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Lets start an on going thread about current events ,feel free to share events. I will start . This is part of an article about lead exposure.
Lead Exposure in Childhood Linked to Criminal Behavior Later
30-year study finds higher blood lead levels raised risk of arrest in adulthood
WEDNESDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- Children who are exposed to lead at a young age are more likely to be arrested later in life.
A study in the May 27 issue of PLoS Medicine is the first empirical evidence that elevated blood lead levels, both in the pregnant mother and in the child, are associated with criminal behavior in young adulthood.
"I never would have thought that we would be seeing these effects into the later 20s," said study co-author Kim Dietrich, a professor of environmental health at the University of Cincinnati. "I'm actually quite astounded and quite worried about this. Although lead levels have been going down in this country, a large proportion of the population now in their 20s and 30s had blood levels in this neurotoxic range."
Childhood lead exposure has been linked with anti-social behavior, lower IQ, attention deficits, hyperactivity and weak executive control functions, all of which are risk factors for future delinquent behavior (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, in particular, is a risk factor for adult criminal behavior). Studies have also related sales of leaded gasoline or high atmospheric lead levels with criminal behavior.
Lead Exposure in Childhood Linked to Criminal Behavior Later
30-year study finds higher blood lead levels raised risk of arrest in adulthood
WEDNESDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) -- Children who are exposed to lead at a young age are more likely to be arrested later in life.
A study in the May 27 issue of PLoS Medicine is the first empirical evidence that elevated blood lead levels, both in the pregnant mother and in the child, are associated with criminal behavior in young adulthood.
"I never would have thought that we would be seeing these effects into the later 20s," said study co-author Kim Dietrich, a professor of environmental health at the University of Cincinnati. "I'm actually quite astounded and quite worried about this. Although lead levels have been going down in this country, a large proportion of the population now in their 20s and 30s had blood levels in this neurotoxic range."
Childhood lead exposure has been linked with anti-social behavior, lower IQ, attention deficits, hyperactivity and weak executive control functions, all of which are risk factors for future delinquent behavior (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, in particular, is a risk factor for adult criminal behavior). Studies have also related sales of leaded gasoline or high atmospheric lead levels with criminal behavior.
Let me know whe Naomi goes to jail. I don't think it will ever happen. How many cell phoness must we loose before this women is locked up, how many???
Linsay has been a lesbia for a couple years, did a good job keeping Samatha a BFF to the tabs.
I'm just sick of this primary! Let's pick a candidate already democrats. We didn't take long to get our hot headed old man in there. I'm so tired of watching every primary and hearing about Reverand Wright, my God the guy ended up going from being right to being a nut job. All for fame, he saw those camera's pointing at him and he was going to get his 15 minutes, more like 15 weeks!!
I'm just sick of this primary! Let's pick a candidate already democrats. We didn't take long to get our hot headed old man in there. I'm so tired of watching every primary and hearing about Reverand Wright, my God the guy ended up going from being right to being a nut job. All for fame, he saw those camera's pointing at him and he was going to get his 15 minutes, more like 15 weeks!!
Leisure suits?!?!? ROFL omg I hadnt thought about those scary things in years! Egads, they were so not attractive...lol. Of course I wore alot of ugly stuff in my life growing up too. I have to admit I had the big 80's hair thing down to a science. Lots of blow drying, head shaking, and HAIR SPRAY!! Ewwww lol I loved it and thought I was HAWT...hehehe
Well...did you know radiation from cell phones can cause brain tumours/cancer? I bet a lot of people wish that study was never done.
Oh, btw... tackily dressed rats. Love it. :)
Oh, btw... tackily dressed rats. Love it. :)
One funny thing I will never forget. Years ago on a comedy show, they were spoofing all the testing we do. Think it was called Fernwood Tonight. They said scientists had discovered that leisure suits cause cancer. They had tested it on rats. Then they brought out this little rat in a leisure suit. I laughed for days. (guess you had to be there)
Possession of a concealed hedgehog is a Class A felony in the United States. Children who are packing are tried as adults. Why do you think we never have hedge hog related violence???
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I don't know, it's a huge amount of money, but the space exploration has always represented hopes and dreams for all humankind and so few things do. For the same reason you put down a dollar on lotto (Hey, you never know!) we should keep it up.
We do waste a lot of money on silly studies...although one could argue that no study is totally wasted. Some of our best discoveries have come from examining what looks to be an obvious situation.
The biggest problem is a lot of these studies are unnecessary because they're repetitive or irrelevant. There was a man in the 80's who was doing research with monkeys, studying blunt impact trauma to the brain using chimps.
Basically he'd take a hammer, smash in the back of a monkey' skull, and study the results.
THIS is an example of a waste of money. Besides the inhumanity (in-monkey-anity?) the study was using a species of monkey to different to provide any useful comparative data with humans.
This professor had full funding by our government, btw.
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I don't know, it's a huge amount of money, but the space exploration has always represented hopes and dreams for all humankind and so few things do. For the same reason you put down a dollar on lotto (Hey, you never know!) we should keep it up.
We do waste a lot of money on silly studies...although one could argue that no study is totally wasted. Some of our best discoveries have come from examining what looks to be an obvious situation.
The biggest problem is a lot of these studies are unnecessary because they're repetitive or irrelevant. There was a man in the 80's who was doing research with monkeys, studying blunt impact trauma to the brain using chimps.
Basically he'd take a hammer, smash in the back of a monkey' skull, and study the results.
THIS is an example of a waste of money. Besides the inhumanity (in-monkey-anity?) the study was using a species of monkey to different to provide any useful comparative data with humans.
This professor had full funding by our government, btw.
I wonder how many people know what BIACH is? I hate to admit this but I know because I watch Keeping up with the Kardashians. I use to watch the History Channel and now when my husband walks in I change the channel so he doesn't see what I watch these days.
It's because that accident I was in I couldn't walk much so I started watching more TV.
Jules
It's because that accident I was in I couldn't walk much so I started watching more TV.
Jules
ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON A HEDGEHOG!!!!!!! I had to post this one !!!LOL
updated 4:56 p.m. ET, Thurs., May. 29, 2008
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand man accused of assault with prickly weapon — a hedgehog — has been fined by a court and ordered to pay most of his fine to his teenage victim.
Whakatane District Court was told Thursday that William Singalargh picked up the hedgehog and threw it several yards to hit a 15-year-old boy in the North Island east coast town of Whakatane on Feb. 9.
Police told the court the creature had hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks. The teen did not need medical treatment.
Singalargh was convicted of common assault and offensive behavior following a defended hearing. He had pleaded innocent to the charges.
He was fined a total of $545 and ordered to pay $389 to his victim.
The more serious charge of assault with a weapon, namely a hedgehog, was dropped. The maximum penalty for that charge is five years in prison.
It remained unclear whether the hedgehog was dead or alive at the time of the attack, but Senior Sgt. Bruce Jenkins said earlier that it was dead when collected as evidence.
While using a hedgehog as a weapon in an assault is uncommon, Jenkins said people often got charged with assault for throwing things at other people.
updated 4:56 p.m. ET, Thurs., May. 29, 2008
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand man accused of assault with prickly weapon — a hedgehog — has been fined by a court and ordered to pay most of his fine to his teenage victim.
Whakatane District Court was told Thursday that William Singalargh picked up the hedgehog and threw it several yards to hit a 15-year-old boy in the North Island east coast town of Whakatane on Feb. 9.
Police told the court the creature had hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks. The teen did not need medical treatment.
Singalargh was convicted of common assault and offensive behavior following a defended hearing. He had pleaded innocent to the charges.
He was fined a total of $545 and ordered to pay $389 to his victim.
The more serious charge of assault with a weapon, namely a hedgehog, was dropped. The maximum penalty for that charge is five years in prison.
It remained unclear whether the hedgehog was dead or alive at the time of the attack, but Senior Sgt. Bruce Jenkins said earlier that it was dead when collected as evidence.
While using a hedgehog as a weapon in an assault is uncommon, Jenkins said people often got charged with assault for throwing things at other people.
I didn't have time to read all your post but I wonder how much money was spent on a study like that? Look at all the money that was spend to land something on Venus. I think that our government is spending our tax money on stupid things and it should be stopped so we can take care of things that really matter.
Jules
Jules
I want to know when they are going to finally throw that Biach Naomi Cambell in the slammer......how many assaults can she get away with? Pizzes me off.
nauty..............
nauty..............
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Racism in schools .Living in the south unfortunately there seems to be quite a few claims of racism .This is the latest
updated 1:54 p.m. ET, Sun., May. 25, 2008 from msnbc
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A south Alabama town that was the inspiration for the setting in Harper Lee's book "To Kill a Mockingbird" is finding itself as the backdrop for a real-life legal case involving allegations of racism at school.
The parents of several black junior high school students have filed a discrimination lawsuit claiming their children are subject to racial slurs and punished more harshly than white students at Monroeville Junior High School.
The lawsuit says black students at the county's only public junior high have been called slurs such as the "N-word," "filthy trash" and "black monkey." Their parents also say classes are segregated, with most black students being kept out of advanced placement and honors courses.
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I heard on the news tonight that the new light bulbs(the swirly kind) are causing migraines. Will post more when i find out the details. Just caught the tail end.
I know, I'll tell 'em to use smaller words next time. :)
I should have put this in the Obama thread, I didn't realize it was still going. But the question is, are you now prepared to cast your vote? At least with McCain, you know where you stand. 4 more years of the disintegration of the freedoms of the U.S.A. Yipee!! :)
I should have put this in the Obama thread, I didn't realize it was still going. But the question is, are you now prepared to cast your vote? At least with McCain, you know where you stand. 4 more years of the disintegration of the freedoms of the U.S.A. Yipee!! :)
Hmmm...so if you poison children, lowering their I.Q.'s, and giving them a host of other problems that will make getting ahead in life a major effort, there's a good chance they'll turn into criminals.
We need to spend money on a study to learn this? :)
For you McCain supporters, here's a a piece i cut down from the NYTimes. (god help us, avsig, It's political...I'm going in!!! :) )
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John McCain — has been visiting the poor lately. Appalachia, New Orleans, Rust Belt factory towns. This is a good thing, and we applaud his efforts to show compassion and interest in people for whom his actual policies are of no use whatsoever.
McCain’s special It’s Time for Action Tour was in the impoverished Kentucky town of Inez on Wednesday, so he was unable to make it to Washington to vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This is the bill that would restore workers’ ability to go to court in cases of pay discrimination.
But McCain was not ducking the issue. After all, this is a man who told the folks in Youngstown, Ohio — where most of the working single mothers cannot make it above the poverty line — that the answer to their problems is larger tax deductions. He is fearless when it comes to delivering unpleasant news to people who are probably not going to vote for him anyway.
So McCain made it clear that if he had been in Washington, he would have voted no because the bill “opens us up for lawsuits, for all kinds of problems and difficulties.”
How much straighter can talk get? True, this is pretty much like saying that you’re voting against the federal budget because it involves spending.
Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., for almost 20 years — the only woman who ever managed to stick it out in what was not exactly a female-friendly environment. When she was near retirement, she got an anonymous letter listing the salaries of the men who held the same job. While she was making $3,727 a month, the lowest paid man, with far less seniority, was getting $4,286.
The company declined Ledbetter’s offer to settle for the difference between her earnings and that lowest-paid man’s — about $60,000. A jury awarded her $223,776 in back pay and more than $3 million in punitive damages.
Goodyear appealed, and the case arrived at the Supreme Court just as President Bush’s new appointees were settling in. The court ruled 5-to-4 against Ledbetter, saying that she should have filed her suit within 180 days of receiving her first paycheck in which Goodyear discriminated against her.
The fact that workers generally have no idea what other people are making when they start a job did not concern the court nearly as much as what Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, called “the burden of defending claims arising from employment decisions that are long past.” In other words, pay discrimination is illegal unless it goes on for more than six months.
Ledbetter did not even get her back pay. And Goodyear billed her $3,165 for court-related costs.
The bill being voted on this week would have made it clear that every time a woman like Ledbetter got a check that was lower than those of the men doing the same job, it triggered a new 180-day deadline. That was the status quo before Alito and John Roberts arrived on the scene. But the sponsors needed 60 votes, and they only got 56. “I would never have believed this in the United States of America,” said Ledbetter, 70, who watched from the Senate gallery.
Having delivered his objections to the Ledbetter bill this week, McCain went on to tell reporters that what women really need is “education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else. And it’s hard for them to leave their families when they don’t have somebody to take care of them.”
I cut it down for size as it is. If you're interested in seeing the whole piece, let me know.)
We need to spend money on a study to learn this? :)
For you McCain supporters, here's a a piece i cut down from the NYTimes. (god help us, avsig, It's political...I'm going in!!! :) )
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John McCain — has been visiting the poor lately. Appalachia, New Orleans, Rust Belt factory towns. This is a good thing, and we applaud his efforts to show compassion and interest in people for whom his actual policies are of no use whatsoever.
McCain’s special It’s Time for Action Tour was in the impoverished Kentucky town of Inez on Wednesday, so he was unable to make it to Washington to vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. This is the bill that would restore workers’ ability to go to court in cases of pay discrimination.
But McCain was not ducking the issue. After all, this is a man who told the folks in Youngstown, Ohio — where most of the working single mothers cannot make it above the poverty line — that the answer to their problems is larger tax deductions. He is fearless when it comes to delivering unpleasant news to people who are probably not going to vote for him anyway.
So McCain made it clear that if he had been in Washington, he would have voted no because the bill “opens us up for lawsuits, for all kinds of problems and difficulties.”
How much straighter can talk get? True, this is pretty much like saying that you’re voting against the federal budget because it involves spending.
Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., for almost 20 years — the only woman who ever managed to stick it out in what was not exactly a female-friendly environment. When she was near retirement, she got an anonymous letter listing the salaries of the men who held the same job. While she was making $3,727 a month, the lowest paid man, with far less seniority, was getting $4,286.
The company declined Ledbetter’s offer to settle for the difference between her earnings and that lowest-paid man’s — about $60,000. A jury awarded her $223,776 in back pay and more than $3 million in punitive damages.
Goodyear appealed, and the case arrived at the Supreme Court just as President Bush’s new appointees were settling in. The court ruled 5-to-4 against Ledbetter, saying that she should have filed her suit within 180 days of receiving her first paycheck in which Goodyear discriminated against her.
The fact that workers generally have no idea what other people are making when they start a job did not concern the court nearly as much as what Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, called “the burden of defending claims arising from employment decisions that are long past.” In other words, pay discrimination is illegal unless it goes on for more than six months.
Ledbetter did not even get her back pay. And Goodyear billed her $3,165 for court-related costs.
The bill being voted on this week would have made it clear that every time a woman like Ledbetter got a check that was lower than those of the men doing the same job, it triggered a new 180-day deadline. That was the status quo before Alito and John Roberts arrived on the scene. But the sponsors needed 60 votes, and they only got 56. “I would never have believed this in the United States of America,” said Ledbetter, 70, who watched from the Senate gallery.
Having delivered his objections to the Ledbetter bill this week, McCain went on to tell reporters that what women really need is “education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else. And it’s hard for them to leave their families when they don’t have somebody to take care of them.”
I cut it down for size as it is. If you're interested in seeing the whole piece, let me know.)
Keep your duckies in the pond girl LOL!!!!! Ohhhh there is always tabloid news ,Lindsey Lohan is a lesbian this week!!
Dammmm and I was going to expose my duckies again.......thanks for the warning.
As far as current events? Are their any? other than the obvious.......Political.....Haven't had my tabloid fix lately.
dunno?
Nauty.............
As far as current events? Are their any? other than the obvious.......Political.....Haven't had my tabloid fix lately.
dunno?
Nauty.............
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