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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Indeed...

(Sorry, it's as large as I could get it..)

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"...swallow Sir Christopher Kelly's medicine."

Camera Phone - Shown!

A Doctor's Gift -"cath-art"

(thanks for allowing me to no longer piss blood - here's a cake.)

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Jim Stevens said he's not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup.

Stevens, of Jonesborough, said nearly every morning, an image that looks to him like the face of Jesus Christ has appeared in the condensation on the driver's side window of his Isuzu truck. A Johnson City Press photo of the truck showed a facial image.

Stevens said when he first saw the image, he figured it would evaporate and not return. But it kept reappearing for two weeks now.

Stevens said folks at the grocery store he goes to were amazed to see the image.

He said he isn't going to wash the truck for a while.

New Water

A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will eventually become a new ocean or sea, researchers now confirm.

The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005. Some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied.

A new study involving an international team of scientists and reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the processes creating the rift are nearly identical to what goes on at the bottom of oceans, further indication a new sea is in the region's future.

The same rift activity is slowly parting the Red Sea, too.

Using newly gathered seismic data from 2005, researchers reconstructed the event to show the rift tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days. Dabbahu, a volcano at the northern end of the rift, erupted first, then magma pushed up through the middle of the rift area and began "unzipping" the rift in both directions, the researchers explained in a statement today.

"We know that seafloor ridges are created by a similar intrusion of magma into a rift, but we never knew that a huge length of the ridge could break open at once like this," said Cindy Ebinger, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester and co-author of the study.

The result shows that highly active volcanic boundaries along the edges of tectonic ocean plates may suddenly break apart in large sections, instead of in bits, as the leading theory held. And such sudden large-scale events on land pose a much more serious hazard to populations living near the rift than would several smaller events, Ebinger said.

Pay Up!

The parents of a California State University, Sacramento student who was allegedly beaten to death by a dorm mate were still reeling with shock when they received another jolt.

Gerald and Elizabeth Hawkins say 10 days after their son Scott died, they got a bill for $29,186.50 from UC Davis Medical Center.

The bill from the hospital details the hospital's effort to revive the 23-year-old student.

The parents say the bill also implied that they were indigent, saying they hadn't paid what they owed.

A spokeswoman for the hospital says the bill was a mistake — it should have gone to an insurance company.

The 19-year-old suspect is hospitalized in fair condition. He was shot by police and will likely be booked on charges of murder when he recovers.

Tegan and Sara

Ray's Sausage

A convicted rapist and former Marine was ordered held without bond Wednesday after 10 bodies were found at his Cleveland home and a prosecutor described him as an "incredibly dangerous threat to the public."

Anthony Sowell, 50, appeared Wednesday before Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine on five counts of aggravated murder.

Authorities say more bodies could be found on his property. They searched Sowell's home, yard and nearby vacant buildings again Wednesday.

He has been in jail since last week, when police discovered the first six bodies Thursday and Friday after a woman reported being raped at Sowell's home. All six were black women; at least five had been strangled. The cause of death wasn't known for the sixth.

Investigators believe Sowell would meet women in bars or on the street, offer to go drinking with them and then lure them back to his house and sexually assault them, Stacho said. Some of those attacks turned deadly, according to police.

Investigators said they found one body in a shallow grave in the backyard. The rest were inside the house — one in the basement, two in the third-floor living room and two in an upstairs crawl space.

They found four more bodies Tuesday in Sowell's backyard, as well as a skull wrapped in paper inside a bucket in his basement.

The stench from the remains led to numerous complaints from neighbors who thought it was coming from Ray's Sausage next door, forcing the business to replace its drainage pipes and sewage line, owner Renee Cash told Fox News. But she had no idea the awful smell was that of decomposing bodies, she said.