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Hillary Clinton has taken a commanding position in national politics, and as I wrote in my latest column, it would be spectacular if Bill and Hillary Clinton would work with the Clinton Global Initiative to devise major new jobs proposals.
Meanwhile, both parties should be embarrassed by the latest depressing jobs report. And Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus escalated the GOP war against women with his intellectually dishonest but highly revealing cheap-shot against Planned Parenthood that misrepresented the group's position on abortion.
It was another week in American politics highlighted by the overwhelming and deep yearning by Democrats that Hillary should run for president in 2016, and the overwhelming and powerful support she would receive from Americans if she does.My hope is that various Democrats who want her to run and would work for her minimize their cable television chants in support of her. Let's give Hillary some time and space and peace for now.
Hopefully, rather than focusing on political tactics and news cycle spin, we focus on creating jobs. The Clintons have a brilliant job-creating (and deficit-reducing) record from the years of the Clinton presidency and can play an extraordinary role in generating new ideas.
Hillary Clinton did say there is much unfinished business regarding the advancement of women and will no doubt be motivated even more by Reince Priebus's clumsy and dishonest attack on Planned Parenthood.
One Planned Parenthood lobbyist did make an unfortunate comment, and Planned Parenthood's national leadership did promptly correct the record and make things right. Priebus should have known better than to imply that Planned Parenthood supports infanticide when the charge is transparently false and dishonest.
He should not lower himself or his party by making scandalous attacks without checking his facts and setting the record straight. He should not be whining like a crybaby about how unfair the media is, and he should instead apologize to Planned Parenthood.
He should never again support Republican Senate candidates who make ignorant comments about rape. He should reflect on why female voters so overwhelmingly reject his party and its candidates.
View CommentsSo to what extent could avian flu become a risk for the entire market?
"Given that people are looking for an excuse to sell the market, you could certainly see some pressure here," said Michael Block, chief equities strategist at Phoenix Partners Group.
In China, "You already have some doubts about whether consumption is hitting a wall," Block said, pointing out that February's retail sales number showed the slowest rate of growth since January 2005. "When you have a situation in which people are afraid to go out in public and shop and be consumers, it's concerning, and brings the domestic growth thesis for China to a grinding halt."
So what stocks should investors look out for?
"The airlines are the obvious ones," Block said. But he also named one stock that could get seriously hurt: Yum. "If no one's going to eat chicken in China," Block said," that's going to be a problem."
RJ Hottovy, who covers the name for Morningstar, agrees. "Yum has done a good job of looking at its supply chain and finding any problems. But if this is a widespread issue, that certainly could have an impact on same-store sales for Yum."
—By CNBC's Alex Rosenberg
At the beginning of 19. century the English polymath T.Yong demonstrated that light behaves like a wave.[1] The luminiferous aether (or ether) is defined to be whatever medium transmits the light waves.
The Michelson-Morley experiment in 1887 failed to detect any motion of the Earth relative to the aether. Henri Poincaré conjectured that the aether may be unobservable, and invented special relativity based on the notion that the aether may be superfluous. Albert Einstein published conflicting opinions on whether the aether exists. According to R.Humphreys Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity not only stem from Maxwell’s work which required existence of ether as one of its postulates, but at bottom they only make sense if space (and time) is some kind of “stuff”. Humphreys portrays Einstein as recanting in 1920 his 1905 denial of the 19th-century idea of an “ether” meant to propagate light waves.[2]
Quantum electrodynamics (QED) teaches that when light goes through a vacuum, it is really going through a sea of virtual particles. Cosmologists say that the vacuum is really filled with dark energy, and it is unknown whether that has any relation to the aether concept. According to these theories, there is no such thing as empty space. The aether describes space when it is as empty as possible.
The existence of luminiferous aether is a counterexample to relativity as it is sometimes described, as it is sometimes said that Einstein abolished the aether.[3]
if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); }A.N. Whitehead states 5 reasons that had provided for long the support for acceptance of aether hypothesis:[4]
The wave theory of light required existence of ether as one of its postulates Maxwell's Equations describe electrostatic and magnetic attractions by means of describing the status changes of ether Maxwell's Equations assume events in a space that is evidently void. There must be something to which these properties could be ascribed. The identification of light with electromagnetic waves performed by C.Maxwell shows that the same entity (aether) is implied by at first glance different optical and electromagnetic phenomena thus should be able to unify their interpretation The possibility to perceive static "ether sea" which homogeneously penetrates all space of cosmos as absolute frame of reference towards which the Newton's laws of motion are referenced. Ether acquires this special character in Lorentz's and Larmore's theory however such extrapolation is discouraged by Whitehead as it is rooted in solely speculative entity lacking any experimental evidence.YEC creationist R.Humphreys states that in contemporary mainstream science the term ether have become politically incorrect and although there are many various paradoxes in physics that could be addressed by de-facto aether hypothesis, the materialistic scientists are verbally "beating-around-the-bush" and use many code words such as various combinations of: “spacetime,” “continuum,” “manifold,” “quantum vacuum,” “the Vacuum,” “substratum,” “Dirac sea,” “plenum,” and “medium,”—all just to avoid using the word “ether”.[2]
? David Berlinski. "The Reason", The Devil’s Delusion. Basic Books, New York, 2009, 90-93. ISBN 978-0-465-01937-3. “In the early years of the nineteenth century, the English polymath Thomas Young demonstrated that light behaves like a wave. ...Light, they argued, is both like a wave and like a particle, and what is more, it is like wave and like a particle on the level of individual photons themselves.” ? 2.0 2.1 Russell Humphreys. God’s mighty expanse. Creation Ministries International. Retrieved on 2012-10-08. “Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity not only stem from Maxwell’s work, but at bottom they only make sense if space (and time) is some kind of “stuff,” as Einstein finally acknowledged in a little-known speech in 1920.2 The famous limit for the speeds of light and particles, c, could only work if there were a real material to enforce the speed limit. (Why should there be a limit if space were completely empty?) Space could be “warped” or “bent” only if it were actual solid matter. ...Strangely, academic materialists have tried to ignore the physics clues that space is a material, probably for religious and philosophical reasons. They even ignored Einstein’s 1920 recantation (see second item above) of his 1905 denial of the 19th-century idea of an “ether” (or “aether”) meant to propagate light waves. The academics have made the word “ether” politically incorrect. Now that it looks as if the ether idea merely needed a bit more sophistication, physicists use many code words for it, such as various combinations of: “spacetime,” “continuum,” “manifold,” “quantum vacuum,” “the Vacuum,” “substratum,” “Dirac sea,” “plenum,” and “medium,”—all to avoid using the word “ether.” This verbal beating-around-the-bush amuses me. It prevents academics from explaining relativity and quantum mechanics in simple, visualizable terms that solve the various paradoxes. I suspect the academic experts on relativity and quantum theories prefer to keep them arcane and perplexing (to other academics as well), because the mystery makes them the high priests of a secular religion for which the public needs interpreters.”? Moshe Carmeli (2002). Cosmological Special Relativity, The Large-Scale Structure of Space, Time and Velocity, 2nd Edition. World Scientific Publishing, 22. ISBN 9-789-02-4936-5. “...Does this mean that the hypothetical dark matter can be abolished just as the "luminiferous ether" was proved to be superfluous by special relativity?” ? A. N. Whitehead (1919, 1925, 2011). "5.The Ether", An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-60012-6.China has found two more cases of a new strain of bird flu and one of the victims has died, state media said on Wednesday, bringing to nine the number of confirmed human infections from the previously unknown flu type.
A 38-year-old cook fell ill early last month while working in the province of Jiangsu, where five of the other cases were found. He died in hospital in Hangzhou city on March 27, the Xinhua news agency reported. Samples tested positive on Wednesday for the new bird flu strain, H7N9.
The second patient, also in Hangzhou, is a 67-year-old who is having treatment. Xinhua said no connection between the two cases had been discovered, and no one in close contact with either patient had developed any flu-like symptoms.
(Read More: For China, New Era Brings New Set of Problems)
The World Health Organization said it was "following the event closely" and was in contact with Chinese authorities, which it said were actively investigating the cases amid heightened disease surveillance.
Flu experts across the world are studying samples isolated from the patients to assess H7N9'S human pandemic potential.
Other strains of bird flu, such as H5N1, have been circulating for many years and can be transmitted from bird to bird, and bird to human, but not generally from human to human.
So far, this lack of human-to-human transmission also appears to be a feature of the H7N9 strain.
Of the seven other cases of the new strain, two have died, both in the business hub of Shanghai. The other five are in a critical condition in hospital in Nanjing. Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou are all close to each other in eastern China.
(Read More: China's Urbanization Leaves Migrant Workers in the Cold)
China's Agriculture Ministry said it had yet to find any animals infected with H7N9, though added it was possible it had been brought to China by migratory birds.
The WHO says so far it has seen no evidence of human-to-human transmission, but there are questions about the source of the infection and about how it may be being transmitted to people.
"We still don't know the mode of transmission or host (of the virus)," said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl. "Those are the two most important pieces of information we would need. In order to control it, we need to know where it is coming from."
The WHO said in a statement it was also focusing its efforts on encouraging collaboration between researchers to ensure information and materials are available for scientists wanting to develop diagnostic tests, drugs and vaccines.
No vaccine is currently available for H7N9 flu, but preliminary test results provided by the WHO Collaborating Centre in China suggest it is susceptible to the antiviral drugs Tamiflu, sold by the Swiss drugmaker Roche, and Relenza, sold by Britain's GlaxoSmithKline.
Chinese authorities dismissed speculation on some websites that the H7N9 outbreak may be related to more than 16,000 pig carcasses found dumped in rivers around Shanghai.
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Yin Ou, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Agricultural Committee, told reporters on Tuesday that the city had tested 34 dead pigs found in the city's Huangpu River for the H7N9 virus, but the tests had all come back negative.
China has a chequered record when it comes to tackling disease outbreaks, which some officials have previously sought to cover up. However, since the H7N9 cases have been identified, China has stepped up its alert level and said it is being transparent in dealing with them.
In 2003, authorities initially tried to cover up an epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which emerged in China and killed about a 10th of the 8,000 people it infected worldwide.
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The Question evolution! campaign is a worldwide anti-evolution campaign and is primarily being conducted in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa.[1] The focus of the campaign is on 15 Questions that evolutionists cannot satisfactorily answer. The 15 questions can be found HERE.
It's June of 2013. And 2013 is the WORST year in the history of Darwinism - just like we predicted!
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Can social unrest in Europe lead to a change of their religious landscape? Are creationists poised and in a position to take advantage of this unrest to further grow biblical creation belief in Europe? [2][3]
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"I do not seek. I find."
Pablo Picasso
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
Christian apologetics is the defense of the Christian faith through logical arguments. The term comes from the Greek word apologia, which means "defense".
"To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NKJ)
“when the wicked perish, there is song,’’ but later warns, “If your enemy falls, do not rejoice.” - The Book of Proverbs.
"The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, But the righteous are bold as a lion." - Proverbs 28:1 (NASB)
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LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Obagi Medical Products Inc. said Wednesday that Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals boosted its offer to buy the dermatology products maker, topping a bid made a day ago by a German rival.
Obagi said it struck a deal with Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. that calls for it to pay $24 per share, or a total of about $418.3 million, for the company. The news sent Obagi shares up 10 percent in morning trading.
Obagi said its board has approved the deal and is recommending that stockholders tender their shares in Valeant's offer, which is set to expire on April 23. A spokeswoman for Merz didn't immediately return a call for comment.
The sweetened offer came a day after German drugmaker Merz Pharma Group offered to buy Obagi for $22 per share, or about $383.5 million.
Late last month, Valeant agreed to pay $19.75 per share, or a total of about $343.7 million, for Obagi. Merz said Tuesday that it had been in private talks with Obagi before that deal was announced and wasn't aware that it was considering signing a deal with another company so quickly.
Long Beach, Calif.-based Obagi makes skin anesthetics as well as prescription and over-the-counter treatments for wrinkles, acne, sun damage and other skin problems. It posted sales of $120 million last year.
In morning trading, Obagi shares rose $2.19, or 10 percent, to $25.07, while Valeant's U.S. shares edged up 71 cents to $76.08.
