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March 27. 2013 9:24PM
Megachurches grow to accommodate crowds
By DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
Pastor Joshua Gagnon stands outside the still-under-construction home of Next Level Church in Somersworth. (COURTESY)
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Growing up in Raymond, Josh Gagnon wasn't much of a church-goer. Today, at 33, he leads the Next Level Church, headquartered in Somersworth, as pastor to a congregation approaching 2,000 worshippers every weekend at four locations in three states.
The rapid growth of the church in just five years since its founding reflects the emergence of "megachurches" as a force to be reckoned with in Christianity.
Evangelists like Gagnon, along with pastors Bo Chancey at the Manchester Christian Church and Bruce Boria at Bethany Church in Greenland, are bringing the phenomenon to New England, where church attendance is the lowest in the nation.
Think rock concert, with live band, fog machine, light show, flat screens and simulcast of sermons at multiple locations, or taped for broadcast after the fact.
"If the church wants to reach people in 2013, we have to create an environment that works today," Gagnon says. "You can't change the message, but you can change the platter you deliver it on."
Many New Hampshire residents who've never attended Next Level have heard about the church's gas discount day in Epping on March 3, when 200 motorists filled up their tanks for $2.99 a gallon, or the helicopter Easter Egg drop for the children of the congregation, now in its fourth year. It's scheduled for Easter Sunday again this year in three locations. (See related story, Page A12).
The first Easter Egg drop in 2010, covered by CNN, was chaotic as 12,000 people showed up at the Rochester Fair Grounds. Since then, controls have been put in place to keep the event manageable.
Gagnon said the church set a $2,000 budget for the gas day subsidy, and each egg drop costs less than $1,000, thanks to donated equipment, time and sponsorship. Another "gas buy-down day" is scheduled to take place in Portland, Maine, on April 20.
"Is it about membership? Sure. But if no one came to church because of the event, we would still do it," Gagnon said. "The largest reason for these events is to show people in New England that the church wants to give back and love the community. Do we do it for media? No. Do we enjoy getting good media? Of course. And if anyone ever said the opposite, they'd be lying."
Not a likely candidate
Gagnon wasn't a likely candidate for the clergy. After graduating from Raymond High School in 1998, he attended Southern Vermont College in Bennington, majoring in pre-law and criminal justice. "I didn't go to church once in college," he recalls. "Although I believed in God, I didn't see the relevancy in my life."
After graduation, he was urged by his mother to join her at the Christian Worship Center in Barrington. "My mom told me there were some pretty girls at the services, so I went," he said. "And from that moment on, God started to show himself to me as more real than ever in my life, and I began to develop a relationship with him."
In 2006, he was speaking at a youth event in Rochester and was approached by a group of worshippers asking him at first to serve as pastor at their church in Wolfeboro, and later to start a new church. The group started with 12 worshippers at Gagnon's home, where he still worked for his father's drywall business. The group grew to 30 within the first year, and started renting a screening room at a local cinema for planning sessions and services.
Next Level Church was launched on Easter Sunday 2008 at the Dover High School auditorium with 180 to 200 worshippers, many of whom were recruited by a mailer Gagnon paid for himself. The following Easter, the congregation had grown to 400 and was meeting at Regal Cinemas in Newington.
In 2010, Next Level established a congregation in Portland, Maine; and in 2012 began services in Danvers, Mass. Inaugural services at the O'Neil Cinemas in Epping on March 10, two weeks after the gas buy-down, attracted an estimated 300 worshippers.
A 14,000-square-foot church is under construction on Route 108 in Somersworth that will be the first worship center owned by Next Level. The $2.2 million facility, expected to be ready for use by May, will include a 538-seat auditorium; a kids room with multimedia; a separate children's auditorium; bistro area in the foyer; wireless Internet, flat screens and speakers throughout the building, all managed from a state-of-the art control board.
"Our vision is to launch 20 locations by 2020 all throughout New England," Gagnon said. "We believe this Easter we will be over 2,000 (worshippers) on our five-year anniversary. We are expecting that when we open up this new facility, our attendance will triple if not quadruple in size."
Tremendous growth
The Manchester Christian Church began in 1961 as a storefront mission on North Elm Street, but really started to grow in 2010 when Pastor Bo Chancey arrived from Texas and began urging each member of the congregation to invite one new person to services each week.
"Our attendance has grown from an average of 1,400 to somewhere closer to 2,900 every weekend at three locations," said Barry Lewandowski, director of communications.
Manchester Christian looked like a traditional church until 2005, when a $2 million renovation project funded by the congregation created a 650-seat auditorium, a new cafe and the high-tech amenities associated with megachurch services.
In September 2011, the church celebrated its 50th anniversary with nearly 4,000 people at a worship service at the Fisher Cats stadium. It now hosts services at the church on 1308 Wellington Road; at the Bedford Community Church on Old Bedford Road; and at a new location in the Waumbec Mill in the Manchester Millyard.
Next Level, Bethany and Manchester Christian each have their own style, but share characteristics common to megachurches everywhere. "We try to do our best to partner and learn from each other," Lewandowski said.
"We've got a great relationship with Next Level, Bethany and Dialogue Church in downtown Manchester, which is an up-and-coming church that just moved into an old church building on Pine Street."
Gagnon described situations in which Next Level helped a traditional church in Concord make its mortgage payments, and a church in Berwick pay its heating bills. A strong balance sheet is another characteristic shared by many megachurches, given what Gagnon called a commitment to tithing, in which "people who believe in God give 10 percent of what they make."


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March 22. 2013 1:34PM
MANCHESTER -- A city man is charged with reckless operation after a state trooper clocked him at 102 mph on Interstate 293 and watched as the car almost hit another vehicle, state police said.
Trooper Bryan Trask of Troop B was paroling I-93 at 9:10 a.m. Thursday when he clocked a 2004 Mercury Sable at 102 mph in the posted 55 mph speed zone.
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BATON ROUGE — To hear the Chabert boys tell it, the folks over at the Louisiana Political Museum should have put someone else in their Hall of Fame in Winnfield.
BATON ROUGE — To hear the Chabert boys tell it, the folks over at the Louisiana Political Museum should have put someone else in their Hall of Fame in Winnfield.
The Winn Parish community of about 5,800 gave Louisiana three governors, most notably the brothers Long, including Huey the "Kingfish" and Earl, who once claimed that fancy suits would hang on him like "socks on a rooster."
The third was O.K. Allen, who Earl said was so dedicated to filling in for the Kingfish that he once signed a leaf that blew in through an open window — "(Allen) thought Huey must have sent it, so he signed it," he said famously.
Their legacies are fixtures in the museum, which also hosts a Hall of Fame that has welcomed past inductees who include U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, former Gov. Mike Foster, former Congressman Billy Tauzin of Chackbay and former state House Speaker Hunt Downer of Houma.
But now they are joined by the late state Sen. Leonard J. Chabert, who served in the upper chamber from 1980 until his death in 1991, and his sons who followed in the same seat, former Sen. Marty J. Chabert, 1992 to 1996, and current Sen. Norby Chabert, elected in a 2009 special election and unopposed two years later.
The three men are the first group ever to be inducted as a family into the political Hall of Fame, following a ceremony two weeks ago. That is when they were given the "Louisiana Political Family of Officeholders Award."
Norby Chabert said he and his brother were honored to be included but realized they were not unique in terms of their service lineage.
After consulting with Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne, a former state senator and noted history buff, he said, it became clear that fathers, sons and brothers had filled the same seats before in the Legislature and even served concurrently.
So it is actually the family matriarch, Viona Lapeyrouse Chabert of Chauvin, who raised her family on the banks of Bayou Petite Caillou, who deserves the asterisk in the history books.
"She is the only woman ever to be married to a sitting senator and have two sons serve in the same seat," said Norby Chabert. "Not too bad for the daughter of a trapper from down the bayou."
While the ceremony focused on the time all three men spent in the Senate, they all have their own histories that led to the state Capitol, and grew after they left, as is the case with the oldest brother.
Their father, Leonard J. Chabert, served as a state representative from 1972 to 1980 and became close political ally to former Gov. Edwin Edwards, godfather to Norby Chabert.
Marty J. Chabert, the eldest of the brothers, ran unsuccessfully for a House seat before moving to the Senate, served in Edwards' administration in public works and was a member of the LSU Board of Supervisors.
Norby Chabert operated a government-relations firm prior to being elected, advising both Republicans and Democrats on the federal, state and local levels and was a marketing specialist for Nicholls State University.
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He currently serves as vice chairman of the influential Senate Finance Committee, which is charged with crafting the budget in the upper chamber.
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-- Vidalia Mayor Hyram Copeland.
-- Bossier City Mayor George Dement.
-- Former Grant Parish Sheriff Pop Hataway.
-- Shreveport political activist Angelo Roppolo.
-- Consultant Raymond Strother, who is often credited with creating political consulting.
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Londonderry girl injured in dog attackBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
April 01. 2013 10:36AM
LONDONDERRY - A six-year-old Londonderry girl is being treated for facial injuries after being bitten by a neighbor's dog on Easter night.
Local police and fire officials were called to the Winterwood Drive neighborhood just after 9 p.m., where a resident reported his daughter had been bitten by his neighbor's dog, a pit bull mix, earlier that evening.
According to Londonderry Police Lt. Tim Jones, the dog was taken into quarantine by police after the incident when the owners were unable to produce vaccination records. Jones said the animal's owners were being cooperative and claimed their dog was current on its rabies vaccine.
"They're trying to locate the paperwork right now," he said Monday morning. No charges have been filed against the owners.
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Alleged Craigslist thieves face felony chargesBy LARISSA MULKERN
Special to the Union Leader
March 07. 2013 12:47AM
OSSIPEE - Three men who allegedly posted items they intended to steal on Craigslist have been indicted on felony theft charges.
The suspects, Adam Quinney, 22, of Weare, Daniel Chesley, 23, of Conway, and Allen Downs, 27, of Weare were arrested in November following a police investigation and surveillance at a storage facility on Route 25/Whittier Highway in Moultonborough.
According to the indictments, Quinney, Chesley and Downs are charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of theft by unauthorized taking, and one count of attempted theft by unauthorized taking, all felony level offenses.
The trio allegedly created an ad they posted on Craigslist, advertising a tractor and truck bed free for the taking at a location on Whittier Highway. They then arrived at the location and loaded the tractor onto a trailer. They also allegedly stole tools, Co2 tanks, copper and brass pipes, and electric motors with a total value of more than $1,500.
In a prior interview, Moultonborough Police Department Sgt. Peter Beebe said the arrests resulted from investigations into two separate thefts from the same storage area in late October, early November. He said they first posted the ad for the tractor on Craigslist then came and took the tractor. The ad was posted ostensibly to create an alibi, said Beebe.
When the men allegedly returned to the storage area on Friday, police had set up surveillance on the property and caught the men stealing a truck bed and other items. The tractor was recovered at a Tamworth salvage yard where it had been sold for scrap.
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Here's a question that puzzles me a little. Is it logically necessary for consciousness to be immaterial in order for rebirth to take place?Alex123 wrote: If consciousness is immaterial and has no place..
Couldn't there be the possibility that existence (including formation of the nama-rupa complex and the associated sense of Self) just recurs for some reason?
Viññāṇa normally arises in conglomeration with the other aggregates. The only exception I'm aware of is the "formless realms", but these are a somewhat peripheral area in Buddhism and could well be a holdover from some previous model.
Time loops are a popular subject in sci-fi. These don't involve a floaty immaterial consciousness, just some sort of spatial/temporal oddity.


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HOOKSETT -- A Goffstown man trying to purchase a firearm at Shooters Outpost was arrested Saturday after his background check revealed an outstanding bench warrant for failure to appear.
Police said that Michael Deasy, 41, was arrested at the store. He was released on $50 cash bail and he is scheduled to be arraigned at Concord District Court on Jan. 13, 2014.
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The opportunity to participate in the National Rural Electric Youth Tour in Washington D.C. and the Cooperative Youth Leadership Camp in Steamboat Springs was open to all current high school juniors who receive their electric power from Empire Electric Association, Inc.
Students are required to complete an application and write a promotional paragraph to share how they could benefit from the leadership trips. A creative element is welcome and can be expanded to include a PowerPoint, a CD, a DVD, a notebook or an art project.
"The youth leadership trips are a tremendous opportunity for our area juniors," said Neal Stephens, EEA General Manager in a written news release from EEA. "It's essential that our next generation gain an understanding about energy needs and policy development at the state and federal levels. We are delighted that we can help further that education."
Area high school student Tyler Daniel (Montezuma-Cortez) was selected to represent EEA as part of the Washington D.C. tour scheduled for June 13-20. Tyler is an aspiring engineer and the creative portion of his application included a video explaining how power lines are placed, how electricity arrives at his home, and how it works within the home.
Other area high school students Alina Umberger (Dolores), Mikkel Waltman (Montezuma-Cortez), Corissa Guynes (Dolores County), and Rachel Allen (Mancos) were selected to attend the Colorado Electric Educational Institute's Youth Leadership Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colo. on July 14-19. No applications were received from Monticello, Utah this year.
Alina Umberger, a junior at Dolores High School, participates in three sports, student government, and keeps her grades at honor level. She introduced a "No Make-up Monday" to help boost self-esteem and added many volunteer activities to her schedule this year, including testing river water for the River Watch Water Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
Montezuma-Cortez High School junior, Mikkel Waltman, created a scrapbook called 'life is a journey' filled with her interests and accomplishments. Leadership, sports, good grades and good deeds are a trend with Mikkel, but what she really likes are outdoor activities like camping, hiking and rock climbing.
Corissa Guynes, Dolores County High School, is interested in both engineering and architecture as career possibilities. She is actively involved in school activities through sports, leadership, National Honor Society, and other outreach programs. Corissa is looking forward to gaining valuable information and skills at leadership camp that she hopes to share with others.
Rachel Allen, a Mancos High School junior, participates in Leadership Montezuma, National Honor Society, and Student Council. Her interest in leadership extends into her future goal of becoming a nurse. As Rachel points out, "Strong leadership skills are necessary in order to educate a patient on how to heal. They need to trust you and through strong leadership, you gain that trust."
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April 29. 2013 2:18PM
Man sought in afternoon gunfire in Manchester
By PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER - Police are searching for a man wanted for firing a gun three to four times Sunday afternoon near Wilson and Hanover streets near where a rival was working on his car.
Jesus Luis Rodriguez, 23, whose last known address is 144 Lake Ave., is wanted on warrants charging him with reckless conduct and criminal threatening.
The shots were fired about 2 p.m. Several witnesses told investigators the gunfire came from a silver SUV, possibly a Dodge Durango, with New Hampshire plates and occupied by two men described as Hispanic.
Witnesses said the driver fired several shots from the SUV before it headed north on Wilson Street. A 25-year-old Wilson Street resident told police he knows Rodriguez and is in an ongoing dispute with him over a woman. He said Sunday afternoon he was working on his car when Rodriguez, driving an SUV, stopped at the end of his driveway. Rodriguez had a gun in his hand and was talking to his passenger. Then he called out to the Wilson Street man, told him how easy it was to find him and said he could kill him right then and there, according to police.
The Wilson Street man laughed off the comment and continued to work on his car, in an attempt to avoid confrontation, when he suddenly heard several gunshots, and the SUV sped away. He told police that was not the first time Rodriguez threatened him with a gun.
On April 19 about 4:45 p.m., the man said he accidentally ran into Rodriguez at the MB Barber Shop, 416 Belmont St. Rodriguez was seated in a chair and he allegedly lifted his shirt to reveal a handgun tucked into his waistband and said, "This is for you."
Police said the 25-year-old left the barber shop, and there was no other interaction between the two men that day.
Police obtained warrants for Rodriguez's arrest for reckless conduct, in connection with the gunfire, and criminal threatening, in connection with the barber shop incident.
Authorities warn people not to approach Rodriguez, who is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with information on Rodriguez's location is asked to call police at at 668-8711. Anonymous tips for cash rewards also may be made through Manchester Crimeline at 624-4040 or online at manchestercrimeline.org.


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Manchester garage asks for computer system to track repairsBy BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 15. 2013 10:21PM
MANCHESTER — Managers at the city's new centralized vehicle repair operation, touted as a way to save money on maintenance of city-owned vehicles, want the Board of Mayor and Aldermen to authorize borrowing close to $250,000 to help pay for a computer system to keep track of work done at the new Hayward Street shop.
The aldermen's Committee on Administration and Information Systems will consider the proposal today; it was recommended in the study that led to the creation of the Central Fleet Management Department.
The $292,000 cost would be paid through $50,000 held in reserve for fleet management computer upgrades and a bond issue of about $242,000 for the remainder.
"It's basically a fleet-compatible system that allows us to keep track of everything that happens with a vehicle," said Wesley Anderson, director of the new department. "You have the basic capacity now to keep track of what you are spending, but it really doesn't have the capability to help you manage the fleet."Late in the 2012-13 fiscal year, aldermen approved spending $200,000 to maintain several pieces of equipment, including repairs to fire trucks.
"It's really two different things." Anderson said. "What the aldermen did for me last year is stuff I need to fix vehicles directly, parts and tires, for example. Fleet management (software) is more like an investment for the future; it helps you get a department to be more efficient."
The city was also hit with a decision from the state labor board upholding a grievance filed by the Teamsters Union on behalf of police mechanics.
That issue is being taken up as part of negotiations on a new contract.
The software program, called Asset Fast, can help city managers decide the best time to trade in individual vehicles in the 461-vehicle fleet — based on repair history and current condition.
Anderson said it can also help the city rotate equipment to prevent some vehicles getting more wear and tear than others.
The program would also track spending on each vehicle.
"I could look at, say, all my dump trucks that are in the same year of purchase...," he said. If more was being spent on a particular truck, "it would give a focus on why — is it an operator issue, do we have a lemon, is it the route that it's on?"
Mechanics will also be able to access the complete history of a car or truck from a repair bay.
Central Fleet Management expanded to service Manchester Water Works vehicles earlier this year. Further expansion to care for the Manchester airport's fleet is unlikely, Anderson said, because few airport vehicles are used off the site. Many are one-of-a-kind vehicles for specialized use, he said.
If recommended by the committee, the bond issue would face a vote by the full Board of Aldermen.
The Water Department would be responsible for about $40,000 of the total.


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Victim killed in single-vehicle accident west of New Cuyama
A Santa Maria man was killed in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 166 west of New Cuyama Thursday night.
The man, a 23-year-old whose identity has not been released yet, was travelling westbound on the highway east of Pine Canyon when his Volkswagen drifted to the right while he was negotiating a curve, a California Highway Patrol news release said.
The driver turned back to the left and lost control of the vehicle, which then swerved back across the eastbound lane and then off the roadway and up an embankment, overturning and coming to rest on its right side.
The driver was not wearing a seatbelt and was fatally injured.
The crash occurred about 9:50 p.m. and the weather was cold and dry, the CHP said.
Pine Canyon is located just east of Tepusquet Road and just west of the U.S. Forest Service fire station.


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An officer spoke with a woman regarding a lost WIC voucher book. She told the officer that her husband had brought home the food voucher book three days prior and when they were going to use it at the grocery store, she could not find the book anywhere. She stated that she had looked for it everywhere, and that she had a young son who may have thrown it in the trash, and that they had checked the trash, but it had been collected that morning. The woman had contacted the WIC center and was told she needed a police report in order to get a new voucher book.
An officer was dispatched to the fruit stand in the parking lot of Front Row Seat to meet with a woman in reference to a stolen wallet. The woman stated that she had had her wallet in the pocket of her coat the day before, and put the coat in the front seat of her flatbed truck. During the evening, she had gotten some cash from the wallet and walked to City Market to buy some coffee and a hat. She was only gone a few minutes, and had a trusted friend, who would not have taken the wallet, watching the stand while she was gone. Inside the wallet when it was stolen was $2,292 cash as well as her ID, a debit card, medical insurance and Medicare cards, and a food stamp card. She had noticed the wallet was gone from her coat pocket when she got home around 9 p.m. They went back and checked the area and asked at City Market, but no one had turned in a wallet.
An officer was contacted at the police department by a man who wanted to report that his wife, who he is separated from, took money from his bank account. He stated that it was a joint account, but he was trying to have her removed from the account. The officer contacted the mans wife to ask her about the money. She told him that it was a joint account and the money she had taken belonged to her. She went on to say that on this same morning her husband had been calling and texting her, and though he did not leave a voicemail, the text messages were threatening in nature and she was very concerned about them. The officer learned that the husband had an active criminal restraining order protecting the wife from him, and was also on probation. The officer tried to contact the husband several times to discuss with him the phone calls and text messages to his wife, but was unsuccessful in talking to him or leaving a message due to the mans voicemail not being set up. The wife provided her phone with a number of text messages from the same phone number the officer had been trying to reach the husband at. The text messages were very threatening and profane, and in them he also said that he was going to go get the couples child. There were other missed calls on the phone spaced a few minutes apart. A warrant was sought for the husbands arrest for violating a criminal restraining order.
Two officers were dispatched to a local business for a call of a man threatening the manager with a gun. Officers met with the manager who told them that the incident had happened a few minutes earlier and that he believed that the man was having a bad day and did not know why he would have threatened him. He did not know the man personally, but stated that he was a regular customer. The man had driven his vehicle in to have it serviced, and became impatient with the line in front of him, and began threatening the business manager. At that point, the man and the manager got into a verbal altercation. The man became very agitated and grabbed his handgun, which was on the back seat of his vehicle, and placed it on the dashboard. The manager told the man not to pull a gun on him unless he was going to use it, and the man said that if he was going to use it, he would shoot the reporting party in the head. The manager stated that he felt his personal safety had been threatened. He did not want to press charges, but did want the man served with a trespass notice. The subject was located at another business, and officers spoke with him. He admitted keeping a handgun in his vehicle for his protection, but denied threatening the manager with a gun. He also admitted to grabbing the gun from the back seat and placing it on the dashboard during the verbal altercation. He was served with a trespass notice barring him indefinitely from going back to the business. The man stated that he did not want to go back there anyway. The manager was informed that the man was banned from the establishment and was told to call police if the man returned there.
Several officers were dispatched to a local bar in reference to a fight in progress on the patio involving multiple subjects. On arrival they located two individuals staggering across the lawn from the front door, and they were advised to stop. One subject complied, but the other dropped to one knee and began fumbling at his left ankle. Officers yelled at him several times to show them his hands, but he would not. Fearing that the subject was reaching for a possible weapon, an officer sprinted at the man and knocked him onto his back, and he was pinned facedown. The subject continued to struggle and another officer assisted in getting him handcuffed. Both subjects had been involved in the fight, and both had injuries and appeared to be very intoxicated. The man who had cooperated with officers began laughing loudly and stated, We kicked their (expletive), yeah and he was handcuffed as well. It was learned that the other subject that had to be knocked down had assaulted a person in the bar and the subject they had just handcuffed had been involved in the fight on the patio and had held the doors shut to prevent other bar patrons from helping the bartender, who was on the patio attempting to break up the fight. Both men were charged with disorderly conduct, and one was additionally charged with 3rd degree assault, and kept proclaiming that he wanted a lawyer. The other subject would only state, This is bull (expletive). A short time later, officers learned of another fight in progress at a motel, and found that a man taken into custody there had also been involved in the previous fight and had assaulted a bar customer. He received the same charges and claimed that he had only been at the bar to pick up other parties there.


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April 18. 2013 7:44AM
Hudson man injured in ATV crash
HUDSON - An ATV operator was injured Wednesday night when he drove off an embankment and crashed into a propane tank on Christine Drive.
Jonathan Gray, 19, of Hudson, was taken to Southern New Hampshire Regional Medical Center for treatment of injuries police describe as not life-threatening. Gray was not wearing a helmet, police said in a news release detailing the incident.
Gray crashed the ATV about 8:10 p.m. Police said Officer Brian Morgan was parked on Robinson Road, near Christine Drive, when an ATV drove by him at a high rate of speed heading west on Robinson Road.
Police said Morgan activated his blue lights and went after the ATV that took a left off the road. Morgan drove to Christine Drive to try to locate the ATV and several minutes later, found an injured Gray on the ground on Christine Drive. Police said Gray drove off an embankment behind 3 Christine Drive and crashed into a propane tank.
Gray was arrested for disobeying a police officer, reckless driving and operating an unregistered motor vehicle. Hudson firefighters treated Gray at the scene prior to taking him to the hospital.
Firefighters also turned off the propane tank because of a leak.
What's next:
Gray is free on $2,000 personal recognizance bail. He is to be arraigned on the charges May 2 in 9th Circuit Court, Nashua District Division.


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June 24. 2013 6:50PM
Snowden's run: Obama the dupe
On Sunday, fugitive leaker of classified U.S. documents Edward Snowden fled Hong Kong for Moscow. So much for President Obama's plans to earn the cooperation of hostile nations by smiling at them and respecting their world views.
In 2009, President Obama gave a speech in Moscow in which he "reset" our relationship with Russia and explained his strategic view of international affairs. "There is the 20th-century view that the United States and Russia are destined to be antagonists, and that a strong Russia or a strong America can only assert themselves in opposition to one another," he said. "And there is a 19th-century view that we are destined to vie for spheres of influence, and that great powers must forge competing blocs to balance one another." Those old views must give way to his modern one: "
In 2009, a great power does not show strength by dominating or demonizing other countries."
Vladimir Putin is still laughing at that, and now he's doing it with Edward Snowden at his side.
Obama never accepted that China, Russia, Iran and North Korea were malefactors. He thought they antagonized us because we antagonized them first. They have taken advantage of this stupendous naivete since Day 1. Now China has exported our most-wanted leaker to Russia. Obama says through a spokesman this will "damage" our relationship with China. Like they care. The President just got rolled, again, by foreign leaders who understand the Machiavellian nature of international relations. We have four more years of these humiliations to endure.


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A portion of the proceeds for downtown tours go to help fund the work of the non-profit Knoxville History Project. Many stories are based on the books and stories of award-winning journalist and writer Jack Neely. Knoxville Walking Tours opens a window to Knoxville's varied past and leads you on a journey through both hard times and high times of a city growing through over two centuries of history.Your Guide
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Now that the closed Alpha for is wrapped up and the team over at DICE has outlined their plans for changes to the game before launch, it's time to reflect on some of the aspects we did learn about the upcoming FPS.
From the weapons, to the vehicles - even the gameplay features themselves; here's a general overview for what you may have missed during this exclusive closed Alpha.
"Before we get into the gameplay side of the Closed Alpha," DICE began in their most recent blog post, "we want to stress that the Alpha was a tiny sliver of a complete package – featuring only a sub-set of vehicles and weapons that the final game will contain."
is the most immersiveentry in the franchise yet and because of that, DICE has made some pretty interested changes to how the overall mechanics work. One of those features altered is how the Revives work in-game, which DICE explains as follows:
"After the Alpha, we will be adjusting both the Medic revive and the buddy revive. It will overall feel less clunky and we'll also fix some delays – such as when you were done reviving and couldn't move for a full second. We've already made the buddy revive around 2.5 seconds faster and we will also assess if we need to adjust the Medic revive accordingly. We're also aware that it could sometimes take quite a while before a player could initiate a revive and that the revive icon tended to be delayed. We are actively working on the issue."
The ammunition in-game has also been altered to give a more realistic approach to a limited amount of bullets during deployment. Because of the overall reaction to the war of attrition, DICE said that they will "tweak these numbers slightly for some weapons to get an optimal balance. There are other factors that affect ammo availability, too. For instance, the possibility of looting dropped ammo from dead players benefits certain classes more than others, and we'll need to adjust the balance accordingly."
During the closed Alpha, players had the opportunity to call in two of the special squad reinforcements introduced into the game: The Churchill Crocodile Tank and the V-1 Rocket. Though they will be tweaked to provide a more progressive gameplay experience instead of a flat line request, overall these were met with pretty solid praise. For those that were as annoyed with the V-1 Rocket as I was, however, don't worry - those are being changed as we speak.
As far as Time to Kill goes:
"When it comes to the Time to Kill, or TTK, we've seen some polarizing feedback where some players felt they were being killed very fast when encountering enemies, while others felt the TTK was just right. This is something we will keep tweaking.
It's worth mentioning that TTK is not just determined by how powerful weapons are. For instance, it's also related to how fast the game lets you react to being fired at. We're looking at how fast can you assess a threat and understand from where the fire is coming. Giving you good communication on enemy fire will let you fight back and survive longer. We're also fine-tuning the amount of camera shake that occurs when you're hit. If these adjustments aren't enough, we'll look at tweaking the damage of weapons.
Other factors affecting TTK (or "Time to Death" in this case) include what game mode you're in. If you're defending a sector in Breakthrough, you'll often experience fire from one direction. Defending the same area in Conquest will present threats from different directions, but on the other hand, this is a mode where you are less likely to run into a higher number of people attacking you simultaneously. The visibility of other players, the new spotting system, and other variables will all need to be tweaked to get a TTK that we and the community are happy with. Finally, as a general tip: observing more, choosing your engagements, and playing as a squad will always keep you alive longer!"
The maps themselves will be evolving before launch as well, making it easier to engage with enemies and clear and objective. But to be the MVPof the Objective playstyle, you're going to need some cool gear. That's where the new weapons and vehicles come into play.
According to DICE:
"A plethora of weapons and gadgets will be tested in the Closed Alpha, a complete list of which you'll find at the bottom of this article. Alpha players using this hardware will be able to take out enemies from afar with the Kar98k bolt-action rifle, use Dynamite to demolish enemy vehicles, or rack up kills using smoke and fire and grenades – and much more. No matter the gun you choose inyou'll notice that we've removed the random bullet deviation from earlier games. Basically, this means you'll hit where you aim (excluding natural bullet drop, of course).
Reinforcements are extra powerful attacks that can be called in by the squad leader, after the squad has earned enough squad points, which are earned by performing well on the battlefield. In the Closed Alpha, there are two types of reinforcements. Players will be able to unleash the mighty V1 Rocket, the blast of which can be devastating. There's also the Churchill Crocodile Tank, a flame-throwing beast equipped with a main gun and a coaxial machine gun."
What's an FPS without classes? "Inthe new Combat Roles will let you tailor your play style even further. These can be described as specialized "sub-classes" to the Assault, Support, Medic, and Scout. The Closed Alpha will contain five of these Combat Roles. For instance, the Field Surgeon Combat Role is particularly fitting for Medics extra keen on keeping teammates alive, with its Syringe and Medical Crate. Should you play as a Machine Gunner – a Combat Role for the Support class – you'll be equipped with an MG34 and the Ammo Crate and Flare Gun gadgets."
The progression and missions in-game have also seen a pretty heavy revamp, though changes are also being made following closed Alpha feedback. "There are also some in-game challenges set up for testing in the Closed Alpha: one Special Assignment and several Daily Orders. Challenging your weapon, vehicle, and other skills, the Special Assignment is made up of various sub-tasks. Complete them, and you'll earn aDog Tag, which will be added to your profile if you buy the full game once it's released. Activate the Special Assignment in the "ASSIGNMENTS" tab in the main menu. Daily Orders are mini-challenges that will be rotated, and can, for instance, challenge you to damage enemy vehicles or kill enemies of a certain class."
For the full list of which regions will be getting what items during the next Alpha testing period, you can check out the full blog post from DICE
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Conjunctions are the words that join sentences, phrases, and other words together. Conjunctions are divided into several categories, all of which follow different rules. We will discuss coordinating conjunctions, adverbial conjunctions, and correlative conjunctions.
The most common conjunctions are and , or , and but . These are all coordinating conjunctions .Coordinating conjunctionsare conjunctions that join, or coordinate, two or moreequivalentitems (such as words, phrases, or sentences). The mnemonic acronym FANBOYS can be used to remember the most common coordinating conjunctions: for , and , nor , but , or , yet , and so .coordinating conjunctions
Here are some examples of these used in sentences:
Are the correct coordinating conjunctions being used in each of the following sentences? Explain your reasoning why or why not:
As you can see from the examples above, a comma only appears before these conjunctions sometimes. So how can you tell if you need a comma or not? There are threegeneral rules to help you decide.
Let's look back at one of our example sentences:
The current from the storage batteries can power lights, but the current for appliances must be modified within an inverter.
There are two complete ideas in this sentence. A complete idea has both asubject(a noun or pronoun) and a verb. The subjects have been italicized, and the verbs bolded:can power must be modified
Because each of these ideas couldstand alone as a sentence, the coordinating conjunction that joins them must be preceded by a comma. Otherwise you'll have a run-on sentence.
So what if there's only one complete idea, but two subjects or two verbs?
So what do you do if there are three or more items?
As you can see in the examples above, there is a comma after each item, including the item just prior to the conjunction. There is a little bit of contention about this, but overall, most styles prefer to keep the additional comma (also called the serial comma). We discuss the serial commain more depthin
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Many students are taught—and some styleguides maintain—that English sentences should not start with coordinating conjunctions.
This video shows that this ideais not actually a rule. And it provides some background for whyso many people may have adopted this writing convention:
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Lyn, I'm just a passer-by who was being discussed so I decided to chime in too. Your entire problem that I can see with the limited info you gave is that you are severely b12 deficient. The problem comes down to "Neo – B12 (Hydroxocobalamin " which is pseudo b12. I refuse to call hydroxcbl "b12" since it only has 1% the effectiveness of real b12 (mb12 and adb12). As "b12" it is almost worthless. It will keep MCV down usually but does little else. You could be essentially fully recovered in a year on the right program. To heal the damage you have you will need ALL the usual basic vitamins and minerals; a,b-complex, C, D, E, zinc, magnesium, omega3 oils and a 5 star mb12, adb12, Metafolin and when those startfull blown healing (3 days) probably 2000-3000mg of potassium and increased metafolin titrated to full effectiveness. Good luck. Remember REAL b12s, not pseudo b12 in the form of inactive cobalamins. Everybody can develop b12 deficiencies while taking hydroxcbl and/or cyanocbl.
Thanks Freddd – I have, today, found a GP who may be able to assist me so will take your information to them. I am wishing to turn my life around, you may have just given me a starting point.
A general comment on serm level with mb12 and adb12. Generally body healing is best accomplished with levels around 20,000pg/ml peak or more (1x1000mcg Enzymatic Therapy or Jarrow for 45-120 minutes under lip up to 15-20mg daily of Jarrow 5mg). For CNS damage a constant average serum level of around 200,000pg/ml is often needed to reverse subacute combined degeneration and other CNS damage. This is achieved with 3x10mg SC injections daily. However, these levels are titrated to by effects. A trial of 50mg of Jarrow for 120-180min will demonstrate what such injections can do.
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Hi Freddd –
Please contact me via my website contact form. Use the link above. I want to respect Chris's website.
Thank you Dr Lynch
Clive, 1000mcg of a 5 star methylb12 (Jarrow, Enzymatic Therapy) is so far superior to ANY number of any dose hydroxcbl that you will be pleased. However, it is more than just b12 you need. In order to heal neurology with some reliability and possibilty of completeness you need basically a good b-complex, a,d,e,c, magnesium and calcium (normal amounts), 5 star methylb12, adb12, Metafolin, zinc (about 50mg daily), omega3 oils, l-carnitine fumarate as a minimum.. hen abouyt 90% of people will have rapidly decreasing potassium typically 3 days after healing starts (3 days after starting) requiring approximately 2000mg-3000mg (titrate to effect) of potassium daily in divided doses. Also depending upon your folate polymorphisms somewhere between 2.4mg and 15mg of Metafolin. As some people have very extreme responses to mb12, adb12, l-carnitine fumarate as they are depsarately deficient, they need to be titrated, with some people starting as low as 50mcg a day. Start the basics with mb12. A quarter of a 1mg tablet under the lip for an hour will tell you what your response is going to be to mb12. Many start at 1mg and some people think that the lighting up of the nervous system is terribly unpleasant. When the nerves heal first all the damage becomes very obvious with a strong increase in the perception of the symptoms and damage. Then often shootng pains then painful buzzing/tingling slowly fading to more common moderate tingling fading to hypersensitvity then finally to normal sensation. it tends to walk through the symnptoms backwards from the ordeer of onset. Feeling suddenly sick on the 3rd day approxximately is low potassium, sudden muscle spasms while resting, heart palpitations, mood changes, personality changes, malaise etc are usually all potassium.. Induced folate deficieciency/insufficincy results in peeling fingertips and around nails, IBS, and a host of other symptoms. Increase metafolin as folic and/or folinic acid and/or green drinks or veggie folate can also block metafolin,.
Adb12 can cause extreme reaction depending upon which deficiencies one has and so can l-carnitine fumarate. Those who find either of these two intolerable and anxiety provoking have a specific set of symptoms and damages and need a slow titration of these to have a chance to heal the problem.
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It ought to go without saying that the public has a general right to know the identities of people arrested by the federal governmemt, except in cases when the government can prove in court that there is a pressing national security justification for keeping the names secret. Instead, the government can make secret arrests as a matter of general policy.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did exactly that in New Hampshire in 2011. The agency, a part of the Department of Homeland Security, arrested six people it said were convicted criminal aliens. It issued a press release boasting of the arrests. But it refused to release the names.
This newspaper sued to get the names, and on April 18 a federal judge ruled that the government did not have to release them. That is disappointing and disconcerting.
"I believe secret arrests to be dangerously un-American," our attorney, Gregory Sullivan said in an email after the decision. "Unfortunately, all of the federal judges who have dealt with arrests by ICE do not share this opinion."
Dangerously un-American is right. When the government can use arrests as political propaganda and withhold the names of those arrested, preventing the people from scrutinizing the propaganda, an important check on the power of the state has been erased.


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Bug's Life, A (US - BD)
Gabe takes a look back at Pixar's near folly from 1998, in perfect 1080p glory...
Thank god for Cars. Without that one definitive failure I'd still have to refer to A Bug's Life as my least favourite Pixar film when I make depressingly obsessive compulsive lists. Whew, dodged a bullet on that one. A Bug's Life is the studio's second weakest film, but it's still a good time at the movies, and not the mind numbing throw-away most DreamWorks and Fox animated films are. Looking back on the film after nearly a decade away I continue to find myself stuck in the middle, but unlike the relative flop that was Cars, A Bug's Life cannot be called boring by anyone outside of the most intellectually jaded people in the world.
Pixar movies are plenty referential, but Bug's Life is the only direct adaptation in their collection. It's a mixed adaptation, but it's still pretty overtly adapted from elements of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Aesop's 'The Ant and the Grasshopper' fable. It's one of the more clever adaptations of the two oft-adapted properties, but when compared to the studio's other wildly original films (arguably The Incredibles owes more than a referential credit to the Watchmen and the Fantastic Four) even clever adaptation seems beneath expectations. Again, this complaint, or rather, 'expression of disappointment' is related to the expectations the studio has built for themselves over the years, so it rings a little hallow.
The two things that surprise me with this revisit are how great the action is and how unsuccessful most of the comedy is. There are far too many stupid bodily function jokes, and the characters are broad even by animation standards. The humour is relatively charming despite itself, but it's definitely an off game for the studio. But the action is massive (relatively speaking I suppose, according to scale), and still pretty high on the studio's achievement list, even if it doesn't match the unmatchable The Incredibles. The film's art design and direction also stands up over my memory's expectations, utilizing some of the most abstract lighting schemes in the studio's history.
I still remember when A Bug's Life made its DVD debut. It was the first Pixar movie on disc, it was the first ever direct digital transfer, it was specially formatted for both 2.35:1 widescreen and full frame, it came with every new iMac to show off screen capabilities, and it got regular rotation at every television selling store in America. I remember seeing it on the first plasma screens. What a difference eleven years makes.
Bug's Life is old enough that it shows its age in its fine details. These days the animators can make everything look photo-realistic if they so choose, so it takes a surprising amount of adjustment to watch without using 2009 eyeballs. The natural surroundings stand up pretty well, but character animation is a bit plastic. If Bug's Life was a new movie I probably wouldn't be so kind, but what matters in this case is the comparative presentation, and compared to the already stunning DVD release the 1080p transfer is almost impossibly perfected. Colours are much brighter, which is especially valuable during the film's darker scenes, as they're lit by false bio-luminescence. The details are as sharp as the somewhat dated look allows without a hint of blocking, edge noise or enhancement, or over-modulation. There are no noise reduction artefacts or dirtied colours, and the blacks are rich and clean.
The new lossless audio track shows its mettle pretty early when the grasshoppers come for their offering. The sound of their Harley Davidson inspired wings engulf the rear channels and roar over the LFE. The early bird attack is also teeming with action, including loads of surround helicopter bits, directional effects, and a cool contrasting bird call effect, where the actual call is high pitched, but supported by a heavy bass punch. There's also the climatic rain chase, which will give even the best big budget action epics a run for their money. The voice cast, which is probably the heaviest hitting in the studio's history, sounds clean and consistent, and voices move throughout the channels depending on placement in a natural fashion. Randy Newman's score, which I'm actually not a fan of, is perhaps a little low on the track, and during action scenes is overwhelmed by the sound effects, but when it really counts (like Flick's hero theme) things are warm and clean.
New, Blu-ray exclusive extras start with a filmmaker's roundtable (21:00 HD). The directors, writers, and producers talk mostly about how technically difficult the film was, and how important it was for the film to succeed post- Toy Story and post-independence. Fans can look forward to a brief glimpse of Toy Story and Finding Nemo in HD, footage of the actors recording, footage from the annual dramatic reading of the script, and footage from the bizarre EPK the studio made for Bug's Life as well. The early draft is covered briefly here too, but in much more detail on the other Blu-ray exclusive ' A Bug's Life—the First Draft' (10:50 HD), with an intro from director/writer/producer John Lasseter. Dave Folley actually narrates the featurette, which is created using beautifully drawn colour storyboards, which have been slightly animated.
The special edition DVD ported extras begin with the filmmakers' commentary, featuring co-writer/director John Lasseter, co-writer/assistant director Andrew Stanton, and editor Lee Unkrich. The track is a bit fluffy, and the stories are a bit obvious, not to mention repetitive if you've watched any of the other extras, but it's still an entertaining and warm track. The tone is consistent and the runtime is filled rather thoroughly.
Under the Pre-Production banner are an assortment of featurettes, most of which feature introduction from Lasseter, Stanton and various other employees. Things begin with 'The Fleebee Reel' (04:20 SD), which is the aforementioned production reel the studio put together for the annual Disney 'update' meeting. 'Story and Development' (05:30 SD) is a look at the storyboarding process (adorably using storyboards), and the story pitch (using PiP). Next are three storyboard to film comparisons (13:30 SD), and two abandoned sequences (05:30 SD). This section is completed with a 'Research Documentary' (05:30 SD), a brief look at the macro photography tests the crew filmed to prepare for the film.
Under the Production banner are more quick featurettes. These begin with 'Behind the Scenes of A Bug's Life' (03:45 SD), and 'Voice Casting' (04:15 SD), your basic collection of made-for-TV EPKs. 'Early Tests' (05:25 SD) is a little more technical tour of the first animation tests the studio put together to see if they could, in fact, achieve the then super-ambitious look they were attempting. Then, under the sub-heading of Progression Demonstration are featurettes concerning 'Storyreel' (04:00 SD), 'Layout' (03:00 SD), 'Animation' (03:00 SD), and 'Shaders and Lighters' (03:00 SD).
Next up is a featurette on the sound design, hosted by Gary Rydstrom (13:00 HD). Though a surround presentation would have been ideal, it's still a fun comparison, using the raw folley and the final mix. Under Release are the ad and poster galleries, trailers, and 'character interviews. Also included is Geri's Game (04:55 HD), the Oscar nominated short that opened the film on its original release, a Disney Silly Symphony short that partially inspired the film called 'Grasshopper and the Ants' (08:15 with intro SD), which was originally included on the DVD as an Easter Egg, and three image galleries (HD). Perhaps the favourite among the extras are the HD Outtakes, which were originally presented after the film in tiny boxes.
A Bug's Life just isn't as good as the perfection we've come to expect from Pixar Studios, but it's still a rousing piece of film entertainment, and stands up as a technical achievement, and surprisingly enough, as an action film. The film, which was the first ever direct digital release in the early days of DVD, looks so perfect on Blu-ray it starts to really show its age, and sounds better than most big budget shoot 'em ups on my shelf. The extras are almost exclusively ported from the old special edition DVD release, but there are a few new additions.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
All ages admitted
Disc Details
Release Date: 19th May 2009
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DTS 5.1 French, DTS 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French and Spanish
Extras: Filmmaker Commentary, Filmmaker's Roundtable, The First Draft, Pre-Production Featurettes, Production Featurettes, Geri's Game, The Grasshopper and the Ants, Image Galleries, Trailers, Digital File
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller
Genre: Adventure, Animation and Comedy
Length: 95 minutes
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Microbes and the Days of Creation
Being a Christian, I've made my decision. That decision offers no compromise; therefore, I'm closed to anything else.
For instance, one article I plan on reading is:Microbes and the Days of Creation
I like that they included a references section at the end. Nice touch of authenticity. It includes the bible.
Wow! This article is a jewel!So it addresses the age old question of whether God created microbes and viruses and whatnot on the same day that he created plants (Day 3, apparently) or whether these invisible (and sometimes pesky) little beings were created "after the fall."
Most microbes are beneficial to man and nature. Only about 5–10% of all bacteria are pathogenic. Many microbes live in a mutualistic relationship with plants, animals, humans, and other microbes. Mutualism is a type of symbiosis (Greek sym, meaning "together", and bios, meaning "life"). The term symbiosis is used to describe an intimate association between organisms of different species. Some symbiotic relationships between microbes and plants, animals, and humans are essential for life on earth. For this reason most microbiologists maintain that bacteria, fungi, protists, and other microbes have been maligned in the news media. Without our intestinal flora, we would not digest food nor acquire vitamins and minerals very efficiently. Without fungi, bacteria, algae, and protozoans, life on earth could not last. This is because microbes provide essential "services" (e.g., nitrogen fixation, nitrification, and denitrification) in nutrient cycles.
He made humans with bacteria on their skin and in their intestines. When He created man, He also created E. coli in their intestines to help them digest food, etc. Located on his skin, Staphylococcus epidermidis helps protect his skin. Man is "covered" inside and outside his body with millions of microbiotic organisms (i.e., normal flora) to maintain normal body functions and sustain life in changing environments.
The determination of virus origin is uncertain. It may be that viruses (as we classify them today) have multiple origins. Some may be degenerate parts from cells after the Curse; still others may have their origin during the days of creation. Today, we think of viruses (Latin for "poison") only in the context of disease. However, some viruses (or at least virus-like genes) are involved in a positive function in nature. Some groups of viruses, like bacteriophages, play a positive role in controlling bacteria in ecosystems and may play a role in diversity.
[W]here do microbes fit into the creation account? Were they created along with the rest of the plants and animals in the first week of creation, or were they created later, after the Fall? ... Ongoing research, based on the creation paradigm, appears to provide some answers to these puzzling questions. The answers to these questions are not explicit in Scripture, so the answers cannot be dogmatic. However, a reasonable extrapolation from biological data and Scripture can be made about the nature of microbes in a fully mature creation. This article attempts to provide reasonable answers to when microbes were created and is meant to stimulate discussion and further research in this area.
The natural symbiosis of microbes with other creatures is the norm. Therefore, we postulate that microbes were created as "biological systems" with plants, animals, and humans on multiple days, as supporting systems in mature plants, animals, and humans.
Some have postulated that microbes were created on a single day of Creation, such as Day Three—when the plants were made. This is partially due to the "seed-like" characteristics that bacteria and fungi have—therefore classifying microbes as plants.
However, since the corruption of creation, the corrupted retrovirus, HIV, and various leukemia viruses turn off the entire immune system, leaving the body open to devastating infections. These examples may provide clues to the origin of viruses and how some may have been created during Creation Week by design and how some have been corrupted as a result of the Fall.
God built into all living things the need to sustain, repair, and reproduce.
I like that they included a references section at the end.
These are pseudonyms. The writers, who hold PhDs in fields related to the topics of their abstracts, are scientists at prominent research facilities in the eastern part of North America. They prefer to keep their creationist credentials hidden for the moment until they achieve more seniority.
One of the earliest articles in this "journal" is a commentary on the peer-review process itself. Anyone wants to take a stab at it?http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/arj/v1/n1/theology-peer-review
Table 1. Creationist publications that claim to be peer reviewed1
1. We know by our personal experience that all practice some degree of peer review, but no creationist journal has ever published a full audit to confirm their peer-review activities.
Where did the microbes go during the flood? Did Noah take all the microbes onto the Ark?
.. For instance, by gathering in his family Noah would also be gathering in the microbes that God created with and to inhabit humans. ...
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
I wonder which one of his family carried the gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis for later transmittance?
Quote from: Irish on April 11, 2013, 06:51:20 PM.. For instance, by gathering in his family Noah would also be gathering in the microbes that God created with and to inhabit humans. ...I wonder which one of his family carried the gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis for later transmittance?
Just had another thought...how did (s)he go about acquiring all the STDs to preserve them?
Quote from: Azdgari on April 15, 2013, 02:42:23 PMJust had another thought...how did (s)he go about acquiring all the STDs to preserve them? Well, remember, there were all those horrible but incredibly sexy sinners running around while Noah was building the ark.