Monday, April 11, 2011
Who has your back?!?
When you use the Internet, you entrust your online conversations, thoughts, experiences, locations, photos, and more to companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook. But what happens when the government asks these companies to hand over your private information? Please join me in urging Internet companies to stand up for their users when the government comes knocking. https://whohasyourback.eff.org
Thanks- Bill
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Thanks- Bill
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William Meloney VII
Voice: 270-215-4275
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Taking molecular biology to a new level...
Adventures in Extreme Science
From Crick and Watson through J. Craig Venter, we had all our eggs in one basket — molecular biology, gene mapping, whatever you want to call it. It failed. And now we're counting on this guy.
By Tom Junod
Eric Schadt
Douglas Adesko
Published in our April issue, on sale soon
There may be another scientist in the world as smart as Eric Schadt. After all, scientists are a pretty smart lot, even though you'd be surprised at how few want to change the world, and how many of them have the trudging souls of brilliant, dutiful clerks. There may even be another scientist in the world as popular, as in demand as Eric Schadt, even though Eric works hard at everything he does, including his popularity, and is engaged, at any given time, in at least ten collaborations with other top scientists, not to mention the production — just last year — of a profligate thirty-five scientific papers, not to mention the delivery, year in and year out, of about forty talks and presentations after receiving invitations to deliver two or three hundred. (You'd also be surprised by how social a lot of scientists are, and how many parties they go to.) But if you're looking for a scientist whose great popularity rests in tirelessly writing papers and delivering speeches whose implicit and sometimes explicit message to the most eminent minds in his field is that they're wrong, that they've failed, and that the best way for them to stop wasting their lives is to follow him in a scientific revolution that he admits might not even work: Well, then you'd probably have to narrow your search a little bit. It takes a pretty smart guy to tell the smartest people in the world that all their success, all their hard-won knowledge has led them to a dead end ... that the approach they've taken has been a little, um, simplistic. It takes Eric Schadt to say that — and then to make the damned sale.
[ LINK: Adventures in Extreme Science ]
R.I.P. Mr. Gil Robbins
Gil Robbins, Folk Singer With the Highwaymen, Dies at 80
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: April 9, 2011
Gil Robbins, a singer, guitarist and songwriter with the folk group the Highwaymen and a fixture on the folk-music scene, died on Tuesday at his home in Esteban Cantú, Mexico. He was 80.
China Detains Church Members Over Public Praying
China Detains Church Members Over Public Praying
By ANDREW JACOBS
Published: April 10, 2011
BEIJING — The police detained dozens of members of an underground Protestant church on Sunday morning, after the congregation tried to pray in a public plaza in the north of the capital.
A parishioner was ordered into a van by a plainclothes police officer in Beijing on Sunday.
The police corralled scores of parishioners into buses and blocked church leaders from leaving their homes. Among those detained was a photographer from The New York Times, who was later released.
Last week the church, Shouwang, was evicted from the space it had been renting after the government pressured the landlord not to renew the lease. The congregation, one of the largest so-called house churches in China, has been seeking legal recognition from the authorities since 2006 without success.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
When a Leader Prays
When a leader prays
"As I travel across the country folks often ask me what is it that I pray for. And like most of you, my prayers sometimes are general: Lord, give me the strength to meet the challenges of my office. Sometimes they're specific: Lord, give me patience as I watch Malia go to her first dance where there will be boys. Lord, have that skirt get longer as she travels to that dance.
But while I petition God for a whole range of things, there are a few common themes that do recur. The first category of prayer comes out of the urgency of the Old Testament prophets and the Gospel itself. I pray for my ability to help those who are struggling. Christian tradition teaches that one day the world will be turned right side up and everything will return as it should be. But until that day, we're called to work on behalf of a God that chose justice and mercy and compassion to the most vulnerable."
Barack Obama
Prayer Breakfast speech
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Only in 'Merika...
It is obvious to the rest of the world that only in 'Merika ... moral-less, ethic-less, conscience-less, God forsaken (ask any member of the Westboro Baptist cult), wealthiest, most arrogant, most egotistical, seemingly least educated 'Merika that some people would have the depravity to call our current President of the United States, Barack Obama a ... racist. Only in 'Merika!
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