Dr. Werner Brandes: Hi, name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
Too Many SecretsTuesday, June 3, 2008
Verdict! Justice? Good Burn!
A Manhattan Criminal Court jury found 44-year-old Christopher Carter not guilty of assault against hedge-fund manager Stuart Sugarman.Carter had complained about the 48-year-old Sugarman's loud hollering and grunting during the high-impact spin class and asked him to quiet down. Sugarman admitted that he refused. He said Carter lifted his exercise bike and hurled him into a wall, damaging a disc in his neck.
A juror says the jury did not believe Carter caused Sugarman's injury.
The 'Roid Scandal
Raymond's here! - Raymond's here! 
Preparation H, the topical medication used to treat hemorrhoids, reportedly is catching fire as the latest "drug" to hit the New York City club scene.
New York bouncer, blogger and author Rob Fitzgerald said men are slathering up their torsos with the hemorrhoid cream to make themselves look "ripped".
The method has been used by body builders to fix problem areas before competitions and has been touted on the Internet for its ability to sculpt muscles of the chest and torso and even reduce puffiness around the eyes, according to the report.
It works by constricting the nearby blood vessels that surround the area. But the ingredient will shrink other tissue as well, hence its off-label use.
Preparation H, the topical medication used to treat hemorrhoids, reportedly is catching fire as the latest "drug" to hit the New York City club scene.New York bouncer, blogger and author Rob Fitzgerald said men are slathering up their torsos with the hemorrhoid cream to make themselves look "ripped".
The method has been used by body builders to fix problem areas before competitions and has been touted on the Internet for its ability to sculpt muscles of the chest and torso and even reduce puffiness around the eyes, according to the report.
It works by constricting the nearby blood vessels that surround the area. But the ingredient will shrink other tissue as well, hence its off-label use.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Once You Pop, You Just Can't Stop...Unless...
The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans.Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice in Cincinnati, his family said. He was 89.
Baur's children said they honored his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave in suburban Springfield Township. The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the can, with some placed in another urn and given to a grandson.
I Knew It!!!
Monkeys control robots with their minds!
Scientists have trained a group of monkeys to feed themselves marshmallows using a robot arm controlled by sensors implanted in their brains.
Lead researcher Andrew Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh said he believes it won't be long before the technology is tested in humans, although he predicts it will be longer before the devices are used in actual patients with disabilities.
The arm is controlled by a network of tiny electrodes called a brain-machine interface, implanted into the motor cortex of the monkeys' brains -- the region that controls movement.
It picks up the signals of brain cells as they generate commands to move and converts those into directional signals for the robotic arm, which the monkeys eventually used as a surrogate for their own.
In a video, a macaque monkey uses the robotic arm to seize pieces of marshmallow off a thin rod positioned at various locations. The arm is designed to move realistically, with a range of shoulder movements -- an elbow that moves in just one direction and a simple claw grip to simulate a hand.
Lead researcher Andrew Schwartz of the University of Pittsburgh said he believes it won't be long before the technology is tested in humans, although he predicts it will be longer before the devices are used in actual patients with disabilities.
The arm is controlled by a network of tiny electrodes called a brain-machine interface, implanted into the motor cortex of the monkeys' brains -- the region that controls movement.
It picks up the signals of brain cells as they generate commands to move and converts those into directional signals for the robotic arm, which the monkeys eventually used as a surrogate for their own.
In a video, a macaque monkey uses the robotic arm to seize pieces of marshmallow off a thin rod positioned at various locations. The arm is designed to move realistically, with a range of shoulder movements -- an elbow that moves in just one direction and a simple claw grip to simulate a hand.
Still A Dork...
Andria Baker has pretty much always been present. From the first day of kindergarten through her last day of high school, Baker somehow made it to school for every day of classes, despite colds and sports injuries. Why? If she kept it up, her father promised her a car.She notched her 13th year of uninterrupted classroom attendance with her final day at Constantine High School on Friday.
At a party Sunday, her father, Tim, presented the young woman with the keys to a new, $17,000 Pontiac G6, complete with a "0 DAYS" personalized license plate.
I think he should've gone with "FKN-DORK"- but that's just me...
Oodles Of Noodles
Students at the University of Tokyo used a carbon-based material to produce a noodle bowl with a diameter 1/25,000 of an inch in a project aimed at developing nanotube-processing technology.Nanotubes are tube-shaped pieces of carbon, measuring about one-ten-thousandth of the thickness of a human hair.
Carbon nanotubes are being explored for a wide range of uses in electronics and medicine because their structure endows them with powerful physical properties such as a strength greater than steel.
The ramen bowl experiment included a string of "noodles" that measured one-12,500th of an inch in length, with a thickness of one-1.25 millionth of an inch.
"We believe it's the world's smallest ramen bowl, with the smallest portion of noodles inside, though they are not edible," Nakao said.
Still Not Gay...
Just when you thought you'd heard the end of the bathroom stall jokes, a Larry Craig “bobble-foot” is created.The Idaho Senator was arrested at the Minneapolis Saint Paul airport by an officer who was investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men's public restroom.
So, the Saint Paul Saints decided it would be a great publicity stunt to have “bobble-foot” day. The team is famous for oddball giveaways.
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