Rants N’ Jibes

Well… Everyones been waiting for the 2008’s Emmy Nominations.

Outstanding Drama Series

General Hospital
Guiding Light
One Life to Live
The Young & The Restless

Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team

Guiding Light
General Hospital
One Life To Live
The Young and The Restless
The Bold and The Beautiful

Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team

General Hospital
The Bold and The Beautiful
One Life To Live
All My Children

Outstanding Lead Actor

David Canary (AMC)
Thaao Penghlis (DAYS)
Anthony Geary (GH)
Peter Bergman (Y&R)
Christian LeBlanc (Y&R)

Outstanding Lead Actress

Maura West (ATWT)
Crystal Chappell (GL)
Nicole Forrester (GL)
Michelle Stafford (Y&R)
Jeanne Cooper (Y&R)

Outstanding Supporting Actor

Trent Dawson (ATWT)
Daniel Cosgrove (GL)
Brian Kerwin (OLTL)
Kristoff St. John (Y&R)
Greg Rikaart (Y&R)

Outstanding Supporting Actress

Kelly Hensley (ATWT)
Heather Tom (B&B)
Judi Evans (DAYS)
Gina Tognoni (GL)
Tracey Bregman (Y&R)

Outstanding Younger Actor

Van Hansis (ATWT)
Jesse Soffer (ATWT)
Darin Brooks (DAYS)
Tom Pelphrey (GL)
Bryton McClure (Y&R)

Outstanding Younger Actress

Jennifer Landon (ATWT)
Rachel Melvin (DAYS)
Vail Bloom (Y&R)
Emily O’Brien (Y&R)
Tammin Sursuk (Y&R)

Outstanding Talk Show

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Rachael Ray
The View

Outstanding Talk Show Host

Ellen DeGeneres (The Ellen DeGeneres Show)
Regis Philbin & Kelly Ripa (Live! with Regis & Kelly)
Barbara Walters, Sherri Sheperd, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Hasselbeck (The View)

Albert Hoffman is a swiss chemist. He invented the hallucinogenic drug LSD. He died of a heart attack at his Basel home at the age of 102.

He first produced LSD in 1938 while researching the medicinal properties of a plant fungus (ergot fungus). He ingested some of it by accident and felt its hallucinogenic effects. On which, he commented saying “Everything I saw was distorted as in a warped mirror”. It was soon used as a common street drug by 1960. LSD is not addictive which makes it very different from other drugs.

The continued abuse of this drug forced countries to make it illegal. LSD is claimed by many researchers to be aiding as a psychotherapeutic drug. However, none of these claims have been officially accepted and this still remains a schedule 1 drug with no medical use.

It came as a shock to me too… But, scientists say that excessive usage of drinking water can ultimately result in serious effects and even death. It is known that our body fluids need various salts to maintain the flow. For example, blood cells have salts and they use this water to maintain concentration. In a situation where water enters the body in huge quantities, the body is no longer able to maintain its stability and the cells get filled up with water due to a process called osmosis. This halts the functioning of the cells. Same is the case for brain cells as well. in such a situation, water stops all the functions of the vital organs by this imbalance. If this state continues, the body goes into COMA and eventually leads to death. This situation is called water intoxication.

So, the next time you exercise and need to drink water bear this in mind and drink a more isotonic solution, so that it helps balance the salts in your body meanwhile quenching your thirst.