March 14, 2006

Reminder: April 27 is Bring your child to work day!

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Even the military is encouraged to participate

Archaeologists Find Ancient Israel Tunnels
Underground chambers and tunnels used during a Jewish revolt against the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago have been uncovered in northern Israel, archaeologists said Monday.

The Jews laid in supplies and were preparing to hide from the Romans during their revolt in A.D. 66-70, the experts said. The pits, which are linked by short tunnels, would have served as a concealed subterranean home.

Yardenna Alexandre of the Israel Antiquities Authority said the find shows the ancient Jews planned and prepared for the uprising, contrary to the common perception that the revolt began spontaneously.

"It definitely was not spontaneous," Alexandre said. "The Jews of that time certainly did prepare for it, with underground hideaways here and in other sites we have found."

The underground chambers at the Israeli Arab village of Kfar Kana, north of Nazareth, were built from housing materials common at the time and hidden directly beneath the floors of aboveground homes — giving families direct access to the hideouts. Other refuges found from the time of the revolt are hewn out of rock.

"This construction was very well camouflaged inside one of the houses," Alexandre said. "There are three pits under this house and one tunnel leading to another pit. There are 11 storage jars in that pit."

…The Jewish revolt against Roman rule ended in A.D. 70, when the Romans sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple.

The ancient Jews at the Kfar site built their houses over the ruins of a fortified Iron Age city, reusing some of the stones from the original settlement. Then they dug through 5 feet of debris from the ruins to build their hideaway complex. "It was quite a lot of work," Alexandre said.

The original settlement, which dates from the 10th and 9th centuries B.C., is also a new discovery.

…The excavation of the city's architecture has uncovered fortified walls which still stand 5 feet tall in some places. "It's magnificent," said Alexandre. "You can walk among them."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060313/ap_on_sc/israel_ancient_hideaways

She's right! Crash is trash. But Brokebutt Mtn is in the same category: trash. She's just upset other trash crashed her party.....
'BROKEBACK' AUTHOR SLAMS OSCARS: 'CRASH' IS 'TRASH'...
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN author ANNIE PROULX has slated the Academy Awards for giving the Best Picture Oscar to CRASH at this year's (06) presentation ceremony. In an essay published by British newspaper The Guardian, Proulx describes voters as "out of touch" and "segregated" from current issues, and insists they were easily influenced by Crash's production company Lions Gate Entertainment. She writes, "Roughly 6,000 film industry voters, most in the Los Angeles area, many living cloistered lives behind wrought-iron gates or in deluxe rest homes, out of touch not only with the shifting larger culture and the yeasty ferment that is America these days, but also out of touch with their own segregated city, decide which films are good. "And rumour has it that Lions Gate inundated the academy voters with DVD copies of 'Trash' - excuse me, Crash - a few weeks before the ballot deadline. "Next year we can look to the awards for controversial themes on the punishment of adulterers with a branding iron in the shape of the letter A, runaway slaves, and the debate over free silver."
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/brokeback%20author%20slates%20oscars_14_03_2006

Woman gets beer from her kitchen faucet
Mar 13,-OSLO, Norway - It almost seemed like a miracle to Haldis Gundersen when she turned on her kitchen faucet this weekend and found the water had turned into beer.

Two flights down, employees and customers at the Big Tower Bar were horrified when water poured out of the beer taps.

By an improbable feat of clumsy plumbing, someone at the bar in Kristiandsund, western Norway, had accidentally hooked the beer hoses to the water pipes for Gundersen's apartment.

...Gundersen said the beer was flat and not tempting…
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BEER_ON_TAP?SITE=CAVAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Cholesterol drug reverses heart disease
Mar 13- ATLANTA -- High doses of a powerful cholesterol-lowering drug seemed to actually reverse heart disease - not just keep it from getting worse - new research showed.

People in the study got their "bad cholesterol" to the lowest levels ever achieved and saw blockages in their blood vessels shrink as a result. It's too soon to tell whether the shrinkage of artery deposits will mean fewer heart attacks, but doctors were excited by the possibility.

"The holy grail has always been to try to reverse the disease," and this shows a way, said Dr. Steven Nissen, the Cleveland Clinic cardiologist who led the nationwide experiment and reported results at a meeting of heart doctors Monday.

...Two-thirds of the 349 study participants had regression of heart artery buildups when they took the maximum dose of Crestor, the strongest of the cholesterol-lowering statin drugs on the market...

...The study was paid for by AstraZeneca PLC, the maker of Crestor....

...The aim was to see whether people who already had heart disease, not just high cholesterol, could turn back the clock.

Also at the conference:

- Doctors reported encouraging early results with the first totally absorbable stent, a tiny mesh scaffold used to prop open an artery. No deaths, heart attacks or blood clots in the first 63 patients to get the experimental device, made by Berlin, Germany-based Biotronik, said Dr. Raimund Erbel of University Clinic in Essen, Germany.

If further studies prove the stent safe and successful, it could become the first one usable in children, who can't use current metal and drug-coated plastic stents because the devices don't grow as they do.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HEART_DISEASE?SITE=CAVAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

TV taken to task on health news
Local television news airs plenty of health stories, but they're often short on context and sometimes contain harmful errors, a study says.

…In the new study, led by James Pribble, an emergency room doctor at the University of Michigan, and Kenneth Goldstein, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researchers watched recordings of local newscasts originally used for political analysis to pick apart how local television covers health.

Pribble found that many news stories did not put the health topics in context.

For instance, West Nile virus, which is transmitted through mosquito bites, was the subject of 9% of health stories aired, the second most popular health topic behind breast cancer. More attention should have been paid to other infectious diseases with higher fatality rates, he said.

"In contrast (to the West Nile virus), the flu kills tens of thousands of people each year," he said.

...Maria Simbra, a doctor and a medical reporter for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, said in an e-mail interview that constraints of the broadcast business can make it hard to put stories in context.

...Pribble said he was more alarmed by the errors he found in broadcasts...

Several stations aired a story about the possible use of lemon juice as an effective contraceptive or even in preventing transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

The study was done only in vitro, meaning it was tested in a lab but never on a person. But nearly all reports failed to mention that the idea was never tested on humans.

...The study appears in the March issue of the American Journal of Managed Care. The paper is available online at www.ajmc.com.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-03-12-tv-health-reporting_x.htm

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