Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Since it’s only a bit over an hour or so old, I guess this still qualifies as a breaking story: Pipe bomb found at Woodburn Inn.
Here are some photos my sister (Roth’s Curiosity Corner) took:
To the police, fire fighters, and other first responders: Thanks! And may your mission be successful here.
I have (very gratefully) used your services for many years. I date back to your early days when you gave us a $5 referral fee for each new account we sent your way.
Anyway, I want you (and/or everybody else reading here, naturally) to get this message:
Do couples really do PayPal in bed like that?
If so, how many have had their computers fall off the end?
And why not have them trade places so the gal appears less immodest?
But maybe your service wouldn’t sell so well then. 😯
(I assume you think your service sells better with an inward view such as you presently offer. If so, I guess I should change my post title to PayPal Uses Revealing Marketing Tactics.)
Oh, and I freely admit to doing “corrective surgery” on the above image.
And now, for a “commercial” for a book we sell on our site for Rod and Staff Publishers:
I am amazed that the Mennonite Blogosphere doesn’t seem to be reporting this. Well, a correction to that: Google isn’t turning up any blog references to the matter.
State troopers of the Ohio Highway Patrol post at New Philadelphia are investigating the possibility that a car might have caused a single-truck crash that injured a 74-year-old Bolivar area resident Monday night.
Urie J. Sharp of 7995 St. Peters Church Rd. was reported in satisfactory condition in Aultman Hospital at Canton Tuesday night.
Troopers said Sharp was hurt when his northbound 1994 Ford Ranger pickup truck went off the right side of I-77 and hit a guardrail in Goshen Township at about 8:20 p.m. His vehicle then slid into and crossed the median, coming to rest in the southbound lanes of I-77 about a half mile north of the New Philadelphia exit.
Sharp told troopers that he was driving in the left lane to avoid a car that was entering I-77 from the on-ramp when the car came up fast behind his truck and a passenger yelled at him. He said that when he moved into the right lane, the other vehicle “flew past” him.
The driver then got in front of his vehicle and slammed on the brakes. Sharp said that when he also applied his brakes, his truck slid into the guardrail then went into the median.
He described the other vehicle as being a newer model, gray in color. He said the passenger was a white female in her 40s, with blonde hair.
Sharp initially was taken to Union Hospital at Dover and later transferred to Aultman.
Source: Troopers looking for driver of car that motorist says caused crash
We learned about this last night from our daughter LaVay who learned about it on Facebook from Urie’s wife herself. Her report at the time was that Urie has a broken back — a shattered 4th vertebra. I haven’t heard any amendments to that report.
May God bring about full restoration to Urie.
Is it anti-Semitic? 😯
Maybe before too long it will write and sign a declaration of independence, thanks to the work of Israeli hackers. 😆
Soorena-2, named after an ancient Persian warrior, was unveiled by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday. It is 1.45 metres 4.7 feet tall and weighs 45 kilograms 99 pounds, the report said.
Source: Iran unveils human-like robot
OK, that’s the first declaration referenced in the title.
The second is the US Declaration of Independence.
Just like I have a question to go along with the first declaration above, I have one to go with the second….
How come the Colonists were entitled to independence but not the Confederates?
That’s a quote from one of the stories quoted below (though the quote itself does not appear below).
These are five stories whose headlines caught my attention at CNS News this morning.
Individual Choices at Stake as Laws Take Effect
Gun owners with permits can carry concealed weapons into restaurants that serve alcohol in New Mexico and Virginia. Young and old alike must show proof of age when buying alcohol in Indiana. Georgia and Kentucky are hitting the delete key on texting while driving.
New laws taking effect Thursday reflect states’ ongoing debates over individual freedoms, touching on everything from smoking restrictions to measures seeking to fight crime.
Maybe you don’t live in a state where any of those apply. (I think I do.)
But here’s one for everyone:
Consumers Can Avoid Bank Fees with a Little Effort
A seemingly simple rule on debit card overdraft fees is making banking more complicated for millions of consumers.
Starting July 1, banks must get permission from customers before they can charge a fee for covering a debit card purchase or ATM withdrawal if there aren’t sufficient funds in the account. […] If consumers elect to forgo overdraft coverage, banks stand to lose a large chunk of their income. […]
To make up for the lost revenue, many banks are doing away with free checking, and adding monthly or quarterly maintenance fees. Consumers can often avoid these new fees, however, if they take steps like linking multiple accounts or arranging for direct deposit of their paychecks.
But that requires paying attention to correspondence from banks, and a lack of attention had a big role in creating the problem to begin with.
No wonder I’ve been getting that call-to-action screen every time I log in to online banking. I just keep brushing it off. I guess I should look into it more. I need to ask my bank if I can link accounts.
Now to think of a comment to transition you to the next story…. Oh, I know! Parents can avoid nagging children with a little effort. That’s a statement rich in alternate interpretations, but never mind that; here’s the story:
Liberal Group Threatens Lawsuit Against McDonald’s If It Doesn’t Stop Giving Toys to Children
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a liberal consumer advocacy organization, has announced it will sue McDonald’s unless the fast-food franchise stops using toys to market its “Happy Meals” to children.
“This morning, CSPI notified McDonald’s that we will file a lawsuit against the company unless it stops using toys to beguile young children,” said Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
“We contend that tempting kids with toys is unfair and deceptive both to kids who don’t understand the concept of advertising and to their parents who have to put up with their nagging children,” he said.
Whaddayaknow — protect parents from nagging children. 😯
Maybe this next story alludes to a better answer than keeping trinkets out of food.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday introduced a bill to end corporal punishment in all public and private schools that receive federal funding or services. But at least two school districts, one in Tennessee and one in Texas, want to reinstate corporal punishment on campuses described by one city councilman as “war zones.”
“Twenty states still permit corporal punishment in public schools and studies indicate that this type of discipline has a negative effect on students,” McCarthy said in a statement released at a Capitol Hill press conference.
“This legislation (the “Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act”) amends the General Education Provisions Act so that no funds for programs administered by the Department of Education shall be made available to any educational agency or institution that has a policy or practice which allows school personnel to inflict corporal punishment on a student.”
Well, that much makes sense: You must use our money in ways we approve. If a school takes government funds, the government may have a say in how the school operates. Works for me.
But such a statement should cut both ways. Government agencies and personnel who use taxpayer funds shall use our money in ways we approve. Imagine that!
So…if such a law were in place…would Hillary Clinton be in trouble?
Hillary Clinton Urges State Department Employees to Let Teens Know It’s Okay to Be Homosexual
“We’ve come such a far distance in our own country, but there are still so many who need the outreach, need the mentoring, need the support to stand up and be who they are and then think about people in so many countries where it just seems impossible,” Clinton said.
“So I think that each and everyone of you, not only professionally, particularly from State and USAID and every bureau and every embassy and every part of our government have to do what you can to create that safe space, but also personally, to really look for those who might need a helping hand; particularly young people; particularly teenagers who still today have such a difficult time,” she added.
“And who, still in numbers far beyond what should ever happen, take their own life rather than live that life,” Clinton said at the event, billed as a human rights and U.S. foreign policy speech.
“So I would ask you to please think of ways you can be there for everyone who is making this journey,” Clinton said.
And there you be: five headlines/excerpts to introduce you to July 2010.
Now you know (more of) the rest of the story. Good day?
That’s an l in the title; not an i.
Time for another from-real-life round Boggle. As usual, this is one played in real life by three Roths an evening back in April:
Here’s my usual reminder of how we play the game here at Ain’t Complicated:
Item 5 means do not use online sources to generate words. This rule applies only for the first two days of the game.
Remember, please: Five words per player per day.
(And tell me: Why is this post in the Health category?)
Also not that long ago, junk DNA was being defended as an important element of the Darwinian evolution paradigm.
Just one decade of post-genome biology has exploded that view. Biology’s new glimpse at a universe of non-coding DNA — what used to be called ‘junk’ DNA — has been fascinating and befuddling. Researchers from an international collaborative project called the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements ENCODE showed that in a selected portion of the genome containing just a few per cent of protein-coding sequence, between 74% and 93% of DNA was transcribed into RNA2. Much non-coding DNA has a regulatory role; small RNAs of different varieties seem to control gene expression at the level of both DNA and RNA transcripts in ways that are still only beginning to become clear. “Just the sheer existence of these exotic regulators suggests that our understanding about the most basic things — such as how a cell turns on and off — is incredibly naive,” says Joshua Plotkin, a mathematical biologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Source: Evolution News & Views: Exploding the Darwin-Friendly Myth of Junk DNA
Suggested Reading: The Biblical View of Science (Lester E. Showalter; Rod and Staff Publishers)