November 2009 Archives

A single mom with a medical condition that gives her up to 300 orgasms a day has finally met the man of her dreams.

Michelle Thompson, who suffers from Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome, thought she would never meet the partner of her dreams. She was just too demanding for all her previous lovers, according to News of The World.

She even had to quit her previous job because her medical condition was interfering.

But she has been with her neighbor Andrew Carr, 32, for the past six months and he's as keen for sexual intercourse as she is. They make love 10 times a day, states FoxNews.

Thompson has finally found a good match.

A recent request by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has some women and doctors no only confused, but outraged.

A government task force said Monday that most women don't need mammograms in their 40s and should get one every two years starting at 50 -- a stunning reversal and a break with the American Cancer Society's long-standing position. What's more, the panel said breast self-exams do no good, and women shouldn't be taught to do them, Star Tribune.

The American Cancer Society disagrees with the task force's advice on mammograms and will continue to recommend annual mammograms for women age 40 and older, Kare11.

Medical officials are still looking into ways to be able to still proceed with mammograms, but at a smaller price.

A suprisingly large shipment of H1N1 vaccines have arrived this week in Minnesota.

Since Friday, Minnesota has received about 100,000 doses, bringing the state total to more than 800,000 since the vaccine became available this fall, Star Tribune.

As a result of this giant shipment, the cities health departments have been in a bit of a hurry this weekend to organize and prepare flu clinics.

 Most counties will now have enough doses to begin offering very limited public vaccination clinics targeting kids age nine and younger, Minnesota Public Radio.

The locations and times of flu vaccines will begin posting shortly.

The article I selected for my analysis was from the Star Tribune and titled "Metro home sales up, but median price sinks".

In this article the reporter has used numbers to show percentage that pending home sales has increased in the metro area since last October (34.4 percent), as well as the percentage closed sales has increased(27.8 percent).  The reporter also shows that the median sale price though has decreased using amounts in dollar prices from this year to last year.  ($180,000-$169,000).

I feel that the reporter placed both the percentage and amounts in a very clear and precise manor that makes the article not only easy to decipher, but adds the depth to the story. 

Yes, the reporter did have to use math to calculate the percentage increased from this last year to this year in the sales.   They also used math to find the median price of housing, which was smarter than using the mean price because in housing the amount could be affected by a very low price or a very high price to set off the majority average.

The sources for these numbers are attributed to the area Realtors associations.and are cited in the piece but not specifically named.   

A Minneapolis man is being charged with child abuse on Monday after beating his son, burning him with an iron, and turning on the oven after the child had climbed in to hide.

William Tajahn Hurley, 23, was charged Monday with malicious punishment of a child for his alleged abuse of the 10-year-old boy, according to Fox9.

Hurley had turned on the over after his 10-year-old child had climbed in to hide, the boy had climbed out when the oven started to get warm.

According to the criminal complaint, the 10-year-old boy's father became upset with him because he was in his mother's bedroom.  The boy told police that Hurley punched him, Kare11 reports.

Hurley threatened to beat the 10-year-old in front of the officers and had to be restrained, according to the Kare11 report.

Hurley is currently being held in custody in the Hennepin County Jail.  

A former high school teacher has been sentence with six months in jail on Tuesday in Sleepy Eye, Minn. after a sexual encounter with one of his female students.

As well as 6 months in jail Calvin C. Collum, 47 of New Ulm, has 15 years of probation and must register as a sex offender.

Police said that classmates told them that Collum and the 16-year-old girl planned to move to Connecticut some day when she turned 19 and have children, having already picked names for the kids. "The suspect would work these names into his class lectures to delight the victim," a criminal complaint filed in March said. according to the Star Tribune.

Collum and the girl also kept in contact over facebook and text mesaging when they weren't in school or meeting outside of class.

Collumwas sentenced by Brown County District Court Judge John Rodenberg after pleading guilty in September to one felony count of criminal sexual conduct in the third degree, the Pioneer Press reports. 

University of Minnesota's top basketball recruit for last year is a possible suspect of a police investigation on a theft that occured Saturday in Territorial Hall, a resident hall on campus.

Royce White, a 6-foot-8 former Mr. Basketball at Hopkins High School last season, already had been suspended indefinitely along with senior Devron Bostick for violating team rules. He received misdemeanor citations Oct. 13 for shoplifting and fifth-degree assault after an incident at Macy's in the Mall of America in Bloomington, according to a police report, according to the Pioneer Press.

The parents of the university student who called police about the burglary said their daughter said someone entered her dorm room and stole a laptop computer. They would not say whether their daughter identified White as being involved, according the Star Tribune

White is one of several under investigation, and has not yet been found guilty.

21-year-old Joe Cada won the World Series of Poker on Monday in Las Vegas.

Cada dropped out of college and pursued being a poker pro instead. His parents weren't happy about it but he did it anyway. But when he won Tuesday, his mom was "dumbfounded." according to the Daily Inquirer.

Cada has become the youngest to ever become a champion in the World Series of Poker.

Cada became fascinated with poker at an early age. He had older friends who played. He left community college after a few semesters to pursue it as a profession. Too young as a teen to play at U.S. casinos, where the minimum age is 21, he played online, traveled to Canada to play at 19 and made enough money to enter tournaments in the Bahamas and Costa Rica. He was successful before this, earning enough to buy a house, according to USA Today.

At such a young age, Cada has quite the career ahead of him.

Brazil experienced a 6 hour long widespread black out starting at 10:15 Tuesday night, affecting major cities and atleast nine states; nearly half the country.

Power went out for more than two hours in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and several other major cities, affecting millions of people, after transmission problems knocked one of the world's biggest hydroelectric dams offline. Airport operations were hindered and subways ground to a halt, according to the USA Today.

The 6 hour black out put the country in a state of fear and resulted in a mess of chaos.

Off-duty police were called up as thousands were trapped in immobile elevators and subway trains. Cars were forced to nose through intersections made dangerous by suddenly extinguished traffic lights. Some cafes closed out of fear of a nocturnal crime wave, according to the Assosiated Press.

The cause of the failure had not been determined, but Lobao said strong storms uprooted trees near the Itaipu dam just before it went offline and could be to blame. Rio was the hardest hit city, he said. Huffington Post

The 2016 Olympics are set to be held in Brazil, but this black out may put an apprehension on the decision.   

The obituary that I looked at was from the New York Times and was of Paul C. Zamecnik, a biologist that helped discover an RNA molecule. 

The sources that are used in the obituary are his daughter Karen, Thoru Pederson, a colleague of his at the University of Massachusetts, and Sudhir Agrawal, another colleague and president and chief executive of Idera Pharmaceuticals.

The obituary has a very standard lead following the New York Times guidelines we learned in class, since it is from the New York Times Website.  The lead does work because it tells a bit about him as well as an inspiring goal that he had in life.

The obituary differs from a resume because not only does it add in his accomplishments and jobs, but has quotes from others about him as a person, as well as background information that lets you know more about him, something a resume wouldn't have.

More than 25 members of international and Afghan security forces were injured on Friday while searching for two missing American soldiers.

The attack occured during a joint routine operation in western Afghanistan.

The two paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division disappeared Wednesday during a routine resupply mission, the military said in a statement, according to the Los Angeles Times.

"With this large number of wounded, we are looking at all possibilities to try to figure out what is going on," said the spokesman, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jerome Baysmore. "We are looking at all sides of this.", statement came from the Washington Post.

A Best Buy executive is claiming that a United Airlines gate agent refused him a first-class seat because he was wearing a track suit.

Armando Alvarez, a corporate executive with electronics retailer Best Buy, says he used miles to upgrade to first class on his Monday flight from Washington Dulles to Connecticut (presumably Hartford), states the USA Today.

"I was humiliated," Alvarez is quoted as saying to FOX 5 News  reporter Will Thomas following the incident. "I was embarrassed and when some of the passengers were boarding behind me they said, 'Hey, what just happened?' And I said the agent just said I wasn't properly dressed to go in first class today. And they said, 'Was he kidding?' I said obviously not because I'm boarding and not getting in first class."

A 13-year-old cat from Iowa was believed to be the first case of  H1N1 in felines.

      The cat was believed to have caught the disease from humans because two of the three

individuals in the home were diagnosed with the disease as well. 

       The cat was lethargic and not eating. So a clinic tested the cat and confirmed that it was H1N1. The feline is now getting better, according toa report on WCCO.

        To protect your pets, experts suggest taking the same precautions you would to prevent spreading the flu to other people, including getting the vaccine, wearing a mask, keeping some distance and washing your hands, states the USATODAY.

The Gopher Hockey Team may lose key player from knee injury that occured in Tuesday's practice.

Jay Barriball, senior offensive player and leading scorer, is awaiting the results of an MRI to see if he needs the surgery that will be scheduled for Friday.

Barriball has two goals and two assists this season and scored his 100th career point in a win over Alaska-Anchorage last week. He has 43 more career points than any other Gopher on the current roster, according to WCCO.

Barriball, who is eligible to be redshirted, was second on the team in scoring with two goals among four points and had a plus-3 rating. He recorded three points against Alaska and became the 78th player in Minnesota history to surpass 100 points, according to the Pioneer Press.

The hockey team waits in antisipation for MRI results.

Gunman killed 11 soldiers and wounded 31 others on Thursday afternoon at Fort Hood in Texas. 

Authorities then killed the gunman, who was identified as Malik Nadal Hasan, an Army major who was about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, according to the New York Times. 

The site was immediately placed in lockdown as authorities worked on investigation.

There was no immediate word on a motive. The shooting began around 1:30 p.m., said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood. He said all the casualties took place at the base's Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening, according to the Star Tribune.

The military authorites are looking into further investigation on other possible gunman involved.