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http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/tsa-apologizes-after-family-told-wheelchair-bound-daughter-would-get-1C8481122

Woman died from drinking 10 liters of Coke a day, coroner says

Published February 12, 2013

FoxNews.com

A New Zealand coroner has clarified that the cause of one mother’s death had to do with her drinking at least 10 liters of Coca-Cola per day, BBC News reported.

Natasha Harris went into cardiac arrest in February 2010 and died at the age of 30.

At the time of her death, a pathologist found Harris had hypokalemia, or a lack of potassium in the blood.

Harris’ family said she was addicted to the soda, and if she didn’t get her fix, she would go into withdrawal, including shaking.

Eventually, her teeth had to be removed because the sugar caused decay.

At least one of Harris’ eight children was born without enamel on his or her teeth, because of the mother’s addiction.

The excessive consumption of Coca-Cola caused cardiac arrhythmia, which means the heart beats too fast or too slow, according to Coroner David Crerar.

Crerar said drinking that much soda is equivalent to more than two pounds of sugar and 970 milligrams of caffeine, according to

I find that when all the available evidence is considered, were it not for the consumption of very large quantities of Coke by Natasha Harris, it is unlikely that she would have died when she died and how she died,” Crerar pointed out.

Coca-Cola has argued it’s product cannot be linked to Harris’ death.

Last year, in a statement to The Southland Times newspaper, a Coca-Cola representative said that "grossly excessive ingestion of any food product, including water" could be harmful.

"We believe that all foods and beverages can have a place in a balanced and sensible diet combined with an active lifestyle," the statement added.

curious smithsonian article

twenty smallish towns

http://smithsonianmag.com/travel/147230795.html

sometimes U just can't believe what trax one leaves across the www @ large

http://www.peekyou.com

http://neighbors.whitepages.com

http://sm.rutgers.edu/thebeat/

IBM's Watson Memorized the Entire 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It

Humans talk funny. We invent words. We smash words together, tear them apart, abbreviate them one way, then another. Which is great and fun, if you're a human. Not so great if you are a machine or the kind of human who programs machines to understand language.

And so, when IBM's famous artificial intelligence, Watson, he/she/it of Jeopardy-winning fame, was in development, its head researcher had a great idea. Humans created this repository of slang,

The Urban Dictionary. For example, today on the site, we learn that 'healthy gas' is "the gas (fart) produced from a person who has eaten healthy foods like cabbage, beans, broccolli, grains, or other high fiber, high carbohydrate foods."

Brown realized that this formalization of informal language might be a great way for Watson to understand the way real people communicate. So, he and his team, fed the whole thing into their AI.

But one problem. Informal language has a tendency to be dirty, nasty language. Its insults and cuss words, new names for gross old things, old names for gross new things, etc. And so, we learn from Fortune's Michal Lev-Ram, they had to delete all that human messiness from Watson's memory

Watson couldn't distinguish between polite language and profanity -- which the Urban Dictionary is full of. Watson picked up some bad habits from reading Wikipedia as well. In tests it even used the word "bull" in an answer to a researcher's query.

Ultimately, Brown's 35-person team developed a filter to keep Watson from swearing and scraped the Urban Dictionary from its memory.

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not sure what I drank and or ate  ..... but remind me not to do that again

what passes for customer service these days,

ought to be considered a misdemeanor