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Whale-Dolphin Hybrid Has Baby Wholphin By JEANNETTE J. LEE, Associated Press Writer Fri Apr 15, 7:50 AM ET The only whale-dolphin mix in captivity has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday. The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, a mix of a false killer whale and an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Park officials said they waited to announce the birth until now because of recent changes in ownership and operations at the park. The young as-yet unnamed wholphin is one-fourth false killer whale and three-fourths Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Her slick skin is an even blend of a dolphin's light gray and the black coloring of a false killer whale. The calf still depends fully on her mother's milk, but sometimes snatches frozen capelin from the hands of trainers, then toys with the sardine-like fish. She is jumbo-sized compared to purebred dolphins, and is already the size of a one-year-old bottlenose. "Mother and calf are doing very well," said Dr. Renato Lenzi, general manager of Sea Life Park by Dolphin Discovery. "We are monitoring them very closely to ensure the best care for them." Although false killer whales and Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are different species, they are classified within the same family by scientists. "They are not that far apart in terms of taxonomy," said Louis Herman, a leading expert in the study of marine mammals. There have been reports of wholphins in the wild, he said. Kekaimalu, whose name means "from the peaceful ocean," was born 19 years ago after a surprise coupling between a 14-foot, 2,000-pound false killer whale and a 6-foot, 400-pound dolphin. The animals were the leads in the park's popular tourist water show, featured in the Adam Sandler movie "50 First Dates." Kekaimalu has given birth to two other calves. One lived for nine years and the other, born when Kekaimalu was very young, died a few days after birth. Park researchers suspect the wholphin's father is a 15-foot long Atlantic bottlenose dolphin named Mikioi. "He seems to be totally oblivious to this happening," Lenzi said. False killer whales do not closely resemble killer whales. They grow to 20 feet, weigh up to two tons and have a tapering, rounded snout that overhangs their toothed jaw. Atlantic bottlenose dolphins reach a maximum size of 12 feet and can weigh up to 700 pounds. Sea Life Park officials said they hope to decide on a name for the baby wholphin soon and move her to a large display tank in a few months.

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I don't know what made me put in scream (first version) but.....

Aretha was always good, and showed a lot of potential as a kid, but to my ears, she sounds just like that, a kid....I just don't know why people expect Joss to be as Aretha ever was, or else she ain't worth anything......

.... Jeez she really does look like my missus on that pic. Just holds the mic differently. edited for spoolingh Careful now... She is only 17. Which is why people shouldn't judge her as an adult!!! How good was Aretha at 17??? How many good soul singers are there these days???? (Who are under 30?) I don't have any albums, but she doesn't sound like everyone else today, which is aok in my book. She doesn't want to be another bland pop singer, and with her looks, she could take the easy way to stardom, but didn't.

Does he??? Is the Pope Jewish?

This seems like the worst crop of singers ever(Where did I leave that comic book guy image?) I saw a few early shows with my Mom this season, and I remember a big black gal who they said had a sore throat, and I thought she had a bit of Ella in her, I thought, ooh, she'll go far if the public has any taste at all...well they put her in a room with a bunch of other people and canned them all... I have seen a few minutes of recent shows, til I have to leave the room, that tubby, girlfriend beating dude should have been drop kicked awhile ago, he can't sing....

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I think I've received emails from every bank in the known world. Except the bank we use... Say, which bank is that again????

I hear this crap most post seasons on TV. Sometimes, someone will make the point that the records were originally set by players who only played in the W.S.

Gee, she should get something for this!!!! (Besides just helping a childless couple, one or 2 of the critters, $75,000, something!) Surrogate Mom Carrying Quints for Couple Wed Apr 13,11:27 AM ET U.S. National - AP PHOENIX - A woman who agreed to be a surrogate mother for a childless couple is pregnant with quintuplets, all boys, and she's decided not to accept any money because of the expense the parents are facing. Teresa Anderson, who has four children of her own, expected that being a surrogate for Luisa Gonzalez and her husband, Enrique Moreno, would be equally simple. "But it's really five times the swelling, five times the mood swings," she told The Arizona Republic. "It's very different. You're a lot weaker and more vulnerable to the symptoms (of pregnancy). My uterus is huge, just huge." She is in the 31st week of her pregnancy. "Basically at this point everything is uncomfortable. They are just very heavy," she said Wednesday on NBC's "Today." "My back is strained. It's hard to walk. It's hard to bend down, bend over because you always have to do that. Breathing is even a problem at this point." Five embryos were implanted to increase the chance that one would result in a successful pregnancy, she and her obstetrician, Dr. John Elliott, said on "Today" and on ABC's "Good Morning America." Doctors hope she can carry the fetuses 34 weeks before they are delivered by Caesarean section. One fetus has a heart defect that will require immediate surgery, but other than that, "they're doing actually incredibly well," Elliott told the Republic. He said he had not found another instance of a surrogate mother carrying quintuplets. Anderson, 25, and her husband, Gerard, initially thought they could earn $15,000 for carrying what they thought would be one child, but they've decided not to take any money. "It was pretty easy decision, considering everything involved and how many children that they're going to be responsible for now," Anderson said on "Good Morning America."

April 14, 2005 Study Cautions Runners to Limit Intake of Water By GINA KOLATA fter years of telling athletes to drink as much liquid as possible to avoid dehydration, some doctors are now saying that drinking too much during intense exercise poses a far greater health risk. An increasing number of athletes - marathon runners, triathletes and even hikers in the Grand Canyon - are severely diluting their blood by drinking too much water or too many sports drinks, with some falling gravely ill and even dying, the doctors say. New research on runners in the Boston Marathon, published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, confirms the problem and shows how serious it is. The research involved 488 runners in the 2002 marathon. The runners gave blood samples before and after the race. While most were fine, 13 percent of them - or 62 - drank so much that they had hyponatremia, or abnormally low blood sodium levels. Three had levels so low that they were in danger of dying. The runners who developed the problem tended to be slower, taking more than four hours to finish the course. That gave them plenty of time to drink copious amounts of liquid. And drink they did, an average of three liters, or about 13 cups of water or of a sports drink, so much that they actually gained weight during the race. The risks to athletes from drinking too much liquid have worried doctors and race directors for several years. As more slow runners entered long races, doctors began seeing athletes stumbling into medical tents, nauseated, groggy, barely coherent and with their blood severely diluted. Some died on the spot. In 2003, U.S.A. Track & Field, the national governing body for track and field, long-distance running and race walking, changed its guidelines to warn against the practice. Marathon doctors say the new study offers the first documentation of the problem. "Before this study, we suspected there was a problem," said Dr. Marvin Adner, the medical director of the Boston Marathon, which is next Monday. "But this proves it." Hyponatremia is entirely preventable, Dr. Adner and others said. During intense exercise the kidneys cannot excrete excess water. As people keep drinking, the extra water moves into their cells, including brain cells. The engorged brain cells, with no room to expand, press against the skull and can compress the brain stem, which controls vital functions like breathing. The result can be fatal. But the marathon runners were simply following what has long been the conventional advice given to athletes: Avoid dehydration at all costs. "Drink ahead of your thirst," was the mantra. Doctors and sports drink companies "made dehydration a medical illness that was to be feared," said Dr. Tim Noakes, a hyponatremia expert at the University of Cape Town. "Everyone becomes dehydrated when they race," Dr. Noakes said. "But I have not found one death in an athlete from dehydration in a competitive race in the whole history of running. Not one. Not even a case of illness." On the other hand, he said, he knows of people who have sickened and died from drinking too much. Hyponatremia can be treated, Dr. Noakes said. A small volume of a highly concentrated salt solution is given intravenously and can save a patient's life by pulling water out of swollen brain cells. But, he said, doctors and emergency workers often assume that the problem is dehydration and give intravenous fluids, sometimes killing the patient. He and others advise testing the salt concentration of the athlete's blood before treatment. For their part, runners can estimate how much they should drink by weighing themselves before and after long training runs to see how much they lose - and thus how much water they should replace. But they can also follow what Dr. Paul D. Thompson calls "a rough rule of thumb." Dr. Thompson, a cardiologist at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut and a marathon runner, advises runners to drink while they are moving. "If you stop and drink a couple of cups, you are overdoing it," he said. Dr. Adner said athletes also should be careful after a race. "Don't start chugging down water," he said. Instead, he advised runners to wait until they began to urinate, a sign the body is no longer retaining water. The paper's lead author, Dr. Christopher S. D. Almond, of Children's Hospital, said he first heard of hyponatremia in 2001 when a cyclist drank so much on a ride from New York to Boston that she had a seizure. She eventually recovered. Dr. Almond and his colleagues decided to investigate how prevalent hyponatremia really was. Until recently, the condition was all but unheard of because endurance events like marathons and triathlons were populated almost entirely by fast athletes who did not have time to drink too much. "Elite athletes are not drinking much, and they never have," Dr. Noakes said. The lead female marathon runner in the Athens Olympics, running in 97-degree heat drank just 30 seconds of the entire race. In the 2002 Boston Marathon, said Dr. Arthur Siegel, of the Boston Marathon's medical team and the chief of internal medicine at Harvard's McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., the hyponatremia problem "hit us like a cannon shot" in 2002. That year, a 28-year-old woman reached Heartbreak Hill, at Mile 20, after five hours of running and drinking sports drinks. She struggled to the top. Feeling terrible and assuming she was dehydrated, she chugged 16 ounces of the liquid. "She collapsed within minutes," Dr. Siegel said. She was later declared brain dead. Her blood sodium level was dangerously low, at 113 micromoles per liter of blood. (Hyponatremia starts at sodium levels below 135 micromoles, when brain swelling can cause confusion and grogginess. Levels below 120 can be fatal.) No one has died since in the Boston Marathon, but there have been near misses there, with 7 cases of hyponatremia in 2003 and 11 last year, and deaths elsewhere, Dr. Siegel said. He added that those were just the cases among runners who came to medical tents seeking help. In a letter, also in the journal, doctors describe 14 runners in the 2003 London Marathon with hyponatremia who waited more than four hours on average before going to a hospital. Some were lucid after the race, but none remembered completing it. That sort of delay worries Dr. Siegel. "The bottom line is, it's a very prevalent problem out there, and crossing the edge from being dazed and confused to having a seizure is very tricky and can happen very, very fast," he said. Boston Marathon directors want to educate runners not to drink so much, Dr. Siegel said. They also suggest that runners write their weights on their bibs at the start of the race. If they feel ill, they could be weighed again. Anyone who gains weight almost certainly has hyponatremia. "Instead of waiting until they collapse and then testing their sodium, maybe we can nip it in the bud," Dr. Siegel said. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/health/1...print&position=

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Ah, well....shorts till this 7 reeler, Our Hospitality. His Dad is in it, and shows that he had quite the flare for physical comedy as well, kicking a hat off a man's head.

bunch of Buster Keaton short films on tcm right now!

Dude, I feel you are holding back, let us know how you really feel! A friend who was really looking forward to it, thought it was ok, but clearly Miller hates religion, and the police...plus, Jessica Alba didn't get naked

John Smoltz showed he can still start, 15 strikeouts in 7 1/3 innings, now he just has to figure how to close his own games....

Speaking of Bob, did anyone see him on Desparate Housewives last night??? He was on for about 2-3 minutes(He is the Boyfriend of Leslie Ann Warren, Terri Hatcher's mother) and he's still got it!

well, she was on 2 of his shows!

My 2 guesses would have been Eddie Daniels , or Ken Peplowski, but the classical albums I checked of theirs didn't list it, but I might have overlooked it somehow.

Gotta agree with you on the Dylan song ...never heard it before(Not the biggest Dylan fan in the world, sue me! ) But love her version, and will now have to check out the original version. It's an instrumental version, correct? I won't have to listen to him sing will I? Yeah, she sounds more than a little like Billie, but it doesn't grate like most everyone else I have heard try to sound like Billie....

Great news!!!! Now, Amazon has to beat Deep's price, so it's only 20.99 (But you have to pay shipping if don't find a way to spend 4.01 more on something) Bob Newhart show out Tuesday!!!

Sorry to be late, glad to hear you had a great one!!! I forget who were your favorite "classic" babes...so I'll post one of mine!

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yeah, so long ago you could drink legally at 18! When's your birthday again, bub? A sawbuck says you're usin' a walker before me! (Shakes cane at B.) The earth's crust was still cooling when you were born, bub! I was born, much, much later in 1967.....the way my back feels somedays, I bet I do use a walker before you!