Saturday, February 10, 2018

Other than Romeo needing a make over...

...first cloning to provide a mate. Frogs are remarkably adaptable, but, once the cloning has gone well, try another clone only introduce a female gene. It is Romeo's only chance for love and genetic engineering is the way to go. A gentle scraping of his skin should commence as soon as possible. The effort needs to be connected to a lab with marine experience, such as FIT or better yet, UNCW. 

Romeo needs a "Go Fund Me" site, too. Good luck.

February 10, 2018
By Zoe Schlanger

There’s a chance a frog (click here) who lives in a tank in a Bolivian museum is the last of his species. But he reportedly hasn’t given up hope, if one can ascribe hope to a frog. The male Sehuencas water frog continues to make mating calls from within his confinement at Bolivia’s Cochabamba Natural History Museum.

Conservation biologists haven’t given up hope either. They tend to hate watching species they study go extinct. So a group of local scientists have named him Romeo and created a dating profile for the frog on website Match.com, in hopes of endearing him and his plight to the masses.

“Not to start this off super heavy or anything, but I’m literally the last of my species,” the profile reads.

Match.com is matching donations to fund the effort to scour habitats for Romeo’s mate through Valentine’s day, February 14, 2018....

Perhaps if Mr. Batory took his desk at the Federal Railroad Administration, he could provide insight to the recent accidents with our railroads..

He seems eminently qualified. He also seems like a nice man. Given the issues facing the country in our country's capital, a nice man could actually take precedence over one that isn't. He probably doesn't need an extensive FBI assessment.

July 11, 2017
Written by  William C. Vantuono

The White House on July 11 (click here) announced that President Donald Trump has nominated Ronald L. Batory, who recently retired as President and Chief Operating Officer of Conrail, as the next Federal Railroad Administrator.

Batory retired March 31 as President and COO of Conrail, following a 46-year rail operating career that included the presidency of the Belt Railway of Chicago and senior positions at Class I and regional railroads, including general manager in Chicago for Southern Pacific. He earned a bachelor’s in business from Adrian College and a master of arts from Eastern Michigan University....

Addictions of any kind effect quality of life, money addition is no different.

When most people think of money addiction, (click here) an image of a gambling addict may come to mind, or someone who loves to flash their new designer outfit or their fancy car du jour.

It’s easy to spot these obvious manifestations. But the real trick is noticing the hidden signs—the ones that your friends, family, and maybe even you express.

The truth is, money addiction is at the root of under earning, overworking, compulsive shopping and spending, and even excessive saving....

Hidden Sign #1: Living in Denial

Hidden Sign #2: Money Secrecy & Shame

Hidden Sign #3: Money Obsession

Hidden Sign #4: Lack of Money Control

Hidden Sign #5: Inability to Change Money Behavior Despite Negative Consequences

In the case of the Trump White House, realizing denial is the first step.

February 8, 2018
By Jennifer Hansfer

Washington - Environmental Protection Agency (click here) Administrator Scott Pruitt suggested Tuesday that climate change could benefit humans, despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

In an interview with KSNV in Las Vegas, Pruitt conceded that climate change is a reality and humans have contribued to it "to a certain degree." However, the EPA administrator cast doubt on its negative long-term implications.

"Is it an existential threat? Is it something that is unsustainable, or what kind of effect or harm is this going to have  I mean we know that humans have most flouished during times of what? Warming trends," Pruitt said. "I think there's assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that necessarily is a bad thing. Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100? In the year 2018: I mean it's fairly arrogant for us to thing that we know exactly what it should be in 2100."....

Does Pruitt know or care about what human body temperature is and what it can tolerate? The guy is stupid. His addiction to oily money is overwhelming any other thought. He has no empathy at all for future generations and can only see the immediate future of his bankrolls.

This is not leadership, this is evil. Recognize it. This is evil. There is absolutely no morality within this administration and they seized power for the purpose of greed. 

THIS IS EVIL!  Scott Pruitt is evil!  Why is the world turning away from the USA? Because it has placed in power some of the most evil people currently alive!

We are actually further along than the dawn of the sixth extinction. There is no old ice in the Arctic Ocean and hasn't been for years now and the new ice is becoming so thin it doesn't matter anymore.

February 6, 2018
By Ben Newman

...We are in the dawn of the 6th mass extinction, (click here) and this time– we are the asteroid.

The background extinction rate means that even when life is going relatively well, without any large fluxes in atmospheric or geologic cycles, there’s a normal rate of extinction. Among groups such as mammals, for instance, we’d expect to see one species go extinct every 200 years, or amongst a more ancient phyla –such as amphibians– we’d expect to see one go extinct every thousand years. Studies of current extinction rates say we’re roughly one thousand times past that in mammals, and in some groups, like amphibians, they are disappearing roughly thirty thousand to forty-five thousand times faster than their normal background extinction rate.

But how do we know we’re to blame? Well, around 13,000 years ago, as Earth thawed from its most recent big freeze, almost every species of megafauna: the wooly mammoth, smilodon and megatherium disappeared from the Earth, thanks to a changing climate and the mass expansion of humans, who had relatively recently invented hunting tools. Along the way, through hunting and farming, humans have been altering ecosystems in small but significant ways.

Furthermore, according to a 2014 paper by Stuart Pimm in “Science,” the main cause of the commencing extinction is human population growth and increased consumption. But these two things lead to a whole host of other problems: the most obvious of these are climate change and habitat destruction. Scientists have found that most land species have relatively very small ranges — such as the Iriomote cat, for instance — and thus, can’t move with ease and find “greener pastures” when we cut down their forest or turn it into a desert....