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2012 Advent Calendar – 2012 Joulukalenteri
November 29, 2012
Hello everyone!
Christmas is around the corner! And nothing is more exciting than counting down the days for Christmas with an Advent Calendar right?
Keeping the tradition I crafted a new one this year too, for something unique, special and interesting :).
Well, at a first glance, it looks complicated and without much resemblance to an Advent Calendar…
The idea started from those socks I made a couple of years ago (to refresh your memory: each day my daughters would find a paper with an image inside the mini socks showing where I placed the small gift-of-the-day). My oldest daughter is a a first grader now and husband suggested I could make some type of riddle for each day, to practice her reading and calculating skills (yea, we are such nerds…).
So how to do that in a sane way? Inventing a game of course! More like a letter puzzle (hangman anyone?).
2012 Advent Calendar – Letter Puzzle game
Each day my girls will receive one envelope (numbered from 1 to 24) containing a card with a question and a letter-sticker. Simple math problems or matching games to practice letters and words. I added couple of "easy" ones for my 5 yo daughter too.
"How many (snowflakes)?"
"Is the image a : skier, skater or runner?"
"How many syllables are in the word snowman?"
Solving the question of the day will show them where to glue the sticker-letter in the puzzle display board. By completing the diagram they will be capable to read the "mysterious sentence" : The present (the Advent Calendar big gift) is hidden at grandpa´s place (written in Finnish conveniently using 24 elements :)
We thought that getting a "big" gift instead of little small things each day is as well fun. Besides, a "pre" Christmas present is not that bad (stand the wait for Santa!!) and everyone can enjoy it together. The gift is a board game to be played on Christmas Eve ^_^.
- And! To deliver the envelopes, a Christmas mailbox I crafted using an empty cereal box and red card stock. Awesome isn´t it? The front door is attached with magnets (Oh… I am so happy with the result!). Maybe my daughters will find some treats there too… who knows? ;)
For now, fingers crossed the girls will enjoy this year´s Advent Calendar. Poor little ones to have such mad mad loony mother … >.<
Happy December friends!
PS. Isn't that polka dot fabric tape the cutest? ha!
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2011 Advent Calendar – 2011 Joulukalenteri
November 30, 2011
December tomorrow!
Tell me what that means… Christmas is coming! Am I stressed? Nah…
This time I decided to take it easier… too much happened during the second half of the year, end of it should be more relaxing… (< did you just giggle there? I mean, I think I saw you smiling at least :)
As I told before, I invented this tradition to make a homemade Advent Calendar every year. After many rejected ideas (the most from my husband I must say :P) I decided for this Christmas Wreath, not as superb as the previous calendars, yet hopefully good enough to celebrate each day of the month and the most important: to get my girls excited about the upcoming holiday :)
I really considered skipping the tradition this year. I changed my mind when the other day, while browsing for ready chocolate-filled Advent Calendars at a shop, I was asked by my daughters if I was going make one for them… "because they still remember how the last year´s was"… *swoon* I melted.
2011 Advent Calendar – Christmas Wreath
Keeping in mind "it must be easy and fun", this no-frills calendar was quite quick to assemble. I used a silver vine wreath (from a craft shop), "goodies" wrapped with red crêpe paper, wires and embellishments.
Brilliant right?! :D
I diminish the amount of treats they will receive each day considerably. Pretty much into a no-waste/keepsake style, using a 250 pieces puzzle for the filling (and plus! I can keep the wreath afterwards! Yay!). My girls love puzzles (we recently built a 1000 pieces puzzle together) and I thought it will be thrilling for them to build the puzzle during the countdown, not actually knowing what the final image is. Once I used the same idea with small Lego kits (Technic and Star Wars) and the results were quite funny and interesting!
How I made it:
- Dealing with the treats: after cutting the colored paper into 24 large squares, I put about 10 puzzle pieces in each, wrapping to form a ball, twisting the ends. Note!!! Sharp pieces and crêpe paper are a no-no combo… I totally recommend to use gifts that won't rip the paper :P. Perhaps a cool option would be to use that sort of metallic plastic wrapping paper, if you have it on hands (I didn't)
- Now the hard work. Using a craft wire (0.3mm), which I found to be more controllable than thread, I tied the little packages to the wreath, firmly so they stay on place. Be careful to hide the wire ends when done with the attaching.
- Finishing it: I decorated with small polka dots jingle bells, sparkling snow flake stickers, ribbons and a red bell. At very last, I added the numbers on each paper-ball.
- Done!!
I think it will be very easy just to pull apart the little packages from the wreath during the countdown… let´s see! ;)
Happy December friends!
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Well, I have to hand it to the Obama administration. Obama reelected on Tuesday, they are already getting a start on the scandals that tend to plague most second term Presidents. The resignation of CIA Director, retired General David Petraeus, over an alleged affair, a week before he was to testify before a Senate committee on Benghazi, brings to three the number of high-ranking officers connected with Benghazi, or its aftermath, who have seen their careers abruptly cut short.
Rear Admiral Charles M. Gaouette was relieved of his command of the Stennis strike group in the Mediterranean in late October. Such a removal is unprecedented. The Navy denies that the removal was in regard to Benghazi, and indeed the Stennis was in the Pacific on 9/11/12. However the Navy has issued a fairly cryptic statement that the removal was for "inappropriate leadership judgment" during the deployment of the Stennis to the Middle East and has stressed that this does not involve any improper personal conduct by the Admiral. All very mysterious.
The Combatant Commander of Africa Command on 9/11/12, General Carter F. Ham abruptly retired on October 18. Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz reported that in an interview he had with General Ham in Libya that the General told him that in regard to the Benghazi attach he had never been asked to provide military assistance. The internet is ablaze with rumors that General Ham attempted to send assistance to Benghazi during the attack and was told to stand down. Thus far the General has remained mum.
In regard to General Petraeus there are many questions. Allegedly the affair came to light months ago when the FBI caught his alleged paramour attempting to access his e-mails. One might be curious as to why the FBI was involved in this and the answer is quite simple. The FBI and the CIA have been at war with each other since the creation of the CIA's predecessor the OSS in World War II and routinely keep track of the higher-ups in each organization. (Yeah, I know: our tax dollars at work.) Apparently the affair has been known for at least several months, and I find it hard to believe that both the CIA and the FBI did not know of the affair before Petraeus was onfirmed as CIA Director, the background checks for such a position being extremely comprehensive. This all raises the question as to why the affair triggers a resignation now. His wife Holly works for the White House and unless she was in the dark on the affair, and considering how gossipy the military community tends to be I find that hard to believe, presumably the affair was known at the White House.
Petraeus is up to his arm pits in Benghazi, having denied that it was the CIA that failed to provide military assistance to the two brave Seals, Ty Woods and Greg Doherty, who died heroically leading the defense at Benghazi. Now that he is retired, his deputy Mike Morell will testify next week. Eventually I assume Petraeus will also testify, he has indicated post resignation that he is eager to testify, but now the story in much of the Mainstream Media will be pertaining to his affair rather than to his testimony. Continue Reading

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Josh Reynolds re-signs with Bulldogs
The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs are pleased to announce the re-signing of Josh Reynolds for a further four years, through until the end of season 2017.
Reynolds made his NRL debut in round 11 of season 2011 against the Canberra Raiders and has since gone on to make 43 appearances at NRL level.
The local junior (St George Dragons) has come up through the grades at the Club and earlier this season surpassed the 100-game mark after making 21 appearances at NYC level and 39 in the NSW Cup competition prior to his NRL debut.
The 24-year-old has made the five-eighth position his own since Coach Des Hasler's arrival in season 2012 and has 16 tries to his name.
A favourite amongst all Members and fans, Reynolds is happy to have signed a new deal that will see him at the Club for the next four years.
"It's great to know that I'll be here at Belmore wearing the blue and white for the next four years," Reynolds said. "I've spent all of my career here and I honestly didn't see myself going or playing with anyone else.
"I've got so many friends here who have been here for a long time and it'll be good to spend the next period with them.
"We have a special group of players here who I know can do great things and I want to be a part of that."
Coach Des Hasler has been impressed with Reynolds since his arrival and is looking forward to continuing to work with him on all aspects of his game.
"Josh is an integral part of our playing group and structure," he said. "His commitment to the team and this Club is something that can't be questioned.
"We know that he has been a part of this Club for a long time and it's good to know that he will be here for an extended period."


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Two men charged after purse snatching victim and boyfriend fight backBy PAT GROSSMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 08. 2013 10:36PM
MANCHESTER -- Monique LeClair remembers getting punched in the head by the driver of a getaway minivan after she chased down a robber who snatched her purse Thursday morning and followed him into the vehicle to get it back, police said.
But LeClair, 20, her right ankle wrapped in a bandage on Friday, said she never felt the punches to her head because of adrenaline.
"I was hanging out the side of the door trying to get my purse back, and he (the driver) started punching me in the head," said LeClair, a petite woman who speaks softly. "I kept screaming, 'Give it back! Give it back!'"
The driver started to pull away, and the passenger car door, which was still open, hit a sign. The door bounced back and hit her in the ankle, knocking both her and her boyfriend, Travis Hardy, 26, to the ground.
The theft happened about 11:20 a.m. on Hanover Street, just east of Pine Street, near the Hanover Street Chophouse.
LeClair and Hardy were walking together when they stopped to talk to a friend. LeClair said she noticed a silver van pass by, turn around and head back toward them. She said a man jumped out of the van and grabbed her lime green leather purse.
She chased after him. LeClair said she has been looking for work for the past two weeks — in accounting, as a receptionist, "but anything, really" — and her purse contained her ID and birth certificate, identification she had needed for a job interview the day before.
She said she would be unable to get another job without the identification and does not have the money to replace them.
So when the man snatched her purse, she didn't hesitate. Neither did Hardy, who ran to the driver's side of the van, but the door was locked. He tried unsuccessfully to break the window with his elbow, but then went to help LeClair when he saw the driver punching her.
LeClair, Hardy and the passenger battled over the purse — a struggle that lasted about 30 seconds, Hardy estimated. The driver, he said, was yelling at the passenger to give her back the purse, while LeClair was screaming to him to give it back.
Both said there were two other young men in the back seat of the minivan who stayed out of the ruckus.
LeClair said she was hanging out the door when the driver pulled away and the door hit a street sign. The door bounced back and hit her in the ankle and knocked both her and Hardy to the ground. Hardy said he got a cut on a foot.
But she had her purse.
Two Manchester police officers were about a block away working a construction detail at Pine and Chestnut streets when they heard the commotion.
Officer Stephen Flynn saw the van leaving and called in a description of it to headquarters.
Meanwhile, Officer Andrew Fleming located LeClair and Hardy at Pine and Laurel streets, and they told him what happened.
Patrol Officer Tyler Shaw spotted the van at Bridge and Chestnut streets and stopped it.
The driver, identified by police as Daniel Valentine, 18, of 80 Karatzas Ave., and passenger Kenneth Lemite, 18, of 84 Karatzas Ave., were arrested.
Valentine is charged with robbery, conduct after an accident and reckless conduct. Lemite is charged with robbery.


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Usain Bolt was already the fastest man in track and field, and now he might be the richest.
The track superstar signed a sponsorship with sneaker maker Puma, the company that has backed him since he was 15. Puma hasn't released the exact figures, but sources told the Guardian that it's on par with the $32.5 million soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo signed with Nike.
"For me Puma is the No. 1 in my book," the 24-year-old Jamaican said.
Puma plans to launch a clothing line around Bolt, all emblazoned with a silhouette of Bolt's trademark victory stance. Comparisons to Michael Jordan's "Jumpman" logo are apparently welcome.
"He has his sign, I have my own sign," says Bolt. "It's all about fashion." Bolt plans to wear a different outfit to every race, hoping people will tune in to see his latest.
Puma boss Jochen Zeitz said Bolt, an Olympic gold medalist and world champion, could achieve a similar profile to David Beckham.
"He's the best paid athlete in history and also one of the best paid athletes overall," said Zeitz. "I would say if you asked about the rareness of Usain Bolt he's up there with some of the best in any sport. He connects to the fans in a unique way, and not just in a stadium – he can connect on the performance side as well as the lifestyle side – and I think that's the difference to many other athletes who do great things but cannot really find that connection to the fans."
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The 60 Best Conservative Blogs For 2012 (6th Annual)
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60) The Mental Recession (No link because I am getting a virus warning when I go there today)
59) Polipundit
58) Jihad Watch
57) This Ain't Hell
56) Hugh Hewitt
55) Patterico's Pontifications
54) Moe Lane
53) Counter Cultured
52) Wizbang!
51) Maggie's Farm
50) Gay Patriot
49) Creative Minority Report
48) Conservatives4Palin
47) Five Feet of Fury
46) American Glob
45) Doubleplusundead
44) Fire Andrea Mitchell
43) The Jawa Report
42) Nice Deb
41) Protein Wisdom
40) The Foundry
39) QandO
38) American Power
37) Tim Blair
36) The People's Cube
35) I Own The World
34) the Hyacinth Girl
33) The Mellow Jihadi
32) YidwithLid
31) Power Line
30) The Other McCain
29) The Lonely Conservative
28) Pat Dollard
27) Jammie Wearing Fool
26) Riehl World View
25) Bookworm Room
24) Dr. Helen
23) Weasel Zippers
22) Andrew Malcolm
21) The Right Scoop
20) Althouse
19) Vox Popoli
18) Atlas Shrugs
16) Rachel Lucas
15) Legal Insurrection
14) Moonbattery
13) The Corner
12) Michelle Malkin
11) Liberal Logic 101
10) Redstate
9) Naked DC
8) The Campaign Spot
7) Newsbusters
6) Twitchy
5) Ace Of Spades HQ
4) Breitbart
3) Gateway Pundit
2) Instapundit
1) Hot Air
PS #1: This was a really difficult list to judge and there are some very good blogs that I read every week that didn't make the list.
PS #2: Sometimes the line between blog and website was a little blurry. For example, I decided Townhall, Patheos & Lifenews among others weren't blogs and were thus ineligible.
101 Things All Young Adults Should Know
by Sir John Hawkins
John Hawkins's book 101 Things All Young Adults Should Know is filled with lessons that newly minted adults need in order to get the most out of life. Gleaned from a lifetime of trial, error, and writing it down, Hawkins provides advice everyone can benefit from in short, digestible chapters.Buy Now
PS #3: I decided that in order to be fair, I couldn't add Pajamas Media, where I write columns or TPNN and Dustin Stockton where I blog. Of course, Linkiest and The Looking Spoon had to be ineligible. Furthermore, it didn't seem proper to include any of the bloggers who semiregularly blog for RWN which meant a number of phenomenal blogs like Ali Akbar, Conservative Compendium, D, S & P Magazine, Doug Ross, Wintery knight, Ed Driscoll, Blue Crab Boulevard, The Shark Tank, Wyblog, House of Eratothenes, Intellectual Conservative, Likelihood of Confusion, Sunshine State Sarah, The Right Mixx, Texas Sparkle, Pubilus Forum and Pirate's Cove were out.
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The Best Conservative Blogs Of 2011
The Best Conservative Blogs Of 2010
The Best Conservative Blogs Of 2009
The Best Conservative Blogs Of 2008
The Best Conservative Blogs Of 2007
Correction: QandO was listed twice in the #39 and #44 slot. Fire Andrea Mitchell should have been #44. That has been corrected.
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About Jean-Marie Périer
Over the course of a long career in photography and filmmaking, Jean-Marie Périer has worked for Paris's top magazines, the world's most powerful commercial brands, and with many iconic musicians of the 20th century. At the age of 16, he started working as a photographer's assistant at Marie Claire magazine. Soon, he was employed by publications including Jazz, Paris Match, and Télé 7 Jours. His career was interrupted in 1960 by military service in France's war in Algeria, but he was back home and working for the popular music magazine Salut Les Copains by 1962. Périer remained with the magazine until 1974, taking sensitive, artful pictures of the likes of The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Marianne Faithfull, and Johnny and Sylvie, among other stars. Since the mid-1970s, Périer has continued to split his creative energies between the production of compelling still and moving images.
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Northwest Pear and Spinach Salad
Pears with ham, red bell peppers and olives in a salad that would make a good side dish for a back-yard barbecue or could stand alone as a light lunch dish.
16 cups USA Bartlett pear slices in light syrup
1 cup olive oil
4 tbsp. lemon juice
2 tbsp. mustard
1 tsp. ground ginger
4 lb. spinach, trimmed
1 lb. romaine lettuce
3 lb. ham, cut in 3-in. strips
6 red bell peppers, cut into 3-in. strips
3 cups red onion, chopped
1 1⁄2 cups blue cheese, crumbled
1 1⁄2 cups walnuts, toasted and chopped
1. Drain pears, reserving 8 oz. of juice. In a bowl, whisk together pear juice, olive oil, lemon juice, mustard and ginger. Season well and reserve.
2. In a bowl, tear spinach and romaine into bite-sized pieces; toss with dressing.
3. Place 2 cups greens on each plate and top with 10 pear slices, 2 oz. ham, 6 red pepper strips and 3 olives. Garnish with 2 tbsp. red onion, 1 tbsp. blue cheese and 1 tbsp. walnuts.


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Stickleback genome reveals detail of evolution's repeated experiment
Apathy, weary sighs, and fatigue: these are the symptoms of the psychological malaise that Carl Zimmer calls Yet Another Genome Syndrome. It is caused by the fast-flowing stream of publications, announcing the sequencing of another complete genome.
News reports about such publications tend to follow the same pattern. Scientists have deciphered the full genome of Animal X, which is known for Traits Y and Z, which could include commercial importance, social behaviour, being closely related to us, or just being exceptionally weird. By understanding X's collection of As, Gs, Cs and Ts, we may gain insights into the genetic basis of Y and Z, which will be terribly important and there will be parties and cake.
Note the future tense. The value in sequencing yet another genome is almost never in the act itself, but in enabling an entire line of subsequent research. It's the harbinger of news; it's rarely news itself.
But there are exceptions. This week, there's a paper about a new animal genome that goes the extra mile. It includes not just one full sequence, but twenty-one. It doesn't just spell out the creature's DNA, but also uses it to address some big questions in evolutionary biology. And its protagonist is a small, unassuming fish – the three-spined stickleback.
Sticklebacks are just a few inches long, and defend themselves with spines and plates of body armour running down their sides. But they fascinate scientists not for how they look, but what they did. Sticklebacks originally lived in the ocean, and many still do. When the last Ice Age ended some 10,000 years ago, retreating glaciers allowed the fish to repeatedly invade the world's streams and lakes. In freshwater, they faced weaker but faster predators, so they lost their spines and armour and became smaller and more agile. Their lifestyles, colour, mating habits, salt tolerance and diets also changed.
Freshwater sticklebacks around the world have independently picked up the same adaptations, often by tweaking the same genes, and often in just a few generations. This rich history has turned the three-spined stickleback into a supermodel of evolutionary biology. It gives us an unprecedented look at how species adapt to new environments, and whether they do so in predictable ways.
David Kingsley from Stanford University has been studying the stickleback for many years, and his team have now published the animal's full genome. They first sequenced a single female from Bear Paw Lake in Alaska, going over each part of her DNA around 9 times. Most genome papers leave things there, but Kingsley's group also sequenced 10 other pairs of sticklebacks from Asia, North America and Europe. Each pair included a freshwater fish, and a marine one from a connected population.
By scouring the 21 genomes, Kingsley's team found 147 regions that differ between marine and freshwater neighbours, but are similar in freshwater fish around the world. As different stickleback groups left their salty ancestry behind, they repeatedly tweaked these few select areas, which make up just 0.2 per cent of their full genome.
But these shared tweaks can't account for all of the adaptations that arise in freshwater populations. The team demonstrated this by focused on fish from a single place – the River Tyne in Scotland. The river has a 'hybrid zone', where marine and freshwater individuals often meet and breed. The fish at opposite ends of this zone differ at various parts of their genome, and only a third of these differences are found in other marine and freshwater pairs around the world. The rest may represent adaptations that are specific to the Tyne group.
The regions that Kinglsey identified include some genes that have been clearly linked to stickleback adaptations before. For example, the EDA gene controls how much armour they have, and the WNT genes affect the growth of their kidneys, and thus their tolerance to salt.
But just 17 per cent of the regions that separate marine and freshwater fish map to actual genes. A far greater proportion – 41 per cent – consists of "regulatory regions" that control how, when and where genes are used. (The other 42 per cent couldn't be firmly assigned to either category).
This speaks to a longstanding question in evolutionary science: do adaptive changes happen more often in genes themselves, or in the bits of DNA that control them? Lab experiments have focused on the former, but Kingsley's study shows that regulatory changes dominate (although both types are important).
So, right from its announcement, the stickleback genome (or rather, the 21 stickleback genomes) has already started to prove its worth. But as always, it sets up even more questions. As Hopi Hoekstra from Harvard University writes in an accompanying editorial: "Our focus must now shift to 'why' questions?" Why is it that some adaptations to freshwater life involve the same old genes, but others do not? Why do such adaptations more often involve regulatory regions rather than genes?
And sticklebacks haven't just repeatedly adapted to freshwater life. There are also recurring differences between lake specialists and stream specialists, between open-water swimmers and bottom-dwellers. Giants have evolved again and again. What genetic changes lie behind these adaptive leitmotifs?
And Juha Merilä from the University of Helsinki, who also works with sticklebacks, points out that most physical traits, such as size or sexual maturity, are probably affected by hundreds of genes. As such, the number of regions that Kingsley identified is on the low side. "It seems that lot remains still to be uncovered and understood." However, that's true of most physical traits. "The study paves the path for the sticklebacks to become an animal model to address these issues," says Merilä. "One thing's for sure: the availability of 21 new full genome sequences for the threespine stickleback is a very welcome resource for people working with evolutionary genetics!"
The stickleback has undergone a grand evolutionary experiment, replicated many times over around the world. The results from these experiments have been recorded in their genomes, and thanks to Kingsley, we can now start to examine this global store of hidden data.
PS: There's a slightly sad coda to this tale. The sticklebacks from Bear Paw Lake, where the first sequenced female hails from, might soon be wiped out. The lake has been invaded by the northern pike, a fierce predator that the weakly armoured freshwater sticklebacks have no defence against. It has already wiped out the populations in nearby Prator Lake. If it repeats the same trick, the Bear Paw sticklebacks' contribution to science may be a posthumous one.
Reference: Jones, Grabherr, Chan, Russell et al. 2012. The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10944
Image from Piet Spaans and Nature
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Creation via Evolution? Pre-existing genetic variation, not random mutation is responsible for speciation.
The honeybee is an invertebrate model organism that exemplifies the vertebrate molecular mechanisms detailed here. As noted by the authors, these molecular mechanisms are common to microbial species, which indicates the requirement for their ubiquitous and consistent use across life's evolutionary continuum.
In the honeybee, what the queen eats determines her pheromone production and everything else about the colony, including the neuroanatomy of the worker bee's brains. From this perspective, the honeybee model tells us that nutrient chemicals calibrate receptor-mediated intracellular signaling and stochastic gene expression associated with the metabolism of nutrients to pheromones in all species from microbes to man.
The pheromones standardize regulatory control of receptor-mediated intracellular signaling and stochastic gene expression required for speciation. Reciprocal bottom-up / top-down relationships among chemicals associated with the "odors" of food are directly responsible for the formation of an ecological niche, which is maintained by the epigenetic effects of pheromones in the social niche.
Changes in nutrient chemicals result in changes in the ecological niche that change the social niche by partial suppression of reproduction in individuals that don't "smell" right because they are malnourished (or in bacterial colonies where reproduction is suppressed by pheromones and quorum sensing). The ability to acquire sufficient nutrient chemicals is genetically predisposed but also depends on conspecifics and stressors in the social niche (e.g., dominance in mammals) that might prevent access to changing supplies of existing nutrients.
Individuals with genetic predispositions that allow them to adapt to changes associated with available nutrients will reproduce in microbial species like bacteria, or pheromonally signal their reproductive fitness in yeasts or in the multicellular organisms of all other species. These nutritional and social stressors are associated with immune system dysfunction in primates as they are with nutritional deficits or excess in other species.
In species from yeasts to primates, this model allows incorporation of social science theories of individual selection, kin selection, and group selection where nutrition and food odors are as essential to individual survival as they are to the production of pheromones and species survival. In this context, olfaction and odor receptors provide a clear evolutionary trail that can be followed from unicellular organisms to insects to humans. Clearly, however, nothing about this evolutionary trail requires explanations via random mutation, since all that's required is pre-existing genetic variation.


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WASHINGTON, DC: October 10, 2012
Unforgettable Days in the US capital
With the arrival of the world-renowned Sretensky Monastery Men's Choir to Washington, DC, on Thursday, October 4, 2012, a four-day spiritual celebration by Orthodox Christians of the nation's capital began.
On Friday, October 5, Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) presented an English translation of his book, Everyday Saints, at the Library of Congress. The book has become a best-seller in Russia (1.1 million copies sold so far).
Fr Tikhon noted that all proceeds from the sale of his book will go towards the construction of a church on Bolshaya Lyubanka dedicated to the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
"We want to build a beautiful, bright church, marking the victory of good over evil and brutality," said Fr Tikhon. "We want to complete this church by February 2017, the centennial of the beginning of those fateful days. Today there are many memorials devoted to the period, but many of them are gloomy, dark, depressing. This is not the way to view its history."
On Saturday, October 6, Sretensky Choir sang Divine Liturgy at St Nicholas Cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America. Officiating were His Eminence Archbishop Justinian of Naro-Fominsk, Administrator of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA, and His Grace Bishop Melchisedek of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania of the Orthodox Church in America, along with representatives of many other Local Churches.
At the end of the service, St John the Baptist Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia was given a gift of a portion of the relics of St Herman of Alaska from the OCA. The relic was thankfully received by the Cathedral's rector, Protopriest Victor Potapov.
That evening, James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, hosted a reception in honor of Fr Tikhon, the Prior of Sretensky Monastery in Moscow. Among the guests was Fr Victor. After dinner, Sretensky Choir performed their first concert of liturgical music on the present tour in an overfilled auditorium of the Library of Congress. The audience was moved to tears by their performance.
Sunday, October 7, began with the ceremonial greeting of the Hawaiian Iveron Icon of the Mother of God at St John the Baptist Cathedral, where Divine Liturgy was then celebrated by clergymen of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. During the service, the aromatic icon, one of the main holy icons of the Russian diaspora, lay on an analogion in the middle of the church. In his sermon, Fr Victor reminded the worshipers that the unofficial name of this icon is "Unity," since it began to issue myrrh five years ago, upon the reestablishment of unity within the Russian Orthodox Church.
As noted by a correspondent of ITAR-TASS news agency, "The church was literally overfilled by believers during the service. It was still possible to stand in place and make the sign of the cross, but there was no room to even kneel. The gathering of worshipers was understandable: for besides the visiting Hawaiian Iveron icon, the famous Sretensky Men's Choir sang and the monastery Prior, Fr Tikohn (Shevkunov) was present."
It is worth noting that the arrival of the Hawaiian Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon and the Sretensky Choir coincided with the cathedral's annual benefit fair, attended by thousands of denizens of Washington of all nationalities who love Russian culture and cuisine.
After Divine Liturgy, a moleben and akathist to the Mother of God were performed before the Hawaiian Iveron Icon. Altogether, the services lasted some three-and-a-half hours. Fr Tikhon even expressed mock surprise, saying that this would be unimaginable in a Moscow church, and asked that the choir be given extra refreshments, having sung the entire time without a break.
The fair gave buyers of Fr Tikhon's book the opportunity to have him autograph their copies, and also to listen to Sretensky Choir again. The "Sretentsy" took to the elevated church entrance and sang the song "On the Hills of Manchuria."
The Hawaiian Iveron Icon spent another few hours at St John the Baptist Cathedral. The parishioners were happy to learn that they will once again have the opportunity to venerate the icon on October 27-28, since its caretaker, Reader Nectarios Yangson, will be taking the icon to Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY, to the grave of Jose Munoz-Cortes, the erstwhile keeper of the Montreal Iveron Icon. The visit of this icon to the monastery is intended to coincide with a pilgrimage organized by St John Cathedral to mark the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the icon's streaming of myrrh (November 24, 1982), and the 15th anniversary of the martyric death of its caretaker (October 31, 1997), and also the 5th anniversary of the date when the Hawaiian "Unity" Iveron Icon of the Mother of God began to stream myrrh (October 6, 2007).
Includes material from ITAR-TASS Agency.
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MIAMI—Hurricane Miriam has formed in the Pacific Ocean, but it poses no threat to land.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Miriam was about 430 miles (692 kilometers) south of the southern tip of Baja California. The storm has winds of 90 mph (145 kph) and is moving northwest at about 12 mph (19 kph).
In the open Atlantic, Tropical Storm Nadine is meandering far from land with winds of about 60 mph (97 kph).


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Revision as of 16:23, 25 March 2013
Is Glenn Beck helping Barack Hussein Obama by heaping scorn on a legitimate question of whether Obama is eligible to his office? [1]
Conservapedia proven right, again: "So it turns out the speed of light might not be constant after all." [2] See Question #10 in Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness (May 7, 2007).
The fourth urban public school district in New Jersey will be taken over by the State on Monday, with Gov. Chris Christie displacing the authority of the local school board. [3] And many students still won't be able to read the Bible or anything else.
Marriage will be in the dock this week before the Supreme Court. [4]
The NRA says that Michael Bloomberg, a limousine liberal, "can't buy America" with Bloomberg's $12 million ad blitz for gun control. [5] Will any Senators switch their vote?
Creation evangelism. What is it and why does it have its place at the Christian evangelism table?[6]
Reddit atheists are being challenged to take two mental fitness tests.[7]
We know that many Facebook users suffer academically.[8][9] Does the same apply to Reddit?
An evolutionist is offered a series of debates in the spirit of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Will he back down or accept the debate offer?[10]
It is spring but heavy snowstorms and "baseball-sized hail" are the weather [11], demonstrating again how silly the liberal claims about a crisis in global warming were. Will Al Gore refund the fortune he made from his alarmism?
The bean counters now have to admit it: a strike by the nation's doctors is in the making. On this, the third anniversary of Obamacare, this is the most ominous sign of its eventual failure. [12]
Jay Leno tried so hard to be "mainstream", even cheerleading for same-sex marriage. Now Leno needs to try hard to find a new job. [13]
Does Darwinism make people smarter? [14] Also, homeschoolers academically pummel evolution indoctrinated public school students!
Prediction comes to pass: "The collapse of Darwinism-promoting public schools has begun just like we predicted. 61 Chicago public schools are closing their doors."[15]
Don't believe the propaganda from the education establishment. Kids are dying for the truth about abstinence and want to hear about it in school. [16]
Give it up, pro-aborts: "North Dakota Legislature Passes Abortion Ban." [17]
A United States Army retired general confirms: Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction after all, and had them trucked out to Syria. Where the regime has used them in its civil war. [18]
The Eurozone crisis is not over. European socialism, atheism and Darwinism are in for a tough slog. [19]
A Tea Party activists contrasts Sarah Palin's performance at CPAC-2013 with that of liberal washed-up actress Tina Fey. [20]
Setback for liberal claptrap: largest mass closing of public schools in history is announced in Chicago, including 54 schools and 61 school buildings. [21]
"Music from Heaven, to the Bible, to the mike, back to Heaven," by Bishop Bert[22]
Why a literal reading of the Genesis is surging in the world. Why a literal reading of the Genesis will increase in the Western World. [23]
Causes and consequences of the low fertility rates in the West and East Asia. Its effects on religion, politics and economics. [24]
Anglican Communion News Service reports that religious affiliation is seeing a marked global resurgence. Global atheism and agnosticism have been shrinking since 2000. [25]
Can atheists outsmart God and turn this around? [26]
Nobody is born a homosexual. Homosexuality is a sin and it is chosen.[27]
"'SNL' Alum Norm Macdonald Bullied into Silence for Being Religious ... Atheists and secularists won't be satisfied until they bully every last religious person into silence." [28]
A ringing indictment of abortion, and especially those who practice it as well as those who allow it.' [29]
In light of the latest hate crime hoax at Oberlin College, activist Bradlee Dean takes aim at others who stage "hate crimes" against themselves. [30]
Cyprus pulls back from actually seizing bank deposits. But the damage is already done. Watch the prices of gold, silver – and lead. [31]
Liberal claptrap about gun control fails to win enough votes: "Reid guts Senate gun control bill" because there are not even 40 votes for it. [32]
Attention evolutionists and atheists: Can you pass these mental fitness tests or are you a dull evolutionist/atheist? [33]
Be truthful now. Did you pass these two mental fitness tests?
A film documentary on militant atheism titled Martyred in the USSR: Militant Atheism in the former Soviet Union has a $450,000 budget. Two big waves hitting the unseaworthy SS Atheism in 2013.[34]
The film is sure to generate controversy and spread by word of mouth.
Japanese architect Toyo Ito has won this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, the world's most prestigious award for architecture. Ito's buildings, many in his home country, have won praise for their fluid, airy beauty and balance with nature. [35]
The government of Cyprus breaks faith with the people, by threatening to seize money out of bank accounts to pay a tribute levied by the European Union. Could that happen in America? [36]
RINO Backer Karl Rove -- who has harmed the Republican Party more than anyone -- still insists that a pro-life comment by Todd Akin was "reprehensible", and Rove barks at Sarah Palin too. [37]
Is Barack Hussein Obama guilty of countrycide, the deliberate destruction of a country by attacking its institutions, history, and sovereignty? A Tea Party activist says yes. [38]
The employment rate of evolutionary biologist PhDs is 19% or less. Help cut the employment rate of evolutionary biologists by 50%.[39]
Liberals, join with environmentally enlightened conservatives to reduce the number of evolutionary biologists. Help heal our planet!
Overachievement by Christians, again: more than 10% of the teams qualifying for March Madness are Christian schools, despite their lack of funding by government which their competitors receive. [40]
Obama Administration: "If Request Were Made for International Monitoring of Papal Election 'We Would Take It Very Seriously.'" [41] So next time liberals will insist on being in the Sistine Chapel to "observe" the voting???
Is the internet marketing of EvoWiki being run by baboons?[42]
Is there evidence that Creation Ministries International has momentum and is on its way to be a creationist powerhouse in the the USA?
North Dakota passes landmark bill to curb abortion: when that heart starts to beat, you deal with a life. Period. [43]
Abortion vs. miscarriages.[44]
Germany unveiled a balanced budget a full year ahead of when it was required. The cultural legacy of the Protestant work ethic is still going strong in Germany.[45]
Germanic efficiency and the Protestant work ethic will pummel evolutionist slackers in 2013.
Is a run on secular, European ideological quackery looming?[46]
The revolution in creationist video making production is continuing. New Zealand creationist produces a gorgeous new video with beautiful nature pictures and relaxing music. Send your unsaved loved ones to the video.[47]
Also, Project 200 plus keeps expanding.
Senator Dianne Feinstein shows more ignorance of, and disdain for, the Constitution of the United States. [48]
Conservative Rand Paul wins the CPAC straw poll, as the older RINOs strike out. [49]
Why did Barack Hussein Obama recoil in horror from a tasty meal? Because his designated Presidential Taster didn't show up. What does that say about Presidential security—or paranoia? [50]
Now that we have a new Pope, a Protestant minister takes a candid look at how Catholics, Protestants, and atheists read the New Testament, a Letter from God. [51]
A question for this Easter season: Is there compelling evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ?[52]
Also, Djw0071 is returning to the Question evolution! campaign and he wants to train others how to make fantastic creationist videos. Is he a budding Shockofgod and/or PPsimmons?
The new Latin American Pope and the future of Darwinism.[53]
Also, Latin American history, European history and the Eurocrisis show that global Darwinism is going to diminish in influence.
March 15, 2013 (the Ides of March) was a grand day for Christianity and the biblical creation cause.[54]
Also, the prayers of a righteous Christian creationist lady availeth much.
You never lost the right! That is, the right under the First Amendment to pray in any setting, even in a school. [55]
Liberal New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez could not make the Dominican Republic call-girl case go away. Now a grand jury is looking into things. [56] [57]
Vatican decries "left-wing elements" attempting to smear Pope Francis for not stopping a crackdown by the Argentina government against two Jesuit priests.
Conservative Rand Paul "arrived on the stage to Metallica's 'Enter Sandman'" at CPAC. [58]
"Jeb Bush asks to be left out of CPAC straw poll" for president. [59] He's probably afraid that conservative Rand Paul will defeat him.
More liberal censorship: "Biden press staff demanded student reporter delete photos." [60] Liberals rely on controlling and censoring information so people do not learn the truth.
Beware the sweet talking guys, masters of propaganda in any age. [61]
"'Humble' Pope Francis picks up his luggage, pays hotel bill." [62] Why can't Barack and Michelle ever do that??
Bad news for liberals in the election of Pope Francis: "Many people may not like what he says about gays or abortion." [63]
Beware the Ides of March evolutionists. Beware the Ides of March![64]
What would happen if creation evangelism and Christian internet evangelism teams were to start using start of the art methods to promote their messages on the internet? Would Wikipedia lose even more web traffic?[65]
Richard Dawkins went from militant atheism to agnosticism. Now Dawkins says he is a "cultural Christian". We know what is coming next: Richard Dawkins declares that he is a young earth creationist![66]
Much to the dismay of evolutionists, Darwinism will be skewered again. The expansion of creationist outreach into the blogosphere in 2013 will be a magnficant thing to behold![67]
Will political conservatism AND biblical creationism make big strides in their blogosphere outreach in 2013?
Conservative Cardinal Arinze's likelihood of becoming the first black Pope increases, as no one attains a majority on the first ballot. [68]
Is the Department of Homeland Security playing the kid in a candy store? Or preparing to meet civil disobedience with brutal force? More perspectives on the excessive ammunition buys, and tanks for American streets. [69]
Setback for liberal totalitarianism and attempts at a nanny state: "judge shredded nearly every legal argument advanced by the mayor's lawyers and tossed" limousine liberal Michael Bloomberg's soda ban. [70]
$100 million sell-out to Big Oil: "Al Gore is defending the sale of his television network to Al Jazeera, saying that the Qatari government-run network is 'honest-to-goodness' news." [71] And liberals believed what he claimed about global warming too.
An American professor at a private university encourages Christians to spread the Question evolution! campaign.[72]
"Papal contender joins fight against Obama birth control mandate." [73]
Christianity is moving away from Darwinism.[74]
Journalist says the number of anti-evolution bills is currently skyrocketing in the USA. The pace is going to quicken! [75]
The White House stopped all public tours, but will bring in two useless "stars" to give command performances for Michelle Obama's birthday. And these people were supposed to be egalitarians? [76]
Achtung atheists and evolutionists! Germanic efficiency is entering the Christian blogging community in 2013. [77]
A former screener at the Transportation Security Administration tells the obvious: the TSA is a waste of time and money. [78]
The lamestream media are stunned by Jerry Falwell-founded Liberty University's qualifying for the "March Madness" NCAA basketball tourney, calling it "unlikely". [79]
Why isn't the liberal media championing the selection of the first black Pope by the conclave this week? [80] Because Cardinal Arinze is a conservative.
If the evolutionist Barack Hussein Obama is serious about improving the U.S. economy, he should call the young earth creationist Governor Rick Perry whose state is prospering.[81]
The Bible and biblical creation belief is very friendly to private property and private enterprise.[82][83]
Conservapedia proven right about media bullying: African American Dr. Benjamin Carson observes, "The bullies are ... especially the media who like to just beat on anybody who doesn't toe the line ... they suppress freedom of speech." [84]
Who visits the Question evolution! campaign blog which has received over 350,000 page views?[85]
Also, Russian creationism is seeing tremendous growth and an anti-evolution campaign is expanding into Russia. A creationist sent a member of a Question evolution! campaign group a picture of Vasily Zaytsev's sniper rifle.
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) actually says it's "legal to hunt humans." Crazy? No. She's just being just another legislative aristocrat. [86]
An enthusiastic new Question evolution! campaign volunteer is "definitely interested" in helping to advance the campaign.[87]
Creation.com saw about a 14% increase in web traffic in the last 12 months. Supporters of Creation Ministries International want to help increase the web traffic of Creation.com by about 75% in the next 12 months.
How many Christians will there be in 2050? Does history show that reducing Darwinism increases Christian evangelism?[88]
Also, advanced copies of the Question evolution! campaign book for middle school students has been sent young people in America, Canada and Australia and the initial feedback is very positive.
How does the record of Barack Hussein Obama stack up against the indictments given in the Declaration of Independence? [89]
Are we headed for another stock market crash from quantitative easing? [90]
A historical perspective on communism and socialism, from Ronald Reagan and the Founding Fathers. [91]
Rand Paul continues to draw praise, even from unlikely quarters, for his filibuster over the drone warfare program. [92]
Dr. Duane Gish, a creationist pioneer and winner of over 300 debates with evolutionists at college campuses, went to be with his Creator at the age of 92.[93]
Dr. Gish endorsed the Question evolution! campaign and wished to see it "propagated widely". His vision will be implemented in 2013 via the publishing of a Question evolution book and a widespread dissemination effort. [94][95]
An agnostic is given his second comeuppance. A debate challenge gauntlet is thrown down again.[96]
The biblical creationist community is deepening ties with the internet evangelism community. American internet evangelists are giving tens of millions of gospel presentations per year and their endeavors are expanding.[97]
Rand Paul goes to Washington, in a scene right out of a motion picture (this one). Did he achieve his goal? You decide. [98]
"Another one bites the dust," writes an ABC blog (!) about the resignation by another Dem Senator. [99] The language used by the lamestream media blog suggests even the media want change in the Senate.
A young Christian woman explains why homosexuality is evil and harmful. [100]
The reality of genetic entropy cannot be ignored. Dr. John C. Sanford responds to a pigheaded evolutionist.[101]
The state of the American evangelical church and its future. Is its future bright or gloomy?[102]
Give it up, pro-aborts: Arkansas bans abortion once the unborn child develops a heartbeat. [103]
Creation Ministries International said there was a "huge response" to the Question evolution! campaign in 2012 and they are building on the response with a "Evolution's Achilles' heels" documentary.[104]
A Question evolution! campaign group says the campaign will be spread far wider and to greater depths in 2013.[105]
U.S. to send delegation to Chavez funeral [106]
Did Barack Hussein Obama "jump the shark" on the sequester? Is he now trying to make the whole government live up to the lie? [107]
An atheist website has been overrun by baboons?[108]
"There is divine justice," observed a Venezuelan after the government acknowledged Hugo Chavez's death. "That man made our lives horrible." [109] But the commies will be brutal there in holding on to power.
A popular activist lambastes the Mainstream Media and gives some instructive history on it. [110]
An atheist website which backed down from a debate offer, appears to be struggling in 2013.[111]
It's time to man up atheists and debate Shockofgod and his biology major friend on the 15 questions for evolutionists.
2013 is already starting out to be a very BAD year for Darwinism and atheism. [112]
Creation.com is now a 68,867 ranked site which means it is the 68,867th most popular website in the world according to Alexa. That's even better than February. Citius, altius, fortius!
New Jersey runs a gun buy back program and, as is typical, brings in "pieces" of junk while doling out tax money to criminals. [113]
Hugo Chavez dies. [114]
Bill O'Reilly's latest book project, Killing Jesus, will be less than edifying if O'Reilly doesn't even believe the Bible. [115]
The BBC is spinning tall tales about the early history of the earth and their tales are not credible.[116] Given the UK's deep indebtedness, couldn't British taxpayer money be spent more wisely?
"More than 60 state and local Texas lawmakers signed a letter urging the Boy Scouts of America to maintain policies that support 'family values and moral principles.'" [117] It's no mystery why more people move to Texas than any other state.
Another sign that British Darwinism and British atheism will be brought to their knees.[118]
Like the Joker, the president just wants to sit and watch the world burn. [119]
"Then, from Egypt to Israel: Now from Russia and the U.S." by Bishop Bert [120]
Crisis hitting Darwinism, atheism and agnosticism - Eurocrisis is causing secular Europe to have falling fertility rates. [121]
Biblical creation belief grows in economic hard times plus can do well in prosperous countries.
Professor at a leading American university says secularism, as a social movement and political worldview, has been in a downward trajectory over recent decades in the United States [122]
The agnostic and British academic Eric Kaufmann says "the rate of secularisation has flattened to zero in most of Protestant Europe and France". Also, Kaufmann writes that secularism "appears exhausted and lacking in confidence".[123]
Conservative Florida legislators stop RINO Governor Rick Scott's attempt to impose ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion on the State. [124]
Massive ammunition buys, innocent-lady practice targets, tanks for urban warfare on American streets, and the de facto President says, "I am not a dictator." An analysis: [125]
"Canadian researchers have succeeded in side-stepping an obstacle of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle" and advancing the prospect of quantum computing. [126] The underlying chaos in this world is an example of Biblical scientific foreknowledge.
Lady creation evangelist keeps spreading the word about Creation.com. [127]
Overrated Sports Star Tiger Woods finishes tied for 37th place, and "on the sixth hole ... he hit his drive so far to the right that the ball was never found." [128]
Hollywood crashes: "Estimated total receipts tumbled 35% from the same three-day period last year, making this weekend the sixth in a row that ticket sales have been down compared with a year ago." [129]
Swiss voters to liberal-run Olympics: get lost, we are not going to pay to have you in our country. "Bid organizers say the project is finished after residents of Graubuenden canton (state) voted Sunday not to approve funding." [130]
Mitt Romney still tries hard not to be socially conservative: "The idea that ... the primary made me become more conservative than I was just isn't - isn't accurate." [131]
Weird and oppressive, the atheist North Korean dictator fails to keep a Christian leader from growing Christianity in North Korea.[132]
Colorado company tells gun control Dems that it will move to another state if the legislation passes. [133] Texas and Wyoming welcome the company, which employs hundreds and generates $85 million in annual business, with open "arms"!
What a creationist group did in Texas, they will do in Louisiana - tenfold.[134]
Will the Louisiana evolutionist Zack Kopplin accept a debate offer or will cowardly evolutionists convince him to back down!
Did Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, say that 170 million jobs would fall to the great sequester? Really?!? [135]
The Republican creationist fertility advantage is growing. [136]
More evidence that UK Darwinism is heading towards extinction.[137]
Religious immigrants putting a strain on UK midwife services. White, liberal Darwinists have empty baby cribs.
Is the two-party system merely a gambit to divide and conquer the people? An offbeat activist makes a compelling case. [138]
"The sequestration order implements 9 percent cuts to non-exempt domestic accounts and a 13 percent cut to defense accounts for the period of March 1 to Oct. 1 this year." [139]
This Sunday, March 3rd, 2013, the History Channel (USA) will premier the first of five 2-hour episodes of the "epic docudrama," The Bible.[140]
"Kill that baby!" The sick, twisted games liberals play in public universities. [141]
Even Brits are getting fed up with the liberal drivel that has crept into their schools from American leftists. British kids don't even know what The Nativity was! [142]
Liberal claptrap from Harry Reid: "we cannot solve the problems of this country with cuts, cuts, cuts." [143] Logic dictates otherwise.
A Christian lady is a very excited creation evangelist. She says, "this is exciting." [144]
Why is young earth creationism so exciting and Darwinist dogma so boring?
Is free speech vanishing? A NASCAR driver is suspended indefinitely for what the bigwigs considered to be an "intolerable and insensitive remark" - and they won't say what the remark was! [145] But the driver said his remark was "in no way meant to be disrespectful or insensitive to anyone."
New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie was caught canoodling with Michelle Obama, in the seat of honor at the 2013 Governor's Ball. This further suggests that he has switched sides. [146]
"Sequester cuts are here to stay." [147] Wasn't the president spending time on the golf course with Tiger Woods recently, rather than leading??
Bitter atheists/evolutionists continue to persecute Christians in North Korea. [148]
Richard Dawkins hides in his intellectual bunny hole when asked to criticize the God of the Koran.[149] See also: Atheism and cowardice
The medical missionary Dr. Robert Gurney turns from his old earth views and now advocates young earth creation belief.[150]
Public school values: a high school sophomore catches a long-time teacher stealing money from students' backpacks, and the principal tells the student to delete the video. [151]
Pope Benedict XVI: I offer a warm and affectionate greeting to the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors who have joined me for this, my last General Audience. [152]
"Key provisions of Voting Rights Act appear in jeopardy after high court argument," the lamestream media admit. [153] Massachusetts has lower percentages of black turnout than the South does, yet liberal politicians pretend that federal control of southern elections is still needed.
The Super PAC of limousine liberal Michael Bloomberg pours in $2.2 million to elect a gun control candidate in a heavily Democrat congressional election in Chicago. [154] Too bad for Bloomberg that most Americans are not fooled by that.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie prepares to switch sides – by first going along with Obamacare Medicaid expansion. [155] [156]
Dems focus on Texas to try to make it a swing state with their "Battleground Texas" initiative. [157] How will conservatives respond?
Facebook continues to be the cesspool of the internet: "Lawmakers ask Facebook to remove pages 'exploiting Newtown victims.'" [158]
The Ten Commandments survive another legal challenge, which evaporates when a plaintiff hits the road—literally. Hint: a nomadic plaintiff lacks standing. But a nomadic Ten Commandments will bring The Message out to even more people. [159]
Evolutionary biologists, no jobs for you! [160] See: Worst college majors
The lamestream media insist that it was Fidel Castro who appeared sitting in the Cuban parliament, for only the second time since 2006 when the very sick, elderly Fidel had a major operation and vanished. [161] The lookalike didn't say anything publicly (avoiding a voice comparison), and his height was concealed too (the real Fidel was quite tall).
A poignant tribute written by a young woman who fled communism in a boat, and was saved by Brothers to the Rescue before the Good Samaritans were murdered by commies working for Castro.
"'The House of David,' fact or fiction: Now Revealed" by Bishop Bert [162]
Another noted activist offers a strategy to reach that most vital demographic: the young. This, he says, is the way to end tyranny. [163]
College students compete with high school students for low-paying jobs: "48 percent of college graduates who find work end up with 'mal-employment,' where they work low-paying jobs that do not require a college degree so they can pay back their student loans." [164] Enrolling in the Worst College Majors doesn't help.
More "duh science" from liberals: Joe Biden announces that the government will study the impact of violent video games on youth behavior. [165] Wow, who would have thought that video games might be harming kids???
Conservative Ted Cruz observes that the "longest lasting legacy" of President Obama will be to assist in creating new Republican leaders. [166]
Human Events went the way of the RINO Backers, publishing commentary that bashed pro-life Todd Akin, and now it "may close" if a buyer cannot be found. [167] Perhaps running away from the abortion issue is not the future after all?
Liberal censorship strikes again: the influence of the homosexual agenda forces Tim Tebow to cancel a speaking event at a church.
Is Google attempting to patent liberal bias? "Well-known sites, such as CNN, tend to be preferred to less popular sites, such as Unknown Town News, which users may avoid," a patent application by Google states. [168] Will other liberals need to pay a royalty to Google to be biased??
Newt Gingrich calls Karl Rove out for what he is: a machine politician. [169]
Clergymen say Nana Oye Lithur lacks morals to be a Ghana Minister. [170][171]
Why are so many homosexuality apologists and homosexuals so overweight? See: Homosexuality and obesity and Lesbianism and obesity
Unhitched: A book criticizing the late British-American atheist Christopher Hitchens has been published. Also, see the video Christopher Hitchens a Wasted Life.[172]
Liberal claptrap continues to collapse: "New York Times looks to sell Boston Globe." [173]
Gun control is about confiscation, not reasonable safety measures. They know their measures won't work, but do them anyway. And in unguarded moments, they show why. [174]
Those who doubt the existence of God often deny other truths too: "Lance Armstrong declines to meet deadline imposed by USADA to come clean under oath." [175] His admissions/denials on Oprah Winfrey's show were not under oath.
"Retail gasoline prices have climbed for 33 days in a row," and "experts" are clueless why. [176]
Texas teen scores victory in an abortion battle. Court rules the 16 year-old cannot be forced to kill her unborn child. [177]
It is the Democratic Party that has a "war on women". Colorado State Assemblyman Joe Salazar thinks women should go to "safe zones" or use whistles when they "think" they are about to be raped, and not have a concealed hand gun. [178] See also: [179]
"A Plea for Men (but it doesn't come about by a plea!)", by Bishop Bert [180]
Does evolution turn people into Christians? Does creation cause people to lose the faith?[181]
Theistic evolutionists haven't provided a good explanation of why a loving God would use a cruel method to create.
An answer to old earth creationists, alias progressive creationists or theistic evolutionists, from a young earth perspective. [182]
"W.H. press corps: 'Extreme frustration' over 'having absolutely no access' to Obama." [183] That's because golf courses do not allow teleprompters to tear up the grass, and Obama can't speak coherently without one.
An open letter to Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, urging him to veto a slew of gun control bills the legislature is now considering. [184]
The lamestream media avoid mentioning Super Bowl champion Matt Birk because this Great Conservative Sports Star is an outspoken critic of same-sex marriage. [185] He's started in every NFL game for his team since 2006.
Another perspective of the New Jersey firearms bill hearings that ended badly for liberty. [186]
Sequestration will force $85 billion in long-overdue spending cuts, as Dems offer nothing but liberal denial in reaction to them.
The Nature of peer review: Known creationists blacklisted at major journals.[187]
There will be a new Pope. Will Darwinism have less and less influence within Roman Catholicism? [188]
Setback for liberal indoctrination by public schools: a school board in Canada considers reducing to only a four-day week. [189]
The Mainstream Media are acting like Officer Barbrady: "Nothing to see here! Move on!" When in fact there's a lot to see, and people need to watch out. [190]
With communists and the liberal media insisting that Hugo Chavez is alive and recovering, despite disappearing for two months after checking in very sick to a Cuban hospital, why isn't Barack Obama wishing Chavez a speedy recovery?? Amid its promotion of Chavez, the New York Times admits that some question whether Chavez is still alive. [191]
Is an atheist wiki cowardly backing down to creationists? The atheist website has yet to accept a debate offer to debate the 15 questions for evolutionists. [192]
The debate gauntlet has once again been thrown down. Will the editors of this wiki be man enough to accept this debate challenge?
More liberal claptrap by Nancy Pelosi as she opposes an automatic congressional pay cut: "I think it's necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we [are] rewarded." [193] Congressmen need high salaries to boost their self-esteem???
Liberal "math" still can't get around the fact that a certain liberal political party has a problem with numbers. It's proven beyond any doubt that with Democrats in control of Congress, revenue goes down, the surplus disappears, and the deficit goes up. [194]
Pro-life advances: "Arkansas May Pass The Nation's Most Restrictive Abortion Ban, Even Without The Governor's Support." [195] Arkansas is one of five states in which a simple legislative majority can override a governor's veto.
"Mark Twain, the ice storm, and Jesus Christ" by Bishop Bert [196]
The Second Amendment is our most important Constitutional liberty. A Tea Party activist reviews the Constitution and other laws, and also asks: why is the Department of Homeland Security buying billions of rounds of ammunition? [197]
Blimey! The United Kingdom viewership of Creation.com is up 62.37% since September 8, 2012. More Brits are sick of evolutionary rubbish![198]
The agnostic and former militant atheist Richard Dawkins loses a debate at the University of Cambridge by a vote of 324 votes to 136 votes. [199]
Ashes are administered at D.C. Union Station to a welcoming public: "Some almost charged over when they saw the untraditional pop-up chapel in the crowds, cutting off other commuters." [200]
Executive orders cannot carry the force of law. But Barack Hussein Obama hopes they do. An activist tells what's wrong with that. [201]
People are rejecting liberal claptrap: The audience for Obama's State of the Union address plummeted by more than 20%, nearing his record low for all of his speeches. [202] Nearly 10 million Americans turned off their TV when Obama appeared.
Conservative Senator Marco Rubio is a "loser" and "a token slave boy" according to "a top assistant to a Univisión news boss," the Spanish-language network. [203] Fair and balanced media??
The Olympics, caving into political correctness, drop wrestling from its program, while retaining joke sports. [204] A war against wrestling has been waged by feminists at the college level under the proportionality test, causing elimination of hundreds of those teams too.
Russian parliamentarians, led by State Duma Deputy Vyacheslav Lysakov, have proposed a change to the Secondary History curriculum to include faith-based alternatives to Darwin's evolutionary theory.[205] Is secular Europe next?
POPE BENEDICT XVI WILL STEP DOWN Cites Age as Reason for Decision With Few Precedents. [206] [207]
"What Does 'Tautology' Mean? Education Secretary Doesn't Know." [208] In wasting time, Dem Sen. Al Franken's odd remark prompted the admission.
The high cost of the global warming hoax: inadequately prepared power companies that waste money on green energy leave "more than 345,000 still without power after Northeast snowstorm." [209]
"Honoring Christ, now and then" by Bishop Bert [210]
Will Charles Darwin's former residence, Down House, be converted to a Creation Museum?[211]
The Museum of Scientific Atheism in Leningrad was restored to a church by order of the the former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Looking back at how C. S. Lewis, though he began as an atheist, came to question, then to reject, evolution. Hint: evolutionists still have not learned any lessons. [212]
Looks like Conservapedia was right yet again: Evidence suggests it was not a faulty relay switch, as the lamestream media claimed, which caused the 35-minute Super Bowl blackout: "Relays don't fail on their own, or it's relatively rare," observes an expert. [213]
Obama Administration approves "wind farm developer to move on project that could kill 8 – 14 bald eagles per year." [214] Where's opposition by "environmentalist groups" - perhaps their agenda is not really to protect vulnerable species like bald eagles after all??
An asteroid will make a close pass at earth. And in so doing, it makes the case for the Great Flood. Hint: if it formed as the evolutionists say it formed, it could not come back this close to earth. [215]
Snowstorm hits the land of the biggest promoters of the global warming hoax: New York City and Boston. "1 to 3 feet feared." [216]
Is your wallet a little lighter these days? It's called the increased costs of Obamacare: [217]
Inspired and motivated by leftist hate. The shooter at the Family Research Center last year pleads guilty, and admits he was motivated to do so after seeing it listed as "anti-gay" at the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center website. [218]
This particular connection - and "hate" map published by the SPLC and touted by CNN - was ignored by the major news media. [219][220]
Great conservative sports star Curt Schilling says that the Boston baseball organization tried unsuccessfully to get him to do drugs. [221] That's pathetic when administrators are pushing drugs.
Barack Hussein Obama orders drone warfare against American citizens abroad (thus far). And the Mainstream Media barely say a word. With some notable exceptions. [222] And by the way: it is unconstitutional. [223]
Neocon Fox News Channel, pathetic on the social issues, purges the wrong people in a desperate attempt to halt its ratings slide. [224] Fox has been the platform for RINO Backers like Karl Rove.
Clash Daily's Steve Sheldon, a self-described "lifelong shotgunner," offers details on why Barack Hussein Obama's alleged skeet shooting photo looks staged.[225]
Breitbart.com comments on Barack Obama's Skeetgate.[226]
Obama's "skeet shooting" is about as convincing as Michael Dukakis' "tank commanding".[227]
Barack Hussein Obama engages in fake skeet shooting![228]
Obama's "shotgun is aimed straight ahead, where all skeet shooters we know of, including ourselves, follow the arc of the clay once the shooter yells 'Pull!' Shooting straight is simply not doable, unless he is shooting at the person releasing the clay from its boot housing." [229]
Tea Party to Karl Rove: Thank You Very Much! [230]
Gun control is not about guns; it's about control. Josef Stalin understood this, and now even Joe Biden had to admit it. [231]
Al Gore's disastrous book tour: a breath of fresh air! [232]
"Magnitude 8 Quake Near Solomon Islands Triggers Tsunami," yet liberal denial persists about how increases in large earthquakes are a counterexample to an Old Earth. [233]
A former Girl Scout shares some of her memories. WARNING! They are NOT pretty. [234]
A week of speechmaking for school choice is not enough, says this activist. Now the real work begins. [235]
As Barack Hussein Obama continues his attack on the Second Amendment, a long-time activist steps forward to defend it. [236]
As the Boy Scouts prepare to take their vote, a Tea Party activist reminds them of some disturbing history. [237]
The Superdome, powered by heavily regulated electricity, 26,000 LED lights, pushed by green energy zealots...just what could go wrong? [238] The whole world is now a witness to it!
"Nearly half of college students who graduated in 2010 are holding down jobs that don't require a bachelor's degree, while 38% are in positions that don't require even a high school diploma." [239] Worst College Majors and Obama's economic policies are two big reasons.
Harvard Kennedy School Panel on Davos Forum: "'The mood of the meeting was absolutely different from last year,' said Felipe Calderon." [240]
Is government replacing the church, by using tax money for things that tithes are supposed to pay for? And whose fault is that? Might it be ourselves, for letting this happen? [241]
Barack Hussein Obama did not really change his Contraceptive Mandate. The basic idea is still in place, and now he tries to separate faith from business, by order of the government. [242]
"Gallup: Conservatives Outnumber Liberals in 47 Out of 50 States." [243]
"Sensitivity training will start post-Super Bowl after the anti-gay remarks made" by a 49ers player. [244] The homosexual agenda is at odds with the right to free speech.
Mark Levin pretends to defend the Constitution but will allow no protest of its most serious breach to date: that de facto President Barack Hussein Obama is not a natural born citizen. [245]
Liberal Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey has much to explain. But why did New Jersey's voters wait until he did something like this (assuming it's true) after he violated the Constitution so many times? [246] UPDATE: The former leader of the effort to recall Menendez from the Senate made this statement.
A former Eagle Scout calls on the Boy Scouts of America to reject calls to allow open homosexuality in the ranks of its members and adult leaders. [247] UPDATE: The head of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays weighs in on the same subject: [248]
A Tea Party and education activist has this message for those concerned with failing schools: stand on your own two feet! Includes a resource for homeschooling. [249]
Another major "missing link" of evolutionism fails.[250] If there is one thing evolutionists are good at, it is failing!
Is Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) who challenged Barack Hussein Obama to a skeet shooting contest, better at skeet shooting than Obama? Was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis better at skeet shooting than Obama? [251]
Despite claiming to skeet shoot, Obama can't provide any witnesses or other evidence that he has ever engaged in skeet shooting.
Question: Why are liberal girly men so afraid of guns and skeet shooting contests?
"The Matzah Ball and the Sign of the Cross," by Bishop Bert [252]
"College Students Get Stung By ObamaCare." [253] And students in the Worst College Majors are hit particularly hard by the huge increase in premiums, as they have little future income.
Is a coup d'état in America in the offing? Here is the evidence; you can decide. And maybe persuade your local sheriff to prepare to fight it, if he hasn't already signed on to do just that. [254]
A children's morality play about makers and takers – in real life, with no script. [255]
Australia has its largest ever creation supercamp. Global creationism is expanding via international networking.[256]
The response from a group of young people attending the creation supercamp was "overwhelmingly positive".
Ken Cuccinelli observes that Justice Antonin Scalia is not conservative enough anymore. [257] Cuccinelli is likely to defeat the liberal media and win the governorship of Virginia, a key swing state.
A Tea Party activist calls the Mainstream Media on two major reporting failures – including the Sandy Hook massacre. Read it; it might surprise you. [258]
In the battle over biblical authority there is a key position that is critical to hold against the enemy's attack, and that position is the age of the earth. [259]
101 evidences for a young earth and universe.[260]
An analysis of Barack Hussein Obama's inauguration speech: [261]
Obama's tax increase causes consumer confidence to plummet to only 58.6, far below its value of 100 when Ronald Reagan was president. [262]
The terrifying mindset of Hillary Rodham Clinton: [263]
The "hockey stick" hoaxter whines about the funding given to opponents of global warming. [264]
Why does a butterfly have the face of a snake on its wings? Check out these examples [265] and ask yourself if it's either 1), the animals involved knew exactly what they were doing - which smacks of a higher intelligence - or 2), God created it.
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More than 22,000 boat people, many fleeing political unrest in North Africa, have arrived on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa this year. The growing intensity of the fighting in Libya has spurred more people to flee in recent weeks. Not all survive the trip. About 150 people drowned on April 6 when their boat capsized in rough seas. The new flow of North African immigrants into Italy is putting church teaching on immigration to the test.
Church leaders have underlined the broad right to emigrate, the specific rights of refugees and the responsibility of wealthier nations to welcome those in need. But their moral advocacy has provoked criticism and even derision among some Italians. Because Lampedusa lies only 90 miles off the North African coast, it has long been the gateway to Europe for North Africans. Residents have complained that the island's infrastructure is overwhelmed. Authorities have been relocating new arrivals to other Italian regions—whose residents seem not to want them either.
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, president of the Italian bishops' conference, has called on Europe to recognize that Italy cannot handle the migration flow by itself. European bishops meeting on April 3 agreed, arguing that the crisis "requires the solidarity of all European countries and their institutions." But Cardinal Bagnasco also reminded Italians that the current immigration emergency stems in part from long-standing global inequities. He said Europe cannot keep out the world's poor simply by patrolling its borders.
"It is an illusion to think that one can live in peace, keeping at a distance young populations that are burdened by deprivation and that are legitimately trying to satisfy their hunger," the cardinal said. Persuading these people to remain in their homeland will require implementation of "policies of true cooperation," he said.
The church suffered a significant political backlash in the current climate. Several groups and newspapers proposed that the Vatican open up convents, seminaries and its own unrented apartments to immigrants. In fact, Caritas Italy has already arranged to lodge some 2,500 in church institutions. Church leaders said they wanted to show that they practice what they preach and called on all Italians to make a "new effort of solidarity," despite the nation's own prolonged economic downturn.
This is not a popular message these days, but it is very much part of traditional church teaching on immigration. The responsibility to welcome the stranger has roots in the Bible, and as Pope Benedict XVI recently noted, Jesus was himself a refugee when the Holy Family fled into Egypt. The "right to emigrate" was defended in 1952 in an apostolic constitution by Pope Pius XII, who also noted that states may control the flow of migration, but not for arbitrary reasons.
Immigrants make up 7.5 percent of Italy's population. Demographers say that immigrants, most of whom are young, help balance Italy's aging population and low birth rate. But some political parties maintain that immigration has reached the saturation point.
Archbishop Antonio Veglio, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, has said that while governments have a legitimate right to regulate immigration, "there is nevertheless the human right to be rescued and given emergency help." Behind that statement lies a fact sometimes cited by church experts: Over the past 23 years, more than 15,000 migrants have died trying to reach Europe—a toll that grows daily.


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A new year meant a new 'do for Tamera Mowry-Housley — but a mom-friendly "wash and go hairstyle" isn't the only resolution on her list in 2014.
She and her twin sister, Instant Mom star Tia Mowry-Hardrict, have enough resolutions for all 12 months.
"I want to find a balance of family and work," Mowry-Housley, 35, tells PEOPLE. "I think that when you find that balance it just makes things a lot easier."
Mowry-Hardrict — mom to 2½-year-old son Cree Taylor –agrees that continuing to make family the center of her life is key this year, but then there's also the matter of that patch of grass in her yard.
"I am working on having my own garden as we speak," she adds.
"A vegetable garden [filled with] tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, and then some herbs like oregano — we love oregano in this family! I'm excited because I want my son to participate, he loves gardens."
Even more important than a personal and professional balance for Mowry-Housley — whose talk show, The Real, returns this fall — is turning her house into a place where her 14-month-old son Aden John Tanner, who will soon be walking, can play comfortably with his friends.
"Kids can come over, my family members can come over," she says. "There's a difference between having a house and having a home."
But there's one resolution that pops up on both of their lists every year, and they are already well on their way to fulfilling it.
"Every single year I just like to find a way to give back," says Mowry-Housley, referring to their latest partnership with the Let's Bubble campaign created by Scrubbing Bubbles. Through an online contest, people can nominate a place that needs a cleaning with a little elbow grease — whether it be a preschool potty, a community center rec room or school kitchen. The winning location receives a grand-prize clean up and a $500 donation.
Just a few weeks in, 2014 has already been a year of coming clean for Mowry-Housley about something that has been plaguing her since she wed her husband, Fox news correspondent Adam Housley, in 2011. Twitter was abuzz when she revealed on Oprah Winfrey's Where Are They Now? show on Friday that she is the target of racist comments because she is married to a white man.
"People choose to look past love and spew hate," she said. "I get called 'white man's whore.'"
Telling others about what she's been going through – mostly via comments on Twitter — has been a learning experience.
"What I've learned, honestly, is people who are saying this, it's their issue, it's their hate," she tells PEOPLE. "As long as you don't pass that along and be a part of that hate, you can be a change in the world. And that's the reason why, honestly, I chose to speak of it."
Since going public with her struggle she's feeling the love from her family and beyond. "My father is very proud of me, my mother is very proud of me, and also interracial couples are very proud of me," she says. "It was very important to voice it, but at the same time move on from it and focus on positivity from now on."
Mowry-Hardrict, who is married to a black man, actor/singer Cory Hardrict, has been a target for hatred too and looks to one of her idols for inspiration on how to handle it.
"My son is already being called names on Twitter, on Instagram, inappropriate racial slurs and names," she says. "But how I raise my son is the way Martin Luther King would approach the situation, it's all about turning the other cheek and all about just showing love."
"I'm very happy [about] the outpouring of love from so many interracial couples and just people in general," Mowry-Housley adds. "It's great to know that love outweighs negativity and love always wins."
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Old-School Vvvvvrrrooooom: Scouts, Chiefs & Their Wacky Precursors
I admit it. I'm attracted to shiny objects in general, and the Indian motorcycles video posted on Motortopia this morning stole my heart away.
And yes, I'm a history nerd, so my initial attraction was sealed once I learned more about them. Here are some fun facts about my new favorite ride.
#1. Yes, it took awhile for co-founder George Hendee to catch on to the "motor" part of "motorcycle." He started off as a champion cyclist, and for a few years held the speed record for the "High Wheel" on a half-mile dirt track — 2 minutes and 27.4 seconds.
#2. It took a watch case maker to get the whole "motor" thing going. Young immigrant Oscar Hedstrom was an apprentice for a watchmaker, but ever since he'd come to Brooklyn as a boy, he'd loved to ride his bike round the city.
#3. Put two cyclists together, add a little engine know-how and you get … (more…)


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1658 Jansson Map of the Indian Ocean (Erythrean Sea) in AntiquityErythraeanSea-jansson-1658
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Unusual mapping of the Indian Ocean in antiquity.
1658 (undated) 16 x 19 in (40.64 x 48.26 cm)
Jan Jansson or Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664) was born in Arnhem, Holland. He was the son of a printer and bookseller and in 1612 married into the cartographically prominent Hondius family. Following his marriage he moved to Amsterdam where he worked as a book publisher. It was not until 1616 that Jansson produced his first maps, most of which were heavily influenced by Blaeu. In the mid 1630s Jansson partnered with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, to produce his important work, the eleven volume Atlas Major. About this time, Jansson's name also begins to appear on Hondius reissues of notable Mercator/Hondius atlases. Jansson's last major work was his issue of the 1646 full edition of Jansson's English Country Maps. Following Jansson's death in 1664 the company was taken over by Jansson's brother-in-law Waesberg.


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Elasmobranch scanner tech ready for War on Terror
Pork-based artificial shark goes to sea
The US Navy's plan to detect mines and other underwater objects by their electrical fields - in the same way as sharks and rays find prey - has moved closer to reality.
Elasmobranch fish (rays, sharks and suchlike critters) have various senses, including relatively conventional vision and smell. But they also have slime-filled "canals" in their heads known as "the ampullae of Lorenzini," after the Florentine court doctor who documented them in 1678. (In seventeenth-century Florence, the ducal physician was apparently expected to dissect any sharks that happened to turn up.)
The slime tubules, it later turned out, are effectively biological voltmeters with sensitivities as fine as a few microvolts. Sharks use them to detect the bioelectric fields of bottom-feeding flatfish lying concealed in sand or mud, so as to scoff them.
Normally, when the US Navy figures out that a marine lifeform has a useful ability, they simply sign a few creatures up on a fish-based remuneration package. The USN has a large force of dolphin and sea lion mercenaries on its books, and in the past has experimented with killer whales, pilot whales and even trained seagulls. Apparently, "trainability assessments" were carried out on sharks too; but it seems that USN handlers never really felt comfortable working with them. Jaws just isn't as nice as Flipper, apparently. For whatever reason, there are no sharks on the Navy payroll today, though there are - of course - plans afoot to use them as remote control brain-chipped zombie slaves.
Meanwhile the USN was envious of the sharks' amazing sensing abilities, for all that these seem to be quite limited. Experiments indicate (pdf) that a shark needs to pass within 15cm of a hidden flatfish in order to pick it up on slime-scan. Of course, circuitry in a sea mine could provide a stronger signal than bottom-feeders' bioelectricity, but on the face of it the shark's abilities aren't that impressive.
Nonetheless, in 2005 the Navy signed up three separate companies to pursue shark-in-a-box style sensor tech which could be used in coastal waters where conventional sonar tends to struggle.
"The shark operates in this difficult environment with great success," said the Navy boffins, no doubt having viewed Jaws a few times.
They were looking for a piece of kit no bigger than three feet long and 4.75 inches in diameter which could be used by Navy divers underwater. It was specified that under Phases I and II of the project "two or three prototypes" would be developed. Phase III approval would mean that "this system will have immediate use in surveillance and monitoring operations with Homeland Security, Global War on Terrorism, Joint Forces Operations, and future combat systems."
Which brings us up to Monday, when it was announced that:
"QUASAR Federal Systems, Inc. of San Diego is being awarded a $6,000,000 ... Phase III contract for ... 'Shark Weak Electromagnetic (EM) Field Detection for Moving Objects.' The objective is to develop a covert/low-observable sensor system for detecting and classifying small, slow moving surface or subsurface bodies in coastal shallow water, bays, port areas, or waterways utilizing weak EM signals or field deviations. This technology has broad applications for both DoD and other Defense agencies. Work ... is expected to be completed in June 2012."
So there we have it. Pork handouts have enabled the building of prototype shark-in-box gear, and we ought to see it at sea from 2012.
Bottom-feeding enemies of America beware.®


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Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison recently revealed that he has written 40 potential songs for the band's upcoming album. With it being Slipknot's first album since the death of bassist Paul Gray, Jordison also goes into detail about how the record will act as a proverbial exorcism for the band.
During an interview with Terrorizer, Jordison opened up about the development of Slipknot's upcoming album. "So far, I've written and recorded 40 songs," says the drummer. "And so I'm writing alone until we can all come together. Then we can start playing and go from there. That's how we wrote 'Prelude', 'The Blister Exists'. It's how we start a lot of songs."
Jordison continues, "This will be our deepest, most celebrated record. The journey is that we are trying to live our lives, just like everyone else is trying to live theirs. We all have weird s–t in our lives and a lot of our songs reflect that. On the next record, we will be exorcising, getting out a lot of the crap that I think, personally, we have held in too much, against each other."
The drummer also commented on Slipknot's new live bassist Donnie Steele and his position in the band. "The other guy [Donnie] is not allowed onstage, no f—ing way," said Jordison, echoing recent comments from percussionist Clown. "He is behind the stage and he does a great job. We are nine people and we, unfortunately, lost one. But it doesn't matter; we are still nine. We can never replace Paul."
Check out Joey Jordison's full interview in the July 2012 edition of Terrorizer.


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Spiritual Support Tips for Alzheimers Caregivers
By Maureen Pratt
Caring for someone with Alzheimer's disease is long, arduous, and draining journey. The strongest spirit can sag beneath the weight of loss and loneliness, and peace of heart can seem impossible. Yet, in times of darkest challenge, faith and the comfort that we draw from it can make the difference between stumbling and carrying on, between despair and resilience. Much like how we nourish our bodies, doing things that will feed our souls can help us through these hard days and nights, and provide immense support for the trials and, yes, the graces, that come with this journey.