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Lifelike Pet Portraits in Pastel by Pet Artist Sarah Theophilus
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9:26am
2 reviews
pets, arts, drawings, portraits, pastels
http://www.petsinpastel.com/
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Sarah Palin: northern star injects new life into lumbering campaign - Times Onl…
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12:50am
1 review
politics, republicans, presidential-campaign, sarah-palin
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/arti...
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Sarah Palin: northern star injects new life into lumbering campaign
From the page: "The plan to mobilise the base had not just succeeded, it had morphed into a movement. Palin power, with its appeal to "regular" Americans, could propel McCain to victory in the swing states of Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, where there is a strong blue-collar Christian presence, and may keep the gun-loving mountain states such as Colorado and Montana in the Republican column.
David Axelrod, Schmidt's opposite number, admitted that the Obama campaign had been caught on the hop by Palin's nomination: "I can honestly say we weren't prepared for that. I mean, her name wasn't on anybody's list."
The cool "no drama" Obama was mocked in St Paul as an effete liberal, whose "pretty" speeches paled in comparison with Palin's blazing guns rhetoric. An explicit contrast was drawn between her patriotism - Track, her 19-year-old son, is about to be deployed to Iraq - and Obama's critique of America after eight years of the Bush administration.
"When Obama says he wants change, he means he wants to change Americans," said Grover Norquist, an influential Republican tax reform lobbyist. "One message of change is pro-American, the other isn't. Obama thinks there is something wrong with us." The Republican convention had begun with delegates boasting that their side had their ticket the "right way up" with experience at the top and charisma to support it, unlike Obama and Joe Biden, his 65-year-old running mate. But Palin's astonishing raw political talent has allowed her to hijack the election to a degree which terrifies some wise heads."
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British spy in longbow plot to kill Heinrich Himmler - Times Online
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12:33am
1 review
uk, germany, ww2, himmler, assination-plots
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4692217.ece
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British spy in longbow plot to kill Heinrich Himmler
From the page: "A British spy who was a cross between James Bond and Robin Hood plotted to use a longbow to assassinate one of the most notorious Nazis, according to a new book.
Tommy Sneum lay in ambush in occupied Copenhagen armed with a bow and arrows to kill Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS. He planned to strike from a penthouse that belonged to a Danish film starlet he had seduced. Sneum chose a longbow because he did not want the sound of a bullet to be traced back to her flat.
The exploits of Sneum are told in a book published this week by Mark Ryan, who interviewed Sneum at length before the former spy died last year aged 89.
"He was a real-life 007, getting through a tremendous number of women and doing all kinds of spectacular stunts to evade the Nazis," said Ryan, the author of The Hornet's Sting, published by Piatkus. "When he was holed up in Copenhagen he was sleeping with both the mother and daughter of the house, without either knowing."
Himmler was due to visit Copenhagen in February 1941 en route to Berlin after visiting SS recruits in Norway. Sneum was a handsome 23-year-old Danish aviator who, dismayed at the capitulation of his country, had become a British spy. He had struck up a relationship with the actress Oda Pasborg, whose flat he wanted to use.
"He was so much in love with her that he did not want to kill Himmler in a way that would hurt her," said Ryan.
So he bought a steel bow that could be dismantled into halves to make it easy to transport unnoticed. He had a quiver of arrows, each marked April 9, 1940, the date the Nazis had overrun Denmark. In the end, however, Himmler failed to appear. After landing at Copenhagen airport he felt ill and flew on to Berlin.
Sneum had more success with other missions. He filmed German radar installations, often under the noses of the German guards, with a camera provided by MI6. He flew to Britain with his films in a Hornet Moth biplane he had found minus its wings in a barn. He and a friend, Kjeld Pedersen, rebuilt it and took off from a field.
Halfway across the North Sea Sneum had to venture out on the wing in thick fog to refuel the plane from a can of petrol while Pedersen tried to keep it steady."
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Oldest Skeleton in Americas Found in Underwater Cave?
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12:18am
4 reviews
anthropology, human-migration, pre-history, migrations
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080903-oldest-skeletons.html
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Oldest Skeleton in Americas Found in Underwater Cave?
From the page: "In addition to possibly altering the time line of human settlement in the Americas, the remains may cause experts to rethink where the first Americans came from, González added.
Clues from the skeletons' skulls hint that the people may not be of northern Asian descent, which would contradict the dominant theory of New World settlement. That theory holds that ancient humans first came to North America from northern Asia via a now submerged land bridge across the Bering Sea (see an interactive map of ancient human migration).
"The shape of the skulls has led us to believe that Eva and the others have more of an affinity with people from South Asia than North Asia," González explained.
Concepción Jiménez, director of physical anthropology at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, has viewed the finds and says they may be Mexico's oldest and most important human remains to date.
"Eva de Naharon has the Paleo-Indian characteristics that make the date seem very plausible," Jiménez said.
Ancient Floods, Giant Animals
The three other skeletons excavated in the caves have been given a date range of 11,000 to 14,000 years ago, based on radiocarbon dating.
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The remains were found some 50 feet (15 meters) below sea level in the caves off Tulum. But at the time Eve of Naharon is believed to have lived there, sea levels were 200 feet (60 meters) lower, and the Yucatán Peninsula was a wide, dry prairie.
The polar ice caps melted dramatically 8,000 to 9,000 years ago, causing sea levels to rise hundreds of feet and submerging the burial grounds of the skeletons. Stalactites and stalagmites then grew around the remains, preventing them from being washed out to sea.
González has also found remains of elephants, giant sloths, and other ancient fauna in the caves.
(Learn more about how caves form.)
Human Migration Theories
If González's finds do stand up to scientific scrutiny, they will raise many interesting new questions about how the Americas were first peopled."
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Fish Oils in Health and Disease, International Health News
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12:06am
1 review
health, omega-3, medical-research, fish-oil
http://www.oilofpisces.com/
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Welcome to the Premier Omega-3/Fish Oil Site on the Web!
FISH OIL NEWS HERE
Scientists were first alerted to the many benefits of fish oils in the early 1970s when Danish physicians observed that Greenland Eskimos had an exceptionally low incidence of heart disease and arthritis despite the fact that they consumed a high-fat diet. Intensive research soon discovered that two of the fats (oils) they consumed in large quantities, EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), were actually highly beneficial. More recent research has established that fish oils (EPA and DHA) play a crucial role in the prevention of atherosclerosis, heart attack, depression, and cancer. Clinical trials have shown that fish oil supplementation is effective in the treatment of many disorders including rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, ulcerative colitis, and Raynaud's disease.
An extensive medical literature testifies to the fact that fish oils prevent and may help to ameliorate or reverse atherosclerosis, angina, heart attack, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease. Fish oils help maintain the elasticity of artery walls, prevent blood clotting, reduce blood pressure, stabilize heart rhythm and help combat inflammation. There is also considerable evidence that fish oil consumption can reduce the risk of breast and prostate cancer and help slow their progression. Daily supplementation with fish oils has been found effective in preventing the development of colon cancer and has also been found to help combat depression.
It is clear that consuming a diet rich in oily fish or alternatively, supplementing with fish oils is one of the most important steps one can take to ensure vibrant and lasting health. HOWEVER, pollution of fresh water lakes and even the oceans is now so extensive that a growing number of species should not be consumed regularly as they contain large amounts of mercury and other industrial pollutants. Fresh, wild pacific salmon is still an excellent source of safe fish oil, but if that is not available then a high quality fish oil is the answer to ensuring that daily needs for EPA and DHA are met. Only fresh, highly purified fish oils (molecular distilled, pharmaceutical grade) stabilized with vitamin E should be consumed. Some very recent British research has shown that emulsified fish oils are absorbed at twice the rate of non-emulsified oils. Low quality oils should be avoided as they are unstable and may contain significant amounts of mercury, pesticides, and undesirable oxidation products.
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Science News / Gene Regulation Makes The Human
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Sep 6, 11:30pm
1 review
biology, genetics, science, research, gene-regulation
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36201/title/Gene_regulation_makes_...
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Gene Regulation Makes The Human
From the page: "Genes alone don't make the man -- after all, humans and chimps share roughly 98 percent of their DNA. But where, when and how much genes are turned on may be essential in setting people apart from other primates.
A stretch of human DNA inserted into mice embryos revs the activity of genes in the developing thumb, toe, forelimb and hind limb. But the chimp and rhesus macaque version of this same stretch of DNA spurs only faint activity in the developing limbs, reports a new study in the Sept. 5 Science.
The research supports the notion that changes in the regulation of genes-- rather than changes in the genes themselves -- were crucial evolutionary steps in the human ability to use fire, invent wheels and ponder existential questions, like what distinguishes people from our primate cousins.
"We're trying to find out what makes us human," says geneticist James Noonan of Yale University, who led the study with colleagues from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Genome Institute of Singapore and the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom. "We know that the things that make us human biologically are encoded in there somewhere."
Noonan and colleagues combed through the vast regions of human DNA that do not contain code for making proteins. Formerly dissed as "junk DNA," sections of these non-gene regions are now known to play a regulatory role, dialing down or cranking up the activity of actual genes.
Like electrical wiring in a house, genes may be turned on in many places at once, even though they might only be needed in one area, such as the eye, comments Francesca Mariani of the Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at the University of Southern California,. So while the new study can't say what these regulatory changes might do in a human embryo, "this does show how a few small changes could make a big difference" she says. "The thing that is intriguing about this is the direction it could go."
The researchers identified a DNA region made up of 546 base-pairs, or "letters" of code. While this region of DNA has barley changed during the evolution of backboned creatures, it has accumulated 16 changes since the ancestors of chimps and humans split, some 6 million years ago, the researcher report. Thirteen of these changes were clustered within an 81 base-pair region.
"If you slip into our shoes as genetic detectives, that many changes in a small area calls out for investigation," says Sean Carroll of the University of Wisconsin-Madison."
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: Photo by Photographer Ton Mestrom - photo.net
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Sep 6, 10:28pm
1 review
photography, photos, woman
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6918418
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Sep 6, 10:14pm
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Fish oil outperforms statin in heart failure study - International Herald Tribun…
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Sep 6, 10:10pm
3 reviews
health, omega-3, medical-research, fish-oil, statin-drugs
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/31/healthscience/fishoil31.php
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Fish oil outperforms statin in heart failure study
From the page: "Omega-3 fatty acids from fish like salmon and tuna have long been proven to offer health benefits like protecting the heart and brain, though scientists are not exactly sure how.
Bonow said that because cell membranes are made of fatty acids, fish oils may help to replace and strengthen those membranes with omega-3.
Fish oils are also thought to increase the body's good cholesterol levels, as well as possibly stabilizing the electrical system in heart cells, to prevent abnormal heart rhythms.
In contrast, statins act on the body's bad cholesterol, which may not have a big impact on heart failure."
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Save your Vision with Fish Oil and Quitting Smoking ( Recent research has reveal…
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Sep 6, 10:07pm
1 review
smoking, amd, vision, fish-oil, macular-degeneration
http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news/Save-your-Vision-with-Fish-Oil-and-...
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Save your Vision with Fish Oil and Quitting Smoking
From the page: "Recent research has revealed that age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is twice as common in elderly smokers as nonsmokers. However it was also found // that those among the elderly who ate fish at least twice weekly are almost half as likely to have AMD than those who eat fish less than once a week.
The study was conducted by Johanna Seddon, MD, and colleagues who work at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in Boston. The results of the study have been published in the July's Archives of Ophthalmology.
Other experts in Australia, have also found that age-related macular problems are rarer in people whose diets are rich in omega-3 fatty acid found in fish, including mackerel and salmon, as well as flax seeds and walnuts.
Seddon's study used data from 681 individual male twins in their mid-70s of which 222 of them had intermediate or late-stage AMD and 459 had early or no AMD.
These men were made to complete questionnaires regarding their smoking history, alcohol use, diets, physical activity and use of supplements and multivitamins.
According to the researchers, "Current smokers had a 1.9-fold increased risk of AMD while past smokers had about a 1.7-fold increased risk" of AMD. In addition it was found that men with the highest fish consumption of at least two weekly servings were 45 percent less likely to have AMD than those with the lowest fish consumption of less than one weekly serving."
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