Wonders of Sex on Ice With Grid Girls

Grid girls they say are hot. I've never seen them in action. Ice shelves they say are icy cold. Such oxy-moron statements. Hot sex with hot grid girls will melt the ice - that's the truth of the century. Why don't the morons doing the Merdeka Endurance Race take this simple truth instead of going round and round like goldfish in a fish tank, burning fuel for 12 hours and contributing to a warmer Earth causing ice shelves to melt.

(Picture: Large pieces of ice float off after separating from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf July 29. That shelf has lost about eight square miles and the Serson shelf 47 square miles as the Markham Ice Shelf has separated and gone adrift. Source: Associated Press / MSNBC)

A huge chunk of ice shelf, more than 60 sq. km has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

The 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean. This comes on the heels of unusual cracks in a northern Greenland glacier, rapid melting of a southern Greenland glacier, and a near record loss for Arctic sea ice this summer. And March this year a 160-square mile chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated.

The loss of these ice shelves means that rare ecosystems that depend on them are on the brink of extinction, said Warwick Vincent, director of Laval University's Centre for Northern Studies and a researcher in the program ArcticNet.

It is the burning of oil and other fossil fuels that scientists say is the chief cause of manmade warming and melting ice.

We know it's you and me are the culprits.

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Erotic Stimulants for Dead Zones

Sometimes some guys who think they are smarter can tell us to screw ourselves. Here's how we do just that. "If we screw up the energy flow within our systems we could end up with no crabs, no shrimp, no fish. That is where these dead zones are heading unless we stop their growth," said Robert Diaz,co-author of the research in the journal Science. So we screw ourselves.

Like a chronic disease wasting a body, ocean "dead zones" with too little oxygen for marine life are spreading around the globe. The experts counted 405 dead zones in 2007 — a third more than their 1995 survey. The problem is growing to a magnittude that is starting to affect the resources that we pull out from the sea to feed ourselves.

Fertilizers, fuel, sewage blamed
Pollution-fed algae, which deprive other living marine life of oxygen, is the cause of most of the world's dead zones. Scientists mainly blame fertilizer and other farm runoff, sewage and fossil-fuel burning. Areas where there are prawn culture ponds and salmon farming cages have become hypoxic, too.

Rivers in South America that were once thought to be too large to have the same problems as the Mississippi River, now have their estuaries and coastal areas suffering the same malady.

This is a global problem and it has severe consequences for ecosystems. The trend could lead to global food problem. Now that's stimulating.

Towering Reach of Breast Cancer

“It is estimated that one in 19 women here are at risk of getting breast cancer in their lifetime. Even men are susceptible, although in small numbers.", said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen. Compare this to 1 in 8 women in the US.

The exact cause of breast cancer has not been established but clinical data has clearly shown a number of risk factors, which may be responsible for it:

Age: High incidence in the age group above 50 years and very low below 25 years. The disease is more aggressive in younger patients.

Menstrual cycle: Common in the ladies who have a longer menstrual life, i.e. the onset of menarche is earlier and cessation of menstruation is late.

Marital and maternal status: More common in spinsters, or if married then have not given birth to children, or if given birth then have not breast fed their offspring.

A positive history of breast cancer in mother, sisters, and daughters increases the risk.

Smoking and alcohol intake are supposed to increase the risk.

Women with a past history of having breast cancer on one side are at a greater risk to develop cancer on the opposite side also, about 1 per cent per year and the lifetime risk is 10 per cent.

Obesity and higher intake of saturated fatty acids have been also linked .

A woman who exercises atleast four hours per week reduces her risk of breast cancer. Exercise pumps up the immune system and cuts the oestrogen (female hormone) level.

Radiation to chest: Exposure of breast to radiation that may happen during radiotherapy for any cancer disease located either inside the chest or on the chest wall, may make the person more vulnerable to the development of breast cancer. This may happen 10 or 12 years after the exposure.

Oral Contraceptives: Women below the age of 35 years, who have been using oral contraceptive pills for more than 10 years, are at an increased risk of developing breast cancer.

Hormone-Replacement Therapy: It has been shown that continuous or sequential uses of combined oestrogen plus progestin hormone therapy (CHT) after the cessation of menstruation cycle are linked with an increased risk of breast cancer. The researchers also found that the women who have been using only oestrogen therapy as hormone replacement therapy (i.e. not combining with progestin) for 25 years or longer had no significant increase in the risk of breast cancer.

The readers are cautioned that these facts have been derived from the statistical analysis of the factors seen in the breast-cancer patients; they should not be taken as causative or predisposing factors. In the present era when breast cancer has become such a common disease, it is advisable to follow the guidelines.

This post is a tribute to the Avon Walk Around The World for Breast Cancer and the Pride Foundation.

Article abstracted from the Spectrum column of The Tribune by Dr S.M. Bose.