tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56015744340605235742011-12-13T11:55:23.572-06:00Low-life humanoid types, bow down low before the presence of the great <b><i>Pooch Doggy Dog!</i></b>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.comBlogger15031100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-74750510081015168692010-05-02T08:22:00.011-05:002010-05-02T09:30:31.335-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/S92A1YHJqMI/AAAAAAAADhg/tHak1TPnCpE/s1600/SurgeonsOR.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 155px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/S92A1YHJqMI/AAAAAAAADhg/tHak1TPnCpE/s200/SurgeonsOR.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466667177191516354" /></a><br /><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Once upon a time I needed surgery. A very difficult surgery. A one slip of the scalpel and hasta la vista, baby! </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">So, how do I pick a surgeon?</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A fact:</div><div><ul><li><b>I do not have technical ability to understand good surgery skills from poor surgery skills.</b></li></ul><div>That leaves me dependent on the opinions of those who do have the ability to understand the difference between a good surgeon and a bad surgeon. I find as many doctors and medical professionals as I can and ask them to recommend a good surgeon. I ask them to ask their doctor friends for their recommendations to be forwarded on to me.</div><div><br /></div><div>In other words, I pull in expert opinion, and attempt to determine the Venn diagram unions of opinion; the surgeons that are thought of highly by many other surgeons.</div><div><br /></div><div>But, there is another tool I have at my disposal...</div><div><ul><li><b>I can search plain old boring data.</b></li></ul><div>How many of these type operations did the surgeons perform and how many turned out well for the patient?</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(Admittedly, this data might be hard to find, and the amount of data might not be sufficiently large to be of value. Nonetheless, the point remains that if available it would be of potentially great value.)</span></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Let's change the scenario... </i></div><div><br /></div><div>All the oncologists in the world have been raptured to heaven. And, I have cancer! They were kind enough to leave their drugs behind. But, I have to plot my own course of therapy. </div><div><br /></div><div>How to do?</div><div><br /></div><div>Well, they left behind their cars and planes and cell phones. That won't help. But, more useful to me, they left behind their statistics!</div><div><br /></div><div>I am white, 50ish, Norwegian-German and extremely brilliant and good looking in the consensus opinion of the opposite sex. A little Klooney-like. But, I digress.</div><div><br /></div><div>I find there are three drug protocols used for my condition by oncologists. Which to use? By analysis of the protocols, I determine that when applied to white, middle-aged Norwegian-Germans that protocol #3 is decidedly better. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">(Interestingly, for those of Mediterranean descent, protocol #3 is a pretty lousy choice.)</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Fact:</div><div><ul><li><b>Many scientific questions can only be answered by data and statistics.</b></li></ul><div>My surgery was a success, I have been cured of cancer and my fertile mind turns to the issue of global warming. Well, actually there is no question that our planet is in a warming cycle. No one on any side of the debate questions the fact that our Earth is warming up significantly. </div><div><br /></div><div>More specifically, my mind turns to <i>man-made</i> global warming. In other words, do our air-borne pollutants cause significant warming of our planet?</div><div><br /></div><div>And, this is where I go nuts listening to many Americans. For...</div><div><ul><li>We do not have the technical ability to understand climatology.</li><li>We almost totally ignore data.</li></ul>Let's state a very significant fact...</div><div><ul><li><b>Science has moved out of the garage!</b></li></ul><div>Increasingly larger swaths of the scientific world are incomprehensible by the non-specialist. But, yet we Plato-style reason our way to a position where we ridicule the crushing consensus of scientific opinion on <i>man-made</i> global warming!</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Increasingly, you cannot answer scientific questions in your garage. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Increasingly, no single scientist, no matter how specialized, informed and competent, can answer many scientific questions.</i></div><div><br /></div></div><div>Did you get that! With our best intelligence, you and I are like children playing with adult toys. And, yes, many children actually believe they are fireman and nurses. But, we are not. And, we are increasingly unable to intelligently and competently discuss scientific issues. We are increasingly unable to even understand the issues!</div><div><br /></div><div>Don't miss my second point above. Even the individual scientist is increasingly over his head unless he is humble enough to be multi-disciplinary. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>My apocalyptic conclusion...</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Scientific knowledge is increasing, and increasingly increasing! Just the sheer volume of knowledge being amassed is beyond comprehension. The depth of knowledge and the ramifications of the information we have is stunning.</div><div><br /></div><div>Us American children need to quit playing childish games. We need to understand that we are bringing the approaches and tools of the 19th century to a 21st century battlefield. </div><div><br /></div><div>David steps forth to meet Goliath. The Israelite army represented by David. The Philistine army represented by Goliath. The winner also keeps the army of the vanquished.</div><div><br /></div><div>You remember the story...</div><div><br /></div><div>In this 21st century scientific battlefield, you don't have many choices left. Pick your champion! Pick the scientific expert or experts to fight your scientific battles for you. Delve into their data, their reputations, their results. Select your scientific Davids carefully. For that is about the only choice left to you.</div><div><br /></div><div>But, <i>please</i> vacate the field of battle. You are only getting in David's way!</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7475051008101516869?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-52960533362587764482009-02-02T11:09:00.002-06:002009-02-02T11:12:05.954-06:00Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard.</span><br />This is a significant milestone in a field known as quantum information processing, said Christopher Monroe of the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, who led the effort.<br />Teleportation is one of nature's most mysterious forms of transport: Quantum information, such as the spin of a particle or the polarization of a photon, is transferred from one place to another, without traveling through any physical medium. It has previously been achieved between photons (a unit, or quantum, of electromagnetic radiation, such as light) over very large distances, between photons and ensembles of atoms, and between two nearby atoms through the intermediary action of a third.<br />None of those, however, provides a feasible means of holding and managing quantum information over long distances.<br />Now the JQI team, along with colleagues at the University of Michigan, has succeeded in teleporting a quantum state directly from one atom to another over a meter. That capability is necessary for workable quantum information systems because they will require memory storage at both the sending and receiving ends of the transmission.<br />In the Jan. 23 issue of the journal Science, the scientists report that, by using their protocol, atom-to-atom teleported information can be recovered with perfect accuracy about 90 percent of the time — and that figure can be improved.<br />"Our system has the potential to form the basis for a large-scale 'quantum repeater' that can network quantum memories over vast distances," Monroe said. "Moreover, our methods can be used in conjunction with quantum bit operations to create a key component needed for quantum computation."<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">A quantum computer could perform certain tasks, such as encryption-related calculations and searches of giant databases, considerably faster than conventional machines. </span>The effort to devise a working model is a matter of intense interest worldwide.<br /><a href="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090123-teleportation-atoms.html">http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090123-teleportation-atoms.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5296053336258776448?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-5183230622973409262009-01-28T21:11:00.002-06:002009-01-28T21:13:19.399-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SYEeycs5cMI/AAAAAAAADgM/42DSuE4wgT4/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SYEeycs5cMI/AAAAAAAADgM/42DSuE4wgT4/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296548488811212994" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-518323062297340926?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-27915208079929156372009-01-28T07:17:00.004-06:002009-01-28T07:23:24.867-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SYBbumOQieI/AAAAAAAADf0/vWFNhzYHe3U/s1600-h/DogNew.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 235px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SYBbumOQieI/AAAAAAAADf0/vWFNhzYHe3U/s400/DogNew.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296334017880164834" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well, Pooch Doggy Dog fans! After an extensive snoot lift, and tummy tuck and genital augmentation</span> (not visible in picture)... </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">NEW</span> ME!!!</span><br /><br /><br /></span><div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And, the Subway Jared "before" look...</span></span><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SYBb2fcKO7I/AAAAAAAADf8/rZTeqzS5ttY/s200/PoochThumbnail.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 53px; height: 70px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296334153498377138" /><br /><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Eat your hearts out, you bitches...</span></span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2791520807992915637?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-32649366022037220842009-01-27T22:49:00.003-06:002009-01-27T22:54:22.236-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX_ky35NaQI/AAAAAAAADfY/r5u72SujeW0/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX_ky35NaQI/AAAAAAAADfY/r5u72SujeW0/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296203249459489026" /></a>According to a report from ABC News, President Obama is not taking kindly to corporate greed, especially when it's funded by taxpayer money. The high-flying execs at Citigroup caved under pressure from President Obama and decided today to abandon plans for a luxurious new $50 million corporate jet from France...<br />ABC News has learned that Monday,  officials of the Obama administration called Citigroup about the company's new $50 million corporate jet and told execs to "fix it."<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/obama-officials-tells-cit_n_161202.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/obama-officials-tells-cit_n_161202.html</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I can't imagine W facing down a corporation. But, for you who tire of my tirades against our former president, I will have vented my bile in about one week. Then, a self-imposed W mention moratorium.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch Doggy Dog</span></span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-3264936602203722084?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-6556672641178999922009-01-27T22:24:00.003-06:002009-01-27T22:25:48.216-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX_eLcfW6nI/AAAAAAAADfQ/A65sNmsJyDI/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX_eLcfW6nI/AAAAAAAADfQ/A65sNmsJyDI/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296195975018637938" /></a>1919. "Young Women's Christian Association. Scenes at YWCA camp." Harris &amp; Ewing Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5428">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5428</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I'm a Shorpy!  Click on me...</span></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-655667264117899992?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-70218400506657279602009-01-27T22:18:00.002-06:002009-01-27T22:21:24.900-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX_dK994ZjI/AAAAAAAADfI/7PZKjUExkDs/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 337px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX_dK994ZjI/AAAAAAAADfI/7PZKjUExkDs/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296194867313534514" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Some recent developments on the Republican side give me hope they might not be simple reactionaries. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Poocher</span></span><br /><br />Rush Limbaugh is taking heat from all sides for his comments about hoping President Obama's administration is a failure. Bill Bennett disagreed with his fellow conservative and said Limbaugh was wrong to say he wishes Obama will fail. Now Politico reports that Republican House member Phil Gingrey has a message for Limbaugh: back off.<br />"I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach," Gingrey said. "I mean, it's easy if you're Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks. You don't have to try to do what's best for your people and your party. You know you're just on these talk shows and you're living well and plus you stir up a bit of controversy and gin the base and that sort of that thing. But when it comes to true leadership, not that these people couldn't be or wouldn't be good leaders, they're not in that position of John Boehner or Mitch McConnell."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/gop-house-member-to-rush_n_161484.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/gop-house-member-to-rush_n_161484.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7021840050665727960?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-28381713072551630892009-01-27T14:27:00.005-06:002009-01-27T22:11:54.149-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9utIkQTPI/AAAAAAAADfA/E4AVYyRj8os/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 328px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9utIkQTPI/AAAAAAAADfA/E4AVYyRj8os/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296073408483708146" /></a>Dick Van Dyke thought Walt Disney wanted to see him about "Mary Poppins" because of his singing and dancing skills. But the legendary studio founder had something else in mind.<br />"He had heard me in an interview talking about what was happening to family entertainment," says Van Dyke in a phone interview, still amused by the memory. "I was decrying the fact that it seemed like no holds were barred anymore in entertainment. ... That's why he called me in, because I said something he agreed with."<br />Disney, after years of cajoling "Poppins" author P.L. Travers, was finally mounting a production of the books about a magical nanny. With Van Dyke, he knew he was also getting a star as well as a like-minded performer. The actor's TV sitcom, "The Dick Van Dyke Show," was a steady hit at the time, and he had won a Tony for his work in the stage version of "Bye Bye Birdie."<br />With Van Dyke as the Cockney chimney sweep Bert, fellow Tony winner Julie Andrews (in her movie debut) as Poppins and several old pros in tow, Disney went ahead with production on the 1964 film, which was to become one of the biggest hits his studio ever produced.<br />The movie earned five Oscars -- including a best actress win for Andrews -- and its Richard and Robert Sherman songs, such as "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," "Feed the Birds" and the Oscar-winning "Chim Chim Cher-ee," have become standards.<br />Forty-five years later, "Poppins" is also a hit stage show, with excerpts of the Broadway production featured on a new 45th-anniversary DVD. Van Dyke, 83, took a few minutes to talk about the film, his much-maligned Cockney accent and Michelle Obama's fondness for his old TV show.<br /><br />Read the interview with Van Dyke here...<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/27/van.dyke.poppins/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/27/van.dyke.poppins/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2838171307255163089?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-74015574047187776782009-01-27T14:23:00.003-06:002009-01-27T22:11:48.239-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9tvX91rLI/AAAAAAAADe4/2O7lZ3GIBDg/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 291px; height: 251px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9tvX91rLI/AAAAAAAADe4/2O7lZ3GIBDg/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296072347465657522" /></a>For years after his NFL career ended, Ted Johnson could barely muster the energy to leave his house.<br />"I'd [leave to] go see my kids for maybe 15 minutes," said Johnson. "Then I would go back home and close the curtains, turn the lights off and I'd stay in bed. That was my routine for two years.<br />"Those were bad days."<br />These days, the former linebacker is less likely to recount the hundreds of tackles, scores of quarterback sacks or the three Super Bowl rings he earned as a linebacker for the New England Patriots. He is more likely to talk about suffering more than 100 concussions.<br />"I can definitely point to 2002 when I got back-to-back concussions. That's where the problems started," said Johnson, who retired after those two concussions. "The depression, the sleep disorders and the mental fatigue."<br />Until recently, the best medical definition for concussion was a jarring blow to the head that temporarily stunned the senses, occasionally leading to unconsciousness. It has been considered an invisible injury, impossible to test -- no MRI, no CT scan can detect it.<br />But today, using tissue from retired NFL athletes culled posthumously, the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), at the Boston University School of Medicine, is shedding light on what concussions look like in the brain. The findings are stunning. Far from innocuous, invisible injuries, concussions confer tremendous brain damage. That damage has a name: chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).<br />CTE has thus far been found in the brains of five out of five former NFL players. On Tuesday afternoon, researchers at the CSTE will release study results from the sixth NFL player exhibiting the same kind of damage.<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/26/athlete.brains/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/26/athlete.brains/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7401557404718777678?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-53988569337628250492009-01-27T14:05:00.004-06:002009-01-27T22:11:41.482-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9pO_9jMxI/AAAAAAAADew/J7k1eBVBu_4/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 366px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9pO_9jMxI/AAAAAAAADew/J7k1eBVBu_4/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296067393219670802" /></a>Say you're in charge of security at an air base. Suddenly, you look up, and there are dozens of would-assailants are coming down, on parachutes and hang-gliders. What do you do?<br />Well, if you're one of the imaginative members of the Headquarters Air Force Security Forces Center, you whip out your non-lethal net-launcher -- and bag the baddies like Spiderman.<br />At least, that's what seems to be the vision behind the awfully-acronymed, "Counter Ultra Light Aircraft/Paratrooper System," or CULAPS. According to a military request for proposals discovered by Stephen Trimble, the gizmo is "envisaged as a lightweight net aimed and fired from the ground that envelopes the target and thereby removes the target's lift bringing it to the ground."<br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/air-force-seeks.html">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/air-force-seeks.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5398856933762825049?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-13288266593805628222009-01-27T14:03:00.004-06:002009-01-27T22:11:34.912-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9o65-ahWI/AAAAAAAADeo/aUnXXED0ujw/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 352px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9o65-ahWI/AAAAAAAADeo/aUnXXED0ujw/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296067048015299938" /></a>Last month, a small robotic plane flew into the skies over New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range. Tracking the drone was an experimental Humvee, equipped with a laser. The real-life ray gun then took aim at the drone, and began blasting. Soon, the drone had a hole burnt through it -- and was crashing down to the desert.<br />For decades, the Army and the Air Force have used laser prototypes to zap unmanned planes. But what makes this test, held last month, a little different is that the laser was small, and low-powered. Which makes the ray gun, at least in theory, fairly easy to fit into an existing combat vehicle. In the summer of 2007, this modified Humvee -- a Boeing "Laser Avenger" -- blasted five targets on the ground, including some unexploded ordnance.<br />Those initial trials raised some eyebrows, because the Laser Avenger used only one kilowatt laser; 100 kilowatts is generally considered the minimum for weapons-grade. Since then, the power has been "doubled," Boeing executive Lee Gutheinz says in a statement. And Boeing swears the weapon performs just fine, despite its relative weakness.<br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/laser-1-drone-0.html">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/laser-1-drone-0.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1328826659380562822?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-50938456608331443962009-01-27T13:39:00.004-06:002009-01-27T22:11:27.923-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9jQCZUo6I/AAAAAAAADeg/EvHfVYB2Ou8/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 370px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9jQCZUo6I/AAAAAAAADeg/EvHfVYB2Ou8/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296060813983130530" /></a>Israel already uses spy drones, automated sentry towers, and slew of sophisticated sensors, to keep watch over its borders. The latest addition to the arsenal: a group of eight African antelope, each weighing nearly 1100 pounds.<br />The antelope have been stationed on Israel's border with Lebanon, to eat up the "problematic foliage that distorts views of the Lebanese side and within which Hezbollah guerrillas could hide," Ha'Aretz reports.<br />The beasts, known as "elands," were introduced to Israel from east Africa in the 1970s, to fill zoos. But when these animals "impressive chewing abilities were discovered," the animals were recruited by the military.<br />"The elands eat tremendous quantities and do a wonderful job clearing the weeds at enormous or secret military installations, and in places were there are ammunition storerooms, where the fear of fires is greater," says Yossi Ben tells Ha'Aretz. "In these places the elands save on manpower and obviate the need for spraying chemical herbicides."<br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/israel-unleash.html">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/israel-unleash.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5093845660833144396?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-74128759357018451682009-01-27T13:37:00.004-06:002009-01-27T22:11:15.638-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9ix5-lTbI/AAAAAAAADeY/TwE6KtaLM3E/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 101px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9ix5-lTbI/AAAAAAAADeY/TwE6KtaLM3E/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296060296327417266" /></a>Last week, the Army conducted a full test of the Mid-Range Munition, a "smart" 120-mm cannon round. It's part of a push to give tank gunners the same kind of precision that artillery crews have with munitions like the Excalibur, an extended-range, precision guided 155-mm artillery round that has seen service in both Iraq and Afghanistan.<br />Here's the concept: The Mid-Range Munition pops out small "wings" in flight; the round can then be guided to a target with a laser designator, or it can be fired in the general direction of the target and the infrared seeker will guide it home. In theory, this would for the first time give tank gunners an "indirect fire" capability, meaning that they could hit a target, say, on the other side of a hill with the aid of a spotter.<br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/the-little-tank.html">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/the-little-tank.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7412875935701845168?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-11611811460250007902009-01-27T13:33:00.004-06:002009-01-27T22:11:08.554-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9h1MHSADI/AAAAAAAADeQ/qeEPMDXyf7k/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9h1MHSADI/AAAAAAAADeQ/qeEPMDXyf7k/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296059253223718962" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">(In picture... Sunspider, short bars good; Google, tall bars good.)</span></span><div><br /></div><div>A release candidate of Microsoft's next-generation Internet Explorer browser made available this week has twice finished last in a five-browser benchmark competition.<br />Microsoft's overnight posting of the final Internet Explorer 8 pre-release build prompted ZDNet Australia to run it through some benchmark tests against its counterparts.<br />On the Sunspider JavaScript performance test, despite all the performance improvements Microsoft says it's making, IE8 finished last by roughly 3,000ms. It was narrowly bested by Opera 10 alpha, while bunched at the top of the performance ranks and separated by slight margins were Google Chrome 2.0.158.0, WebKit r40220, and Firefox 3.1 beta 1. WebKit serves as the foundation of Apple's Safari browser.<br />ZDNet was not surprised to find that Google's browser came in first on Google's own V8 JavaScript Benchmark, while WebKit finished a close second. Opera and Firefox trailed well behind in third and fourth, while Internet Explorer was a distant last.<br /><a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/27/ie8s_javascript_performance_lags_well_behind_safari_chrome.html">http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/27/ie8s_javascript_performance_lags_well_behind_safari_chrome.html<br /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/01/27/ie8s_javascript_performance_lags_well_behind_safari_chrome.html"> </a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1161181146025000790?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-42615343720751151052009-01-27T12:43:00.005-06:002009-01-27T12:58:59.446-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9YLqiI6fI/AAAAAAAADeI/RS1RmzfS5VQ/s1600-h/Pooch.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 143px; height: 188px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9YLqiI6fI/AAAAAAAADeI/RS1RmzfS5VQ/s400/Pooch.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296048644230277618" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Pooch Dog received very poor quality joke from daughter this morning. His majesty chastised daughter, showing her better form with a few jokes and comments. Said Pooch Gal responded, doing a little better with her followup jokes. Despite her efforts, the International Committee on Jokes Between Family Members ruled me the champion.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch Dog</span></span><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">From:    Pooch Dog Daughter</span><br />to:            Pooch Dog<br />date:        Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:05 AM<br />subject:    Redneck Sensitivity<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Three Rednecks were working up on a cell phone tower: Cooter, Ronnie and Donnie. As they start their descent, Cooter slips, falls off the tower and is DRT (Dead Right There).<br />As the ambulance takes the body away, Ronnie says, 'Well, damn, someone should go and tell his wife.' Donnie says, 'OK, I'm pretty good at that sensitive stuff, I'll do it.'<br />Two hours later, he comes back carrying a case of Budweiser. Ronnie says, 'Where did you get that beer, Donnie?' 'Cooter's wife gave it to me,' Ronnie replies. 'That's unbelievable, you told the lady her husband was dead and she gave you beer?'<br />Well, not exactly', Donnie says, 'When she answered the door, I said to her, "you must be Cooter's widow".'She said, 'You must be mistaken, I'm not a widow.' Then I said 'I'll bet you a case of Budweiser you are.'<br /><br />Rednecks Are Good AT That Sensitive Stuff! </span></span><br /><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Reply from: Pooch Dog to Pooch Dog Daughter</span><br /><br />You and your brother have been telling some VERY bad jokes lately! Adding him should he want to apologize also...<br /><br />Now, here are two that are worth their salt..<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">A woman rushed to see her doctor, looking very much worried and all strung out. She rattles off: "Doctor, take a look at me. When I woke up this morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and saw my hair all wiry and frazzled up, my skin was all wrinkled and pasty, my eyes were bloodshot and bugging out, and I had this corpse-like look on my face! What's WRONG with me, Doctor!?" The doctor looks her over for a couple of minutes, then calmly says: "Well, I can tell you that there ain't nothing wrong with your eyesight."</span></span><br /><br /> </div><div>And...<br /><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: "That's the ugliest b</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">aby that I've ever seen. Ugh!" The woman goes to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: "The driver just insulted me!" The man says: "You go right up there and tell him off – go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you."</span></span><br /><br /> </div><div>Or...</div><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">"How do you make a Nazi Cross? Tread on his corns".</span></span><br /><br />(OK, that last one wasn't!)<br /><br />Many don't know about the undercover joke warfare in WW II. It is documented here...<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">Seems someone on the British side came up with a joke so funny that it killed whoever read it. They finally translated it into German, each translator responsible for only one word. (One translator accidentally saw two words, and was hospitalized.) It killed thousand</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">s of Germans before the war was over. In retaliation, the Germans soon formulate a counter-joke, which is translated into English and played over the radio to London, but with no success. The joke is:<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">"There were zwei [two] peanuts walking down der Strasse [street]. Und one was assaulted (a salted)... peanut!") </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><br /><br />It went no where!</span><br /><br />Now! Do better than that...<br />A disappointed father in Texas<br /><br /></div><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">From Pooch Dog Daughter to Pooch Dog<br /></span><br />I am sorry I can’t counter with any “bad” jokes but I do have some very GOOD ones for you…even some good ol’ classy, non-fiction insults…<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease." "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."<br /><br />"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas<br />“George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." --Winston Churchill, in response - "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."<br /><br />"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand<br /><br />"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West<br /><br />"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)<br /><br />"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx<br /><br />Spanish for the day – Words used in sentences<br /><br />Texas: My fren always Texas me when I'm not home wondering where I'm at!<br /><br />Herpes: Me and my fren ordered pizza. I got my piece and she got herpes.<br /><br />Rectum: I had 2 cars but my wife rectum!<br /><br />Harassment: My wife caught me in bed with another women and I told her, honey, harassment nothing to me.<img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX9X2dHMRBI/AAAAAAAADeA/M1sk1kiDVQw/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 342px; height: 355px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296048279850337298" /><br />Bishop: My wife fell down the stairs, so I had to pick the bishop.<br /><br />Why boys need parents...  (See picture.)<br /><br /><br /><br />Things you’ll find out having sons…<br /><br />• If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.<br />• If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20x20 ft. room.<br />• When you hear the toilet flush and the words 'uh oh', it's already too late.<br />• A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36- year old Man says they can only do it in the movies.<br />• The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy. </span> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-4261534372075115105?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-12913274592100084422009-01-27T10:35:00.004-06:002009-01-27T12:58:28.765-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX84LqSORpI/AAAAAAAADd4/mqntzQmEkUw/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 218px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX84LqSORpI/AAAAAAAADd4/mqntzQmEkUw/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296013459791431314" /></a>The U.S. military has tried everything to stop roadside bombs, from radio frequency jammers to hulking trucks to blimps to lightning guns. Now, the Pentagon is getting set to deploy out a new crew of bomb-fighters: robotic aircraft with specialized sensors, designed to spot the deadly weapons and the militants who are planting them.<br />The agency has invested in robo-planes before. But these latest efforts seem to be concentrated on smaller, lower-flying drones that can closely track the action on the ground.<br />The "Sentinel Hawk" is a modified Silver Fox drone, equipped with infrared sensors and "built to keep tabs on a specific road or path," Defense News explains. A single operator will be able to command teams of the eight-foot long aircraft, as they patrol the roadways for bombs.<br />The "Yellow Jacket" robo-copter gives warzone convoys an unmanned eye-in-the-sky. For up to eight hours, the drone will follow around -- and keep watch on -- a vehicle, beaming what it sees down to the ground.<br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/anti-ied-drones.html">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/anti-ied-drones.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1291327459210008442?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-79332259336590053702009-01-27T10:30:00.004-06:002009-01-27T12:58:20.050-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX83FTQ0pJI/AAAAAAAADdw/CwojEKzYHiY/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 250px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX83FTQ0pJI/AAAAAAAADdw/CwojEKzYHiY/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296012251020698770" /></a>A man walks into a thrift store...  <div><br /></div><div>It sounds like the opening line to a bad joke. And this case was a bad joke -- for the Pentagon.<br />Chris Ogle of New Zealand was in Oklahoma about a year ago when he bought a used MP3 player from a thrift store for $9. A few weeks ago, he plugged it into his computer to download a song, and he instead discovered confidential U.S. military files.<br />"The more I look at it, the more I see, and the less I think I should be," Ogle said with a nervous laugh in an interview with TVNZ.<br />The files included the home addresses, Social Security numbers and cell phone numbers of U.S. soldiers. The player also included what appeared to be mission briefings and lists of equipment deployed to hot spots in Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of the information appears to date to 2005.<br />The New Zealand journalist who first reported the story was able to contact at least one of the soldiers by dialing a phone number found in the files. He hung up once she explained why she was calling. Pentagon officials told CNN that they are aware of the MP3 player, but can't talk about it until investigators confirm that the information came from the U.S. Department of Defense.<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/27/confidential.mp3.player/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/01/27/confidential.mp3.player/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7933225933659005370?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-58076105886886436112009-01-27T08:22:00.005-06:002009-01-27T12:58:07.131-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX8Zh9qQZwI/AAAAAAAADdo/LHmjuOOmnYg/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 331px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX8Zh9qQZwI/AAAAAAAADdo/LHmjuOOmnYg/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295979758089168642" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Are you using software to find and read blogs? A news/blog aggregator. Then, you are simply a simpleton! A lowlands maggot. I use Google Reader, and am adding a screen capture so you can get an idea of what it offers. Other worthy software exists. Check out the links below, you newbies, for ramp up help.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch Doggy Dog</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/GoogleReaderHelp">http://www.youtube.com/GoogleReaderHelp</a><br /><a href="http://google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?answer=113517">http://google.com/support/reader/bin/answer.py?answer=113517</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5807610588688643611?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-23084565950195922262009-01-26T19:55:00.002-06:002009-01-26T19:56:21.292-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX5ppXwbH3I/AAAAAAAADdg/Qo2dmALYGpI/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX5ppXwbH3I/AAAAAAAADdg/Qo2dmALYGpI/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295786371306954610" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">One of my relatives, here... </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Pooch Doggy</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2308456595019592226?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-48969369197826978192009-01-26T16:54:00.003-06:002009-01-26T17:02:15.036-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4_lMQXrJI/AAAAAAAADdY/AZDczwNv-8s/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4_lMQXrJI/AAAAAAAADdY/AZDczwNv-8s/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295740120011877522" /></a>"Interior Department, Bureau of Mines." Another circa 1920 view of research activities at the bureau's Washington offices. Harris &amp; Ewing.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5419">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5419</a><div><br /></div><div>I'm a Shorpy!  Click on me...</div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-4896936919782697819?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-20620243739717648192009-01-26T16:52:00.004-06:002009-01-26T17:02:08.087-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4-7QinDgI/AAAAAAAADdQ/5pbrI9m636c/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4-7QinDgI/AAAAAAAADdQ/5pbrI9m636c/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295739399607619074" /></a>1924. "Bureau of Standards. New and improved measuring board for U.S. Children's Bureau." Harris &amp; Ewing Collection glass negative.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5423">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5423</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I'm a Shorpy!  Click on me...</span></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2062024373971764819?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-21997373766486555272009-01-26T16:50:00.003-06:002009-01-26T17:02:01.180-06:00<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4-fZfD9mI/AAAAAAAADdA/7y3Ing7SswA/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 156px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295738920972318306" /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4-fxQW9RI/AAAAAAAADdI/wiLF6S1wasM/s1600-h/BlogPhoto2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 153px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4-fxQW9RI/AAAAAAAADdI/wiLF6S1wasM/s200/BlogPhoto2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295738927353099538" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2199737376648655527?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-35759932987003074102009-01-26T15:40:00.004-06:002009-01-26T17:01:53.699-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4t-dfvYsI/AAAAAAAADc4/Zr3X30_P_4U/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 183px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4t-dfvYsI/AAAAAAAADc4/Zr3X30_P_4U/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295720762927178434" /></a>"Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, 1916." One of the banners used in a memorial service for Inez Milholland, the lawyer who became a martyr to the suffrage movement following her death from anemia while campaigning for the 19th Amendment. Harris &amp; Ewing Collection glass negative.<br />http://www.shorpy.com/node/5414<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I'm a Shorpy! Click on me...</span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-3575993298700307410?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-80260032927769489512009-01-26T15:36:00.003-06:002009-01-26T17:01:46.107-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4tM3vwP0I/AAAAAAAADcw/mnTNQGV_YqI/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4tM3vwP0I/AAAAAAAADcw/mnTNQGV_YqI/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295719910980206402" /></a>Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they believe is the bust of a Roman boxer from the second or third century.<br />"It seems that what we have here is a unique find," the two directors of the excavation said in a statement released Monday by the Israel Antiquities Authority.<br />The figurine, made of marble, comes from a time when "the art of Roman sculpture reached its zenith," Doron Ben-Ami and Yana Tchekhanovets said.<br />It's tiny -- only about 6 centimeters high by 4 centimeters wide, Ben-Ami told CNN. "That's why it is so impressive. It's so small, but still you can see every little detail on the marble," he said.<br />The archaeologists believe a merchant family from the eastern part of the Roman Empire most likely passed down the "precious object" through the generations until the fourth or fifth century, when an unfortunate family member had it with him at a public building, perhaps a hostel -- and an earthquake struck.<br />http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/26/israel.ancient.find/index.html?eref=rss_topstories<br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-8026003292776948951?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-61332965035536222762009-01-26T15:27:00.003-06:002009-01-26T17:01:38.732-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4q_XiSiGI/AAAAAAAADco/3QC9S4zyaXY/s1600-h/Logo_Ferrari.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 119px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4q-ghgT7I/AAAAAAAADcQ/v-WvbprYOfc/s200/Logo_2M.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295717465205002162" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4q-SP3NyI/AAAAAAAADcI/w5clAbztc-k/s1600-h/Logo_Apple.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 196px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4q-SP3NyI/AAAAAAAADcI/w5clAbztc-k/s200/Logo_Apple.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295717461372909346" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-6133296503553622276?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-91813841460908915762009-01-26T15:25:00.003-06:002009-01-26T17:01:30.751-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4qsbyeBTI/AAAAAAAADcA/RsZFhPPYK58/s1600-h/Logo_Ford.jpg"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 75px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4qsN9a4PI/AAAAAAAADbo/vSyx4HNXQzI/s200/Logo_Xerox.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295717150984167666" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4qsNYELrI/AAAAAAAADbg/WxZtdA_mSm8/s1600-h/Logo_McDonalds.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 153px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX4qsNYELrI/AAAAAAAADbg/WxZtdA_mSm8/s200/Logo_McDonalds.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295717150827490994" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-9181384146090891576?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-74567468954478039452009-01-26T07:57:00.004-06:002009-01-26T17:01:20.364-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX3B_fTx8cI/AAAAAAAADbY/QLU7OtbQ5BQ/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 152px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX3B_fTx8cI/AAAAAAAADbY/QLU7OtbQ5BQ/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295602033337954754" /></a>When Suzanne Babb, a 34-year-old professional organizer from Gilbert, Arizona, is having a bad hair day, she does what many women do. She calls her best friend.<br />"I'll be crying my eyes out and will say, 'I'm fat and ugly, and I don't have a boyfriend,'" she says. "Then Eric will come over and tell me I'm pretty, and we'll watch '300.' It's like having all the benefits of a really great husband -- without having to do the laundry."<br />Babb is one of many adults whose platonic friendship contradicts the old "When Harry Met Sally" maxim about sex always getting in the way of men and women being buddies. Though they have been close since high school, Babb says she and Eric have never even kissed.<br />"It would be like kissing my brother," she says. "Ewwwww."<br />Although opposite-sex friends inevitably hook up in movies and on TV (Chandler and Monica, anyone?), many people think that it is possible to be platonic pals.<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/01/23/lw.opposite.sex.friends/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/01/23/lw.opposite.sex.friends/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I tend to agree with Harry... sex always gets in the way.  Unless someone is too "something" (old, skinny, fat... not much else), sex always gets in the way.  And, for men I believe that is generally true.  (Don't call me a pervert, you low life ignorant pee brain!  Read The Hite Report on Men, or the Kinsey Report, or any of a host of studies on male sexuality.)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Seraphina and I have always thought it best to have mutual friends, and avoid one-on-one friendships with the opposite sex.  And, we generally do avoid such situations.  But, sometimes circumstances dictate otherwise.  </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Recently, a good friend of ours, a woman moved in with us while job hunting.  Then, Seraphina left town to visit a good friend of ours with cancer.  I was left in the same house with a woman my age.  Even one I had dated (once) in high school.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">We watched movies together and enjoyed visiting.  So, we don't always hold to the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Verboten!</span> rule of ours when it comes to opposite sex friendships.  But, we don't hunt for them either.  And, truthfully, I avoid them by policy unless circumstances clearly indicate otherwise.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">After all, if we both didn't have some self control, I suspect the Japanese company Canon (see previous post) and the geneticists that want our gene pool spread far and wide with as many combinations as possible, would have been happy with both our contributions!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch Dog</span></span></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7456746895447803945?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-62107074861311826172009-01-26T07:47:00.005-06:002009-01-26T17:01:10.642-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX3A_ZDoC5I/AAAAAAAADbQ/PBP2yzS56_w/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 292px; height: 251px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX3A_ZDoC5I/AAAAAAAADbQ/PBP2yzS56_w/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295600932147956626" /></a>TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Even before one reaches the front door of Canon's headquarters in Tokyo, one can sense the virtual stampede of employees pouring out of the building exactly at 5:30 p.m.<br />In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting its employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage them to have more babies.<br />"Canon has a very strong birth planning program," says the company's spokesman Hiroshi Yoshinaga. "Sending workers home early to be with their families is a part of it."<br />Japan in the midst of an unprecedented recession, so corporations are being asked to work toward fixing another major problem: the country's low birthrate.<br />At 1.34, the birthrate is well below the 2.0 needed to maintain Japan's population, according to the country's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/canon.babies/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/canon.babies/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Until recently, I worked for Canon.  They said, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"Go home, and you and Seraphina, have some fun!  Yuk! Yuk!!  Make some nice babies to take care of all of us when we get old."</span>  So, I did.  Many times.  Many fine times.  Then, they found out Seraphina had been spayed years ago.  Canon was pissed!  That was it for my Canon duty.  </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I work for Veterans Administration now, and with O in office and with his administration's support for birth control... maybe a new day is here.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch Doggy Dog</span></span></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-6210707486131182617?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-43383209637189273952009-01-25T23:25:00.004-06:002009-01-25T23:33:31.436-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX1KjiqvXVI/AAAAAAAADbI/Ff9W0AI4qHg/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 187px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX1KjiqvXVI/AAAAAAAADbI/Ff9W0AI4qHg/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295470711319518546" /></a>It's a joke, although maybe a bad one... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"White people can't tell black people apart."</span> But, is it true?<div><br /></div><div>Unfortunately, from children to adulthood, my little bit of research seems to indicate it is so. Here's some links discussing the phenomenon...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/police-cannot-tell-black-people-apart-1121901.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/police-cannot-tell-black-people-apart-1121901.html</a></div><div><br /><a href="http://www.racialicious.com/2007/02/09/why-cant-mainstream-media-outlets-tell-black-people-apart/">http://www.racialicious.com/2007/02/09/why-cant-mainstream-media-outlets-tell-black-people-apart/</a></div><div><br /><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/02/problems_in_identifying_people.php">http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/02/problems_in_identifying_people.php</a><br /><br />Here's an article indicating it might be possible to train people to distinguish black faces, and thus reduce racistic behavior...<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/racetraining.html">http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/racetraining.html</a><br /><br />Finally, here's an article indicating the bees can distinguish human faces...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Face+time:+bees+can+tell+apart+human+portraits-a0140143992">http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Face+time:+bees+can+tell+apart+human+portraits-a0140143992</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Bees can do it...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">You humanoid types are total MAGGOTS! Low life types. How you ever managed to invent the dog collar I'll never know.<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Poocher</span></span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-4338320963718927395?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-10492987492072002652009-01-25T23:10:00.004-06:002009-01-25T23:18:52.260-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX1HdU4gqzI/AAAAAAAADbA/4fArKkBUU1g/s1600-h/trend_map_canada_goose.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX1HdU4gqzI/AAAAAAAADbA/4fArKkBUU1g/s400/trend_map_canada_goose.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295467306005080882" /></a><br />Pooch Dog was raised in Missouri and saw geese flying overhead in the fall. But, when winter arrived, the geese were nowhere around. This is no longer the case! A friend of mine still <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX1HYFJGNWI/AAAAAAAADa4/aj4KE8CH-gM/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295467215880336738" />lives in the Columbia, Missouri area near a lake. Canada Geese now winter on his lake, crapping all over the place! He has become an accomplished goose egg shaker! Seems you need a permit to sneek up on goose nests, find their eggs, and shake them to tambourine heaven! That kills the embryo in the egg, and the mother goose continues to lay on the egg. And, wonders! No goslings.<br /><br />Or, that is what I was told. <br /><br />But, on to the actual topic: birds striking aircraft. US Airways 1549. Seems the number of such incidents has been increasing dramatically in recent decades. Seems the goose populations in the United States is increasing rapidly. Here's a map showing goose densities, following by some excerpts from the article...<br /><br />Growing populations of birds and humans in the same areas have put the species on a collision course in the air that's almost always deadly for the birds and severely hazardous, if not fatal, to humans, too. Human developments and bird-restoration programs have created new ecological niches that some bird species have jumped in to fill.<br />In particular, the Canada goose population is proving particularly problematic. Their numbers have ballooned to more than 3.5 million, and the birds don't migrate, they stick around our cities. Many of the geese along the eastern seaboard are closer to feral than wild. After their forebears were nearly hunted to extinction, many domesticated birds were released into the wild (pdf), creating a specific population of geese uniquely suited to the "current landscaping techniques" of our urban and suburban landscapes. In the map at the right, you can see that most of the country is seeing large annual increases goose populations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Report (linked above) found that the population of Canada geese in the eastern United States increased at a rate of 14 percent a year from 1989 through 2004.<br />The rising bird numbers are overwhelming the efforts of airport operations managers to cope with the problem, despite increasingly sophisticated technology to scare the birds away. Joseph also said that the Federal Aviation Administration wasn't taking the bird strike problem seriously.<br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/birdstrikes.html">http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/birdstrikes.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1049298749207200265?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-47205755581572786442009-01-25T23:05:00.002-06:002009-01-25T23:08:23.322-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX1FNpOVV_I/AAAAAAAADaw/u-ewnfngDes/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 155px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SX1FNpOVV_I/AAAAAAAADaw/u-ewnfngDes/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295464837564159986" /></a>In what may be a modern-day snapshot of humanity's technological infancy, researchers have observed wild capuchin monkeys carefully selecting stone hammers best suited for the task of cracking nuts.<br />Previously, Visalberghi's team was the first to see capuchin monkeys put nuts on boulders and smash them open with stones.<br />On its own, this observation was monumental: Outside of humans, the only other primate species in which this behavior — more complex than even the much-celebrated chimpanzee use of "spears" — had been observed was chimps.<br />Questions remained, however, as to whether the monkeys consciously selected their tools or merely grabbed the first stone at hand.<br />The latest findings, published Thursday in Current Biology, answer the question conclusively: The monkeys know that certain stones work better than others, and choose accordingly.<br />When Visalberghi's team presented the monkeys with stones of different sizes, and later with stones of similar sizes but different weights, they routinely selected the heaviest, densest stone, ignoring those too light or fragile to break a thick shell.<br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/monkeytools.html">http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/monkeytools.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-4720575558157278644?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-80516225624724315802009-01-25T18:03:00.002-06:002009-01-25T18:09:03.732-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXz-2pUbVSI/AAAAAAAADao/neJvuTkgC4A/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 361px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXz-2pUbVSI/AAAAAAAADao/neJvuTkgC4A/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295387476638782754" /></a>Pretty darn cool old mining pictures from early 1900s, and some misccellaneous old time pictures at the end of this Powerpoint presentation. The accompanying music was good, but got old by the time the show finished. Just turn down the volume.<br /><br />And, as a bonus for those interested, with some slight mathematical and digital wizardry, you might be able to quantify the length of Johnny Weismuller's pecker in the flaccid resting state! (It's toward the end of the display... odd, I might say, mate! But, then no odder than some of the skanky outfits some of the early century women were wearing.)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.magnet1.com/OldAmerica.pps">http://www.magnet1.com/OldAmerica.pps</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-8051622562472431580?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-18095497762865888302009-01-25T17:50:00.005-06:002009-01-25T18:11:49.764-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXz8lufatkI/AAAAAAAADaY/I4t7CPpuVoM/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 288px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXz8lufatkI/AAAAAAAADaY/I4t7CPpuVoM/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295384986946025026" /></a>Another plug for the Shorpy.com website here. It is just the single most fabulous collection of high resolution old timey fabulificent photographs anywhere on the planet! Including here the picture of the kid called Shorpy, from which the site got it's name.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">When you see a "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">I'm a Shorpy! Click on Me...</span>", well click on the picture you big stupid dolt! (I swear, some day I am giving up hope entirely on every life form not canine!)<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXz8sG5ZtnI/AAAAAAAADag/7DW_PcWSVlE/s200/PoochThumbnail.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 53px; height: 70px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295385096576677490" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch Doggy Dog</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">I'm a Shorpy!  Click on me...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/">http://www.shorpy.com/</a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/images/photos/01099u.jpg">http://www.shorpy.com/images/photos/01099u.jpg</a></span></span><br /></span></div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1809549776286588830?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-27999795472632089802009-01-25T17:36:00.005-06:002009-01-25T17:42:36.133-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXz32tzYN1I/AAAAAAAADaQ/z2zH0vdf7IM/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 237px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXz32tzYN1I/AAAAAAAADaQ/z2zH0vdf7IM/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295379781260949330" /></a>On the graph, the red line represents hits on porn sites, and the blue line represents visits to social networking sites.  In September, 2008 for the first time, social network hits surpassed adult site hits.<div><div><br /></div><div>This seems to indicate that some Internet users are shifting from porn sites to social networking.  Some think that this is not the case, but that some of the softer content of porn sites is shifting onto the networking sites like Facebook.</div><div><br /></div><div>This article discusses these trends at depth.  A worthwhile read...<div><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7845561.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7845561.stm</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2799979547263208980?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-75579600359490565232009-01-25T17:26:00.003-06:002009-01-25T17:33:56.998-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXz2xwbzrpI/AAAAAAAADaI/IJaX445jFVA/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXz2xwbzrpI/AAAAAAAADaI/IJaX445jFVA/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295378596556418706" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Do you know more than your countrymen because you have a Master's Degree in Science? Are you ridiculed because you see the world as no one else, and might you say, more accurately and completely? Have women quit wafting favors your way due to your social downfall?<br /><br />Well, you have company! Lots of company. This article lists 12 people who were judged loony, but weren't. All were vindicated, some before they died! Which gives me hope regarding my theory that dogs will rule the world as soon as we learn the door knob principle. (I think humans have made door knobs that only open when I don't have to pee so bad I have to stamp all my feet in little mincing steps, but since I am middle-aged and have to pee all the time, hence the door never opens!)<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch Doggy Dog</span></span><br /><br />Here's a teaser...<br /><br />Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fuel rocket but was laughed off when he suggested its potential as a weapon of war. Scientists in Germany weren't laughing, however, and during World War II their V-2 rockets were used to attack England.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2009/01/gallery_science_spurned">http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2009/01/gallery_science_spurned<br /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7557960035949056523?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-25134354696903138302009-01-25T14:49:00.003-06:002009-01-25T14:50:46.033-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXzQmpgSNHI/AAAAAAAADZ4/GVdQYsSQ3i8/s1600-h/ATT00007.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXzQmpgSNHI/AAAAAAAADZ4/GVdQYsSQ3i8/s400/ATT00007.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295336624275731570" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXzQmJQnZbI/AAAAAAAADZw/zicWva-iMqk/s1600-h/ATT00006.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXzQmJQnZbI/AAAAAAAADZw/zicWva-iMqk/s400/ATT00006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295336615620076978" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXzQmPtNOKI/AAAAAAAADZo/jvhCHsk0Dzg/s1600-h/ATT00004.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXzQmPtNOKI/AAAAAAAADZo/jvhCHsk0Dzg/s400/ATT00004.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295336617350609058" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2513435469690313830?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-32306681878371646802009-01-25T14:42:00.003-06:002009-01-25T14:49:23.523-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXzQA8qfTII/AAAAAAAADZg/qpuo7I26fzg/s1600-h/BlogPhoto2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 222px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXzQA8qfTII/AAAAAAAADZg/qpuo7I26fzg/s400/BlogPhoto2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295335976583777410" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXzP5X_ettI/AAAAAAAADZY/m5TWxQWyBOI/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXzP5X_ettI/AAAAAAAADZY/m5TWxQWyBOI/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295335846480623314" /></a>Wonder what is on the front page of the latest edition of the Jerusalem Post? Any "dog news"? Maybe the St Louis Post-Dispatch front page has some juicy news about the greatest professional baseball team to ever don uniform?  <div><br /></div><div>Well, wonder no more! Just choose a part of the world, click on a newspaper. And, voila! There she blows (across your screen.)<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Pooch Dog says check it out!</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/">http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-3230668187837164680?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-46478162904891320722009-01-23T14:34:00.004-06:002009-01-23T14:40:42.322-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXoqb9s-qaI/AAAAAAAADZI/I5ZPMAIzMyU/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXoqb9s-qaI/AAAAAAAADZI/I5ZPMAIzMyU/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294590971835492770" /></a>A devout Christian has become the first driver to refuse to get behind the wheel of a bus bearing an atheist poster declaring God probably does not exist. Ron Heather, 62, walked out in protest after seeing the advert declaring: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life."<br />He told his managers he could not drive the bus because the slogan, placed on the side of 800 buses across the country last week after a fundraising campaign raised £140,000, went against his faith.<br />They have now agreed to accommodate his religious beliefs by letting him drive buses in Southampton that do not bear the controversial message, which has been supported by atheists including Professor Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist.<br />It comes after more than 200 people complained to the Advertising Standards Agency about the posters, which were created by Ariane Sherine, a comedy writer, as an antidote to religious adverts on public transport that "threaten eternal damnation" to passengers.<br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4270238/Atheist-bus-adverts-Christian-refuses-to-drive-bus-declaring-theres-probably-no-God.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4270238/Atheist-bus-adverts-Christian-refuses-to-drive-bus-declaring-theres-probably-no-God.html</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Let's think about this... </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">It's OK to plaster "You Are Eternally Damned" posters on a bus.  But, a poster saying you think there is no god is not alright?  I'm a Christian.  But, some of the things Christians do embarrasses me.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch Hound</span></span></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-4647816290489132072?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-31402860498047771142009-01-23T14:31:00.004-06:002009-01-23T14:40:30.778-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXopgnCfOPI/AAAAAAAADZA/bgv0K9GoNmE/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 345px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXopgnCfOPI/AAAAAAAADZA/bgv0K9GoNmE/s400/BlogPhoto.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294589952139409650" /></a>An attractive 16-year-old Muslim teenager was stabbed to death 23 times by her elder brother "to protect the family's honour" after he tricked her in to meeting him at a McDonald's burger bar car park.<br />Dark haired Morsal Obeidi was the daughter of an Afghan jet fighter pilot who fled the country after the Taleban came to power.<br />Together with his wife and five children the father settled in Hamburg, Germany in 1994 where Morsal grew up.<br />But although she had no problems adjusting to life in a European city her brother Ahmad (24) continually got in to trouble with police.<br />By the time he had tricked her in to meeting him, Ahmad had 30 convictions for assault and burglary. These also included a conviction for attacking a man with a knife after a drunken night out.<br />At his trial which started recently in a Hamburg Court Ahmad continually broke down in tears in front of the judge and jury where he is facing murder charges. If convicted he faces a sentence of life imprisonment.<br />The court was told dark-haired Morsal liked listening to Western music and wearing make up. She also wore mini-skirts and tight jeans and enjoyed going out to discos with pals she met at school.<br />But instead Ahmad wanted her to wear a veil and go to a mosque for daily prayers.<br />Although he enjoyed going out drinking with his mates Ahmad did not think it was suitable for his sister to do the same.<br />The so-called 'honour killing' was allegedly the tragic end to Ahmad's violence against his young and pretty sister.<br /><a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/criminal-brother-killed-sister-for-wearing-makeup-and-miniskirts-14145486.html">http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/criminal-brother-killed-sister-for-wearing-makeup-and-miniskirts-14145486.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-3140286049804777114?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-35037610045806519602009-01-23T14:28:00.004-06:002009-01-23T14:40:25.164-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXoo03iGtUI/AAAAAAAADY4/BvaY6C3csgI/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXoo03iGtUI/AAAAAAAADY4/BvaY6C3csgI/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294589200652744002" /></a>WESTON, Wis. — Kara Neumann, 11, had grown so weak that she could not walk or speak. Her parents, who believe that God alone has the ability to heal the sick, prayed for her recovery but did not take her to a doctor.<br />After an aunt from California called the sheriff’s department here, frantically pleading that the sick child be rescued, an ambulance arrived at the Neumann’s rural home on the outskirts of Wausau and rushed Kara to the hospital. She was pronounced dead on arrival.<br />The county coroner ruled that she had died from diabetic ketoacidosis resulting from undiagnosed and untreated juvenile diabetes.<br />About a month after Kara’s death last March, the Marathon County state attorney, Jill Falstad, brought charges of reckless endangerment against her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann. Despite the Neumanns’ claim that the charges violated their constitutional right to religious freedom, Judge Vincent Howard of Marathon County Circuit Court ordered Ms. Neumann to stand trial on May 14, and Mr. Neumann on June 23. If convicted, each faces up to 25 years in prison.<br />“The free exercise clause of the First Amendment protects religious belief,” the judge wrote in his ruling, “but not necessarily conduct.”<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/21faith.html?_r=1&amp;th=&amp;emc=th&amp;pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/21faith.html?_r=1&amp;th=&amp;emc=th&amp;pagewanted=all</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-3503761004580651960?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-74219621708499024362009-01-23T14:20:00.006-06:002009-01-23T14:40:16.281-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXom0aYWXiI/AAAAAAAADYw/RiAd5DCjEHo/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXom0aYWXiI/AAAAAAAADYw/RiAd5DCjEHo/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294586993803943458" /></a>Indonesia's top Islamic body meets at the weekend for what looks set to be a hot theological debate on a range of issues including whether Muslims should be allowed to smoke, abstain from voting or even do yoga.<br />Officially secular, Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, accounting for roughly 85 percent of the country's 226 million people. Most follow a moderate form of Islam, although there is vocal radical fringe.<br />About 700 people, including Muslim clerics and theological experts, are due in West Sumatra for the National Edict Commission meeting, which has the power to issue fatwas.<br />"There will be debate before we reach conclusions. We need to listen to the pros and cons and it's likely to be a hot debate," said Ma'ruf Amin, a chairman of the Ulema Council, known as MUI.<br /><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2009/01/23/asia/OUKWD-UK-INDONESIA-MUSLIMS.php">http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2009/01/23/asia/OUKWD-UK-INDONESIA-MUSLIMS.php</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">OK, smart ass!  What picture do you think better illustrates this article?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Poocher</span></span></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7421962170849902436?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-14641370529583597062009-01-23T14:17:00.003-06:002009-01-23T14:40:09.030-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXomK_e2WZI/AAAAAAAADYo/5MutVOk1_wk/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXomK_e2WZI/AAAAAAAADYo/5MutVOk1_wk/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294586282208811410" /></a>A poster denouncing Scientology has gone up on a public kiosk outside the Scientology headquarters in Berlin. Local officials warn that Scientology may be "undemocratic" -- part of an ongoing battle between Berlin and the guardians of L. Ron Hubbard's belief system.<br />With Tom Cruise in town this week to promote his new Nazi drama Valkyrie, a district of Berlin has quietly posted a warning sign near the city's Scientology headquarters, explaining that local authorities mistrust the organization.<br /><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,603188,00.html">http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,603188,00.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1464137052958359706?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-57634078853878880882009-01-23T14:07:00.005-06:002009-01-23T14:40:03.259-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXolIwBbB3I/AAAAAAAADYg/vmN_P0XG_x0/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 294px; height: 248px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXolIwBbB3I/AAAAAAAADYg/vmN_P0XG_x0/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294585144187488114" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Some interesting stories about the books of Dr Seuss, and the background for their writings.  </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch "It To Me" Hound</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">1.</span></span> In case you haven't read "The Lorax," it's widely recognized as Dr. Seuss' take on environmentalism and how humans are destroying nature. Loggers were so upset about the book that ...<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">2.</span></span> Somehow, Geisel's books find themselves in the middle of controversy. The line "A person's a person, no matter how small," from "Horton Hears a Who!," has been used as a slogan for anti-abortion organizations...<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">3. </span></span>"If I Ran the Zoo," published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word "nerd."<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">4.</span></span> "The Cat in the Hat" was written because Dr. Seuss thought the famous Dick and Jane primers were ...<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">5.</span></span> Bennett Cerf, Dr. Seuss' editor, bet him that he couldn't write a book ...<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">6. </span></span>It's often alleged that "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!" was written specifically about ...<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">7. </span></span>Dr Seuss says that "Yertle the Turtle" represents ...<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">8.</span></span> "The Butter Battle Book" is one I had never heard of, perhaps with good reason: it was pulled from the shelves of libraries for a while because of the reference to ...<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">9.</span></span> ____ is the final Seuss book published before he passed away.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">10. </span></span>Who is the voice behind "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"?<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/01/23/mf.seuss.stories.behind/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/01/23/mf.seuss.stories.behind/index.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5763407885387888088?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-30678643785221587972009-01-23T09:50:00.003-06:002009-01-23T14:39:56.543-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXnnpCYoYQI/AAAAAAAADYY/WRbcS8KhQsY/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 295px; height: 251px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXnnpCYoYQI/AAAAAAAADYY/WRbcS8KhQsY/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294517529151561986" /></a>Forests in the Pacific Northwest are dying twice as fast as they were 17 years ago, and scientists blame warming temperatures for the trend, according to a new study.<br />The study, to be released Friday in the journal Science, is the first large-scale analysis of environmental changes as contributing factors in the mortality of coniferous forests.<br />The data for this research was gathered by generations of scientists over a 50-year period at multiple sites in Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and southwestern British Columbia. Seventy-six forest plots, all more than 200 years old, were monitored by scientists doing some of the most rudimentary research -- counting trees.<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/22/study.forests.dying/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/22/study.forests.dying/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-3067864378522158797?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-70247392783329312462009-01-23T09:43:00.005-06:002009-01-23T14:39:50.372-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXnmk5noMeI/AAAAAAAADYQ/CgAZCDgWBIw/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXnmk5noMeI/AAAAAAAADYQ/CgAZCDgWBIw/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294516358567440866" /></a>John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch, resigned Thursday from the company that bought Merrill out, Bank of America. As far as we can tell, his departure couldn't come soon enough.<br />Not long ago, Thain was credited with keeping Merrill alive long enough to be rescued.<br />Now we learn the man who asked for, then quickly withdrew, his request for a $10 million bonus still managed to live large while Merrill teetered on the brink and workers paid the price.<br />According to CNBC, Thain spent more than $1.2 million in company funds to spruce up his office, hiring a world-class designer to decorate in full decadence.<div><br />The list includes an... </div><div><br /></div><div><ul><li>$87,000 "area rug," </li><li>$28,000 for curtains, </li><li>a $68,000 credenza and </li><li>a $1,400 wastebasket.</li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Might John Thain rot on the unemployment rolls of our country forever!  And, eternally...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch Hound</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/22/campbell.brown.thain/index.html?eref=rss_topstories#cnnSTCText">http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/22/campbell.brown.thain/index.html?eref=rss_topstories#cnnSTCText</a><br /><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7024739278332931246?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-80364093563846348162009-01-23T09:39:00.003-06:002009-01-23T14:39:41.879-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXnlRA9gX0I/AAAAAAAADYI/etZucHZecQI/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 293px; height: 255px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXnlRA9gX0I/AAAAAAAADYI/etZucHZecQI/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294514917429239618" /></a>The company that brought the world Beanie Babies is now selling dolls named Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia, but a spokeswoman insists that the dolls have nothing to do with President Obama's young daughters. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">(Pooch Dog just dropped a little pee out his ^&amp;&amp;!!~$ he was laughing so hard!)</span></span> Although it would be a stretch to say the 12-inch-tall dolls bear a resemblance to the first family's Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, they appear to be the only African-American dolls in the 30-doll Ty Girlz collection.<br />There has been no public objection -- or comment of any kind -- from the White House about Ty Inc.'s use of the Obama daughters' names.<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/01/22/obama.dolls/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/01/22/obama.dolls/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-8036409356384634816?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-52370779776463493012009-01-23T09:31:00.005-06:002009-01-23T14:39:34.304-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXnjPhvEROI/AAAAAAAADYA/eXyIdGz_0wA/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 324px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXnjPhvEROI/AAAAAAAADYA/eXyIdGz_0wA/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294512692844053730" /></a>President Obama affirmed his support for a woman's "right to choose" on Thursday, the 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that led to the legalization of abortion, as thousands of anti-abortion activists descended on the National Mall to challenge his position.<br />Roe v. Wade "not only protects women's health and reproductive freedom, but stands for a broader principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters," Obama said in a statement.<br />The landmark 1973 decision held that a woman's right to abortion was protected by the right to privacy under the Constitution's 14th Amendment, voiding most state laws against abortion at the time.<br />Nellie Gray, who helped organize the anti-abortion March for Life on the Mall, invited Obama to speak at the rally.<br />"America needs your strong leadership as president of all the people to stop the intentional killing of an estimated 3,000 pre-born boys and girls each day and the brutalizing of mind, heart and body of pregnant mothers."<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/obama.abortion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/22/obama.abortion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">It is clear to me that it is not clear to every reasonable person that aborting an early term pregnancy is wrong...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">It is clear to me that it is clear to everyone that aborting a very late term pregnancy is wrong, (if done for mundane reasons)...</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">When will </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">both sides</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> admit that their more extreme positions are not warranted?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Poocher</span></span></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5237077977646349301?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-16622460336126785102009-01-22T21:42:00.003-06:002009-01-23T07:38:19.001-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXk87bqJLnI/AAAAAAAADX4/_ya0ZonFqtQ/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXk87bqJLnI/AAAAAAAADX4/_ya0ZonFqtQ/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294329828685196914" /></a>1906. "Georgetown football (junior)." Harris &amp; Ewing glass neg.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5396">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5396</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I'm a Shorpy!  Click on me...</span></span></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1662246033612678510?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-9941736159721131542009-01-22T18:22:00.004-06:002009-01-23T07:38:12.301-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkN87rRBYI/AAAAAAAADXw/MyCRirxk-ag/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 330px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkN87rRBYI/AAAAAAAADXw/MyCRirxk-ag/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294278177413203330" /></a>July 30, 1923. Washington, D.C. "Big gun." National Photo Co.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5356">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5356</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I'm a Shorpy! Click on me...</span></span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-994173615972113154?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-29827323295008675322009-01-22T18:20:00.004-06:002009-01-23T07:38:05.657-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkNg-hCKwI/AAAAAAAADXo/DGvST_rv_0s/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkNg-hCKwI/AAAAAAAADXo/DGvST_rv_0s/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294277697139256066" /></a>May 1865. "City Point, Virginia. Gen. Rufus Ingalls and group." The group is back, slightly rearranged and expanded. Wet-plate glass negative.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5359">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5359</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">I'm a Shorpy! Click on me...</span></span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2982732329500867532?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-69741313864564916632009-01-22T18:17:00.004-06:002009-01-23T07:37:57.561-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkMxwOsXWI/AAAAAAAADXg/P1N1IiY-6_g/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkMxwOsXWI/AAAAAAAADXg/P1N1IiY-6_g/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294276885850381666" /></a>October 1863. Bealeton, Virginia. "John Henry, servant, at headquarters, 3d Army Corps, Army of the Potomac." Wet-plate glass negative.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5379">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5379</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">I'm a Shorpy! Click on me...</span></span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-6974131386456491663?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-57151808154092963382009-01-22T18:14:00.003-06:002009-01-23T07:37:48.893-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkMTHlABAI/AAAAAAAADXY/cwGJJOnm-98/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkMTHlABAI/AAAAAAAADXY/cwGJJOnm-98/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294276359542014978" /></a>Washington, D.C., circa 1916. "Slaves reunion. Lewis Martin, age 100; Martha Elizabeth Banks, age 104; Amy Ware, age 103; Rev. Simon P. Drew, born free." Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, 921 N Street N.W.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5380">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5380</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">I'm a Shorpy! Click on me...</span></span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5715180815409296338?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-14588150222602324102009-01-22T18:12:00.003-06:002009-01-23T07:37:41.554-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkLy8wrB1I/AAAAAAAADXQ/BwlfFd6cHUI/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkLy8wrB1I/AAAAAAAADXQ/BwlfFd6cHUI/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294275806882367314" /></a>"Inaugural Ball. March 4, 1925." And Calvin Coolidge could have danced all night. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5391">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5391</a><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">I'm a Shorpy! Click on me...</span></span></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1458815022260232410?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-11321668595106912312009-01-22T18:10:00.004-06:002009-01-23T07:37:33.310-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkLOdFgW5I/AAAAAAAADXI/G6wEBSbYHVU/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXkLOdFgW5I/AAAAAAAADXI/G6wEBSbYHVU/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294275179904523154" /></a>Washington, D.C., circa 1925. "Girls' rifle team of Drexel Institute." National Photo Company Collection glass negative.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5392">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5392</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">I'm a Shorpy!  Click on me...</span></span></div><div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1132166859510691231?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-16646470717009136602009-01-22T15:47:00.004-06:002009-01-22T18:04:24.636-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjqOTUY9KI/AAAAAAAADXA/K06Pq60FXbc/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 293px; height: 248px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjqOTUY9KI/AAAAAAAADXA/K06Pq60FXbc/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294238893398881442" /></a>Seven states and two organizations have sued the Bush administration in an attempt to block a federal regulation that would further protect health care workers who refuse to perform abortions or other medical procedures because of religious or moral reasons.<br />Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of his state, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island.<br />Blumenthal said the regulation would put women's health care at risk and would undercut state contraception laws.<br />"On its way out, the Bush administration has left a ticking legal time bomb set to explode literally the day of the inaugural and blow apart vital constitutional rights and women's health care," Blumenthal said in a statement. "Women's health may be endangered -- needlessly and unlawfully -- if this rule is allowed to stand."<br />He said the regulation "intentionally shrouds" abortion in "new and unnecessary ambiguity," encouraging individuals to define it and to "deny virtually all forms of contraceptions, even emergency contraception to rape victims."<br />The Planned Parenthood Federation of America and American Civil Liberties Union, which was acting on behalf of the National Family Planning &amp; Reproductive Health Association, also filed separate suits Thursday.<br />The Department of Health and Human Services said the regulation would allow the federal government to withhold federal funds for state and local governments, health plans and health care facilities that do not follow existing federal laws that ban discrimination against doctors and other health workers who refuse to participate in procedures such as sterilizations or abortions or to make referrals for such procedures.<br />"We have not had an opportunity to review the lawsuits and we will respond to the court on any pending litigation," department spokeswoman Rebecca Ayers said in an e-mail. "The department followed appropriate procedures to put the regulation in place and the regulation is fully supported by law."<br />The department promulgated the rule last month.<br />"Doctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience," Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said in a statement then. "This rule protects the right of medical providers to care for their patients in accord with their conscience."<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/16/lawsuit.health.care/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/16/lawsuit.health.care/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Individual health care providers should not be forced to commit abortions, or assist in their performance. I need to know more about this...<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Soup Hound</span></span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1664647071700913660?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-56173741052237388162009-01-22T15:39:00.006-06:002009-01-22T18:04:58.548-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjo2r4dHAI/AAAAAAAADW4/MsfJQJiQnT0/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 293px; height: 249px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjo2r4dHAI/AAAAAAAADW4/MsfJQJiQnT0/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294237388164111362" /></a>The top cleric in Saudia Arabia says it's OK for girls as young as 10 to marry...<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/17/saudi.child.marriage/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/17/saudi.child.marriage/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Reminds me of David Koresh, the Mormon cults recently in the news, and a host of other "spiritual" cultish leaders who prey on young girls.  What's the difference?<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch Doggy Dog</span></span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5617374105223738816?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-86570279823613432032009-01-22T15:23:00.007-06:002009-01-22T18:04:51.107-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjln6P_4zI/AAAAAAAADWw/FFVQ0oIdu5Y/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjln6P_4zI/AAAAAAAADWw/FFVQ0oIdu5Y/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294233835788034866" /></a>President-elect Barack Obama is considering issuing an executive order to reverse a controversial Bush administration abortion policy in his first week in office, three Democratic sources said Monday.<br />Obama's second full day as president falls on the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the United States.<br />The sources said Obama may use the occasion to reverse the "Mexico City policy" reinstated in 2001 by Bush that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family planning groups that promote abortion or provide information, counseling or referrals about abortion services. It bans any organization receiving family planning funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development from offering abortions or abortion counseling.<br />http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/19/obama.abortion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I was not a fan of George W. Bush; that cannot be stated strongly enough! However, I believe his motives were honorable. But, motives are not enough, as in W's "Mexico City policy." I believe prohibiting U.S. money from funding international groups promoting abortion or providing abortion information, etc, was an exceedingly cruel act in its effect.  </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">A bit like Mother Theresa.  An ounce of prevention (birth control) would often have sufficed in place of a pound of cure. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Poocher</span></span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-8657027982361343203?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-50273496403014534392009-01-22T15:19:00.005-06:002009-01-22T18:04:43.993-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjjDJMFSPI/AAAAAAAADWo/49Ew7OooX1E/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 246px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjjDJMFSPI/AAAAAAAADWo/49Ew7OooX1E/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294231005119727858" /></a>The official White House website,<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">http://www.whitehouse.gov/</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div>is up!  </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Interesting CNN article here...<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/white.house.website/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:10px;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5027349640301453439?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-23899975900524583932009-01-22T15:14:00.003-06:002009-01-22T18:04:33.327-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjiOHF41AI/AAAAAAAADWg/zuKIqqGDTX4/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 158px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjiOHF41AI/AAAAAAAADWg/zuKIqqGDTX4/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294230094023808002" /></a>Read this "boring" article about Obama's literary sources during his Inaugural Address. Very interesting!  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:10px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(The winner? Thomas Paine)</span><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/obama.speech.sources/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/obama.speech.sources/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2389997590052458393?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-23785022221869958272009-01-22T14:10:00.002-06:002009-01-22T14:12:10.499-06:00If you haven't seen the Flight 1549 water landing, check it out here...<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/17/usair.splash.video/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/17/usair.splash.video/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2378502222186995827?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-74436271412393550912009-01-22T13:56:00.004-06:002009-01-22T14:10:20.962-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjP4HPddJI/AAAAAAAADWY/-fBOfyfWKig/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 295px; height: 247px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXjP4HPddJI/AAAAAAAADWY/-fBOfyfWKig/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294209924897535122" /></a>The Clean Air Act of 1970 set nationwide air quality standards and motor-vehicle emissions standards for the first time, and the federal government and some states have continued to take steps to tackle air pollution.<br />And, now Americans are living longer because the air they breathe is getting cleaner, a new study suggests. The average drop in pollution seen across 51 metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000 appears to have added nearly five more months to people's lives, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.<br />Residents of cities that did the best job cleaning up air pollution showed the biggest jump in life span; for example, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Pittsburgh's cleaner air meant people there could expect to live nearly 10 months longer.</span><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/21/healthmag.airpollution.lifespan/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/21/healthmag.airpollution.lifespan/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7443627141239355091?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-90577626804087540062009-01-22T11:36:00.006-06:002009-01-22T15:54:52.897-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXivHPWp8jI/AAAAAAAADWQ/cQQn5Nez4jE/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXivHPWp8jI/AAAAAAAADWQ/cQQn5Nez4jE/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294173900889518642" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Prairie Pooch Dog Hole visitors. Either the <a href="http://www.eighteenfortyfour.com/">graphics</a> in this picture will be entertaining and self-explanatory. Or, you weren't raised a Seventh-day Adventist!  </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">(In which case, back away from this blog post and no one will get hurt. Slowly...)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br />Pooch Doggy Dog</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><a href="http://www.eighteenfortyfour.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://www.eighteenfortyfour.<wbr>com/</a> </span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-9057762680408754006?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-31081354682573009932009-01-21T22:19:00.004-06:002009-01-21T22:21:47.530-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXf0SD9bqrI/AAAAAAAADWI/EhknoKuTjAA/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXf0SD9bqrI/AAAAAAAADWI/EhknoKuTjAA/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293968478135102130" /></a>SCHAGEN, Netherlands — The massive central door in the side of Noah's Ark was thrown open Saturday — you could say it was the first time in 4,000 years — drawing a crowd of curious pilgrims and townsfolk to behold the wonder.<br />Of course, it's only a replica of the biblical Ark, built by Dutch creationist Johan Huibers as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible.<br />Reckoning by the old biblical measurements, Johan's fully functional ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high and 20 cubits wide. That's two-thirds the length of a football field and as high as a three-story house.<br />Life-size models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold.<br />"The design is by my wife, Bianca," Huibers said. "She didn't really want me to do this at all, but she said if you're going to anyway, it should look like this."<br />A contractor by trade, Huibers built the ark of cedar and pine — biblical scholars debate exactly what the wood used by Noah would have been.<br />Huibers did the work mostly with his own hands, using modern tools and occasional help from his son Roy. Construction began in May 2005.<br />Read the full story here... <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269090,00.html">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269090,00.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-3108135468257300993?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-55464735483123252292009-01-21T22:08:00.005-06:002009-01-21T22:17:14.111-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXfzDV377fI/AAAAAAAADV4/fDCSwpMNw6k/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 135px; height: 125px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXfzDV377fI/AAAAAAAADV4/fDCSwpMNw6k/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293967125734223346" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I just visited my new granddaughter.  I like kids a lot.  This tears me up...</span><div><br />Fort Worth, TX - A 3-year-old girl was mauled to death by her neighbor's rottweiler. Brooklynn Grace Milburn was playing in her back yard when she reportedly crawled through a hole in the fence, according to police. The 17-year-old rottweiler attacked her in the head, face and neck. The family's pastor, Mike Tucker, of the Seventh Day Adventist Church said the incident was "sickeningly tragic" and that the family is devastated.<br />Police received the call at about 6 p.m. Thursday in the 3900 block of Buckhorn Place in north Fort Worth. Brooklynn was rushed to Cook Children's Medical Center, but doctors could not save her. Tucker said the girl's mother, father, grandfather and 5-year-old brother were inside the house when she was playing in her back yard. The hole in the fence was so small, nobody thought the child could even fit through it, he said.<br />Prosecutors are still deciding whether charges will be filed in connection with a tragic dog attack that killed little Brooklynn. This may indicate there is evidence that the child was "pulled through" the fence by the dog. The dog's owner said it was the first time her pet had ever "hurt" anyone. Yet fatal attacks by rottweilers and pit bulls are frequently the dog's first attack.<br /><a href="http://www.dogsbite.org/blog/2009/01/2009-fatality-brooklynn-grace-milburn.html">http://www.dogsbite.org/blog/2009/01/2009-fatality-brooklynn-grace-milburn.html</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">An article on mauling deaths in the 1990s from University of Wisconsin...</span><br /><br />Pit bulls still have the lead in fatal attacks at 66 mauling deaths between 1979 and 1998 involving at least one pit bull according to the study. Rottweilers were recorded for 37 mauling deaths mostly during the 1990s. German shepherds followed with 17, Huskies at 15, Malamutes at 12, and Doberman pinschers with nine.<br /><a href="http://www.uwsp.edu/PSYCH/dog/LA/Chirichigno1.htm">http://www.uwsp.edu/PSYCH/dog/LA/Chirichigno1.htm</a><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5546473548312325229?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-28399523170057455222009-01-21T22:04:00.003-06:002009-01-21T22:06:18.098-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXfwe5dL-RI/AAAAAAAADVo/-nP-v0T9Jf4/s1600-h/onionThumbnail.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 145px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXfwe5dL-RI/AAAAAAAADVo/-nP-v0T9Jf4/s200/onionThumbnail.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293964300607289618" /></a>WASHINGTON—George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States of America, passed away painlessly in his sleep Monday night, White House sources confirmed. The 62-year-old Bush was reportedly discovered lying unresponsive in his bed by first lady Laura Bush, a gentle smile still on his lips. "It was as though he knew it was his time to go," said longtime family physician Dr. Harold Ditmas, who pronounced the president dead of natural causes at 7:24 a.m. Plans for Bush's funeral have been postponed indefinitely following an unexpected incident in which the president's corpse was sucked through an Air Force One jet engine.<br /><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_dies_peacefully_in_his">http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_dies_peacefully_in_his</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2839952317005745522?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-4322296719414686782009-01-21T21:52:00.002-06:002009-01-21T21:56:54.866-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXfua6vqxFI/AAAAAAAADVg/XkYAh02F5cs/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXfua6vqxFI/AAAAAAAADVg/XkYAh02F5cs/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293962033210508370" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I am awarding this company the Keith Olberman "Worst Company In The Worlllld" award!<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch</span></span><br /><br />On Tuesday, one of the busiest news days of the year, Heartland Payment quietly released a statement declaring the company's card processing system had been hacked. Since the company handles more than 100 million credit card transactions monthly serving more than 250,000 businesses ranging from restaurants to retailers to payroll systems, chances are someone in every state is affected by this major data loss.<br /><br />According to the New York Times , data thieves introduced the Heartland malware as early as May, and Heartland didn't open its eyes until late fall 2008. Then Heartland chose inauguration day to make its announcement.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br />The company knew about the problem since fall and announced it on Inauguration Day! Do you see why they deserve the Worst Company in the World award?</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-432229671941468678?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-63193294999649712812009-01-15T23:14:00.005-06:002009-01-21T21:40:58.282-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAYgHM9OuI/AAAAAAAADVY/M0b7qe7xdvY/s1600-h/onionThumbnail.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 145px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAYgHM9OuI/AAAAAAAADVY/M0b7qe7xdvY/s200/onionThumbnail.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291756502128605922" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAYQUNzBGI/AAAAAAAADVQ/NbCjRVisb3E/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAYQUNzBGI/AAAAAAAADVQ/NbCjRVisb3E/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291756230743884898" /></a>SCOTTSDALE, AZ—Weeks after being arrested for driving under the influence while seeking out companionship from a certain particularly skilled partner, NBA legend and basketball analyst Charles Barkley was finally able to drive across town, meet said partner under favorable circumstances, and visit quietly sharing old times, Barkley said yesterday. "Whew!" a visibly relieved Barkley told reporters in a press conference afterwards. "Oh, man. Oh, man! I mean, seriously, I needed that alone time. I needed that one bad, after what happened the first time. And I am so glad that is all over with so I can get it behind me and just move on."<br /><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/charles_barkley_finally_gets_that?utm_source=onion_rss_daily">http://www.theonion.com/content/news/charles_barkley_finally_gets_that?utm_source=onion_rss_daily</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-6319329499964971281?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-60310459879170225252009-01-15T23:12:00.003-06:002009-01-21T21:40:50.949-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAXd0D-TbI/AAAAAAAADVI/PaJETFFpiqY/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAXd0D-TbI/AAAAAAAADVI/PaJETFFpiqY/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291755363119287730" /></a>The key to battling drug-tolerant superbugs could be keeping them awake. New research into how bacteria go dormant, allowing them to evade drugs, could lead to a method to keep them from hiding.<br />Bacterial infections are often hard to eradicate because a small percentage of germs are dormant at any one time. These mysterious "persisters" duck antibiotics, then awaken and multiply again after drug treatments stop.<br />But the mechanisms of bacterial persistence are becoming clearer, and so are ways to combat the phenomenon. A new study in Science Thursday maps out the structure and function of one major dormancy-inducer in bacteria, a protein called HipA. And it suggests how another protein, HipB, neutralizes it.<br />"Now we know what HipA looks like and how it functions," said lead author Maria Schumacher, a biochemist at the University of Texas' M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "We can try to develop more specific inhibitors against it."<br />Scientists could mine libraries of known compounds for<br />http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/bacterial-infec.html<br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-6031045987917022525?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-26419465241747552562009-01-15T22:59:00.005-06:002009-01-21T21:40:40.629-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAUgSnnXgI/AAAAAAAADVA/U6Cq2FCDLyg/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAUgSnnXgI/AAAAAAAADVA/U6Cq2FCDLyg/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291752107146698242" /></a>Washington circa 1918. The caption for this one is "no caption." Anybody here look familiar? Harris &amp; Ewing Collection glass negative.<br /><br />These officers were members of the Czech Legion; in the middle is Capt. Vladimir Hurban. Thanks to Anonymous and Stanton Square for this info.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5345">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5345</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2641946524174755256?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-67829068278901884632009-01-15T22:56:00.003-06:002009-01-21T21:40:30.822-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAT1j38vXI/AAAAAAAADU4/vHTngAh3UWo/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAT1j38vXI/AAAAAAAADU4/vHTngAh3UWo/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291751373044235634" /></a>"1917. Camp Meade, Maryland. Winter views." At ease in the barracks with news from the folks. Harris &amp; Ewing Collection glass negative.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5352">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5352</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-6782906827890188463?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-46596226744127633092009-01-15T22:53:00.005-06:002009-01-21T21:40:21.193-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXATZtMDn1I/AAAAAAAADUw/fIPL58SGeBI/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXATZtMDn1I/AAAAAAAADUw/fIPL58SGeBI/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291750894508154706" /></a>Arlington, Virginia, 1917. "Fort Myer officers' training camp mess." Harris &amp; Ewing Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5354">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5354</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-4659622674412763309?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-53881282594211231492009-01-15T22:52:00.004-06:002009-01-21T21:40:08.108-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXASvctN49I/AAAAAAAADUg/lMRJAi4IVWs/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 330px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXASvctN49I/AAAAAAAADUg/lMRJAi4IVWs/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291750168529331154" /></a>"William Phillips children, 1924." Their diplomat dad was Under Secretary of State in the Harding administration. National Photo Co.<br /><a href="http://www.shorpy.com/node/5355">http://www.shorpy.com/node/5355</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5388128259421123149?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-72652209866108108482009-01-15T22:47:00.004-06:002009-01-21T21:39:59.984-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXASMnMd6dI/AAAAAAAADUY/kjwMzBbvn0I/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXASMnMd6dI/AAAAAAAADUY/kjwMzBbvn0I/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291749570049337810" /></a>A camera lens focuses the image on a flat photoreceptor, and Voila! We've got a problem. The focus is sharper in the center then at the corners. The eye fixes this problem by utilizing a curved receptor that keeps the focus sharp out to the ediges. Brilliant, Watson!<br /><br />Now, new technology makes possible similar curved photoreceptors. This might revolutionize photos taken by smallish devices like cell phone cameras.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Bully! says Ol Pooch Dog</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113155847.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113155847.htm</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7265220986610810848?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-22207008605481119662009-01-15T22:42:00.005-06:002009-01-21T21:39:53.219-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAQip_gIeI/AAAAAAAADUQ/8cGWrXuEoFo/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 306px; height: 332px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAQip_gIeI/AAAAAAAADUQ/8cGWrXuEoFo/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291747749734130146" /></a>A researcher from the University of Leicester has identified what looks to be the oldest archaeological evidence for chemical warfare -- from Roman times.<br />At the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Leicester archaeologist Simon James presented CSI-style arguments that about twenty Roman soldiers, found in a siege-mine at the city of Dura-Europos, Syria, met their deaths not as a result of sword or spear, but through asphyxiation.<br />Dura-Europos on the Euphrates was conquered by the Romans who installed a large garrison. Around AD 256, the city was subjected to a ferocious siege by an army from the powerful new Sasanian Persian empire. The dramatic story is told entirely from archaeological remains; no ancient text describes it. Excavations during the 1920s-30s, renewed in recent years, have resulted in spectacular and gruesome discoveries.<br />The Sasanians used the full range of ancient siege techniques to break into the city, including mining operations to breach the walls. Roman defenders responded with ‘counter-mines’ to thwart the attackers. In one of these narrow, low galleries, a pile of bodies, representing about twenty Roman soldiers still with their arms, was found in the 1930s. While also conducting new fieldwork at the site, James has recently reappraised this coldest of cold-case ‘crime scenes’, in an attempt to understand exactly how these Romans died, and came to be lying where they were found.<br />Dr James, Reader in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, said: “It is evident that, when mine and countermine met, the Romans lost the ensuing struggle. Careful analysis of the disposition of the corpses shows they had been stacked at the mouth of the countermine by the Persians, using their victims to create a wall of bodies and shields, keeping Roman counterattack at bay while they set fire to the countermine, collapsing it, allowing the Persians to resume sapping the walls. This explains why the bodies were where they were found. But how did they die? For the Persians to kill twenty men in a space less than 2m high or wide, and about 11m long, required superhuman combat powers—or something more insidious.”<br />Finds from the Roman tunnel revealed that the Persians used bitumen and sulphur crystals to get it burning. These provided the vital clue. When ignited, such materials give off dense clouds of choking gases. “The Persians will have heard the Romans tunnelling,” says James, “and prepared a nasty surprise for them. I think the Sasanians placed braziers and bellows in their gallery, and when the Romans broke through, added the chemicals and pumped choking clouds into the Roman tunnel. The Roman assault party were unconscious in seconds, dead in minutes. Use of such smoke generators in siege-mines is actually mentioned in classical texts, and it is clear from the archaeological evidence at Dura that the Sasanian Persians were as knowledgeable in siege warfare as the Romans; they surely knew of this grim tactic.”<br />Ironically, this Persian mine failed to bring the walls down, but it is clear that the Sasanians somehow broke into the city. James recently excavated a ‘machine-gun belt’, a row of catapult bolts, ready to use by the wall of the Roman camp inside the city, representing the last stand of the garrison during the final street fighting. The defenders and inhabitants were slaughtered or deported to Persia, the city abandoned forever, leaving its gruesome secrets undisturbed until modern archaeological research began to reveal them.<br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114075921.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114075921.htm</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2220700860548111966?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-73661404909367535362009-01-15T22:39:00.002-06:002009-01-21T21:39:38.209-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAPzJRr4RI/AAAAAAAADUI/16EPF9nCs08/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SXAPzJRr4RI/AAAAAAAADUI/16EPF9nCs08/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291746933498175762" /></a>In a macabre discovery fit for Indiana Jones, archaeologists in Spain unearthed a 14th century brick oven with a unique role — to bake bones. Scientists report that the animal bones were burnt in the oven and mixed with other materials to produce a protective coating to strengthen the grand medieval walls of what is today Granada, Spain. Scientists now describe how they found these materials thanks to a powerful new testing method.<br />Carolina Cardell and colleagues point out that ancient decorative and protective layers, or patinas, covering the outside of very old buildings have been subject of many analyses in archaeology, conservation and chemistry. Patinas have been a popular finishing for building exteriors and walls for aesthetic and protective reasons since ancient times. “However, the results of this work are significant for archaeologists since this is the first report of burnt bones in a patina on a Muslim monument, as well as the archaeological artifacts — the oven and raw materials — used to produce them,” says Cardell.<br />Using a novel new method to identify the components of historical artifacts, the team found hydroxyapatite, the main component in bone pigments and animal bones, in the patina of Granada’s medieval walls. Their new test is inexpensive, identifies chemicals more accurately and — most importantly — does not harm the historical artifacts.<br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114210910.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114210910.htm</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7366140490936753536?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-21412599015400979102009-01-15T17:16:00.004-06:002009-01-21T21:39:24.926-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW_EaxKMSAI/AAAAAAAADUA/-XS1LF1OTx4/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW_EaxKMSAI/AAAAAAAADUA/-XS1LF1OTx4/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291664051335350274" /></a>Midlife coffee drinking can decrease the risk of dementia/Alzheimer's disease (AD) later in life. This conclusion is made in a Finnish Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Aging and Dementia (CAIDE) Study published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (Volume 16:1).<br />"We aimed to study the association between coffee and tea consumption at midlife and dementia/AD risk in late-life, because the long-term impact of caffeine on the central nervous system was still unknown, and as the pathologic processes leading to Alzheimer's disease may start decades before the clinical manifestation of the disease," says lead researcher, associate professor Miia Kivipelto, from the University of Kuopio, Finland and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.<br />At the midlife examination, the consumption of coffee and tea was assessed with a previously validated semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire. Coffee drinking was categorized into three groups: 0-2 cups (low), 3-5 cups (moderate) and >5 cups (high) per day. Further, the question concerning tea consumption was dichotomized into those not drinking tea (0 cup/day) vs. those drinking tea (≥1 cup/day).<br />The study found that coffee drinkers at midlife had lower risk for dementia and AD later in life compared to those drinking no or only little coffee. The lowest risk (65% decreased) was found among moderate coffee drinkers (drinking 3-5 cups of coffee/day). Adjustments for various confounders did not change the results. Tea drinking was relatively uncommon and was not associated with dementia/AD.<br /><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news151225794.html">http://www.physorg.com/news151225794.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2141259901540097910?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-21477572227045923192009-01-15T17:13:00.004-06:002009-01-21T21:39:16.625-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW_DiBaXktI/AAAAAAAADT4/zmJr5-efkr4/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 128px; height: 89px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW_DiBaXktI/AAAAAAAADT4/zmJr5-efkr4/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291663076445622994" /></a>The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee said Thursday he would investigate software glitches at the VA that put patient safety at risk, calling the problems a sign of a "dangerous lack of accountability."<br />"VA continues to discover problems and attempts to fix them quietly and internally, and then downplays them as inconsequential and nonthreatening," said Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif. "No one expects new software to operate perfectly, but confidence must be inherent in any electronic medical records system."<br />The Associated Press reported Wednesday that patients at VA health centers were given incorrect doses of drugs, had needed treatments delayed and may have been exposed to other medical errors due to the glitches that showed faulty displays of their electronic health records.<br /><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news151242965.html">http://www.physorg.com/news151242965.html</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Poocher is a VA employee. I hope this is addressed aggressively...</span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-2147757222704592319?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-42437895452787749062009-01-15T17:09:00.004-06:002009-01-21T21:39:07.480-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW_Ct1kRmwI/AAAAAAAADTw/hXTR8_mExTU/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW_Ct1kRmwI/AAAAAAAADTw/hXTR8_mExTU/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291662179912751874" /></a>The collection of rocks that the Apollo astronauts brought back from the moon carried with it a riddle that has puzzled scientists since the early 1970s: What produced the magnetization found in many of those rocks?<br />The longstanding puzzle has now been solved by researchers at MIT, who carried out the most detailed analysis ever of the oldest pristine rock from the Apollo collection. Magnetic traces recorded in the rock provide strong evidence that 4.2 billion years ago the moon had a liquid core with a dynamo, like Earth's core today, that produced a strong magnetic field.<br />The particular moon rock that produced the new evidence was long known to be a very special one. It is the oldest of all the moon rocks that have not been subjected to major shocks from later impacts -- something that tends to erase all evidence of earlier magnetic fields. In fact, it's older than any known rocks from Mars or even from the Earth itself.<br /><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news151251106.html">http://www.physorg.com/news151251106.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-4243789545278774906?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-57835988389156927322009-01-15T17:05:00.004-06:002009-01-21T21:38:59.449-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW_B_eQ7DlI/AAAAAAAADTo/KYSreTYTN9M/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 119px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW_B_eQ7DlI/AAAAAAAADTo/KYSreTYTN9M/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291661383383584338" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Check it out! Here's how to kill yourself and save Evolution the trouble of weeding out your defective genetic payload!<br />Pooch Doggy</span><br /><a href="http://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?aid=15805">http://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?aid=15805</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5783598838915692732?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-48947531976228747292009-01-15T16:54:00.004-06:002009-01-21T21:38:50.398-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-_qymVKXI/AAAAAAAADTg/eVuajBPz66s/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 378px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-_qymVKXI/AAAAAAAADTg/eVuajBPz66s/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291658829041576306" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Guys... This is potentially very important research! I have read some research reports in which environment seemed to become part of the genetic inheritance of organisms. This is another such account.<br /><br />Might the Nature vs Nurture vs Genetics battle continue at cocktail parties everywhere in the world until the end of time!<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Pooch</span></span><br /><br />STROKE the belly of a newborn female rat for a few hours a day and chemical "caps" will appear on its DNA that make its brain look more like that of a male.<br /><br />This extraordinary finding suggests that some biological differences between male and female brains may not be decided during fetal development, but instead appear after they are born.<br /><br />According to traditional thinking, sex-specific differences in mammals are determined in the womb by genes on the X and Y chromosomes, with the prenatal hormones the fetus is exposed to also playing a role.<br /><br />Recently, however, it has become clear that the behaviour of a mother rat towards her offspring can cause sex-specific changes. For example, mother rats spend more time licking and grooming their sons, which previous studies suggest is necessary for their genitalia to form properly.<br /><br />To see if a mother's touch might also cause sex-specific changes in rats' brains, Anthony Auger at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and colleagues stroked baby female rats, giving them the attention normally reserved for males. They found that the number of oestrogen receptors in the hypothalamus of stroked females was lower than in unstroked females, and similar to levels found in males.<br /><br />When the team examined the brains more closely, they noticed that the pattern of chemical caps called methyl groups that sit on DNA resembled that found in males, with more caps on the gene that codes for oestrogen receptors. As the caps reduce gene expression, this higher number of methyl groups is likely to be responsible for the decrease in oestrogen receptors.<br /><br />As methylation is often permanent, the methylation patterns caused by a mother's stroking may also be long lasting, says Auger, who presented the findings at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington DC in November.<br /><br />Methylation is "a short cut, a way for organisms to reduce the amount of information they have to encode in their genome," says Julie Markham of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.<br /><br />This is the first time that "epigenetic" influences outside of the womb have been linked to sex differences in mammals.<br /><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126903.300-mums-behaviour-may-make-young-rats-more-butch.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=life">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126903.300-mums-behaviour-may-make-young-rats-more-butch.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=life</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-4894753197622874729?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-62244731043647680102009-01-15T16:49:00.005-06:002009-01-21T21:38:40.640-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW--G0qpw7I/AAAAAAAADTY/w3EwqfUIbjI/s1600-h/Pooch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 143px; height: 188px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW--G0qpw7I/AAAAAAAADTY/w3EwqfUIbjI/s400/Pooch.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291657111609656242" /></a><br />Who needs children when a puppy can provide a similar emotional experience? After playing with their pets, dog owners experience a burst in a hormone linked to infant care, not to mention romantic love and friendship, new research finds.<br /><br />Nicknamed the "cuddle chemical" and the "love drug", oxytocin has been found to dampen stress, combat depression, and breed trust in humans. Studies of voles, mice and rats also point to oxytocin's role in pair bonding and social memory.<br /><br />For this reason, biologists Miho Nagasawa and Takefumi Kikusui, of Azuba University in Japan, wondered whether social contact between two different species could boost oxytocin levels, as well.<br /><br />"Miho and I are big dog lovers and feel something changed in our bodies when gazed [upon] by our dogs," Kikusui says.<br /><br />Look of love<br /><br />They recruited 55 dog owners and their pets for a laboratory play session. Owners provided a urine sample to measure oxytocin levels, and then played with their dog for half an hour. Another urine test followed.<br /><br />As a control on another occasion, some owners sat in a room with their dog and were told to completely avoid the gaze of their pets.<br /><br />Kikusui's team videotaped the sessions and measured how long a dog spent eyeing its owner. Based on the analysis, the researchers split the pairs that were allowed to play into two groups: "long gaze", who locked eyes for an average of 2.5 minutes during the play session, and "short gaze", who made eye contact for fewer than 45 seconds, on average.<br /><br />They found that these groupings reflected changes in owner's oxytocin levels. In participants that spent a long time making eye contact, oxytocin levels rose by more than 20% during the play session, on average. In the control group, owners that avoided their pooches' gaze saw their oxytocin levels drop slightly.<br /><br />Mood enhancers<br /><br />Kikusui thinks eye contact is a good proxy for the bond between owner and dog. Long-gaze owners tended to rate their relationship with their pet as more satisfying than short-gaze owners. And even when instructed to avoid eye contact during the control session, these owners experienced a mild boost in oxytocin.<br /><br />A flood of the cuddle chemical could explain why playing with dogs can lift moods and even improve symptoms of anxiety and depression, Kikusui says.<br /><br />More speculatively, oxytocin might have played a part in the domestication of dogs from wolves, about 15,000 years ago, the pair suggest. "Maybe during the evolutionary process, humans and dogs came to share the same social cues", such as eye contact and hand gestures, Kikusui says. "This is why dogs can adapt to human society."<br /><br />One previous study found that humans who are administered oxytocin looked toward the eyes of people in photographs more often and for longer than subjects given a placebo.<br /><br />However, Clive Wynne, a psychologist at the University of Florida in Gainseville, is skeptical that oxytocin release played a role in dog domestication. "Genetic evidence shows that wolves were turning into dogs thousands of years before anyone could suggest that people were involved," he says.<br /><br />Still, he thinks that oxytocin could explain why some owners seem more devoted to their dogs than their families. "Think of the Helmsley women who gave a hell of a lot more money to her dogs than to her grandchildren," he says.<br /><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16412-pet-dogs-rival-humans-for-emotional-satisfaction.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=life">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16412-pet-dogs-rival-humans-for-emotional-satisfaction.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=life</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-6224473104364768010?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-12579104875893741902009-01-15T16:23:00.004-06:002009-01-15T16:29:56.182-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-390pqfrI/AAAAAAAADTQ/zC3FS1-4rpc/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-390pqfrI/AAAAAAAADTQ/zC3FS1-4rpc/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291650359916920498" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Passengers scrambled to get off a sinking jetliner today after it went down with more than 150 people on board in New York's Hudson River. All passengers are believed to have escaped from the US Airways jet, which was en route to Charlotte. "I think that's miraculous," a passenger told CNN.<br /><br />The women and children were sent out of the plane first according to a passenger, ahead of the men on board.  </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">I like that!  I like opening the door for women too, and have always liked it that my Seraphina makes it easy when "out" to be chivalrous.  Old-fashioned dog that I am, that just feels right.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br />Pooch Doggy Dog</span><br /><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1257910487589374190?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-54622584764986307762009-01-15T15:09:00.005-06:002009-01-17T23:30:46.996-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-nkIwop9I/AAAAAAAADTI/85w911ZVXCU/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-nkIwop9I/AAAAAAAADTI/85w911ZVXCU/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291632326452226002" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">My wife Seraphina is from Missouri. You might enjoy this picture of one of her cousins from "up in the hills" utilizing a very effective nut-cracking tool. I've recommended to the clan that the device be patented. They are reluctant though.<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">"Why! Even if we was to get a patent, them damn Yankees would screw us anyway. What's the point?"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /><br />I tell them not to fear, that Obama is President now and times have changed! Maybe with time, and a bribe of a basket or two of fall season black walnuts, thrown on the driveway, run over real good to remove the husks, they might soften towards him. But, right now it's no use.<br /><br />Sometimes, they really embarrass me...<br /><br />Read all about Seraphina's relatives here...</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16426-nutcracking-monkeys-find-the-right-tool-for-the-job.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=life">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16426-nutcracking-monkeys-find-the-right-tool-for-the-job.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=life</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Pooch Doggy Dog</span></span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-5462258476498630776?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-2149266570285351342009-01-15T15:07:00.004-06:002009-01-17T23:34:35.053-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-lxxFc_7I/AAAAAAAADTA/NypCwmksMDg/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-lxxFc_7I/AAAAAAAADTA/NypCwmksMDg/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291630361592004530" border="0" /></a>Not every state in the nation has a state dinosaur, but Texas does. Now, however, the extinct creature could get a new official name.<br /><br />It makes sense that the state of everything giant would celebrate a behemoth paleo-beast. In 1997, the legislature named Pleurocoelus the Texas state dinosaur. The sauropod (member of a group of plant eaters with long necks and tails) apparently plodded on saucer-like hind feet and weighed 40,000 to 90,000 pounds (18,000 to 40,000 kg), with a body length of up to 60 feet (18 meters).<br /><br />The reign of Pleurocoelus in the Lone Star State may be a short one, though.<br /><br />On Jan. 7, State Rep. Charles Geren of Fort Worth filed a resolution to change the state dinosaur from Pleurocoelus to Paluxysaurus jonesi to correctly name the massive sauropod whose tracks and bones litter the Jones Ranch, which is in central Texas near Glen Rose. Geren filed his resolution on behalf of constituents at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.<br /><a href="http://www.livescience.com/animals/090114-dino-identity.html">http://www.livescience.com/animals/090114-dino-identity.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-214926657028535134?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-31693955383762308622009-01-15T15:03:00.004-06:002009-01-17T23:34:08.005-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-lOr9Nh2I/AAAAAAAADS4/DbAPlU2KJ2M/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-lOr9Nh2I/AAAAAAAADS4/DbAPlU2KJ2M/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291629758919837538" border="0" /></a><br />Half a century after the discovery of pheromones in animals, scientists have yet to conclusively identify a single such chemical in humans. Yet the term is bandied about regularly in reference to people and the supposedly silent means by which they communicate.<br /><br />Pheromones will improve your sex life, a common sales pitch goes.<br /><br />For certain, animals use pheromones to communicate nonverbally, transmitting the chemical signals often through air. The purpose is often related to mating or defense of territory.<br /><br />Peter Karlson and Martin Lüscher first proposed the word "pheromone" in 1959, referring to a chemical cocktail emitted by an animal and detected and responded to by other creatures of the same species. That same year, researchers reported the identification of the first pheromone (called bombykol) in silk moths.<br /><br />Since then, such chemical equivalents of text messages have been reported in various animals, including some mammals, writes Tristram Wyatt of the University of Oxford in an essay published in the Jan. 15 issue of the journal Nature.<br /><br />However, the hunt for a human pheromone has come up short.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.livescience.com/health/090114-human-pheromones.html">http://www.livescience.com/health/090114-human-pheromones.html</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Well, Pooch Dog can tell you all about scents and pheromones. And, believe me, Seraphina is all about scent and... you figure out the rest!</span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-3169395538376230862?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-39953321052550107092009-01-15T14:59:00.004-06:002009-01-17T23:33:37.685-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-kLDYHQhI/AAAAAAAADSw/PkuiHR529O0/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 296px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-kLDYHQhI/AAAAAAAADSw/PkuiHR529O0/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291628596975583762" border="0" /></a>Did you know that 2009 is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">The International Year of Atronomy</span> as a commemoration of the telescope's 400th year? <div><br /></div><div>Well...<br /><br />Galileo Galilei is often credited with being the first person to look through a telescope and make drawings of the celestial objects he observed. While the Italian indeed was a pioneer in this realm, he was not the first.<br /><br />Englishman Thomas Harriot made the first drawing of the moon after looking through a telescope several months before Galileo, in July 1609.<br />Historian Allan Chapman of the University of Oxford details that 400-year-old breakthrough in astronomy in the February 2009 edition of Astronomy and Geophysics, a journal of the Royal Astronomical Society.<br /><br />Chapman explains how Harriot preceded Galileo and went on to make other maps of the moon's surface that would not be bettered for decades.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">(Lost link to article. Sorry! Pooch Hound)</span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-3995332105255010709?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-9616491495352959122009-01-15T14:51:00.004-06:002009-01-17T23:33:12.560-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-iIX1FkRI/AAAAAAAADSo/TeOzvFYkAg8/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-iIX1FkRI/AAAAAAAADSo/TeOzvFYkAg8/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291626351902953746" border="0" /></a>A new survey of dung has revealed a population of hundreds of endangered Asian elephants living in a Malaysian park. The animals could be the largest-known set of these pachyderms in Southeast Asia.<br />The researchers counted dung piles to estimate that there are 631 Asian elephants living in Taman Negara National Park — a 4,343 square kilometer (1,676 square mile) protected area in the center of Peninsular Malaysia. This result confirms the largest-known population of elephants remaining in this part of the world, according to the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Malaysia’s Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP), which partnered to study the elephants.<br />Asian elephants are endangered due to habitat loss and poaching; between 30,000 and 50,000 may remain in 13 Asian countries. The Asian elephant is listed on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and has seen a drastic reduction in total population across its range as a result of illegal poaching, increased human-wildlife conflict and other threats.<br /><a href="http://www.livescience.com/animals/090114-malaysian-elephants.html">http://www.livescience.com/animals/090114-malaysian-elephants.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-961649149535295912?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-72735356936458026462009-01-15T13:53:00.004-06:002009-01-17T23:32:49.318-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-Usvyc_FI/AAAAAAAADSg/TDNBvTFK83Y/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-Usvyc_FI/AAAAAAAADSg/TDNBvTFK83Y/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291611583646858322" border="0" /></a>God and science are inherently at odds, or so goes the story with roots that reach back nearly 400 years to the Inquisition's trial of Galileo on suspicion of heresy.<br /><br />The ongoing effort of U.S. creationists to inject doubt about evolution into science classrooms in public schools is an example of that conflict, not to mention the polarizing arguments over the decades offered by numerous members of the clergy, politicians, and some atheist scientists and scholars including Richard Dawkins.<br /><br />Now a new study suggests our minds are conflicted, making it so we have trouble reconciling science and God because we unconsciously see these concepts as fundamentally opposed, at least when both are used to explain the beginning of life and the universe.<br /><br />But what is the source of this seeming "irreconcilable difference" — are we hard-wired for it, or is it tenacious cultural baggage?<br /><br />Experiments headed up by psychologist Jesse Preston of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her colleague Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago provide some data to support the argument that the conflict is inherent, or hard-wired. They found that subjects apparently cannot easily give positive evaluations to both God and science as explanations for big questions, such as the origin of life and the universe, at the same time.<br /><br />In one experiment, 129 volunteers, mostly undergrads, read short summaries of the Big Bang theory and the Primordial Soup Hypothesis, a scientific theory of the origin of life.<br /><br />Half of the group then read a statement explaining that the theories were strong and supported by the data. The other half read that the theories "raised more questions than they answered." All of the subjects then completed a computer task where they were required to categorize various words as positive or negative.<br /><br />Read about the results here...<br />http://www.livescience.com/culture/090115-god-science.html<br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-7273535693645802646?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-11065946284694299792009-01-15T13:50:00.003-06:002009-01-17T23:32:25.589-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-T6T6b51I/AAAAAAAADSY/INIvf-O14aI/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-T6T6b51I/AAAAAAAADSY/INIvf-O14aI/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291610717170689874" border="0" /></a>Plumes of methane gas detected over certain locations on Mars in 2003 could point to active geological processes on the red planet, or perhaps even to methane-burping microbes deep below the Martian surface, a new study reports.<br /><br />There is no firm evidence for life on the red planet, however, despite news reports early today suggesting as much. Rather, scientists are puzzled by the new findings.<br /><br />Methane, a small (but important) constituent of Earth's atmosphere, makes up an even smaller percentage of Mars' atmosphere (which is 95 percent carbon dioxide), so detecting it on the red planet is a rare event.<br /><br />In fact, it wasn't detected at all before 2003, when the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter (which is still circling the planet) picked up a possible methane signature.<br /><br />A search conducted with three ground-based telescopes that covered 90 percent of the Martian surface over three Mars years (7 Earth years) detected extended plumes of methane that varied with the seasons and seemed to emanate from specific locations. These include the Arabia Terra, Nili Fossae and Syrtis Major regions of Mars. The work was supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation.<br /><br />http://www.livescience.com/space/090115-mars-methane-news.html<br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1106594628469429979?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-84261680542967372162009-01-15T13:03:00.003-06:002009-01-15T13:07:23.360-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-I0QmmTSI/AAAAAAAADSQ/LZEXOWvVDks/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-I0QmmTSI/AAAAAAAADSQ/LZEXOWvVDks/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291598518575058210" /></a>Russia lags behind the United States in aerospace research and development. It has yet to produce decent competitors to America's two new, fifth-generation fighter jets, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning Joint Strike Fighter and the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor.<br />The main Russian rivals to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings are the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-35 (NATO designation Fulcrum F) and the Sukhoi Su-35 (NATO designation Flanker). The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-35 is an upgrade of the MiG-29M/M2 and the MiG-29OVT. Both are fourth-generation jets.<br /><a href="http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Swords_and_Shields_F-35_beats_Russians_999.html">http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Swords_and_Shields_F-35_beats_Russians_999.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-8426168054296737216?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-5076144826693704852009-01-15T13:00:00.004-06:002009-01-15T13:07:16.645-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-H9s8T-jI/AAAAAAAADSI/YMqEOdbjLcw/s1600-h/PoochThumbnail.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 53px; height: 70px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-H9s8T-jI/AAAAAAAADSI/YMqEOdbjLcw/s200/PoochThumbnail.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291597581289519666" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Palin's media battle raises eyebrows</span><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/14/palin.persistent/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/14/palin.persistent/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Court orders White House to preserve e-mails</span><br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/14/white.house.email/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/14/white.house.email/index.html?eref=rss_topstories</a><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-507614482669370485?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-36706512991854065742009-01-15T12:47:00.006-06:002009-01-15T13:07:06.505-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-FCY6WRKI/AAAAAAAADSA/Fpdx-HXFrX0/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 385px; height: 185px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-FCY6WRKI/AAAAAAAADSA/Fpdx-HXFrX0/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291594363277034658" /></a>Is Israel dropping cluster bombs on Gaza? They dropped them when retreating from Lebanon several years ago.  <div><br /></div><div>Read, and decide for yourself.<br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/cluster-bombs-i.html">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/cluster-bombs-i.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-3670651299185406574?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-14625725905858156942009-01-15T12:44:00.003-06:002009-01-15T13:06:53.712-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-EYkiCaEI/AAAAAAAADR4/aSY2pKxVAAY/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-EYkiCaEI/AAAAAAAADR4/aSY2pKxVAAY/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291593644841789506" /></a>Forget the Blackwater cufflinks and the attack helicopter Hawaiian shirt. The contest for most awesomely bad defense trinket is official over.<br />This is the 20th anniversary of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, you see. So the bomber-makers at Northrop Grumman wanted to commemorate the occasion, with a special trophy. Naturally -- oh, so naturally -- they chose to have a B-2 bomber-themed motorcycle built.<br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/northrop-unveil.html">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/northrop-unveil.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1462572590585815694?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-89171719408606248822009-01-15T12:37:00.006-06:002009-01-15T13:06:46.230-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-D1GmMVnI/AAAAAAAADRw/U769YyhbIZs/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 381px; height: 295px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-D1GmMVnI/AAAAAAAADRw/U769YyhbIZs/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291593035510732402" /></a>The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Chinese</span></span> navy yesterday escorted a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Taiwan</span></span></span> ship through Somali waters to protect it against pirate attacks. <br /><a href="http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/6572585.html">http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/6572585.html</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Wow!  </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">China makes peace with Taiwan. (OK. I know I'm babbling.)  </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">America makes peace with Cuba.  </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Seraphina (wife) allows me to eat dog biscuits in bed.<br /><br />2009 is going to be a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">ver</span>y good year, my friend!<br /><br />Pooch Doggy Dog</span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-8917171940860624882?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-85837043035381238232009-01-15T12:31:00.004-06:002009-01-15T13:06:36.862-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-B-DdXyGI/AAAAAAAADRo/SZMvTKKhzXE/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 256px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW-B-DdXyGI/AAAAAAAADRo/SZMvTKKhzXE/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291590990263994466" /></a>Our country has the right guy in the White House, retired NBA star Reggie Miller says. Reggie is impressed with his basketball style - he tries to involve everyone, but isn't afraid to take responsibility at crunch time. So, maybe O will be a good president too.<br /><br />Read the Reggie Miller interview here...<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/14/miller.obama.basketball/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/14/miller.obama.basketball/index.html</a><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Poocher says we should have checked out W's athletic skills also. Alas! Too late. Now, all we can do is evaluate W's Lame Duck paddling technique.</span><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-8583704303538123823?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-47179200369902606432009-01-15T11:04:00.003-06:002009-01-15T13:06:30.251-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW9tKTWnnhI/AAAAAAAADRg/WznmwJWSEWM/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 181px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW9tKTWnnhI/AAAAAAAADRg/WznmwJWSEWM/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291568110944886290" /></a>Despite low approval ratings among Americans, President George W. Bush enjoys the favor of many Chinese citizens, according to a report from Barbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times:<br />Contemplating his imminent departure, many Chinese are openly expressing affection toward the man they call Xiao Bush, or “Young Bush,” to distinguish him from “Old Bush,” the 41st U.S. president.<br />“Bush made some mistakes in foreign policy, especially with Iraq, but for the Chinese, he had been a true friend,” said Mao Baoshu, a retired nuclear specialist who was attending the exhibit Tuesday.<br />Many Chinese credit the Bush administration’s free-trade policies with helping the Chinese economy blossom over the last eight years. They appreciate its efforts to rein in the fiery anti-Beijing rhetoric of former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian. And Bush’s attendance of the opening ceremony of last summer’s Olympics, at a time when many world leaders were urging a boycott because of China’s human rights record, is viewed with deep gratitude.<br />“We will never forget that the leader of the most developed country in the world stood up to pressure to come to the Olympics,” Mao said.<br /><a href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/01/chinas-rich-too-fast-too-furious/">http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/01/chinas-rich-too-fast-too-furious/</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-4717920036990260643?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-14494981647668572022009-01-15T11:01:00.004-06:002009-01-15T13:06:18.985-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW9sQZDnDHI/AAAAAAAADRY/C_HmbLOu73s/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 135px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW9sQZDnDHI/AAAAAAAADRY/C_HmbLOu73s/s200/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291567116043357298" /></a>The Asia Time’s Stephanie Wong reports that China has the highest traffic fatalities in the world, with 81,649 people killed in around 320,000 traffic accidents in 2007, 20% of the global total.<br /><a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/KA10Ad02.html">http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/KA10Ad02.html</a><br /><a href="http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/01/chinas-rich-too-fast-too-furious/">http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2009/01/chinas-rich-too-fast-too-furious/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1449498164766857202?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-47171519248308232102009-01-15T10:54:00.008-06:002009-01-15T13:06:10.680-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW9q-jZ55cI/AAAAAAAADRQ/tKXjllnyZPA/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW9q-jZ55cI/AAAAAAAADRQ/tKXjllnyZPA/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291565710071948738" /></a>American individualism has made its imprint on Christianity.<div><br />A sizable majority of the country's faithful no longer hew closely to orthodox teachings, and look more to themselves than to churches or denominations to define their religious convictions, according to two recent surveys. More than half of all Christians also believe that some non-Christians can get into heaven.<br />"Growing numbers of people now serve as their own theologian-in-residence," said George Barna, president of Barna Group, on releasing findings of one of the polls on Jan. 12.</div><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">In the Barna survey, 71 percent of American adults say they are more likely to develop their own set of religious beliefs</span> than to accept a defined set of teachings from a particular church. Even among born-again Christians, 61 percent pick and choose from the beliefs of different denominations. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">For people under the age of 25, the number rises to 82 percent.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">                  <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">This is very significant!  </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;">Poocher</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>Many "cafeteria Christians" go beyond the teachings of Christian denominations to embrace parts of other world religions.  Half of Americans also believe that Christianity is now just one of many faith options people can choose from (44 percent disagree with that perception). Residents of the Northeast and West were more likely than those in the South and Midwest to say Christianity has lost its status as the favored American religion.</div><div><br />Christians expressed a variety of unorthodox beliefs in the poll. Nearly half of those interviewed do not believe in the existence of Satan, one-third believe Jesus sinned while on earth, and two-fifths say they don't have a responsibility to share their faith with others.</div><div><br />The most striking divergence from orthodoxy, however, was first revealed in the 2007 US Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life. That comprehensive survey of 35,000 Americans found a majority of Christians saying that people of other religions can find salvation and eternal life.</div><div><br />The results stirred controversy among some Christian leaders for whom Jesus as the only path to salvation is a paramount teaching. Some questioned whether those surveyed about "other religions" might have been thinking of Christian denominations or traditions – such as Protestants referring to Roman Catholicism – rather than non-Christian faiths.</div><div><br />Pew undertook a follow-up survey, which it released in late December. That poll found 65 percent of American Christians (including 47 percent of Evangelicals) do indeed think that many different religions can lead to eternal life. Among these Christians, 80 percent cited one non-Christian faith as a route to salvation; 61 percent named two or more.<br /><br />The survey also asked about views on how one obtains eternal life. Among all adults with a religious affiliation, 30 percent say correct beliefs are what counts, 29 percent say salvation depends on one's actions during life, while 10 percent say both are essential. Those who emphasize the impact of actions are more inclined to believe that practitioners of non-Christian faiths can achieve eternal life. Most of those who emphasize beliefs say non-Christian paths do not lead to heaven.</div><div><br />The poll confirms a broad rejection of religious exclusivity. Among all religious adults interviewed, 65 percent say many religions lead to eternal life and only 29 percent say theirs is the one true faith. Sixty-nine percent of all non-Jews say Judaism can lead to eternal life and 52 percent of non-Muslims say that of Islam.</div><div><br />Forty-two percent of religious Americans also say atheists are able to find eternal life.<br />While some people hail these findings as heartening for American pluralism, others see them as a wake-up call. R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary writes on his blog about biblical Christianity's role in countering such inclusive views and helping people find the true Christian way. Others point to the power of egalitarian American culture.</div><div><br />"It's just part of a 200-year working out of ideas about personal autonomy and equality that are sort of built into the American experience," says Alan Wolfe, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. "The notion that someone is going to burn in hell because they have their own beliefs is just not resonant within our larger political ideals."<br /><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0114/p02s02-usgn.html">http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0114/p02s02-usgn.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-4717151924830823210?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-9184045364137865052009-01-14T15:15:00.004-06:002009-01-15T13:06:00.735-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW5WU4T23xI/AAAAAAAADRI/a2JT-tszBQk/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 342px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW5WU4T23xI/AAAAAAAADRI/a2JT-tszBQk/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291261528919957266" /></a>Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new dental product to identify plaque build-up in the mouth before it is visible to the human eye. The toothbrush-sized product has a blue light at its tip, which, when shone around the mouth and viewed through yellow glasses with a red filter, allows plaque to be seen easily as a red glow.<br /><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113074423.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090113074423.htm</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-918404536413786505?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601574434060523574.post-16635337988942970312009-01-14T15:12:00.005-06:002009-01-15T13:05:52.408-06:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW5V04_CM7I/AAAAAAAADRA/-PmvFQjg43g/s1600-h/BlogPhoto.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T7MfEA6nZNI/SW5V04_CM7I/AAAAAAAADRA/-PmvFQjg43g/s400/BlogPhoto.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291260979345241010" /></a>In Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces are pummeling targets they would normally never touch -- mosques, hospitals, schools. To justify their actions, many IDF units are employing combat videographers, photographers, or sound engineers, to do what the Israeli military calls "op erational verification."<br />The IDF says they have no choice. "We didn’t change; the en emy did," Yiftah Ron-Tal, a major gener al in the IDF reserves, tells ," writes Defense News ace Barbara Opall-Rome. "Hamas has sunken to lev els that are the worst we’ve ever seen, by deliber ately choosing the places and con ditions of engagement that assure the heaviest civilian toll."<br />Which makes justifying attacks on these once-out-of-bound targets so important. "It’s an integral part of the unit; just like snipers, communications officers and other specialists. His mission is to validate our actions in the context of the enemy threat," Ron-Tal says. "Video cameras and other docu mentation gear is becoming part and parcel of the equipment militaries will need to provide for forces com bating Hamas-type enemies."<br /><a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/israelis-docume.html">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/israelis-docume.html</a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">View the </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here...">Prairie Pooch Hole</a></span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/View%20the%20Prairie%20Pooch%20Hole%20blog%20here..."> blog here...</a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5601574434060523574-1663533798894297031?l=larryandro.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Cynomys Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12263122535952739055noreply@blogger.com0