Jardine River turtles have been spotted in far north Queensland, Australia for the first time in nearly two decades. (Sept. 4)

Life can give us a number of beautiful friends
But…only true friends can give us a beautiful life.
One of my true friends is U. ~latest sml

Avoid Swearing / Shouting – Many people think that this calms them down because it releases bottled up energy / anger. This is a common misconception. Yes. Release your anger. Do not hold it in all the time or you will explode. Do not take out your bottled up anger on those around you. Swearing only hypes you up more. You think you feel better but really, all you’ve done is put yourself in a destructive habit. If you need to shout, find a place of solitude and let out your anger. Cry. Do not punch a wall. Find a pillow or something that you won’t cause any harm to and scream into if you must. Just avoid taking your anger out on others because then guilt will stress you even more. Talk about your problems as they occur; don’t put it off. Taking care of the problem now, can eliminate the possibility of blowing up later because your anger was taken out a long time ago with civilized discussion. Source: wikiHow

Moon said to me,
‘If your friends don’t send you messages
why don’t you just leave your friends.’
I looked at the moon and said,
‘Does your sky ever leave you when you don’t shine?’

~sms4smile

We’re not too close in distance.
We’re not too near in miles.
But words can still touch our hearts
and thoughts can bring us smiles.

~sms4smile

Beth Greenfield, Senior Writer
Yahoo, Sep 5, 2014

You can’t really eat too many bananas — especially if you’re a woman over the age of 50, according to the findings of a new study regarding potassium intake and stroke prevention. Published on Thursday in the journal Stroke, researchers discovered that women in that age group who ate high-potassium foods were 12 percent less likely to suffer from a stroke in general and 16 percent less likely to suffer from an ischemic stroke (one caused by a blood clot) than women who didn’t. Finally, the high-potassium women were 10 percent less likely to die — from any cause — than those who ate low amounts of the healthy mineral.

“Potassium has long been associated with lower blood pressure,” said Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, lead researcher and principal investigator at the Women’s Health Initiative of Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. But, she told Yahoo Health, “We think it goes above and beyond that, to a cellular level. Potassium is used in cellular function, and could be positively affecting the cells that line blood vessels.”

One unexpected finding in the study, Wassertheil-Smoller noted, was that the relationship between potassium intake and stroke prevention was the strongest in women without hypertension. “That was surprising and really interesting,” she said. “So we think it’s good to up your potassium intake before hypertension has a chance to develop.”

The researcher said she could not leap to any conclusions about how a high potassium intake might protect men from strokes, since the research focused only on women. But, she said, “We think it does apply to men, as, in general and on average, men eat more potassium than women because they tend to consume more calories.” Also, the researchers only focused on dietary sources of potassium — which include foods such as bananas, spinach, dates, yogurt, potatoes, and salmon — and so could not comment on the impact of potassium supplements on stroke prevention.

For the study, researchers studied 90,137 postmenopausal women between the ages of 50 and 79 for an average of 11 years. The subjects consumed an average of 2,611 milligrams of potassium daily — well below the USDA recommended 4,700 mg and even the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 3,500 mg a day. Only three percent, in fact, actually exceeded the USDA recommendation. Based on the data, Wassertheil-Smoller suggests eating even more than that average. “We would say at least stick to the WHO recommendation — which equals 12 bananas a day,” she said with a laugh. But, she quickly added, “You don’t have to just eat bananas. A serving of spinach is probably twice that of a banana. Potassium is sort of everywhere, you just have to read labels to make sure.”

By Pete Thomas, GrindTV
September 05, 2014

Photos of odd-looking crustacean, reeled in off Florida, go viral; experts believe it’s some kind of mantis shrimp, whose remarkable power might astonish you

A Florida angler has reeled in a mysterious creature that looks to be a cross between a lobster and shrimp, and photos of this odd-looking crustacean, dangling from a fishing line, have captivated the Internet audience.

Steve Bargeron snapped the photos after watching another fisherman reel the 18-inch critter out of the water. Both had been fishing from a dock in Fort Pierce.

Shrimp-like creature
Another view of what’s believed to be a large mantis shrimp; photo by Steve Bargeron
Bargeron sent the images to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, which on Thursday posted them on its Facebook page. By Friday morning the post had been shared nearly 3,000 times, and received hundreds of comments.

“That’s exactly why I don’t go into the ocean,” one person wrote.

The FWC did not identify the critter, but based on its appearance and Bargeron’s description—when it was pulled out of the water it was violently snapping its tail—the agency believes it’s “some type of mantis shrimp.”

If that’s true, the fisherman who caught the shrimp was smart to have grabbed it by its back, like one might grab a lobster, and fortunate not to have been injured.

The mantis shrimp is in a class of its own in terms of power. Within its shell are hinged arm-like claws, with fist-like clubs at their ends. They lash out with the speed of a .22-caliber bullet—the fastest punch in the world—and literally smash the shells of prey.

The claws can shatter clam shells, crack open crab shells, and even deliver a knockout blow to an octopus.

By Aileen Torres-Bennett and Horace Helps
Reuters, September 5, 2014

KINGSTON (Reuters) – A small U.S. private plane with an unresponsive pilot crashed off the east coast of Jamaica on Friday after veering far off its course toward southwest Florida and triggering a U.S. security alert that prompted a fighter jet escort.

A New York county official said that Larry Glazer, a real-estate executive from Rochester in New York, and his wife, Jane Glazer, were aboard the plane. Both were killed, the official said.

It was not yet known if anyone else was on the plane.
Search and rescue teams, including a military plane and a helicopter, were despatched to the crash site about 14 miles (22 km) north of the tourist town of Port Antonio, Jamaica’s Civil Aviation Authority said.

The United States Coast Guard also joined the search with an HC-130 Hercules airplane and a helicopter, as well as a Coast Guard Cutter en route.

“At this time we have not located the aircraft or debris,” a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said late on Friday afternoon.

The pilot stopped responding to radio calls about an hour after take-off from Greater Rochester International Airport in New York and was headed to Naples Municipal Airport in Florida, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.

Search and rescue teams, including a military plane and a helicopter, were despatched to the crash site about 14 miles (22 km) north of the tourist town of Port Antonio, Jamaica’s Civil Aviation Authority said. (AP/Yahoo News)

The single-engine, seven-seater plane, a Socata TBM700, flew for several hours at an altitude of 25,000 feet (7,620 meters) southbound down the Florida east coast and south over Cuba, the FAA said.

It was trailed by two F-15 fighter jets, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said, before the jets halted their escort when the plane entered Cuban airspace.

NORAD suggested on its Twitter page that the aircraft’s pilot may have suffered “possible hypoxia,” a rare condition caused by a loss of cabin pressure that may have left everyone on board unconscious.

In 1999, a Learjet carrying golf pro Payne Stewart lost cabin pressure during a flight from Orlando to Dallas. The aircraft eventually ran out of fuel and crashed in South Dakota.

CNN reported that the F-15 pilots who were tracking the aircraft could see the pilot slumped over before the plane’s windows frosted over. There appeared to be two pilots in the plane, CNN reported, but the FAA said it had not confirmed the number of people on board.

U.S. aviation authorities alerted Cuba to the plane’s approach and Cuban officials said it was not considered a violation of its air space.

The plane was owned by a company called New 51LG LLC, according to FlightAware.com and other online flight databases. That company appears to be registered at the same address as Buckingham Properties in Rochester, New York, according to registration documents posted on the Internet.

Calls to the company were not immediately answered.

Larry Glazer co-founded Buckingham Properties in 1970 and was the company’s CEO and managing partner. An online profile of Glazer said his hobbies included flying his plane.

Several local officials, including at least two state senators, released statements describing the Glazers as eminent members of the community in Rochester, a city in Monroe County near Lake Ontario in western New York.

Maggie Brooks, Monroe County’s executive, said Larry Glazer had left his mark on the Rochester skyline through his firm Buckingham Properties. Jane Glazer ran a mail-order homeware company called QCI Direct, Brooks said.

“They were personal friends of mine as well as amazing community leaders, philanthropists in so many ways, so this truly is a devastating loss on so many different levels for Rochester,” Brooks said at a news conference on Friday.

(Reporting By David Adams in Miami, Letitia Stein in Tampa, Jonathan Allen in New York and Daniel Trotta in Havana; Editing by Frances Kerry and Sandra Maler)

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