabbed him over a Tony Hawk skateboarding video game. <br />
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Allegedly, Morales stabbed 9 year old Anthony at around 3:30 am (because a 9 year old boy should be up playing video games at that hour) after two of Morales' brothers who also live in the apartment left to get food. After he was stabbed, Anthony staggered to his Uncle's room and knocked on the door, “"Uncle, uncle, I've been stabbed," he said before collapsing. <br />
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The Uncle said his roommate was a "good-natured prankster" and said, "he was a friend. I can't believe this happened, he didn't act right on the street but he always minded his manners in the house." Police say Morales has a history of mental illness and a long rap sheet with "dozens of arrests."<br />
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Unemployed father of three, Mark Bradford, was furious when a 13-year-old boy killed his character during a game of Call Of Duty. Brandford said he “lost it” when the youngster goaded him over his online death. So he did what any rational, adult, parent would do... he found where the boy was (conveniently, 200 yards away) and choked him out.<br />
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The boy, who cannot be identified, said: 'I was just sat playing. We’d had a bit of a joke and then he stormed in and grabbed me. I didn't know what was going on.” <br />
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The attack ended when the teenager's horrified mother pulled Bradford off the boy, who was left scratched and with a dark, reddened neck, while Bradford walked away without a word. But really what was he going to say? "YOU'RE the f*g!"? I think not.<br />
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What he did say in court was, “I'd been playing the whole day and he was baiting me and baiting me and just would not shut up. He went on and on and I just lost it. I hold my hands up, I lost the plot. In a moment of madness I went round to his house. I didn't know what I was going to do. It wasn't malice. I just grabbed him. I've seen him since and apologized. We've played online too. He's actually a decent kid.”<br />
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That he almost killed.<br />
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The teenager's mother, 33, said: 'It’s pathetic that a grown man would attack a defenseless child like this. If you can’t handle losing to a child then you shouldn’t be playing games.' <br />
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Perhaps she should tell his son if he doesn't have anything nice to say, don’t' say it at all or at least make sure you're big enough to back it up and the other guy doesn't know where you live. Advice for all of us.<br />
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Sometimes what happens in-game, should stay in-game. This is one of the best examples. Ever.<br />
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In Lineage II, gamers gather into guilds to take on missions and to defeat rival guilds. Most of the time these raids result in nothing more than heated words over chat. In the mean streets of the Russian gaming scene though, they can lead to all out war (but really, anything can lead to war in the mean streets of Russian anything). <br />
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When two rival guilds went head to head in the game, the fight got so out of hand that they decided that there was no other choice but to take it to the streets (the actual streets). In a rumble straight out of West Side Story, the two gangs had it out, leaving one member dead.<br />
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I guess it is true what they say, in Russia, video game plays you.<br />
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A 27 year old named James Swan was having a few drinks and playing World Of Warcraft in the room he shares with this siblings because, shockingly, this guy still lives at home with his mother. <br />
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His little brother was in the room and it's unclear as to what the boy did to provoke the attack but he ended up getting choked out on the bed as well. <br />
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When Swan's mother made a dash for the phone to call 911 Swan ripped the phone from the wall and then slammed his head into the wall causing a large hole, Hulk-style. He then grabbed his mother and began choking her, showing us all, at this point in the list, that The Simpsons has been a terrible influence on us all. That's when Swan's Grandfather came out and tried to get Swan to let go of his mother, but Swan continued to choke her and said he was going to “kill her”. <br />
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So, the Grandfather decided he'd had enough of this b.s and pulled a gun on Swan. Swan then grabbed his Grandfather's arm which caused the firearm to go off. The bullet grazed Swan's ear and went through the window. Swan was taken to the hospital where he refused treatment and he was then taken to jail, where the WiFi connection is causing nothing but lag.<br />
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This boils down to a question of ethics. <br />
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In a pop**ar online game called Legend of Mir 3 you can apparently loan out your weapons, which is what Qiu Chengwei did. He lent Zhu Caoyuan his virtual sword, but scumbag Zhu sold it for 7,200 Yuan ($1140.39). While China has no laws to deal with the theft of virtual property, South Korea has a section of its police force that investigates in-game crime. So, Qui decided not to go through proper channels and took it upon himself to right this wrong and stabbed Zhu in the chest. <br />
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According to reports Mr. Zhu did offer to hand over the cash but Mr. Qiu lost patience and stabbed him with "great force" instead, dealing enough damage to permanently kill Mr. Zhu's character in real life. <br />
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"My son was only 26 when he died. He was sleeping when Qiu broke into his home. He was barely able to put his pants on before Qiu stabbed him," said his father, Zhu H*imin. "We want Qiu to die, and immediately," he added. This is some martial arts movie sh*t at this point. Also, who the hell puts on pants instead of defending themselves while being attacked? <br />
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This act has forced the government to consider its stance on virtual property, so next time you decide to squat in your friend's Sims house, be prepared for virtual, and possibly, real-life consequences.<br />
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David Heiss, 21, of Frankfurt, Germany allegedly stabbed and killed a man after having a “falling out with him in cyberspace”. You can already tell the guy's insane because he calls it "cyberspace". Only people with the kind of power/psychosis found in The Lawnmower Man use that kind of language.<br />
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After Heiss killed the man he posted a message on the Facebook site of the victim's girlfriend, apologizing "for having caused so much trouble lately". Which, hey, he really had.<br />
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Heiss and the victim were fans of that strategy game Advance Wars and both men frequented message boards for the game. After the stabbing, one anonymous poster suggested other forum members may have known who was behind the killing, because it's proper etiquette to talk about a murder on a discussion board and not go to the authorities (the authorities = outside).<br />
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Heiss, who lists his main activities and interests on Facebook as the internet and video gaming, posted on the victim's girlfriends wall: "I will pray for you - you must be suffering unbelievable pain. I'm sorry for having caused so much trouble lately. I hope you won't lose all your hope. We will be there for you." (Who the hell is "we"???)<br />
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Heiss lists his occupation as "apprentice" (read: unemployed) and describes himself as a "jack of all trades/dogsbody". His Facebook site contains only one picture, and he has only 15 listed "friends".<br />
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<div class="first" id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_197" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1334871169_0" style="cursor: pointer;">Anders Behring Breivik</span> knew it would take practice to be able to slaughter dozens of people before being shot by police. In a chilling account, the far-right fanatic claimed Thursday that he sharpened his aim by playing the video game "Call of Duty: <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1334871169_3" style="cursor: pointer;">Modern Warfare</span>" for hours on end.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_326" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Breivik told an Oslo court he also took steroids to build physical strength and meditated to "de-emotionalize" himself before the bombing and shooting rampage that left 77 people dead. He figured he had no more than a 5 percent chance of not being killed by police.<br />
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<b>More: <a href="http://themichaelcrunch.blogspot.com/2012/04/worst-video-game-related-crimes.html"><span style="color: blue;">worst video game related crimes</span></a></b></div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_395" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Let us keep in mind too that he was shooting kids on an island from which they could not escape easily," said Ferguson, whose research involves the impact of violent video games on behavior. "That does not require great accuracy."</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_344" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And while the belief persists of a link between violent video games and violent behavior, studies have shown that is not the case, he said.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_393" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Norway has been roiled by the trial since it began Monday. The public TV network NRK is broadcasting live from court but isn't allowed to show Breivik's testimony.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_346" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pictures of the confessed mass killer, smirking or flashing his clenched-fist salute, have filled newspaper front pages. For readers who've had enough of his antics, the Dagbladet newspaper website has posted a link to a Breivik-free edition.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_348" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">But many say finding out what motivated Breivik is crucial for the country to put the July 22 massacre behind it.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_391" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"We should consider ourselves lucky to have this trial to uncover his thoughts and values," said Oeystein Stoltenberg, a 59-year-old Oslo resident.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_350" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Breivik, who styles himself as a modern-day crusader, has confessed to the attacks but rejects criminal guilt, saying he was acting to protect Norway and Europe by targeting a left-leaning political party that he claims betrayed the country by opening it up to "Islamic colonization."</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_205" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Since Breivik has admitted to the bombing that killed eight people in <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1334871169_4" style="cursor: pointer;">Oslo</span> and the shooting massacre that left 69 dead at a <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1334871169_2" style="cursor: pointer;">Labor Party</span> youth camp on Utoya island, the key issue is to establish whether he is criminally insane.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For the first time since the trial started, Breivik didn't give his right-wing salute when he entered the courtroom Thursday, heeding the advice of his lawyer. But those who were hoping for signs of regret were disappointed.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The 33-year-old Norwegian showed no emotion as he once again described his victims as "traitors" for their links to Norway's governing Labor Party.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_389" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"Militant nationalists are split in two," Breivik said. "One half says you should attack Muslims and minorities. The other half says you should attack elites, those who are responsible."</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_387" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The government building he tried to blow up was "the most attractive political target in all of Norway," he said, adding that he was disappointed to hear on the radio as he drove to the youth camp that the building didn't collapse.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_501" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Breivik said he had planned to capture and decapitate former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, then post a video of the beheading on the Internet, but she had left Utoya before he arrived.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_385" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The self-styled anti-Islamic militant said he was inspired by al-Qaida's use of decapitation, but noted that "beheading is a traditional European death penalty."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"It was meant to be used as a very powerful psychological weapon," he said.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_383" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Brundtland's adviser, Jon Moerland, told The Associated Press she would have no comment about Breivik's claim. A Labor Party prime minister for 10 years, Brundtland later headed the World Health Organization and was appointed as a U.N. climate change envoy in 2007.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_381" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Breivik said his original plans were to set off three bombs in Oslo, including at the royal palace, but building just one fertilizer bomb turned out to be "much more difficult than I thought."</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_503" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">His preferred targets for the shooting massacre were an annual conference of Norwegian journalists or the Labor Party's annual meeting. But he couldn't get prepared in time, so he decided to strike the summer retreat of the Labor Party's youth wing.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_379" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Breivik said he had expected to be confronted by police when he left Oslo for Utoya island, armed with a handgun and a rifle — both named after Norse gods.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"I estimated the chances of survival as less than 5 percent," he said.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_377" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">During his testimony, Breivik calmly answered questions from prosecutors, except when they asked about the alleged anti-Muslim "Knights Templar" network he claims to belong to. Prosecutors say they don't believe it exists.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">When he smiled at one point during questioning Thursday, prosecutor Svein Holden asked him how he thought the bereaved watching the proceedings in court would react.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_505" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">"They probably react in a natural way, with horror and disgust," Breivik said.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Breivik maintains his main goal is to avoid an insanity ruling because that would negate his cause. On Thursday, he repeatedly accused prosecutors of trying to "ridicule" him by highlighting portions of a rambling, 1,500-page manifesto he posted before the attacks.</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In it — and in a shortened version he read to the court on Tuesday — he said the "Knights Templar" will lead a revolt against "multiculturalist" governments around Europe, with the aim of deporting Muslims.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_375" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If found sane, Breivik could face a maximum 21-year prison sentence or an alternate custody arrangement that would keep him locked up as long as he is considered a menace to society. If declared insane, he would be committed to psychiatric care for as long as he is considered ill.</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_26_1334871983901_375" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-top: 11px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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When you think of Mensa, the high IQ society, you probably think of Steven Hawking or Marilyn vos Savant. There are, however, some unlikely celebrity names associated with Mensa – a group which requires that members have an IQ within the top two per cent of the population. I have compiled a list of some famous smarties, some more surprising than others. I did my best to verify in more than one source that these were in fact members of Mensa. Sharon Stone, for example, is listed as a Mensa member on many websites, however, she confirmed she is not and has never been a member, as is commonly believed. This list is in no particular order, as not all IQ’s were available.<br />
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<h2>Geena Davis</h2>Oscar-winning actress Geena Davis may be best known for her films like Beetlejuice and Thelma and Louise, but she is also a champion of many other artistic fields. Davis played piano, flute, drums, and the organ throughout her early years and became fluent in Swedish as an exchange student in Sandviken. Though the Massachusetts native initially enrolled at New England College, Davis eventually transferred to Boston University, where she worked part-time for the Media Group. The six-foot-tall Mensa member, whose reported IQ score is 140, eventually graduated from BU with a bachelor’s degree in drama in 1979.<br />
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<h2>Quentin Tarantino</h2>Though Quentin Tarantino didn’t graduate high school, he was able to gain admittance to Mensa with an reported IQ score of 160. Not only did the Kill Bill director reportedly teach himself how to read by the age of three, but he used his stint working at Los Angeles’ Video Archives in the mid '80s to turn a passion for movies into a bona fide career. Less than a decade after serving as a video store clerk, Tarantino released his debut film Reservoir Dogs at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival. Though he didn’t earn a degree, Tarantino’s intelligence and drive may have gotten him further than a diploma from Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California would have.<br />
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<h2>James Woods</h2>Although James Woods is certainly very accomplished, he is NOT a member of Mensa . However, his SAT scores put mine to shame (and probably yours, too), coming in at 1580, including a perfect 800 in the verbal section. After high school he moved on to MIT, where he was planning on majoring in political science. He didn’t quite make graduation, though – after joining the school’s drama troupe and acting in and directing a number of plays, James decided to drop out of MIT just shy of graduation to jumpstart his acting career. “It was a very wrenching and painful decision for me–in my senior year at MIT, on high dean’s list and full scholarships–to decide that maybe I wanted to be an artist,” he said. “Whether I’m making 30 grand a day or union scale, I have found something that I truly love, and that is something [my father] would have admired.” He dropped out of school in 1970 and just two years later he had his first major film role in Elia Kazan’s The Visitors. He followed that up with The Way We Were the next year and hasn’t really been hurting for roles ever since, so it looks like his decision to switch careers worked out.<br />
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<h2>Sharon Stone</h2>As a teen star of Pennsylvania’s pageant circuit, Sharon Stone was hiding something beneath her crown. Not only was she also slaving away on the grill at McDonald’s but she was also part of an accelerated study program at Saegertown High School, which worked in conjunction with Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Though she briefly attended Edinboro after graduating high school at 15, Stone soon moved to the tri-state area to pursue modeling and was signed by Ford within four days of her arrival. Her career eventually went the acting route and the Basic Instinct star, fed up with her reputation as a bubbly blonde, told reporters that she belonged to Mensa. Several years later, however, Jim Blackstone, Mensa’s national marketing director, called her out. After admitting that she wasn’t actually a member, Stone claimed that she did, however, go to a Mensa school. But Blackstone says that’s also a fallacy because no Mensa schools existed until the early 1960s and Stone was born in 1958. Nevertheless, with a reported 156 IQ, Stone could still qualify.<br />
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<h2>Oscar Wrigley</h2>Two-and-a-half-year-old Oscar Wrigley is giving “Baby Einstein” a whole new meaning. The British toddler became the youngest boy to be accepted into the society of geniuses, scoring 160 on his IQ test. Wrigley’s score is the highest IQ the test can measure and is equal to that of Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. According to his parents, Wrigley was talking at nine months and by 18 months he could recite the alphabet. Six months later, the toddler could count thousands of words making up his vocabulary, while most his age had mastered about 50. “Every parent likes to think their child was special but we knew there was something particularly remarkable about Oscar,” said his father Joe Wrigley told The Daily Mail. “I’m fully expecting the day to come when he turns around and tells me I’m an idiot.”<br />
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<h2>Asia Carrera</h2>New Jersey-born Asia Carrera was a piano prodigy, having performed at Carnegie Hall twice before reaching the age of 15. The following year, she taught English at Tsuruga College in Japan, but was reportedly pressured by her parents to succeed academically herself, causing her to flee home at 17. Carrera was a member of the National Mathematics League and Spanish National Honor Society and placed in the National Geography, Language Art, and Mathematic Olympiads. She earned a full scholarship to Rutgers University, where she double majored in Business and Japanese. But Carrera never graduated after a stripping side job turned into a career as an adult film star, which reportedly made her more money and was more fun than earning her degree. Though she’s now retired, Carrera has since appeared in hundreds of pornographic pictures and described herself as the nerd of the industry. With an alleged IQ of 156, it seems like a fitting title.<br />
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<h2>Dolph Lundgren </h2>this Swedish actor and director has an IQ of 160 putting him up there with some of the smartest people in the world. In addition to being a graduate of Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology, Dolph also has is Master’s in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to M.I.T. – he only lasted at M.I.T. for two weeks however, as he left to pursue a career in show biz.<br />
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<h2>Scott Levy</h2>Probably better known as WCW wrestler Raven, Levy studied criminal justice at the University of Delaware and originally wanted to be a lawyer. He has a reported IQ of 143.<br />
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<h2>Jodie Foster</h2>Foster graduated as valedictorian from the French-speaking Lycee Francais de Los Angeles, after which she attended Yale and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in literature. Her reported IQ is 132.<br />
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<h2>Smart Celebrities that can qualify for Mensa</h2><br />
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<h2>Natalie Portman </h2>Natalie Portman graduated high school with a 4.0 and headed off to Harvard where she received a Bachelor’s Degree in psychology. She attended Hebrew University on a graduate level and is fluent in Hebrew, French and Japanese.<br />
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<h2>Kate Beckinsale </h2>Studied French, Russian and literature at Oxford University. She also won the W.H. Smith Young Writers’ competition twice with short stories and poems. Speaks German,Russian and French fluently.<br />
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Matt Damon - A consistent straight-A student through grade school and high school, Matt studied English at Harvard University.<br />
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<h2>Alicia Keys </h2>Graduated high school at the age of 16 and also served as Valedictorian. Gave up a scholarship to Columbia University to pursue a career in music.<br />
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<h2>Shakira</h2>With an IQ of 140, Shakira is more than just a pretty face.<br />
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<b>Sources: http://www.thedailybeast.com</b><br />
<b> http://listverse.com/2009/01/18/15-surprisingly-super-smart-celebrities/</b><br />
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<div class="firstPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heidi Hankins sat an IQ test after staff at her nursery said she was so intelligent they were struggling to find activities to challenge her.</span></div></div><div class="secondPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The average score for an adult is 100 and a "gifted" individual 130 but the exceptional youngster impressed examiners with a staggering 159.</span></div></div><div class="thirdPar" style="background-color: white; color: #282828;"><div style="line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heidi - who can already add, subtract, draw figures and write in sentences - was reading books for seven year olds when she was just two.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Stevenage, chief executive of British Mensa, said: "Heidi's parents correctly identified that she shows great potential.</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We wish them well and are pleased that they have chosen to join the Mensa network for support.</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We aim to provide a positive environment for younger members to develop."</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr Hankins and his artist wife Sophy also have a nine-year-old son called Isaac who is a chorister at Winchester Cathedral.</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><h3 style="border-top-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">WHAT CAN HEIDI DO?</span></h3><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By age two:</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Count to 40</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Read after teaching herself using the family computer</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Recite the poem The Owl and The Pussycat by Edward Lear</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Draw pictures of people</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By age three:</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Add and subtract</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em; padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By age four:</span></div><div style="padding-bottom: 0.7em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Use words such as "impressive" in conversation</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em;"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.48em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the Know . . .</span></b></div><h2 style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>What is Mensa </b></span></h2><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 21px;">Mensa was founded in England in 1946 by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr. Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. They had the idea of forming a society for bright people, the only qualification for membership of which was a high IQ. The original aims were, as they are today, to create a society that is non-political and free from all racial or religious distinctions. The society welcomes people from every walk of life whose IQ is in the top 2% of the population, with the objective of enjoying each other's company and participating in a wide range of social and cultural activities.</span> </span></div><div style="color: #282828; line-height: 1.48em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 21px;"><br />
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<h2><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">IRS audit flags</span></h2><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IRS audit flags are used by the IRS to help the IRS determine if a particular tax return should undergo an IRS audit. IRS audit flags are results of DIF score generation and DIF analysis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IRS audit flags occur when tax returns are out of line with the national average. If a number on a particular tax return is out of line with others in similar income tax brackets, statistically speaking, from these national average, the DIF score identifies the return as having IRS audit potential.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example, if the national average for charitable contributions for a certain income group is $1,000 and a tax return contains $3,000 in charitable contributions, the computer will flag this entry for a potential IRS audit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IRS audit flags do not always lead to IRS audits. IRS audit flags on a particular tax return does not mean the tax return is incorrect or an IRS audit is definite. After IRS audit flags , an IRS employee will manually review the tax return to determine if it has IRS audit potential. Not every tax return that is statistically out of line with the national averages will be audited.</span><br />
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<ul style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><li><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.irs-audit.net/Selecting_tax_returns_for_IRS_audit.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Selecting tax returns for IRS audit</span></a></div></li>
<li><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.irs-audit.net/DIF_score.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DIF score</span></a></div></li>
<li><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.irs-audit.net/IRS_matching_program.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IRS Matching Program</span></a></div></li>
<li><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.irs-audit.net/Informant_tips.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Informant tips</span></a></div></li>
<li><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.irs-audit.net/IRS_market_segment_specialization_program_(MSSP).html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IRS Market segment specialization program</span></a></div></li>
<li><div align="justify"><a href="http://www.irs-audit.net/Random_audit.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Random audit</span></a></div></li>
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</ul><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;">it’s helpful to know what an </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;">audit flag</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;"> is. Most tax returns are processed by IRS computers. The computers are programmed to watch for anything out of the ordinary, anything that strays too far from statistical norms. An item that falls outside the norm may be “flagged”, increasing the likelihood that a return will be audited. A flagged return will be manually reviewed by an IRS employee to determine if there’s an actual need for an audit. Audit flags don’t guarantee you’ll be audited, but they do mean that the IRS will probably take a closer look at your return.</span><br />
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Here are ten of the most common ways to bring your personal return to the attention of the Internal Revenue Service.</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; display: table; list-style-type: none; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 28px; text-align: left;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: disc; padding-left: 0.2em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Incomplete or sloppy returns</b> — Math errors and missing information prompt scrutiny, as you’d expect. If the IRS computer can’t make sense of what you’ve filed, a human has to check to find the mistake. This is one reason to file electronically: computers help to catch bonehead errors.</span></li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: disc; padding-left: 0.2em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Having a high income</b> — Though fewer than one-percent of taxpayers are audited each year, those making over $100,000 are <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/31/pf/taxes/avoid_audit/index.htm">five times more likely</a> to come under scrutiny.</span></li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: disc; padding-left: 0.2em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Round numbers</b> — It’s unlikely that your investment returns were exactly $500, or that your mortgage interest deduction was $10,000. Too many round numbers on a return are a symptom that something fishy may be going on.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: disc; padding-left: 0.2em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Too many charitable contributions</b> — Charity is good, but too much charity can raise a red flag. If the average person in your income bracket donates about $1000 to charity and you claim you donated $5000, you’re going to increase the odds of an audit. Be sure to save your receipts!</span></li>
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Having a small business is itself a flag of sorts. Some people use small businesses as a tax dodge, a way to write off expenses, and so the IRS keeps a close eye on small-business owners.</div><ul style="background-color: white; display: table; font-family: sans-serif; list-style-type: none; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 28px; text-align: left;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: disc; padding-left: 0.2em;"><b>Being self-employed</b> — Filing a Schedule C isn’t a guarantee that you’ll be audited. But, as my accountant told me the other day, the IRS doesn’t like to see “a small Schedule C that you continue to show losses on while you have a regular job”. For more information, check out this IRS page: <a href="http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=186056,00.html">Is it a business or a hobby?</a></li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; list-style-type: disc; padding-left: 0.2em;"><b>Unlikely business deductions</b> — It can be tempting for small-business owners to claim new “toys” as business deductions. That Nintendo Wii? <i>Not</i> a business expense unless you’re reviewing games with the intention to make a profit. That trip to New York? Not a business expense unless it serves a legitimate purpose. Don’t try to play cute.</li>
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</ul><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Audit flags do not necessarily lead to actual audits. They don’t even mean there’s something wrong with the return. They simply indicate that a tax return is more likely to be checked by an actual human being, and therefor more likely to get audited than another return. (And remember: the IRS always selects a certain number of people to audit completely at random.)</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Most of these red flags aren’t an issue for the average wage-earner who is filing an honest return. Some — like the home office deduction — may trigger an audit even if legitimate. But if you’ve played fair with the government, you don’t need to worry. The New York State Society of CPAs <a href="http://www.nysscpa.org/sound_advice/money_3.24.03.htm">writes</a>:</div><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/wp-content/themes/2008GRS/img/quotes.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 15px; min-height: 81px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b>Don’t hesitate to take deductions you can substantiate.</b> CPAs emphasize that these precautions should not suggest that taxpayers avoid claiming legitimate deductions. On the contrary, you should take every deduction you are legally entitled to take, as long as you retain supporting documentation.</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>The best defense against an audit is to be honest.</b> Report all of your income. Don’t try to fudge things. Use tax preparation software or an accountant if you’re nervous about getting things right. But even if you have a professional prepare your return, check it for obvious errors. Be sure the numbers make sense. <a href="http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/08/03/which-financial-records-to-keep-and-how-long-to-keep-them/">Save your receipts.</a></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="font-family: sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<h1><span style="font-size: small;">Watch Titanic 3D probably the best James Cameron Film ever. Grossing over $2Billion. Titanic 3D is a film to watch and which everybody will enjoy </span></h1>James Cameron has shored up his position as king of the worldwide box office.<br />
Cameron's 1997 blockbuster "Titanic" sailed beyond the $2 billion mark in lifetime ticket sales, thanks to a 3-D re-release of the film that was timed to the centennial of the ship's sinking.<br />
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Only one other movie has topped $2 billion, and it's also Cameron's. His 2009 sci-fi smash "Avatar" earned $2.8 billion worldwide.<br />
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The "Titanic" reissue took in about $100 million this weekend — $11.6 million domestically and a whopping $88.2 million in 69 overseas markets. That included a $58 million debut in China and put the re-release total worldwide at $190.8 million.<br />
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<h2><b><span style="font-size: small;">More Titanic <a href="http://themichaelcrunch.blogspot.com/2012/04/weird-titan-and-titanic-similarities.html">Weird Titan and Titanic Similarities</a></span></b></h2><h2><b><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://themichaelcrunch.blogspot.com/2012/04/true-facts-about-titanic.html">True Facts about the Titanic</a></span></b></h2></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br />
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<h1><span style="font-size: small;">An embarrassing scandal involving prostitutes and Secret Service agents deepened Saturday as 11 agents were placed on leave, and the agency designed to protect President Barack Obama had to offer regret for the mess overshadowing his diplomatic mission to Latin America.</span></h1><br />
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The controversy also expanded to the U.S. military, which announced five service members staying at the same hotel as the agents in Colombia may have been involved in misconduct as well. They were confined to their quarters in Colombia and ordered not to have contact with others.<br />
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All the alleged activities took place before Obama arrived Friday in this Colombian port city for meetings with 33 other regional leaders.<br />
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Put together, the allegations were an embarrassment for an American president on foreign soil and threatened to upend White House efforts to keep his trip focused squarely on boosting economic ties with fast-growing Latin America. Obama was holding two days of meetings at the Summit of the Americas with leaders from across the vast region before heading back to Washington Sunday night.<br />
The Secret Service did not disclose the nature of the misconduct. The Associated Press confirmed on Friday that it involved prostitutes.<br />
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The White House said Obama had been briefed about the incidents but would not comment on his reaction.<br />
"The president does have full confidence in the United States Secret Service," presidential spokesman Jay Carney said when asked.<br />
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Carney insisted the matter was more a distraction for the media than Obama. But Secret Service assistant director Paul Morrissey said in a statement: "We regret any distraction from the Summit of the Americas this situation has caused."<br />
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Rep. Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told the AP after he was briefed on the investigation on Saturday that "close to" all 11 of the agents involved had brought women back to their rooms at a hotel separate from where Obama is now staying.<br />
The New York Republican said the women were "presumed to be prostitutes" but investigators were interviewing the agents.<br />
The lawmaker also offered new details about the controversy.<br />
King said he was told that anyone visiting the hotel overnight was required to leave identification at the front desk and leave the hotel by 7 a.m. When a woman failed to do so, it raised questions among hotel staff and police, who investigated. They found the woman with the agent in the hotel room and a dispute arose over whether the agent should have paid her.<br />
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The 11 employees in question were special agents and Uniformed Division Officers. None were assigned to directly protect Obama. All were sent home and replaced, Morrissey said, given "the nature of the allegations" and a zero tolerance policy on personal misconduct.<br />
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The Secret Service says the incidents have had no bearing on its ability to provide security for Obama's stay in Colombia.<br />
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Another jolt came Saturday when the U.S. Southern Command said five service members assigned to support the Secret Service violated their curfew and may have been involved in inappropriate conduct. Carney said it was part of the same incident involving the Secret Service.<br />
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As for the apparent misconduct by the military members, Gen. Douglas Fraser, commander of U.S. Southern Command, said he was "disappointed by the entire incident" and said the behavior was "not in keeping with the professional standards expected of members of the United States military."<br />
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Col. Scott Malcom, chief of public affairs for Southern Command, said of the five service members: "The only misconduct I can confirm is that they were violating the curfew established. He said he had seen the news reports about the Secret Service agents involved in alleged prostitution at the hotel but could not confirm whether the service members also were involved.<br />
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The Secret Service agents at the center of the allegations had stayed at Cartagena's five-star Hotel Caribe. Several members of the White House staff and press corps subsequently stayed at the hotel.<br />
King credited the Secret Service director for acting quickly to remove the agents in question and replace them before Obama's arrival.<br />
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A hotel employee, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job, said the agents arrived at the beachfront hotel about a week ago and said the agents left the hotel Thursday, a day before Obama and other regional leaders arrived for the weekend summit.<br />
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Three waiters interviewed by the AP at the hotel described the agents as drinking heavily during their stay.<br />
On Friday, the hotel began filling up with the delegations of some of the more than 30 countries whose leaders are convening for the weekend Summit of the Americas.<br />
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The hotel's public relations director, Ana Beatriz Angel, refused to comment on the incident, which she said "concerns only and exclusively the U.S. government."<br />
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On the steamy streets of Cartagena, a resort city with a teeming prostitution trade, there was condemnation for the Secret Service agents for what residents saw as abusing their station and dishonoring their country.<br />
Edwin Yepes, a souvenir vendor, said "they are supposed to come here and set an example. We are an inferior culture, and so it's better if they don't come than if they damage our image of them."<br />
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<h2><span style="font-size: small;">These 10 best secret service movies are great because they give an inside view into how the presidency works. We see the president on TV, but what is he really like when the cameras are not on? What sorts of problems can he face? What happens when there's a threat? These movies help answer these pressing questions.</span></h2><br />
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">To Live & Die in L.A. </h2>This film teaches the lesson that you should never kill a secret serviceman's partner. He'll get you, and nothing will prevent him (or her, perhaps) from tracking you down like a lowdown dog.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Dave</h2> Kevin Kline as the president? Yep, it happened in this 1993 comedy. Not all these films are life and death, you know. This one, for instance, is about life and coma, for a change.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Guarding Tess</h2><br />
This film asks the question: What happens when the first lady wants one specific Secret Service agent to guard her, even though he hates her? It stars Shirley MacLaine, as the first lady, of course, and Nicolas Cage as the hater. <br />
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Absolute Power</h2> They say absolute power corrupts absolutely. And in this film, a lifelong thief — who should know a lot about crime — sees a U.S. president being a bad boy.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Air Force One</h2>Hijackers are scary guys these days, and usually terrorists. There's probably nothing worse than a hijacker taking over a plane with the president on it, which happens here.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Agent of Death </h2>After thinking about the president being hijacked, this film considers the president getting kidnapped. It all depends on how far along a president is into his/her presidency, when it comes to determining ransom amounts, by the way.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Chain of Command </h2> Secret Service agents must grab back a briefcase that makes it so the president can control the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal. If they can't, well, it's ka-boom!<br />
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<b>Sources: http://www.screenjunkies.com/movies/movie-lists/10-best-secret-service-movies/</b>powervideoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09120745425318038772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1548733807175053160.post-41504825728010156872012-04-13T05:46:00.007-07:002012-04-16T07:14:36.392-07:00True Facts about the Titanic<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">The voyage begins</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — At noon on April 10, 1912, the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> set sail from Southampton, England. It arrived at Cherbourg, </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/france/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">France</a><span style="background-color: white;">, at 6:30 p.m. to pick up more passengers. At 11:30 p.m. on April 11, the liner reached Queenstown, </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/ireland/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Ireland</a><span style="background-color: white;">. The ship sailed through clear waters toward New York for three days until 11:40 p.m. on April 14, when it struck an iceberg.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Readiness</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — The </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> carried 20 lifeboats allowing a total capacity for 1,178 people, as well as 3,560 inflatable life jackets and 49 life buoys.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Silent-screen star</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — One of the survivors of the disaster was silent-screen actress </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/dorothy-gibson/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Dorothy Gibson</a><span style="background-color: white;">. She later made a film titled “Saved From the Titanic,” which was a huge success. The only known prints of the film were destroyed in a 1914 fire in what film historians consider one of the greatest losses of the silent era. </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/dorothy-gibson/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Gibson</a><span style="background-color: white;"> later fell in love with</span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/antonio-j-ramos/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Antonio Ramos</a><span style="background-color: white;">, the press attache for the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/spanish-embassy-in-paris/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Spanish Embassy in Paris</a><span style="background-color: white;">. She was arrested by the Nazis in 1944 and imprisoned at San Vittore. She died of a heart attack in 1946 at 56.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">At the helm</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/edward-john-smith/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Capt. Edward John Smith</a><span style="background-color: white;">, a 37-year veteran making his final crossing after serving with the White Star Line for 28 years, might have been ill-prepared for a giant liner. </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/edward-john-smith/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Smith</a><span style="background-color: white;"> learned much of his trade under sail and at the helm of modest steamers. On the</span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;">, the 62-year-old ventured at 22 knots, full speed, into an area notorious for icebergs in mid-April. His only caution to the crew was that the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> stop at the first sign of ice.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Near collision </strong><span style="background-color: white;">— After leaving Southampton, the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> sucked into her path another liner, the SS City of New York. Quick work by the</span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;">’s tugboats averted a collision.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Mystery ship</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — The SS Californian, which was eight to 15 miles away from the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> as it sank, did not respond to distress calls. Many </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> buffs believe the Samson, a 254-ton schooner of Norwegian registry, was just five to eight miles from the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;">, between the liner and the Californian. The Sampson may not have been eager to identify itself because of illegal seal hunting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Foreboding Letter</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/eileen-lenox-conyngham/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Eileen Lenox Conyngham</a><span style="background-color: white;">, 11, wrote a letter to her nurse, </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/louisa-sterling/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Louisa Sterling</a><span style="background-color: white;">, four days before the disaster. The girl said the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> “broke the ropes” and rammed into the Oceanic while “floating about” </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/southampton-dock/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Southampton dock</a><span style="background-color: white;">. Young Eileen escaped the disaster because her family disembarked in </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/france/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">France</a><span style="background-color: white;">. Her letter arrived in </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/ireland/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Ireland</a><span style="background-color: white;"> within days of the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;">’s sinking and was treasured by </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/louisa-sterling/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Sterling</a><span style="background-color: white;"> for the rest of her life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Obscure memorial</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — Hidden away, where P Street ends at the Washington Channel in Washington, D.C., is a memorial to the “Brave men” of the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;">, which was erected by the Women of Washington in 1931. The 13-foot-tall, partly clad male figure with arms outstretched originally stood at the current site of the Kennedy Center.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Harry Potter to <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a></strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — Geraldine Somerville, who plays Harry Potter’s mother, Lily Potter, in the “Harry Potter” films, stars in </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/abc/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">ABC</a><span style="background-color: white;">’s </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">“Titanic”</a><span style="background-color: white;"> miniseries.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Who saw the iceberg?</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — Lookout Frederick Fleet in the crow’s nest alerted the bridge to the iceberg ahead. An order was given to go “Full speed astern.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Swimming pool </strong><span style="background-color: white;">— It cost 1 shilling to use the 30-by-14-foot pool, which included use of a costume. Men and women were not allowed to use the pool together.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Cost to send a Marconi wireless telegram</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — Twelve shillings and sixpence/$3.12 ($36 today), for the first 10 words, and 9 pence per word thereafter. More than 250 passenger telegrams were sent and received during the voyage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Double tragedy</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — Douglas Spedden was 6 years old when his nurse told him they were on a “trip to see the stars,” as she carried him to lifeboat No. 3 from which he was rescued. Three years later, at age 9, he was hit by a car in Maine and died two days later. It was one of the first recorded automobile accidents in the state.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">The richest</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — The wealthiest passenger aboard was Lt. Col. John Jacob Astor IV, with a fortune estimated at about $100 million. He did not survive.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Auction</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — More than 5,500 items from the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;">’s resting place went on auction in New York City on April 2. By law, the lot could not be broken up and the winning bidder must display the items for the public. The winning bid is to be announced Wednesday.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Hero</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — The most senior officer to survive the disaster was 2nd Officer </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/charles-lightoller/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Charles Herbert Lightoller</a><span style="background-color: white;">. He took charge of an overturned lifeboat, then calmed and organized the survivors, numbering about 30. He was the last survivor taken on board the rescue ship RMS Carpathia. He served in the British navy in World War I and helped rescue soldiers during the Dunkirk evacuation during World War II. He was portrayed by Kenneth More in the 1958 film “A Night to Remember” and Jonathan Phillips in the 1997 film </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">“Titanic.”</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Memorial museums</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — Two </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> museums, one in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., with 2 million visitors since 2010, and the other, in Branson, Mo., with 5 million visitors since 2006, will conclude their activities Saturday by lighting memorial flames at the bows of the half-scale replicas of the ship. Both museums are billed as exhibiting the largest permanent collections of </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> artifacts and memorabilia.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Orchestra</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — All eight members of the all-male </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> orchestra perished. Three bodies, including that of John Hume Law, were found. Two weeks after his death, Law’s father received a bill from C.W. and F.N. Black, the Liverpool firm that employed the orchestra, demanding 5 shillings and 4 pennies for costs pertaining to his son’s uniform. According to those rescued, the musicians played until the ship went down. It has been suggested that the last tune was the hymn “Nearer My God to Thee.” A concert was held at the Apollo Club in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 9, 1912, to aid the families of the musicians who perished in the sinking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Suicides</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> — Ten </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;"> survivors later committed suicide. Stewardess Annie Robinson was the first. Two years after the sinking of the </span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/titanic/" style="background-color: white; color: #164a6e; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 2px; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration: none;">Titanic</a><span style="background-color: white;">, the 42-year-old was sailing across the Atlantic to visit her daughter in Boston when she jumped overboard as the ship entered a thick fog</span></span></div><h2><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Other Known Titanic Facts during its maiden Voyage</span></ul></h2><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Canceled Lifeboat Drill </b><span style="background-color: white;"> Originally, a lifeboat drill was scheduled to take place on board the Titanic on </span><span style="background-color: white;">April 14, 1912 - the day the Titanic hit the iceberg. However, for an unknown reason, Captain Smith canceled the drill. Many believe that had the drill taken place, more lives could have been saved. </span></span></div></ul><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Only Seconds </b><span style="background-color: white;"><b>From the time the lookouts sounded the alert</b>, the officers on the bridge had only 37 seconds to react before the Titanic hit the iceberg. In that time, First Officer Murdoch ordered "hard a-starboard" (which turned the ship to port -- left). He also ordered the engine room to put the engines in reverse. The Titanic did bank left, but it wasn't quite enough. </span></span></ul><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Titanic's Newspaper </b> The Titanic seemed to have everything on board, including its own newspaper. The Atlantic Daily Bulletin was printed every day on board the Titanic. The newspaper included news, advertisements, stock prices, horse-racing results, society gossip, and the day's menu. </span></ul><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Lifeboats Not Full </b> Not only were there not enough lifeboats to save everyone on board, most of the lifeboats that were launched off the Titanic were not filled to capacity. For instance, the first lifeboat to launch, Lifeboat 7 from the starboard side) only carried 24 people, despite having a capacity of 65 (two additional people later transferred to Lifeboat 7 from Lifeboat 5). However, it was Lifeboat 1 that carried the fewest people - only seven crew and five passengers (a total of 12 people) despite having a capacity for 40. </span></ul><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Only Two Bathtubs </b> Although most passengers had to share bathrooms (only the two promenade suites in first class had private bathrooms), third class had it rough with only two bathtubs for more than 700 passengers. </span></ul><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b>Another Boat Was Closer for Rescue </b> When the Titanic began sending out distress signals, the Californian, rather than theCarpathia, was the closest ship; yet the Californian did not respond until it was much too late to help. At 12:45 a.m. on April 15, 1912, crew members on the Californian saw mysterious lights in the sky (the distress flares sent up from the Titanic) and woke up their captain to tell him about it. Unfortunately, the captain issued no orders. Since the ship's wireless operator had already gone to bed, the Californianwas unaware of any distress signals from the Titanicuntil the morning, but by then the Carpathia had already picked up all the survivors. Many people believe that if the Californian had responded to theTitanic's pleas for help, many more lives could have been saved. </span></ul><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b>Two Dogs Rescued </b><span style="background-color: white;"> With the order for women and children first into the lifeboats, plus the knowledge that there were not enough lifeboats for everyone on board the Titanic to be saved, it is a bit surprising that two dogs made it into the lifeboats. Of the nine dogs on board the Titanic, the two that were rescued were a Pomeranian and a Pekinese. </span></span></ul><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><b>The Fourth Funnel </b><span style="background-color: white;"> In what is now an iconic image, the side view of the Titanic clearly shows four cream and black funnels. While three of these released the steam from the boilers, the fourth was just for show. The designers thought the ship would look more impressive with four funnels rather than three. </span></span></ul><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><b>A Royal Mail Ship</b><span style="background-color: white;"> The R.M.S. Titanic was a Royal Mail Ship, a designation which meant the Titanic was officially responsible for delivering mail for the British postal service. On board the Titanicwas a Sea Post Office with five mail clerks (two British and three American). These mail clerks were responsible for the 3,423 sacks of mail (seven million individual pieces of mail) on board the Titanic. Interestingly, although no mail has yet been recovered from the wreck of the Titanic, if it were, the U.S. Postal Service would still try to deliver it (the USPS because most of the mail was being sent to the U.S.). </span></span></ul><ul style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span><b>Corpses Recovered </b><span style="background-color: white;"> On April 17, 1912, the day before survivors of the Titanic disaster reached New York, theMackay-Bennett was sent off from Halifax, Nova Scotia to search for bodies. On board theMackay-Bennett were embalming supplies, 40 embalmers, tons of ice, and 100 coffins. Although the Mackay-Bennett found 306 bodies, 116 of these were too badly damaged to take all the way back to shore. Attempts were made to identify each body found. Additional ships were also sent out to look for bodies. In all, 328 bodies were found, but 119 of these were badly damaged and thus were buried at sea. </span></span></ul><h2><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sources: Wikipedia.com</span></b></h2><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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