5 surgeons!
5 surgeons!
Five surgeons from big cities are discussing who makes the best
patients to operate on.
The first surgeon, from New York , says, "I like to see accountants
on my operating table because when you open them up, everything
inside is numbered."
The second, from Chicago , responds, "Yeah, but you should try
electricians! Everything inside them is color coded."
The third surgeon, from Dallas , says, "No, I really think librarians
are the best. Everything inside them is in alphabetical order."
The fourth surgeon, from Los Angeles , chimes in: "You know, I like
construction workers. Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over."
But the fifth surgeon, from Washington DC , shut them all up when
he observed: "You’re all wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on.
There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains, and no spine. Plus, the
head and the ass are interchangeable.’
Taking The Time To Pay It Forward
Crystal Light Faulkner
years and years ago, way back in 2000 I believe, I met this young and beautiful lady. we soon became fast friend, if anyone still uses that phrase. it was a shame but life took us in different directions. which is what of course happens.
but years and years later I come across her while using facebook. so here it is 12 years later and I find out that she has gotten married and has three beautiful children, just bursting with awesomeness.
once I started to talk with her I find out that she runs her own cooking/food site, that does a quite a lot more. she even finds the time to home school her kids, and take care of her hubby……well arnt all hubbies just grown up kids lol.
so I guess you have figured out the point of this post and that is to give all my readers a place to get great info on all things to run an affordable, fun, and healthy home
and let me not forget to say that she has had her local news channel come interview her.
so thank your madam for being so darn amazing
My Cats Are Safely At There Foster Home
here is a brief video of my cats and of my brothers iguana named Godzilla.
so with the move and with our current living arrangements we couldn’t bring our pets. Good thing we have two of the most amazing friends that could take our pets in while we get back on our feet. I will not give there names but they know who they are and I am so very grateful to them for there kindness in taking them in for me.
here are a few pictures of them
they seem to be fitting right in, and getting used to there surroundings.
Twitch doesn’t seem to be as nervous as I thought he would be, it turns out that his mom Kitty was more of the issue. good thing that all three of these guys know the people that took them in for me. in fact that, they have known each of my friends for many many years and Twitch has known them for all his life.
thanks again to the tow people who are taking care of them for me very much.
A New Place
wow oh wow, so very long since I last posted anything!
we are no longer living where we were, now we are in a different place….how else would it work, right?
things to get a few things done, but those aren’t going to well, but things will change.
as far as how I am feeling, I am bouncing back and forth from feeling bad to feeling decent enough.
damn I am cutting this one short but I will try to post more and better content.
Moving Time
well damn I really got to write in this more often.
for those of you who do not know I will be moving in the next week, good thing is it is still here in lawrenceville. not that I like Ga but I have spent over 15 years here in ga and over 12 years in the place I am at now.
I don’t think I am to sad about leaving this house, as much as I am about how many memories I have added up here. but that happens I guess, it has given me a chance to go through all my old stuff and toss it out.
there is a few things I still should get rid of, but I will deal with that when I have to.
for those of you who have seen my little room know just how much crap I have, 30 years of crap is a lot…yes I am a pack rat. and damn the posters I have, I remember getting every poster and remember what was going on in my life when I got everyone of them. some I did throw out but most I kept.
I am starting to get better, I won’t go into details, but I am feeling a lot better. im moving around better, which means I can start tring to loose a little weight, don’t get me wrong I will still always be a big guy, I simply don’t want to be a “flippen” big guy.
I still have a long long way to go, but I will get there.
they still don’t know what’s going on but it is narrowed down to a few things.
my cats are doing great as is my brother, and my mom seems to be doing a lot better
I guess I shall end this here for now, ive got a few things to do
Lightning Strike Survivor Video: Real or Fake?
By Natalie Wolchover, Life’s Little Mysteries Staff Writer
29 April 2011 9:07 AM ET
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A new viral video shows a man getting struck by lightning during a rainstorm. The bright flash knocks him flat and scorches the ground beneath him. For about a minute, he’s out cold. Then his leg twitches, he comes to, rolls over, stands up and walks away. A few seconds later, he is struck again. And, again, a few seconds after that, he recovers.
However, lightning experts say the video, which appears to be security camera footage, is very likely a hoax.
The first sign that the video might be fake, according to Vladimir Rakov, electrical engineer and co-director of the University of Florida Lightning Research Group, is that people almost never survive direct lightning strikes like the one shown in the video. "The chance of survival in the case of a direct strike is essentially zero," Rakov told Life’s Little Mysteries. That’s because lightning bolts emanating from storm clouds convey a gigajoule of energy, he explained — which is about enough to melt a ton of steel.
The vast majority of the 240,000 people who survive lightning strikes worldwide each year do not actually get hit directly. "They are struck by ‘side flashes,’" Rakov said. "Lightning might strike a building near them, for example, and there’s a side flash that jumps to them carrying a small fraction of the original lightning bolt’s energy. In that case, they can survive and even walk away."
Side flashes are much less powerful than direct strikes, but they nonetheless convey a huge amount of energy. How do people survive getting struck by them? It turns out most of their electric charge passes in an arc around a victim’s body.
"This is called a flashover. The full lightning current doesn’t flow through the human body, because bodies have an extremely high impedance," Rakov said. Because the person’s body essentially resists the flow of current, an electric arc will form from the person’s head to the ground. "Most of the current will flow along that arc over the surface of his body," Rakov said. "Only 5 amps typically flow through him." Five amps — enough to run an electric heater — is a significant but usually nonfatal amount of current.
While it’s extremely rare that someone survives a direct lightning strike, those who do can typically thank this same flashover effect. People wearing slick wet raingear with the hood up, for example, have been known to survive getting struck when the current travels around them through their raingear rather than down through their bodies.
Real, or real fake?
The man in the video seems to receive direct lightning strikes rather than side flashes. "If it were a side flash, there should have been some indication of the direct flash which produced the side flash," said Bill Rison, an electrical engineer and lightning physicist at New Mexico Tech.
So is this an extremely rare case of a man surviving two direct lightning strikes? Probably not, the experts say. Instead, this may be a doctored video. "Each flash appears in only one frame of the video, with no saturation or blooming of the camera," said Rison, who specializes in designing lightning observation equipment "A lightning flash at nighttime, when the lens is wide open, would probably saturate the camera." If the video were real, then rather than appearing in one brightly lit frame, each bolt would cause the video to go white for a few frames.
"The images look very realistic, but the sequence of events is very hard to believe to be actually occurring," Rakov said. Martin Uman, an electrical engineer also at the University of Florida Lightning Research group, concurs. "There were trees and a bus to the left of the guy in the first strike that would likely have been hit instead of him," Uman said. "The video is probably a fake."
How might the video have been created? "It could have been simulated with footage of laboratory discharges overlaying the footage of the person walking," Rakov suggested.
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Cap’n Crunch sails into obscurity
Cap’n Crunch sails into obscurity
Quaker Oats
By Ryan MacClanathan, business producer at msnbc.com
The Soggies have finally won: Cap’n Crunch is quietly sailing into retirement.
Long derided by health experts for its high sugar content – a single serving contains 12 grams – the cereal is no longer being actively marketed by Quaker, DailyFinance reports. It appears parent company PepsiCo is forcing the good Cap’n to walk the plank.
Cap’n Crunch was once the No. 1 breakfast cereal, but pressure from the White House and health activists is having an effect on how PepsiCo and other food companies peddle their products to kids. Sales of the cereal were down 6.8 percent in 2010.
Last year, PepsiCo vowed to reduce added sugar per serving by 25 percent and saturated fat by 15 percent in its products over the next 10 years.
"PepsiCo is no longer marketing Cap’n Crunch cereal directly to children. In a sense, you could say that they have retired Cap’n Crunch, and that’s a good thing," Jennifer Harris, of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University, told DailyFinance. "Unfortunately, children continue to view hundreds of ads per year for high-sugar cereals from General Mills, Kellogg’s and Post Foods."
The critics have a point: Children cereals contain 85 percent more sugar, 65 percent less fiber and 60 percent more sodium when compared with adult cereals, according to the Rudd Center research. The average preschooler has viewed more than 500 television ads for such cereals.
The “Wolf Girl”
The ‘wolf child’ delighted to be named the world’s hairiest girl – because it makes her more POPULAR at school
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:12 PM on 28th February 2011
Her nicknames may include ‘wolf girl’ and ‘monkey face’.
But 11-year-old Thai girl Supatra Sasuphan today insisted that she was after being officially recognised as the world’s hairiest girl.
Although the schoolgirl from Bangkok has faced merciless teasing at school, Supatra says being given a Guinness World Record for her hair has helped her become extremely popular.
‘I’m very happy’: Supatra Sasuphan, 11, is one of only 50 people ever to have Ambras syndrome which makes hair grow all over her face. She has now been recognised by the Guinness Book of Records.
‘I’m very happy to be in the Guinness World Records! A lot of people have to do a lot to get in,’ she said. ‘All I did was answer a few questions and then they gave it to me.’
Supatra is one of just 50 known sufferers of Ambras Syndrome – caused by a faulty chromosome – to be documented since the Middle Ages. Before the disease was understood, sufferers were branded ‘werewolves.’
She has thick hair growing over her face, ears, arms, legs and back. Even laser treatment has failed to stop the hair growth.
But while most sufferers have been shunned, Supatra has gradually been embraced by her community, and became a popular and outgoing child.
‘One of the most popular girls in school’: Supatra with classmates at Ratchabophit school, where she says getting the record for world’s hairiest girl has helped her win more friends.
They don’t tease me anymore: doctors tried to remove Supatra’s hair with laser treatment but it quickly grew back
She said: ‘There were a few people who used to tease me and call me monkey face but they don’t do it any more.
‘I’m very used to this condition. I can’t feel the hair as it has always been like this. I don’t feel anything.
‘It does sometimes make it difficult to see when it gets long.I hope I will be cured one day.’
In other ways Supatra is the same as other children her age – she loves swimming, dancing to her favourite music and playing with friends.
But more than anything, Supatra loves perching in front of the TV at her tiny one-bedroom family home in Pranakom, on the outskirts of Bangkok, to watch cartoons.
Happily families: Suptara with her sister 15-year-old Sukanya, left, her father Sammrueng and mother Somphon
Still attracting stares: strangers look at Supatra on the streets of Bangkok, but her neighbours say her sweet nature quickly won over her local community
She said: ‘I like to watch anything on TV, whatever is, I like having it on. I like to watch Bugs Bunny.’
The bubbly little girl is also determined not to let her condition prevent her from leading a normal life.
She said: ‘I like to study maths so I can be good at it and teach it to younger children so they can do it too.
‘I want to become a doctor so I can help patients when they get injured.
‘I want to help people who get hurt and help cure people.’
But Supatra’s future didn’t always look so promising. When she was first born she had to undergo two operations just to breathe.
Her father Sammrueng, 38, said: ‘We found out Supatra’s condition when she was born – we did not know before.
‘She was not very healthy because her nostrils were only one millimetre wide. For the first three months she was kept in an incubator to help her breathe.She was in the hospital for a total of ten months. We were very worried about her.’
Time for a trim: Supatra’s hair grew longer as she got older and her mother now cuts it with scissors, above
Outgoing child: Supatra during a PE lesson with classmates
Supatra has another operation when she was two-years-old and can now breathe normally.
But when Sammrueng and his wife Somphon, 38, brought Supatra home to live with them and their other daughter Sukanya, now 15, they faced more problems.
‘When neighbours first saw Nat they asked what kind of sin I had done. I was very worried about what she would be when she grew up because of other children teasing her,’ he said.
But Supatra’s sweet nature quickly won over people in her community.
Sammrueng, a jewellery maker, said: ‘She gets along with others really well and is very generous. She has a lot of friends.
‘She is just the same as any other little girl her age.
‘But her teeth grow slowly and she can’t see very well."
Doctors tried to remove the hair with laser treatment when she was two-years-old but despite numerous sessions it kept growing back as thickly as before.
Supatra’s hair has got increasingly thicker as she has grown up so her mother has to cut it back regularly for her.
She uses baby shampoo to wash her hair as she is allergic to stronger brands.
Sammrueng said: ‘I still hope one day she will be cured. We will do anything we can if it will help her.’
Egyptian Man Names Daughter ‘Facebook’
By David Murphy
I suppose we’ll never see a MySpace Smith or a Quora Doe (unless it’s in a first-person sci-fi shooter on a gaming console), but Facebook can now add yet another "first" to its already impressive series of accomplishments: First child.
Facebook didn’t have a baby. Rather, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram is reporting that 20-something Jamal Ibrahim has decided to name his daughter "Facebook" Jamal Ibrahim in honor of the service that helped anti-government protests overthrow Egyptian dictator Muhammad Hosni Sayyid Mubarak.
"The girl’s family, friends, and neighbors in the Ibrahimya region gathered around the new born to express their continuing support for the revolution that started on Facebook," reads an English translation of the paper as supplied by TechCrunch. "’Facebook’ received many gifts from the youth who were overjoyed by her arrival and the new name-a name that shocked the entire world."
Although Facebook wasn’t the only service in use by Egyptians during the roughly three weeks of protests within the country, it’s certainly the service that’s received the most widespread follow-up in the aftermath. Roughly 5 million of the country’s citizens have active Facebook accounts, and the company saw more than 32,000 different groups and 14,000 new pages pop up on the service within approximately the last two weeks of January.
And that even includes a new page for Egypt’s current ruling organization, the Supreme Council of the armed forces—launched, "as part of our belief that fruitful cooperation with Egyptian youth in the coming period will surely lead to the security and stability for our beloved Egypt," said Field Marshal and interim Egyptian leader Hussein Tantawi.
We have yet to hear reports of anyone naming children "Twitter" in support of that service’s use during international protests. For what it’s worth, the aforementioned Supreme Council of the armed forces doesn’t even have its own Twitter page yet, let alone namesake.
During a keynote at Mobile World Congress, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said that focusing on whether Twitter, Facebook, or other social-networking services were responsible for the successful uprising in Egypt takes away from what the people in that region accomplished.
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Best criminal disguises of 2010 – Telegraph
The year 2010 had its share of bizarre moments, none more so than some, more unusual crimes and the even more whacky disguises. Here are the five best.
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Conrad Zdzierak, 30, used a £450 ($700) silicon mask in an audacious string of six bank robberies in April Photo: SPLASH NEWS
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A comination photograph showing a young Asian male (L) with his face partially obscured by authorities and what appears to be an elderly white man (R). Authorities said a young Asian male was intercepted by border agents in Vancouver after boarding a flight from Hong Kong disguised as the elderly white man. Photo: EPA
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CCTV footage released by police showed the 6ft 2in gunman dressed as the Star Wars bad guy complete with mask, dark cape and camouflage trousers. Photo: NYPD
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This man nicknamed the ‘Geezer Bandit’ wears prescription glasses and appears to be in his 70s, has robbed seven banks Photo: AP
By Andrew Hough 7:45AM GMT 01 Jan 2011
* A white bank robber is alleged to have attempted to fool US police by wearing a Hollywood special effects mask and gloves that disguised him as a black man. According to police reports, Conrad Zdzierak, 30, is alleged to have used the £450 silicon mask in an audacious string of six bank robberies in Ohio. Five of the robberies took place on the same day, April 9. Police in Springdale, Ohio released CCTV footage from the banks, appealing for public help in finding what they believed was an African-American male.
* An Asian male disguised himself as an elderly white man using a silicone mask and successfully board a flight from Hong Kong to Canada. The unnamed man boarded the Vancouver-bound flight on October 29. At some point during the flight, he went into the bathroom and took his mask off, emerging as the young, Asian man. Authorities said they were tipped off by the man’s hands, which looked too young compared to the rest of him.
* An armed robber was hunted by police after dressing as the Star Wars movie character Darth Vader during a bizarre raid on a New York bank in broad daylight. Police said the bandit entered the Chase bank branch on Long Island, brandishing a semi-automatic pistol before demanding money from staff. CCTV footage released by police showed the 6ft 2in gunman dressed as the Star Wars bad guy, with a costume complete with mask, dark cape and camouflage trousers. Customers and bank staff initially thought the raid was a joke, with one witness thinking the costume was so amusing he starting joking with the bandit.
* A man was being hunted by police in October after he raided a bookies in a Power Rangers disguise. The masked raider struck at the William Hill bookmakers in Sacriston, County Durham. He threatened two female staff members before making off with cash. The women were unharmed but left in shock after their ordeal. The robber, described as 5ft 2ins and 5ft 4ins tall, was wearing a blue tracksuit with a white stripe across the chest and a blue hood. His Power Rangers mask was silver grey below the nose and around the neck, and black above it.
* Then a more simple ‘disguise’. Police in California were in April trying to track down an elderly man who has robbed seven banks in the San Diego area. The grey-haired man, nicknamed the "Geezer bandit", waited patiently in line before approaching a bank teller at the California Bank and Trust teller in Vista, showing his handgun and passing over a note demanding cash. The FBI said that the teller handed over an undisclosed number of notes, which the placed in his personal organiser, and then calmly walked out of the bank. Believed to be in his seventies, the man wears prescription glasses and a baseball cap during the heists. He was described as roughly 5ft 10ins tall. It is not known if he was caught.
Best criminal disguises of 2010 – Telegraph
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