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Genetics bill cruises through Senate

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:22:40 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Unanimous vote welcomed by personal genomics companies.

The unanimous vote last week by the US Senate to outlaw discrimination against people on the basis of their genetic information is being celebrated by civil-rights groups, which have long campaigned for the safeguards. Personal-genomics companies are also cracking open the champagne — they have a lot to gain from the bill becoming law.

Once enacted, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) will forbid employers and health insurers from using people's genetic information against them in decisions on hiring, firing, promotion and insurance coverage and pricing. The House of Representatives should pass the legislation this week, after which it is expected to be signed into law by President George W. Bush.

The bill bans US employers from collecting genetic information from their employees, and ensures that insurers can't request or require people to take genetic tests.

Tags: genetics, law, united states, privacy

How to Take a Healthy Power Nap

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:46:20 GMT

clipped by: AScomputer

Clip Source: www.sleep-aid-center.com

How to Take a Healthy Power Nap

A power nap is a short nap, normally between 10 and 30 minutes long, taken in the middle of the day in order to reinvigorate and refresh you for the next part of the day. Power naps are not similar to normal sleep, so you will not be groggy after taking one. While you might have “dreams”, power naps are more similar to meditation, where thoughts are allowed to move from the sub-conscious mind to the conscious mind and back again without you concentrating on them.

How to Power Nap Effectively:

- Don`t be shame

- Choose a time of the day

- Choose a quiet, location to power nap.

- Collect your equipment

- Eat right

- Turn off the phone.

- Add darkness to your room

- Find some music to listen

- Wake up on time

napping:

- boost in productivity and energy at work

- increased motivation

- improved ability to concentrate,

- better mood

Tags: nap, power nap

Questions Requiring Anwers of Evolutionists

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:55:19 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings
clipper's remarks: Thoughtful scientists ponder questions such as these and arrive at their hypotheses and then experiment to prove or disprove those hypotheses. Therefore I am calling on all evolutionists to ponder these points of fact and offer us some answers.

Care to tackle this experiment?

Clip Source: www.christiancourier.com

Here is a most interesting problem. How does something come from nothing?

Something cannot come from nothing. But something is. Thus, something always has been. That “Something” that always has been is not “matter” (as demonstrated by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which implies that matter is not eternal).

How can something non-living produce a living creature? Centuries ago scientists demonstrated that the theory of “spontaneous generation,” i.e., life bursting into existence on its own, is without supporting evidence. Francesco Redi (1626-97) and Louis Pasteur (1822-95), through careful experimentation debunked the notion that life can generate itself.

How did a highly organized, fully integrated body with cooperating parts (and all cells are highly organized; see Jackson, 2000, 6-14) develop from a mass of mere matter?

Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), a German pathologist, popularized the “cell theory,” namely that “every cell originates from another cell like it.”

Tags: evolution, creation, hypothesis, science, experiment

"Are the Gospels Myth?"

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:12:05 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado

Clip Source: insightscoop.typepad.com

January 11, 49 B.C. is one of the most famous dates in the history of ancient Rome, even of the ancient world. On that date Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River, committing himself and his followers to civil war. Few, if any, historians doubt that the event happened. On the other hand, numerous skeptics claim that the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are myth and have no basis in historical fact. Yet, as historian Paul Merkley pointed out two decades ago in his article, "The Gospels as Historical Testimony," far less historical evidence exists for the crossing of the Rubicon than does for the events depicted in the Gospels:

Merkley observed that those skeptics who either scoff at the historical reliability of the Gospels or reject them outright as "myth" do so without much, if any, regard for the nature of history in general and the contents of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in particular.

Read the entire article...

Tags: gospel, bible, scriptures, catholic, christianity

Senate Democrats Eye Gas Price Relief Bill

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:12:15 GMT

clipped by: jatfla
clipper's remarks: So NOW they decide that it's time to do something? Amazing. And their suggestions....those too are amazing. All the while we sit on top of our own resources and limit our own independent options. Politicians. A pox on all of them.

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Senate Democrats Eye Gas Price Relief Bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has quietly tasked members of his caucus with crafting a bill he can move quickly to a vote to help give relief from soaring gas prices.

thousands of truck drivers descended on Washington, D.C., Monday demanding relief from the soaring prices,

A senior Democratic leadership aide said the bill is still in its infancy despite nearly two weeks of trying.

accepting ideas from freezing additions to the underground Strategic Petroleum Reserve to get-tough measures on price-gouging and energy market manipulation.

McCain has also proposed a gas tax holiday in which the U.S. would suspend the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day

a demand that the Bush administration put pressure on Saudi Arabia and other OPEC-member nations to increase oil supplies and bring down prices.

Bats On a Freefall Toward Extinction

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:17:54 GMT

clipped by: papananook

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Bats have been dying by the thousands recently in the Northeastern United States. No one knows why, and it may be months, perhaps years, before the cause is determined.

Meanwhile, scientists predict that this summer there will be a population explosion of insects, which bats normally eat in large quantities. Greater numbers of beetles and moths could mean severe and costly losses for farmers and timber producers. There could also be bigger swarms of mosquitoes and other biting bugs, which will mean more discomfort for all of us.The perplexing bat affliction is called white-nose syndrome. Bat biologists have called it the “gravest threat to bats ever known.” Whether its cause is eventually found to be a toxic substance in the environment, a newly emergent infectious disease, lack of food, or something else, it’s clear that this latest blow to bats — and it is only the latest in a long list of injuries — could bring about the regional disappearance of one or more species.

Religious Books

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:49:01 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: Not sure how they're doing it, but there are bunch of religious books, all available for pdf download.

The site is clean, but you'll get the Ads when you try to download.

Clip Source: revelation-online.blogspot.com

Agnosticism (1)

Archaeology (3)

Art and Architecture (4)

Bible Study (9)

Bible Translation (4)

Biblical Study (41)

Biography (17)

Buddhism (6)

Calvinism (3)

Catholicism (18)

Christian Living (35)

Christianity (87)

Hinduism (3)

History (105)

Islam (66)

New Testament (19)

Old Testament (9)

Other Religions / Practices (3)

Tags: religion, books, ebooks

Tallest man's bike

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:39:40 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: englishrussia.com

World’s tallest man, that is living in Ukraine has got a present from an engineer. A new bike that can suit his needs. This guy is 8 feet 5.5 inch tall (2 m 57 cm), see how the regular things look when compared with him:

Tags: interesting

global food market speculators

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:43:04 GMT

clipped by: pascual
clipper's remarks: spiegel

Clip Source: www.spiegel.de

Commodity speculation spread long ago from standard products like oil and gold to anything edible and available for trade on the Chicago Futures Exchange. These days there are futures contracts for everything from wheat to oranges to pork bellies. The futures market is a traditional tool for farmers to sell their harvests ahead of time. In a futures contract, quantities, prices and delivery dates are fixed, sometimes even before crops have been planted. Futures contracts allow farmers and grain wholesalers a measure of protection against adverse weather conditions and excessive price fluctuations. They can also help a farmer plan how much to plant for a given year.

But now speculators are taking advantage of this mechanism.

Tags: society, economy

Environmentalists and Unions Rejoice as UK Runs Out of Gas

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:42:58 GMT

clipped by: ColoradoRight
clipper's remarks: Back to walking, peasants.

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Petrol stations have started to run dry as thousands of motorists ignored appeals not to panic-buy ahead of a strike this weekend at one of Britain's biggest oil refineries.

A number of filling stations in the Edinburgh area reported severe shortages as queues of cars formed and customers reportedly stockpiled fuel by filling up jerry cans before paying.

There were also reports of petrol stations running out of diesel. The shortages come after a Government minister warned he could not gaurantee that "every garage forecourt would have petrol".

In Glasgow, some garages had imposed limits and several had completely runout of unleaded fuel.

Food Riots Erupt Worldwide

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:55:45 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie
clipper's remarks: The real culprits are the economic ideologies of free trade and interest driven growth which, masquerading as science, drive disastrous policy decisions.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Over the last few decades, the United States, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have used their leverage to impose devastating policies on developing countries. By requiring countries to open up their agriculture market to giant multinational companies, by insisting that countries dismantle their marketing boards and by persuading them to specialize in exportable cash crops such as coffee, cocoa, cotton and even flowers, they have driven the poorest countries into a downward spiral.

In the last thirty years, developing countries that used to be self-sufficient in food have turned into large food importers.

Dismantling of marketing boards that kept commodities in a rolling stock to be released in event of a bad harvest, thus protecting both producers and consumers against sharp rises or drops in prices, has further worsened the situation.

support a country's effort to manage stocks and pricing

promote production and consumption of local crops raised by small,

farms

Tags: economy, trade, i-policy, i-consequences, i-starvation

a telemarketer counter-script

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:54:09 GMT

clipped by: boozich
clipper's remarks: just to have a bit of fun with a cheaply paid, poor schmuck from India

Clip Source: www.xs4all.nl

The Direct Marketing sector regards the telephone as one of its most successful tools. Consumers experience telemarketing from a completely different point of view: more than 92% perceive commercial telephone calls as a violation of privacy.
Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance.

Tags: optional. separate by commas.

You might want to start stockpiling food, says WSJ

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:00:17 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: Food prices are going up faster than any of your investments are gaining value... so you might want to invest in, say, rice, or dried pasta. "Wheat prices have roughly tripled in the last three years."

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

R.O.I.

By BRETT ARENDS

Load Up the Pantry
April 21, 2008 6:47 p.m.

I don't want to alarm anybody, but maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food.

You've seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, they're a long way away from the U.S. But most foodstuffs operate in a global market. When the cost of wheat soars in Asia, it will do the same here.

Reality: Food prices are already rising here much faster than the returns you are likely to get from keeping your money in a bank or money-market fund. And there are very good reasons to believe prices on the shelves are about to start rising a lot faster.

The reason? The prices of many underlying raw materials have risen much more quickly still. Wheat prices, for example, have roughly tripled in the past three years.

Tags: economics, food, bad_news, news, opinion, money, international

Gore busted using fictional footage.

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:22:22 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: I guess it is appropriate since his work is fiction.

Clip Source: newsbusters.org

On Friday, it was revealed by ABC News that one of the famous shots of supposed Antarctic ice shelves in the film was actually a computer-generated image from the 2004 science fiction blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow." [audio available here]

Adding delicious insult to injury, this was presented by one of ABC's foremost global warming alarmists Sam Champion during Friday's "20/20":

SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Wait a minute, that shot looks just like the one in the opening credits of "The Day After Tomorrow."

KAREN GOULEKAS (VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR)

Yeah, that's, that's our shot. That's a fully computer generated shot. There's nothing real in there.

SAM CHAMPION (ABC NEWS)

(Voiceover) Audiences expect Hollywood to twist fact into fiction. But Gore's documentary does the opposite, using a fake shot to make a real point, that ice shelves are disappearing, and vanishing ice means global warming.

Teddy's schedule: so sweet

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:55:45 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: This really seems like such a tender and sweet thing to do for a child. What did the toys do while the child was away?

I would love to do this for my daughter one day. I must remember!

Clip Source: lauragunn.typepad.com

Before Lily rushed off to school this morning she left me some very detailed instructions for Teddy. It's not the first time she's given me instructions for him, but in the past it's been something like, "Mom, can you sew Teddy's head back on?"

So as proof that I accomplished something today I have photographed Teddy at his various activities.

Tags: childhood, teddy, photos, love, tenderness, magic

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Genetics bill cruises through Senate

How to Take a Healthy Power Nap

Questions Requiring Anwers of Evolutionists

"Are the Gospels Myth?"

Senate Democrats Eye Gas Price Relief Bill

Senate Democrats Eye Gas Price Relief Bill

Bats On a Freefall Toward Extinction

Religious Books

Info

Tallest man's bike

global food market speculators

Environmentalists and Unions Rejoice as UK Runs Out of Gas

Food Riots Erupt Worldwide

a telemarketer counter-script

You might want to start stockpiling food, says WSJ

Load Up the PantryApril 21, 2008 6:47 p.m.

Gore busted using fictional footage.

Teddy's schedule: so sweet

Load Up the Pantry
April 21, 2008 6:47 p.m.