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  Liquid water found on Mars!!!

  by The Chuckler in

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  according to this nasa sponsored website, liquid water has been found mars - photographic evidence here : .

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  http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

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  http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

  
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  WT Cover up regarding Child Abuse - Canada

  by Uzzah in

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  the attorney general of saskatchewan .

  1. no search warrant can be issued with regards to documents that are known to be protected by solicitor-client privilege.

  (3) as to the issue of whether documents are "known" to be protected by solicitor-client privilege, there is now a presumption that lawyer's bills of account are prima facie privileged.

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  BTTT as I think it is an important case.
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  Email to Quotes (WT?) from a self-described PEDO!!!

  by Quotes in

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  ok gang, i have received the following email.

  originally sent march 15, then again on the march 16 and yet again on march 17 (with only the email subject line changed).. .

  is this a joke?

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  Q:

  Go to your friend in the OPP. He should at least direct you to someone.

  hawk
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  WT Cover up regarding Child Abuse - Canada

  by Uzzah in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the attorney general of saskatchewan .

  1. no search warrant can be issued with regards to documents that are known to be protected by solicitor-client privilege.

  (3) as to the issue of whether documents are "known" to be protected by solicitor-client privilege, there is now a presumption that lawyer's bills of account are prima facie privileged.

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  BTTT
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  WT Cover up regarding Child Abuse - Canada

  by Uzzah in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the attorney general of saskatchewan .

  1. no search warrant can be issued with regards to documents that are known to be protected by solicitor-client privilege.

  (3) as to the issue of whether documents are "known" to be protected by solicitor-client privilege, there is now a presumption that lawyer's bills of account are prima facie privileged.

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  BTTT
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  WT Cover up regarding Child Abuse - Canada

  by Uzzah in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the attorney general of saskatchewan .

  1. no search warrant can be issued with regards to documents that are known to be protected by solicitor-client privilege.

  (3) as to the issue of whether documents are "known" to be protected by solicitor-client privilege, there is now a presumption that lawyer's bills of account are prima facie privileged.

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  [24] As to the assertion of religious privilege, there are issues to be considered under the principle approach and case-by-case analysis approved by the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Gruenke, [1991] 3 S.C.R. 263, as interpreted in R. v. C.T.C., [1996] O.J. No. 2131 (Prov. Ct.) (QL) and in R. v. J.J.P. (2000), 196 Nfld. & P.E.I.R. 142 (Nfld. S.C.) [the latter cases both dealing with the issues of religious or ecclesiastical privilege as it pertains to the Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses].

  I actually know His Honour Masse who made the famed Ruling in R. v. C.T.C. in 1996. He now sits in Criminal - Ontario Court of Justice in Kingston but at the time was holding court in Brockville. We had quite the frank coversation about his decision - interesting guy and of course he was very interested to here about and watched the CBC Fifth Estate show back in January 2003. Of course I have posted and sent R, v. C.T.C and R. v. J.P.P to other counsel over the years. For the record, in both cases the elders did not have any sort of religious privilege .... take that David!

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  WT Cover up regarding Child Abuse - Canada

  by Uzzah in

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  2. child-abuse

  the attorney general of saskatchewan .

  1. no search warrant can be issued with regards to documents that are known to be protected by solicitor-client privilege.

  (3) as to the issue of whether documents are "known" to be protected by solicitor-client privilege, there is now a presumption that lawyer's bills of account are prima facie privileged.

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  The URL is here:
  

  Click here:

  http://www.lawsociety.sk.ca/newlook/Library/fulltextnew.htm

  In the Access Number line, Type in the Code: QB04489

  Then use your mouse and click on "Submit Query". A new web page will show up.

  Then click on the url that states "KILBREATH V. SASKATCHEWAN (ATTORNEY GENERAL)"

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  WT Cover up regarding Child Abuse - Canada

  by Uzzah in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the attorney general of saskatchewan .

  1. no search warrant can be issued with regards to documents that are known to be protected by solicitor-client privilege.

  (3) as to the issue of whether documents are "known" to be protected by solicitor-client privilege, there is now a presumption that lawyer's bills of account are prima facie privileged.

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  Uz

  I sent you a PM
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  Oldest Fossil Protein Sequenced

  by hawkaw in

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  pretty interesting article in how we are now able to get this old protein from the 74,000 year old skull and how we will be able to use this process to determine links including humans with those that are extinct.

  it also says that we (and neanderthals, as well as chimps and orangutans) gained the ability to form the protein by using an alternate amino acid which does not require the presence of vitamin c. this gave us an advantage (not a loss) because shortages of vitamin c are often a dietary problem for primates in general, and evolving an independence from vitamin c requirements is an evolutionary advantage.

  (note: you will have to copy the entire two line url and bring them together properly inorder to link to the web article).

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  Pretty interesting article in how we are now able to get this old protein from the 74,000 year old skull and how we will be able to use this process to determine links including humans with those that are extinct. It also says that we (and Neanderthals, as well as chimps and orangutans) gained the ability to form the protein by using an alternate amino acid which does not require the presence of Vitamin C. This gave us an advantage (not a loss) because shortages of Vitamin C are often a dietary problem for primates in general, and evolving an independence from Vitamin C requirements is an evolutionary advantage. (Note: you will have to copy the entire two line url and bring them together properly inorder to link to the web article)
  

  http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/ pressReleases/2005/pressRelease20050308/index.html

  Oldest Fossil Protein Sequenced

  Protein sequence from Neanderthal extracted and sequenced

  An international team, led by researchers at the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, have extracted and sequenced protein from a Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave, Iraq dating to approximately 75,000 years old. It is rare to recover protein of this age, and remarkable to be able to determine the constituent amino acid sequence. This is the oldest fossil protein ever sequenced. Protein sequences may be used in a similar way to DNA, to provide information on the genetic relationships between extinct and living species. As ancient DNA rarely survives, this new method opens up the possibility of determining these relationships in much older fossils which no longer contain DNA (PNAS Online Early Edition, March 8, 2005).

  Fig.: The skull of the 75,000 year old Neanderthal from the Shanidar cave in Iraq.

  Image: Erik Trinkaus

  The research, published in PNAS, presents the sequence for the bone protein osteocalcin from a Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave, Iraq, as well as osteocalcin sequences from living primates (humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans). The team found that the Neanderthal sequence was the same as modern humans. In addition, the team found a marked difference in the sequences of Neanderthals, human, chimpanzee and orangutan from that of gorillas, and most other mammals. This sequence difference is at position nine, where the crystalline amino acid hydroxyproline is replaced by proline (an amino acid that is found in many proteins). The authors suggest that this is a dietary response, as the formation of hydroxyproline requires vitamin C, which is ample in the diets of herbivores like gorillas, but may be absent from the diets of the omnivorous primates such as humans and Neanderthals, orangutans and chimpanzees. Therefore, the ability to form proteins without the presence of vitamin C may have been an advantage to these primates if this nutrient was missing from the diets regularly, or from time to time.
  
  This research opens up the exciting possibility of extracting and sequencing protein from other fossils, including earlier humans, as a means of determining the relationships between extinct and living species, and to better understand the phylogenetic relationships.

  [SJ]

  Original work:
  
  Christina M. Nielsen-Marsh, Michael P. Richards, Peter V. Hauschka, Jane E. Thomas-Oates, Erik Trinkaus, Paul B. Pettitt, Ivor Karavanic, Hendrik Poinar, and Matthew J. Collins
  Osteocalcin protein sequences of Neanderthals and modern primates
  PNAS published March 7, 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0500450102
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  Archaeologists in Ethiopia discover 12 fossils around 4 million years old

  by hawkaw in

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  http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsarticle.jhtml?type=sciencenews&storyid=7815576&section=news&src=rss/uk/sciencenews

  ethiopia archaeologists make important fossil find sat mar 5, 2005 12:03 pm gmt

  addis ababa (reuters) - archaeologists studying human origins in eastern ethiopia have discovered 12 fossils that appear to be older than the famous fossil "lucy," the team leader said on saturday.

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  In adding to what Alan F. just said to OldSoul, this is what I said previously wrt to laws and theories in science: The terms "hypothesis", "model", "theory" and "law" have different meanings in science than in colloquial speech. Scientists use the term model to mean a description of something, specifically one which can be used to make predictions which can be tested by experiment or observation. A hypothesis is a contention that has not (yet) been either well supported nor ruled out by experiment. A physical law or a law of nature is a scientific generalization based on empirical observations.

  Most non-scientists are unaware that what scientists call "theories" are what most people call "facts". The general public uses the word theory to refer to ideas that have no firm proof or support; in contrast, scientists usually use this word to refer only to ideas that have repeatedly withstood testing. Thus, when scientists refer to the theories of biological evolution, electromagnetism, and relativity, they are referring to ideas that have survived considerable experimental testing. But there are exceptions, such as string theory, which seems to be a promising model but as yet has no empirical evidence to give it precedence over competing models.

  Especially fruitful theories that have withstood the test of time are considered to be "proven" in the scientific sense ? that it is true and factual but of course can still be falsified. This includes many theories, such as universally accepted ones such as heliocentric theory and controversial ones such as evolution, which are backed by many observations and experimental data. Theories are always open to revision if new evidence is provided or directly contradicts predictions or other evidence. As scientists do not claim absolute knowledge, even the most basic and fundamental theories may turn out to be incorrect if new data and observations contradict older ones.

  Newton's law of gravitation is a famous example of a law falsified by experiments regarding motions at high speeds and in close proximity to strong gravitational fields. Outside of those conditions, Newton's Laws remain excellent accounts of motion and gravity. Because general relativity accounts for all of the phenomena that Newton's Laws do, and more, general relativity is currently regarded as our best account of gravitation.

  The above was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method "OldSoul", I would urge you to remember the above-noted information on laws and theories in science and not try to get yourself twisted around. You have to buy a ticket before you can come into the party. You might want to learn the above-noted terms that I have provided (and have been correctly noted by Alan) and you might want to figure out how science works before moving forward in your conversation. With respect to decay rates, Alan is quite correct. The only thing I would add is that when we use the technique to date, we use particular isotopes for the partcular environment, we will also use more than one isotope to ensure we can confirm/verify our original measurement and we will ensure the environment is not contaminated (much like Alan has alluded too). We also determine the degree of accuracy in our measurements by providing an error reading - much like how one would have a degree of accuracy of plus or minus 1/32 of an inch on a typical American tape measure. It is a very particular science and accurate - we have been measuring decay rates of uranium for more than a hundred years now - results are as predicted. Here a very good read on dating with even a Christian slant on the subject: http://www.asa3.org/ASA/resources/Wiens.html I again urge you, OldSoul, to not close your mind but actually read the above-noted article amd learn the technique of radionuclide dating. hawk