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This page is dedicated to Canton Wildlife Removal & Control. In 2009, We started our family-owned nuisance wildlife control business in Johns Creek. It was a natural choice since our family has 3 Generations of wildlife trappers. It was easy for us to continue to excel in providing excellent results in combination with humane preservation of all wildlife. Even though the company added a second location in Dawsonville, Canton has always been a part of our original route for Wildlife Removal & now Pest Control services.
If you live in Canton and have Bats, Rats, Squirrels, Woodpeckers, Snakes, Coyote or any other nuisance wildlife that has invaded your home or yard – CALL US WE CAN HELP! (678) 935-5900
Here are the steps necessary to resolve the wildlife problem completely:
1) AFFORDABLE WILDLIFE TRAPPING: We provide a flat-rate fee for our trapping services and they include daily trap checks (it is required by LAW according to our license).
2) GUARANTEED CRITTER-PROOFING: We seal up your home with a FREE 2-year warranty with optional LIFETIME renewal! See our page on Animal-Proofing.
3) PREVENTION: On most critters, we provide you with a list of any habitat modifications, which are things you can change in your yard to make it less hospitable to wildlife. We get them OUT & Keep them OUT! We offer extremely effective rodent & snake prevention programs with quarterly visits.
Due to the fact that everyone involved in this company is a "partner" (owner) in the business, everyone on your property has a vested interest in our success. Our goal is to quickly assess the situation to determine which critter is causing the problem and devise a strategy to quickly GET them out & keep them OUT! We will explain the problem and our process in a clear manner without using scare-tactics.
The most common critters that we remove from attics are Squirrels, Raccoons, Rats, Bats & Flyers. (Click on the name to go to the page specifically for the animal)
Southern Wildlife Management provides a two-step approach to getting the squirrels out & keeping them out. Squirrel trapping alone is seldom the solution, it is typically the 1st step. Our squirrel trapping services are always a one-week endeavor. We check our traps every single day and we do whatever we have to do to make the most out of your trapping dollars. It is the law in the State of Georgia that squirrels are cage trapped and released unharmed in their natural environment. While we are there every day, we inspect your home to determine what needs to be sealed on your home to keep the squirrels out. We provide you with a no-obligation quote to squirrel-proof (a.k.a. exclude) your home. Our exclusion comes with a FREE 2-year warranty with optional LIFETIME renewal!
In Canton, rat control is a common need. You are not alone. Spotting rats inside your home can be a terrifying experience for some. We try to calm the nerves and assure our clients that we can & will get it resolved quickly! When we trap inside a home we use covered (protected) traps for discretion and child/pet safety. Same as with our squirrel trapping, rat trapping involves a two-step approach to getting the rats out & keeping them out. Trapping alone is never the solution, it is the 1st step. Trapping gets the rats that are in the home out but does nothing to prevent future guests.
Our rat trapping services are always a one-week endeavor. We are there every day checking the traps and doing whatever we have to do to make the most out of your trapping dollars. It is the law in the State of Georgia that the traps must be checked every day. So, we do just that. While we are there every day we have the opportunity to inspect your home to determine what we would have to seal on your home, using critter-proof material, to keep the rats & mice from coming into your home again. We provide you with a no-obligation quote to rodent-proof (a.k.a. exclusion) your home. Our exclusion comes with a FREE 2-year warranty with optional LIFETIME renewal!
Snakes are prolific in Canton. Heck, they are prolific in all of Georgia! It takes more than one measure to control snakes, hence our 3-step approach is the most successful means to keep snakes out. We send a licensed & trained Wildlife Technician to your property to scour for snakes for 1/2 hour. Since we understand snakes we can simply scan your yard and immediately be drawn to the suspect areas where the snakes would tend to hide out. Once removed, we provide you with a list of things in your yard that you can change to make it less hospitable to snakes. This is called habitat modification. Inevitably the less comfort (hiding spots) the snakes find in your yard, the less likely they are to stick around.
We now offer a snake prevention program that involves us coming out every quarter and strategically applying repellent. Our repellent is the only repellent that we have found to be effective. It is safe for plants, kids, and pets. Since it lasts around 3 months, we offer an annual program with quarterly retreats. Once we walk your property we know how much time & material it would take to provide you with the costs and you can decide if you would like to start this program. Call us (678)935-5900
Let us start by sharing an important fact with you… Bats are a PROTECTED species. No matter who handles removing the bats, bats cannot be harmed in the process. Furthermore, harming a bat can result in hefty fines, so we encourage you to hire LICENSED Bat Removal specialists to get the job done. Upon our inspection, we give you a price to remove the bats (either hand removal or using a one-way valve), to seal the home so they cannot come back in and to clean up any guano. If acceptable, we get started immediately to evict the bats. Most noteworthy, our bat exclusion comes with a FREE 2-year warranty with optional LIFETIME renewal!
If you have a bat flying around the INSIDE of your home, there are some important steps that need to be taken after the bat is captured: "click here" or you can go to our main page for bat removal & control measures.
Be careful when dealing with birds, all but 3 species are protected birds and harming one comes with some hefty fines! When it comes to Nuisance Birds the damage they can do is often underestimated. Each situation is different. We have options: some we can trap with a permit if the circumstances are right. We can offer hazing services without a permit. The type of hazing devices either electronic or manual auditory or visual depends on the species of bird. There are lots of options for removing the birds, scaring them off and keeping them away. We can help!
Surprisingly we get a lot of phone calls about coyotes in Canton. We are very selective about the coyote & fox trapping jobs that we accept. The circumstances & setting has to be right for us to get involved. All predator trapping (fox trapping & coyote trapping) are two-week jobs which include daily trap checks. Not only is it the LAW accordance to our licensure but it is humane & less of a liability. We have only one Licensed Wildlife Trapper who specializes in the predators. Call us to discuss the details of your situation.
Raccoon trapping is in a class of its own, hence, we do not always provide a quote to seal a home. We like being transparent when outlining the benefits of a full home exclusion. When a home is rodent-proofed a raccoon can still get in if they want in bad enough. Oftentimes they gain access by tearing the shingles, siding, or trim boards right off a sealed home. We do not like giving people a false sense of security when it comes to keeping raccoons out. Therefore, the best measure we can offer is to provide trapping services for one week with daily trap checks. Population control is the answer!
One of our specialized trapping services, aquatic species, includes beaver & otter trapping. These jobs, like predator trapping, are for 2-weeks at a time and not the standard 1-week timeframe. By far the highest concern in the beaver trapping industry is finding a trapper who abides by the law and performs daily trap checks. Period! As for pricing, it completely depends on the size and type of waterway, the area that the beaver trapper must travel to set & check his traps as well as the terrain. Time & Effort = Money. When you call us to discuss the problem we will provide you with a range for the trapping based upon your specific job needs and circumstances. Upon completion of trapping, a quote for dam removal services to restore the natural water flow will be provided. Please note, Buckhead is the farthest we go for beaver trapping.
Possums are beneficial as the nighttime clean-up crew. They remove a lot of things that you would not want in your yard anyways. Possums are not the brightest of critters that we trap, hence, probably one of the easiest to trap. If a den is located, we can provide you with a quote to treat the ticks and fleas that have more likely infested the den. Our possum trapping services are for one-week and it includes daily trap checks… it is the law!
If you have a dead animal in your yard, attic or in a wall we can search for the source and offer means of removal & odor control. If it is in your yard we can pick it up and you do not have to be home. We will grab it and get payment over the phone and email the receipt. Some of the dead animals that we pick up are:
We might be able to provide you with a quote to repair any damages that were caused by the wildlife – it just depends on the type of damages. (Example of situations where you would not want a wildlife specialist to address the damage… electrical wires chewed, trim carpentry work for aesthetics has to be replaced, HVAC ductwork, etc.) Furthermore, we could provide the following clean-up services when needed: latrine & feces removal and/or deodorization & sanitization services. Not only is the odor & feces removal an important step for comfort sake, but removing the odors also lessens the chances of attracting other critters.


text: This week I bring you yet another tooth. My goodness, you'd think I was obsessed with teeth! Or maybe even the dentist. But no, it just so happens the museum has a fantastic tooth collection–maybe it was started by a former dentist? Well, this fellow had some "good teeth," as my dentist would say. Can you tell what family they came from? It's a family you should already be familiar with, as it has been featured on Fossil Friday before. These teeth were found in Nevada, but I doubt they were lost in a prehistoric poker match. Who did they belong to?

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Trish Tagle is experienced in enhancing leadership in every aspect giving them new opportunities for growth, and putting them on a path to unlock their potential. Her leadership guidebook is a collective of learnings that are aimed to assist leaders both experienced and inexperienced on how to avoid the pitfalls when leading a group or a team. With practice and by applying these tips you've read can help you avoid the negative chatter about your leadership.
We've all seen leaders flailing about not being able to understand what their role means, let alone know how to act; or seen people in those positions taking extreme liberties because they were allowed to do so by those who appointed them. Trish believes that leadership is a responsibility, and that one must "live up to it." You owe it to those around you to be the best you can be, good or bad they will often look to you for direction. Even bosses need some tips from time to time; maybe you recognize that you don't have all the skills to be a leader and there is nothing wrong with that.
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It's International Women's Day, so we thought we'd celebrate by profiling a few impressive ladies who inspire us daily. Read on to learn more about these 5 amazing women!
Penelope Barton, Chief People Officer at Vend
Prior to joining Vend in early 2016, Pene honed her talents working at Xero, BNZ, Save the Children, and Chorus. Since taking on this Executive position, Pene has been responsible for — as her title suggests — the people! She works tirelessly day-in and day-out to grow and nurture the incredible community of talent we have here at Vend and to ensure that we're all living the Vend values in everything we do.
And as if that's not enough? Pene also co-owns the über-popular Auckland joint Burger Geek with her husband Peter and is about to open her second eatery.
Amanda Armstrong, Chief Revenue Officer at Vend
Amanda joined Vend as Chief Revenue Officer in early September 2016 after a couple of years as Global Head of Sales Development at Xero. She brings her enthusiasm, energy, and depth of experience to work everyday, inspiring her teams and bringing people together to achieve amazing results.
On top of all this, Amanda also dedicates her time to pro-bono coaching, helping to steer and shape people's careers and lives. In a world where just 1 in 5 top sales leaders are women, we're so pleased to have her on our Executive team, working to grow the company alongside our other inspiring leaders.
Kelly Barker, Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer at PREP Cosmetics
Kelly gave up her job at JPMorgan Chase to develop a unique, dermatologist-approved skincare line for girls — the fulfillment of a dream close to her heart: teaching teens the importance of sun protection and taking ownership of their skin. Originally run out of her home, Kelly's skincare range now has a flagship store in Frisco, Texas and is stocked in seven other stores across Texas, Louisiana, and South Carolina.
Kelly also strives to give back to her community by running workshops, an ambassador program for teen girls, and twice-yearly mother-daughter retreats and empowering local teenagers by featuring them in all PREP's advertising. She's a true retail rockstar.
Zoe Neuner, Founder and Owner of Look Charmed and Southern Charm
Zoe Neuner began her business career at the intrepid age of 20 and now runs two fashion and accessories retail locations: Look Charmed in New Smyrna Beach, Florida and Southern Charm in Asheville, North Carolina. A self-proclaimed "classic example in the power of empowerment," Zoe's hard work and dedication have earned her loyal followings in both the communities where her stores are located.
She's a true testament to the importance of positivity and determination, and we're so happy to have her as part of the Vend retailer family!
Hayley King, Artist and Owner at Haus of Flox
Graffiti artist Hayley King, the name behind Flox, has been running her own business centered on her popular artwork for over a decade. She credits her background as a world-class squash player for her business drive and mental discipline — two things that certainly helped when she first created her brand, as Hayley initially took care of everything from accounts to promotion to ensure her success.
Now, her Auckland-based showroom Haus of Flox serves as the physical hub for selling the "vibrant depictions of the natural world" that Hayley's become known for. She's garnered global attention thanks to her custom pieces and street art, and she's provided commissions for major city projects, businesses, and musicians around the country.
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World Water Expo
The World Water Expo will be an inclusive space in the 5th World Water Forum venue for the participation of companies related to water that wish to present their services, products, activities and works. This component aims to allow the expression of water entrepreneurship, and effectively bridges the supply with the demand for innovation and new water technologies.
Companies present in the World Water Expo represent the complete spectrum of water-related activities, including wastewater treatment, on-site sanitation, agriculture, and many more. It will bring together key decision-makers from a large number of water authorities and companies around the world and is thus perfectly placed to facilitate new business opportunities. Indeed, the Expo will reinforce your opportunities in the marketplace and provide an advantageous atmosphere for networking opportunities throughout the event, as well as providing access to a sizeable potential new customer base.
Water Fair
The Water Fair will be an open venue for the presentation of different types of cultural, social and educational activities on water-related subjects. Multi-stakeholder activities for the Water Fair which seek to create a festive yet reflective atmosphere at the Forum's main venue include a poster exhibition, the "International Water and Film Event", the Global Water Education Village, a Learning Centre, networking spaces, side-events, water-related performances, a photo exhibition, and ethnic manifestations on water themes, amongst others.
The final layout plan of the World Water Expo and Water Fair is now available!
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This close-up, visible-light view by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals new details of the Ring Nebula.
The object is tilted toward Earth so that astronomers see the ring face-on. The Hubble observations reveal that the nebula's shape is more complicated than astronomers thought. The blue gas in the nebula's center is actually a football-shaped structure that pierces the red doughnut-shaped material. Hubble also uncovers the detailed structure of the dark, irregular knots of dense gas embedded along the inner rim of the ring. The knots look like spokes in a bicycle. The Hubble images have allowed the research team to match up the knots with the spikes of light around the bright, main ring, which are a shadow effect.
In the image, the deep blue color in the center represents helium; the cyan color of the inner ring is the glow of hydrogen and oxygen; and the reddish color of the outer ring is from nitrogen and sulfur.
The Ring Nebula is a well-known planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star. The tiny white dot in the center of the nebula is the star's hot core, called a white dwarf.
The Ring Nebula is about 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Learn more at HubbleSite's NewsCenter.
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Watch "Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN
By Fareed Zakaria
When television host Bill Maher declares on his weekly show that "the Muslim world...has too much in common with ISIS," and the author, Sam Harris (a guest on his show) concurs, arguing that "Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas," I understand why people get upset. Maher and Harris made crude simplifications and exaggerations.
And yet, they were also talking about something real. I know all the arguments against speaking of Islam as violent and reactionary. It is a vast world of 1.6 billion people. Places such as Indonesia and India have hundreds of millions of Muslims who don't fit these caricatures. That's why Maher and Harris are guilty of simplification and exaggeration.
But let's be honest: Islam has a problem today...There is a cancer of extremism within Islam today. A small minority of Muslims celebrate violence and intolerance, and harbor deeply reactionary attitudes towards women and minorities. And while some moderates confront these extremists, not enough do so and the protests are not loud enough. How many mass rallies have been held against ISIS in the Arab world today?
But now the caveat, Islam today, is important.
Watch the video for the full Take or read the WaPo column.
It is true that Islam is more Volience Religions in world compare to any other religions existed . If you see the history of Islam right from the beginning of prophet his son in law was killed and its generation of them was killed my own relatives for the power of the Religons and it carries so many generation Now Sunnis kill shias , amedyias, sufis and so on .
Any religions won't recommend to kill any one including enemy .
if prophet was there he was 100% objecting all these killing and he would have recommend all the ppl to love all the religion and follow the Islam.
Beginning of Gandhi's letter to Hitler.
"Namaste, My Fuhrer. I implore you to propagate the Aryan race and remove all semitic impediments in this endeavor. We look forward towards your wisdom and guidance with respect to dealing with British and exterminating Jews. I continue to expound on my hobby of banging my goat and niece Manu. Of course not to mention other tender aged boys and girls and my cow ... Lakshmi. Your Obedient Servant , Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi."
i donno who this farid is but, the context of using india to dilute the religious problem is absolutely cnnism. India was,is tremendously plagued and affected by islam. Look at the history mister farid before you try to make a career in journalism! Your job is to potray facts rather in this commercial world we get its too hard to speak truth!
Harry – Farid is a well respected and world-wise person whose opinions are based on facts and observations. We are not speaking about a studio shut-in like Bill O'Reilly, where to world comes to Bill, nor are we talking about a uneducated malatrope like Rush Limbaugh, whose own opinions could use a strong dose of truth serum.
So, when it comes to opinions, which would you rather have?
Conservatives say the true, liberals and nazis are not
How have you followed any news and not heard of Fared? He's probably the most respected voice of fact-based moderation out there.
Fareed – my autocorrect apparently doesn't like them foreign names
Who are you kidding... The cancer is in the whole human race.
Speak for yourself, and I do applaud your personal honesty.
Fareed is a CIA agent implanted at CNN to spread misinformation. He is a convicted plagiarist. He is from India. We are well aware of his pro Indian and Israeli leanings.
For all of us who watched the Maher show know how eloquently Ben Affleck expressed his opinions which were very balanced. He explained ISIS better than POTUS.
Fareed needs to seek atonement and perhaps another profession. His ethics are third world and similar to the woman bashing Microsoft guy who is also of Indian origin. Shame on them. They are misfits in our western society.
Racist much Shalimar? You need a real education on the meaning of the word racist sunshine. A racist is someone who hates a race of people, your use of the word "India" and "Indian origin" shows just how racist you are. Disliking a religion is called being a bigot, there is a huge difference. Also claiming Fareed is a CIA agent shows what a deluded and quite stupid a person you are.
It is not anybody's fault that Fareed is of Indian origin. He is the one who referred to India in his blog. Are you having a Saturday morning hangover from drinking the cheap liquor in Bombay? Hallucinating?
"Indian" isn't a race sunshine.
The problem is not with Bill maher and to much is made of that to Fareed.....the problem is religion and its beleif in a Santa Claus to save itself and killing in his or her(dare I say) name. Educate and understand that religion is the cancer on mankind and will be its downfall if not tackled.
Here, here Thor. Well said.
Affleck showed himself as an extreme apologist, that is all he did on the show and in a very hyper fashion. Also showing that he really knows nothing by labeling Muslims as a "race", insinuating that Mahr (and others with the same thinking) are "racists"... How on earth is being a Muslim a race Mr. Affleck? What a genius...
In any event and at the end of the day, IS/ISIS/ISIL and other like-minded Mohammedans would lop off Ben's head and put ii on a pole for display in a quick minute.
Ben Affeck really made a fool out of himself at that show. But I know he thinks he was really on point when it could be nothing further from the truth. You cannot pull out the racist card when there is no race involved. Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas and its prophet is a murdering rapist pedophile. Batman will know that if he had bothered to read the Quran, the Sunnah, and the Hadiths.
that's insane.
Actually Ben as well as other ppl esp Muslims need to be much more vocal about speaking out against extremists within that community. They're far too silent on the henious beliefs a lot of them harbour and far too often sympathetic to honor killings and other idiotic beliefs. And I'm not excluding you dirt bag Christians that believe you can shove your beliefs down everyone else's throat either.
Moderate American Christians has agreed that their USA gov. kill over a million people in IRAQ searching for mass destruction weapons which they never found, whereas most Christians countries has those weapons and more. It is ok for Christians to kill as much as they like, but when it comes to Muslims defending themselves then they are terrorists. Do not forget that in WWI and WWII over 50 millions died by Christians fighting each other.
You people really love exaggerating figures don't you. I also hardly call ISIL executing other Muslims and minority faiths as a group of Muslims defending themselves from Christians either.
You people? Are you a racist bigot? A terrorist?
1) you believe in fairy tales, and this alone makes your thinking dangerous
2) you believe that others who do not believe your fairy tale to be infidel
The fact is, you are dangerous because of your delusion. Even in death, you will learn nothing, because you won't go to see your fairy tale Allah...you will simply cease to exist.
The Nazis did not practice Christianity as their state religion, nor did they go into conquest of nations/peoples in the name of Christianity and the same can be said of the other Axis powers. Religion played ZERO part in their ambitions for world dominance.
Likewise, the Allied response and counter-insurgency within occupied countries was not in the name of Christianity. Your assumptions are unfounded.
When a group/state/nation PROCLAIMS itself to be at war in the name of said god/religion for the said purpose of religion, then you can state without a doubt, that it's being done in the name of a particular religion; i.e. IS/ISIS/ISIL, Al Qaeda, Taliban, etc...
So let us talk about the muslims in India since Fareed segway(ed) this into his post. The muslims in India have been massacred, suppressed, maimed and rayped by the hindu majority in India. They have been living in oppression. Suffocated. Genocides committed against them.
The time has come for Muslims in India to rise and demand a separate independent state for themselves. Where they can live in dignity, in peace, in a civilized culture and not under Hindu subjugation. We have seen the fear in your eyes and the quiver in your voices. From the ashes of India shall rise the Phoenix.
The western world and Americans support a separate state for the Muslims in India. A state based on democratic principles , capitalism, a belief in the unity of god .
Well articulated. You mske a good case to classify India as a terrorist state.
Let me tell you ..India has always tolerated a lot of non sense stop behaving like a fool and inferior india is a democracy nothing will be done to u if you are not creating problems we treat all religions same but if you force anything on us things will happen forget abt any independent things ...if we are silent doesnt mean we will remain
Muslims in India did rise up and demand their own state(s): Pakistan (which use to be part of India) and Eastern Pakistan (now called Bangladesh, which also use to be part of India). Both were majority Muslim areas of British India. In 1930, the philosopher Sir Muhammad Iqbal called for an autonomous new state for Indian Muslims, and his idea gained political momentum throughout the 1930's. In the wake of WWII, the British no longer had the will and/or wealth to hold on to their Empire, which since the 1700's included British India. While exiting India, the British helped establish Pakistan and Eastern Pakistan (now Bangladesh) for Indian Muslims.
P.S. – that was in 1947.
Just saw your post... Great response!
No, they know fully well the deal. What they do is create a state and then those who remain start some trouble and then claim persecution and then demand more land and more rights or special treatment. They do this everywhere they go in the world. The whole world is beset with problems with Muslims. There is only one religion that accomplish this level of conflict in the world and It is Islam.
Um, they've already done that... The country is called Pakistan.
There are already two (Indian) Muslim states: Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Just migrate there. Wouldn't that be easier?
BTW, Arab Muslim conquered Indian eons ago and forced Hindu INdian to convert to Muslim.
The Hindu are just fighting back.
Total crap! Muslims have the aggressor throughout history, slaughtering Hindus and Buddhists all over India. They have accomplished an absolutely horrible figure of 70,000,000 deaths of Hindus and Buddhists in 7 or 8 centuries of their brutal rule in Hindustan. Muslims are usually the aggressor in almost all the religious conflict in India and it has always been that way.
Second point, Muslims can go and live in Pakistan. Pakistan is a state created for Muslim. There never was a state called Pakistan and it was a made up country. Go and live there.
It is time for religions to dissolve themselves.
What baffles me is that hundreds of thousands of people have been and continue to be slaughtered in Indian Occupied Kashmir. A lot of them have been buried alive and rayped. Human rights outfits have provided coordinates of these unmarked graves to the Indian Government. How strange their compasses ceased functioning!!!
Furthermore, UN resolutions have also gone unheeded. No one in the western world.... No one hears their screams. Nobody sees their plight. Nobody smells their burning bodies. NOBODY!!!
In this case hindus in India are the real terrorists.
the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim.
Well, stop sending Terrorists over to steal Indian land. Once again, it is Muslims starting the war and then claiming victim once they get their rear handed to them. You have Pakistan, live there. If any Muslims are not happy in India, they should go to Pakistan.
Muslims defending organisations like ISIL are the real threats to this world alongside said organisations of course.
Wrong. Here is the real threat.
VISHWA HINDU PARISHAD (World Hindu Council)
LEADERS: Narendra Modi/ L.K. Advani/ Ashok Singhal/ Bala Saheb Devaras/ Bal Thackeray(EXTERMINATED)/ A.B. Vajpayee/ Savarkar/ Baikunnth Lal Sharma "Prem"/ Balraj Madhok/ The Shankaracharya of Puri, Niranjan Dev Theerth/ Rama Gopalan/ Variyar – Vishwan Hindu Parishad/ Dharmalinga Nadar/ Cho Ramaswamy
Doesn't Modi have a boyfriend in Myanmar?
Indian Muslims....rise from the clutches of Hindu suppression in India for a separate nation of yours . The world is behind you and supports you. Break away from the shackles of slavery that Hindus have subjected you to. YOU HAVE A DREAM ....OH YES YOU HAVE A DREAM AND THAT DREAM SHOULD BE FULFILLED. These are the words of Martin Luther King that are so applicable to you. Have your own independent country which you can call it your own. We shall call it 'Republic Of Aspirations'
Suffice to say that plebiscite must and should be held in Indian Occupied Kashmir in accordance with the mandate of UN. Nothing more nothing less.
This is a matter of principles.
The concept is no different than what we Americans are doing in Puerto Rico. Let the people decide their fate. This is what democracy is all about.
Unlike what hindoos did in Indian Occupied Kashmir, we Americans didn't send in the Army to Puerto Rico to occupy it and raype the people.
Muslims really dont have any shame... you see what you people are doing around the world and dont speak up but keep complaining and complaining and praising how great your religion is. As you can see the world is fed up with you people.
From the ashes of India shall rise the emancipation of all cultures in India who have been subjugated for so long. Whose talents have been suppressed by India for centuries. Whose aspirations have been trampled by India's Hindus for ever. NO MORE ! We will tear down this wall of subjugation by Hindus . From the ashes of Hindu India shall rise the future of the minorities. From the shackles of poverty in India shall rise prosperity for all minorities under a new capitalism.
Fareed, read my lips. Quit your bigotry.
This is about hindus killing Kashmiris in Indian Occupied Kashmir. UN has passed several resolutions requiring India to grant independence to Kashmir. India has not complied FOR SEVENTY YEARS!!!! We should start droning India without further ado
Please don't talk in riddles. Be straightforward and condemn India for bad things they are doing in Indian Held Kashmir
Rights activists say at least 28,000 people have gone missing in Indian Occupied Kashmir since the freedom fighters began fighting in 1989 for independence from Hindu-majority India or a merger with Muslim-majority Pakistan. Indian government crackdowns have killed at least 150,000 people."
Why is it taking so long to hold plebiscite in Indian Occupied Kashmir?
Fareed, pull your head from inder the sand.
"Amnesty International is calling for an impartial investigation into mass graves found in Indian-Occupied Kashmir. Sunday, India's Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission released a report saying a three-year investigation had uncovered 2,156 unidentified bodies in 38 sites in the region.
I have a simple question. Why the problem with Islam which Zakaria mentioned was not there 15 years back? Why everything started after the US war on Iraq. The answer is simple, its a reaction of the people against constant suffering and injustice since 15 years that made them frustrated with the government and now they want to try their own system.
if you think 15 years, your grossly ignorance. you need to add a couple more zeros to it.
The birth of Islam nearly 1500 years ago that give rise to this violence doctrine called Sharia is caused of all the problem in the Middle East.
By the grace of almighty, the Muslims are here to stay and thrive. And that they will. To those who even as so much as cast an evil eye on Muslims, will be put in place appropriately under International Law and Geneva Conventions. as is to be expected under any standards.
To those who mean them harm, will be surprised much to their chagrin. Needless to say that as history has shown, Muslims fight for their rights and do not give up. Palestine and Indian Occupied Kashmir are examples. After seventy years Muslims are still fighting for what is rightfully theirs no matter what the cost, whatever the sacrifices in blood or kind and however long it takes. It will never be forgotten as these are causes based on principles and international law.
Whoever will come in their way will be appropriately put in place till victory is achieved.
We support your cause. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
Stay and Thrive you shall. But as long as you don't accept and study science and enslave your women, you will continue to wipe the Christian asses for eternity.
Islam is a force to reckon with. The muslims will stand for their rights and fight for their dignity. Cost does not matter. Time does not matter. Don't mess with muslims. They will come at you with guns blazing if you do. If you are friends with them they will die for you but if you are their enemy they will dig you in the ground. The Russians and Hindus know that well. Ask them. Remember once there was USSR... NO MORE!!!!
These are not idle threats. This just the way it is gonna be.
You can try to comfort yourself with lies, but a lie is a lie, whether or not you claim it to be a threat or not. Do you plan to kill all of those who do not believe your lies?
He will hand them over to hindus in India who will behead and raype them in that order.
@Haji Allah Baksh .. you are a fake. No Muslim will ever take the name "Allah". I am a Muslim and I agree with Fareed Zakaria. btw, Zakaria is from Pakistan.
I am as real as a proud muslim can be. We are the future of this world.
Delusional thinking of all kinds need to be eradicated, as people who use them to justify whatever evil they do are the danger. When you believe in the unreal, you can be convinced of anything. When your mind becomes free of delusion, only then can you truly understand the world, and your place in it.
Yeah, and once the great civilization of Ancient Greece believed in gods like Zeus and Thor. What happened to those deities? If only we stopped indoctrinating our children, organized religion would disappear from the planet in just a few generations.
There are 4 million muslims being subjected to genocide in Indian Occupied Kashmir by Hindus. Hundreds of thousands have been killed.
Over 20,000 muslims have been killed by hindus in Gujarat
About 6 million Palestinian muslims have been made homeless and their lands taken away by jews in collaboration with Americans/British et al. One million have been killed.
175 million muslims in India are living in oppression, subjugated by hindus and therefore seeking independence.
300,000 muslims have been killed in Iraq by western forces
250,000 muslims have been killed in Afghanistan by NATO.
Tell me Fareed, don't you have a conscience? A soul? Or have you sold yourself for a few bucks.
What a shame.
Fareed, unfortunately has sold himself to CNN propaganda machine. His program is juvenile and his journalistic abilities sub par. Affirmative action?
There are two balls of fire globally. Israel and India. One larger than the other just like my sweaty balls.
All you have to do is map out terror on a map and you will see these two cults right in the center.
Your juvenile necessity to use a vulgar description to cradle your equally juvenile ideas belies you.
Why? Don't you have balls? It is what it is. Don't be shy.
Hannah: your lack of intelligence is obvious, and clear. Your juvenile rantings are those of a child.
@George... a not so original connection but a good angle all the same. Right now Israel is kicking butt on one end and India is chopping appendages off on the other. You forgot the Great Satan on one side and the Russians on another. In your global jihad movement, are you forgetting what Putin is doing to errant chechens?
What Al Qaeda and ISIS have achieved is franchising their brand and shaking up the so called pseudo "world order". Russia is kicking it also to finally crack it open. Iran is the vulture waiting to munch on the carcass. Folks it is over. Obama will soon be kissing the Chinese ring. Cameron will be steaming dumplings in Shanghai alongwith Tony Blair.
More delusional thinking...correction: what you believe is immaterial. Facts are facts, and you don't subscribe to a factual universe. You use delusional thinking to justify what you do, and people who think in delusional ways, rather than in factual and scientific ways, need to be eradicated. You who believe in delusional fairy tales will believe anything.
I for one am not an apologist for Islam. Islam has been around for thousands of years. Many books have been written and translated on Islam. It is one of the, if not the largest, religion in the world. It is the fastest growing. It is a way of life. Islam has a rich legacy that is out there for everyone to see.
More delusional thinking. Here are the FACTS:
"The origin of Islam can be traced back to 7th century Saudi Arabia. Islam is thus the youngest of the great world religions. The prophet Muhammad (circa 570-632 A.D.) introduced Islam in 610 A.D. after experiencing what he claimed to be an angelic visitation."
The 7th century origin of Islam is not thousands of years ago, delusional thinker.
Seeing how Mohammad died less than 1400 years ago, I would question your math. And your ability to judge facts.
You must be referring to cult hinduism who have been rayping for centuries in accordance with Rg Veda.
Hannah: there is no such word as "rayping". Thanks for showing your hooked phonics vocabulary. It shows you lack of intellect, and disdain for the factual and precise.
In other words, Muhammed had a delusional experience, and thus started preaching based upon his delusion. Millions of goat herders started to believe the same delusion. Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with goat herding, but the intellectual prowess of a goat herder is not something to be proud of. You can convince a gullible, non intellectual person of just about anything, which is why democracy is almost always a mistake, and which is why democracy so often appears to fail.
When you give the stupid people the same voice as the smart people, you will get a stupid world. This is exactly what we have. You can try to convince yourself that you are smart, but if you believe in fairy tales, like religion, you are *not* smart. You are mentally ill.
Guru Nanak humped Lord Ganesh from rear and rewarded him by putting an elephant's trunk on his face. Therefore the word elephant man was invented to describe these h omo hinddoous.
Hannah: Silly girl. When you evolve into a more enlightened individual, your posts will take on an air of intelligence. Until then, they will continue to resemble the ramblings of a child.
I would like to know Farheed's opinion as to why the Christian world evolved to a more tolerant, peaceful society (as compared to the Crusades era) and certain Islamist groups are going in the opposite direction, from a more tolerant and advanced society to one that espouses violence as the primary means to dominate the world.
It is because stupid people are reproducing at a rapid rate, while those who actually use their brain for something other than a seat cushion use it to actually think. With this dynamic in full force, intellectualism, and thereby intelligence, will eventually die. The world will soon be filled with only delusional imbeciles.
And what we can do about it considering that the certain violent Islamist groups are not particularly scholarly, and in fact, are anti-education in many instances (particularly as applied to women).
You are referring to the microsoft guy from India who said women should not ask for a raise. I say unto him take your hindu beliefs back to India. You don't belong in out western countries.
He also believes that men should not ask for a raise. Silly girl. Your lack of intelligence is showing again.
Are you kidding me? Christians killed over a million moslems in Middle East. They were protestants mainly.
What delusion do you believe? Do you believe that the descendants of slavery over 400 years ago deserve reparation from people who had nothing to do with it? Silly girl. When you evolve into a more enlightened individual, your posts will take on an air of intelligence. Until then, they will continue to resemble the ramblings of a child.
So? They should have killed more moslims you dumm stu pid beetch
It only took him 1400 years to notice.
That Lord Shiva was gayyy?
Hinduism is one of the most evil pagan cult still operational in the world today. While we think of it as the faith of Mother India, it actually traces it origins to a mysterious tribe of Africans called the Afryans who invaded and conquered Northern India from 1500 BC to 500 BC. The dark-skinned Brahmins of Northern India claim to be their physical and spiritual descendants.
@Hannah. Sux to be you. Thanks for the history lesson. Beecth
One of the reasons that Islam has this problem is that popular Muslim figures do not come out publicly and denounce these extreme and terrorist practices. So non-Muslims are quick to conclude, "oh, they all must be like that", because no other Muslim, even in the US, is standing up saying "They don't represent Islam." I find it curious that many Christians, even popular figures in our culture, will stand up for their faith and denounce atrocities made by other Christians or Christian-based nations, but I have yet to hear 1 Muslim public figure do that against either ISIS or al-Qaeda after 9/11. Until I start to see that, I will believe that Islam is not a peace-centered religion and either advocates or condones violence when they feel it is right or appropriate.
Hey Fareed, I am forced to believe that if there was a Christian group slaughtering people in the name of Jesus there would be a gargantuan response opposing them and their views from Christians worldwide. They would be right and hopefully as a result of the response of the vast majority of Christians the rest of the world would quickly understand that such behavior in no way represents Christians or Christianity. However, after decades of terrorist attacks perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Islam there has yet to be an appropriately large and coherent repudiation from the Muslim world. The only repudiation we get is from Western media and governments (PM Cameron, President Obama) assuring us that Islam is a "religion of peace", whatever that means.
Bunch of right wing pro-paki, anti-india tea partiers. We all know that the muslim religion and all others are a myth.
Bunch of sukkers
And there is no Santa Clause either. Du mmies.
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By Mike Mount
The Obama administration's plan to solidify the number of U.S. troops that will be left in Afghanistan after the NATO-led operations end in 2014 should come into greater focus this week as Afghan President Hamid Karzai visits Washington.
With conversations scheduled at the State Department on Wednesday, the Pentagon on Thursday and the White House on Friday, Karzai should get a better sense of how the United States plans to maintain the relationship with his nation in the future.
At the Pentagon, Karzai will be briefed on the plans to keep thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to fight insurgents and to continue to train Afghan Security Forces.
But that plan hinges on what Karzai may want from the United States, according to Defense officials. It's no secret that Karzai wants total Afghan control of detention operations, meaning all Afghans being held by the United States and NATO allies would be turned over to Afghan authorities immediately.
The United States is not eager to give up control of those Afghan detainees because of concerns about whether Afghan authorities would properly handle their cases and under what authority they might be released.
Opinion: Karzai visit a time for tough talk on security, corruption
It is unclear whether Karzai will push for the handover of prisoners before he makes any deals on legal protections for U.S. troops who will serve in Afghanistan after the official end of the NATO mission.
At least one senior defense official thinks that if Karzai gets what he wants while in Washington, then negotiations over those legal protections will be much easier later.
But other defense officials think it is impossible to know what Karzai will demand while he's in Washington.
"It's Karzai; who knows what he will want on any given day," one official said.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will discuss the post-2014 plan with NATO allies when he travels to Europe next week.
Later next week, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey will fly to NATO headquarters to talk about the plan with his allied peers in Brussels.
Defense officials said the feedback from the allies could shape the post-2014 plan.
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cut the crap guys.. India doesn't share border with Afghanistan and neither does India give money to Afghanistan..
Whatever help India does to Afghanistan is by taking up infrastructure projects and doing the work on those projects..so stop taking non-sense.
Karzai won't last six months after our troops leave. His army won't support him, his people won't support him, and Pakistan sure as hell won't support him!
The American invasion of Afghanistan brought to the forefront the irrelevance of India as a nation. With a population of over 1.2 billion people there was no value that this nation could bring to the table. Their soldiers (ragtag) 1.2 million continue hiding in the trenches scared from Talibans. A few teenage Talibans invaded the country and held it hostage for days on end showing how useless India is. It was embarrasing for the world to observe this humiliation of a nation that was being touted as a regional power. The Talibans brought them down in a few days with some BB guns. It is all over for India. Its demise is in process and should be completed with Afghanistan withdrawal.
The bottom line is that the only way to have peace in Afghanistan and lessen regional tension is split India into pieces. It has become too big to govern or create any value for western countries or even for its own population. We have invested a lot of resources in India over the past two decades and given a lot of aid to prop it up. There has been no return on this investment.
It is not true Chuckie. I am a citizen of India and I know how my country works with their counterparts. We are at number four (4) in the world by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that provide its worth. We have one of the largest Army/non Army troops in the world equipped with modern weapons and it has proved their strength in the Kargil and previous wars with neighboring countries. We are richest in culture and heritage. We are peace loving state. We have always believed in peace and harmony of the other states/nation despite of the fact that we have capacity to conquer them. And the Talibanis attack you are talking about (were not Talibanis but Pakistani) we took about 3 days in the operation because we did not wanted to hurt inhabitant (your & mine) people of the respective Hotel (majority inhabitants were foreigners) and we make the operation successful by minimal loss. Our political system is not at his utmost due to its diversities, corruption and bad governance (internally) and it happens in every nation (more or less) but it does not mean they are not integrated at national level. We are moving ahead day by day steadily in every aspect despite of all corruption. There is enormous strength in India which I cannot describe here. You may be misinformed or mis-communicated. If you really want to know more you should definitely visit India. Disclaimer: By replying this i do not intend to hurt you in any way so be happy.
India must cease financing the terrorists and address the Kashmir genocide issue (among others such as Tamils, Maoists etc.) in order for peace to prevail in south asia including afghanistan
Alexander the Great tried and failed, so did Ghengis Khan, then the British, the Soviets in '80s, and now the US.
The land is inhospitable, thousands of caves for any type of insurgents of any affiliation to disappear into,
IEDs the bane of ground infantry troops, horses are the preferred way to get around unlike the half-track
personnel carriers to get bogged down in the spring/fall torrential rains. Time to pack it up and write this
10 year campaign as a washout.
Not for nothing is Afghanistan known as the "grave yard of empires."
The US has wasted trillions of dollars in this country something should be taking shape there.
Afghanistan's future does indeed look quite bleak if Obama's evil plans to convert that country into another U.S. backed pseudo-democracy does come true. That alone will put Afghanistan exactly where China was back in 1900 where foreigners from all around the world pour in and exploit that country's resources thus impoverishing that country along with the populace! The thought of this is truly repulsive!!!
You lost me at "evil plan". This isn't a Dudley Doright cartoon.
Do you remember the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in China, mattski? Most uneducated Tea Partiers haven't the foggiest notion of what that was nor what it was about. That's why most of these nitwits believe in what we're doing in Afghanistan!!!
India doesn't want a peaceful and progressing Afghanistan, without a role of India in the peace process. Recall how commie USSR and its bud Hindu India massacred Afghanistan and killed 10 million civilians and made 7.5 million refugees that Pakistan had to care for and provide shelter and housing.
This is the sole reason India has been busy interrupting and conspiring against the Afghanistan peace process and backstabbing US and NATO forces.
Terrorists from India cross over into Afghanistan every day as if they are walking in 6 Flags and all India comes up with is lame excuses and a clear intent of supporting these terror organizations. Shiv Sena (CAS Branch) are just one example, there are many others.
The day India will be neutralized and taken care of, 95% of Afghanistan issues will subside.
India's nefarious agenda in Afghanistan is to keep it unstable and in turmoil until New Delhi is sure that it has got a puppet regime in Afghanistan which it can play and tweak for its nefarious goals. India has for long time waiting for this situation and they already had plans ready for it. All India is focused upon is be fooling the world in the name of war on terror, making money, keep Afghanistan unstable and violent. It mislead Americans into spending US 1 Trillion in losing the Afghan war and the deaths of thousands of American soldiers.
If you want to fix Afghanistan, first take care of India and Indian Occupied Kashmir and ongoing genocide.
Gr8 paki replace the name India with Pakistan.For your kind information India does not share a border with Afganistan.
Actually, India and Afganistan do share a border in the northern-most part of India and the eastern-most part of Afganistan, near the Kyber Pass in northern Kashmir. It's not a very long border, less than 150 miles.
cut him loose, no matter what happen due to his lack of leadership skills he will blame others and demand for more aid.
If only more of our puppets were as sartorially dashing as Mr. Karzai.
You who sheep lover are you out in the fields right now having your way with the sheep, while your at it remember to look up. See my nice red snowflake, you idiot, we all have our own so you can't really copy me, because like me there's only one. Now go find your profit, he's still telling lies.
Observer, here's a clue, (and I promise I will only use short words for your benefit): Its 2012, trying to get through life with a bad 3rd grade education is really , really tough !! Go back to school and become the first one in your family to finish Elementary School. It will make you feel proud and keep the rest of us from trying to figure out how you can even read these posts !!!
Just curious, Pepinium, but why the need to capitalize "elementary school"? Furthermore, how do you find describing this lovely fellow as a well-dressed puppet, offensive?
Hamid Karzai cannot and should not be trusted. He has shown his total disdain for our troops, for NATO troops, and for America..........except that he extracts billions of dollars out of our Treasury to finance his existence and that he needs and depends on American and Nato troops to keep his worthless rear in power. He demands public apologizes from our top officials when civilians die due to bombing raids or fire fights (this is war and civilians die in war!) and we humble ourselves but let American/NATO troops be ambushed by Afghan Security Forces and he doesn't want to hear any complaining from us. Pull our troops out now, and by the way I am not a liberal but a Conservative Republican, stop our bleeding for a country that despises us and save the lives of hundreds if not thousands of our sons and daughters at the hands of Afghani Third World monsters!!
Well said! Look at this photo. Karsai gets wealthier every month. His personal "cut" from our aid dollars keeps him very well off. What has he done for his own people? While we build, train and equip an army for him he does nothing to inspire and lead his own people. He appears to be preparing for the return of Taliban rule and insuring he will be their figurehead! All he needs to do is call for "democratic elections" after we pull out. Afghanistan's future is already decided. The Taliban will return and Karsai wants to be their leader!
Is it true that his heroine dealing brother was killed ?
Looks can be deceiving but I think there right on the money with Linus and his security blanket. He won't be in power after 2014 and so far seems to have spent more time working against the states then working with them. Tell him what he wants to hear and then pull the rug out from under the slimy bugger. The military should have learned by now he is only really interested in the money he can line his pockets with, nothing nice to say about the man.


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Have you ever wondered whether you are truly protected from infectious diseases ranging from the common cold to more deadly threats like rabies or bird flu? When you travel, are you protected from the many infections abroad, from malaria to yellow fever? Are you up-to-date on the new adult vaccines and do you know what to do should a bioterrorist try to spread deadly smallpox or anthrax? This report describes the most up to date information on infectious disease and how to protect yourself from everything from stomach flu to HIV/AIDS.
SPECIAL BONUS SECTION: The new vaccines.
Prepared by the editors of Harvard Health Publishing in collaboration with Michael N. Starnbach, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School; 49 pages. (2013)
- Viruses: the ultimate invaders
- What is a virus?
- A viral attack
- Kinds of viruses
- Infectious disease in the 21st century
- Speed of global transport
- Resistance to drugs and vaccines
- Genetics
- Climate change
- Transmission of infectious disease
- Methods of transmission
- The immune system: Your natural protection
- The outermost barrier
- The innate immune system
- The adaptive immune system
- Memory: Long-term protection
- Antiviral drugs
- Types of antiviral drugs
- SPECIAL SECTION -- Vaccines: Game changers for public health
- Why do adults need vaccination?
- How vaccines work
- Types of vaccines
- Do vaccines pose health risks?
- Vaccinating infants and children
- What you can do to avoid viral infectious diseases
- The basics: Good hand hygiene
- Review your vaccine status
- Practice food safety techniques
- Practice safer sex
- Prevent mosquito bites
- Prevent tick bites
- Avoid rodents
- Don't touch unfamiliar pets or wild animals
- Take travel precautions
- Common viruses you may encounter
- Less common, more dangerous viruses
- Bioterrorism
- What germs are most likely to be released by terrorists?
- What steps can you take to prepare?
- Glossary
Infectious disease in the 21st century
Like most people, you probably got your vaccinations as a child and, since then, you've had tetanus boosters, maybe some flu shots, and some antibiotics when you needed them. When you catch a germ, you usually recover quickly. Most people in the United States and other developed countries have good reason to feel smug. They are well protected against infectious disease by vaccination, antibiotics, good hygiene, and general good health.
But for people whose immune systems are weakened by age or disease, it's a different story. There are plenty of infectious microbes looking for a place to multiply and cause illness and sometimes death. In addition, diseases that just a few years ago seemed to be nearly wiped out often make worrisome comebacks despite widespread vaccination. Resistant strains of infections frequently appear. Still more alarming are the "new and emerging" diseases reported in the news, like SARS or bird flu, for which we have little or no immunity. And sexually transmitted diseases continue to pose a major health threat, with HIV at the top of the list, but also human papillomavirus, herpes simplex, chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis continuing to spread.
What is the status of infectious disease in the 21st century? Wasn't modern medicine supposed to have this under control by now with vaccines, antibiotics, and antiviral drugs? Are the news reports and alarming headlines about new and emerging diseases to be believed? Will resistant strains of disease overpower our ability to develop new drugs and vaccines? Is the landscape of infectious disease changing in the 21st century, and if so, how can medical science meet the new challenges?
There is no question that, to some degree, the tables have turned. But the tug of war between humans and microbes has always taken place. It is the nature of infectious microbes to damage and kill their hosts. As Cedric Mims described it in Mims' Pathogenesis of Disease, "If none of the microorganisms associated with man did any damage and none was notably beneficial, they would be interesting but relatively unimportant objects. In fact, they have been responsible for the great pestilences of history, [and] have at times determined the course of history."
Infectious disease in general and viruses in particular, have, indeed, shaped history. Take, for example, the settlement of North America by Europeans. The smallpox virus and other diseases carried by Europeans played at least as great a role in wiping out the indigenous American populations as did war and weapons. The conquest of Aztecs in Mexico by Hernando Cortes in 1520, for example, was accomplished less by the use of weapons than by the inadvertent introduction of the smallpox virus, endemic in Europe but completely new to the Aztec people, who had no immunity and fell ill and died at a staggering rate. Two years after Cortez arrived, 3.5 million native Americans were dead of smallpox.
The battle of human versus microbe is far from over and is never likely to be so, writes Mims: "Because of their rapid rate of evolution and the constantly changing circumstances of human life, they continue to present threats of future pestilences."
The age-old story does, however, take some new twists in the 21st century. Several conditions of the modern world combine to influence the threat of infectious disease today.
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A staple of Long Beach is Roscoe's. Perhaps you've seen it on Snoop Dogg's TV show, or on some food network channel. Well let me tell you, I love the LBC and a when a trip to Roscoes with my good friend Billy, Rachel and Ryan was mentioned I was super stoked! I love chicken and I love waffle, put those two together and you have got a winning combination!
Pulling up, Roscoe's looks a little random, but I tell you, the food is what matters at this place. It has some of the best chicken around!
The menu is pretty small but we all opted for #13 – Carol C. Special. One piece of chicken and one waffle. Yum! I also got a side of mac and cheese because I love it so much.
Told you, one piece of chicken and one waffle. The waffle is sooo good, I almost think it's cinnaminny. MMM, I love chicken and waffle!
Hungry! Man, this dinner kept me full for a day! So fun to finally be reunited! I hadn't seen Billy since LA and it was so fun to catch up. He cracks me up and we always sit around laughing at each other when we hang out. Glad he brought Ryan and Rachel out too.
On the running front, yesterday I got in my 5 miles and in the beginning my legs felt good, and for once they weren't tired. They are finally starting to get used to running again! I really feel like I am getting back into a routine and my body is adjusting back to working out a lot.
On a sad note, my friend's grandma went into the hospital this weekend for some chest pains and after a few tests, they found cancer in her liver, lungs, and colon. Today she has to have life-threatening emergency surgery. Please pray for her and their entire family.


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Whether it's at the park, beach, river or forest, we love summer picnics! Our kids jump at any chance to get away from home, even if it's just for an hour or two. The break in routine alleviates summer boredom and they get to run wild without wrecking the house, which makes mom (and therefore kids) happy.
The best part about picnics is that you don't have to go very far to enjoy fresh air and a bit of nature. Oh, and all that running around wears the kids out while we get to relax in the shade on a blanket! With the right essentials, a picnic can be a quick and low-stress activity for the whole family to enjoy.


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August 9, 2018 (https://twitter.com/margotwallstrom) Sweden is calling on Russia to release a Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. Margot Wallström, Swedish Foreign Minister, wrote on August 9, 2018 on Twitter:" Deeply concerning reports on Oleg Sentsov's deteriorating health condition. His detention violates international law and is based on a legal process which did not meet elementary standards of justice. We call on Russia to release him & other illegally detained Ukrainian citizens."
Ukrainian filmmaker and writer Oleg Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike since 14 May 2018, is reportedly in a critical condition. According to his lawyer, who visited him in prison on 7 August 2018, Oleg Sentsov has a low haemoglobin level, resulting in anaemia and a slow heartbeat, and has lost 30 kilogrammes. He is refusing to be transferred to a civilian hospital as he is too weak to stand and says that medical staff there have previously been hostile towards him.


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...and why the central, transparent control over a currency is a key advantage, not a vice...
Today, the Bitcoin (BTC) was split into two new cryptocurrencies. From now on, you may convert your cash to Bitcoin or Bitcoin cash (click and try to distinguish their symbols LOL). For quite some time, people were using the acronym BCC for Bitcoin cash before most began to appreciate that BCC was already taken by BitConnect, the 15th largest cryptocurrency by capitalization (which lost 20% today), so BCH began to spontaneously propagate instead – the new acronym originated after the currency was created! The very naming of the old and new currency is a complete mess: a minor example of a situation in which some "adults in the room" would be helpful.
If you held 1 BTC at a given moment, you were eligible to get one new BTC and one new BCH. In principle, the rule "when" you should hold the old BTC should be absolutely and universally specified – because you surely want to know whether you're buying or selling an "asset" that is eligible for this BCH "bonus" – which is worth some 10-20 percent of the old BTC. It's exactly analogous to the splitting of a stock to two, or the payment of the dividend. The price of the "main" stock is expected to decrease exactly by the value of the smaller stock or by the dividend at the very last moment when you still have the right to get the "bonus" – the new stock or the dividend.
But the people trading this stuff don't care about details such as 10% of their wealth.
In fact, the number of "exchanges" where you won't get the new currency – 10% of your cryptocurrency wealth – is comparable to the number of the "exchanges" where you get it. In particular, Coinbase, a very large "exchange", told its consumers that they won't get any BCH. So depending on your "bank" that manages your wallet, you may be 10% richer or poorer than the other group! That's handy. ;-) No one finds it particularly unjust. The very wealthy people who play with the Bitcoin don't care about 10% of their infinite wealth, and neither do the Millennials who get the money from their parents in order to play and build this bubble of hot air along with their comrades.
So if they have a bad "exchange", they just ask their parents to pay them 10% more than what they would otherwise pay. It's a simple life to be a Millennial.
Note that the bad behavior of Coinbase is directly connected with a feature of the blockchain that its religious advocates worship – the impossibility to regulate it. Well, as a client of such an "exchange", I would be grateful if someone could give them a proper thrashing so that I could recover those 10% of the deposits! Some people, regulators of banks, central banks do lots of good things. In the cryptocurrency system, someone else has this power but he's much more likely to be a criminal that will rob you!
Now, for some 6 hours after the "discovery" that launched the splitting process (the ledger's history was doubled but the new entries in the two histories were separate), it wouldn't be even clear whether BCH would emerge at all, or whether there was a bug somewhere. Well, BCH needed a bigger block for the discovery and only a minority, some 5%, of the "mining" hardware was reserved for BCH. But after some six hours, people were happy. The first payments could have been confirmed. And the difficulty of the subsequent discoveries was lowered so that one only needed to wait for some 10 minutes before the new discovery emerged.
But imagine how practical this payment would be in the desert if you needed to buy water. You would use this state-of-the-art electronic financial technology and some 6 hours later, your payment could get through. I hope you aren't too thirsty! ;-)
After the first separate confirmed discovery of the block by BCH, the splitting process was completed.
BTC started the day between $2800 and $3000. Common sense indicates that the value must drop by the price of the new BCH. But if only 1/2 of the BTC users get BCH at all, the price of BTC should only drop by 1/2 of the price of the new currency, BCH. The price of the Bitcoin cash wildly oscillated between $180 and $400 during the day – up to some moment, BCH was only traded as futures.
You may see that it's roughly consistent with the sum rule. BCH is currently about $200 but only 1/2 of them will be saved, it seems, so you expect the drop of the price of BTC to be $100 over the day, and it roughly is.
Some people don't even understand why the total value of the new currencies is expected to be the same as the value of the old currency. But a funny thing about economics is that some of its elementary laws work even when almost all the traders are financially illiterate, like most of the traders playing with the cryptocurrncies. They could be willing to assume that they indeed get a $200 bonus for each BTC and the total price of the new BTC and the new BCH will be $200 if not $400 higher than the price of the old BTC – because they're financially illiterate, they have no problem to believe that "everyone in the system" is getting $200 or $400 for free.
But even if they're financially illiterate, the invisible hand of the free market works. You know, if you assume that the price of BTC is approximately stable during the day – it's not terribly stable but let's make this approximation – it means that there is an approximately equal amount of money that flows from the real currencies to the unreal BTC currencies and vice versa.
However, when BTC splits into two, a certain fraction of the incoming capital (from the real world, i.e. real dollars) will flow to BCH instead. So the demand for BTC unavoidably drops by those 10-20 percent while the supply is still the same. So to match the supply and demand, the price of BTC will drop. The Millennials will keep on trading normally and they will be surprised that the price dropped because they haven't ever mastered anything like "thinking about the intrinsic value of anything". Because the final price of BCH is about 10% of the BTC and only 1/2 of those BCH will be recovered, maybe, you end up with the drop of BTC's price by approximately 5%.
OK, it doesn't make sense to calculate it too accurately because the other sources of volatility are huge – even on ordinary days – so several percent are added or subtracted to almost every cryptocurrency's price every day.
Sectarian analogy
If you followed the social networks, you would see that the fans of the Bitcoin were extremely opinionated. Most of them – unsuprisingly some 80-90 percent – think that the Bitcoin Cash is a dead end, fake Bitcoin, garbage, mistake, while the Bitcoin BTC is the legacy Bitcoin, the only real one, and so on.
And then you have some in the other group whose opinion is different – BCH is a real improvement and a fix for some mistakes that existed in BTC.
The split of the Bitcoin cult to these two camps is completely analogous to the split of a church, e.g. the Christian Church to the Catholic and Orthodox one, or the later Catholic Church to the Catholic and Protestant one, and so on, up to Mormons, Jehovists, scientologists, and other nut jobs.
I have been repeatedly explained what is the key ideological difference between the Orthodox Christianity and Catholicism, and between the Catholicism and Protestantism. But frankly speaking, I would still be unable to give you a coherent story. It's about some technical details of the role of saints or Virgin Mary or something. I honestly don't have a clue after so many repeated lessons. The reason I can't give you a satisfactory explanation is that I was just never motivated to remember this stuff. Some vital parts of my memory work extremely well – and forgetting of junk is good for me and my memory.
I think that my memory is really good at this skill and I am proud about it. Also, I feel a lot of superiority over the people who suicidally criticize themselves because they have forgotten some irrelevant junk. The fact that they have forgotten isn't bad at all – but the fact that they don't realize that this forgetting is a good thing proves that they're stupid!
OK, the separation of BTC to BTC and BCH is completely analogous to the sectarian splits of the Christian Church. It's about some stupidity analogous to the question whether Virgin Mary could have been clumped with saints or whether God is 1-in-3 or 3-in-1 or whether He may talk to you only directly or through the Pope or some other priest or some other bullšit like that. All of them still believe the very contrived text of the Bible in some way, including millions of details about the life of Jesus, details I wouldn't even consider, ever. And they disagree about some font used for some verse or whether one verse is more important than the next one or something like that – and that's a good enough reason for them to wage a war, among other things. I don't really have empathy for this stuff, it looks unthinkable to me.
In the case of the Bitcoins, some Bitcoin Foundation's Soviet or something like that and/or some NGOs and labor unions clumping the miners or some other insane bodies representing the special interests within the Bitcoin world voted that some new SegWit mechanism should be allowed by the end of August to support some parameter or something like that. The Bitcoin fanatics often love to say that the cryptocurrency doesn't depend on any powerful people and banks but when you look what's actually happening, everything depends on the Bitcoin Foundations, assorted Soviets, and especially the "exchanges" which may change the rules and rob you of the new currencies arbitrarily, without any regulation. And aside from the noise resulting from people's irrationality, the price of the cryptocurrencies primarily depends on their being allowed or forbidden by various authorities. Everything that matters is willfully controlled by politicians and bureaucrats – the dependence of the life involving cryptocurrencies on politicians, bankers, and various apparatchiks is vastly deeper than the dependence of the life with a fiat currency on the central banks. Because the cryptocurrencies have the total capitalization of $93 billion right now, 48% of which is the truncated Bitcoin, these small groups of financial activists control incredible wealth. Even a small effect of their decisions – a small fraction of the BTC capitalization (or second order corrections arising from some effect associated with a tiny change of rules) – can make them millionaires and sometimes billionaires. The system is complete Wild West.
Also, the BTC sectarian fans say that BTC is the legacy Bitcoin while BCH is some deviated modification. But BCH fans sort of more justifiably argue that BCH is really the more orthodox type of the Bitcoin that is more compatible with Satoshi's original paper, where some new ad hoc adjustments are prohibited, and so on. It has bigger blocks which may be good – yes, if I had to choose the better currency among the two almost identical ones, I would choose Bitcoin Cash! And I actually think its price will soon be comparable to that of the Bitcoin.
Needless to say, I couldn't possibly care in one way or another. These are totally minor technical questions. The two new currencies are almost identical, just like the different Christian denominations are almost identical. People must be extremely obsessed with their religion – whether it's the Christian religion or the cult of cryptocurrencies – to care even about the tiny differences between the subsects of the cult.
It's very likely but not guaranteed that BTC will remain the most important cryptocurrency while BCH will be just one of the minor supplements. But it isn't a tiny supplement right now. Once the numbers for the capitalization are updated, BCH will become the world's 3rd or 4th most important cryptocurrency by capitalization. Also, you should notice that just like the current total capitalization of the cryptocurrencies or BTC is just some "random large number", even the price ratio of the cryptocurrencies, including the BCH/BTC ratio (about 10%), is a random number. There doesn't exist any calculation, and not even a sketch of it, that would imply that the new BTC should be 10 times more expensive than its "near perfect copy" BCH. The ratio is just a ratio of the concentration of two slightly different flavors of a mass delusion. It's a random number. Why is it a random number? Because the ratio is really 0/0, an indeterminate form that may have any value. And yes, the BCH/BTC price ratio is 0/0 because in reality, both of them are intrinsically worthless.
Cryptocurrency software is a family of computer games of a sort which deal with virtual money – and some people are willing to pay real money for the money in the computer game, just like in many other computer games. An advantage of this game is that you may sell the virtual money to others so many people have made a huge profit and it's possible as long as the pyramid scheme is increasing. In other computer games, the payment of the real money tends to be irreversible – the real money is pocketed by the creators of the game. ;-)
But the split of BTC to BTC and BCH means that many of these people must suddenly play two computer games instead of one. If you know the Adventure Capitalist, it's analogous to earning the money on Earth and then starting to play the analogous sectors of the game on the Moon, Mars, or the special events.
Aside from the real money, people are investing real time to this enterprise. How long will they be enthusiastic about these computer games and the growing demands for their time? Pokémon Go was really hot only for weeks. It's similar with other games. The Bitcoin has been around for 8 years or so and it still finds some new people who play it which allows the pyramid scheme to grow so far. But isn't it obvious that the dynamics in the longer run simply has to be analogous to the dynamics of any fixed computer game? After some time, there are many variations of it and competitors and people simply have to switch from the old game to the newer ones. No one will be paying the real money to you in order to buy your virtual money in the BTC or BCH games – because the games will be obsolete.
You could try to make a smooth profit by investing into "all" cryptocurrencies you may find somewhere. Buy the same share in each of them. But it won't be a reliable recipe for a profit forever, either, because the whole "genre" of the cryptocurrency games is very narrow-minded and it will be gradually replaced with fundamentally different things in the future.
The blockchain is a solution to a problem in recreational mathematics and its author could deserve $100,000 for finding this solution – just like the programmers of millions of other interesting programs (e.g. in the App Stores). But the problem wasn't really a true problem that real-world people in the real-world financial markets would normally care about (I've never seen any problem with the transactions' being centrally verified by a bank). It is a totally artificial problem so the practical-world value of the solution is basically zero. The idea that it should be $93 billion or even higher is just absolutely preposterous. A "currency" such as BCH where you need to wait for 6 hours – or even 15 minutes – to confirm your payment is extremely unpractical, just like a currency whose value relatively the dollar (or food) fluctuates by roughly 70% every day, and BCH did today. People who worship this stuff as some groundbreaking change of the world economy that has an intrinsic value – that they're willing to quantify as any giant number (that they cannot calculate) and that they're always willing to increase by another order of magnitude, they're dangerously stupid lunatics.
The cryptocurrencies have provided the world with a mechanism to concentrate the capital in the hands of the leaders of this community of idiots – and I find it extremely dangerous. The capital should be concentrated in the hands of those who know how to build real values and who can distinguish real values from bogus ones. The cryptocurrency people are the opposite sort of creatures. They can't tell apart real values from fake ones at all – and they are proud about it. It's a catastrophe that this Ponzi scheme has been capable of rewarding these people, or at least their "leaders", for this fundamental mental defect. Just like the growth of the wealth of George Soros, the growth of wealth of these people is another threat for the advanced human civilization.
Incidentally, just seconds ago, I received a summary in Nature of an article claiming that the digital native is a myth – the younger generation uses technology in the same way as the older generations (and in particular, they're no better at multitasking). So their financial illiteracy etc. could ultimately be the main difference when it comes to similar issues such as the cryptocurrency hype.
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