People Are Overdosing on Wasp Spray in West Virginia
Originally published on Live Science. 5 Weird Effects of Bug Bites 5 Lethal Chemical Warfare Agents Several people in a county in West Virginia recently overdosed from wasp spray, which they used as an alternative to methamphetamine, according to news reports. Police in Boone County say they’ve seen a rise in residents abusing wasp spray to achieve a meth-like high, according to local news outlet WCHS. The practice is believed to have played a role in three overdoses in the county last week, WCHS reported. “People are making a synthetic type [of] methamphetamine out of wasp spray,” Sgt. Charles Sutphin, of the West Virginia State Police, told WCHS. [‘Breaking Bad’: 6 Strange Meth Facts]These Sharks Were Too Busy to Notice a Bigger Predator Watching ThemThe unexpected twist at the end of this feeding frenzy delighted scientists.Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Windows to the Deep 2019Your Recommended PlaylistVolume 0%Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcutsKeyboard Shortcutsplay/pauseincrease volumedecrease volumeseek forwardsseek backwardstoggle captionstoggle fullscreenmute/unmuteseek to %SPACE↑↓→←cfm0-9接下来播放Headbutting Tiny Worms Are Really, Really Loud00:35关闭选项Automated Captions – en-US facebook twitter 发邮件 reddit 链接https://www.livescience.com/65954-wasp-spray-overdose-meth.html?jwsource=cl已复制直播00:0002:2802:28 The practice is known as “wasping,” and it has emerged as a concerning drug trend in recent years, according to a 2018 report from ABC News. Users either combine the wasp spray with meth, or use the spray by itself as a meth substitute. People can crystallize the spray liquid on hot metal sheets, which allows the substance to be inhaled or injected, ABC News reported. Bug sprays contain active ingredients called pyrethroids, which stun and kill insects; but in humans, the chemicals can interfere with nerve signaling, which can lead to abnormal sensations, and in some cases, seizures or paralysis, ABC News reported. The chemicals can also lead to increased heart rate, difficulty breathing, headache, nausea, problems with coordination, and swelling and burning sensations. Police in Boone County are working with medical centers to determine the best treatment for those who abuse the spray, WCHS reported. 9 Weird Ways You Can Test Positive for Drugs
Saw a thicc ass starfish at the aquarium today pic.twitter.com/NwF0xYabHQby Taboolaby TaboolaSponsored LinksSponsored LinksPromoted LinksPromoted LinksYou May LikeVikings: Free Online GamePlay this for 1 minute and see why everyone is addictedVikings: Free Online GameUndoAncestryThe Story Behind Your Last Name Will Surprise YouAncestryUndoTruthFinder People Search SubscriptionOne Thing All Liars Have in Common, Brace YourselfTruthFinder People Search SubscriptionUndoPrimeSolarQuotesCalifornia Signs Solar Law Helping Homeowners Save Hundreds A Month.PrimeSolarQuotesUndoClassmatesSearch For Any High School Yearbook, It’s Free.ClassmatesUndoGundry MD SupplementsTop Cardiologist: This One Thing Will Properly Flush Out Your BowelsGundry MD SupplementsUndo — あかり(AKARI) (@Babyshoujo) June 30, 2019 Vermilion sea stars (Mediaster aequalis) are known for their vivid red-orange color and the symmetry of their five arms. But one individual quickly gained internet fame for a body part that isn’t usually associated with starfish: a shapely rear end. Twitter user @Babyshoujo recently photographed and tweeted an image of the “thicc” starfish as the animal clung to a rock in an exhibit at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. The sea star’s prominent derrière has captivated hundreds of thousands since the photo was shared on June 30. Quite a few commenters drew comparisons to the “SpongeBob SquarePants” starfish character Patrick Star, who often proudly displays his prominent, rounded bottom. However, experts were quick to point out that the “butt” isn’t quite what it seems. [In Photos: The Wonders of the Deep Sea]Headbutting Tiny Worms Are Really, Really LoudThis rapid strike produces a loud ‘pop’ comparable to those made by snapping shrimps, one of the most intense biological sounds measured at sea.Your Recommended PlaylistVolume 0%Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcutsKeyboard Shortcutsplay/pauseincrease volumedecrease volumeseek forwardsseek backwardstoggle captionstoggle fullscreenmute/unmuteseek to %SPACE↑↓→←cfm0-9接下来播放Why Is It ‘Snowing’ Salt in the Dead Sea?01:53 facebook twitter 发邮件 reddit 链接https://www.livescience.com/65864-sea-star-butt-aquarium.html?jwsource=cl已复制直播00:0000:3500:35 Vermillion sea stars are found near low-tide lines and on the rocky sea bottom in the eastern Pacific Ocean, with their range extending from Baja California north to Alaska, according to the Georgia Aquarium. Though sea stars are often referred to as starfish, they are not fish. They are echinoderms, the group that also includes sea cucumbers, sand dollars and sea urchins. And no, sea stars don’t have “butts”; they have a centrally located anus, but they don’t have human-like buttocks, as the cartoon Patrick Star does. What we’re seeing in the photo are the contracted muscles of the starfish’s arms as they grip the rock, Nate Jaros, curator of fish and invertebrates at the Aquarium of the Pacific, told USA Today. Because the sea star’s body is vertically aligned, gravity causes the creature’s internal structures to “slump,” and that produced the shapes resembling the human buttocks in the picture, Jaros explained. Previously, in March, social media users were intrigued by a similar illusion of thiccness in a white-faced saki monkey (Pithecia pithecia) in Finland’s Korkeasaari Zoo. The monkey, named Bea, appeared to be heavily muscled, her biceps as rounded as the sea star’s butt at the Pacific Aquarium. However, the so-called buff monkey’s bulk was really just fluffy fur, zoo representatives told Live Science. Photos: See the World’s Cutest Sea Creatures Originally published on Live Science. In Photos: Sick Sea Stars Turn to Goo In Photos: The Stunning Sea Life ‘Stars’ of ‘Big Pacific’
Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Oregon On July 20, 1969, an estimated 650 million people watched in suspense as Neil Armstrong descended a ladder towards the surface of the Moon. As he took his first steps, he uttered words that would be written into history books for generations to come: “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.” Or at least that’s how the media reported his words.Headbutting Tiny Worms Are Really, Really LoudThis rapid strike produces a loud ‘pop’ comparable to those made by snapping shrimps, one of the most intense biological sounds measured at sea.Your Recommended PlaylistVolume 0%Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcutsKeyboard Shortcutsplay/pauseincrease volumedecrease volumeseek forwardsseek backwardstoggle captionstoggle fullscreenmute/unmuteseek to %SPACE↑↓→←cfm0-9接下来播放Why Is It ‘Snowing’ Salt in the Dead Sea?01:53 facebook twitter 发邮件 reddit 链接https://www.livescience.com/65950-neil-armstrong-first-words-on-moon.html?jwsource=cl已复制直播00:0000:3500:35 But Armstrong insisted that he actually said, “That’s one small step for a man.” In fact, in the official transcript of the Moon landing mission, NASA transcribes the quote as “that’s one small step for (a) man.” As a linguist, I’m fascinated by mistakes between what people say and what people hear. In fact, I recently conducted a study on ambiguous speech, using Armstrong’s famous quote to try to figure out why and how we successfully understand speech most of the time, but also make the occasional mistake. Our extraordinary speech-processing abilities Despite confusion over Armstrong’s words, speakers and listeners have a remarkable ability to agree on what is said and what is heard. When we talk, we formulate a thought, retrieve words from memory and move our mouths to produce sound. We do this quickly, producing, in English, around five syllables every second. The process for listeners is equally complex and speedy. We hear sounds, which we separate into speech and non-speech information, combine the speech sounds into words, and determine the meanings of these words. Again, this happens nearly instantaneously, and errors rarely occur. These processes are even more extraordinary when you think more closely about the properties of speech. Unlike writing, speech doesn’t have spaces between words. When people speak, there are typically very few pauses within a sentence. Yet listeners have little trouble determining word boundaries in real time. This is because there are little cues — like pitch and rhythm — that indicate when one word stops and the next begins. But problems in speech perception can arise when those kinds of cues are missing, especially when pitch and rhythm are used for non-linguistic purposes, like in music. This is one reason why misheard song lyrics — called “mondegreens” — are common. When singing or rapping, a lot of the speech cues we usually use are shifted to accommodate the song’s beat, which can end up jamming our default perception process. But it’s not just lyrics that are misheard. This can happen in everyday speech, and some have wondered if this is what happened in the case of Neil Armstrong. Studying Armstrong’s mixed signals Over the years, researchers have tried to comb the audio files of Armstrong’s famous words, with mixed results. Some have suggested that Armstrong definitely produced the infamous “a,” while others maintain that it’s unlikely or too difficult to tell. But the original sound file was recorded 50 years ago, and the quality is pretty poor. So can we ever really know whether Neil Armstrong uttered that little “a”? Perhaps not. But in a recent study, my colleagues and I tried to get to the bottom of this. First, we explored how similar the speech signals are when a speaker intends to say “for” or “for a.” That is, could a production of “for” be consistent with the sound waves, or acoustics, of “for a,” and vice-versa? So we examined nearly 200 productions of “for” and 200 productions of “for a.” We found that the acoustics of the productions of each of these tokens were nearly identical. In other words, the sound waves produced by “He bought it for a school” and “He bought one for school” are strikingly similar. But this doesn’t tell us what Armstrong actually said on that July day in 1969. So we wanted to see if listeners sometimes miss little words like “a” in contexts like Armstrong’s phrase. We wondered whether “a” was always perceived by listeners, even when it was clearly produced. And we found that, in several studies, listeners often misheard short words, like “a.” This is especially true when the speaking rate was as slow as Armstrong’s. In addition, we were able to manipulate whether or not people heard these short words just by altering the rate of speech. So perhaps this was a perfect storm of conditions for listeners to misperceive the intended meaning of this famous quote. The case of the missing “a” is one example of the challenges in producing and understanding speech. Nonetheless, we typically perceive and produce speech quickly, easily and without conscious effort. A better understanding of this process can be especially useful when trying to help people with speech or hearing impairments. And it allows researchers to better understand how these skills are learned by adults trying to acquire a new language, which can, in turn, help language learners develop more efficient strategies. Fifty years ago, humanity was changed when Neil Armstrong took those first steps on the Moon. But he probably didn’t realize that his famous first words could also help us better understand how humans communicate. [Sign up for The Conversation’s newsletter to get insight each day] This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. 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SHARE SHARE EMAIL railway Hyderabad Governor E.S.L.Narasimhan will flag off Hyderabad Metro train operations between Ameerpet-Hitec City stretch of Metro Rail Corridor-III on Wednesday at 9.15 a.m.This eagerly awaited 10 km stretch with 9 stations (will establish the crucial Metro Rail connectivity to the highly congested IT / ITES service areas of Hitec City, Madapur, Gachibowli.Responding to the request of Chief Secretary S.K. Joshi and HMRL MD NVS Reddy, the Governor has consented to flag off the train operations in view of the long felt need of Metro connectivity. The event will be attended by only a few senior officers of the Government and the Concessionaire L&TMRHL. Regular train operations in this stretch will start from 4 p.m. on the same day.Including Ameerpet there are 9 stations on this 10 km stretch. Taruni-Madhura Nagar station is being developed as a women managed station and in due course, it will have shops mostly catering to the needs of women and children. The idea is to develop this station as well as the two acre space available below as a women-centric station, where all the shopping needs of women and children will be met at one Metro station, which is being attempted for the first time in the world.Unlike other stations which are mainly two-level stations, Jubilee Hills Check Post station is a single-level station where concourse level is avoided so as to reduce the already high level of the station due to gradient related problems. As the entire stretch is traversing an undulated terrain and highly curvaceous road, construction of viaduct and the stations posed several technical challenges, stated NVS Reddy.Successfully overcoming innumerable court cases related to Right of Way and acquisition of the affected properties, several innovative engineering techniques were adopted to construct the Metro line and the stations in this stretch, he mentioned. Construction of reverse facility beyond Hitec City station in front of Cyber Towers and Trident hotel is being done in a staggered and sequential manner as the narrow passage is wedged between Cyber Towers on one side and flyover on the other side and it will take a couple of months for completion, stated L&TMRHL MD KVB Reddy.Trains will initially run in a 5 km stretch between Jubilee Hills Check Post and Hitec City station following a traditional Railway practice of “twin single line method”. In this method the two tracks are treated as two separate single lines and trains are operated in both “up and down” direction on each line separately, till the “reversal” beyond Hitec City station is completed.However, efforts are being made to add additional trains in this section to improve the frequency and to cater to the huge rush that is expected. Additional staff will also be deployed to guide the commuters to the right platform on which the next train is expected during the single line operation. In view of the ‘twin single line method’ of operation and the need to increase frequency despite ‘speed restrictions’ on a Metro stretch with many steep curves, initially 3 stations will not be opened for public at this stage and they will be opened after a few weeks, added NVS Reddy.With this, while passengers of Corridor-III i.e., Nagole-Hitec City (27 km) can go to Hitec City area and vice-a-versa, and passengers of Corridor-I i.e., Miyapur-LB Nagar (29 km) will have to change the train at Ameerpet Metro station. COMMENTS COMMENT SHARE Published on March 19, 2019
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May 19, 2019 The TMC wrote to the Election Commission on Sunday alleging the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath is a violation of the model code of conduct. “Even though the Election campaign for the last phase of polling for 2019 Lok Sabha is over as long as back on May 17 at 6 pm, surprisingly Narendra Modi’s Kedarnath Yatra is being covered and widely televised for the last two days in all national as well as local media. This is a gross violation of the Model Code of Conduct,” Trinamool Congress spokesperson Derek O’Brien said in the letter. He said the prime minister even announced that the master plan for the Kedarnath Temple is ready and also addressed the public and the media at the temple town. “lt is absolutely unethical and morally incorrect. “Every minute detail of his activities during the visit is being widely publicised with an ulterior motive to influence voters directly and/or indirectly. “Modi Modi” chants are also being heard from the background,” he said. The TMC leader said all these moves were well calculated with the “ill intention to influence the voters” on the polling day. It is unfortunate that the poll body has not taken any action against the PM, it added. “Election Commission, the highest body and the eyes and ears of the democratic process, remains blind and deaf to the gross violation of the MCC. l would request you to take immediate action and stop telecast of such surreptitious and unfair campaign which is also morally wrong,” he said. Modi, who is on a two-day visit to Uttarakhand, reached Kedarnath on Saturday and is expected to be at Badrinath temple Sunday. Election Commission of India COMMENT
{{category}} {{time}} {{title}} “Now, vehicles from Selayang and MRR2 are flooding this area.“It has become a shortcut for motorists travelling from Selayang and Kepong,” said Yap.Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng, in a press conference at Taman Usahawan, suggested that a one-way traffic system be implemented from MRR2 to Jalan Metro Perdana Barat as a temporary measure.He said residents also wanted speed bumps installed in the area to deter speedsters.Besides having to deal with the increased traffic, Lim said illegal parking was worsening the situation for residents.“However, after residents complained to Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), enforcement officers have started issuing summonses to vehicles parked by the side of the road.”Lim said after one of the condominium projects nearby was completed, there would be no more space available to widen the roads and this would make traffic congestion in the area worse. Nation 17h ago JPJ: Stern action if e-hailing drivers wait at KK international airport Lim (purple shirt) discussing solutions to the traffic congestion in Jalan Metro Perdana Barat with residents. Nation 25 May 2019 Free petrol refills for food delivery riders from noon to 5pm Sunday (May 26) at Kepong Caltex station Central Region Related News
Nation 16 May 2019 Johor police prepare for heavy traffic this weekend Tags / Keywords: RESIDENTS of Taman Usahawan Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, are complaining of heavy traffic in their area.Congestion is worse during the morning and evening rush hour.Resident Wong Koy, 80, said it could take up to one-and-a-half hours to travel a 1km stretch.He said the increased traffic was because of motorists from the Middle Ring Road 2 (MRR2). AdChoices广告“Before they were allowed access, residents were free from heavy traffic that currently plagues us daily,” he said.A hawker in the area, Yap Yun Nan, 70, also said before the new access route was opened, residents did not face major gridlock. Related News Motorists from MRR2 have increased traffic congestion in Taman Usahawan, Kepong.
LONDON (Reuters) – New Zealand coach Gary Stead says his team are tapping into the support they are getting from home as TV-watching fans prepare to burn the midnight oil to watch them take on England in Sunday’s Cricket World Cup final.The match is due to start at 0930 GMT – 2130 in New Zealand – as the nation’s cricket team attempts to emulate the All Blacks rugby side by being crowned world champions for the first time.”We’ve had a lot of supportive messages and we’re really excited about what’s ahead,” Stead told reporters at Lord’s on Friday. “My understanding is it’s on free-to-air back home, which is awesome.”Many people will stay up late and I know a lot of them will be spending some late hours. Monday might be a holiday back home because most of New Zealand will be staying up watching the game.” Cricket 07 Jul 2019 Happy underdogs New Zealand promise ‘scrap’ against India Cricket 9h ago England out to cap ODI transformation in World Cup final Cricket 13h ago England coach Bayliss to step down regardless of Ashes result Related News
Related News England’s eight-wicket thrashing of Australia in the semi-finals, a mauling of New Zealand in the group stages and home advantage are all factors that make the hosts heavy favourites.But Stead backed the Kiwis to tap into their ability to scrap for a result in order to spoil England’s party. “When you strip it back, it’s just another game of cricket,” he said.”We’re excited about the opportunity ahead of us and we start the game with a 50-50 chance, we just need to be that bit better than England. We know the force they’ve become and that’s why they start the game as favourites. “You can do all the scenario training you want but you can’t replicate what goes on in a big moment like this. There is pressure on both teams because neither have won a World Cup. It’s about how you handle it.” (Reporting by Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Editing by Mitch Phillips) {{category}} {{time}} {{title}}
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