…Origami Master…you tube…
October 27, 2007
…WATCH THIS ORIGAMI MASTER…
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Men use about 15,000 words per/day…Women 30,000…Joke…humor
October 26, 2007
More Words
A husband looking through the paper came upon a study that said women use more words than men. It read, “Men use about 15,000 words per day, but women use 30,000.”
Excited to prove to his wife that he had been right all along when he accused her of talking too much, he showed her the study results.
The wife thought for a while, then finally she said to her husband, “It’s because we have to repeat everything we say.”
The husband said “What?”
Hundreds of ‘Missing’ Black Holes Found
October 25, 2007
Hundreds of ‘Missing’ Black Holes Found
Hundreds of “missing” black holes have been found lurking in dusty galaxies billions of light years away.
“Active, supermassive black holes were everywhere in the early universe,” said study team member Mark Dickinson of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tuscon, Ariz. “We had seen the tip of the iceberg before in our search for these objects. Now, we can see the iceberg itself.”
The finding, detailed in two studies published in the Nov. 10 issue of Astrophysical Journal, is the first direct evidence that most, if not all, massive galaxies in the distant universe spent their youths constructing supermassive black holes at their cores.
It could also help answer fundamental questions about how massive galaxies such as our Milky Way evolved.
“It’s as if we were blindfolded studying the elephant before, and we weren’t sure what kind of animal we had,” said study team member David Elbaz of the Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique in France.
Using NASA’s Chandra X~ray and Spitzer Space Telescopes, the team detected unusually high levels of infrared light emitted by 200 galaxies in the distant universe. They think the infrared light was created by material falling into “quasars” supermassive black holes surrounded by doughnut shaped clouds of gas and dust, at the center of the galaxies.
The new quasar containing galaxies are all about the same mass as our Milky Way, but are irregular in shape. They are located 9 billion to 11 billion light years away and existed at a time when the universe was in its adolescence and between 2.5 and 4.5 billion years old.
For decades, scientists have predicted that a large population of quasars should be found at those distances but had only spotted a few of them.
The new finding brings observations closer to theory. “We found most of the population of hidden quasars in the early universe,” said study leader Emanuele Daddi, also of the Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique.
The newfound quasars confirm what scientists have suspected for years now: that supermassive black holes play a major role in star formation in massive galaxies. The observations suggest massive galaxies steadily build up their stars and black holes simultaneously until they get too big and the black holes suppress star formation.
The new quasars also suggest that collisions between galaxies might not be as important for galaxy evolution as once thought. “Theorists thought mergers between galaxies were required to initiate this quasar activity, but now we see that quasars can be active in unharassed galaxies,” said study team member David Alexander of Durham University in the UK.
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Thank you SPACE.com
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Black hole…I just can’t get a grip on them…never understood them on Star Trek either…
I guess they are like the holes in swiss cheese…as my Father always said…”don’t eat the holes, Sharon!” I am still dumb~founded on that one!
Interglaxicial peace, Treckies…
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
The drug AVANDIA…gets more MEDICAL WARNINGS and still is on the market…
October 24, 2007
FDA wants big warning on Glaxo diabetes drug:ADVANDIA
In form NEW YORK, Food and Drug Administration officials are pushing for a “black box” warning on GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s hard-hit diabetes drug Avandia, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.
The warning would be a further blow to the top selling diabetes drug, which came under pressure last May when a U.S. analysis linked Avandia to a 43 percent higher risk of heart attack in patients.
Avandia already has strong warning advising of the risk of a different side effect, heart failure, the paper said. But a similar warning for the risks of heart attack would be more serious, it said.
The European Medicines Agency last week recommended a tighter label for Avandia, but said the benefits outweighed the risks of the drug and a similar one called Actos, made by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co..
Last July, an advisory panel to the FDA recommended that Avandia should stay on the market, but said it should have increased warnings.
Avandia posted global sales of $3.24 billion last year making it the company’s second-biggest seller. But sales have plummeted since the May study linking it to increased risk.
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Thank you Reuthers
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Well, there you have it Baby Boomer…look what we have here…a drug like heroin and crack…perhaps not as addictive, yet this drug can KILL you and they are allowing it to stay on the market…isn’t that special!
Over 2 million people [only the reported cases that they catch] die from pharmaceuticals, ever year and they continue to let you take this POISON!
Money and profit, is the key to your misery and suffering and perhaps the loss of your life and those that you love.
Greed…for the companies and for the politicians who are given funding by these large companies, to continue selling their poisons to the American public and at HUGE prices…let’s not forget that.
How many of you out there could afford your medications with out help form a blood sucking insurance company or the government…
There are your key words on who is in on this. Only those who are making a profit.
Take this from someone who at 13 was taking 28 pills a day and whose Lupus was/is drug induced.
Y’all know this is my BIGGGGGGEST rants…
How do you feel about it and what is your biggest rant?
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
A Banker gets his first Tailer made suit…
October 23, 2007
A banker decided to get his first tailor made suit
A young banker decided to get his first tailor made suit. So he went to the finest tailor in town and got measured for a suit. A week later he went in for his first fitting. He put on the suit and he looked stunning, he felt that in this suit he can do business.
As he was preening himself in front of the mirror he reached down to put his hands in the pockets and to his surprise he noticed that there were no pockets. He mentioned this to the tailor who asked him, “Didn’t you tell me you were a banker?”
The young man answered, “Yes, I did.”
To this the tailor said, “Who ever heard of a banker with his hands in his own pockets?”
SPORTS…La Russa to return for 13th season as manager of St. Louis Cardinals
October 22, 2007
La Russa to return for 13th season as manager of St. Louis Cardinals
From ST. LOUIS, of course, Tony La Russa will return for his 13th season as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals after a difficult year in which his team failed to play .500 ball, a team official told The Associated Press on Monday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because an announcement had not been made, did not know details of the contract. An afternoon news conference was scheduled at Busch Stadium.
The 63~year~old La Russa had weighed leaving after a trying season in which the defending World Series champions finished 78-84.
The year got off to a rocky start before the season even began when La Russa was arrested for drunken driving in March near the team’s spring training complex in Jupiter, Fla. Cardinals reliever Josh Hancock died in May after a drunken-driving accident, and several players were lost for long stretches of the season because injuries, including Chris Carpenter, the staff ace who pitched only in the season opener.
Speculation that La Russa would leave was fueled further when the Cardinals fired general manager Walt Jocketty this month. Jocketty and La Russa have been close since the days when both were with Oakland. The Cardinals have not hired Jocketty’s replacement.
La Russa has led St. Louis to seven playoff appearances, six NL Central championships, two pennants and the 2006 World Series win over Detroit. His A’s team won the 1989 World Series.
La Russa is 1,055~887 (.543) with the Cardinals. He is third on the career wins list with a lifetime record of 2,375~2,070 (.534) with the Chicago White Sox, Oakland A’s and the Cardinals.
He was AL manger of the year in 1983, 1988 and 1992, and NL manager of the year in 2002.
La Russa’s three year contract expired after this season. His name came up as a possible replacement for Joe Torre, who left the Yankees after 12 seasons, though La Russa denied interest in the Yankees job. La Russa took over the Cardinals after Torre was fired midway through the 1995 season.
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Thank you AP News and JIM SALTER, Associated Press Writer
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Well, there you have it Cardinal fans…do the Card’s need some new blood…you tell me…
I am a huge Cardinal and Braves fan. So much for the play offs…
Take me out tho the ball game…
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
Football and sport ledgend, MAX McGEE dies in fall…
October 21, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS, Max McGee, the unexpected hero of the first Super Bowl and a long-time challenge for Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi, died Saturday after falling from the roof of his home, police confirmed. He was 75.
Police were called to the former Green Bay receiver’s Deephaven home around 5:20 p.m., Sgt. Chris Whiteside said. Efforts to resuscitate McGee were unsuccessful.
McGee was blowing leaves off the roof when he fell, according to news reports. A phone message left at a number listed for an M. McGee wasn’t immediately returned.
“I just lost my best friend,” former teammate Paul Hornung told the St. Paul Pioneer Press. “(His wife) Denise was away from the house. She’d warned him not to get up there. He shouldn’t have been up there. He knew better than that.”
Inserted into Packers’ lineup when Boyd Dowler was sidelined by a shoulder injury, McGee went on to catch the first touchdown pass in Super Bowl history in Green Bay’s 35~10 victory over Kansas City in January 1967. Still hung over from a night on the town, McGee caught seven passes for 138 yards and two TDs.
“Now he’ll be the answer to one of the great trivia questions: Who scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl history?” Hornung said. “Vince knew he could count on him. … He was a great athlete. He could do anything with his hands.”
Though an admirer of Lombardi, McGee time and again pushed the tough~as~nails coach to the breaking point.
McGee, remembered for saying: “When it’s third~and~10, you can take the milk drinkers and I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time.” Put Lombardi to the ultimate test prior to the first Super Bowl.
McGee had caught only four passes for 91 yards during the 1966 regular season and, not expecting to play against the Chiefs, violated the team’s curfew and spent the night before the game partying.
Reportedly, the next morning he told Dowler: “I hope you don’t get hurt. I’m not in very good shape.”
Dowler went down with a separated shoulder on the Packers’ second drive, and McGee had to borrow a helmet because he left his in the locker room. A few plays later, McGee made a one-handed reception of a pass from Bart Starr and ran 37 yards to score.
“He had a delightful sense of humor and had a knack for coming up with big plays when you least expected it to happen,” Packers historian Lee Remmel said. “He had a great sense of timing.”
Remmel said McGee once teased Lombardi when the coach showed the team a football on their first meeting and said, “Gentlemen, this is a football.”
“McGee said, ‘Not so fast, not so fast,”‘ Remmel said. “That gives you an index to the kind of humor that he served up regularly.”
McGee was a running back at Tulane and the nation’s top kick returner in 1953.
Selected by the Packers in the fifth round of the 1954 draft, McGee spent two years in the Air Force as a pilot following his rookie year before returning in 1957 to play 11 more seasons. He finished his career with 345 receptions for 6,346 yards, an 18.4 yard average and scored 51 touchdowns and 306 points.
After retiring from football, he became a major partner in developing the popular Chi~Chi’s chain of Mexican restaurants. In 1979, he became an announcer for the Packer Radio Network with Jim Irwin until retiring in 1998.
McGee and wife Denise founded the Max McGee National Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in 1999.
According to the center’s Web site, his brother fought diabetes in his lifetime, and Max and Denise’s youngest son, Dallas, lives with the disease.
McGee is survived by his wife, four children and several grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were pending.
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Thank you Associated Press.
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What an unfortunate affair…75 and up on a roof…please don’t do this Baby Boomers….
This fine athelete and humanitian, will be missed.
Rest in peace…
~The Baby Boomer Queen~
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