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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Beyonce's Baby Triggers Church Vandalism -- Blue Ivy Is 'SATAN'
Beyonce's Baby Triggers Church Vandalism -- Blue Ivy Is 'SATAN'
Beyonce's new baby Blue Ivy Carter is the devil incarnate -- this according to some heartless vandal who defaced the sign in front of a North Carolina church yesterday ... writing, "Beyonce had her baby. Satan is on Earth."
The pastor at Beulah Hill Baptist Church in West End, NC tells TMZ, he discovered the vandalism yesterday after receiving numerous complaints from locals -- and removed it immediately.
The pastor insists, the church had nothing to do with the apocalyptic message ... it was simply the victim in a random act of mischief.
Blue -- Satan? No. Illuminati? ALMOST DEFINITELY.
Source: http://www.tmz.com/2012/01/11/beyonce-blue-ivy-carter-church-vandalized-satan/
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The 5 Most Pissed off NBA Players
Clearly, Raja Bell isn't unhappy, but it tenuous, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.
Jazz guard?Raja Bell said it?s this simple: If Utah wants him on its team, he?ll continue to do his job to the best of his ability. If the organization doesn?t, the 12-year veteran will perform as a professional until he joins another franchise.?
Bell?s declaration came Wednesday during an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. It followed Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin?s comment that any frustration Bell has about his role on the team needed to be addressed by the player himself.
?I think it?s a better question for him to answer. I really don?t ? you?ll have to ask him the question,? said Corbin, who appeared caught off guard by the query and acknowledged he hasn?t had a recent one-on-one talk with Bell.
Usually there aren't these kinds of assertions and "you talk to him" and "I'll be a professional" and so on unless someone is not happy.?
Being fair, this was a large part of last year, when Bell was having a lot of trouble dealing with the?tumultuous?season that the Jazz had with head coach Jerry Sloan abruptly resigning and Deron Williams being equally abruptly traded.
While Bell has come in with a renewed focus, it's tenuous. With the type of season the Jazz are having, that could be gone before long.?
Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1011425-the-5-most-pissed-off-nba-players
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Belkin Outs The Thunderbolt Express Dock, A Multi-Port Adapter For All Your Docking Needs
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Police officers union to move forward under new leadership
McALLEN ? The McAllen Police Officers Union, which spent much of 2010 and 2011 locked in bruising contract negotiations with City Hall, will replace its president this month.
It?s more of a shuffle than a shakeup.
Sgt. Joe Garcia, the union?s president since 2009, will be replaced by his vice president, Officer David Alvarado.
They helped negotiate the union?s four-year collective bargaining agreement, which runs until Sept. 30, 2015. The agreement, inked July 18 after negotiations failed and the union unsuccessfully sued McAllen, was widely seen as a victory for City Hall.
?One thing I?ve learned is you?ve got to pick your fights with the city,? Garcia said, referencing the contentious negotiations.
The contract phased out a health insurance subsidy for some retired officers and eliminated a union information session for police cadets, an important recruiting opportunity. Union officials had pushed for an across-the-board raise and permission to work security at downtown bars while off duty, but city officials rejected those proposals.
With the contract behind them, Garcia decided to step down, and Alvarado ran unopposed to succeed him. Alvarado will be officially sworn in later this month.
While the union doesn?t attract much attention when there isn?t a contract to be negotiated, it?s a major player within the Rio Grande Valley?s largest police department, which has 275 certified police positions. The union?s contract sets pay and benefits, and the union provides work-related legal services to members.
Alvarado, a 39-year-old San Juan resident who works as a warrant officer, has helped organize many of the union?s charity events.
He also spearheaded the union?s campaign to help Harold Taylor, an officer who received bad advice when he retired and subsequently lost his health insurance subsidy. With the union?s help, that subsidy was restored as part of the current contract.
Alvarado said he wants to build closer ties between the police union and the public, in part to improve the image of public employee unions, which have been under attack nationwide.
?This organization is not about greed,? Alvarado said, adding that he?d like to see the next round of contract negotiations broadcast on the city?s TV station, MCN 12, and streamed online. ?We have nothing to hide. Open it up to everyone.?
One of the department?s major problems, Alvarado said, is that many officers now treat it as a stepping-stone to a federal job, not a career. Officers don?t feel appreciated by city leaders, Alvarado said, describing the city?s response to most complaints as: ?If you don?t like it, leave.?
City Manager Mike Perez said the relationship between the police union and city leaders has been ?rough at best.?
?I think the approach they take is: City Hall is the enemy,? Perez said. ?The fact that they?ve gotten involved in politics and supported candidates hasn?t helped the relationship.?
Perez said he?s heard second- and third-hand reports that officers thought Garcia wasn?t tough enough on City Hall, and backed Alvarado because he?d take a harder stance.
Alvarado said he aims to improve the union?s relationship with city leaders, but he?s a straight shooter, not a politician.
?I don?t tell you what you want to hear, I tell you what you need to hear,? Alvarado said.
Alvarado pledged to keep open lines of communication with City Hall and the department?s smaller union, the McAllen Professional Law Enforcement Association.
?He?s dedicated to the organization and to the welfare of the officers,? said attorney Roberto ?Bobby? Garcia, who worked with Alvarado before taking a job with the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas. ?He does a good job, and he?s well informed about what?s going on.?
?I guess the only defect he?s got is he?s in the wrong union,? Garcia quipped.
The McAllen Professional Law Enforcement Association is affiliated with the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, while the McAllen Police Officers Union is affiliated with the Texas Municipal Police Association. The rival unions and their state-level backers have jockeyed for control of McAllen?s police department for years.
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Dave Hendricks covers McAllen and general assignments for The Monitor. He can be reached at dhendricks@themonitor.com and at (956) 683-4452.
Source: http://www.themonitor.com/news/move-57810-new-officers.html
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Scientists refute Greenpeace claim that genetically modified corn caused new insect pest
ScienceDaily (Jan. 7, 2012) ? An article in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Integrated Pest Management (JIPM) refutes claims by Greenpeace Germany that the western bean cutworm (WBC), Striacosta albicosta (Smith), is "a new plant pest" that was "caused by genetically engineered corn." The Greenpeace Germany report, which was written by author Richard Then of Testbiotech, offers a "surprisingly simplistic conclusion" regarding the spread of western bean cutworm over the last decade, according to the JIPM authors.
In "Genetically Engineered Bt Corn and Range Expansion of the Western Bean Cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the United States: A Response to Greenpeace Germany," corresponding author William Hutchison, professor and chair of the University of Minnesota Department of Entomology, and his co-authors maintain that the Greenpeace report fails to consider broader ecological and agronomic factors which explain why the WBC's range has expanded. These additional factors include insect biology, synchrony of insect and corn phenology, reduced insecticide use, increases in conservation tillage, soil type, glyphosate-resistant crops, insect genetics, insect pathogens, pre-existing insect population densities, and climate change.
The JIPM authors focus on several discrepancies of fact and interpretation in the Greenpeace document, beginning with its title, "Agro-biotechnology: New plant pest caused by genetically engineered corn. The spread of the western bean cutworm causes massive damage in the U.S."
Despite the Greenpeace claim, the WBC is neither "new" nor has it caused "massive damage" recently. The WBC was originally collected in Arizona in the 1880s and was considered an economic pest of beans and corn as early as 1915. Over the last decade its range has expanded, but documentation of economically damaging infestations has been relatively limited.
The Greenpeace claim that the WBC has historically "been confined to very limited regions and did not cause any major problems in maize crops" is also untrue, according to the authors. Farmers in Nebraska reported major problems as early as 1962, and instead of being "confined to very limited regions," the WBC was documented throughout the western Great Plains from Mexico to Alberta, where it was found in the mid 1950s, despite the Greenpeace claim that it was found in Canada for the first time as recently as 2009.
According to the authors, "a curious theme throughout the Greenpeace Germany report, is that Then (2010) ignored the possibility of other influences on western bean cutworm range expansion, including several ecological and agronomic factors." For example, the increasing use of conservation tillage since the mid-1990s favors the survival rate of WBC larvae because less deep plowing minimizes mortality to insect pests that overwinter in the soil. Another possible reason is the reduction or elimination of insecticide applications, which has occurred with increased use of Bt corn over the past decade, likely resulting in increased survival of the WBC. Other possibilities for the WBC range expansion, such as climate change, were also ignored by Greenpeace and Testbiotech.
Out of concern that "potential misinterpretation of selected quotes" in the Greenpeace report may lead to confusion among future regulatory decision makers, the authors go on to give specific responses to other claims in the report.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
New England Journal: 200 years of medical history
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AT WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 2012 AT 5 P.M. EST - This illustration made available by the New England Journal of Medicine shows a diagram of a human heart in the article "Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart and Lungs" by John C. Warren in the April 1, 1812, Issue of the journal. Unhappy with today's health care? Think of what it was like to be sick 200 years ago. No stethoscopes, antibiotics, X-rays or vaccines. Bloodletting was a common treatment. If you had a heart attack or a stroke, doctors put you in bed and hoped for the best. Into this medical dark age, two Boston doctors brought a beacon of light. Two centuries ago, they started what is now the New England Journal of Medicine with the idea that science should guide care medical treatment. (AP Photo/New England Journal of Medicine)
EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AT WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 2012 AT 5 P.M. EST - This illustration made available by the New England Journal of Medicine shows a diagram of a human heart in the article "Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart and Lungs" by John C. Warren in the April 1, 1812, Issue of the journal. Unhappy with today's health care? Think of what it was like to be sick 200 years ago. No stethoscopes, antibiotics, X-rays or vaccines. Bloodletting was a common treatment. If you had a heart attack or a stroke, doctors put you in bed and hoped for the best. Into this medical dark age, two Boston doctors brought a beacon of light. Two centuries ago, they started what is now the New England Journal of Medicine with the idea that science should guide care medical treatment. (AP Photo/New England Journal of Medicine)
Unhappy with today's health care? Think of what it was like to be sick 200 years ago.
No stethoscopes, antibiotics, X-rays or vaccines. Bloodletting was a common treatment. If you had a heart attack or a stroke, doctors put you in bed and hoped for the best. If you needed surgery, you got a few shots of whiskey and a bullet to bite.
Into this medical dark age, two Boston doctors brought a beacon of light. They started what is now the New England Journal of Medicine with the idea that science should guide care ? not whoever argued loudest or had the most persuasive theory.
The first 100 copies in January 1812 were delivered by horseback. Today, 2 million people read the journal online every month. It is the oldest continuously publishing medical journal in the world, and it has touched lives in more ways than you may know. Some examples:
?Stroke victims now get clot-busting medicine, not dark rooms to ride out their brain trauma, because a 1995 study in the journal proved its benefit.
?Heart attack patients have arteries unclogged without surgery, then go home on medicines that studies in the journal showed could prevent future attacks.
?Women with early stage breast cancer can have just the lump removed followed by radiation instead of losing the whole breast, thanks to a 1985 study that found the lesser surgery just as good.
?Bone marrow and organ transplants ? radical ideas when first tried half a century ago ? are now routine. Even face transplants are becoming more common: three were described in last week's issue.
?Rehydration is now recognized as the main treatment for many diarrheal diseases. A journal article warned against bloodletting in 1832 as cholera ravaged New York City.
?People no longer suffer surgery without anesthesia, a field that grew from Henry Jacob Bigelow's 1846 report on the first successful use of inhaled ether.
?Medicine is more ethical, and study participants have more protections, because of a 1966 report in the journal about researchers failing to get informed consent. Another top journal had rejected the article as too controversial.
The New England Journal started decades before the American Medical Association was founded in 1847 and is widely credited with promoting evidence-based care.
"It has been very good for society," said Pat Thibodeau, head librarian and associate dean for the Medical Center Library at Duke University. "When I go in, I'm hoping my doctor has read the New England Journal of Medicine or something similar and is following that information."
"It's the cream of the crop," said Dr. Barron Lerner, a Columbia University physician and medical historian.
"They get the best research submitted to them, and they do an extremely good job of peer reviewing" to make sure it is solid, he said.
That's what Boston surgeon John Collins Warren and James Jackson, who helped found Massachusetts General Hospital, hoped for the journal, which is now published weekly. It got its current name in 1928, seven years after it was bought by the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Warren's father, John Warren, surgeon to George Washington's troops, wrote the first article, on chest pain. Doctors had been debating whether it was caused by plaque ? "the cement that builds up in arteries" ? or blood clots, said Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, the journal's editor-in-chief since 2000. Both proved correct ? the "cement" fractures and allows a clot to form that blocks an artery, he said.
Heart care has been a journal specialty, and two prominent doctors ? Elizabeth Nabel and Eugene Braunwald of Brigham and Women's Hospital ? trace its evolution in this week's issue. Nabel is former director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and now is president of the Boston hospital.
They describe the first human cardiac catheterization ? now a common diagnostic procedure ? that Werner Forssman performed on himself in 1929. Under local anesthesia, he put a catheter into his arm and maneuvered it into his own heart.
For a heart attack, "it used to be that all we did was put people to bed for five weeks," but studies in the journal showed "that that was the worst thing you could do," said Dr. Jerome Kassirer, its top editor from 1991 to 1999.
The journal also helped prove "germ theory" and the nature of infectious diseases.
"People didn't realize you could infect people when you were using your dirty gloves or not using gloves. People didn't realize tuberculosis was communicable. They thought it emanated from clouds they called miasma, clouds of dirty smoke in cities," said Lerner, the Columbia historian.
Not all was grand in the journal's history, though, as Allan Brandt, a Harvard University medical historian writes in this week's issue.
When Harvard Medical School debated admitting female students in 1878, the journal expressed concern about men and women mingling during surgeries normally witnessed only by one sex. The school didn't admit women until 1945, when World War II caused a shortage of men.
The journal also agreed with mandatory sterilization of "mental defectives" in the early 20th century. "Most alarming," Brandt writes, was its declaration in 1934 that "Germany is perhaps the most progressive nation in restricting fecundity among its unfit." The journal later condemned Nazi medicine.
In recent years, it has tracked health policy, from the Clinton health care plan and the advent of managed care to current debates about Medicare.
There were oddball reports along the way, like the 2007 account of a cat named Oscar that had a knack for predicting when patients at a Providence, R.I., nursing home were close to death by curling up to them in their final hours.
The journal has printed few studies on alternative medicine because so little good research has been done on it, Drazen said. Unlike some other journals that like controversial research, the New England Journal tries to avoid it.
"People think the cutting edge is sharp. The cutting edge is very dull. It's very foggy and you don't know what the right answer is," so editors try to pick studies that are definitive enough to affect care, Drazen said.
That's why it publishes very few observational studies, the kind that in the 1990s led to pronouncements like "margarine is better than butter" only to be reversed by the next such study.
"Some of those are papers that we've seen and turned back," Drazen said. "I'm looking for a higher evidence standard."
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Journal and medical timeline: http://nejm200.nejm.org
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Marilynn Marchione can be followed at http://twitter.com/MMarchioneAP
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