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Monday, 14 February 2005

Topic: pictures

Ironically, the clock's batteries have died...

Posted by Bryan at 8:49 AM PST | Post Comment | Permalink
Updated: Monday, 14 February 2005 8:52 AM PST

Wednesday, 9 February 2005

Smallest surviving baby ever born...
Topic: ramblings
Well I posted articles on some of the largest babies ever born, so why not post news of the smallest one to ever be born and survive, right?

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Baby Said to Be Smallest to Survive Goes Home

Feb 9, 1:51 PM (ET)

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A baby who may be the smallest child ever to survive has been discharged from a hospital more than four months after she entered the world weighing about as much as a cell phone.

Loyola University Medical Center said Rumaisa Rahman was discharged on Tuesday weighing 5 pounds, 8 ounces (2,520 grams), a far cry from her 8.6-ounce (260-gram) weight at birth on Sept. 19, 2004.

The hospital said she is "the smallest surviving baby in the world known in medical literature." She joins her fraternal twin sister Hiba who was also born on the same day in a Caesarian procedure and who weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces (566 grams) at birth. She was discharged a month ago and now weighs 8 pounds, 8 ounces (3,700 grams).

Doctors said her prognosis was very good and expected that she would have normal physical and mental development.

The babies were born to an Illinois couple originally from Hyderabad, India. They are the couple's first children, the hospital said. Rumaisa means "white as milk" in their native tongue while Hiba means "gift from God."

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Heading to Cali tomorrow!
Mood:

happy
Topic: ramblings
Wow, I haven't actually rambled on my own in a long time. Recently it's just been pictures and articles that I've been posting on here...

Anyway, tomorrow morning I'm heading to Sacramento for a wedding. A friend of the family is getting married tomorrow. My parents have known him longer than they've known me, so what does that tell you?

Well, I suppose that just tells you that he's older than I am...

Anyway, I am trying to plan a meeting between myself and my friend, Joe, from Cali as well. We were bestest buds when I lived in California a decade ago. We haven't seen each other in like 6 or 7 years. He's living in Fresno right now, so hopefully he can make the trip up to Sacramento on Friday and we can hang out.

I have been a little under the weather since getting back from Seattle last weekend. Hopefully I'm feeling better soon so me and Joe can hang out without any problems...

--Bryan

Posted by Bryan at 11:32 AM PST | Post Comment | Permalink

Tuesday, 8 February 2005

Self testiclularectomy
Topic: people who need help
Well, at Least He Won't Be Fathering More Fans...

Feb 8, 8:27 AM (ET)

LONDON (Reuters) - A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror reported Tuesday.

Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday's match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, "If Wales win I'll cut my balls off," the paper said.

Friends at the club in Caerphilly, south Wales, thought he was joking.

But after the game Huish went home, severed his testicles with a knife, and walked 200 yards back to the bar with the testicles to show the shocked drinkers what he had done.

Huish was taken to hospital where he remained in serious condition, the paper said.

Wales's 11-9 victory over England at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was their first home win over England in 12 years.

Posted by Bryan at 11:37 AM PST | Post Comment | Permalink

Giant Shoe
Topic: why others hate the US
Company Marks Centennial With Giant Boot

Feb 8, 8:05 AM (ET)

RED WING, Minn. (AP) - Red Wing Shoes will take a big step with a giant boot next week, when the Minnesota company celebrates its 100th anniversary.

Using ladders, cranes and special rigging, company employees and retirees have built a supersized "638-D" replica of the company's classic workboot No. 877.

The boot stands 16 feet tall and is 20 feet long. It required 80 cowhides, 1,200 feet of rope and 300 pounds of adhesives. The shoelace is 104 feet long. It has been recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest shoe.

The boot took more than a year to build. Employees said everything about the massive replica was properly scaled, so if a 12-story-tall man came to town they would have a roughly $100,000, ready-to-wear boot for him.

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Saturday, 5 February 2005

A Picture Share!
Topic: pictures

And here's how they decorated Jason's desk soon after...

Posted by Bryan at 4:23 PM PST | Post Comment | Permalink
Updated: Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:38 AM PST

A Picture Share!
Topic: pictures

Here's how they decorated my desk at work one day...

Posted by Bryan at 4:22 PM PST | Post Comment | Permalink
Updated: Tuesday, 8 February 2005 11:38 AM PST

Friday, 4 February 2005

16 lb baby born
Topic: thought provoking
Well aparently the 16 lb baby was born due to the mother having diabetes. But I definitely know of some women who have large babies due to overeating...

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Woman Gives Birth To 16-Pound Baby
Mother's Diabetes May Have Increased Child's Size

POSTED: 1:32 pm EST January 21, 2005

SALVADOR, Brazil -- Doctors at a Brazilian hospital have delivered a boy weighing 16 pounds, 11 ounces. The baby is the fifth child born to a 38-year-old woman.

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Ademilton dos Santos weighed in at 16 pounds, 11 ounces when he was born.

Doctors say the baby was delivered by Caesarean section Tuesday at a hospital about 900 miles northeast of the city of Sao Paulo.

The baby is the largest born in the hospital's 12-year history.

A hospital spokeswoman said the mother is diabetic and women who suffer from the condition often have large babies.

The woman's other four children ranged in weight from 7 to 11 pounds at birth. But the hospital spokeswoman said the size of this newborn surprised everybody.

Posted by Bryan at 9:40 AM PST | Post Comment | Permalink

14 lb baby born in Oregon
Mood:

not sure
Topic: thought provoking
Something tells me that women in most countries wouldn't be able to feed the baby enough to get him/her this big, let alone give birth to it. You'll notice this baby was born via Caesarean section. I'm sure vaginal birth wouldn't be possible in the case of this large of a baby. Just kind of goes to show just how bad our eating habits have become: it's now leaking into the next generation in utero.

Then again, birth weight doesn't guarantee the size the baby will continue to be into the future. Just look at me...

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Ore. Women Gives Birth to 14 Pound Baby

Feb 3, 8:12 PM (ET)

PRINEVILLE, Ore. (AP) - Jacob Aaron Ryon is the size of a healthy 3-month old. Only problem is, he's less than two weeks old. Jacob weighed 14 pounds and 1 ounce when he was born to Wendy Bullock, 24, on Jan. 21 at Pioneer Memorial Hospital. He measured 24 inches.

"The whole hospital was a buzz," grandmother Aaron Miller said. "He's just a little man."

Jacob, who was delivered by Caesarean section, was so big he busted out of newborn-sized diapers and his one-piece sleepers. A nurse had to run to the store to get him bigger clothes, Miller said.

Jacob is one of the biggest newborns in Central Oregon in recent memory.

Doctors at Mountain View Hospital delivered an 11-pound girl in 2000, administrator Rick Nader said. At St. Charles Medical Center-Bend, a 13-pound baby was likely the largest ever born there, spokesman Todd Sprague said.

Proud mother Bullock, who is 6-feet tall, doesn't mind the extra load.

"I'm just happy he came out healthy and strong and I made it through," she said. "He's perfect."

Last month in northeastern Brazil, a 38-year-old woman gave birth to a 16 pound, 11-ounce baby boy named Ademilton.

Posted by Bryan at 8:23 AM PST | Post Comment | Permalink

Wednesday, 2 February 2005

Here's a thought...
Topic: thought provoking
I heard on the radio earlier today that a petition has been started to convince Ashley Simpson to stop singing altogether. So far they had gathered over 275,800+ signatures begging her to stop singing...

Then it hit me. It's obvious that her family (and specifically her famous singer sister, Jessica), not her talent, got her foot in the door and got her a record deal.

And then another thought crossed my mind. How much better off our whole world would have been...how much less pain and suffering would exist in this world...if only Simon Cowell was her brother or dad.

* smiles and dreams about what "could have been" *

Posted by Bryan at 10:07 PM PST | Post Comment | Permalink

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