JOPLIN, Mo. - An aggressive fungus is striking Joplin tornado victims, contributing to a handful of deaths.
Doctors told the Springfield News-Leader that at least nine survivors may have contracted blood-vessel invading zygomycosis infections.
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Kendra Williams, of the health department, says the common fungus likely came from soil or vegetative materials imbedded in the skin by the tornado.
Aiieiiiieeeee!
When US election time comes around, many people here will wistfully hope that one party wins the House and that the other party will win the Senate, thus setting up the wonderous state where partisan considerations prevent any legislation of significance from passing: "gridlock". This is, the theory goes, a good thing because a Congress that can't do anything is a Congress that can't fuck up anything.
Well, the GOP has the House and the Dems have the Senate (though only barely because the Senate is a completely broken institution). So, all, you cynical wishers: your wish has come true. And
we are all suffering because of it.
Elaine Davidson has an eye-watering 6,925 piercings covering her body – including 500 studs in her genitalia.
Brazilian-born Elaine, 46, got hitched to her older lover Douglas Watson, who is aged in his 60s, at a low-key wedding reception in Edinburgh yesterday.
She made a bizarre sight in a flowing white wedding gown and floral tiara with only her face visible – which was painted green and covered in 192 piercings.
Pix on the article at swns.com !
Weiner: I have made terrible mistakes.
Confesses to sending original Twitter pic.
Tearful apology to family and friends. "I came here to accept the full responsibility for what i have done."
"I am not resigning."
"I don't know what I was thinking." Calls his own behavior "destructive" and "dumb."
"I regret not being honest about this. ... I was embarrassed. I was humiliated."
"This is not something that can be treated away."
Weiner says his online relationships involved some 6 women. "Some of these relationships date back as long as three years."
His weak-ass non-denials sure brought out the defensive reflexes in a lot of lefties though!
When my NAS recently died, it took (among other things) our music collection with it. Luckily, I had a full backup from three weeks ago, so I recovered 99% of what we had. But, those missing three weeks were three busy weeks for music purchases. I had two records from Anita O'Day, the new Beastie Boys, Dirty Projectors, Old Crow Medicine Show, and many others that I couldn't remember.
Then I remembered that most of those new songs are on my iPod, so they weren't lost forever. But, as I recalled, plugging an iPod into iTunes starts the sync process, which would sync the iPod with the old iPod playlist, which didn't have the new stuff, which means those new songs would be deleted. Can't do that! So, I found an program that could take songs off an iPod and import them back into iTunes. All I had to do was find the songs I bought during the lost three weeks and click a couple of buttons. Simple! Except, I forgot all the things I'd purchased. I got most of them, but knew there were more... After racking my brain for a while, I gave up and decided I'd just have to repurchase anything I forgot to save.
So... Did all that, plugged the iPod into the dock and iTunes popped up a box that said "Hey, looks like there are some songs on the iPod that aren't in your library. Do you want me to add them to your library for you?" Fuck yeah I do! Finally, when confronted with an exceptional situation, iTunes does exactly what a normal person would want it to do! Thanks, Apple!
A teenage girl in Germany who forgot to mark her birthday invitation as private on Facebook fled her own party when more than 1,500 guests showed up and around 100 police officers, some on horses, were needed to keep the crowd under control.
Eleven people were temporarily detained, one police officer was injured, dozens of girls wearing flip-flops cut their feet on broken glass and firefighters had to extinguish two small fires at the 16th birthday party in Hamburg, police spokesman Mirko Streiber said Sunday.
The birthday girl, identified only as Thessa, went into hiding, Streiber said, but "nonetheless the party was a hit."