“Butt Billboards”

A health board in Washington State has reversed itself and voted against endorsing a colon cancer awareness campaign that uses billboards saying, "What's up your butt?"

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The vote by the Benton Franklin Health District in Kennewick, Wash., was in response to complaints the ads are in poor taste.

The butt billboards were earlier displayed in Yakima to raise colorectal cancer awareness and encourage people to get screened for the disease.

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Cat catches the flu

A cat in Iowa has tested positive for H1N1 swine flu, the first time a cat has been diagnosed with the new pandemic strain.
The 13-year-old cat apparently caught the virus from one of the people living in the house, the American Veterinary Medical Association said in a statement. It has recovered and does not appear to have infected anyone or anything else.
Pigs are the original source of the H1N1 virus and it has been found in several herds, as well as in a pet ferret. Ferrets are especially susceptible to human influenza viruses.
"Two of the three members of the family that owns the pet had suffered from influenza-like illness before the cat became ill," Iowa Department of Public Health Veterinarian Dr. Ann Garvey said in a statement.
"This is not completely unexpected, as other strains of influenza have been found in cats in the past." Both the cat and its owners have recovered from their illnesses.
The AVMA has a website on H1N1 illnesses in US animals. Dogs and horses can also catch various influenza strains, although none have so far been diagnosed with H1N1.
"Indoor pets that live in close proximity to someone who has been sick are at risk and it is wise to monitor their health to ensure they aren't showing signs of illness," said Dr David Schmitt, state veterinarian for Iowa.
The new H1N1 passes easily from person to person and has infected millions globally since March, killing at least 5000 people whose infections have been documented.
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Beer coasters aim to shock binge drinkers

Teenage binge drinkers are being sobered up with beer coasters plastered with pictures of young boozers unconscious in puddles of vomit.
Millions of the shocking coasters are being distributed to German clubs and pubs to remind youngsters how their night could end.
Germany is facing a teen binge drinking epidemic fueled by all-you-can-drink parties where youngsters pay an entry fee and then drink until they drop.
One coaster has a picture of a teenage boy, dancing at a party and showing off his muscles to the girls then on the flip side he is passed out after wetting himself.
Another beer coaster shows a girl laughing with friends while the reverse shows her passed out on a picnic table in her underwear.
And one shows football fans enjoying a match on one side, but a fan asleep and covered in his own vomit on the reverse.
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Why you need to wait for trains

I live by railroad tracks and see stupid things all the time.

Two weeks ago a teenager crawled under a stop train and the train moved. He was lucky and nothing happened this time.

Trains don't stop for no one and it takes them a quarter mile to stop

You never stop on a railroad track.

If you can't cross the tracks you stop and wait for the train.

AN EIGHT-year-old girl watched in horror as her mum was hit and killed by a Cairns-bound tourist train as she raced to retrieve fishing gear.
The 45-year-old Tully woman was on a family fishing trip to Saltwater Creek bridge, near Aeroglen Rd, Aeroglen when the accident happened at 5pm on Saturday.
A police spokeswoman said the woman apparently saw the train approach but fatally tried to collect fishing gear off the tracks.
It is believed the woman told her daughter to get off the bridge while she tried to get the fishing gear.
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As a powerful locomotive raced toward his mother's minivan, a quick-thinking Long Island boy became a lifesaver and lifted a railroad crossing gate to let their trapped vehicle and another off the tracks. The gate came down on the windshield of Jackie Murphy's Dodge Caravan as she crossed the tracks in East Rockaway, trapping the van and a delivery truck behind her in the path of a speeding train. As his mother froze, 11-year-old Ryan Murphy leaped into action. "I was thinking about saving my mom," he said. "I don't even remember much of what happened."

Use it or Else

Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll ... Uh ...
SAN FRANCISCO — When David Bunnell, a magazine publisher who lives in Berkeley, Calif., went to a FedEx store to send a package a few years ago, he suddenly drew a blank as he was filling out the forms.
"I couldn’t remember my address," said Mr. Bunnell, 60, with a measure of horror in his voice. "I knew where I lived, and I knew how to get there, but I didn’t know what the address was."
Mr. Bunnell is among tens of millions of baby boomers who are encountering the signs, by turns amusing and disconcerting, that accompany the decline of the brain’s acuity: a good friend’s name suddenly vanishing from memory; a frantic search for eyeglasses only to find them atop the head; milk taken from the refrigerator then put away in a cupboard.
"It’s probably one of the most frightening aspects of the changes we undergo as we age," said Nancy Ceridwyn, director of educational initiatives at the American Society on Aging. "Our memories are who we are. And if we lose our memories we lose that groundedness of who we are."

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Beware

This Russian guy has ordered his brand new SONY laptop via DHL.
He waited a few days and when he got the package he was so excited.
He passionately tore the box and found there…

Yes, just two boulders instead of the new SONY laptop.

Super Sized Fat Guy

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Thanks B&P For the picture

The Standard American Diet
If you were to list the factors that increase the risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke, intestinal disorders, just about any illness, the Standard American Diet has them all:
High in animal fats
High in unhealthy fats: saturated, hydrogenated
Low in fiber
High in processed foods
Low in complex carbohydrates
Low in plant-based foods
The striking fact is that cultures that eat the reverse of the standard American diet – low fat, high in complex carbohydrates, plant-based, and high in fiber – have a lower incidence of cancer and coronary artery disease (CAD). What's even sadder is that countries, whose populations can afford to eat the healthiest disease-preventing foods, don't. The United States has spent more money on cancer research than any country in the world. Yet the American diet contributes to the very diseases we are spending money to prevent.

You Know Who You Are

This could have been prevented

Now please wash your hands

All alone with no place to go to get out of the rain

Here's a good cause...

TheAnimalRescueSite.com

Go on and click it and spread the word.

Being Depressed Lately

Vitamin D plays a role this time of the year since there is a lack of natural vitamin D from sun light.