Can't beat this. How do we waste money? Let me count the ways...
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Friday, February 13, 2009
IT WONT BE LONG NOW! LMAO
So apparently Peta, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has gone even further off the deep end! They have now dressed up like the KKK in protest of the Westminster Dog show.
They have been quoted as saying: “Like the Klan, dog breeders who subscribe to the AKC standards are all about the sanctity of ‘pure bloodlines.’ So what if beagles have epileptic seizures, Dalmatians are deaf, and pugs can barely breathe because of how they are purposely bred to look a certain way? Looks are everything!”
I guess throwing flour on people wasn’t enough. They’re lucky no one tried to get at them. The Klan is not safe walking through the city! This took more balls than anything else they’ve done. But, they still gets no love because they DRESSED UP LIKE THE KLAN!!!!
14 KIDS???
If you haven’t heard by now, you must live under a rock. Nadya Suleman, 33, from California is the unwed mother of 14 kids. Eight of which were born on January 26, 2009. Yes, I said eight. She gave birth to the second set of octuplets in the US. What makes this different from any other mom with a bus full of kids? She is not married and went through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Which is when a woman’s egg is fertilized outside of her body, and then implanted into her uterus. IVF is a VERY expensive procedure yet this woman has no job and lives at home with her momma! They live in a three bedroom house and most rooms have a crib or two, and the new babies haven’t even gotten there.
She has supposedly had a baby every year, except one, all through IVF. Apparently she has used the same doctor every time and now he’s being investigated. She has said that she was an only child and she was lonely, so she wanted to have a large family; she could’ve just got a puppy. I guess a husband or father isn’t needed in a family.
She has no job and plans on using student loans to take care of her kids. I didn’t even know you could do that, my loans barely covered school and books. The rumor was that she was getting government assistance, which of course she denied. But, the truth is OUT! She gets food stamps AND three of her kids are disabled which leads to her getting a check. She calls these resources and not assistance. There’s nothing wrong with getting help when you need it, but, Nadya is taking it too far. She doesn’t even have a man!!! If she had of had babies the natural way then nobody would be in her business. Instead she had to be extra and use a legit sperm donor and not just Leroy down the block who gets everyone pregnant.
On top of all this there is talk of Nadya wanting to be like Angelina Jolie which I think is wasted energy, but, you never know maybe she is trying to be like her. At the end of the day this lady is causing a whole lot of hoopla! But maybe it’s just me. If you care she has a website for people to donate and leave messages. But you’re gonna have to google her because I’m not plugging her on here, sorry Nadya.
PLEDGING FOR DUMMIES
In no way, shape or form are we advocating, promoting or encouraging hazing or pledging, blah, blah, blah… let’s be real, we all know it’s illegal but its done anyway. All over the country there are chapter of every organization getting busy. There are also people out there who didn’t make the cut (no pun intended) and they’d like to be there. Well if you so happened to be pledging, we do have a few words for you:
5. If you decide to drop, DON’T SNITCH. There are eternals everywhere; you’re not the only one. The people you left were once your LB’s or LS’s. Stop hating. Be a noble droppee.
4. RESPECT YOUR PROCESS. The people making you were once in your place. They know both sides of the wood. Take care of business and don’t diss your Dean!
3. STOP SKATING. You know you’re not supposed to be eating Mickey D’s outside on your cell phone kickin’ it with your homie rocking Jordans and a fitted with your bookbag leaning off your left shoulder. Cut it out.
2. KNOCKING DAYS OFF. It won’t last forever. Nothing does. Everyone cries for his or her perspective organization at one time or another in their process. Your big brothers and/or sisters have as well so dammit, suck it up! Lace up your boots and get in the cut! Wake up the next day, if you’ve skat- uh, slept, and do it all over again.
1. DON’T DROP! Right now everything is vague. You don’t understand half of what is going on but you will when you are done. There is a reason for everything so just try to remain cool and gut it out. People talk on your campus more than you think. If you drop, you WILL be talked about. You will always be known as that person who couldn’t make it. You will no longer be Stacey; you will become “droppee” Stacey. So just hang in there. It won’t last forever. After all, you are the Master of your fate and the Captain of your soul.
KNICKS KILLERS
Mike delivers all kinds of 50-point games while Reggie slays the Knicks with buzzer-beating 3-pointers and Kobe gets the chant of MVP at the Garden? Where is New York's pride? Faithful Garden ticket holders root for the opposing team's Superstar: Kobe "Black Mamba" Bryant, also known as Mr MVP. LeBron and his piping hot Cleveland Cavaliers marched into the Knicks stadium with expectations of LeBron to post a record breaking 62 points (Kobe, 61). He only ended up with 52!
LMAO
From nothing...
My crew and I started our Magazine in 2006 with NOTHING. We raised money to fund a few issues, pay for a website and do some promotional work. Im a HUGE fan of "Run's House" and the whole Simmons dynasty. I'm usually up pretty late at night watching re-runs of Fresh Prince unless Run's House or Rob & Big is on and on this particular night I caught Run's House. Vanessa is into her whole acting career with Guiding Light and Angela wanted something to "call her own," I guess outside of Pastry. She wakes up, calls Daddy and expresses to him she wants to launch a magazine. Daddy BBM's a few of his friends and in two days, Rundown! Magazine is launched. I almost broke the tv by throwing the remote at it. That was my ignorant side.
So I thought about it because it bothered me for months. I came up with one explanation: I'd LOVE to do that for my kids so how DARE I hate Rev for it? God Bless that family...
Russy and Diggy are hilarious though!
A Cure for HIV?
Gene therapy offers hope of cure for HIV.
Via: perezhilton
Source: independent.co.uk
Click HERE for more info...
Doctors have succeeded in ridding a man of the HIV virus by giving him a bone marrow transplant in what they claim is the closest treatment yet to a cure for the disease.
The remarkable case gives new impetus to the development of gene therapy for HIV which could ultimately replace the need for expensive and toxic antiretroviral drugs. Instead of taking drugs for life, HIV sufferers might instead have a one-off treatment that would leave them virus-free.
The 42-year-old American had been infected with HIV for a decade. He was treated with antiretroviral drugs in Berlin, where he lives, for four years to hold the disease in check, but then developed leukaemia. Since being given a bone marrow transplant two years ago, he has not taken antiretroviral drugs to control HIV and has had no resurgence of either disease. He is believed to be the longest HIV-free survivor who was previously treated with antiretroviral drugs. Full details of the case are published for the first time today in The New England Journal of Medicine. An editorial in the journal says it "places further emphasis on gene therapies" for HIV, adding: "The case paves the way for innovative approaches that provide long-lasting viral control with limited toxicities for persons with HIV infection."
The man's treatment began with a search by doctors at Berlin's Charité Hospital for a bone marrow donor with a genetic resistance to HIV. One of the strangest features of the disease is the way some people who have been exposed to the virus on many occasions remain uninfected. Twenty years ago, it was noticed that certain prostitutes in Nairobi remained uninfected despite exposure to the virus through thousands of sexual contacts.
It has since emerged that some people carry a mutation of a gene (CCR5) that confers protection against HIV. In Western populations an estimated one to three per cent have the mutation.
Dr Gero Hutter, a haematologist at the Berlin Charité Hospital, and colleagues tested 61 potential donors before they found one with the CCR5 genetic mutation, who agreed to the operation.
The American recipient of the transplant, who runs a holiday rentals business in the German capital, has undergone regular checks in the two years since the treatment. The doctors have tested his bone marrow, blood and tissues and found no sign of HIV. "For as long as the viral load remains undetectable, this patient will not require antiretroviral therapy," they say in the journal.
Speaking to The Independent yesterday, Dr Hutter said there had been several previous reports of patients being virus-free following treatment but none to compare with the latest case. "The difference is that in our patient we had a plan. It was not an accident," he added. "It is the longest time someone who has had antiretroviral therapy and stopped has lasted without the virus rebounding. Normally it rebounds within weeks. It is the closest we have come to a cure."
Dr Hutter said a bone marrow transplant would be too risky as a routine treatment for HIV and too difficult to find donors with the right genetic make-up. But a modification of the approach using gene therapy to render a patient HIV-resistant could work, he said.
Even a costly treatment could be worthwhile. The price of treatment with antiretrovirals in Europe is €70,000 to €80,000 (£63,000 to £72,000) a year compared with a one-off cost of €20,000 to €30,000 for a bone marrow transplant.
Dr Hutter said: "When I started in medicine, HIV was completely untreatable. Now the situation has changed completely. Perhaps our case is a glimpse of hope for the future."
Professor Jay Levy, an Aids specialist at the University of California, and author of the US journal's editorial, said claims that the patient had been cured of HIV would be premature because of the virus's capacity to hide in other parts of the body including the brain, gut, liver and lymphatic system, from which it could always re-emerge.
"Nevertheless, the results... provide further encouragement for those examining approaches to treatment that reduce CCR5 expression in persons with HIV infection," he writes.In 2007, an estimated two million people died from Aids and 2.7 million were newly infected with HIV.
25 years of research: The HIV virus
When the discovery of HIV was announced in 1984, US politicians predicted that a cure for Aids would be found within five years, but it is still a distant prospect.
Over the past 10 years, a cocktail of aggressive antiretroviral drugs has been developed to help keep the effects of the disease at bay. Eliminating it has proved far more difficult because of the virus's unique nature.
HIV integrates itself into an infected person's DNA and attacks the cells the immune system sends to attack it. Once infected, these T-cells take the virus deeper into the body. Gene therapy is a new approach that harnesses the natural resistance to HIV shared by 3 per cent of people.
Experts hope that by tweaking a sufferer's DNA, they can achieve "long-lasting viral control".
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