UK researchers estimated that half of all deaths in working age men in the country are due to hazardous drinking.

1 large bunch of basil, leaves only, washed and dried
3 medium cloves of garlic
one small handful of raw pine nuts
roughly 3/4 cup Parmesan, loosely packed and FRESHLY GRATED
A few tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil

Start chopping the garlic along with about 1/3 of the basil leaves. Once this is loosely chopped add more basil, chop some more, add the rest of the basil, chop some more. I scrape and chop, gather and chop. At this point the basil and garlic should be a very fine mince. Add about half the pine nuts, chop. Add the rest of the pine nuts, chop. Add half of the Parmesan, chop. Add the rest of the Parmesan, and chop. In the end you want a chop so fine that you can press all the ingredients into a basil "cake" - see the photo up above. Transfer the pesto "cake" to a small bowl (not much bigger than the cake). Cover with a bit of olive oil, it doesnt take much, just a few tablespoons.

Haiku-tastrophe

Wheres the good ol haiku 5-7-5 syllable structure? This one is 4-5-5.

According to their website, this is the "New-Style Haiku" where you dont have to bother with the whole 5-7-5 thing or even try to make it 17 syllables. They say this is to encourage as much participation as possible. It encouraged Charles Rodning to save 3 whole syllables, apparently securing his title as the bad-boy of iced tea poetry.

My buddy, Steve, wrote an old-style haiku to express his feelings about the new-style haiku:

New Haiku is bad
Changing things can make them worse
Like Tara Reids boobs

Thats some good haikuing.

Chuck, Im sure youre a nice guy, but I reject your new-style haiku. (And since Im a nice guy too, I still give you the award for Best Brief Sentence About a Teapot.)

Yesterday, I asked CQ readers to help Nancy Pelosi with her strategy to fight the "culture of corruption," which consists of forgetting the term "earmarks" rather than getting rid of them altogether. We have to call them something, though, and I offered a free copy of The Reagan Diaries to the CQ reader who submitted the replacement that most captured the spirit of earmarking.

Angelina Jolies Freedom of Press, on Her Terms

Ironically, Wednesday nights premiere of the excellent Michael Winterbottom-directed film was meant to support an organization called Reporters Without Borders. Jolie, however, did everything she could to clamp down on the press and control it.

For an English assignment, he tested the bacteria content at four water fountains and one toilet to challenge a ban on students from bringing bottled water to class. It seems some were using it to sneak in alcohol.

Guess which was cleaner? It wasnt the water fountains.

Katherman, 13, used Q-tips and petri dishes, swabbing the spigots of four fountains and sampling one toilet, dunking the cotton in the bowls center and then dragging it around the rim for a complete sample.

The petri dishes with fountain water were swarming with bacteria. The sample from the toilet was clean, probably because the toilets are doused with cleansing chemicals daily.

Administrators quickly replaced the spigots and casing at three of the water fountains and custodians gave them all a thorough cleaning.

NASHVILLE ? Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen recently signed into law a measure that bars state agencies from regulating American Indian school mascots.

State Rep. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, sponsored the bill that allows schools and colleges in the state to ?continue to honor certain persons or cultures through the use of symbols, names and mascots.?

The original version of the bill stated that the Legislature recognized school mascots ?acknowledge admirable characteristics of American Indians and ? reflect a positive outlook and recognition upon the contributions and the heritage of American Indians in Tennessee.? The Legislature last month amended the bill to remove any specific references to American Indians before submitting the final version to the governor.

Former correctional officers Jacob Salinas and John Hernandez were use to spending their time guarding inmates at the Wackenhut Correctional Center. But, early this morning, the pair found themselves playing the role of heroes as they saved a kitten from being run over by a train.

"We were driving on Villamain down by Shane when we saw this couple with a cat in their hand," said Salinas. "She looked like she was going to let this cat go."

According to police, thats not what the couple was doing in the 3000 block of Shane around 3 a.m. The couple tied a grey and orange patched kitten to a piece of wood and placed the animal on the South Side railroad track for a train to run over.

"They had placed the cat upside down and I could her it crying," said Hernandez.

The men say they untied the kitten. Next, they called police and started to follow the couples 2006 Saturn towards Military Drive and Villamain to get a license plate number. But, that effort would be met with potential violence.

The album, tentatively titled "Songs From the Sparkle Lounge," runs the gamut from "classic Def Leppard" to "new wave-type sounding stuff," he told Billboard.com.

The album title refers to a room the group maintained backstage during its 2006 tour dates, where the musicians would work on ideas.

He said Def Leppard finished 11 songs during month-long stints in January and April in Dublin. He expected the group to work on at least two more songs before settling on a final track list and release date. Def Leppards most recent release was the 2006 covers collection "Yeah!" It promoted the set on a co-headlining tour with Journey.

Oprah tops Forbes list of power players

NEW YORK - Oprah Winfrey continues to take over the world. The media mogul is back on top of Forbes annual "Celebrity 100 Power List," which ranks the rich and famous based on earnings and buzz.

Winfrey, who came in third last year, was the top money-maker with an estimated income of $260 million over the past 12 months. She last topped the list in 2005.

Golf tycoon Tiger Woods, who pulled in $100 million, ranks second. Madonna, absent from the list last year, is No. 3. The pop stars "Confessions" world tour ? the highest-grossing tour by any female artist in history, Goldman said ? and her adoption of a baby boy in the African country of Malawi put her back in the spotlight.

Thomas & Friends Wooden Toys Recalled

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Live video of the mission is available on NASAs Web site, so its possible the monitor is picking up a signal from somewhere.

"Its not coming straight from the shuttle," NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said. "People here think this is very interesting and you dont hear of it often?if at all."

Meilinger silenced disbelieving co-workers by bringing in a video of the monitor to show her class on Tuesday, her students last day of school.

Disgruntled Former Car Salesman Tells You How To Save Thousands On A New Car

First of all, I want to say that I am pleased to be able to write this article on some insider tips and tricks to use when buying a new (or used) car. This article will contain information that over the course of your lifetime, could very possibly save you tens of thousands of dollars! I?m not kidding here. Most people walk in to a car dealership and get punked. Not anymore.
Guess what happens when an ex-car salesman gets disgruntled? *wink*

The Electromagnetic Bomb - a Weapon of Electrical Mass Destruction

It is this aspect of the EMP effect which is of military significance, as it can result in irreversible damage to a wide range of electrical and electronic equipment, particularly computers and radio or radar receivers. Subject to the electromagnetic hardness of the electronics, a measure of the equipments resilience to this effect, and the intensity of the field produced by the weapon, the equipment can be irreversibly damaged or in effect electrically destroyed. The damage inflicted is not unlike that experienced through exposure to close proximity lightning strikes, and may require complete replacement of the equipment, or at least substantial portions thereof.

Many techniques promise to mitigate global warming -- planting forests, nuclear power, bioethanol, and cars with better gas mileage, to name a few. The problem is so enormous and the potential adverse effects so disturbing that we may have to simultaneously implement all available solutions to make the slightest dent in rising carbon dioxide levels.

Unfortunately, we are often slaves to preconceived notions such as "complex problems require complex solutions." Take the surprising trade-offs between even the most technologically advanced solar panel and plain white paint. Which product would make you a better environmental citizen?

To arrive at an answer, consider the following:

The most common type of sexual dream content was sexual intercourse, followed by sexual propositions, kissing, fantasies and masturbation.

Sir Tim was given the honour along with the President of the Royal Society, Lord Rees of Ludlow, and the Rt Rev Lord Eames, ex-Anglican Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh.

In 1991, Sir Tim came up with a system to organise, link and browse pages on the net.

He created his hypertext program while he was at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva. The code he crafted made it far easier for scientists to share their research and information across a fledgling computer network.

He is now director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, where he is based as an academic.

The Order of Merit is in the Queens personal gift, meaning that ministerial advice is not needed.

Polygamy fueling Ariz.?s rate of genetic disorder

Border community where cousins marry has highest incidence of rare illness

COLORADO CITY, Ariz. - In a dusty neighborhood under sheer sandstone cliffs studded with juniper on the Arizona-Utah border, a rare genetic disorder is spreading through polygamous families on a wave of inbreeding.

The twin border communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., have the world?s highest known prevalence of fumarase deficiency, an enzyme irregularity that causes severe mental retardation brought on by cousin marriage, doctors say.

?Arizona has about half the world?s population of known fumarase deficiency patients,? said Dr. Theodore Tarby, a pediatric neurologist who has treated many of the children at Arizona clinics under contracts with the state.

Central to this argument is his conviction that there is no discontinuity between the insights of science and the revelations of the Gospels. Miracles, for example, are not, as is often claimed, sudden deformations or breaches of the natural order. They happen through known physical processes. Walking on water is accomplished through a particle beam and dematerialization through the multiple universe model implied by quantum theory. That they happen when they do is, of course, Gods will, but, in making them happen, he does not violate the order of his creation.

Fort Leavenworth removed Bible study guides from its Web site this week after a religious foundation called the materials anti-Semitic and threatened a lawsuit.

Military Religious Freedom Foundation President Mikey Weinstein said although he is disgusted that terms like ?Jewish problem? were used on the site, his legal objection is not aimed at one?s biblical views or interpretations.

The foundation, a nonprofit watchdog group that works to maintain separation between church and state in the military, is infuriated instead that the subjective Bible study guides were allowed to be posted to a government Web site at all.

A Christian university said Wednesday that it is appealing a federal court decision denying state aid to its students.

Lakewood-based Colorado Christian University said the May 18 ruling by U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger against the school in its lawsuit against the Colorado Commission on Higher Education is "blatant religious discrimination" and violates the U.S. Constitution.

"We believe that the state is violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments by penalizing students who choose to attend a faith-centered liberal arts university," said Bill Armstrong, the schools president and a former U.S. representative and senator from Colorado.

LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- Big changes are happening at the law offices of Crane Poole & Schmidt.

John Larroquette will join the cast of ABCs "Boston Legal" next season as a regular, while guest star Christian Clemenson has been upped to a regular on the David E. Kelley production. In addition, Tara Summers is joining as a regular.

Meanwhile, the options on four cast members -- Julie Bowen, Mark Valley, Constance Zimmer and Rene Auberjonois -- to return as regulars have not been picked up. However, its understood there is a possibility that any of them could appear next season in a recurring or guest-starring role.

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Get Safaris best features in Firefox

As were all aware by now, Safari is now available for Windows. So the question is, is there any compelling reason you might want to switch from the venerable Firefox to Safari?

The Safari feature most-touted by Steve Jobs at the WWDC keynote was its speed, claiming Safari beats out Internet Explorer and Firefox at rendering web pages. According to Wired, however, thats not necessarily the case. To its credit, though, Safari does have several enviable features. Rather than suggesting anyone move to Safari (why would we do that?), heres a list of Safaris best features and the Firefox extensions that bring them to our favorite browser.

Watch closely Bush?s arm and watch. They claim that the watch dropped and was recovered by a bodyguard, but it?s a bit odd that it dropped just when someone was ?shaking his hand?, isn?t it ?

A teenager who hit on the idea of dialling random numbers and offering drugs for sale really got a wrong number when he called a policeman.

Det Matt Parks arranged to meet the 14-year-old at a school in Gulfport, Florida, to buy marijuana and crack cocaine and then arrested him.

The youth has now been charged with possession and intent to distribute drugs near a school.

The Mormon Temple Garment

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and a few other sects of Mormonism, the temple garment is a set of special underwear worn by male and female Latter-day Saints who have taken part in the washing and anointing ceremony in a Mormon temple.

Spiritually, the garment is believed to be a "shield and protection" against the powers of evil (and sometimes against physical harm, according to some Latter-Day Saints).

WASHINGTON, June 13 ? Even by the standards of the luminaries who sweep through Washington, the little girl in front of Lafayette Elementary School almost six miles north of the White House was special.

In Nepal, Sajani is a living goddess, one of about a dozen such goddesses in her homeland who are considered earthly manifestations of the Hindu goddess Kali.

Sajani arrived in Washington on Monday to help promote a British documentary about the living goddesses of the Katmandu Valley and to see a bit of the United States. She is the first of the Nepalese living goddesses to come to the United States because the girls live mostly in seclusion.

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For this myth ever to be valid there would have to be more than 100 billion people living on Earth. "How cozy," Cohen says. "It just doesnt seem plausible," he adds.

Progress of NYS Medical Marijuana Bill

The New York State Legislature doesnt seem to know what they have on their hands when it comes to the medical marijuana. For those who are in the dark on this issue, a medical marijuana bill passed the Assembly recently, but when it got to the Senate, the bill was criticized and a different piece of legislation on the issue has been discussed. Its likely that this issue will not be resolved anytime soon, even if the bill passes. Opponents of medical marijuana will try their damndest to shoot down this idea.

Two heads are usually better than one, just not in this case.

Recently, two bull elk were spotted in Indian Valley in central Nevada with a peculiar problem. It seems the animals? antlers had become so entangled while sparring they were unable to separate themselves and had been stuck together for over a week. Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) staff were ultimately called in to tranquilize and physically separate the two animals.

Google?s Blogger has a new homepage for early adopters, as they say: draft.blogger.com*. From here you will be able to get new features still in test mode, like a current video upload option which you can trigger with an icon button above your editor (your video will be hosted at Google Video, not YouTube, by the way). There?s also a new blog for the draft Blogger (which I?ve added to the Google?s blogs page).

Leaf blowers, gas mowers could be banned by 2010

Leaf blowers and gas-powered lawn mowers stand at the top of the citys hit list under sweeping proposals unveiled yesterday by Toronto to fight climate change.

"People are ready," Mayor David Miller said late yesterday, commenting on wide-ranging measures aimed, in part, at enlisting local residents in the global-warming fight.

This year, the city plans to spend $1-million for additional tree planting and green-roof initiatives as a small down payment on its aggressive goal to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 per cent by 2020, compared with 1990 levels.

A requirement that 10 per cent of commercial and institutional roofs be eco-friendly by 2020;

A proposed expansion of bike lanes and trails to 1,000 kilometres, up from 300 kilometres, by 2012;

The money has not yet been found for Torontos $6-billion "transit city" plan, announced earlier this year for a major expansion of light-rail service.

A West Coast scientist who believes it may be possible to transmit information backwards through time has been funded by individual donations after established mad-scientist groups refused to cough up.

John Cramer, a physicist at the University of Washington, reckons that "quantum retrocausality" could "involve signalling, or communication, in reverse time."

Tara Bell, from Bell, Florida, has been taken to hospital after being knocked out by a leaping sturgeon while boating on the Suwannee River. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission she should make a full recovery.

Sturgeons can grow as long as 8 feet and can weigh as much as 200 pounds. Their backs are covered in hard plating.

Two months ago a 50-year-old woman had her spleen ruptured, a tooth knocked out, lost a finger, and had to have three more reattached after a leaping sturgeon attacked her.

Ngoc: three decades without sleep

Bhagat: had his twin brother on his stomach

Yokoi: spent 28 years hidden after WWII

Mehran: lives at the Airport since 1988

Mitsuo: a japanese Jesus Christ

Bihari: most officially dead person

Icke: our salvation from Reptilian Humanoids

Bawden: the self-elected Pope Michael I, from Kansas

Nakamatsu: photographed and analyzed every meal for 34 years

Lotito: mister eat-it-all

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BPs Statistical Review is the most widely used estimate of world oil reserves but as Dr Campbell points out it is only a summary of highly political estimates supplied by governments and oil companies.

As Dr Campbell explains: "When I was the boss of an oil company I would never tell the truth. Its not part of the game."

PALATINE, Illinois (AP) -- An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb doesnt have to turn on the news for an update on NASAs space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor.

Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilingers baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis. The other still lets her keep an eye on her baby.

"Its not coming straight from the shuttle," NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said. "People here think this is very interesting and you dont hear of it often -- if at all."

Summer Infant, the monitors manufacturer, is investigating what could be causing the transmission, communications director Cindy Barlow said. She said shes never heard of anything similar happening.

"Ive been addicted to it and keep waiting to see whats next," Meilinger said.

Perfect spheres to redefine the kilogram

A team of health experts went to the clinic late on Wednesday evening with one of the members posing as an ordinary patient.

Health officials say the search for more foetus remains is continuing.

"Dr AK Singh is not a qualified doctor and we suspect he was carrying out sex selective abortions with the help of his wife who is a qualified nurse," Dr Dalal said.

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That Americans Agree With Conservative Agenda

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Does your dog ever make you laugh ? on purpose? Does he know he?s being funny? An even stranger question ? does your dog find things funny?

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Nitrogen pumped into the environment by human activities such as driving cars and farming is fertilising tree growth and boosting the amount of carbon being stored in forests outside the tropics, say researchers.

Their study provides a surprising example of how one type of human pollution is helping to counter another. But the researchers caution that they do not yet know what proportion of carbon dioxide emissions are being offset by the anthropogenic release of nitrogen.

Nitrogen is an important plant nutrient, widely used as an agricultural fertiliser, and two studies in 2006 suggested that its availability in nature will ultimately limit the capacity of forests to soak up human CO₂ (Nature, p 440, vol 922 and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0509038103). But until now, no one had quantified the effect that human deposits of nitrogen were having on forests.

Well, some things never change.

When Nancy Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, she promised to change things -- to enact serious, and long overdue, ethical reforms -- to stop the growing trend of legislators and their families accepting gifts, trips, and jobs from lobbyists and corporations.

Science Daily ? Saturn?s moons Tethys and Dione are flinging great streams of particles into space, according to data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini mission to Saturn. The discovery suggests the possibility of some sort of geological activity, perhaps even volcanic, on these icy worlds.

Dr Birney added that many of the RNA molecules were copying overlapping sequences of DNA.

He said: "The genome looks like it is far more of a network of RNA transcripts that are all collaborating together. Some go off and make proteins; [and] quite a few, although we know they are there, we really do not have a good understanding of what they do.

"This leads to a much more complex picture."

The researchers now hope to scale up their efforts to look at the other 99% of the genome.

Scientists who want to see how a crowd behaves in an emergency can?t exactly shout ?Fire!? on a city street and watch everyone panic and run. But a newly developed computer model can.

The 3-D model starts with patterns of human behavior and movement and uses them to simulate the behavior of a crowd in mob situations and pedestrian habits under certain building configurations, resulting in a virtual crowd video.

?Crowds are vital to the lifeblood of our cities,? said the model?s creator, Paul Torrens of Arizona State University. But, he adds, it is impractical ?to establish live experiments with hundreds or thousands of people along busy streetscapes.?

June 14, 2007 ? Pluto, newly dethroned from its planetary status, isnt even the largest of the dwarf planets, a category created to handle the plethora of discoveries of Pluto-like worlds in the far, frozen reaches of the solar system.

Neighbor Eris, whose discovery in 2003 prompted the review that kicked Pluto out of the planet club, is about 27 percent more massive than its better-known sister.

"There was a possibility that Pluto and Eris were roughly the same size, but these new results show that its second place at best for Pluto," said California Institute of Technology astronomer Michael Brown, who published his findings in this weeks Science.

China blasts Bush tribute to victims of communism

"According to the best scholarly estimate, communism took the lives of tens of millions of people in China and the Soviet Union," Bush said in his speech issued on the White House Web site (www.whitehouse.gov).

He cited the Great Leap Foward of the late 1950s, when many millions died in famine sparked by Mao Zedongs drive for massive communes, and the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76 when Mao launched a radical, often violent campaign to stamp out ideological threats.

The enigmatic Saturnian moon Titan is still yielding surprising new details years after scientists first pierced its thick haze veil. The vision now emerging of Saturns largest moon, with its giant dunes and oceanless surface, is perhaps a glimpse of Earths desert future.

"Even though we have only four hours of data, it is so rich that after two years of work we have yet to retrieve all the information it contains," says Fran�ois Raulin, Huygens interdisciplinary scientist at the Laboratory of Environmental Physics and Chemistry in Paris.

Stereoscopic images from Huygens now reveal extremely rugged terrain in the bright highlands north of the probes landing site. This includes channels divided by ridges that can rise some 500 to 650 feet high, with slopes of 30 degrees. Their shapes suggest they are drainage channels, cut by liquid methane falling as rain, findings detailed in a special issue of Planetary and Space Science magazine.

The theory ? derived from photos snapped by orbiters and geological and chemical data sent home by rovers Spirit and Opportunity ? is that as much as a third of Mars surface was once covered by water.

The cornerstone of this idea is that there are remarkable "shoreline" features visible in a ring thousands of miles long on the planets northern hemisphere lowlands.

But theres a big problem: these intriguing features are at widely different altitudes, with elevation varying by several thousands of feet instead of all being at "sea level" as they should be.

Harvard University scientist Taylor Perron and colleagues say that there is a reason for this discrepancy.

Helping men understand what an invaluable and irreplaceable role they play in the development and lives of their children can lead them to make a greater commitment and investment in their family. Indeed, Dr. Wade F. Horn, co-founder and former president of the National Fatherhood Initiative, coined the phrase "the myth of the superfluous father."⁴⁷ By this, he was referring to the fact that too many fathers become convinced that they are simply an extra set of hands to help around the house, rather than irreplaceable to their children. Men who see themselves as simply an "extra set of hands" are not in a position to help the family prevent future child maltreatment.

Former Secretary General of the UN and Austrian President, Kurt Waldheim, dead at 88, will always be remembered for not wanting to bore readers of his autobiography with too many details of the years 1942-45

Trilobis 65 has been designed on four separate levels connected by a spiraling staircase.

Durban - A KwaZulu-Natal domestic worker who called an emergency number in a bid to save her pregnant daughters life was told "there were no workers and there was nobody at the hospitals".

The 12-hour struggle to get an ambulance left Busi Dlaminis daughter on a ventilator battling for life with her dead unborn baby inside her.

"They told me that they could not send an ambulance because there were no workers and there was nobody at the hospitals"

She spent the night looking after her daughter. In the early hours of Monday morning she became concerned about her daughters condition.

She sent an SMS asking her employer, Gill Slaughter, to call her. She did not have airtime to call any friends for assistance.

The Red Cross helicopter was called to airlift Mthembu to Addington, but moments before it was due to take off, the crew were informed that they were not allowed to land at the hospital.

They were informed that there was a "staffing problem".

Six years ago she shocked the world with the revelation that Prince Andrew had bought her a mobile phone - only to trump that in 2005 with the admission that her Majesty was the proud owner of an iPod mini.

But now, Spy can reveal that the Queen?s latest technological foray has been into the realm of email.

THOSE who prefer a well-painted landscape to a diamond-studded skull or a roasted corgi now have a culprit to blame for the contentious state of contemporary art: the iPod.

The artist David Hockney believes the ubiquitous music player is contributing to a decline in visual awareness that is damaging art and painting in particular. It even makes people dress badly.

Speaking on the eve of his 70th birthday, Britains best-loved living painter said the proliferation of iPods - Apple has sold more than 100 million worldwide - and other digital music players has combined with a decline in art education to create a "fallow period of painting".

"We are not in a very visual age," Hockney said. "I think its all about sound. People plug in their ears and dont look much, whereas for me my eyes are the biggest pleasure.

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Cairo, Egypt (PRWEB) June 14, 2007 -- The online ministry Worlds Last Chance just released a new video at YouTube and Google identifying the beast of Revelation to be the papacy. The ministry believes this audacious message is crucial for the avoidance of receiving the mark of the beast.

Worlds Last Chance explains that the thirteenth chapter of Revelation describes two beasts, the first being the papacy, the second the U.S. "These two beasts, the Papacy and the U.S. are working closely together to legislate a law that would require American citizens, followed by the world, to worship the beast of Revelation by honouring the Papacys Sunday over Gods holy Sabbath day," said Doss. "Those who will submit to such law contrary to Gods law will receive the mark of the beast and thus lose their eternal life."

The Philippines

Over 1,600 people were disappeared in The Philippines during the Marcos dictatorship and since. None of them has ever been found. The successive governments that have followed the Marcos regime have failed to bring both light as to the fate of the disappeared, and justice.

1000 slave kids in brick jail

The owners ran the prison-like kilns with fierce dogs and thugs who beat the children at will, state television said. One accidentally killed a child with a shovel and buried the body at night, it said.

An army of 35,000 police in central China had so far rescued 217 people, including 29 children, the official China Daily reported today.

But state television said many more may be trapped, making bricks for little or no pay in brutal conditions in Shanxi and Henan provinces.

As many as 120 suspects had been detained.

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My dear children, and believe Me, that is all of you, I consider Myself a pretty patient guy. I mean, look at the Grand Canyon. It took millions of years to get it right. And about evolution? Boy, nothing is slower than designing that whole Darwinian thing to take place cell by cell and gene by gene

And I have been patient through your fashions, your civilizations, wars and schemes, and the countless ways that you take Me for granted until you get yourselves into big trouble again and again.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Army Spc. Gerald Lee Meeks says all he wanted in Iraq was to "keep everybody alive, all my buddies."

That hope was shattered last month when a roadside bomb blew up one of his best friends, and Meeks had to carry his slain buddy more than a mile back to base.

"I didnt want to believe it until I actually had to carry his body bag, which was pretty bad," he says, making a fist with his left hand and smashing it against a wall. "We had to carry him two clicks [kilometers] all the way back here."

His friend was Army Sgt. Robert J. Montgomery Jr., 29, of Scottsburg, Indiana. He was killed May 22 when a roadside bomb went off during a patrol not far from Fire Base Red, which is in Iraqs "Triangle of Death" about 15 miles (25 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad.

"Theres a bunch of mixed emotions going on in there," he says. "You want to scream out loud, you want to go home. ... You just hate seeing these people every day after one of your buddies dies."

?Driving is no longer discretionary,? Mr West said. In many families, every member has a car to ferry children to school, basketball games and the movies, to go grocery shopping and, of course, to get to work.

?Americas suburbs were founded on cheap land, cheap credit, cheap highways and cheap energy,? Mr West said. ?Only energy is no longer cheap.?

Use them to save your back, save time and to support those unevenly cut logs. �

I have a large splitting block, about 18 inches high and 20 inches in diameter. After months of bending over to pick up split pieces, pick up and reset pieces that simply flew off the block as I was learning to aim the splitting maul (big learning curve there), picking up and putting down wedge and sledge for those more difficult pieces, bending over and slipping slivers of wood under one edge of those angle-cut logs that wont stand up, my back was screaming after only an hour and a half.�A well-placed tire to contain the pieces Im working on became the cure for my aching back.

My efficient splitting set-up. Note the upturned plastic bucket I use as a tool table and a place to lean the maul. No bending!

Let me be really clear, just in case. If you think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a handgun, then yes, market handguns as hard as you can. If you honestly believe that kids are well served by drinking a dozen spoonfuls of sugar every morning before school, then I may believe youre wrong, but you should go ahead and market your artificially-sweetened juice product. My point is that you have no right to market things you know are harmful or that lead to bad outcomes, regardless of how much you need that job.

Many realize that NAFTA ? affecting the U.S., Canada and Mexico ? has caused a corporate exodus to the south, robbing the U.S. of over 600,000 jobs.

But this new, lesser-known NAFTA-related scheme could possibly be even more disastrous than the trade agreement itself. Yet the media outside Indiana have generally steered clear of this international issue.

3,301: Killed since the U.S. invasion of Iraq 3/20/03

Casualties in Iraq

Iraqi civilians:

98,000: Killed since 3/03

55,073 - 60,754: Killed since 1/03

30,000: Killed since 2003

151: Killed since 3/03

1.6 million: Iraqis displaced internally

1.8 million: Iraqis displaced to neighboring states

47,657: Wounded since 3/19/03 to 1/6/07

These radioactive particles will then be carried eastward by the jet stream and the trade winds across Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the other "stans," to India, China, and Japan ? producing what Truman long ago described as "a rain of ruin from the air" the like of which the world has never seen.

At this juncture, an unfortunately common tragedy of modern life will occur: A small child, likely a photogenic toddler, will be murdered or horrifically abused. It will happen in one of the media capitals of the Western world, thereby ensuring non-stop breathless coverage. Chip manufactures will recognize this as the opportunity they have been anticipating for years. With their technology now largely bug-free, familiar to most citizens and comparatively inexpensive, manufacturers will partner with the police to launch a high-profile campaign encouraging parents to implant their children ?to ensure your own peace of mind.?

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We previously showed Chris Jacobs vertical farm design for New York and Pierre Sartouxs Living Tower from Vertical Farm; Now we present Gordon Graffs Sky Farm proposed for downtown Torontos theatre district. Its got 58 floors, 2.7 million square feet of floor area and 8 million square feet of growing area. It can produce as much as a thousand acre farm, feeding 35 thousand people per year and providing tomatoes to throw at the latest dud at the Princess of Wales Theatre to the east, and olives for the Club District to the north. Thankfully it overwhelms the horrid jello-mold Holiday Inn to the west.

Great Campaign developed by Amnesty Switzerland and running in European Countries. The claim is: ?It doesn?t happen here, but it happens now?.

Hormone changes hit expectant dads, as well as mothers

Scientists at Queens University in Ontario who discovered the hormonal changes in men, believe expectant dads will be better fathers because of the subtle increases in estrogen and prolactin and decreases in testosterone levels.

These changes may alter how men respond to situations, possibly encouraging a stronger father-child bond.

Wynne-Edwards wasnt able to draw any conclusions about what causes the changes or their effects but said the alterations are modest.

An international team of astronomers have conclusive new evidence that a recently discovered "dark galaxy" is, in fact, an object the size of a galaxy, made entirely of dark matter. Although the object, named VIRGOHI21, has been observed since 2000, astronomers have been slowly ruling out every alternative explanation.

Brian Williams Concedes Bias as NBC Discovers People Opposed to Illegal Immigration

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams conceded on Thursdays newscast that NBC has focused on the interests of those in favor of the immigration bill as he acknowledged ?a lot of people? have a different perspective. A week after the immigration bill collapsed in the Senate, NBC got around to the other side -- but thats still sooner than ABC or CBS. With "Immigration Backlash" on screen, Williams explained how ?as we have covered the immigration debate here, we have heard from numerous Americans who are trying to run businesses, make money and in some cases bring in ripe crops. Theyve been begging lawmakers for a workable immigration solution. A lot of people think this country is letting too many people in. Tonight we hear their take on immigration.?

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