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Just wondering if anyone knows if there is a Word processing app to download for ipad???

2009: I live in Idaho all year, but work half the year in Idaho, work half the year in Washington. What kind of process is involved when filing my taxes?

Will you do something REAL this Christmas?? The ADVENT CONSPIRACY....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSXNJTgNIrM&NR=1

Will you do something REAL this Christmas?? The ADVENT CONSPIRACY....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSXNJTgNIrM&NR=1

how do i keep the palettes & tools from floating? is there any way to anchor them to the workspace??

ok, dumbest question EVER! I used to be able to roll over the "time" in my icon tray & it would reveal the "date".... that doesn't happen anymore... anyone know how can I fix that???

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!

********Worms do CALCULUS to find food*********

Navigation process quivalent to the process of taking a derivative

By Greg Soltis

LiveScience

updated 3:51 p.m. PT, Wed., July. 23, 2008

Like humans with a nose for the best restaurants, roundworms also use their senses of taste and smell to navigate. And now, researchers may have found how a worm's brain does this: It performs CALCULUS.

Worms calculate how much the strength of different tastes is changing — equivalent to the process of taking a derivative in calculus — to figure out if they are on their way toward food or should change direction and look elsewhere, says University of Oregon biologist Shawn Lockery, who thinks humans and other animals do the same thing.

(10) Joshua prophesied that Jericho would be rebuilt by one man. He also said that the man's eldest son would die when the reconstruction began and that his youngest son would die when the work reached completion (Joshua 6:26). About five centuries later this prophecy found its fulfillment in the life and family of a man named Hiel (I Kings 16:33-34).

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 107).

(11) The day of Elijah's supernatural departure from Earth was predicted unanimously—and accurately, according to the eye-witness account—by a group of fifty prophets (II Kings 2:3-11).

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 109).

(12) Jahaziel prophesied that King Jehoshaphat and a tiny band of men would defeat an enormous, well-equipped, well-trained army without even having to fight. Just as predicted, the King and his troops stood looking on as their foes were supernaturally destroyed to the last man (II Chronicles 20).

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 108).

(13) One prophet of God (unnamed, but probably Shemiah) said that a future king of Judah, named Josiah, would take the bones of all the occultic priests (priests of the "high places") of Israel's King Jeroboam and burn them on Jeroboam's altar (I Kings 13:2 and II Kings 23:15-18). This event occurred approximately 300 years after it was foretold.

(Probability of chance fulfillment = 1 in 1013).

Single-celled giant upends early evolution

G. sphaerica's traces are spitting image of the old, Precambrian fossils

By Michael Reilly

Discovery Channel

updated 1:23 p.m. PT, Thurs., Nov. 20, 2008

Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth.

A distant relative of microscopic amoebas, the grape-sized Gromia sphaerica was discovered once before, lying motionless at the bottom of the Arabian Sea. But when Mikhail Matz of the University of Texas at Austin and a group of researchers stumbled across a group of G. sphaerica off the coast of the Bahamas, the creatures were leaving trails behind them up to 20 inches long in the mud.

The trouble is, single-celled critters aren't supposed to be able to leave trails. The oldest fossils of animal trails, called 'trace fossils', date to around 580 million years ago, and paleontologists always figured they must have been made by multicellular animals with complex, symmetrical bodies.

But G. sphaerica's traces are the spitting image of the old, Precambrian fossils; two small ridges line the outside of the trail, and one thin bump runs down the middle.

At up to 1.2 inches in diameter, they're also enormous compared to most of their microscopic cousins.

"If these guys were alive 600 million years ago, and their traces got fossilized, a paleontologist who had never seen this thing would not have a shade of doubt attributing this kind of trace to the activity of a big, multicellular, bilaterally symmetrical animal," Matz said.

"This is a very important discovery," Shuhai Xiao of Virginia Polytechnic Institute said. "The fact that protists can make traces has important implications for how we interpret many trace fossils."

The finding could overturn conventional thinking on a mysterious time in the evolution of early life known as the Cambrian Explosion. Until about 550 million years ago, there were very few animals leaving trails behind. Then, within 10 million years an unprecedented blossoming of life swarmed across the planet, filling every niche with hard-bodied, complex creatures.

"IT WASN’T A GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEXITY," Matz said. "NSTEAD THESE THINGS SUDDENLY SEEMED TO BURST OUT OF A MAGIC BOX."

Charles Darwin first noticed the Cambrian Explosion and thought it was an artifact of a poorly preserved fossil record. The precambrian trace fossils were left by multicellular animals, he reasoned, so there must be some gap in fossils between the nearly empty Precambrian and the teeming world that quickly followed. BUT, IF THE FIRST TRACES WERE INSTEAD MADE BY G. SPHAERICA, IT WOULD MEAN THE EXPLOSION WAS REAL; IT MUST HAVE BEEN A DIVERSIFICATION OF LIFE ON A SCALE NEVER BEFORE SEEN.

GENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE WATER-FILLED G. SPHAERICA CELLS ALSO REVEALS TANTALIZING CLUES THAT IT COULD BE THE LODES LIVING FOSSIL ON THE PLANET.

"There's a 1.8 billion-year-old fossil in the Stirling formation in Australia that looks just like one of their traces, and with a discoidal body impression similar to these guys." Matz said. "We haven't proved anything, but we might be looking at the ultimate living macroscopic fossil."

© 2008 Discovery Channel

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27827279/

You've got him on video ACTUALLY making the following statements, and people are willing to LIE and pretend it never happened!

Transcript of EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed

STEIN NARRATION: Professor Dawkins seemed so convinced that God doesn’t exist that I wondered if he would be willing to put a number on it.

DAWKINS: Well, it’s hard to put a figure on it. But, I’d put it as something like 99% against or something.

STEIN: Why do you know it’s 99%? Why not say 97% or something?

DAWKINS: No, I don’t, you asked me to put a figure on it. I’m not comfortable putting a figure on it. I think it’s, I just think it’s very unlikely.

STEIN: What? But you couldn’t put a number on it?

DAWKINS: No, no of course not.

STEIN: So, it could be 49%?

DAWKINS: Well, it would be, well I think it’s unlikely, but, but it’s quite far from 50%

STEIN: How do you know?

DAWKINS: I don’t know, I mean, I put an argument in the book.

STEIN: Well, then, who did create the heavens and the earth?

DAWKINS: Why do you use the word “who”? See, you immediately beg the question by using the word “who”

STEIN: Well, then, how did it get created?

DAWKINS: Umm, well, by a very slow process.

STEIN: Well, how did it start?

DAWKINS: NOBODY KNOWS HOW IT GOT STARTED. We know the kind of event that it MUST have been. We know the sort of event that MUST have happened for the origin of life.

STEIN: And what was that?

DAWKINS: It was the origin of the first self-replicating molecule.

STEIN: Right, and how did that happen?

DAWKINS: I told you, WE DON’T KNOW

STEIN: So, you have NO idea HOW it started?

DAWKINS: No, no, nor has ANYBODY.

STEIN: Nor has anyone else. What do you think is the possibility that Intelligent Design might turn out to be the answer to some issues in genetics or in evolution.

DAWKINS: Well, it could come about in the following way. It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved, by probably by some kind of Darwinian means, probably to a very very high level of technology, and DESIGNED a form of life that they seeded onto perhaps this planet. Um, now that is a possibility, and an intriguing possibility. And I suppose it's POSSIBLE that you might find EVIDENCE for that IF YOU LOOK at the details of biochemistry, molecular biology, you might find a SIGNATURE of some sort of DESIGNER

STEIN NARRATION: Wait a second! Richard Dawkins thought that intelligent design might be a legitimate pursuit?

DAWKINS: Mm, and that DESIGNER could well be a higher INTELLIGENCE from elsewhere in the universe. That higher INTELLIGENCE would, itself, have had to have come about by some explicable, ultimately explicable, process. It couldn’t have just jumped into existence spontaneously. That’s the point.

STEIN NARRATION: So, Professor Dawkins was not against intelligent design, just certain “types” of designers… such as God.

Do we live in a giant cosmic bubble?

Earth may in abnormal bubble of space-time void of matter

By Clara Moskowitz

Space.com

updated 8:32 a.m. PT, Tues., Sept. 30, 2008

If the notion of dark energy sounds improbable, get ready for an even more outlandish suggestion.

Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly void of matter. Scientists say this condition could account for the apparent acceleration of the universe's expansion, for which dark energy currently is the leading explanation.

One problem with the void idea, though, is that it negates a principle that has reigned in astronomy for more than 450 years: namely, that our place in the universe isn't special. When Nicholas Copernicus argued that it made much more sense for the Earth to be revolving around the sun than vice versa, it revolutionized science. Since then, most theories have to pass the Copernican test. If they require our planet to be unique, or our position to be exalted, the ideas often seem unlikely.

"This idea that we live in a void would really be a statement that we live in a special place," Clifton told SPACE.com. "The regular cosmological model is based on the idea that where we live is a typical place in the universe. This would be a contradiction to the Copernican principle."

Clifton, along with Oxford researchers Pedro G. Ferreira and Kate Land, say that in coming years we may be able to distinguish between dark energy and the void. They point to the upcoming Joint Dark Energy Mission, planned by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy to launch in 2014 or 2015. The satellite aims to measure the expansion of the universe precisely by observing about 2,300 supernovae.

The scientists suggest that by looking at a large number of supernovae in a certain region of the universe, they should be able to tell whether the objects are really accelerating away, or if their light is merely being distorted in a void.

The new study will be detailed in an upcoming issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.

© 2007 Space.com. All rights reserved. More from Space.com.

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26956957/

I LOVE IT!!

Isa 40:22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the CIRCLE of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

By Andrea Thompson

updated 11:57 a.m. PT, Thurs., Sept. 25, 2008

Scientists have found the oldest known rocks on Earth. They are 4.28 billion years old, making them 250 million years more ancient than any previously discovered rocks.

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a DISK of gas and dust circling the sun. Remnants of crust from Earth's infancy are hard to come by because most of that material has been recycled into Earth's interior several times by the plate tectonics that continue to shape our planet's surface.

Were you "raised" in barn??? Does that actually "mean" that you are a cow? a fly? a wooden beam? hay?

when people say they were "raised" as a Christian or a catholic and they "aren't" one now.... I GUARANTEE that they were NOT either...........

Just curious..... How many teens who practice abstinence have STDs?

Since we're all about free sex, free birth control, free education and freedom from narrow-minded parents, is this really working?????

In the first study of its kind, researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found at least one in 4 teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease.

Since these were all "written" and "founded" by men, is there any "real" reason to bother?

If every religion has its own savior (one who has died and paid the penalty for their followers), can someone please name those for me??