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- Flesh-eating ‘zombie’ drug ‘kills you from the inside out’
- Evidence Suggests Early Britons Ate Roasted Toads
- 'Rare weird' 18-foot sea serpent found dead in California
- eBay Founder Teams Up With Glenn Greenwald For New Project
- ABC: Man Sprinkles Fiancee's Ashes at Eyewear Store
- First-day Rock Hall of Fame fan voting favors Nirvana, KISS - Gov Brown Should be happy
- NYT: Pounding Pavement by Heel or Toe
| Flesh-eating ‘zombie’ drug ‘kills you from the inside out’ Posted: 16 Oct 2013 02:42 PM PDT Wow. A Russian killer. - Daniel Webster Full Article Flesh-eating 'zombie' drug 'kills you from the inside out'Posted on: 3:31 pm, October 16, 2013, by Staff Writer  (CNN) — A flesh-eating drug that turns people into zombie-like creatures seems to have made its way to the United States. This extremely addictive injectable opioid is called krokodil (pronounced like crocodile) or desomorphine. It's so named in part because users report black or green scaly skin as a side effect. This weekend five people were hospitalized in the Chicago suburb of Joliet, Illinois, with symptoms similar to cases reported recently by health care providers in Arizona and Oklahoma. Dr. Abhin Singla said he suspects a woman he treated this weekend was suffering from krokodil addiction. Singla is an internist and addiction specialist at Joliet's Presence St. Joseph Medical Center. The patient lost significant portions of her legs, he said. "It's a zombie drug — it literally kills you from the inside out," Singla said. "If you want way to die, this is a way to die." Krokodil causes serious damage to the veins and soft tissue infections, rapidly followed by gangrene and necrosis, according to a 2013 study (PDF).           |
| Evidence Suggests Early Britons Ate Roasted Toads Posted: 16 Oct 2013 02:38 PM PDT More evidence comes out for the underlying reasons for 1776. - Daniel Webster Full Article Evidence Suggests Early Britons Ate Roasted ToadsLONDON October 16, 2013 (AP)A promising excavation about a mile (1.6 kms) from Stonehenge has unearthed a host of clues about the diet of prehistoric Britons — among them a tiny, partially burnt toad bone which suggests they snacked on amphibians. The University of Buckingham says that the charred leg bone was found alongside fish bones and the remains of aurochs, the wild ancestor of today's cattle, at a site in the town of Amesbury, about 85 miles (135 kilometers) west of London. The finding has yet to be peer-reviewed, but other experts described the dig as very significant. Natural History Museum researcher Simon Parfitt said Wednesday there was no doubt that the animal remains found there dated from prehistoric times.      |
| 'Rare weird' 18-foot sea serpent found dead in California Posted: 16 Oct 2013 02:33 PM PDT Found on Catalina Island, California. Fabulous catch. - Daniel Webster  'Rare weird' 18-FOOT SEA SERPENT found DEAD in CaliforniaThrilled staffers pull massive bony lengthiness onto Californian beachBy Brid-Aine Parnell, 16th October 2013Vid A marine boffin has come across a terrifying 18-foot "sea serpent" off the coast of California. Marine science instructor Jasmine Santana was swimming along the coast of Catalina Island when she came across the huge beast, which was actually a rare oarfish, but nonetheless the "discovery of a lifetime", according to local news network KTLA. The oarfish, a type of elongated lampriform fish, looks like a giant snake. It was dead when Santana found it, having apparently succumbed to natural causes. "It took 15 or 20 of us to pick it up," said Jeff Chace, a programme director at the Catalina Island Marine Institute, where Santana works. Oarfish, which can grow up to more than 15m (50ft), are the longest bony fish in the world, but they're usually found only further away from the shore, not so close to land. "It's one of these rare weird things you see in Southern California," Chace said. Both kids at the marine camp and employees of the institute got a good look at the little-known fish, which was pulled up onto the beach. But the institute isn't sure what it could do with the body since it won't fit in the freezer, Chace said.      |
| eBay Founder Teams Up With Glenn Greenwald For New Project Posted: 16 Oct 2013 02:21 PM PDT Will watch this to see if they are doing it right. Doubtful. - Daniel Webster http://www.valuewalk.com/2013/10/ebay-glenn-greenwald/ eBay Founder Teams Up With Glenn Greenwald For New Projectby Anna PeelOctober 16, 2013Reports are circulating that Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay) is partnering with Glenn Greenwald (reporter for Reuters) to create a new website. Yesterday it was reported that Greenwald was leaving his position with Reuters as NSA leaks reporter to create a new project. Omidyar partnership with Glenn GreenwaldAlthough Omidyar declined to share information on the project, it should be noted the website venture will include documentarian Laura Poitras. This project will follow his history of Omidyar Network's socially motivated investments. This network helped investing non-profit programs like Sunlight Foundation (which works to create more transparency in the government), Honolulu Civil Beat and Sahara Reporters (investigative journalism programs), and Global Voices (citizen media). The Verge shared the following: "Speaking to NYU's Jay Rosen, Pierre Omidyar has elaborated on the new project, to be named NewCo. He says the site will be based on a personal franchise model of journalism, attracting "individual journalists who have their own reputations, deep subject matter expertise, clear points of view, an independent and outsider spirit, a dedicated online following, and their own way of working." The site will be funded by Omidyar personally, not through the Omidyar Network, but is intended as a for-profit venture rather than a non-profit charity." This collaboration project should prove to be as successful at the rest of the projects from Omidyar Network.      |
| ABC: Man Sprinkles Fiancee's Ashes at Eyewear Store Posted: 16 Oct 2013 02:16 PM PDT Grief stricken, no doubt. Couldn't the deceased have a connection reaching beyond the grave with someplace other than LensCrafters? Really? LensCrafters? - Daniel Webster http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-sprinkles-fiancees-ashes-eyewear-store-20591042 Man Sprinkles Fiancee's Ashes at Eyewear Store SARASOTA, Fla. October 16, 2013 (AP) Police say no charges will be filed against a grieving man who sprinkled some of his dead fiancee's ashes near an eyewear store, causing a Florida mall to be evacuated and shut down for two hours. Sarasota police Lt. Pat Ledwith says a man on Tuesday sprinkled some of the ashes in places that were special to the couple. Officials say the woman had a connection to LensCrafters in the Westfield Southgate Mall and because of that, the man released some of the ashes there on Tuesday. To store workers and passersby, it was unclear what the white powdery substance was. Police and hazmat crews responded, and the mall was shut down. Police say the mall and the Sarasota Fire Department could seek to recover civil costs from the man, who wasn't named.      |
| First-day Rock Hall of Fame fan voting favors Nirvana, KISS - Gov Brown Should be happy Posted: 16 Oct 2013 02:10 PM PDT Governor Jerry Moonbeam Brown should be happy with this list - Daniel Webster Current Headlines on WordsFromWebster.com First-day Rock Hall of Fame fan voting favors Nirvana, KISS Full Article  Seattle grunge-rock group Nirvana leads fan voting for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the first day of balloting. (Chris Cuffaro / DGC Records) By Randy Lewis October 16, 2013, 1:17 p.m. Elvis Presley's camp once famously argued that "50,000,000 fans can't be wrong." And although fans can weigh in on which artists they think should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year, their preferences -- in the words of another great American pop culture icon -- "won't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." That's because whichever five of the 16 just-announced nominees receive the most fan votes at www.rockhall.org, whether it's 50,000 or 50 million, it will generate just a single additional vote for each artist to be tallied with the other 600 cast by voting members of the rock hall. Except in the case of a dead heat, fan opinion doesn't carry much weight.      |
| NYT: Pounding Pavement by Heel or Toe Posted: 16 Oct 2013 01:55 PM PDT Current Headlines at WordsFromWebster.com Full Article http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/pounding-pavement-by-heel-or-toe/?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0Pounding Pavement by Heel or Toe By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS  Thomas Barwick/Getty ImagesGretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Heel strike or toe strike? With the fall marathon-training season in full stride, it is time once again to argue about running form. How a runner's foot should strike the ground incites passionate debate among athletes and coaches, despite scant persuasive evidence to support either position. But a noteworthy new study may help to quell the squabbling, by suggesting that each style of running has advantages and drawbacks, and the right way to run almost certainly depends on what kind of runner you already are. For the new study, published in June in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, researchers at the Tampere Research Center of Sports Medicine in Tampere, Finland, began by using motion capture technology to determine the running form of 286 young adults from the area who played team sports. None competed in distance running. All wore their normal running shoes during testing. The testing showed that 19 of the women and 4 of the men struck first with their forefeet while striding. These small numbers tally with other reports, most of which have found that an overwhelming majority of modern runners, whether male or female, slow or swift, are heel strikers. In a telling study published in May in The International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, almost 2,000 runners participating in a recent Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon were filmed midway through the event and their form analyzed. About 94 percent proved to be heel strikers, including quite a few of the fastest runners. Pounding Pavement by Heel or Toe      |
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