Pyrexia’s Crepitus
Living. Adult content. And looking the other way.
Jun
08
Filed Under (Current Affairs) by cpyrexia on 08-06-2007
Doctors are giving infants and babies the anti-impotence drug Viagra to save them from a life-threatening lung condition even though it has not been tested on children.The drug, produced by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, has already been used to treat a small number of children with pulmonary hypertension in India, the United States, Canada and Britain with promising results.
“Critics have expressed serious concern at the fact that no clinical trials have taken place for this use of the drug and at the wide variation in doses used,” New Scientist magazine said in its online version.
Although the drug is approved for the treatment of impotence, doctors have found that it helps babies suffering from PHT, which affects 28,000 children and 250,000 adults in the United States alone.
Babies with PHT are usually put on a ventilator and given nitric oxide, but doctors who have used Viagra for PHT said it works better than nitric oxide and has fewer side-effects.
Via:CBS
Jun
08
Filed Under (Sexuality) by cpyrexia on 08-06-2007
"Yes, I’m the one in the photos," Miss A admits to Shukan Post. "But they weren’t taken by some man who had picked me up.
"I know where they were taken and who took them," she explains. "She was a person who I once trusted."
Well, whatever the circumstances, her pictures, and name, and the name of her employer - Japan Airlines - were now festooned on an adult Web site.
She had to explain it to her family of course.
It seems if you’re a famous female — like an actress, singer or model for instance — whatever you do, don’t ever pose nude for in front of your boyfriend’s or husband’s cameras. As soon as you have a falling out, warns Shukan Post, photos baring the less public portions of your anatomy could very well wind up on the Web.
To add insult to injury, the site where Miss A’s semi-nude photos were posted was strewn with vulgar English captions.
"My likes are simple: I really go for Asian chicks," the writer smirks suggestively. "And I just love to nibble on those dumb Japanese women."
The text continues: "Hey, jerkoffs, how’s it going? Let me introduce Miss A (here, the woman’s actual name appears). She’s employed by Japan Airlines, one of their in-flight whores. I’ve screwed her in Japan and in the States.
"If you want to hump this bi**h, you have to follow some rules. First, lie to her. I told her I was working for Continental Airlines, and that two buddies of mine were pilots. Eventually I suckered her and her girlfriend to coming over to my place and the three of us had a wild orgy!"
Shukan Post e-mailed a query to the site’s operator, seeking to verify the facts.
"Who the hell are you?" came back the hostile reply. "I don’t think you’re going to arrest me." The operator also demanded money for a meeting.
Whether his account is factual or not, opines Shukan Post, putting up the woman’s pictures with her real name constitutes a serious violation of her human rights.
"This action has hurt her public image, so I think it can be construed as defamation of character," remarks attorney Jiro Makino. "But it’s hard to investigate the details because the site is located overseas. I suppose it will be even more difficult for her to obtain a ruling at a civil hearing."
"We are infuriated over this serious violation of an employee’s human rights," a spokesperson at the airline’s public relations office tells Shukan Post. "In addition to the site in question, there may be postings on blogs. We are considering a variety of measures, and of course that would include legal action."
"We’ve also undertaken extra measures to warn our cabin attendants of the potential dangers," he adds. "But the fact is, more the Internet develops, the greater the risks for anybody. I think we have to give more consideration to ways to prevent this in the future."
It doesn’t take long to notice that Brick is a film that feels entirely fresh and new. It hits you rather suddenly, a few minutes after the movie begins. That’s the rub, folks: Brick, as best as you can describe it, is a postmodern mashup of a ’90s teen drug drama and a ’30s noir. The setup is quite straightforward: A girl named Emily (Emilie de Ravin) is dead, and her ex-boyfriend Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who apparently can’t get enough of the indie scene now) wants to find out what happened. He suspects foul play, and he launches an investigation, much like some renegade gumshoe might do, always evading the watchful eye of the chief. Only here, there’s no chief, just a principal (Richard Roundtree, of all people). With the help of a brilliant colleague — er, classmate — Brendan starts digging into the underworld, such as it exists in a world of letter jackets and parking lot brawls. (Indeed, for all the talk of highschool, not a single class is actually attended in Brick.)
Brendan’s investigation eventually leads him to believe that Emily overdosed, that bad drugs were involved, and that the local drug lord (such as he is) is somehow responsible for this. Soon Brendan is climbing his way up the underworld’s corporate ladder as he pushes his way into the gang over the course of a couple of days, primarily by beating up various underlings and/or allowing himself to be beaten up, too. Will justice be served? Well, that all really depends on how cynical you are.
