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xoxoxoBruce 01-13-2013 08:37 PM

stem cells
 
A woman in L.A. had a stem cell facelift, causing her to grow a bone in her eyelid.

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A resident of Los Angeles in her late sixties, she explained that she could not open her right eye without considerable pain and that every time she forced it open, she heard a strange click—a sharp sound, like a tiny castanet snapping shut. After examining her in person at The Morrow Institute in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Wu could see that something was wrong: Her eyelid drooped stubbornly, and the area around her eye was somewhat swollen. Six and a half hours of surgery later, he and his colleagues had dug out small chunks of bone from the woman's eyelid and tissue surrounding her eye, which was scratched but largely intact. The clicks she heard were the bone fragments grinding against one another.

About three months earlier the woman had opted for a relatively new kind of cosmetic procedure at a different clinic in Beverly Hills—a face-lift that made use of her own adult stem cells. First, cosmetic surgeons had removed some the woman's abdominal fat with liposuction and isolated the adult stem cells within—a family of cells that can make many copies of themselves in an immature state and can develop into several different kinds of mature tissue. In this case the doctors extracted mesenchymal stem cells—which can turn into bone, cartilage or fat, among other tissues—and injected those cells back into her face, especially around her eyes. The procedure cost her more than $20,000, Wu recollects. Such face-lifts supposedly rejuvenate the skin because stem cells turn into brand-new tissue and release chemicals that help heal aging cells and stimulate nearby cells to proliferate.

During the face-lift her clinicians had also injected some dermal filler, which plastic surgeons have safely used for more than 20 years to reduce the appearance of wrinkles. The principal component of such fillers is calcium hydroxylapatite, a mineral with which cell biologists encourage mesenchymal stem cells to turn into bone—a fact that escaped the woman's clinicians.
Krones beware, those salons clinics may not be a good idea.

footfootfoot 01-13-2013 09:15 PM

Well at least she hasn't got a bone through her nose...



ZenGum 01-13-2013 09:54 PM

Bone in the eye? That's nothing. I've got an eye in the end of my bone.

footfootfoot 01-13-2013 10:10 PM

And blind in your one good eye, I've heard.

Nirvana 01-13-2013 10:10 PM

That explains what those ticks are after...

ZenGum 01-14-2013 07:50 PM

Infinity monkeys playing on typewriters may perhaps produce Shakespearean works, but give one monkey a TV and its :jagoff: all bloody day.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-adult-TV.html

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'To enliven Gina's nights, officials decided to install a Freeview television, protected behind glass, and gave her a remote control so she could change the channels herself.

“In the early trials, her keepers visited Gina to check that everything was in order and she did not break the new toy.

“The surprise came when they found that within a few days, Gina was not only using the remote control perfectly well, but that she also chose the porn channel for entertainment, as many of us would have done.”

footfootfoot 01-14-2013 08:42 PM

Whoa that set me on an hour long Dailymail tangent. I feel caught up, though.

DanaC 01-15-2013 04:17 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 847974)
Whoa that set me on an hour long Dailymail tangent. I feel caught up, though.

Do you also feel a little dirty? Take a shower.

footfootfoot 01-15-2013 11:12 AM

I do feel a little dirty. How did you know? Did I leave my webcam on again?

Rhianne 01-15-2013 02:36 PM

Once, in Sudan, I fell into an open sewer - and I still didn't feel as dirty as I had after merely scanning over a couple of pages of the Daily Mail.

Spexxvet 01-17-2013 08:09 AM

2 Attachment(s)
A 5 year old girl was abducted from a school in Philly. Here are surveillance pics and an artists rendering of the suspect. Just kidding about the rendering

Gravdigr 01-17-2013 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 848644)
Just kidding about the rendering

We know. Her fingernails are painted.

The whore.

ZenGum 01-17-2013 06:51 PM

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A SOFTWARE developer has been busted for outsourcing his own job to a programmer in China, while he watched cat videos at work.

SNIP

A search of the employee's computer found hundreds of PDF invoices from a third party contractor in Shenyang.

Eventually, it was discovered the employee had outsourced his own job to a Chinese consulting firm, paying about $US50,000 to the firm out of his own salary of several hundred thousand dollars.

SNIP


The "best part" of the story is that "for the last several years in a row he received excellent remarks" in his performance review, Mr Valentine wrote in his blog.

"His code was clean, well written, and submitted in a timely fashion. Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building."


More details at the link. :lol:

glatt 01-17-2013 07:55 PM

I want to know how they caught on to him.

ZenGum 01-17-2013 07:58 PM

At the link, it says how they noticed someone logging in from China. If he'd been smart enough to get them in through a proxy on his home computer, he'd probably still be getting six figures to watch kitty videos.

It's so unfair. If the boss outsources your job, it's good business, but if you outsource your own job, it's misconduct.

DanaC 01-18-2013 11:34 AM

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Scottish ski resort closes because of too much snow
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The resort has been forced to close its doors to skiers today (Friday January 15th) in the wake of a two-day blizzard that has left approach roads to the centre impassable and sections of its funicular railway submerged in deep drifts of up to 15ft..

The centre called in specialist clearing equipment yesterday, including caterpillar vehicles and snow blowers, but these efforts have been defeated by the weather.

A statement on the resort website this morning reads: “The mountain and all facilities, access roads and car parks will be closed today (Friday) to allow for digging out after major drifting during the storm.

“We have come in this morning and it feels like groundhog day. All our work yesterday has been filled in again.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/ar...#ixzz2ILjgfrZ7
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Sundae 01-18-2013 11:37 AM

I know it's not weird news. But school closed at midday today.
Bearing in mind I only got in at 10.00 (after the Doctors) and we had break at 10.15 I did precious little work today.

Tiger was off anyway.
Felt bad about being so slack, but at least it didn't hurt him.

Gravdigr 01-24-2013 04:31 PM

Just letting you all know...I'll be moving to Juneau soon.

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JUNEAU — Two dancers on stage at an exotic dance club in Juneau got into a physical fight over $1, according to a Dodge County Sheriff’s Department report.

Officers were called to Silk Exotic around 9:30 p.m. Thursday to break up the fight.

A customer was trying to give a dollar to one of the dancers, but the other dancer took it, according to the report.

Both women fell to the floor, pulled each other’s hair and punched and slapped each other. Other dancers and customers separated the women.

One of the dancers involved in the fight is pregnant. Both women were cited for disorderly conduct.

Dodge County Sheriff Todd Nehls said calls to the club are rare.

“I was surprised by this as we seldom receive calls for service from this business — this is a rare exception,” he said.

BigV 01-24-2013 05:18 PM

When you do, you must get some night food. Trust me, it's delicious.

Gravdigr 01-24-2013 05:22 PM

I gotta request some clarification on "night food".

Ima assume it's more than just food et at night?

BigV 01-24-2013 05:31 PM

well, it was awhile ago. the bars closed and we weren't done it seemed, it's all pretty foggy now. I posted *then* thought... hm. I better look it up. I don't remember the name of the outfit--I only remember walking up to a window that opened onto their kitchen. There was a long line for oh-dark-thirty in the morning. They're only open (really) late at night. They make up the batch of food, sell it and when they're out, they're done. I was urged to go there by the other folks I worked with, they just told me it's across from the hotel... shit. I forget how they told me to order. Suffice to say, I placed my order phonetically, since I didn't know what they served, and there was no menu. I got this big square styrofoam clamshell takeaway container totally full of some steaming hot food. There was meat, and some . . . dumplings? It was the best meal I had on the whole trip.

I looked around on the internet a bit and the closest thing I could find was "Pel Meni's" and they serve russian meatballs / dumplings. That may well be it. We were not falling down drunk, but we had been drinking.

so, to answer your question, yes, it was 'just food', but it was transcendent.

Clodfobble 02-01-2013 08:05 PM

"You see, officer, this stranger just gave me this SUV, I had no idea it was stolen..."

Oh, but it gets so much better.

infinite monkey 02-01-2013 08:18 PM

That is funny! :lol:

footfootfoot 02-01-2013 10:31 PM

You laugh. Canadian black flies can be brutal, especially in January.

Ask Ortho, she'll tell you.

orthodoc 02-01-2013 11:01 PM

Yeah, the black flies that don't go south for the winter? They're hungry in January, those little buggers. Climbing a tree is a good solution, all the bears do it. Even the ones with stolen SUVs.

IamSam 02-02-2013 12:36 AM

No, no - it was the HEAD LICE!

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Blake said he took off his Toronto Blue Jays cap and replaced it with a black Blue Jays toque he found on the front seat — even though his parents had always warned him about head lice.

Renaud told police the attacker wore a Blue Jays toque.

“I put it on my head. It was the first thing I did. I guess it was stupid,” said Blake.

For some reason, I don't think that was the FIRST stupid thing he did. :flycatch:

ZenGum 02-02-2013 01:16 AM

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“I was trying to make the horse have a baby,” Mendoza explained. “I was thinking it would have a horseman baby.” He added, “I ain’t going to lie, I blew a nut in the horse. I then got off the bucket and put my clothes back on and left. I promise that I have not been back over to the horse since that time.”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/man-d...horseman-baby/

Story gets grim with the update.

Gravdigr 02-02-2013 03:49 PM

Gets grim? Gets!?

Gravdigr 02-02-2013 03:51 PM

Wife: Andrew, what are you doing in the barn?

Andrew: Nuttin' honey!
_______________________________

♪ ♫A horse is a horse, of course of course,
and no one can nut in a horse of course,
unless of course, the nutter of the horse,
Is the famous Mister Dead!♪ ♫

limey 02-02-2013 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 849912)
.... "Pel Meni's" and they serve russian meatballs / dumplings. That may well be it. We were not falling down drunk, but we had been drinking.

so, to answer your question, yes, it was 'just food', but it was transcendent.

pel'meni is the Russian for a sort of ravioli. Little meat parcels wrapped,in pasta envelopes and cooked in broth. Often served with sour cream. Heaven on a plate.


Sent by thought transference

DanaC 02-02-2013 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 851250)
Gets grim? Gets!?

Word.

footfootfoot 02-02-2013 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by limey (Post 851253)
pel'meni is the Russian for a sort of ravioli. Little meat parcels wrapped,in pasta envelopes and cooked in broth. Often served with sour cream. Heaven on a plate.


Sent by thought transference

Sounds almost as good as potato pierogis

ZenGum 02-03-2013 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 851250)
Gets grim? Gets!?

Well, you know, relatively. To start, it's just some screw-up banging a horse thinking he's going to make little centaur pony-babies. (BTW, America, you need to spend more on education. And mental health). Okay, messed up, but not really grim.

Then he hangs himself in prison after being arrested for molesting a child. That's grim.

footfootfoot 02-03-2013 08:19 PM

Yeah, cause now I can use the old, "A good mare will do that you know." punchline. It would be in bad taste.

ZenGum 02-08-2013 07:06 PM

So, you're in prison, and you have a mobile phone you shouldn't have, and you get a tip your cell is about to be searched.

Of course, hide the phone in the traditional "prison safe".

Pro-tip: turn the phone off, first. Or at least, set it on silent.

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2...tes-phone?lite

ETA: better idea ... change your ring-tone to fart noises.

footfootfoot 02-08-2013 10:53 PM

It was just a shitty phone. What's the big deal? It's not like he was a stool pigeon.

infinite monkey 02-09-2013 07:31 AM

He didn't miss an important call...it was just his buddy who's always talking out of his ass about some get rich quick scheme. Colin, that's the one. Lot of intestinal fortitude, that one.

footfootfoot 02-09-2013 08:52 AM

Oh yeah, with friends like Colin, who needs enemas?

infinite monkey 02-09-2013 10:51 AM

We really need to go on the road: ;)

Gravdigr 02-09-2013 04:33 PM

And I thought my old Motorola was a turd...

ZenGum 02-09-2013 08:08 PM

I hope the guards checked the call log.


Gives a new meaning to "cell phone".

BigV 02-14-2013 10:13 AM

Sell it? You couldn't *give* it away.

xoxoxoBruce 02-24-2013 03:56 PM

Georgia... good grief
 
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A Bartow County man jailed on an aggravated battery charge said his aunt provoked him into an attack after refusing to take him to the tanning salon. Charles Wesley Guyton, 47, of Gum Springs Lane in Rydal, was arrested in connection with the Thursday incident at his home about 8:30 p.m.
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Guyton allegedly told cops he and his 76-year-old aunt had been in a verbal arguement because she refused to take him to the tanning bed. He said his aunt, also a Rydal resident, provoked the alleged attack when she said: "Well if you keep laying in the tanning bed, before long your face is going to fall off."
~snip~
Her lower jaw was broken in two places, and appeared to be "grossly out of place" and bruised, according to a doctor and a deputy.
"Guyton said he knew what he did was wrong, but [his aunt] should have known by saying what she said would provoke him," a deputy reported.
Yeah damnit, she shoulda known. :rolleyes:

Gravdigr 02-25-2013 05:41 PM

So, this woman has no living male relatives to stomp this pathetic sumbitch's guts out?

Trilby 02-26-2013 08:20 AM

I'd've taken him to the tanning salon.


And put it up to 11.

glatt 02-26-2013 08:56 AM

Anyone want a free cruise ship? It's out there, drifting in the middle of the Atlantic.

morethanpretty 02-26-2013 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 854534)
So, this woman has no living male relatives to stomp this pathetic sumbitch's guts out?

Why does it have to be a male relative? I'd stomp anyone's ass who dared to hurt a family member of mine. Maybe taze them, then hold them in a locked room with out anything for awhile. Sure I may get locked up for kidnapping and torture and such, but it'll be worth it.

Idiot doesn't think that what he did was wrong at all, he's blaming the 70 something year old woman for him throwing a temper tantrum. He fucking broke her jaw!

xoxoxoBruce 02-26-2013 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 854616)
Anyone want a free cruise ship? It's out there, drifting in the middle of the Atlantic.

Torpedo practice.

DanaC 02-26-2013 11:48 AM

The guy was a male relative.

morethanpretty 02-26-2013 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 854662)
The guy was a male relative.

Point won.

Gravdigr 02-26-2013 02:30 PM

Be kinda hard (and highly unlikely) for him to stomp his own guts out, now wouldn't it?

morethanpretty 02-26-2013 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 854682)
Be kinda hard (and highly unlikely) for him to stomp his own guts out, now wouldn't it?

Her point is that he *is* a male relative, yet he's the one who hurt her.

morethanpretty 02-27-2013 03:22 PM

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/2...dhand-clothes/

These people are so fucking nuts. His answer is based off of a 3rd hand story he heard, not even something in the bible. I mean, what? My mind is melting.

Gravdigr 02-27-2013 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by morethanpretty (Post 854744)
Her point is that he *is* a male relative, yet he's the one who hurt her.

And it was my point that the gentleman in question is *not* going to stomp his own guts out.

morethanpretty 02-27-2013 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 854913)
And it was my point that the gentleman in question is *not* going to stomp his own guts out.

So what, another *male* relative is supposed to do it? Why don't you just shut your sexist piehole. I'm tired of it.

ZenGum 02-27-2013 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by morethanpretty (Post 854907)
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/2...dhand-clothes/

These people are so fucking nuts. His answer is based off of a 3rd hand story he heard, not even something in the bible. I mean, what? My mind is melting.

That first sentence alone packed me up. :lol:


Imma gonna flip some tags,
only got SAAAAATAAAAAN in my pocket ...

footfootfoot 02-27-2013 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by morethanpretty (Post 854907)
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/2...dhand-clothes/

These people are so fucking nuts. His answer is based off of a 3rd hand story he heard, not even something in the bible. I mean, what? My mind is melting.

You need to move north

Gravdigr 02-28-2013 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by morethanpretty (Post 854916)
I'm tired of it.

I don't particularly care what you are tired of.

You manufactured any sexism here. You deal with it.

You will not bother me today.

:D

Gravdigr 02-28-2013 05:01 PM

...but, you could go make me a sammich.

DanaC 02-28-2013 05:12 PM

I was just pointing out that he was a male relative because the tone of some responses seemed to be assuming that an outsider had done this to her. 'If someone did this to my relative...' and 'no living male relatives'.

I'd make you a sammich, but then I'd probably eat it myself :p


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