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Saturday, May 9, 2015
The week in wildlife – in pictures. The Guardian
A goldfinch feeds its newly hatched chicks in their nest in Chungju, North Chungcheong province, South Korea.
Photograph: Kim Jae-sun/EPA [pictures here]
Pamela Geller Calls Out Cowardly Conservatives - update
Breitbart News: Many in the mainstream media have alleged that
you crossed the line when it comes to free speech, and that you are
responsible for inciting the terror attacks against your “Draw Muhammad”
event. How do you respond to these criticisms?
Pamela Geller: We incited no one. We didn’t call for violence, justify violence, or approve of violence. The people who were inciting were the ones saying that we should be killed for exhibiting Muhammad cartoons. There is no automatic or unavoidable response to being insulted. No one is forced to kill for being insulted. Those who choose to do so are responsible for their actions. No one else is.
Breitbart News: Even some conservative columnists and a potential presidential candidate (Donald Trump) have resorted to personal attacks against you as a preface before arguing in defense of free speech. Why do you feel that so many have come to attack the messenger?
Pamela Geller: This is the problem with the conservatives. This is why we can never nominate qualified, brave, true conservative candidates. The conservative movement has trimmed to accommodate the leftist media so much that they’ve trimmed themselves out of principle. They attack me because they’re desperately afraid that the leftist media will smear them by association with me. It is an act of sheer cowardice...Continue reading...
Related: Megyn Kelly, Shooting Down Bill O'Reilly's Cowardly Stance on the Garland Shooting: "Should We Get Rid of All the Jews, Too?"
Also see: Cowardly media surrenders to Muslim terrorists -- but keeps bashing other religions
Pamela Geller: We incited no one. We didn’t call for violence, justify violence, or approve of violence. The people who were inciting were the ones saying that we should be killed for exhibiting Muhammad cartoons. There is no automatic or unavoidable response to being insulted. No one is forced to kill for being insulted. Those who choose to do so are responsible for their actions. No one else is.
Breitbart News: Even some conservative columnists and a potential presidential candidate (Donald Trump) have resorted to personal attacks against you as a preface before arguing in defense of free speech. Why do you feel that so many have come to attack the messenger?
Pamela Geller: This is the problem with the conservatives. This is why we can never nominate qualified, brave, true conservative candidates. The conservative movement has trimmed to accommodate the leftist media so much that they’ve trimmed themselves out of principle. They attack me because they’re desperately afraid that the leftist media will smear them by association with me. It is an act of sheer cowardice...Continue reading...
Related: Megyn Kelly, Shooting Down Bill O'Reilly's Cowardly Stance on the Garland Shooting: "Should We Get Rid of All the Jews, Too?"
Also see: Cowardly media surrenders to Muslim terrorists -- but keeps bashing other religions
Thursday, May 7, 2015
The Reindeer Riders. The people of the Mongolian Taïga (Photos)
By
MessyNessy If the descendants of ancient legends truly
exist among us today, these are they. Despite the odds, the nomads of
Outer Mongolia are a people seemingly immune from degeneration, still
living in such proximity to wild animals with a certain spiritual
wisdom, sense of healing and well-being lost to our notions of time and
laws of civilization. The ancient Greek poet Pindar once
described a perfect land called Hyperborea, beyond the great wind in
the Altai Mountains of Central Asia, where the sun always shone, where a
race of healers lived with “neither disease not bitter old age is mixed
… in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle…”...Continue reading, photos...
Should Saskatchewan grow poppies for painkillers?
A research company in Lethbridge, Alta. says poppies could be a big crop in Saskatchewan and Alberta, if regulatory bodies would give it the go-ahead.
API Labs Inc. wants approval to grow commercial quantities of poppies to produce opiate medications like codeine, morphine and oxycodone for the pharmaceutical industry.
Glen Metzler, president and managing director of API Labs, says police and other regulatory bodies have some concerns about the product being diverted into the illegal drug trade.
"If all these other countries in the world can address the risk why can't Canada?" Metzler told CBC Saskatchewan's Blue Sky.
He says, at the farm gate, the poppy crop is worth $100 million in Australia. Currently in Canada, he says, we process painkillers but nobody in Canada is allowed to grow what are commonly known as opium poppies.
"Why we won't let these industries establish in Canada is just beyond me."...Continue reading...
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Hero dog pulled man from frozen lake, another stood by a teen after crash
Badger and Sako were inducted Monday in Toronto into the Animal Hall of Fame, along with other alert animals who helped owners, others.
By: Victoria Ahearn The Canadian Press
Badger pulled his owner, Derik Hodgson, right, to their cabin after the man broke his leg on a frozen lake.
Sako, a dog from Kananka Bar, B.C., stayed by 16-year-old Joseph Phillips-Garcia for more than 40 hours after a vehicle crash.
Twins Jade and Brooke Bordman with their diabetic alert dog Nettle, who was inducted Monday into the Purina Animal Hall of Fame as Service Dog of the Year.
Bella saved her master, who was having a heart attack, read complete article here, photo, and links.
Earthworm invasion: Study forecasts rise of worms in northern boreal forest
By Cailynn Klingbeil, Edmonton Journal
Dendrobaena octaedra, one of six species found in forests in northern Alberta, is projected to expand its territory from three per cent of suitable habitat in the boreal forest to 39 per cent by 2056. There, the squirmy invaders chew through the leafy layer that covers the woodland floor, which can harm native plants and animals.
“It’s a large area for a small earthworm species to be spreading,” said Erin Cameron, who co-authored a paper on the sprawl with researchers from the University of Alberta, Simon Fraser University and Ohio State University.
Earthworms are not native to most of Canada, having been wiped out in the last ice age. The worms here now were likely brought by European settlers in soil, with plants and on ships, Cameron said.
The intruders are a gardener’s ally, but the same actions worms are admired for — shredding organic matter and tilling the soil — are harmful to the boreal forest...Continue reading...
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A species of earthworm called dendrobaena octaedra is predicted to expand its territory from three per cent of the boreal forest in northeastern Alberta to 39 per cent by 2056.
Invasive earthworms are attacking the boreal forest, with new research predicting how quickly one species is spreading in northeastern Alberta.Dendrobaena octaedra, one of six species found in forests in northern Alberta, is projected to expand its territory from three per cent of suitable habitat in the boreal forest to 39 per cent by 2056. There, the squirmy invaders chew through the leafy layer that covers the woodland floor, which can harm native plants and animals.
“It’s a large area for a small earthworm species to be spreading,” said Erin Cameron, who co-authored a paper on the sprawl with researchers from the University of Alberta, Simon Fraser University and Ohio State University.
Earthworms are not native to most of Canada, having been wiped out in the last ice age. The worms here now were likely brought by European settlers in soil, with plants and on ships, Cameron said.
The intruders are a gardener’s ally, but the same actions worms are admired for — shredding organic matter and tilling the soil — are harmful to the boreal forest...Continue reading...
A
species of earthworm called dendrobaena octaedra is predicted to expand
its territory from three per cent of the boreal forest in northeastern
Alberta to 39 per cent by 2056. - See more at:
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Earthworm+invasion+Study+forecasts+rise+worms+northern+boreal+forest/11027216/story.html#sthash.ffPGaczq.dpuf
A
species of earthworm called dendrobaena octaedra is predicted to expand
its territory from three per cent of the boreal forest in northeastern
Alberta to 39 per cent by 2056. - See more at:
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Earthworm+invasion+Study+forecasts+rise+worms+northern+boreal+forest/11027216/story.html#sthash.ffPGaczq.dpuf
A
species of earthworm called dendrobaena octaedra is predicted to expand
its territory from three per cent of the boreal forest in northeastern
Alberta to 39 per cent by 2056. - See more at:
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Earthworm+invasion+Study+forecasts+rise+worms+northern+boreal+forest/11027216/story.html#sthash.ffPGaczq.dpuf
THE EARTHWORM https://prezi.com/gpj9svje4i3h/untitled-prezi/# Related:
Giant, 10-foot earthworm found[image]
Monday, May 4, 2015
Ottawa to pay Nunavut more than $250 million in land- claim lawsuit settlement
The Canadian Press:
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Ottawa is to pay an Inuit
land-claim group more than $250 million to settle a long-standing
lawsuit and improve training for Inuit to enter the territorial civil
service.
The payment is included in a previously
announced deal for more than $300 million that ends a nine-year-old
claim against the federal government by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the
group that oversees the Nunavut land claim.
"There's
a lot of interest in the Arctic now and we have a large, untrained
Inuit work force," Cathy Towtongie, NTI president, said Monday. "We have
to deal with that situation now."
The land claim
guaranteed that Inuit would hold the same percentage of jobs in the
territorial government that they do in the general population — about 85
per cent. But they have never held close to that number. The level has
been stuck at about 50 per cent for years.
A
conciliator's report concluded in 2005 that the reason has been Ottawa's
consistent underfunding of education in the territory. Retired justice
Thomas Berger found that underfunding has resulted in graduates that are
literate in neither English nor Inuktitut. He recommended a bilingual
education program paid for through an extra $20 million a year from the
federal government.
NTI filed its lawsuit,
claiming $1 billion in damages, after the report's release. That was
based on wages the group said the Inuit could have earned from their
share of government jobs if they'd been educated well enough to fill
them.
About $175 million of the settlement is to
go into a fund to provide Inuit with necessary job skills. That money is
to be controlled by NTI and the territorial government.
It
could fund a repeat of a program to train Inuit lawyers, said
Towtongie. It could also fund programs in the trades or in skills such
as accounting. The federal government is to pay for a labour market
analysis on what kind of training is needed.
The fund is not to be used to upgrade Nunavut's overall education system.
"The
hope is that this $175 million can be used to supplement some things in
the education system, but it's not intended to replace the (territorial
government's) obligation," Towtongie said.
The
Nunavut government is separately pursuing more federal money to upgrade
education and make it more bilingual, said education deputy minister Joe
Kunuk.
Kunuk said the territory is already
implementing some measures to improve education in Inuktitut, such as
standardizing curriculum and moving toward making the written language
consistent.
Another $80 million is to go into a
trust fund administered by NTI. It is to be used to fund anything from
business development to social programs such as suicide prevention.
Ottawa
has also promised another $50 million over eight years to fund further
training programs. The agreement also includes promises of higher
funding for wildlife management and planning organizations.
— By Bob Weber in Edmonton. Follow him on Twitter at @row1960.http://www.cfra.com/NationalCP/Article.aspx?id=463958
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Holocaust survivors to speak in Saskatoon - The StarPhoenix
By Kendall Latimer, The StarPhoenix
The anniversary is dark. It’s estimated 11 million people — including 1.1 million children and six million Jews, were killed.
The number of remaining Holocaust survivors shrinks with each passing year. Firsthand accounts are dwindling, noted Simonne Horwitz, a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan history department.
“The stories will never be as powerful as they are when shared by someone who lived through it,” Horwitz said.
Salley Wasserman was a hidden child in Poland. She was four years old when a couple named Mr. and Mrs. Turkin harboured her. Wasserman, who was liberated after seven years, will be the feature speaker at Saskatoon’s Holocaust Memorial on Sunday...Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Holocaust+survivors+speak+Saskatoon/11022097/story.html
In this Jan. 26, 2015 file picture a person walks near the entrance to the former Nazi Death Camp complex of Auschwitz.
Photograph by: Alik Keplicz , Associated Press
It’s been seventy years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the German Nazi extermination and concentration camp complex.The anniversary is dark. It’s estimated 11 million people — including 1.1 million children and six million Jews, were killed.
The number of remaining Holocaust survivors shrinks with each passing year. Firsthand accounts are dwindling, noted Simonne Horwitz, a faculty member at the University of Saskatchewan history department.
“The stories will never be as powerful as they are when shared by someone who lived through it,” Horwitz said.
Salley Wasserman was a hidden child in Poland. She was four years old when a couple named Mr. and Mrs. Turkin harboured her. Wasserman, who was liberated after seven years, will be the feature speaker at Saskatoon’s Holocaust Memorial on Sunday...Read more: http://www.thestarphoenix.com/life/Holocaust+survivors+speak+Saskatoon/11022097/story.html
Stunning Photos from a Rather Dangerous Photoshoot in Russia (16 pics)
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