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    http://culturemap.com/newsdetail/09-02-10-breaking-mariner-energy-oil-rig-explodes-in-gulf/?utm_source=CultureMap&utm_medium=twitter

    An oil platform owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy has exploded 80 miles from the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico.

    According to CNN, all 13 workers on the rig have been accounted for, with one injured.

    The Coast Guard has seven helicopters and numerous vessels en route to the Vermilion Oil rig 380, which is 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay and west of the Deepwater Horizon blast that caused the massive oil spill in April.

    Authorities say they cannot be certain if oil is leaking from the site or not. In an CNBC interview, Mariner Energy director of investor relations Patrick Cassidy said early indications are that no oil is spilling. Cassidy said the fire happened away from the actual well.

    The Department of Homeland Security told the Associated Press that the platform was in about 2,500 feet of water.

    Another one? Seriously?

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    http://www.naturalnews.com/029535_drugs_Big_Pharma.html

    (NaturalNews) Corruption and fraud in the drug industry is nothing new, but a new report to be presented at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association reveals that most new pharmaceutical drugs offer practically no benefits and a whole lot of negative side effects.

    Donald Light, sociologist, professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and author of the new study, explains that the drug industry as a whole produces all sorts of "lemon" drugs that do not work, whose efficacy has not been proven and whose manufacturers are protected from responsibility by industry protection laws.

    "Sometimes drug companies hide or downplay information about serious side effects of new drugs and overstate the drugs' benefits," he said in a press release. "Then, they spend two or three times more on marketing than on research to persuade doctors to prescribe these new drugs. Doctors may get misleading information and then misinform patients about the risks of a new drug."

    According to an independent review, only about 15 percent of new drugs even work as stated, and most new drugs -- whether they offer a benefit or not -- come with serious side effects that are now a significant cause of death in the U.S.

    The report explains that drug companies deliberately expose large amounts of people to ineffective, harmful drugs in trials, but skew them to make it look as if the drugs are effective. They then submit hosts of incomplete, inaccurate data to the FDA for approval, followed by large marketing campaigns designed to convince doctors to prescribe the newly approved drugs for both approved and unapproved uses.

    According to the report, an analysis of 111 final drug applications revealed that 42 percent were missing adequate randomized trials, 40 percent had inaccurate dosage testing, 39 percent failed to show drug efficacy, and roughly half revealed the drugs to have serious adverse side effects.

    Light also emphasized that, because drug companies control both the scientific testing process and the selection of which tests get submitted to the FDA or get published, the entire process is biased and flawed.

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    http://kotaku.com/5604928/its-kinda-like-tekken-but-for-real

    Former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Roger Huerta made his acting debut in the Tekken movie as the character Miguel Caballero Rojo. Rojo's fighting style is brawling — perfect for a street fight. That's exactly what happened over the weekend.

    At around 2AM, a dispute broke out in front of a bar in Austin, Texas. A woman dropped to the ground, and Huerta confronted her attacker, saying "You just punched a fucking girl."

    500x_streetfight.jpg

    Huerta removed his shirt and hat and then chased after the man. The attacker ended up on the pavement, while Huerta stomped the snot out of him. People tried to help the bloody man, while Huerta left the scuffle unscathed.

    According to Huerta's manager, it is in the former UFC fighter's nature to be "very protective of women".

    The police have made no arrests and no charges have been pressed.

    In the Tekken series, character Miguel Caballero Rojo is avenging the death of his sister. The movie version of Tekken was released in Japan this past spring. It is going straight to DVD in the United Kingdom. It has been screened in the U.S., but not yet officially released.

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    http://kotaku.com/5601997/game-cafe-robbed-gamers-fight-back-lots-of-punches-to-the-head

    Video in Link X'D

    A gaming cafe in Kaneohe, Hawaii was robbed last week, three youths storming in and demanding money from the customers inside. They got the money, but I don't think they were ready for one guy to fight back.

    As you can see in this clip from KHON2 news, things were going pretty well for the bandits early on. They come in, threaten the front desk employee, rough him up then start taking money from the kids inside using the computers. Then they try and take one guy's DS. Nunh unh.

    He goes bananas, flying straight at his would-be thief with a flurry of punches. He even manages to land one. He receives several more (with interest) in return, but his actions help inspire the rest of the cafe's inhabitants, who eventually fight back, stealing the mask of one robber and causing the rest to flee.

    Three of the thieves were apprehended by police around a block away.

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    What are some of your favorite movie themes? It seems these days, we've gotten away from memorable composed themes in favor of artist recordings. But here are some of my favoriteQ

    MORTAL KOMBAT!!!! - All time favorite... I saw this when I was a kid in the theater... definitely got fired up when the music hit.

    5PvSnokAvyw

    The Thing - probably one of the more eerie theme songs

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    T2: Judgement Day

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    Batman - Not the best film, but definitely a memorable theme

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    Back to the Future!

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    Jurrassic Park

    D8zlUUrFK-M

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    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/puzzling-collapse-earth-atmosphere-100715.html

    An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently collapsed in an unexpectedly large contraction, the sheer size of which has scientists scratching their heads, NASA announced Thursday.

    The layer of gas – called the thermosphere – is now rebounding again. This type of collapse is not rare, but its magnitude shocked scientists.

    "This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," said John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "It's a Space Age record."

    The collapse occurred during a period of relative solar inactivity – called a solar minimum from 2008 to 2009. These minimums are known to cool and contract the thermosphere, however, the recent collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain.

    "Something is going on that we do not understand," Emmert said.

    The thermosphere lies high above the Earth's surface, close to where our planet meets the edge of space. It ranges in altitude from 55 miles (90 km) to 370 miles (600 km) above the ground. At this height, satellites and meteors fly and auroras shine. [Graphic: Earth's Atmosphere Top to Bottom]

    The thermosphere interacts strongly with the sun, so is very affected by periods of high or low solar activity. This layer intercepts extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) from the sun before it can reach the ground.

    When solar activity is high, solar EUV warms the thermosphere, causing it to puff up like a marshmallow held over a camp fire. When solar activity is low, the opposite occurs.

    Recently, solar activity has been at an extreme low. In 2008 and 2009, sunspots were scarce, solar flares almost non-existent, and solar EUV radiation was at a low ebb.

    Still, the thermospheric collapse of 2008-2009 was not only bigger than any previous collapse, it was also bigger than the sun's activity alone could explain.

    To calculate the collapse, Emmert analyzed the decay rates of more than 5,000 satellites orbiting above Earth between 1967 and 2010. This provided a space-time sampling of thermospheric density, temperature, and pressure covering almost the entire Space Age.

    Emmert suggests carbon dioxide (CO2) in the thermosphere might play a role in explaining the atmospheric collapse.

    This gas acts as a coolant, shedding heat via infrared radiation. It is widely-known that CO2 levels have been increasing in Earth's atmosphere. Extra CO2 in the thermosphere could have magnified the cooling action of solar minimum.

    "But the numbers don't quite add up," Emmert said. "Even when we take CO2 into account using our best understanding of how it operates as a coolant, we cannot fully explain the thermosphere's collapse."

    The researchers hope further monitoring of the upper atmosphere will help them get to the bottom of the situation.

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