--10,000-year-old mammoth found in Siberia--2007--

4-foot gray-and-brown baby could help in climate change studies

updated 8:40 a.m. ET July 12, 2007

MOSCOW - The well-preserved carcass of a 10,000-year-old baby mammoth has been unearthed in the northern Siberian permafrost, a discovery scientists said could help in climate change studies.

The 4-foot gray-and-brown carcass, discovered in May by a reindeer herder in the Yamal-Nenets region, has its trunk and eyes virtually intact and even some fur remaining, said Alexei Tikhonov, deputy director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Zoological Institute.
The animal’s tail and ear were apparently bitten off, he said.

“The mammoth is an animal that you look at, and you see that there is an entire epoch behind it, a huge time period when climate was changing,” he said in comments broadcast last week.
“And of course when we talk about climate change, we must use the knowledge that we will get from them (mammoths).”

Scientists believe mammoths lived from 4.8 million years ago to around 4,000 years ago. Studies suggest climate change or overkill by human hunters as possible reasons leading to their extinction.

Tikhonov said the mammoth would be sent to an institute in Japan for further study.

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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19725653/

~http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070711-mammoth-picture.html

~http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288975,00.html

~http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6284214.stm

~http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-07-11-baby-mammoth-carcass_N.htm

--DENIAL--

Denial is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.

The subject may deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether (simple denial), admit the fact but deny its seriousness (minimisation) or admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility (transference).

The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality.

Where denial occurs in mature minds, it is most often associated with death, dying and rape. More recent research has significantly expanded the scope and utility of the concept. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross used denial as the first of five stages in the psychology of a dying patient, and the idea has been extended to include the reactions of survivors to news of a death.

Thus, when parents are informed of the death of a child, their first reaction is often of the form,
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"No! You must have the wrong house, you can't mean our child!"

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial
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~http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/denial
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~http://www.minddisorders.com/Del-Fi/Denial.html

--HUMMER--LIKE NOTHING ELSE--

HUMMER -- "LIKE NOTHING ELSE"

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~http://www.hummer.com/#/AMERICAS/us/en-us/

--Chicken a la Carte by Ferdinand Dimadura--

Hunger Facts: International

World Hunger and Poverty: How They Fit Together

• 963 million people across the world are hungry.
• Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.
• In essence, hunger is the most extreme form of poverty, where individuals or families cannot afford to meet their most basic need for food.
• Hunger manifests itself in many ways other than starvation and famine. Most poor people who battle hunger deal with chronic undernourishment and vitamin or mineral deficiencies, which result in stunted growth, weakness and heightened susceptibility to illness.
• Countries in which a large portion of the population battles hunger daily are usually poor and often lack the social safety nets we enjoy, such as soup kitchens, food stamps, and job training programs. When a family that lives in a poor country cannot grow enough food or earn enough money to buy food, there is nowhere to turn for help.

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~http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html

--HAPPY BIRTHDAY...Sis--

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS

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A VERY WONDERFUL DEAR AND TALENTED FRIEND IS WHAT SHE IS.

SHE IS ALWAYS THINKING OF WAYS TO CHEER AND TO PLEASE;

THERE IS NOT A GIFT BIG ENOUGH OR GOOD ENOUGH THAT WE CAN SEND

TO CELEBRATE HOW MUCH SHE MEANS TO US, SHE IS MORE THAN JUST A FRIEND.

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SHE HAS THIS MARVELOUS WAY OF PUTTING DOWN IN VERSE, WHAT SHE FEELS, HOW BEAUTIFUL LIFE IS AND ABOUT HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS WHO MAKE IT REAL....

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sis.....

--My AH KONG--Grand Dad--

一双赤裸的手和脚

支撑着你的骨头

时常不忘

给自己打气加油.....

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~http://www.8dou.net/html/article_show_42196.shtml

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~http://www.douban.com/subject/1294434/

--Another Sick and Tired Sunday in Phnom Penh. Cambodia--

I’ve just woke up for a new day..
Do I have hopes?
Do I thinks that it’s gonna be a good day?
No.. No, I don’t…
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So why did I wake up?
I don’t know..
Isn’t it tedious?
I am sick and tired,
From always being sick and tired..
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The sun is shining..
Let the sunshine in..
But no..
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I can’t see it anyway…...
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But... Not Giving any hope to see it......