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...As glad as I am that so many legendary subs - Wahoo, Lagarto, Grunion, Perch - have been found in the last year or so, is it just me or does it feel a little...well, unsettling that these boats have come back from the beyond at the same time? I'd like to think I'm not superstitious, but still..
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
01/14/2007 15:27 Comments ||
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Shipman: on the website
http://www.oneternalpatrol.com/uss-perch-176.htm
they have quite a list of crewmen who survived the POW camp, but little information. Where did you find the lack of survivors info?
Actually, the real idiots are the radio hosts.
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A woman who competed in a radio station's contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday.
Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner. "She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad," said Laura Rios, one of Strange's co-workers at Radiological Associates of Sacramento. "She was crying, and that was the last that anyone had heard from her."
It was not immediately known how much water Strange consumed. A preliminary investigation found evidence "consistent with a water intoxication death," said assistant Coroner Ed Smith.
John Geary, vice president and marketing manager for Entercom Sacramento, the station's owner, said station personnel were stunned when they heard of Strange's death. "We are awaiting information that will help explain how this tragic event occurred," he said.
Initially, contestants were handed 8-ounce bottles of water to drink every 15 minutes. "They were small little half-pint bottles, so we thought it was going to be easy," said fellow contestant James Ybarra of Woodland. "They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk."
Ybarra said he quit after drinking five bottles. "My bladder couldn't handle it anymore," he added.
After he quit, he said, the remaining contestants, including Strange, were given even bigger bottles to drink. "I was talking to her and she was a nice lady," Ybarra said. "She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for her kids." Well, really sad ending, for her, and for them.
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Cute title for the contest, but the radio station and hosts should have known better. In recent years there have been well publicized incidents of military training deaths due to water intoxication. A death at Lackland in 1999 came to mind. Military Medicine has an article that "reviews several recent military cases and three deaths that have occurred as a result of overhydration, with resultant hyponatremia and cerebral edema. All of these cases are associated with more than 5 L (usually 10-20 L) of water intake during a period of a few hours".
Ybarra quit after 2 liters; wonder how much water Ms Strange drank.
The worlds first test tube baby has given birth herself in Britain after conceiving naturally, the Sun newspaper reported Saturday. Louise Brown, 28, was photographed with a carrycot outside her home in Bristol, western England, and an unnamed friend told the paper that she and husband Wesley Mullinder, 37, were over the moon.
Its what theyve always wanted, the friend added.
The report did not say whether the child was a boy or girl. In 1978, Brown was the first baby ever born to parents who had undergone in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. Her father and mother, John and Lesley, had tried for a baby for nine years before turning to the new technique, pioneered by gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and Cambridge University physiologist Robert Edwards, the Sun said. The couple also had a second test-tube baby daughter Natalie, 23, who became the first ever IVF baby to give birth herself in 1999.
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A Connecticut toymaker is hoping to strike a chord with its "Dope on a Rope" doll, a figure depicting former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in his last moments, with a noose around his neck.
This isnt the first such undertaking for the company. Herobuilders.com also sells dolls depicting other famous personalities and events, such as Michael Jacksons dangling his child over a balcony in Germany, as well as Usama bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il and Tony Blair.
The Saddam doll depicts the full-bearded ex-leader wearing a white T-shirt with the words Dope on a Rope in red letters and a noose around his neck. It sells for $24.95 on the Herobuilders.com site.
Other versions of the deceased dictator include Captured Saddam, Crack Head Saddam and the Butcher of Baghdad.
Cell phone footage of the execution found its way to the Internet last week, and the depictions of the deposed Iraqi dictator's last moments have been blamed for the copycat deaths of children in several countries.
The "Dope on a Rope" doll, along with the other political dolls produced by Herobuilders.com, seem to be geared toward adults.
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