Update on the washing machine kid

Remember that video I posted a few days ago about the kid being placed in a washing machine and getting locked in?

It turns out the kid was at the laundromat with his baby sitter and her boyfriend, and the baby sitter never mentioned the incident to his mother.

A woman whose 1-year-old son made national news when a video went viral of him trapped in a tumbling clothes washer says she had no idea what happened until police showed her the video Wednesday, the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J., reports.

Sakia David said her son, Saimier Bush, was taken to the Federal Laundromat in Camden, N.J., on May 11 by his babysitter. Police alerted her after learning of the incident from news accounts.

“She never said anything about it,” David, who did not identify the babysitter, said in an interview outside her apartment.

Speaking on NBC’s Today show today, Sakia David said she wants the babysitter punished for allowing a male friend to put the child in the machine.

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Amazing HS Baseball Trick Pick-Off

With two outs and the bases loaded, the pitcher fakes a pick-off throw to second. Once the third-base runner is fooled into taking off for home, the pitcher nails him at the plate. Courtesy: Delano High School Baseball

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Bag of Randomness

  • Here’s a story that will rattle the nerves of some of the local folk – The “White Rock Marathon” will now be called the”Metro PCS Dallas Marathon” and the route will no longer begin and end at Fair Park.  I understanding the reason for the name change, it becomes more recognized as a Dallas event and the sponsorship adds big bucks, but it just now it seems a bit cheapened.
  • If I had to guess who was the highest paid CEO in DFW, I’d say it would be the one running Exxon/Mobile, but I’d be wrong.
  • I took GirlGeeding for her first bicycle ride yesterday using one of these things.  At first she appeared to be pretty scared, but I think she later started to like it after a while.  I just wish WifeGeeding would have remembered to get the camera to capture this father-daughter first.
  • My neighborhood has way too many hills for bike riding, but there are a few flat stretches.
  • I took her out to find a bicycle helmet and she navigated to the Barbie ones since they were pink . . . thankfully there were other pink helmets to choose from.
  • The CBS Evening News had a very interesting visual of the line of climbers trying to make their way to the top of Mount Everest.  I always imagined it as a desolate trek but it’s quite crowded.
    I also thought this night time picture was interesting as it shows the lights from the headlamps of all the climbers.
    You can check out the video report here if you are interested.
  • Dog refuses to leave side of dead companion
  • A very interesting visual that show why Obama may just be a one-term president – Who are the Super PACs’ Biggest Donors?
  • There’s still Obama birth certificate issues?
  • White zebras look kinda cool.
  • In the world of televisions, students always had to stand when called upon in the classroom.  I was never required to stand in any of my classes.
  • The kid that grilled Kareem in Airplane! is now a photographer.  Here’s his website, per Wikipedia.
  • Any information you tell Siri, Apple analyzes and stores it.
  • A chart that tells you when it’s OK to say “gay”.
  • Gandalf couldn’t have said it any better: “May the Force be with you.”
  • It might be a bit expensive, but it might just be worth it to build your own backpack.
  • The ugliest footwear in the history of ever now has a wedding collection.
  • Our Meals are 4 Times Larger Than in the 1950s
  • Tampa Bay Rays Post Lineup Card With Superhero Names for Each Player
  • “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”
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Scientists turn skin cells into beating heart muscle

LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) – Scientists have for the first time succeeded in taking skin cells from patients with heart failure and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue that could one day be used to treat the condition.

The researchers, based in Haifa, Israel, said there were still many years of testing and refining ahead. But the results meant they might eventually be able to reprogram patients’ cells to repair their own damaged hearts.

“We have shown that it’s possible to take skin cells from an elderly patient with advanced heart failure and end up with his own beating cells in a laboratory dish that are healthy and young – the equivalent to the stage of his heart cells when he was just born,” said Lior Gepstein from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, who led the work.

The researchers, whose study was published in the European Heart Journal on Wednesday, said clinical trials of the technique could begin within 10 years.

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This article will make former President G.W. Bush happy, he always pushed hard for not relying on embryonic stem cells for research, and if I read this article correctly, they didn’t have to go the embryonic route.

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