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Excellent Apartment in Copacabana
Size23 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Towels
- Air conditioning
- Internet/WiFi
- Elevator in building
- Kitchen
Accommodation summary
|Prado Junior, 20011040 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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|Property ID
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|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
Excellent apartment, high floor, 24-hour residential concierge, 10 minutes walk from the subway station, 15 minutes from Sugar Loaf. Several 24-hour services around the area, banks, restaurants, supermarket, pizzeria, pharmacy, coffee shops, newsstands, laundromats, etc
1 block from the apartment there is a street which has supermarket. Bakery, deli, pharmacy, all 24 hours which means that there is always movement in the street near the apartment, not getting desert, off which is a big help when you want to buy something or eat anytime you want.
House rules*Maximum 2 persons!
*Security deposit R$300 check in. This money is returned if everything is ok in the apartment.
*Electricity charged as checking the clock at check in and check out. Staying in the middle is not charged (only one way, the guest do not forget the air conditioning on when leave the apartment).
*Time to check in from 7 to 10pm. And check out 07 of the 11am.
Check out between 11am to 10pm a 1/2 day will be charged.
*Any stain, makeup, suntan lotion, oil, etc. .. towels, pillow cases and sheets will be charged.
*Loss Key R$ 70.
(Having checked out very late at night just leave the keys inside the apartment and slam the door).
|Maximum nights
|1 month
|Check-in after
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews of this property
Río de Janeiro is a place to fall in love... You can fall in love with the city, party, food and specially with Brasilian People. About the apartment is located in a privilaged place in the Heart of Copacabana Just 2 minutes walking to the beach, 5 to the underground and next to supermarkets, bars and discos (but is not noisy cause u are in the 10th floor). The apartment is equipated with everything you need!! You Gonna feel at home. About Luciana is a Lovely lady, Kind and really helpful. She spent almost 2 hours explaining to me how to Take the bus,how to go to somewhere, how to find best places ever in the world!!! Just I can say I Will come back Asap!!!
Great location. Just a few blocks from the beach, restaurants, and shopping area. Excellent for a short stay.
We've just returned from our wonderful trip to Rio de Janeiro. While planning the journey we decided to use wimdu as an accomodation tool and never regreted! everything was just as promised: reliable service and nice appartment as a result. We LOVED Brazil and we really enjoyed our stay - polite and helpful owner was very nice and friendly, trying to help us out at any possible way if we needed any assistance. to sum up - we are satisfied with our trip with wimdu!
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Luciana is a superhost! The apartment were in excellent shape and everything worked out fantastic. She also helped me with secure and cheap transport to and from the international airport. I can recommend her different apartments to anyone. Thanks for a lovely stay in the Cidade Maravilhosa!
Luciana mad our stay in Rio so pleasant. Not only worked everything totally fine with the apartment, but she also helped us out with everything else. She gave us a list of recommendations and was always willing to answer questions about restaurants, bars, things to do and so on. Whenever we had a question concerning the apartment or anything else, Luciana was ready to help us out. This is a service you won't get in a hotel!!!
Also, on a very short notice, we arrived one day earlier. This was not a problem at all! So she was very flexible in adjusting our stay at her place.
We've bin in Lucianas appartment this summer and it was great. It's a nice place near Copacabana-beach (1min walk) and near shops, taxi en busstops (3min). At the corner of the building you can rent bikes, thats awesome! The appartment is in a nice and quiet building with its own doorman. The appartment has a nice and clean kitchen and bathroom.
Luciana is a very nice person who wants to help you if there are any questions about how to get somewere in the city or about the habits of brazilians for example. She speaks English very well.
We had a great time in Rio and can recommend this appartment to everybody!
hi personal luciana I guarantee a very good man caring honest with what you do. the apartment is better not to have good pressure very good place. too sure the next time I travel to Rio without a shadow of doubt I'll rent her apartment again.
oi pessoal a luciana eu garanto gente muito fina atenciosa honesta com o que faz.
o apartamento melhor nao tem presso bom lugar muito bom .muito seguro
da proxima vez que eu viajar pro rio sem sombras de duvida vou alugar o apartamento dela de novo .
Very well organized and friendly hostess. Apartment in prime location, right on the beach, but some traffic noise. No complaints, clear recommendation!
Sehr gut organisierte und freundliche Gastgeberin. Appartment in Top-Lage, direkt am Strand, allerdings etwas Verkehrslärm. Keinerlei Beschwerden, klare Weiterempfehlung!
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AFD Defeats APD in the Championship Game
April 4, 2011
Albuquerque Fire Department Team
Firefighters and Police Officers from the following
departments showed off their skills in the all day tournament at Santa Ana Star Center and Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho.
-Albuquerque Fire
-Albuquerque Police
-Bernalillo County Fire
-Bernalillo County Sheriffs
-Rio Rancho Police
-Rio Rancho Fire
-Santa Fe Fire
-NM State Police
The tickets were $10.00 and $4.00 from each ticket will be donated to our local Red Cross. The $10.00 ticket allowed access into both venues all day and the last T-Bird home game vs Iowa.
Event t-shirts are still on sale for $10.00. Contact AFD Public Information Officer Melissa Romero at [email protected] if you would like to purchase a shirt.
Thank you to the players, the families of the players and the community for coming together for such a great cause.

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The Siegmund Warburg dos and don'ts of investment banking
If you had to pick one firm that summed up the prevailing issues that buffeted the financial industry in 2012 it would have to be UBS. The Swiss bank started the year reeling from a rogue trading loss that prompted the departure of chief executive Oswald Grübel and ended it having to pay $1.5bn to settle Libor charges.
Along the way, it announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs and shut down most of its fixed-income business – demonstrating that UBS, like a growing number of its rivals, has not only woken up to its altered circumstances but has actually accepted that it needs to do something about them.
So, where to now?
It just so happens that 2012 was also the Swiss bank's 150th anniversary. Among the posters displayed in the lobby of its London offices to commemorate the occasion was one that read: "A major milestone in UBS's history was in 1995 when SBC acquired SG Warburg, the central pillar upon which today's investment bank is built."
Warburg was arguably the world's leading investment bank at the point when the main financial trends of the past three decades – deregulation, globalisation and the drive towards the universal bank model – started to gather momentum. Initially the British firm rode these waves but, ultimately, it was overcome by them.
Now that the tide of history appears to be turning, it seems fair to ask what today's bankers can learn from the past. Sure enough, the Warburg name was frequently evoked in analysis of UBS's retreat from fixed income. There is no doubt some sentimentality about brands such as Warburg that were untarnished by the credit crunch through the simple expediency of having ceased to exist – the Warburg name was retired by UBS in 2003.
"The model is hard to replicate these days," said one former Warburg banker. "It is very difficult to make money in equities if you don't have scale, fixed income consumes huge amounts of capital and the margins around advisory have been shot to hell."
But what of the values espoused by Sir Siegmund Warburg, the eponymous founder of the bank? He summed up the most important qualities for a bank in a memo written in 1953: moral standing, reputation for efficiency and high-quality brain work, connections, capital funds, personnel and organisation. These principles might sound old-fashioned. But that probably says more about prevailing financial fashions than it does about the principles themselves. Certainly they sound a lot less old-fashioned than they did, say, five years ago. Let's take them in reverse order:
• Personnel and organisation
Sir Siegmund Warburg and Henry Grunfeld set out to create a firm of "merchant adventurers who have to act with a high degree of punch and panache". To achieve that they took great pains over recruitment, even employing a graphologist to analyse the handwriting of candidates. One former Warburger said Sir Siegmund used to claim his approach to hiring staff was similar to buying ties – picking good ones (both neckwear and staff) when he came across them rather than to fulfil a particular need.
Such an approach would be impractical for today's behemoth banks. But how many of them can, hand on heart and despite claims that their people are their most important assets, say that they invest enough in their human resources departments?
Once Warburg had the raw material in place, it was bound together with a high level of communication and internal transparency. For example, every single client meeting was summarised and circulated to all corporate finance directors. "One of the blights of modern banks is that people think it is in their best interests to keep things to themselves," said one banker who started his career at Warburg.
• Capital funds
Warburg is often misremembered as a purely advisory firm. Its name is frequently taken in vain by those arguing that balance sheet prowess needs to be separated from advice.
"Yes, it was a great M&A house," said James Leigh-Pemberton, the UK chief executive of Credit Suisse, who started his career at Warburg. "But it was also a great securities underwriting house. And it made markets in the Eurobond securities that it led. It was never a purely advisory business."
The crucial point is that all Warburg's business was conducted on an agency basis. One former Warburger said banks started down a dangerous path when the principal trading book was treated like another client. It swiftly became the most important one.
• Connections
"In our kind of business," Sir Siegmund once wrote "the continuity of valuable connections overrides in importance the conclusion of any specific transaction." This definition of relationship banking has yet to be bettered. However, the value of those connections is harder to measure than that of the transactions. And that is where judgement comes in.
It is worth noting that at least one former Warburger believed that the bank's pursuit of connections had caused it problems: a long tail of small clients that was not cost-effective to cover. When the US banks swooped in the 1980s they focussed their attention on the biggest, and most profitable, relationships. Connections, along with personnel, are among a bank's premium assets. But, like all assets, they must be monitored and managed.
• Brain work
The Holy Grail for many modern banks is the cross-selling of products. This would have been anathema to Warburg. Piers von Simson, a former board member at Warburg and the founder of Auden Capital, said: "[Sir Siegmund] had an utter contempt for the idea of product. He would pronounce 'prodooce' with a mock American accent." Another ex-Warburger said: "[Sir Siegmund] would say that it is all very well for cows to produce but not humans."
It is the dichotomy between brain-power and product that is as likely to define the future of finance as much as the subtly different one between advice and balance sheet. Those banks that tout products should not be surprised if clients shop around. And that leaves a gap in the market for those banks that really focus on relationships.
• Moral standing
This is the hardest of banking qualities to define, the easiest to lose and, arguably, the most important. What Sir Siegmund called moral standing would probably be defined today as an absence of conflicts of interest. But really it is more than that.
The traders who have been found to have manipulated Libor were not particularly conflicted, they were just plain wrong. The solution sends us back to where we started: personnel and organisation.
Leigh-Pemberton said: "I am far from despairing that the same principles can apply in today's large financial organisations. But you must do what SG Warburg did: get the culture right, impose the discipline and ensure that the clients' interests always come first."
A simple ethos; a difficult proposition – but a crucial one if banks are to regain their "moral standing".


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Movie Mondays - Jack Reacher
Category: Movies
Location: Plaut Room
Join us for a screening of Jack Reacher on Monday, June 3 at 4:00 p.m. in the Plaut Room.
From The New York Times bestselling author Lee Child comes one of the most compelling heroes to step from novel to screen - ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise). When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: "Get Jack Reacher!" So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep and a target on Reacher's back.
Seating is limited to 25 and available on a first come, first served basis.


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Business leaders: Start with state spending
FAIRMONT – While there is uncertainty about several political issues that will affect the state and local economies, business leaders on both levels feel encouraged about the legislative session.
"The budget forecast is out, and next week the governor is set to release his budget and tax reform," said Minnesota Chamber of Commerce communications director Jim Pumarlo, who visited Fairmont on Thursday. "But everyone was running for office on a jobs platform, and we are ready to be engaged in that debate. I'm optimistic that no legislator [in St. Paul] wants to harm the economy. There will be some agreements and some challenges. Our big thing is that while there is good news on the economy, it is still fragile out there and we want to keep Minnesota competitive."
Pumarlo and Fairmont Area Chamber of Commerce President Bob Wallace hope Gov. Mark Dayton's budget and tax reform will concentrate on state spending first, instead of fixating on a dollar amount needed in revenue.
"With the uncertainty of what the tax makeup will be, it's best to focus on how to be more efficient first," Wallace said. "There is a lot of uncertainty at the federal level, and that ends up affecting the state and local levels. So we try to address the things where we have some level of control."
"We're also hoping any tax reform won't hurt businesses; if they address the structure, then figure out a number," Pumarlo said. "That will be our biggest challenge, the issue of a fourth-tier income tax on the high end. For one, it could hit small company owners who run their business to their personal income tax; and two, it could affect the state's ability to bring in high-end talent."
Both men believe the spending and tax systems need to encourage the expansion of the state's economy, allowing for the creation and retention of jobs, while maintaining a high quality of life for Minnesota residents.
"If the state is going to take away [aid to local governments], perhaps they should give the communities the ability to raise their own local sales tax," Pumarlo suggested. "Expand the tax base to help the entire economy. … Take all these policies together, and it could help expand and not deter job growth, and keep us competitive."
But employers still need to have the right people with the right training to fill those jobs.
"We need to educate the workforce," Pumarlo said. "There is a lot of agreement that even with a down economy, there are jobs available but there are workforce gaps because they can't find people with the skills they need. … We want to make Minnesota the skilled workforce state."
Some other issues the Chamber of Commerce is speaking out on include health care; energy and the environment; and election reform. Pumarlo said the Chamber hopes to move primary elections back to June, instead of August.
"It's not a Republican, Democratic or independent issue," he said. "In the last primaries, less than one out of 10 Minnesotans came out to vote. The idea behind this is not only getting more people to come out to vote, but also a chance to develop better candidates. They battle through primaries, and when you have a newcomer against a longtime incumbent, they only have 10 weeks to get their name out there."


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Freely expressing gender identity is at center of Camp Born This Way; children, families build a supportive community.
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Shampoo Station Sink and Chair
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About this itemMatched sink and chair with bonus vacuum breaker - buy together for a great value!
This highly popular shampoo sink and chair combination provides all of the essentials that are needed in the salon business. Its an ideal chair for washing hair and the sink is perfectly sized to mount on any wall.
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Note: Most municipalities require vacuum breaker when hooking up to public water supply.
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Sherlock Holmes / *** (PG-13)Posted Thursday, December 31, 2009, at 10:54 AM
Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law are Holmes and Watson in the latest paranormal caper of "Sherlock Holmes".
In life there are some professions that require one to know a little about a great many things, or there are jobs that require expertise in a very confined field of knowledge with little awareness of anything else. In movies, the experts are generally experts on a great many things. Sherlock Holmes is known as the world's greatest detective, but in the new movie "Sherlock Holmes" he is oh so much more than just a mere detective.
In Guy Ritchie's new film, Sherlock Holmes is a detective, a chemist, a martial artist, a doctor, a master of disguise, a weapons specialist, an expert character profiler, despite his social shortcomings, and a romantic. To say this is not your grandfather's Sherlock Holmes would not only make me guilty of utilizing an overused aphorism, but it would also be a gross understatement. This is the superhero version of Sherlock Holmes.
Robert Downey, Jr. uses the same unbalanced charm that made his Tony Stark in "Iron Man" such a hit to make this new take on Holmes just as enjoyable. Downey is witty, humorous, and makes you want to hang out with him and learn something, even though it does appear he might have a slight odor to him. The only thing saving Holmes from a boorish downfall is his relationship with Dr. John Watson, the ballast to Holmes's wavering ship of human scrutiny and unchecked etiquette. As Watson, Jude Law ("Sleuth") brings stability to the entire film with his good looks and a grounding reason.
As the film opens, Holmes and Watson are on their "final case" together. Watson is engaged to be married to Mary Morstan (Kelly Reilly, "Me and Orson Welles"), who is glad to remove her man from the negative influence of Holmes. Holmes and Watson have tracked down Lord Blackmore after a string of ritual occult murders, only to see him reappear after he is put to death for the killings. While Blackmore uses fear to keep the local constabulary off its game, Holmes and Watson try to overlook the notion of the paranormal in cracking the Blackmore case. All the while Irene Adler, a former foe or lover of Holmes who is working for a mysterious benefactor, dogs them.
Mark Strong ("Body of Lies"), while certainly a passable heavy, makes little of the role of Blackmore. Of course, it is not Blackmore himself, but his scheme and his methods that are of interest Rachel McAdams makes a stronger--no pun intended--impression as the one person who seems capable of outsmarting Holmes. With her two roles this year--here and in the overlooked political thriller "State of Play"--McAdams continues to prove herself as an A-list actress, able to pick smart roles in strong movies.
The screenwriters do a good job of updating the Holmes mythology for a modern audience. Some might complain that the language and action of the film are a little too modern for its period setting, but the script keeps Holmes's analytical mind at the forefront of all its action with a plot that holds onto Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original ideals of facing paranormal developments from a scientific point of view. Even the fistfights are laid out in Holmes's mind before they happen. Despite the fact that Holmes continually is placed against adversaries that are physically superior to him, the technique used to show the audience how he will defeat his opponents before the action actually occurs helps to make it more plausible that he could defeat them.
Ritchie's kinetic direction works well with the modern retrofit. Ritchie has mostly tinkered in modern low level crime thrillers like "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and "RocknRolla". He hasn't fared well with critics, but has a flare for presenting the grimy underworld of the British crime scene. That gift serves him well with this period crime material. Holmes's London is not the clean, sharp skyscape of today with the likes of the Gherkin building, but a London when the streets were overcrowded, dirty with the grind of newborn industrialism, and filled with the stench of Thames's waterfront slaughterhouses. It isn't far removed from the cockney antiestablishment of Ritchie's modern crime studies.
"Sherlock Holmes" is not as groundbreaking as some of this year's more successful blockbuster fare, but it's more engaging than others. The cast does a wonderful job making the movie a lot of fun, while the filmmakers have put a great deal into its atmosphere. You'll have fun watching Holmes's latest adventure, and that's really what's important with a movie like this one. I'm already anxious to see another Holmes case, provided it's done with the wit and style of this one.
"Sherlock Holmes" is currently playing at Marshall Cinema and Galaxy Cinema in Sedalia.
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What a great list of movies. I have seen 15 of the 25 and they were all good. The 10 movies I hadn't seen I checked out on Rotton Tomatoes and they were all rated very highly. I have added these 10 to my Netflix quey. Thanks so much for the tips.
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I-Pads for Kindergarten?
There was a story the other day in the online version of the mothership that can be viewed here, and it looks like those forward thinking intellectuals at Allendale Columbia were using technology to educate kids. Specifically, the bought a bunch of I-Pads, and let the kids go wild with them, so the kids were tracing letters, learning music, and cracking the DNA code. I thought I saw some comments on the page, but if I did, they have been removed, and they were the usual troll comments about this town being snooty and misguided funds and all. And while the technological purchase may seem a bit extravagant – I-Pads start at $499 retail, and the article says the school got a discount, which in Apple terms means Steve Jobs probably knocked a buck or two off each, or provided a coupon for a discount on an I-Phone – who can really say?
Initial changes involving technology and education will always cause controversy. I'm sure in it's day, chalk was seen as a radical tool, and for some reason, the abacus never caught on here. I've seen computers introduced in school, and in the early days, it was just a massive device that weighed more than any Escalade out on the road at the moment, and one thing it did really well was calculate the distance of an artillery shell. You'd input the angle of the gun, fire, and it would tell you how far the shell traveled. Seriously.
Similarly, the introduction of calculators created quite a dilemma. The first calculator we saw at home came via work, a massive brick of a device that added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided. And back then, that was huge entertainment, watching all the big green numbers flip. When calculators became as cheap as they did, and kids brought them to school, well, math and science teachers suddenly took issue, whether or not to let kids use them, whether all kids had them, and how could kids screw up an equation with a device that provided the answer?
Getting mad at the technology can be an exercise in frustration. Is $500 bucks for an I-Pad too much to spend on a kid? Is it too much to spend if down the road his interest in numbers leads to a career in the sciences, and he discovers a technological breakthrough, invents a new device, cures cancer? Well, you say, that's far down the road, you can't argue like that. Well, let's look at another technological advance, say, a Cadillac Escalade. If you think I-Pads are too much for kindergarten, is the Caddy too much for say, grabbing a gallon of milk from Wegmans? A $90,000 vehicle that gets 13 mpg (with a tailwind, probably), to motor a few miles from home to grab some leche? Nothing against Cadillac, but that shows less of an interest in education than tossing an Apple to the kids.
Who knows, maybe 20 years from now the kids using I-Pads at Allendale right now will all turn out to be homeless waifs, wandering the 50 states and wondering where it all went wrong. As the sun sets in the desert, trains rolling in the background, an overeducated hobo lifts his index finger in front of his face, and says out loud, to no one in particular, "Man, I could have been somebody. What happened?" followed by "Does anybody have any Sterno? It's going to be cold tonight, and I have to heat up my can of beans."
Not a likely scenario, but perhaps the fear mongers and naysayers see it that way.
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Tri-Lakes schools closed today due to inclement weather
Setting Pole Dam will go up for sale
TUPPER LAKE – The town board here is preparing to seek bidders to buy Setting Pole Dam on the Raquette River.
Town Supervisor Roger Amell explained Thursday that the decision came after Dennis Ryan, vice president of ECOsponsible Inc., proposed a plan during Monday's meeting to replace the existing structure with a new hydroelectric dam. The Buffalo-based company has several other dams in operation in Western New York.
The minimum bid for the 7-acre parcel will be $400,000. The parcel, which was assessed at $436,000 last year, is currently tax-exempt. The request for bids could be issued as early as Monday.
"There's really no benefit to us keeping it," Amell said. "I'd rather we get on the tax rolls, create a few more jobs out of it and get some green power out of it."
At the meeting, Ryan told the board he thinks the dam could draw one megawatt of power, enough to supply 300 homes. Amell said there are other benefits to the project, including up-to-date technology and the removal of the town's liability for the structure.
If ECOsponsible builds the dam, it would be controlled electronically and have a system to monitor the water level.
"It's going to have a barometer on it, so if a big storm is coming it'll send an alert down to the master-panel box, and the person down there can open the dam before the storm happens using a computer," Amell said. "If an emergency happens, we can react much faster."
Amell also said the Setting Pole Dam has stress cracks along its surface, which might indicate a bigger problem. By replacing the dam, the town would be absolved of any associated liability.
"The problem is, until you have an engineer core-drill it, you don't know how deep those cracks go," Amell said. "It could cost $25,000 just to get an engineer in there to tell you what needs to be done on it."
Amell added that repairing the current dam could easily cost up to $1 million.
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The situation today has stunned evolutionists and inflicted severe panic on them. There is at least one specimen of every one of the living things in existence today, be it a wolf or a fish, a woodpecker or a flycatcher, a deer or a tortoise, in the millions of years of natural history. We can see from the fossil record that every one of these life forms were in existence millions of years ago. Some were living 350 million years ago, some 150 million years ago and others 60 million years ago. But not a single one has changed. Every one of the fossils discovered has exactly the same features as its present-day counterparts, and is no primitive. They are exactly the same as today's life forms. They have never changed, and never underwent evolution. They had exactly the same appearance then as they do now, and thus refute the theory of evolution.
The way that all of Europe has become acquainted with Atlas of Creation and the declaration of the fact that living creatures have remained unchanged for millions of years and that evolution is devoid of any scientific worth have led to a major change of belief among the people of Europe. Independent polls conducted by well-known publishing institutions in different European countries have revealed a major drop in the numbers of people believing in Darwinism and that belief in Allah now dominates Europe. >>
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Whenever God wills a thing to come about, it is enough for Him just to say, "Be!"
As verses of the Qur'an tell us:
His command when He desires a thing is just to say to it, "Be!" and it is. (Qur'an, 36: 82)
[God is] the Originator of the heavens and Earth.
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Atlantic Ghost Crabs (Ocypode quadrata) are small crabs (up to around 50 mm) with squarish sand-colored shells having margins that are finely beaded but toothless; the claws are white. The space between the eyes is much shorter than the eyestalks. These crabs dig burrows above the intertidal zone on ocean beaches from Delaware (U.S.A.) through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. They are occasionally found north to eastern Long Island and Rhode Island, but are uncommon north of Virginia. Atlantic Ghost Crabs are very active and can often be seen dashing into the retreating surf to wet their gills or to grab scraps of food ("Ocypode" means "swift-footed"), although they will drown if kept submerged. Young crabs burrow just above the intertidal zone, but adults dig their burrows higher up, sometimes even behind the forward dunes. Burrows have a single opening and descend 0.6 to 1.2 meters at a 45 degree angle. Although these crabs are often out and about during the day, they are most active at night. (Gosner 1978)


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Where creationists once promoted creationism as a religious imperative, supporters now package their beliefs as "better science." Since 1968, when the Supreme Court in Epperson v. Arkansas struck down an Arkansas law prohibiting the teaching of evolution on the grounds that the state cannot tailor its curriculum to a particular religious doctrine, creationists have adapted their methods and rhetoric to suit the climate. Epperson gave rise to "creation science" to evade charges of religious teaching, as well as to attempts to legislate "balanced treatment" of creationism in science classes.26 "Balanced treatment" too was struck down by the Supreme Court, in Edwards v. Aguillard. The Court ruled an "equal time" law unconstitutional on the grounds that it "advances a religious doctrine by requiring either the banishment of the theory of evolution from public school classrooms or the presentation of a religious viewpoint that rejects evolution in its entirety."27
However, the Court also stated that teaching "a variety of scientific theories about the origin of humankind to schoolchildren might be validly done with the clear secular intent of enhancing the effectiveness of science instruction," opening the door to the newest "intelligent design" argument.28
This most current and sophisticated permutation avoids all reference to God and creationism, seeking to justify creationism through science. However, intelligent design rests on the assumption of an unnamed "intelligent designer" who created the world and can be inferred through the complexity of living organisms. Because a scientific theory must be based on observation and experimentation in the natural world, and since the existence of an intelligent designer is a matter of faith that cannot be proven or disproven, "intelligent design" theory is by definition not a scientific theory.29 It is this language that Kansas State Board member Abrams attempted to inject into the standards.
Of Pandas and People is the signature textbook for "intelligent design" proponents and perhaps the most successful example of this strategy. Subject to fierce debate since publication in 1989 by the Foundation for Thought and Ethics in Richardson, Texas, Pandas argues that earth's complexity can only be explained by the existence of an "intelligent agent." According to Pandas' introduction,
"Walking along a beach you may be impressed by the regular patterns of ripples in the sand. The scene may be artistic but it isn't likely that you would look around for an artist who might be responsible. A natural cause, you rightly conclude. But if you come across words unmistakably reading 'John loves Mary' etched into the sand, you would know that no wave action was responsible for that. Nor would you be likely to imagine that, given enough time, grains of sand would spontaneously organize themselves so uniquely. Rather, you would look around for an intelligent cause: John…perhaps even Mary."30Pandas' assertions include the idea that messages encoded in DNA were the result of an intelligent cause and that an intelligent designer shaped clay into living organisms.31 Pandas also rejects the concept of homology (the study of structural similarities in different species to detect evidence of common ancestry). According to Pandas, body parts are pre-designed, interchangeable units that can be plugged into biological "circuits" (species): "Like a car engine, biological systems can only work after they have been assembled by someone who knows what the final result will be."32
Pandas' proponents deny that the text promotes creationism by another name. But a glowing book review by the creationist organization Answers in Genesis makes Pandas' intent plain: to inject "creationists' interpretations" into public schools:
"Intended for textbook use in public schools, this superbly written book has no Biblical content, yet contains creationists' interpretations for classic evidences usually found in standard textbooks supporting evolution. Junior high and above will appreciate easy-to-follow explanations/arguments for intelligent refutation of evolution theory. Beautifully illustrated, thoroughly researched!"33Further undermining proponents' claims is the candid statement of Pandas co-author Percival Davis, professor of life science at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, on his purpose in writing the text: "Of course my motives were religious. There's no question about it."34 The Southern Baptist Convention recently affirmed Davis' view, rejoicing that "intelligent design theory" is a "wedge" to get religion back into science, and then into the schools.35
An equally disturbing example of "religion-free" anti-evolutionary material aimed at public school students entitled Evolution: Fact or Belief? is also lauded by Answers in Genesis:
"A powerful, no-holds barred video presentation addressing misguided evolutionary interpretation of geology. Easy-to-absorb graphics for lasting impact. Perfect for "creation evangelism." No religious content; can be used in public schools."36No religious content, yet perfect for "creation evangelism" in public schools.
Of Pandas and People is currently being reviewed for inclusion in the curriculum in Pratt, Kansas. The proponent is a biologist for the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, who contends that the book is "pure science" and that those who oppose its use are using religion as a means of censorship. He is opposed by such members of the community as Rev. Larry A. Carver, vicar for Episcopal churches in Pratt and several other towns, who believes that most people would interpret Pandas' "intelligent designer" as God, which would promote religion in science class in violation of the First Amendment's separation of church and state.37 Pratt is not alone in this debate; the Foundation for Thought and Ethics claims that this book is being used in all 50 states and around the world.38


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Tore Eid, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine; Associate Director, Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Research Interests
Epilepsy; Immunohistochemistry; Neurosurgery; Mass Spectrometry; Medical Laboratory Science; Toxicology; Clinical Chemistry Tests
Research Organizations
Laboratory Medicine: Clinical Chemistry Laboratory
Cellular & Molecular Physiology
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Research Summary
My laboratory's research focuses on the discovery of novel diagnostics and therapeutics of epilepsy, one of the most common chronic neurological disorders in humans. Using state-of-the art techniques in chemical profiling by mass spectrometry, we are exploring alterations in the metabolome (entire profile of small molecule metabolites) in brain microdialysis fluids and blood samples from patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. Changes in specific metabolites detected during the initial profiling will be further validated as potential diagnostic markers and therapeutic targets for this disease. We are also investigating the role of glutamate, glutamine synthetase and astrocytes in the causation of epilepsy. Patients with drug-resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy have remarkably high levels of the excitatory and toxic amino acid glutamate in their brain. Recent studies by us have indicated that the glutamate overflow in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy may be due to a loss of the enzyme glutamine synthetase in astrocytes of the epileptic brain (Eid et al., Lancet 2004; 363: 28-37). An important goal of our research is to define the relationships among the loss of glutamine synthetase, brain glutamate concentrations, epileptic seizures and epilepsy-related brain damage. To this end we are using a variety of techniques such as simultaneous brain microdialysis and video-intracranial EEG monitoring, 13C- and 15N-isotope labeling studies combined with mass spectrometry and immunogold electron microscopy. We are also exploring the molecular-genetic and proteomic mechanism of the glutamine synthetase deficiency using chromatin immunoprecipitation, 2D gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry on epileptic brain tissue.
Specialized Terms: Epilepsy; Neuropathology; Electron microscopy; Immunohistochemistry; Mass spectrometry; Clinical chemistry and toxicology; Therapeutic drug monitoring
Extensive Research Description
- Characterizing the Metabolome of Epileptic Seizures
Selected Publications
- Eid, T., Ghosh, A., Wang, Y., Beckstrom, H., Zaveri, H.P., Lee, T.S., Lai, J.C., Malthankar-Phatak, G.H., and de Lanerolle, N.C. (2008). Recurrent seizures and brain pathology after inhibition of glutamine synthetase in the hippocampus in rats. Brain 131, 2061-2070.
- Eid T, Lee TS, Thomas MJ, Amiry-Moghaddam M, Bjornsen LP, Spencer DD, Agre P, Ottersen OP, de Lanerolle NC (Jan 2005) Loss of perivascular aquaporin 4 may underlie deficient water and K+ homeostasis in the human epileptogenic hippocampus., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America., 102(4)1193-8;
- Eid T, Thomas MJ, Spencer DD, Runden-Pran E, Lai JC, Malthankar GV, Kim JH, Danbolt NC, Ottersen OP, de Lanerolle NC, Loss of glutamine synthetase in the human epileptogenic hippocampus: possible mechanism for raised extracellular glutamate in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy, Lancet, 363(9402):28-37, Jan 2004;