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[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

We all know Merc's snake-hunting dog is indeed a Good Doggy, but can he do CPR?

Strange. I have never seen someone wake up from a heart attack. Maybe he had one to many Tinnies.

[Shawnee123]

Woman calls police to report a drunk driver.

Part of the 911 call:

Dispatch: You behind them?

Mary Strey: No, I am them.

Dispatch: You am them?

Mary Strey: Yes, I am them.

Dispatch: Okay, so you want to call and report you're driving drunk?

Mary Strey: Yes.

Story here: http://www.wqow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11415190

Link on left to hear actual call. It's better from the beginning because she explains where "the drunk driver" is.

And yet, I applaud her honesty...the life she saved may have been her own, or someone's child.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I'm sure the German courts have nothing better to do than dealing with this major criminal conspiracy.

Methinks the "colleague" that ratted her out was looking for a promotion, perhaps to the perp's job, eh? Maybe the perp's boss wants to play hide the salami with the "colleague"?

I thought the rolls was a Rolls, as in Royce. Then it would make sense.

[classicman]

Kind of a bummer, but wasn't sure where else to put this....

RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

The convict was arrested earlier this year after a seven-year old boy helped police in their investigation. The child left in the desert after the rape was three years old, Okaz newspaper said.

International rights groups have accused the kingdom, the birthplace of Islam, of applying draconian justice, beheading murderers, rapists and drug traffickers in public. So far this year about 40 people have been executed in Saudi Arabia.

In Saudi Arabia, crucifixion means tying the body of the convict to wooden beams to be displayed to the public after beheading.

Link

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by classicman

Kind of a bummer, but wasn't sure where else to put this....



Link

Can we have a chart... or a graph, plea'se?

[classicman]

No, you got a link and thats all you are getting. Smile, be full of hope and move along.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Well, that's better than whining and moaning about things you aren't sure of, or might happen, and can't do anything about, anyway.

[ZenGum]

RIYADH (Reuters) - A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man

Barbaric nutters

convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.

oh. er... no, stop don't do it... too late? Oh well...

[Scriveyn]

LHC at CERN goes phut again - scientists suspect fowl play

It is the machine that scientists hope will recreate the conditions present at the beginning of time. But scientists at the £3.6bn Large Hadron Collider (LHC) found their plans to emulate the big bang postponed this week when a passing bird dropped a "bit of baguette" into the machine, causing it to overheat.

The Guardian

[ZenGum]

A 21-year-old Australian man has admitted creating what is thought to be the first virus to infect Apple iPhones.

The virus, which can spread from phone to phone, changes the iPhone's wallpaper to a photograph of 1980s singer Rick Astley - best known for his hit Never Gonna Give You Up.

The wallpaper features the words "Ikee is never gonna give you up".

OMG I'VE BEEN RICKPHONED!!!!

[Nirvana]

[ZenGum]

I'm going to post the whole thing. It's both really important scientific progress and just damn wierd.

Engineered penises provide tailor-made transplants
Posted 20 minutes ago
Updated 17 minutes ago

Researchers in the United States have engineered functioning artificial penises in rabbits using cells from the animals, who then used their new organs to father baby rabbits.

The work takes scientists closer to making other complex solid organs using a patient's own cells and could one day help humans, the researchers reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study was led by Dr Anthony Atala, from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre's Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Dr Atala says it provides a tailor-made transplant.

"Once the tissue is there, the body recognises the tissue as its own," he said.

Dr Atala focused on the penis because he is a paediatric urologist, and has specialised for years in disorders and congenital defects of the bladder and sexual organs.

"That was the inspiration for this work," he said.

"We are seeing babies born with deficient genitalia all the time. There are no good options."

Human hopes

Dr Atala is also a specialist in regenerative medicine, which uses the body's own cells to repair damage.

In this case, his team used ordinary cells, not the stem cells often used in such research.

Dr Atala is hoping the procedure will work with people, perhaps starting with adult men who have had damage to their organs.

"Patients with congenital anomalies, penile cancer, traumatic penile injury, and some types of organic erectile dysfunction could benefit from this technology in the future," the team wrote in the report.

The process takes six weeks from beginning to end, and there is reason to believe a penis grafted onto a baby would grow with the child.

Dr Atala hopes the approach will work with other organs.

"We have made clitoral tissue in the past," he said.

"We have extensive work going on with kidneys and livers."

Making bunnies
Dr Atala's team first created a scaffold using the penis of a rabbit, and removed all the living cells from it, leaving only cartilage. They then took a small piece of tissue from the penis of another rabbit and grew the cells in a lab dish.

Dr Atala says the work has taken his team 18 years to complete.

"We had to find the right growth factors, the right soup to grow the cells in," he said.

They made sure to have two cell types, smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells, the same type of cells that line blood vessels.

The smooth muscle cells made the organ's spongy tissue and the endothelial cells grew into blood vessels - very important in an organ like the penis, which requires good blood supply.

The cells were seeded onto the scaffold, and six weeks later the researchers had penises to graft onto rabbits that had their penises removed.

The animals seemed to realise they had working organs again - the 12 with the grafts tried to mate with female rabbits within one minute of being put into cages with them, and four of the female rabbits became pregnant.

Those with the scaffolding alone and no working tissue did not even try.

So, they cut bunnies' willys off, grew new ones, stuck them on, and the bunnies had sex. No-fricken-bel prize, here we come!

[Nirvana]

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009...linic_cla.html

November 09, 2009, 6:47PM
NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio — A breeder from Columbus has sued a North Ridgeville animal clinic over a breeding mix-up that almost killed her champion show dog.
Barbara Lea Jacobs charges that her purebred Pembroke Welsh corgi was inseminated with semen from both a corgi and from a Great Pyrenees, which is five times the size of a corgi, because the semen was negligently mixed by veterinarian Dr. Robert Hutchison and Animal Clinic Northview.
"It was like breeding an elephant to a gazelle. She almost died. They destroyed the value of this bitch," said attorney David Jay Hyman, who is representing Jacobs and is also a breeder of show dogs.
The suit, filed in Delaware County, was transferred to Lorain County Common Pleas Court last week on a motion by Hutchison's attorney Todd Haemmerle.
Haemmerle said he could not comment on the case. Hutchison, who was also named individually in the suit, did not return phone calls.
Hyman said the corgi, known as Gwynne, was inseminated in 2007 with semen from a 30-pound corgi that was contaminated with semen from a 150-pound Great Pyrenees.
Gwynne conceived a litter that included two purebred corgis, six "abnormally large" Pyr-Corgi puppies and a puppy that died shortly after birth, according to the suit. Gwynne grew so large during the pregnancy that she was unable to eat normally or walk, and the puppies had to be delivered by cesarean section.
"She continued to bleed for three months, and was unable to care for her puppies," Hyman said. "She ultimately had to be spayed" -- destroying her reproductive and economic value to Jacobs, and ending her show career because spayed or neutered dogs cannot compete in American Kennel Club shows.
Gwynne had one litter of puppies previously, and would have been bred again several times, Hyman said. Purebred Pembroke Welsh corgi puppies are valued at $2,000 to $3,500, he said.
Hutchison, who is recognized by breeders internationally as an authority on small animal fertility and reproduction, produces approximately 150 frozen semen litters yearly, according to the Web site for Animal Clinic Northview.
The suit alleges four counts of negligence, fraud and breach of warranty, and seeks compensatory and punitive damages of $800,000 per count. Three other veterinarians who are shareholders in the clinic -- Brian Greenfield, Randall Hutchison and Matthew Wilson -- were also named in the suit.

[Crimson Ghost]

Next up - ManBearPig

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Crimson Ghost

Next up - ManBearPigWithBunnyDick