Facebook changed the email address on your profile, here's how to fix it

Oh Man! Face book has done it again,lol! They changed up once more without notice! Thats what we get with free stuff. We just have to go along for the ride until another free ride comes along right?!

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Duane Hoffman / msnbc.com

You may have heard (or read) that Facebook just changed your email address without even asking you — and in a way it did — but the whole thing's not quite as scary or dramatic as it might sound. And you can easily fix things with a few clicks.
Kashmir Hill of Forbes' Not-So Private Parts blog was among the first to report on the change. She labeled the whole thing as "Facebook's lame attempt to force its email service on you."
This all sounds scary! What happened?
You see, what happened is that the email address — or in some cases, addresses — displayed on your Facebook profile was changed from whatever it was to your Facebook email address. (Your Facebook email address consists of whatever is at the end of your Facebook URL slapped in front of @facebook.com. For example: My Facebook URL is http://facebook.com/rosa, so my Facebook email address is rosa@facebook.com.)
For most people, this is pretty darn annoying as all the mail they receive at the Facebook email address winds up in their regular Facebook inbox. Based on a quick survey of friends and colleagues, it seems that this is inconvenient to a majority, as they prefer to receive their email in ... you know, their actual email inboxes.
Now that you understand the somewhat bad news better, here are two good pieces of news: Facebook didn't alter the default address on your account, meaning that the social network's whacky system only altered what is visible on your profile. And you can change your profile back to normal pretty easily.
Whew! So how do I fix this?
All you have to do is open up your profile page (hit the "About" button under your personal info), scroll down to the "Contact Info" box, and hit the "Edit" button. There you can toggle who can see which email address and whether it is displayed on your Timeline or not.
If you're not a fan of receiving your email in your Facebook inbox, I suggest hiding that address and simply making the one you favor visible.
Why did this all happen?
We reached out to Facebook in an attempt to figure out what happened and why the email addresses on people's profiles were suddenly changed. A spokesperson for the social network offered the following response:

As we announced back in April, we’ve been updating addresses on Facebook to make them consistent across our site.
In addition to everyone receiving an address, we’re also rolling out a new setting that gives people the choice to decide which addresses they want to show on their timelines.
Ever since the launch of timeline, people have had the ability to control what posts they want to show or hide on their own timelines, and today we’re extending that to other information they post, starting with the Facebook address.

The spokesperson did not explain why users did not receive any sort of notice when their profiles started displaying a different email address, even though we made sure to ask about that.

Time-Traveling Sea Monkeys (interesting)

Now this is something that no one ever thinks of or shouldn't I guess, but how interesting!

Can you imagine if this was humans that had to experience this way of reproducing! leave some thoughts below will ya! What would be your opinion on how it would really work?

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Sea monkeys (brine shrimp) travel through time in the normal way, but they get both the benefits and hazards of having sex with others of their species from different time-periods. This is because these other brine shrimp are in differing places in evolution.

Brine shrimp lay eggs that only become viable when the environment is correct for them to hatch. There is no consistent time for this to happen. The wait for viability can be of decades duration – or less. From an evolutionary point of view it is rather like a given shrimp is mating with a time-traveler.
Nicolas Rode, of the Center for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, was inspired by this concept to mate sea monkeys of different time periods, and thus elucidate the no-doubt controversial subject of brine shrimp evolution and sex. As the creatures evolve, the males get better claspers for holding females, while the females get better at wrestling. The claspers hold the female tight for the mating, while the wrestling skills are used for evading the effort.
So, for his tests, the Montpellier-based Rode utilized dormant brine shrimp eggs from 1985, 1996 and 2007 — which he obtained from Utah's Great Salt Lake area (quite a distance from his French workplace). He then chose who was going to mate, and whether they would be matched with shrimp of their own time or another one. The 1985 female brine shrimp were at a great disadvantage when paired with males from later periods, fatally so. A 1985 female mating with a 2007 male would, on average, suffer a life loss of 12 percent. In brine shrimp terms, it was like mating with someone from 160 generations in the future.
— Douglas Chapman

Sources:

"Sea monkeys from the future make deadly lovers," MNN (Mother Nature Network), http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/sea-monkeys-from-the-future-make-deadly-lovers, 6/19/11

"Time-Traveling Male Sea Monkeys Make Bad Mates," Wired Science, http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/time-travel-mating/, 6/18/11

16-foot cactus severely injures Arizona city worker Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/2012/06/22/2110771/16-foot-saguaro-severely-injures.html#storylink=cpy

Found this article on Island Press,
Can we say Ouch! It had to be intense!

YUMA, Ariz. —
A Yuma, Ariz., city worker is in intensive care after a 16-foot-tall saguaro cactus fell on him and pinned him to the ground.City officials say William Mason was responding to an emergency water leak Tuesday in a Yuma subdivision.
While he was working, the cactus fell on him.
Other members in his work crew were able to free him and call 911.
The city says Mason suffered multiple injuries to his back and legs and remains hospitalized at Yuma Regional Medical Center.
Saguaro cactuses can weigh anywhere from hundreds of pounds to more than several thousand pounds, depending on how much water they're holding.

Funny cats in the water

Some of these cats are amazing! I have one that thinks she is a dog, and I can see how some of these cats think they are too! The one that keeps taking the glass and holding it was so cute!

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China's Awesome New Bra and More Weird News

wow! What an amazing story behind the China strategy! And I thought that I knew what extreme sports were until now! this is crazy! Watch this video and leave a silly comment and share it if you have time!
 

Paralyzed Rats Walk Again, Thanks to Electricity, Chemicals—And Chocolate

Glad to hear that there is hope, but it does make you wonder how they got a spinal injury out of a rat.lol

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First recovery of severely injured spinal cords—may hold hope for people.

Aided by a robotic harness and electrochemical stimulation, a once paralyzed rat climbs toward chocolate.

Photograph courtesy EPFL

Rachel Kaufman

for National Geographic News

Published May 31, 2012

Wearing a robotic harness, paralyzed rats have been made to walk again, according to a new study—albeit with an oddly upright, humanlike gait and while stimulated by judicious jolts of electricity and chemicals.

It's the first time severely injured spinal cords have been reawakened, say researchers, who add that the technique might hold some promise for disabled people.
(See more health news.)
First, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine and his team severed the spines of 27 rats, leaving some tissue intact but no direct nerve connections—and therefore no way for the animals to control their hind legs.
A week later the researchers put 17 of the rats on a sort of physical therapy regimen and began administering chemical injections and electric stimulation directly to the rodents' spinal cords. The remaining ten rats, used as a control group, received no treatment. (Also see "Stem Cells Repair Damaged Spinal Cords in Mice.")


The physical training began on a treadmill, with the 17 rats using a robotic harness—created especially for the study—that suspended the animals upright but did not propel them forward.
The treadmill exercise exploited reflexes that make walking in some ways passive, explained neuroscientist Naomi Kleitman of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
"Imagine you can't get any signals from your brain to below the injury—you can still walk on a treadmill," said Kleitman, who wasn't part of the new study.
"The treadmill is dragging my right foot behind me," she added. "That will stimulate a reflex in my left leg that will make my left leg take a step."
(Related pictures: Paralyzed rats move again after food-dye injections.)
Anything for Chocolate?
In addition to the treadmill therapy, the trained rats received mild electrical stimulation—designed to mimic the signals the brain sends to move the legs—and injections of chemicals known to help nerve cells, which carry those signals, to better communicate.
After three weeks of treadmill training, 10 of the 17 rats were encouraged to take steps on a sort of tiny runway—still in the harnesses, though, and still being electrochemically stimulated.
Within a few more weeks—and with the incentive of a bit of chocolate at the end of the course—the runway rats were "sprinting" up stairs in their harnesses, study co-author Courtine said in a statement.
Though the rats still couldn't walk unaided, they had undergone a "nearly complete" regrowth of spinal nerve fibers, reestablishing the severed connections between brain and haunches, the study says. The effect was seen only the rats that had undergone training on solid ground—the untrained and treadmill-only rodents failed to regain voluntary movement in their paralyzed legs.
(Related: "Worms' Paralysis Turned On and Off With Light.")
Hope for People?
All these treatments are already being tested in people, NIH's Kleitman said. What makes the study exciting is that the methods have never before been tried in combination.
The electrochemical cocktail, she said, is what "to me, made this paper quite relevant, even though it's just in rats."
Mayo Clinic neurologist Tony Windebank agreed. "All the things they are doing in rats are things you can do in people."
He cautioned, however, that stimulating and enhancing the automatic walking reflex is "much easier to do in quadrupeds compared to upright animals."
But, he said, "I think it's an important step forward," even if "it's not the giant step for mankind—it's not going to translate to, Let's do this in people next month and have them walking."
Kleitman believes the severity of the rats' paralysis and subsequent recovery should give some people hope.
"Some people might say it's not worth doing anything with" severely paralyzed people, "because there's almost nothing left," she said. "Studies like this one show it's worth trying."

Texas fisherman prevails in epic battle with enormous alligator gar

Found this article on Grind tv. What an amazing adventure! So prehistoric!

And the dog grabbing on to his pants leg was crazy! WOW!

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By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com

Whether Brent Crawford has captured the world's largest alligator gar will never be known -- his scale bottomed out emphatically at 300 pounds and he filleted the prehistoric-looking fish after attempting to obtain its weight.

But this much is clear: The gar Crawford landed while bow-fishing recently in Texas' Lake Corpus Christi is among the largest specimens ever captured -- and it was captured in a manner like no other gar captured beforehand.

(The largest-known alligator gar caught while bow-fishing weighed 365 pounds. The largest caught on rod and reel weighed 279 pounds.)

Crawford, who has lived on the lake for 20 years, was alerted to the presence of several giant gar in a wide canal feeding into the lake: an enormous female swimming with about five smaller males.

His reaction, according to the Corpus Christi Caller Times, was simply: "Oh goodness. That fish right there was worth chasing."

The newspaper's outdoors columnist, David Sikes, produced a detailed account of what transpired next. The following is a condensed version:

Crawford, with his fishing bow, stalked the great fish carefully, knowing he might only get one shot.

When he finally fired, he scored a direct hit, unleashing the fury of the 8-foot, 2-inch beast, which created an explosion of mud and water before it ran toward the lake.

Big problem, because the nylon cord had become tangled at Crawford's feet, and when he grabbed the line, as it began to tighten, it became wrapped around his hand.

The line went taut and the fish yanked the fisherman into the water headfirst. That's when Crawford's dog, Bleux, grabbed him by the cuff of the jeans, creating a bizarre riverbank tug-of-war.

Crawford ultimately was able to free his hand from the cord and stand knee-deep in the shallow canal, gripping his fishing bow, the cord still attached to the mighty fish. "There was no doubt who was in control and it wasn't me," the fisherman recalled.

The gar stole 200 feet of cord in a battle that lasted 45 minutes, before Crawford reeled it to the bank. Soaked and exhausted, the fisherman straddled the fish, reached for his cellphone -- which he had kept in a waterproof case -- and dialed a friend.

The friend arrived with a pistol, which resoundingly ended the struggle, and the two men used a rope and an ATV to drag the quarry to Crawford's house.

It wasn't until after Crawford had carved up his catch that he learned the Texas bow-fishing record for alligator gar is 290 pounds, and the overall state record is 302 pounds.

Record or no record, it was a monstrous gar and one of the wildest angling feats in Texas history. It's a shame that there isn't a category for that.

-- Image showing Brent Crawford with his amazing catch is courtesy of the fisherman