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Forget the Sweet Tooth, Eyes Reveal a Taste for Sweets
Sugary treats cause a surge of dopamine, which can be measured in the eyes.
If chocolate brownies make your eyes light up, there's a chemical reason: Rich, sugary treats trigger a surge of dopamine, the brain hormone associated with pleasure and addiction, that can be measured in the retina.
A new study published in the journal Obesity used a novel method—electroretinography (ERG), a tool normally used by ophthalmologists to assess retinal damage—to examine what makes some foods so irresistible to some people.
New Way to Look at Dopamine
Drexel University nutritionist Jennifer Nasser came up with the groundbreaking idea of using ERG to assess the connection between food and dopamine.
After reading about the use of ERG in studies of cocaine addicts, Nasser was struck by the idea that it could also be used in the context of obesity research.
"I've always wanted to be able to measure dopamine response to food, but other methodologies are either extremely invasive—like a spinal tap—or extremely expensive, like a PET scan, which can cost $2,000 or more a session," Nasser said. "Electroretinography is actually a very old clinical procedure that's much simpler; it's something you could get done at the eye doctor's office."
Scientists already knew that light activates dopamine neurons in the retina, and that consuming sugar and fat releases dopamine in the so-called mid-brain system. But until now, those two systems were thought to be unrelated, said Nasser.
"Many retinal experts told me that using ERG in this way probably wouldn't work," she said, but when she connected the conclusions of several other studies involving dopamine in both the brain and eye, "it just seemed logical."
This Is Your Brain on Brownies
Nasser and collaborators at the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center flashed a light into the eyes of subjects who had consumed one of three different substances: water, chocolate brownies, or the drug methylphenidate (Ritalin), which is known to increase dopamine levels in the brain. As the light hit the optic nerve, it triggered electrical signals that could be measured by the ERG, indicating how much dopamine was being released.
They found that a mouthful of brownie triggered a spike of dopamine almost identical to the spike caused by the drug, while the water had no noticeable effect.
In other words, there's a scientific reason that you want another brownie.
The sugar and fat in brownies probably play a bigger role than chocolate, Nasser said—they simply used chocolate brownies in their study because that's what the first subject named as a favorite food. In future studies, she'd like to test people's responses to other foods and to single ingredients such as sugar.
Nasser cautions that this was a small study with only nine subjects, and the results must be replicated in larger groups before anything can be considered conclusive. But she's excited about what the use of ERG could mean for people who tend to overeat certain foods—especially as obesity continues to spread in the developed world. More than one-third of U.S. adults are obese.
"I can see eventually using this procedure as a way of testing different foods with individuals who struggle with things like binge eating disorder," Nasser said.
She gave a hypothetical example: Someone says they like several different foods equally, but an ERG test reveals that one of those foods produces a tremendous dopamine spike. "Then you can tell them: Okay, you should probably stay away from that particular food, because you will be more likely to eat too much of it."
Does that mean that we can blame overeating on our brains?
"Well, in some respects, you could say that most of our behavior is based on chemical things going on in the brain," said Nasser. "But that doesn't mean we're not capable of choice."


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The Most Interesting Comics of the Week
By Rich Barrett
Every Wednesday, I preview the most interesting new comics hitting comic shops, Comixology, Kickstarter and the web.
1. Brenda Starr: The Complete Pre-Code Comics Volume One
Written by Dale Messick; art by Matt Baker, Jack Kamen and others
Hermes Press
What is it?
Collecting, for the first time, the first 8 issues of a rare Brenda Starr comic book series that was first published in 1947, this volume features art from some of the great comic artists of the Golden Age like Matt Baker and Jack Kamen. As in the popular, long-running newspaper strip, Brenda Starr is a glamorous reporter who goes off on adventures in exotic locations. The big difference between the comic book versus the newspaper strip is that she would get tied up a lot more in the comic book.
What makes it interesting?
Although written and officially sanctioned by Brenda Starr creator Dale Messick, this is not exactly the Brenda Starr you used to read in the newspaper. These comics were published in the so-called "Pre-Code" era, before the Comics Code Authority—a self-regulating measure created in the 1950s to keep comics from getting themselves into trouble with just this kind of material. In fact, the cover shown here was actually used as a damning example in Dr. Frederic Wertham's 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent to prove the luridness of comics and how psychologically dangerous they could be to children.
Unlike in the newspaper strip, these comics showed Brenda in dangerous situations that often involved bondage, torture, and some ripped dresses. They will probably now seem tame to modern eyes, and never ventured into nudity or sexual situations, but they were definitely designed to be more titillating than the more mainstream comic strips. In fact, they are drawn by two of the greats from the Golden Age of comics and both were known for the kind of edgy work that would eventually attract the attention of Wertham and Congress. Jack Kamen was a staple artist of the infamous EC Comics, working on various horror, crime and sci-fi comics for them, and Matt Baker is considered one of the great "Good Girl" artists from that time. His immaculate renderings of beautiful women in comics like Phantom Lady and various crime and romance comics have made him one of the most respected artists of that time. His cover to It Rhymes With Lust is an iconic image from the pulp era.
Like many Pre-Code books, these had been mostly lost to time, but Hermes Press, which has been reprinting the complete Brenda Starr comic strips for a number of years now, have managed to cull together these lost comics, including the back-up stories they originally contained. This is the first time in over 50 years they have been available to read.
You can read more about this Brenda Starr book on the Hermes Press website.
2. Broken Telephone
Written by Ryan Estrada with various artists
What is it?
This 18 part comic series begins in a call center in Mumbai, when customer service representative Manisha hears a murder over the phone. Can she catch the killer and solve the mystery from half a world away?
Cut to part 2 and the murderer from part 1 thinks he's the hero of the story, trying to catch an assassin who is the hero of Part 3 and so on…
Ryan Estrada has been writing this elaborate story he calls Broken Telephone for seven years and has brought in 18 different artists to help him bring each piece to life. He's established a Kickstarter with multiple rewards but based on the notion that you can pay whatever you'd like for each installment and all proceeds go towards paying the artists.
What makes it interesting?
This might be the best concept I've heard for a comic book in a long time. As the title suggests, it works similarly to that old childhood game of "Telephone" where the point of the message gets transformed when passed from person to person. The hero of each story is the villain in someone else's story, and even though everyone is trying to do the right thing, they inevitably cause big problems for someone else. Each is drawn by a different artist, some of whom are active webcomic creators such as KC Green ("Gunshow"), Brittney Sabo ("All Night") and Estrada himself. Many are newcomers (at least to me) who look like future stars like Carolyn Nowak, Rachel Dukes, Kelly Bastow and more.
Let Ryan Estrada tell you all about it himself on his Kickstarter page. Especially take note of the lengths he's gone through to research some of the crimes and schemes he writes about in this series.
3. Brooklyn Quesadillas
By Antony Huchette
Cunundrum Press
What is it?
Joseph is a 30-year-old animator, husband and dad. He lives in Brooklyn after moving some time ago from his native France (so far this all sounds very much like the author's life). In his spare time, Joseph directs a children's talk show out of his house hosted by a talking coffee pot. One day he is faced with the temptation of running off to Governor's Island with Denise Huxtable from The Cosby Show to direct movies starring Jessie Spano from Saved By The Bell (now it's no longer autobiographical).
What makes it interesting?
This is a quirky book to say the least. Huchette draws in a very loose, sometimes crude style, but he is full of crazy ideas that he can seem to barely help himself from putting on the page. It also reads like it is a very personal book for him even though I don't truly know how much if any of it he's drawn from his own viewpoint. At the start of the story, the main character deals with some issues with being a family man and having a wandering eye that make him a little hard to like as a protagonist, but there's a certain honesty with how he addresses all of this that makes this whole crazy story seem like it's coming from a real place.
Huchette originally produced this book in French but Canadian publisher Cunundrum Press has had it translated for English speaking audiences. You can find out more about the book at their website.


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Security beefed up after 2 suicide bombings kill 31 in Russia
No one has claimed responsibility for Sunday's blast at the Volgograd railway station or Monday's bus explosion there, 104 are wounded
By Vladimir Isachenkov
Associated Press
MOSCOW — Two suicide bombings in as many days have raised concerns that separatist militants have begun a terrorist campaign in Russia that could stretch into the Winter Olympics in February. Russian authorities and the International Olympic Committee insisted the site of the games, protected by layers of security, is completely safe.
The attacks in Volgograd, only 400 miles (650 kilometers) away from the Olympic host city of Sochi, reflected the Kremlin's inability to uproot Islamist insurgents in the Caucasus who have vowed to derail the games, President Vladimir Putin's pet project.
No one has claimed responsibility for Sunday's blast at the Volgograd railway station or Monday's bus explosion there, but they came only months after Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov threatened new attacks against civilian targets in Russia, including the Sochi Olympics.
The two bombings killed 31 people and wounded 104, according to Russia's health ministry. As of late Monday, 58 victims were still hospitalized, many in grave condition.
Suicide bombings have rocked Russia for years, but the insurgency seeking to create an Islamic state has been largely confined to the North Caucasus region in the past few years. The successive attacks in Volgograd signal that militants want to show their reach outside their native region.
Matthew Clements, an analyst at Jane's, said Caucasus militants could be targeting major Russian transportation hubs like Volgograd to embarrass the Kremlin and discourage attendance at the Olympics, which begin Feb. 7.
"The attack demonstrates the militants' capability to strike at soft targets such as transport infrastructure outside of their usual area of operations in the North Caucasus," he said in a note. "Although the very strict security measures which will be in place at the Sochi Games will make it difficult to undertake a successful attack against the main Olympic venues, public transport infrastructure in Sochi and the surrounding Krasnodar territory will face an elevated risk of attack."
Some experts say the perpetrators could also have been targeting Russia's pride by hitting the city formerly called Stalingrad, which is known for the historic battle that turned the tide against the Nazis.
"Volgograd, a symbol of Russia's suffering and victory in World War II, has been singled out by the terrorist leaders precisely because of its status in people's minds," Dmitry Trenin, the head of the Carnegie Endowment's Moscow office, said in a commentary on the organization's website.
Volgograd, a city of 1 million northeast of Sochi, is a hub with railway lines running in five directions across the country and numerous bus routes connecting it to the volatile Caucasus provinces.
Security checks on buses have remained largely symbolic and easily avoidable, making them the transport of choice for terrorists in the region. And tighter railway security isn't always enough to prevent casualties. In Sunday's attack, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive in front of the train station's metal detectors, killing 17 people, including the bomber.
The security regime at Russia's railway stations and airports has been tightened after a male suicide bomber hit Moscow's Domodedovo Airport in January 2011, killing 37 people and injuring more than 180. The previous year, twin bombings on the Moscow subway in March 2010 by female suicide bombers killed 40 people and wounded more than 120.
Umarov, who had claimed responsibility for the 2010 and 2011 bombings, ordered a halt to attacks on civilian targets during the mass street protests against Putin in the winter of 2011-12. He reversed that order in July, urging his men to "do their utmost to derail" the Sochi Olympics, which he described as "satanic dances on the bones of our ancestors."
Aware of the threat, the Sochi organizers have introduced some of the most extensive identity checks and sweeping security measures ever seen at an international sports event.
Anyone wanting to attend the games that run from Feb. 7-23 will have to buy a ticket online from the organizers and obtain a "spectator pass" for access. Doing so will require providing passport details that allow authorities to screen all visitors.
The security zone created around Sochi stretches approximately 100 kilometers (60 miles) along the Black Sea coast and up to 40 kilometers (25 miles) inland. Russian forces including special troops will patrol the forested mountains flanking the resort and use drones to keep a constant watch over Olympic facilities. Speed boats will patrol the coast and sophisticated sonars will be used to detect submarines.
Cars from outside the Olympic zone will be banned beginning a month before the Winter Games, and Sochi residents are already facing widespread identity checks.
Some observers have warned, however, that terrorists may simply choose softer targets in the vicinity of Sochi to sow panic.
"Even if they succeed in protecting Sochi, there could be a series of major attacks near Sochi," Anatoly Yermolin, a veteran KGB officer, told Ekho Moskvy radio.
Alexei Filatov, another veteran of Russian security forces, also predicted that terrorists will try to step up their attacks before the Olympics.
"The terrorist activities will increase as the Sochi Olympics get closer, and they will get increasingly close to the area," Filatov wrote on his blog. "For those who order terror attacks, it serves as an opportunity to deal a blow to Russia on global stage."
Some Russian commentators also have suggested that terrorists could have planted sleeper agents in Sochi long before security was tightened. Others indicated that terror groups could have rigged some Olympic facilities with explosives during their construction. Russian officials have denied that could happen, citing stringent security controls at the Olympic construction sites.
Russian Olympic Committee chief Alexander Zhukov insisted Monday that there was no need to take any extra steps to secure Sochi in the wake of the Volgograd bombings as "everything necessary already has been done."
IOC President Thomas Bach offered his condolences Monday in a letter to Putin and expressed full confidence that Russian authorities would deliver "safe and secure games in Sochi."
Russian authorities ordered police to beef up security at train stations and other transit facilities across the country. The heightened security comes as Russians are preparing to celebrate the New Year, the nation's main holiday.
In St. Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city, the local governor canceled a New Year's fireworks show.
Vladimir Markin, the spokesman for Russia's main investigative agency, the Investigative Committee, said Monday's explosion involved a bomb similar to the one used in Sunday's attack, indicating that the two attacks were linked.
Markin said a suicide attacker was responsible for Monday's bus explosion that killed at least 14 people. It was not clear if those killed included the bomber.
In October, a suicide bus bombing in Volgograd killed six people.
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- Anonymous09:17
Hopefully better days are to come for OMO. With FR, OU and EW they should have decent passenger numbers. Plus it's good to hear about the terminal expansion.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous09:20
Nice. We will have four airports with traffic, four airports offering LCC options and four airports with renewed terminals.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous09:39
The extension looks good in my opinionReplyDelete
- Anonymous00:25
Beside not looking as a bunker, nor locking the terminal from future extensions, it took them just a fraction of time compared to a certain other extension project...Delete
- Anonymous22:56
I flew from Mostar yesterday on a fully packed A319, and in my opinion check-in terminal have generous space, and gate have adequate space for that amount of passengers (compared with Wizzair's gate at BEG, OMO is pure luxury :)Delete
That being said, seating options are quite bad, and ventilation of the gate is relatively bad. Making some of the gate area glasses in the upper row over to windows could be a simple solution to increase ventilation.
Overall, quite modern and nice small airport.
- Anonymous09:41
I wonder what Wizz Air's response will be? Ryanair will now be taking two cities in the country. Wizz has Tuzla but it has not grown from there in a while.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous09:44
They could always bite the bullet and start Sarajevo (other than the subsidized Budapest flight).Delete
- Anonymous10:16
no. Eurowings launched flights between Berlin and Sarajevo this summer. Their third destinations to Sarajevo.Delete
- Anonymous12:27
It didn't. It introduced a new seasonal route from Gothenburg this summerDelete
- Anonymous09:45
Agree with the ambassador. An airport in such location really shouldn't be struggling to get airlines and passengers and shouldn't be subsidising every airline to fly there.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:25
This year is looking dire for OMO. I'm not sure they will achieve last year's poor result and that is even with larger capacity Eurowings planes and entire year of OU flights.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:25
With so many subsidies, you have to wonder at what loss this airport is operating at.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:28
Good. Can't wait to finally see some serious airlines that can serve the local population.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:29
Apparently Vueling is also interested in seasonal Mostar flights from Spain. Hope it happens.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:49
Mostar is located about two hours from both SPU and SJJ. I can see it serving quite a market out there.ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous11:57
It's an exciting time for aviation in BiH. Record number of pax at Sarajevo, country taking over all of its airspace at the end of the year, Banja Luka finally rejuvenated with Ryan, Tuzla negotiating new deal with Wizz, Ryan coming to Mostar, FlyBosnia expanding and launching new flights.ReplyDelete
I'm afraid this is a balloon story since we know that when Ryanair came to Banja Luka there was not a single information about that until the contract signed and everything was arrangedReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous20:58
When were Ryanair flights announced officially by the airline and when did flights start?Delete
The official announcement was in April 2018, with flights start at the end of October of that year.
before that there was no information other than to negotiate with some companies about flights
Rynair is very restrictive on this point and i know that he interrupted negotiations several times when the information leaked...
- Anonymous15:52
Government subsidies for Eurowings, Croatia Airlines and now Ryanair. Government investment in Mostar airport infrastructure. One way or the another, government investment and subsidies are required to keep smaller interior airports of the region active: Mostar, Nis, Tuzla, Banja Luka. Where that money flow is missing, as with Maribor or Kraljevo Morava (until now), there is no commercial traffic.ReplyDelete
Dusseldorf Weeze or Dusseldorf International?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous19:06
Craziness ...ReplyDelete
Too many airports which cannibalize each other !
Oncoming recession will sort out the goodies from the baddies ...Replies
- Anonymous20:54
Maribor is dead, Rijeka and Osijek are struggling .Delete
Most unprofitable routes are by Eurowings, these will be the first that have to go when consolidation kicks in .
- Anonymous21:42
Zagreb already the first to stop growing .Delete
Next year will be a consolidating year with very low growth on all ex yu- airports .
Ako dodje do realizacije ugovora sa Ryanair mislim da ce biti velikih promjena i kod ostala dva prevoznika iz OMO. Druga stvar, obavezno napraviti zeljeznicku stanicu Ortjes i ubaciti jos jednu '' Talgo'' frekvenciju zavisno od reda letenja.ReplyDelete
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3.6-million-year-old human footprints found in Laetoli, Tanzania
The Secret Beyond Matter
The Collapse of the Theory of Evolution in 20 Questions
3. How Far Back Do Traces Of Man Go? Why Do These Not Support Evolution?
We need to turn to the fossil record to find an answer to the question of when man appeared on Earth. This record shows that man goes back millions of years. These discoveries consist of skeletons and skulls, and the remains of people who lived at various times. One of the oldest traces of man are the "footprints" found by the famous palaentologist Mary Leakey in 1977 in Tanzania's Laetoli region.
These remains caused a great furore in the world of science. Research indicated that these footprints were in a 3.6-million-year-old layer. Russell Tuttle, who saw the footprints, wrote:
A small barefoot Homo sapiens could have made them... In all discernible morphological features, the feet of the individuals that made the trails are indistinguishable from those of modern humans. 9
Impartial examinations of the footprints revealed their real owners. In reality, these footprints consisted of 20 fossilized footprints of a 10-year-old modern human and 27 footprints of an even younger one. Such famous paleoanthropologists as Don Johnson and Tim White, who examined the prints found by Mary Leakey, corroborated that conclusion. White revealed his thoughts by saying:
Make no mistake about it,... They are like modern human footprints. If one were left in the sand of a California beach today, and a four-year old were asked what it was, he would instantly say that somebody had walked there. He wouldn't be able to tell it from a hundred other prints on the beach, nor would you. 10
These footprints sparked an important debate among evolutionists. That was because for them to accept that these were human footprints would mean that the imaginary progression they had drawn up from ape to man could no longer be maintained. However, at this point dogmatic evolutionist logic once again showed its face. Most evolutionist scientists once more abandoned science for the sake of their prejudices. They claimed that the footprints found at Laetoli were those of an ape-like creature. Russell Tuttle, who was one of the evolutionists defending this claim, wrote:
In sum, the 3.5 million-year-old footprint traits at Laetoli site G resemble those of habitually unshod modern humans. None of their features suggest that the Laetoli hominids were less capable bipeds than we are. If the G footprints were not known to be so old, we would readily conclude that there were made by a member of our genus Homo... In any case, we should shelve the loose assumption that the Laetoli footprints were made by Lucy's kind, Australopithecus afarensis. 11
Another of the oldest remains to do with man was the ruins of a stone hut found in the Olduvai Gorge region by Louis Leakey in the 1970s. The remains of the hut were found in a layer 1.7 million years old. It is known that structures of this kind, of which similar examples are still used in Africa in the present day, could only be built by Homo sapiens, in other words modern man. The significance of the remains is that they reveal that man lived at the same time as the so-called ape-like creatures that evolutionists portray as his ancestors.
It is confirmed that the fossil was that of a 12-year-old boy, who would have been 1.83 metres tall in adolescence. The American paleoanthropologist Alan Walker said that he doubted that "the average pathologist could tell the difference between the fossil skeleton and that of a modern human." Concerning the skull, Walker wrote that he laughed when he saw it because "it looked so much like a Neanderthal."14
One of the human fossils that has attracted the most attention was one found in Spain in 1995. The fossil in question was uncovered in a cave called Gran Dolina in the Atapuerca region of Spain by three Spanish paleoanthropologists from the University of Madrid. The fossil revealed the face of an 11-year-old boy who looked entirely like modern man. Yet, it had been 800,000 years since the child died. This fossil even shook the convictions of Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras, who lead the Gran Dolina excavation. Ferreras said:
We expected something big, something large, something inflated–you know, something primitive… Our expectation of an 800,000-year-old boy was something like Turkana Boy. And what we found was a totally modern face.... To me this is most spectacular–these are the kinds of things that shake you. Finding something totally unexpected like that. Not finding fossils; finding fossils is unexpected too, and it's okay. But the most spectacular thing is finding something you thought belonged to the present, in the past. It's like finding something like–like a tape recorder in Gran Dolina. That would be very surprising. We don't expect cassettes and tape recorders in the Lower Pleistocene. Finding a modern face 800,000 years ago–it's the same thing. We were very surprised when we saw it. 15
As we have seen, fossil discoveries give the lie to the claim of "the evolution of man." This claim is presented by some media organizations as if it were a proven fact, whereas all that actually exist are fictitious theories. In fact, evolutionist scientists accept this, and admit that the claim of "the evolution of man" lacks any scientific evidence.
For instance, by saying, "We appear suddenly in the fossil record" the evolutionist paleontologists C. A. Villie, E. P. Solomon and P. W. Davis admit that man emerged all of a sudden, in other words with no evolutionary ancestor.16
Mark Collard and Bernard Wood, two evolutionist anthropologists were forced to say, "existing phylogenetic hypotheses about human evolution are unlikely to be reliable." in an article they wrote in 2000. 17
Every new fossil discovery places evolutionists in an even worse quandary, even if certain frivolous newspapers do print headlines such as "Missing link discovered." The fossil skull discovered in 2001 and named Kenyanthropus platyops is the latest example of this. The evolutionist paleontologist Daniel E. Lieberman from Washington University's Department of Anthropology had this to say about Kenyanthropus platyops in an article in the leading scientific journal, Nature:
The latest evidence to shatter the evolutionary theory's claim about the origin of man is the new fossil Sahelanthropus tchadensis unearthed in the Central African country of Chad in the summer of 2002.
The fossil has set the cat among the pigeons in the world of Darwinism. In its article giving news of the discovery, the world-renowned journal Nature admitted that "New-found skull could sink our current ideas about human evolution."19
Daniel Lieberman of Harvard University said that "This [discovery] will have the impact of a small nuclear bomb." 20
The reason for this is that although the fossil in question is 7 million years old, it has a more "human-like" structure (according to the criteria evolutionists have hitherto used) than the 5 million-year-old Australopithecus ape species that is alleged to be "mankind's oldest ancestor." This shows that the evolutionary links established between extinct ape species based on the highly subjective and prejudiced criterion of "human similarity" are totally imaginary.
John Whitfield, in his article "Oldest Member of Human Family Found" published in Nature on July, 11, 2002, confirms this view quoting from Bernard Wood, an evolutionist anthropologist from George Washington University in Washington:
"When I went to medical school in 1963, human evolution looked like a ladder." he [Bernard Wood] says. The ladder stepped from monkey to man through a progression of intermediates, each slightly less ape-like than the last. Now human evolution looks like a bush. We have a menagerie of fossil hominids... How they are related to each other and which, if any of them, are human forebears is still debated.21
The comments of Henry Gee, the senior editor of Nature and a leading paleoanthropologist, about the newly discovered ape fossil are very noteworthy. In his article published in The Guardian, Gee refers to the debate about the fossil and writes:
Whatever the outcome, the skull shows, once and for all, that the old idea of a "missing link" is bunk... It should now be quite plain that the very idea of the missing link, always shaky, is now completely untenable. 22
As we have seen, the increasing number of discoveries is producing results opposed to the theory of evolution, not in favour of it. If such an evolutionary process had happened in the past, there should be many traces of it, and each new discovery should further strengthen the theory. In fact, in The Origin of Species, Darwin claimed that science would develop in just that direction. In his view, the only problem facing his theory in the fossil record was a lack of fossil discoveries. He hoped that future research would unearth countless fossils to support his theory. However, subsequent scientific discoveries have actually proved Darwin's dreams to be totally unfounded.
The importance of human-linked remains
The discoveries regarding man, of which we have seen a few examples here, reveal very important truths. In particular, they have once again demonstrated what a great product of fantasy the evolutionists' claim that man's ancestor was an ape-like creature is. For this reason, it is out of the question that these ape species could be man's ancestors.
In conclusion, the fossil record shows us that man came into existence millions of years ago in just the same form as he is now, and that he has come down to the present with absolutely no evolutionary development. If they claim to be genuinely scientific and honest, evolutionists should throw their imaginary progression from ape to man into the bin at this point. The fact that they do not give up this spurious family tree shows that evolution is not a theory that is defended in the name of science, but rather a dogma they are struggling to keep alive in the face of the scientific facts.
9. Ian Anderson, "Who made the Laetoli footprints?" New Scientist, vol. 98, 12 May 1983, p. 373.
10. D. Johanson & M. A. Edey, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981, p. 250
11. R. H. Tuttle, Natural History, March 1990, pp. 61-64
12. D. Johanson, Blake Edgar, From Lucy to Language, p.169
13. D. Johanson, Blake Edgar, From Lucy to Language, p.173
14. Boyce Rensberger, Washington Post, 19 October 1984, p. A11.
15. "Is This The Face of Our Past," Discover, December 1997, pp. 97-100
16. Villee, Solomon and Davis, Biology, Saunders College Publishing,1985, p. 1053
17. Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe, Volume 2, Edited by Louis de Bonis, George D. Koufos, Peter Andrews, Cambridge University Press 2001, chapter 6, (emphasis added)
18. Daniel E. Lieberman, "Another face in our family tree," Nature, March 22, 2001, (emphasis added)
19. John Whitfield, "Oldest member of human family found," Nature, 11 July 2002
20. D.L. Parsell, "Skull Fossil From Chad Forces Rethinking of Human Origins," National Geographic News, July 10, 2002
21. John Whitfield, "Oldest member of human family found," Nature, 11 July 2002
22. The Guardian, 11 July 2002


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Their mind is churning a thousand miles per minute, and you can tell that they grasp the consequence of what you have shared and how it could be implemented to solve their problem.
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How is it that some people can share their ideas in a way that resonates so well with their audience, while others can drop a great idea that falls completely flat?
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HBO's Hard Knocks has to maintain a balance between access and secrecy. The fans get to spend a few hours with the players and coaches in unusual settings; the coaches go along with the cameras but still get to obscure their plays and play calls from the public. Everybody wins all the time. Well, almost all the time.
Every so often we see a shot like this one, of general manager Jeff Ireland's computer, about halfway through last night's episode, where the NFL lets on more than it wants to. This is the public's first glimpse of the Player Enterprise Management System software, which appears to be a league-wide player management interface. (It could be Dolphins-specific, although all those logos at the top make us think it isn't.)
We see the information that makes the top of every player page—height, weight, speed, Wonderlic, arm length—and then we see how his general manager can mark him. He can be "available," or a "cap casualty," or a "key [free agent]." We also see other sections in the system: "playtime," "penalties," "injuries," and more. Those with access can gather lots of data. No surprise there. The one surprise? Tannehill's cell phone number is in there. Oops. [HBO]


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Defying conventional wisdom, water can float on oil
Defying thousands of years of conventional wisdom, scientists are reporting that it is possible for water to float on oil, a discovery they say has important potential applications in cleaning up oil spills that threaten seashores and fisheries. Their report appears in ACS' journal Langmuir.
Chi M. Phan and colleagues point out that the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle made an early attempt to explain flotation around 350 B.C. Today, most people know that less dense liquids float on more dense liquids. So crude oil with a density of about 58 pounds per cubic foot floats on sea water, which has a density of 64 pounds per cubic foot — and not vice-versa. Correct? Phan's team decided to test that notion with computer models and in the lab.
They report that in certain cases, the conventional wisdom is wrong. By adding tiny amounts of water to a floating droplet of oil, they found that the ability of water drops to float at the surface of an oil bath depends on both the size of the droplet and the type of oil. Commercial vegetable oil has enough surface tension — the force between liquid molecules that allows beads of water to form or insects to walk on water — at its interfaces with air and water to support a droplet's weight, while pure mineral oils do not. At the same time, they found that vegetable oil could not support drops bigger than about one one hundredth of a cubic inch. The authors suggest the new knowledge could help clean up oil spills, where water-borne, oil-eating microbes will mix more easily into the oil if suspended in the tiny droplets they describe. "This result can lead to a new and advanced mechanism in processing oil/water mixtures, such as biodegrading process of unwanted oils, including vegetable oils, sand oil tailings and oil spillages," the authors said.
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The Crossover: With Beadle and Briggs to Debut on NBC Sports Network Super Bowl Week from New Orleans
The Dan Patrick Show to Air a Week of Shows from Super Bowl XLVII
Pro Football Talk to Air Live from New Orleans On NBC Sports Network
NFL Pro Bowl Pre-game, Halftime and Post-game Show to Air Live on NBC from New Orleans
Assortment of NBC Sports Radio Programs Originating from New Orleans
NEW YORK – January 10, 2013 – NBC Sports Group will deliver a robust collection of original programming from New Orleans, La., during the week leading up to Super Bowl XLVII across NBC, NBC Sports Network and NBC Sports Radio. Programs originating from NBC Sports Group's production headquarters in New Orleans include, The Dan Patrick Show, The Box Score, Pro Football Talk, and the debut of The Crossover: with Beadle and Briggs, as well as NBC's NFL Pro Bowl pre-game, halftime and post-game coverage. The more than 24 hours of programming on NBC Sports Network is the most ever in the network's history from a Super Bowl site.
Inaddition, NBC Sports Radio and other related NBC Sports Group content will be delivered from the Super Bowl host city. The NBC Sports Group production headquarters will be across the street from the New Orleans Convention Center, site of the NFL Experience, and will be the home to all NBC Sports Group Super Bowl XLVII productions.
"New Orleans is always an exciting setting for the biggest game of the season," said Sam Flood, Executive Producer of NBC Sports and NBC Sports Network. "Our sets are designed to capture the atmosphere of Super Bowl week and all the unique scenery that New Orleans offers."
NBC Sports Group's coverage from New Orleans will kick off each morning with The Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) from 9a.m. – Noon ET on NBC Sports Network. Patrick will feature a lineup of special guests from the NFL and world of sports and entertainment. At Noon ET, NBC Sports Network will air The Box Score, The Dan Patrick Show's daily wrap-up program, featuring 'The Danettes' – Dan Patrick's production team of Paul Pabst, Patrick O'Connor, Andrew Perloff and Todd Fritz.
"Super Bowl week is as good as it gets for this show…beyond the guests," said Patrick. "In Dallas it was 11 degrees and we recreated the Ice Bowl during the show in the snow. Last year in Indy, we built a barn for Larry Bird and had a mini-Indy 500 go-cart track on set. One thing I know about New Orleans, we will top those."
The Crossover: with Beadle and Briggs (@Crossover) debuts Monday, January 28 from New Orleans, andwill air each day at 6 p.m. ET from a specially designed set during Super Bowl week. The new 30-minute daily sports, entertainment and pop culture show hosted by Michelle Beadle and Dave Briggs, will focus on the biggest and most topical stories of the day. Beginning Monday, February 4, The Crossover will move to its permanent home in Studio 8G at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York.
"Launching a brand new sports show and NOT being in New Orleans for Super Bowl week would have been absurd. The food, the people, the action." said Beadle. "Besides, we can take a week of Bourbon Street mulligans before heading back to 30 Rock."
Pro Football Talk (@PFT) will air each day at 5 p.m. ET from New Orleans, La. Mike Florio and co-host Erik Kuselias will welcome a roster of NBC Sports Group analysts, including Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, Hines Ward, and Peter King of Sports Illustrated. In addition to deep diving on the most topical NFL stories of the day, Pro Football Talk will provide in depth analysis on everything related to Super Bowl XLVII.
In addition to Pro Football Talk on NBC Sports Network, PFT Live on NBCSports.com will also originate from New Orleans during Super Bowl week. PFT Live will be streamed Monday-Friday at Noon ET on www.ProFootballTalk.NBCSports.com.
The NFL Pro Bowl returns to NBC in primetime at 7 p.m. ET on Sunday, January 27. Pre-game, halftime, and post-game coverage of the Pro Bowl will originate from the NBC Sports set in New Orleans. Host Dan Patrick will be joined by Tony Dungy, Rodney Harrison, Peter King, and Mike Florio.
Calling the Pro Bowl is six-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), who just completed his 27th season as the voice of the NFL's premier primetime package; 13-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, who has won the Emmy for Outstanding Event Analyst in each of his three seasons in the Sunday Night Football booth; and sideline reporter Michele Tafoya, who last year in her first season with SNF, won the inaugural Emmy Award for Outstanding Sports Reporter. In addition to Tafoya, former NFL quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Doug Flutie will report from the sideline.
A collection of NBC Sports Radio programs will also be originating from New Orleans leading up to the Super Bowl.
The Erik Kuselias Show will air live every evening from 7-10 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Radio. Kuselias will welcome special guests and NBC Sports Group analysts, including Harrison, Ward and Flutie. Amani and Eytan, featuring former NFL pro Amani Toomer and co-host Eytan Shander, will air live each evening from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Safety Blitz with Rodney Harrison, the Football Night In America analyst and two-time Super Bowl champion, will air Saturday morning from 7-9 a.m. ET. Speaking of Sports with Rob Simmelkjaer will air the morning of Super Bowl Sunday from 8-9 a.m. ET.
Each show will have a major presence at NFL Super Bowl Radio Row and at Media Day. In addition, Kay Adams, NBC Sports Radio update anchor and contributor, will be making the rounds doing interviews throughout Super Bowl week in New Orleans.
NBC Sports Radio is a partnership between the NBC Sports Group and Dial Global. Dial Global is also the radio rights holder for Super Bowl XLVII. Their broadcast begins on Super Bowl Sunday at 4 p.m., ET.
For more information about NBC Sports Group shows and properties, including press releases, photos, talent and executive bios and headshots, please visit NBCSportsGroupPressBox.com.


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Attorneys for William Balfour rested their case Tuesday after calling two police detectives as witnesses. Balfour chose not to testify in his own defense.
The judge says closing arguments will be Wednesday morning. Jurors will then begin deliberations.
Prosecutors rested their case earlier Tuesday after spending two weeks laying out a largely circumstantial case against Balfour.
Jennifer Hudson has sat through the trial with her fiance and sister, hanging her head during particularly grim testimony. She was the first of 81 state witnesses.
After 11 days of testimony, lead prosecutor Jim McKay called the evidence overwhelming against Balfour.
Before the state wrapped up their case, they presented the one physical piece of evidence that links Balfour to the murders, especially to 7-year-old Julian King.
Chicago Police Detective Chester Bach testified that a key on a set that belonged to Balfour the day he was taken into custody fits Jason Hudson's white SUV. Prosecutors allege Balfour drove Hudson's suburban with King's body to the West Side. But, as the defense pointed out to the jury, the key was not tested until September of last year, three years after the murders.
Recalled as a defense witness, Detective Thomas Kelly admitted there was no mention of the keys in his first police report, which Kelly called preliminary. The keys were included in a different report about a month after the murders. Kelly told the jury the keys had been kept in a sergeant's drawer for the duration of the time.
The defense's second and last witness was detective Gregory Jacobson. He admitted that he made a mistake on a police report about the timing of when a witness saw Hudson's SUV parked on the West Side a day after the murders.
Jury deliberations could begin Wednesday.
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Dr. Conrad Murray -- Life Is a Carnival
Long before he may or may not have been responsible for the death of Michael Jackson, Dr. Conrad Murray was just another guy enjoying Carnival in Trinidad.
These photos were take in 2005 during a two-week trip to Trinidad and Tobago. He was down there with a few of his close guy friends -- and a few attractive female friends as well.
Michael Jackson Fun Fact: Right around the time these photos were taken, Michael Jackson's second child molestation case was beginning.


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Outblaze Ventures (Animoca™) raises Series A investments from Intel Capital and IDG-Accel
Leading VCs Intel Capital and IDG-Accel invest in Animoca's rapidly growing smartphone app business
HONG KONG, 15 November 2011 – Outblaze Ventures Holdings Limited (the "Company"), also known as Animoca™, a smartphone games developer and publisher based in Hong Kong, has successfully closed its Series A funding round with investments from Intel Capital, Intel's global investment organization, and IDG-Accel China Growth Fund III L.P. ("IDG-Accel").
Since beginning operation in January 2011, Animoca has released more than 150 apps for Apple iOS and Google Android smartphone and tablet devices, including the highly popular "Pretty Pet" series of games (Pretty Pet Salon, Pretty Pet Tycoon, Pretty Pet Pony and others). Animoca operates a number of mobile games brands including Dream Cortex™, one of Hong Kong's premier digital studios.
Animoca will use the newly raised funds to drive further growth of its apps business and to cement the company's position as a leader in the app games sector.
"With dozens of top-ranked apps and more than 40 million downloads worldwide, in just ten months we have built Animoca into one of the – if not the – largest app game companies in this part of the world. We expect continued growth as we further expand our business on all fronts," said David Kim, CEO and co-founder of Animoca. "The global app market continues to grow, and our goal is to establish the Animoca brand as a major international leader in smartphone games; the investments from Intel Capital and IDG-Accel will be critical to our efforts."
About Outblaze Ventures (Animoca) Outblaze Ventures Holdings Limited, also known as Animoca™, is a global mobile media provider that develops and publishes innovative entertainment and education apps under the Animoca™ and Dream Cortex™ brands. The Company is one of the largest app developers and publishers in the world, with over 150 game and education apps for Apple iOS and Google Android platforms. Based in Hong Kong with offices and representatives throughout Asia and North America, Animoca has launched the highly acclaimed Pretty Pet series, My Car Salon, Hospital Story, and many other leading titles. For more information and to see a complete list of apps, please visit http://www.animoca.com/.
About Intel Capital Intel Capital, Intel's global investment and M&A organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, mobility, health, consumer Internet, digital media, semiconductor manufacturing and cleantech. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$10.4 billion in over 1,185 companies in 51 countries. In that timeframe, 194 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 286 were acquired or participated in a merger. In 2010, Intel Capital invested US$327 million in 119 investments with approximately 44 percent of funds invested outside the U.S. and Canada. For more information on Intel Capital and its differentiated advantages, visit www.intelcapital.com.
About IDG-Accel China As the leading investment team in China, IDG-Accel China team was among the first to introduce foreign venture capital investment into China in early 1990's and has since then invested in around 200 diverse successful portfolio, such as Baidu, Sohu, Tencent, Soufun, Ctrip, Home Inns, Hanting and Kanghui. Over 60 portfolios have successfully completed IPO or M&A.


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I'm the guest designer of the month for Bombshell Stamps, Ms. January! Here is the challenge I created for January: It is the month of resolutions, so let's begin 2010 with the resolution of QUIT PROCRASTINATING! Let's be ready for next month:
Your challenge is to create a Valentine project. Make it sassy and sexy, or even maybe an Anti-Valentine type of thing ! Whatever the case may be, I can't wait to see what you come up with!
The creation can be a card, layout or altered item, but must:
1. use a Bombshell Stamp somewhere
2. project must exemplify either a Valentine or Anti-Valentine theme
3. post a photo of your creation in this thread!
If you visit the Bombshell forum, you'll find lots of other Bombshell lovers, a great network of tutorials, challenges and ideas & make lots of new friends! Bombshell also has a Paper Craft Planet group to find all of this information. Each month, Bombshell hosts a guest designer challenge, a sketch challenge and a Hop challenge. The challenges are issued at the beginning of the month and you have the entire month to complete them! The more entries you have, the more chances you have to win the above prize package! Fun, eh? So let's get crafting with those Bombshell stamps! Oh, and if you don't have any yet, Bombshell offers a 15% coupon for joining the PCP group. What a great way to get some truly unique stamps and spend that Christmas money that's burning a hole in your pocket!
Ok, so onto my card for the Valentine challenge. When I first found Bombshell, I was so excited. Stamp companies often post questions asking what types of new sets we would like to see. I always answered "Tattoo type images - old gypsy heads, skull & cross bones, classic '50's style images" Then I found Bombshell on PCP! I can't tell you how excited I was!! I'm pretty tattooed up, as is my husband, and we've found some inspiration in some of the Bombshell sets. I have had the idea for this card in mind for over a year now {I'm a procrastinator; hence the resolution!} Many years ago, I saw a girl in Tattoo magazine with a gorgeous set of swallows on her chest. The swallows were not traditional colors - more of a seafoam/aqua green combo. This chickadee's tat was the inspiration for this card:


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Overview of Online Colleges in South Carolina
The discussion of how to handle online and distance education in South Carolina began in 1998. Then, the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education approved the principles that would lead postsecondary education into the digital age. Since then, the state has implemented digital learning for its 7-12 grade students, and several of South Carolina's universities and colleges offer online education opportunities. The University of South Carolina, for example, provides a number of undergraduate and graduate degrees online in fields like engineering, public health and education.
Tuition costs in South Carolina have steadily increased in recent years. Two-year public schools experienced a 31% increase in tuition between 2004 and 2014, while tuition increased 37.6% at four-year schools. This inflation is partially due to a 41.6% decrease in the state's higher education budget between 2008 and 2014, the third highest funding cut in the nation. Despite rising tuition costs in South Carolina, enrollment at public institutions has continued to increase. Overall, enrollment at both two- and four-year schools increased 28% between 2002 and 2012, which surpassed the 19% average nationwide. South Carolina has one of the higher state graduation rates at 61.5% and boasts a 78% first year student retention rate.
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As long as I can remember, people have always complained about the accuracy of government-reported statistics and claims. For instance, every year, the government reports that the measure generally regarded as a barometer for inflation everyday Americans face, the CPI, is always much lower than people feel they're experiencing in their everyday lives. Sure, while flatscreen TVs and crap toys continue to get cheaper each and every year, we're paying record prices at the pump, for healthcare and other daily expenses. And these annual increases are WAY above the low single digit inflation reported in the CPI (here's the source data from BLS). Anyway, while those complaints may seem to have merit, the bottom line is that at least the index is based on a pre-set mix of categories and the government can't really do too much to manipulate them. And administration after administration has been criticized for using a crappy mix of indicators to consistently report a low inflation rate, so at least it's not even a partisan issue. However, the jobs numbers have been grossly manipulated by Obama's policies and it's easy to see how, but supporters choose to ignore it. Here's how he does it:
- Definition: First, starting with how the mainstream media reports the "unemployment rate", they tend to report only the U-3 measure which is the most favorable. It excludes discouraged workers who have stopped looking for work from the equation. So, when a long-term unemployed worker throws in the towel because there's no hope, they no longer count in the equation. Let's see how easy it is though to enact policies that entice people to behave in a manner that improves the reported U-3 rate.
- Artificially Increasing the Numerator – Obamacare: Aside from the monstrosity that will ultimately bankrupt the country, let's consider for a moment what impact Obamacare has on the unemployment rate. Because a provision requires that healthcare coverage or penalty kicks in for workers clocking over 30 hours per week, guess what employers do to get around it? They simply cut all their full-time 40 hour workers down to 30. Pretty crappy for the employees, but as a business owner, why not? After all, why would you voluntarily pay for your employees' health care if there's this easy solution out there – and if your competition is doing it? Heck, aside from corporations, even STATES are cutting worker hours to 29 per week to avoid the costs involved. What is the net impact? Well, if you have 100 workers at 40 hours per week, you need to hire a few more if they're all working only 30, right? While you might lose some efficiency in training, sick days per worker, etc., roughly, you'd think companies have to hire about 25% more employees in the retail/lower-end sectors to maintain the same coverage. So, that's what we're seeing. Increased hiring in low-paying jobs, thus artificially increasing the number of people reporting income. So, that's a fake improvement in the numerator brought about by Obama, now here's how the denominator keeps being suppressed.
- Artificially Decreasing the Denominator with Disability Fraud and Government Gimmes: There have never been more people (net number or as a percentage of any ratio you can think of) on disability. It's simple, if you don't want to work or can't find work, but want to collect a check, just claim you're disabled. In this economy, where the only jobs are crappy ones, you can appreciate why people are incentivized to do this. If you don't believe me, just read about the facts – it's a giant scam. There's an example of a whole county in Alabama where 1 in 4 (yes, a full 25% of the population) receives disability checks. That is insane. And the states love it. They actually pay firms to find people they can shift off their own welfare rolls into the federal disability assistance system. It's shocking, shameful, and it's in full-swing. If people were already not counted, no change, but when people see everyone around them living off disability, they decide to throw in the towel and join up as well – after all, it pays about the same as a crappy minimum wage job anyway. So, by jumping onto the bandwagon, these people all drop out of the numerator of the equation, artificially improving the reported jobs number as well.
Has the administration done anything to try to combat this abuse? Of course not! Why would they? This sort of handout forces people to get out and vote – they can at least get out of the house to do that! And it would hurt the reported unemployment rate if, you know, able-bodied Americans actually counted in the equation.
Now, anyone can surmise just what the real unemployment rate would be if able-bodied people were actually looking for work (or working) instead of living off the government dime and whether companies would really be hiring more people if they didn't have to chop 40-hr/wk workers down to 30 hours per week to avoid Obamacare penalties but the bottom line is, the reported rate would be WAY worse each month. So bad, that we'd look more like some struggling European countries rather than what you might derive from the rallying US stock market. People tend to equate strong equity performance with a strong economy and jobs market but nothing could be further from the truth. You can thank relentless job-cutting and Uncle Ben for investors throwing money at the risk trade since there's nowhere else for capital to flow.
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When Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced that they'd no longer be providing support to Planned Parenthood, many of its supporters smelled a right wing political agenda at work and took to the group's Facebook page to express their disappointment. After working tirelessly to delete negative comments from the page for several hours yesterday, the foundation has released a statement insisting that their decision to defund Planned Parenthood wasn't political, because they're not a political organization. Bullshit.
Komen's absolutely a political organization, and one of their most recent political moves was to hire as it's Vice President of Communications one Karen Handel, a Sarah Palin-endorsed, rabidly anti-choice failed gubernatorial candidate from Georgia. Even though the services that Komen grants support at Planned Parenthood are breast exams for poor women, Handel was vocally in favor of defunding the organization as a candidate. In addition, Komen's founder Nancy Brinker was a major donor to George W. Bush.
In spite of the fact that it's clear Komen for the Cure has prioritized fetuses over women, they're in damage control mode now, insisting in the face of evidence to the contrary that their actions are the result of high-minded concern for women and not mythology-based concern for ideology. An update from their Facebook page reads,
At Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the women we serve are our highest priority in everything we do. Last year, we invested $93 million in community health programs, which included 700,000 mammograms. Additionally, we began an initiative to further strengthen our grants program to be even more outcomes-driven and to allow for even greater investments in programs that directly serve women. We also implemented more stringent eligibility and performance criteria to support these strategies. While it is regrettable when changes in priorities and policies affect any of our grantees, such as a longstanding partner like Planned Parenthood, we must continue to evolve to best meet the needs of the women we serve and most fully advance our mission.
It is critical to underscore that the women we serve in communities remain our priority. We are working directly with Komen Affiliates to ensure there is no interruption or gaps in services for women who need breast health screening and services.
Grant making decisions are not about politics—our priority is and always will be the women we serve. Making this issue political or leveraging it for fundraising purposes would be a disservice to women.
Facebook users aren't buying it. In response to Komen's weak defense, one detractor wrote,
I will never donate another dime to nor participate in any SGK-related event after this cowardly decision to cave to right wing extremists. Shame on you for saying you support women's health when you pull a stunt like this.
Another wrote,
Nothing you say will change your decision, and now nothing I buy will support it either.
And another,
If your priority was really the women you serve and not to promote the anti-abortion agenda of those on your board, you wouldn't have stopped funding Planned Parenthood. PP saves women's lives on a regular basis and consistently promotes women's health, including catching breast cancer as early as possible. If this weren't about politics, these grants would never have come into question.
As of this post's writing, there have been over 1,000 comments on that Komen post alone, most of them negative, many of them promising to withdraw financial support, which, according to whoever wrote Komen's defense, is "hurting women."
With this maneuver, though, Komen for the Cure's anti-choice political agenda appears to have backfired. Planned Parenthood's been flooded with support and promises for contributions from supporters. The organization doesn't yet have figures on how much money flowed in from donors over the last 24 hours, but we'll keep you up to speed.
In the meantime, the family planning organization has launched a Breast Health Emergency Fund to assure that services for low income women aren't interrupted, because unlike Susan G Komen For the Cure, cancer doesn't care if you're poor or pro-choice.


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New research from two studies reveals exercise-related testosterone and growth hormone do not play an influential role in building muscle after weightlifting, despite conventional wisdom suggesting otherwise.
The findings published in the Journal of Applied Physiology and the European Journal of Applied Physiology indicate that bodybuilders who look to manipulate those hormones through exercise routines are wasting their time.
Researchers found anabolic hormones, long thought to be essential for building a muscular frame, do not influence muscle protein synthesis, the process that leads to bigger muscles.
"A popular mindset for weightlifters is that increased levels of hormones after exercise play a key role in building muscle," explains Daniel West, lead author of both studies and a graduate student in the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University. "That is simply not the case."
In the first study, researchers examined the responses of both male and female participants to intense leg exercise. Despite a 45-fold difference in testosterone increase, men and women were able to make new muscle protein at exactly the same rate.
"Since new muscle proteins eventually add up to muscle growth, this is an important finding," says West.
"While testosterone is definitely anabolic and promotes muscle growth in men and women at high doses, such as those used during steroid abuse, our findings show that naturally occurring levels of testosterone do not influence the rate of muscle protein synthesis."
In the second study, researchers analyzed the post-exercise hormonal responses of 56 young men, aged 18 to 30, who trained five days a week for 12 weeks in total.
The men experienced gains in muscle mass that ranged from virtually nothing to more than 12 pounds, yet their levels of testosterone and growth hormone after exercise showed no relationship to muscle growth or strength gain.
Surprisingly, the researchers noted that cortisol—considered to have the opposite effect of anabolic hormones because it reduces protein synthesis and breaks down tissue—was related to the gain in muscle mass.
"The idea that you can or should base entire exercise training programs on trying to manipulate testosterone or growth hormone levels is false," says Stuart Phillips, a professor in the Department of Kinesiology. "There is simply no evidence to support this concept."
Source: McMaster University


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Diana West
Friday, September 27, 2013 3:42 AM
Bill de Blasio cut his hair. Did he change his politics? No. Next stop: Little Red City Hall.
This week's syndicated column:
Will New Yorkers elect a new mayor who dedicated himself to the Sandinistas in the 1980s, honeymooned in Cuba in the 1990s (in violation of a U.S. travel ban) and participated in a New York City Council event honoring Zimbabwe's tyrannous Robert Mugabe in 2002?
Right now, it looks that way. In 1988, Bill de Blasio went to Nicaragua to aid the Marxist, Soviet-supported Sandinistas. He came home, as the New York Times put it, with "a vision of the possibilities of unfettered leftist government." Today, 25 years later, New York City Public Advocate de Blasio, who remains "very proud" of his radical activities (he has since regretted his Mugabe "mistake"), is the front-runner in New York's mayoral race. Recent polls show the Democratic nominee with a whopping 40-point margin over Republican candidate Joe Lhota.
That could change if two things happen: 1) if New Yorkers actually figure out that they are about to elect the most Marxist mayor in Big Apple history; and 2) if the concept appalls them. Both are big ifs.
Six weeks before Election Day, De Blasio's radicalism has emerged as a significant issue after the New York Times, of all papers, introduced the topic on Sept. 22 under the headline, "A Mayoral Hopeful Now, de Blasio Was Once a Young Leftist." Republican Lhota, a former investment banker, veteran of the Rudy Giuliani administration and, most recently, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, immediately targeted de Blasio's radical roots. Lhota says they explain what he calls de Blasio's "class warfare strategy in New York City."
In a statement, Lhota said: "Bill de Blasio needs to explain himself – and explain himself now – to the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who escaped Marxist tyranny in Asia, Central America and from behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe."
Lhota continued: "Mr. de Blasio's involvement with the Sandinistas didn't happen in 1917; it happened 70 years later when the cruelty and intrinsic failure of communism had become crystal clear to anyone with a modicum of reason. Mr. de Blasio's class-warfare strategy in New York City is directly out of the Marxist playbook. Now we know why."
What was superb about the salvo was its unusual clarity. One thing the left hates and fears – and by "left," I mean a spectrum of socialists, Marxists, communists, progressives, Alinskyites, liberal collectivists and "card-carrying ACLU members" – is being defined. Explained. Exposed.
Think back to President Obama's 2008 campaign when "Joe the Plumber" ever so briefly pulled down candidate Obama's "post-partisan" mask to reveal the spread-the-wealth, socialist beliefs beneath. The Obama campaign, with media cooperation, quickly covered up this political wardrobe malfunction with more warm and fuzzy "hope and change." Also covered up was President Obama's past membership in the socialist New Party, for which, as National Review's Stanley Kurtz recently reported, de Blasio once served as executive director in New York. Similarly, the Obama and de Blasio share close ACORN ties.
Meanwhile, as Americans brace for the federal takeover of one-sixth of the economy with Obamacare, do we know what's hitting us yet? It's called socialism, and it has increasingly transformed the American political landscape since FDR, whom de Blasio, not incidentally in this context, claims as his political hero. Quite unexpectedly, socialism – or its variant, "democratic socialism" – has emerged as a key issue in New York City. This past week, Lhota discussed de Blasio's Times-unearthed worldview, which, as Politicker.com reported, "included telling his fellow Sandinista activists that he supported a 'democratic socialism' vision for society."
"His policies haven't indicated any change whatsoever," Lhota said, as quoted in Newsday. "Anybody who loves the Sandinistas as much as he does, anybody who wants to support the Sandinistas, who are a pro-Marxist – it speaks for itself."
Yes and no. Americans are so grievously under-educated about the tenets of Marxism-Leninism and the horrors they inflicted, including 100 million killed, that Lhota must do even more to explain what he means. He needs to keep talking about how the provenance of de Blasio's policies have less to do with the principles of free people under the U.S. Constitution than with government controls in the old Eastern bloc – from de Blasio's plans to expand government's role in the economy by controlling prices in the housing market and imposing a higher minimum wage, to degrading the concept of national citizenship by introducing a "Universal City ID card" and allowing driver's licenses for illegal aliens. Lhota needs to explain that "democratic socialism" is never "democratic" and that "socialism" destroys free markets.
It's a heavy load for a mayoral candidate to take on, but, given the polls, Lhota has nothing to lose and everything to gain by arguing that such ideas, which have entered the Democratic Party mainstream (and now lap at the Republican establishment), flow from anti-liberty, collectivist roots.
It is these same roots the left always tries to obscure, and de Blasio is no different. Initially, he denied having once claimed for himself the "democratic socialist" label. "I am a progressive who believes in an activist approach to government. You can call it whatever the heck you want," the front-runner said, sounding more than a tad defensive.
I call it collectivist code for the expanding intrusion of government control into every facet of private life. If Joe Lhota can clearly explain this to New Yorkers, he just might win.


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A Song For You Season 4
As know as: 어송포유 시즌 4
Director: Updating..
Cast: Updating..
Broadcast Network: KBS
Released: 2015
The fourth season of this popular music show featuring the hottest songs and all your favorite artists is finally here! "A Song for You Season 4" is a global music request program hosted by Super Junior's Kangin, f(x)'s Amber and B1A4's Gongchan joining as the youngest MC. Music fans from all over the world can post their stories and song requests on the show's official Facebook page, and a different celebrity will read the stories and sing the requested songs! Don't miss a single episode of this great music show!