tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76301514337125400262024-02-18T23:15:05.123-06:00News In FocusThis is where we Focus in On The News through the Lens of Scripture!
1 Thessalonians 5:21
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good;
Examine is taken from the Greek word: Dokimazo which means: to test, examine, prove, scrutinise (to see whether a thing is genuine or not), as metals to recognise as genuine after examination, to approve, deem worthyTrevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.comBlogger956125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-51260450148512089762013-01-19T15:58:00.001-06:002013-01-19T15:58:29.195-06:00 Politician Almost Assassinated<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GW_lo4C2eoo" width="560"></iframe><br />Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-5055644702995394932013-01-19T10:23:00.000-06:002013-01-19T10:23:01.377-06:00Gay Marriage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This year the Supreme Court will hear two important cases dealing with Gay marriage. The decision made by the court could have a profound impact in Gay marriage becoming legal throughout the United States. Here is a News in Focus Program about this:<br />
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A recent report stated that sixty percent of high school and college students say they plan on owning guns at a later stage in life, an academic study from American University revealed on Monday. You can read the entire article at this link:<a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4576" target="_blank">Guns</a><br />
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Today on the campus of the University of New Mexico, Priscilla Del Aguila interviewed students about this subject. You can hear her interviews on the recent edition of the News in Focus Program. Here is the program:<br />
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Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-71475808000993109862010-05-18T10:31:00.000-05:002010-05-18T10:33:05.597-05:00A New Clue to Explain ExistencePhysicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are reporting that they have discovered a new clue that could help unravel one of the biggest mysteries of cosmology: why the universe is composed of matter and not its evil-twin opposite, antimatter. If confirmed, the finding portends fundamental discoveries at the new Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, as well as a possible explanation for our own existence. <br /><br /><br />In a mathematically perfect universe, we would be less than dead; we would never have existed. According to the basic precepts of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created in the Big Bang and then immediately annihilated each other in a blaze of lethal energy, leaving a big fat goose egg with which to make stars, galaxies and us. And yet we exist, and physicists (among others) would dearly like to know why.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/science/space/18cosmos.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/science/space/18cosmos.html</a>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-15972038654902056312010-05-18T10:21:00.001-05:002010-05-18T10:21:43.009-05:00When The Church Becomes A Joke<table style='font:11px arial; color:#333; background-color:#f5f5f5' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='360' height='353'><tbody><tr style='background-color:#e5e5e5' valign='middle'><td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com'>The Daily Show With Jon Stewart</a></td><td style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align:right; font-weight:bold;'>Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c</td></tr><tr style='height:14px;' valign='middle'><td style='padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;' colspan='2'><a target='_blank' style='color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-may-11-2010/god-smacked'>God Smacked</a></td></tr><tr style='height:14px; background-color:#353535' valign='middle'><td colspan='2' style='padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; width:360px; overflow:hidden; text-align:right'><a target='_blank' style='color:#96deff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/'>www.thedailyshow.com</a></td></tr><tr valign='middle'><td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'><embed style='display:block' src='http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:309140' width='360' height='301' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='window' allowFullscreen='true' flashvars='autoPlay=false' allowscriptaccess='always' allownetworking='all' bgcolor='#000000'></embed></td></tr><tr style='height:18px;' valign='middle'><td style='padding:0px;' colspan='2'><table style='margin:0px; text-align:center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' width='100%' height='100%'><tr valign='middle'><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/'>Daily Show Full Episodes</a></td><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.indecisionforever.com'>Political Humor</a></td><td style='padding:3px; width:33%;'><a target='_blank' style='font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;' href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/videos/tag/Tea+Party'>Tea Party</a></td></tr></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-89076500284162460092010-02-15T12:25:00.001-06:002010-02-15T12:25:47.793-06:00<img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bHQ9MTI2NjI1ODMwNDEwOSZwdD*xMjY2MjU4MzQyOTIxJnA9MTM2ODIxJmQ9Jm49YmxvZ2dlciZnPTEmbz*1NGU4ZTU4MGI5YmI*/MmViODA1NWNkNDFjODRjZjQ4MyZvZj*w.gif" /><embed src="http://sermon.net/swf/ma.swf" quality="high" width="290" height="65" name="mpp" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="poid=2345669&d=http://www.sermon.net/" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-36924582683704259752010-02-15T11:51:00.001-06:002010-02-15T11:51:35.685-06:00<img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bHQ9MTI2NjI1NjI1MTc4MSZwdD*xMjY2MjU2MjkwNTE1JnA9MTM2ODIxJmQ9Jm49YmxvZ2dlciZnPTEmbz*1NGU4ZTU4MGI5YmI*/MmViODA1NWNkNDFjODRjZjQ4MyZvZj*w.gif" /><embed src="http://sermon.net/swf/ma.swf" quality="high" width="290" height="65" name="mpp" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="poid=2345644&d=http://www.sermon.net/" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-21279828872130547372010-02-13T22:12:00.002-06:002010-02-13T22:19:52.337-06:00Dr.Ergun CanerI have been investigating a claim that is swirling around the internet and I need some help. If you are interested let me know your thoughts on the following:<br /><br />Ergun Mehmet Caner (B.A., M.A., M.Div., Th.M., Th.D.) is president of the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and Graduate School at the Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.<br /><br />He claims to have been a devout Muslim who converted to Christianity. He has written books on Islam that are used in some seminaries. The claim is being made now that he is a fraud and a liar.<br /><br /><br />Here is an open letter to Ergun that is posted on the internet: <a href="http://mmmirele.blogspot.com/2009/08/open-letter-to-ergun-caner.html">Caner</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />There is a ten part video series that has been put together that attempts to document his fraud.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRDyOaCJ3t0">Part One</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hevXbVrEsvc">Part two </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-MIZdCKLoQ">Part three </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWFk66jgmAI">Part four</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRxRdIBsLIk">Part five</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlLhKHicupQ">Part six</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45oHtODuyKs">Part seven</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71MCQhqbQ8"><br />Part eight</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uZvMX68QPg">Part nine</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f611LjTqNsg">Part ten</a><br /><br /><br />What should we do?Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-76870418697632052512010-02-05T12:06:00.001-06:002010-02-05T12:06:52.794-06:00Vaccines and Autism<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/js/pap/embed.js?news01n3a62qdbe"></script>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-16078347778005642372010-01-28T16:34:00.000-06:002010-01-28T16:34:16.053-06:00The State of the Nation: I am afraid<a href="http://www.augustforecast.com/2010/01/27/the-state-of-the-nation/">The State of the Nation: I am afraid</a>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-11637839242131507542010-01-27T16:50:00.003-06:002010-01-27T16:52:56.824-06:00A Ouija Board Just For Her<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5m0wUjU_gGjIq50ktMpH7XABpuDYVlhwAUUABgqKyhZBy3KBVa3jCBue84ycG6rHywpxdkegJTOtGW5XmmyKR5aCI7gEOhY-sGdV0YGQlgpVLHYjkqfmeFY8OkcJNDOQKEbm88WYdhVo/s1600-h/ouija-board-for-her.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 306px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5m0wUjU_gGjIq50ktMpH7XABpuDYVlhwAUUABgqKyhZBy3KBVa3jCBue84ycG6rHywpxdkegJTOtGW5XmmyKR5aCI7gEOhY-sGdV0YGQlgpVLHYjkqfmeFY8OkcJNDOQKEbm88WYdhVo/s400/ouija-board-for-her.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431555919785681906" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> It has always been mysterious. It has always been mystifying. And now the OUIJA Board is just for you, girl. With 72 fun questions included, you'll never run out of things to ask. Who will call/text me next? Will I be a famous actor someday? Who wishes they could trade places with me? Gather your friends around, draw a card, place your fingers on the planchette and ask your question. Concentrate very hard and watch as the answer is revealed in the message window. Make up your own questions, and let the OUIJA Board satisfy your curiosity in virtually endless ways. OUIJA Board will answer. It's just a game - or is it?<br /><br />You can check out the game at this link: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3107661">Toys R Us</a>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-15609057518483629182010-01-26T19:50:00.001-06:002010-01-26T19:50:58.128-06:00Alien Life May Be on Earth: Scientist : Discovery News<a href=http://news.discovery.com/space/alien-life-microbes-earth.html>Alien Life May Be on Earth: Scientist : Discovery News</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-60114236480757658422010-01-25T20:40:00.000-06:002010-01-25T20:41:34.602-06:00Sin and Temptation<!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=TRUE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=12510717523"></SCRIPT> <!--End SermonAudio Link Button--><br /><br /><br /><br /><!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=TRUE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=12510726474"></SCRIPT> <!--End SermonAudio Link Button-->Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-87289493312437649932010-01-21T21:44:00.000-06:002010-01-21T21:46:10.957-06:00Egyptian cat god's 2,200-year-old temple unearthed in AlexandriaA 2,200-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat god Bastet has been unearthed in Alexandria, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said today.<br /><br />The ruins of the Ptolemaic-era building were discovered by Egyptian archaeologists in the port city founded by Alexander the Great around 331BC. Alexandria was the seat of the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled Egypt for 300 years until the suicide of Queen Cleopatra.<br /><br />The council's statement said the temple was thought to belong to Queen Berenice II, wife of Ptolemy III who ruled between 246BC–222BC.<br /><br />Mohammed Abdel-Maqsood, the Egyptian archaeologist who led the excavation team, said the discovery may be the first trace of the long-sought location of Alexandria's royal quarter.<br /><br />The large number of statues depicting Bastet found in the ruins, he said, suggested that this may be the first Ptolemaic-era temple dedicated to the cat god to be discovered in Alexandria. This would indicate that the worship of the ancient Egyptian cat-god continued during the later, Greek-influenced, Ptolemaic period<br /><br />Statues of other ancient Egyptian deities were also found in the ruins, he added.<br /><br />Zahi Hawass, Egypt's chief archaeologist, said the temple may have been used in later times as a quarry as evidenced by the large number of missing stone blocks.<br /><br />The temple was found in the Kom el-Dekka area near the modern city's main train station and home to a Roman-era amphitheatre and well-preserved mosaics.<br /><br />You can see a picture and read the original story at this link: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/19/egypt-cat-god-temple-bastet">Cat</a>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-8034953346995067702010-01-20T13:15:00.001-06:002010-01-20T13:15:30.868-06:00Perry Noble Exegetes the Book of Maps<a href=http://www.fightingforthefaith.com/2010/01/perry-noble-exegetes-the-book-of-maps.html>Perry Noble Exegetes the Book of Maps</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-71315486112046230162010-01-19T16:32:00.000-06:002010-01-19T16:33:34.821-06:00Atheists Set Up 'Religion-Free' Fund for Haiti ReliefFamed New Atheist Richard Dawkins has opened up a "religion-free" way of helping the victims of the deadly earthquake in Haiti.<br /><br />Dawkins has joined 13 other groups to create the Non-Believers Giving Aid. Donors are told that when they give they are "helping to counter the scandalous myth that only the religious care about their fellow-humans."<br /><br />"[W]e do not hide behind the notion that earthly suffering will be rewarded in a heavenly paradise, nor do we expect a heavenly reward for our generosity: the understanding that this is the only life any of us have makes the need to alleviate suffering even more urgent," the atheist and freethought groups say.<br /><br />The Non-Believers Giving Aid was set up in response to the devastation from Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude quake that left more than three million people in need of aid. Current estimates place the death toll between 50,000 to 100,000 people.<br /><br />The atheists' appeal comes amid an increasing number of ad campaigns, books and debates touting morality or goodness without God.<br /><br />The New Atheists, who are more outspoken than previous humanists and non-theists and endeavor to make belief in God socially unacceptable, have widely put out writings and oral arguments making the case that one can live a good moral life and know right from wrong without God.<br /><br />Creating a fund for Haiti victims is just one several ways they are demonstrating their point.<br /><br />"Non-Believers Giving Aid is not a church (that’s putting it mildly) but it does provide an easy conduit for the non-religious to help those in desperate need, whilst simultaneously giving the lie to the canard that you need God to be good," the groups behind the fund maintain.<br /><br />Though adamant in their argument, New Atheists have provided no objective foundation for their belief, says Chad Meister, director of philosophy at Bethel College and contributor to God is Great, God is Good: Why Believing in God is Reasonable and Responsible.<br /><br />"No one is arguing that atheists cannot utter ethical statements or live good, moral lives. Of course they can," Meister writes in God is Great. "Believing that something is right or wrong and justifying one's belief that something is right or wrong are two very different matters."<br /><br />He argues that the New Atheists confuse an epistemic (knowledge) issue with an ontological (foundational existence) one, or in other words, they believe in morality without justifying morality.<br /><br />Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, has argued that moral action is rooted in biological evolution.<br /><br />"On Dawkins's schema, one is kind to his neighbor because he's been preprogrammed by his genes to do so (at least some individuals have been so preprogrammed; others perhaps not), and he's been so programmed because acting this way confers evolutionary advantage," Meister summarizes. "It's not that it is a universally binding moral value to be kind. We simply call it 'morally good' because our genes have, through eons of evolutionary struggle, gotten us to believe that it is so."<br /><br />Meister goes on to note that he has several friends who adopted children and he doesn't suspect they would agree with Dawkins's explanation for why they did so.<br /><br />"In order to have a consistent and reasonable objective moral stand – a moral view in which you can substantiate a claim that this is right and that is wrong, this is good and that is evil – you need to have an objective moral basis," Meister argues. "I don't see how one can have an objective lawgiver with anything other than a transcendent God. Surely from the physical perturbations of the big bang, moral values didn't spew forth.<br /><br />"And indeed nothing in biological evolution ... is capable of providing the foundation necessary to ground unconditionally binding moral values" such as compassion, dignity and respect.<br /><br />The Non-Believers Giving Aid participants include Atheist Alliance International, Atheists Helping the Homeless, Atheists United, The British Humanist Association, and The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, among others. Dawkins has vowed to cover up to $10,000 in PayPal fees so that 100 percent of donations could reach Haitians in need. The groups have chosen to direct donations to two aid organizations "that do not have religious affiliations" – Doctors Without Borders and International Red Cross.<br /><br />Link to the original story:<a href="http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100118/atheist-sets-up-religion-free-fund-for-haiti-relief/index.html"> Atheists</a>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-83652002048143601652010-01-18T20:03:00.003-06:002010-01-18T20:06:14.697-06:00Some 390 tons of U.S. ground beef recalled<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUP2wI4iwAtSHtQP7pSiEgBGP8NCQBEiU_qA7ldqpBIkg0hRWXIk29sh1SlQoBhNlXvZ2QCNOvplaAcqDBrfiAfbuh7oikQS1Rp_EHu68Edut8BOXvm0TIUljHbvR_W4wwQNasuwbjHyk/s1600-h/beef_recall.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 375px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUP2wI4iwAtSHtQP7pSiEgBGP8NCQBEiU_qA7ldqpBIkg0hRWXIk29sh1SlQoBhNlXvZ2QCNOvplaAcqDBrfiAfbuh7oikQS1Rp_EHu68Edut8BOXvm0TIUljHbvR_W4wwQNasuwbjHyk/s400/beef_recall.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428266134872853410" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Some 390 tons of ground beef produced by a California meat packer, some of it nearly two years ago, is being recalled for fear of potentially deadly E. coli bacterium tainting, U.S. officials said on Monday.<br /><br />The beef was produced by Huntington Meat Packing Inc of Montebello, California, and shipped mainly to California outlets, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food safety arm said.<br /><br />An initial problem, in ground beef shipped by the plant from January 5 to January 15, was discovered during a regular safety check, the Food Safety and Inspection Service said.<br /><br />It said it had received no reports of illnesses associated with consumption of the recalled products.<br /><br />During a follow-up review of the company's records, government inspectors determined additional products produced and shipped in 2008 to be of concern because they may have been contaminated with E.coli, the service said in a notice on its web site.<br /><br />This batch was produced from February 19, 2008, to May 15, 2008. It also had been shipped to distribution centers, restaurants and hotels within California, the notice said.<br /><br />"While these products are normally used fresh, the establishment is taking this action out of concern that some product may still be frozen and in commerce," it said.<br /><br />E. coli is a potentially deadly bacterium that can cause kidney failure in the most serious cases.<br /><br />The service said it routinely conducts checks to verify that recalling firms notify customers, including restaurants, of the recall and that steps are taken to make sure the product is no longer available to consumers.<br /><br /><br />Link to the original story: <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100118/ts_nm/us_beef_recall_usa">Recall</a><br /><br /><br />Here is my audio commentary on the story:<br /><br /><!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=TRUE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=118102059332"></SCRIPT> <!--End SermonAudio Link Button-->Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-64286493210425416752010-01-17T21:25:00.000-06:002010-01-17T21:26:39.670-06:00World's Oldest Light Bulb Still BurningA light bulb that dangles above emergency trucks at Fire Station No. 6 in Livermore, California, has been on almost continuously for 109 years. Known as the 'Centennial Light,' it was designed in the 1890s by Adolphe Chailet, a competitor of Thomas Edison, and manufactured by the Shelby Electric Company of Ohio. See the lamp burning live on <a href="http://centennialbulb.org/photos.htm">BulbCam</a>, and read more about it at<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243138/Still-glowing-strong-109-years-worlds-oldest-lightbulb.html"> Mail Online</a>.Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-57182783032937664932010-01-17T21:16:00.000-06:002010-01-17T21:17:14.250-06:00Response to the Haiti Disaster<!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=TRUE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=117101613710"></SCRIPT> <!--End SermonAudio Link Button-->Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-90076193698920579722010-01-17T14:32:00.002-06:002010-01-17T14:35:01.269-06:00The Z Machine could be the answer to the world's energy shortage<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr0zYqv3sGZLVRl1IxM7yQWA4DeIQn4qthhn2TAznDCP5s2DYG2AeL36T-AFqdNRsk5aNU14BvXmHQ5s7L94RMZk2_m1cUnCk8v5GqZNgjc0H687WdxlAL_juVT3-VeIWeMgpgqD9Z2VQ/s1600-h/z.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr0zYqv3sGZLVRl1IxM7yQWA4DeIQn4qthhn2TAznDCP5s2DYG2AeL36T-AFqdNRsk5aNU14BvXmHQ5s7L94RMZk2_m1cUnCk8v5GqZNgjc0H687WdxlAL_juVT3-VeIWeMgpgqD9Z2VQ/s400/z.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427809570300934210" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Z Machine could be the answer to the world's energy shortage, a device that once sparked with a relatively small electrical input can produce 290 terawatts of power. That's equivalent to 80 times the world's total power output. Today that power can only be released in a pulse lasting 70 billionths of a second... but it's a start<br /><br />Based at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, it is used to research thermonuclear reactions - for example, what happens at the heart of a hydrogen bomb detonation. Now it has a more productive application: finding a way to fuse heavy water atoms to create fusion power. Fusion is the Holy Grail of the power industry: cheap, clean, safe and unlimited. The downside is, with current technology, the reaction is difficult to control.<br /><br />When the machine fires, 36 cables - each as thick as a horse's torso - spark simultaneously. The cables fire a pulse of 50 trillion watts into a target the size of a cotton reel. Inside the target is a can filled with wires finer than a human hair. The wires vaporise, creating temperatures as high as 3.5 billion degrees C, the highest ever created by man and an X-ray pulse in excess of 290 terawatts<br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1242869/THE-WIDER-VIEW-Incredible-scenes-inside-fusion-plant.html#ixzz0cu6U5kH1">Z</a>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-69507064138061149712010-01-17T12:55:00.002-06:002010-01-17T14:31:20.539-06:00A Christian View of the Haitian Earthquake<!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=TRUE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=117101040540"></SCRIPT> <!--End SermonAudio Link Button--><br /><br /><br /><!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=TRUE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=113102136360"></SCRIPT> <!--End SermonAudio Link Button--><br /><br /><br /><!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=TRUE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=11510174012"></SCRIPT> <!--End SermonAudio Link Button-->Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-20935557465885531042010-01-17T09:21:00.002-06:002010-01-17T09:24:44.967-06:00Virtual SuicideMany of us spend time at social-networking sites like Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn. If you use those sites, you know how easy it is to happily fritter away hours in the Twitterverse or some other online community.<br /><br />But what happens if you get sick of all those messages on your Facebook wall? If you just can't stand the chatter anymore?<br /><br />Now one Web site is encouraging you to end it all — virtually.<br /><br />"It doesn't make your life better," an introductory video on the site coaxes. "You always think you're missing something. And above all, it makes you more stupid."<br /><br /><br />The idea of the "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine" is to abandon your virtual life — so you can get your actual life back, Gordan Savicic tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly. Savicic is the CEO — which he says stands for "chief euthanasia officer" — of SuicideMachine.org.<br /><br />The site is the work of group of artists, designers and programmers based in the Netherlands who wanted to create a way to let people destroy their social networking accounts.<br /><br />"Basically, we try to remove as much content as possible," Savicic says. "We change the profile picture and the password so you can't log in anymore."<br /><br />Once you've decided to go through with it, all you need to do is give the Suicide Machine some information and hit a little button that reads "commit." Then you can sit back and watch as your virtual life flashes before your eyes.<br /><br />Bye-bye, former friends and followers. So long, profile pictures and passwords. Hello, real life 2.0.<br /><br />The Suicide Machine boasts around 900 users, more than 58,000 friends unfriended and nearly 231,000 Tweets removed. It's so deadly, in fact, that Facebook blocked the service last Sunday.<br /><br />In a statement earlier this week, Facebook said the Suicide Machine violates their rules of user interaction. The company says it is "currently investigating and considering whether to take further action."<br /><br />"They basically didn't like the idea that we are unfriending other people's accounts," Savicic says. "We still have to decide how we react on that."<br /><br />Here is the link to the original story: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122379695">Npr</a><br /><br /><object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8223187&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8223187&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8223187">web 2.0 suicide machine promotion</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/moddr">moddr_</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br /><br />Here is my commentary on the story:<br /><br /><!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=TRUE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=117101017134"></SCRIPT> <!--End SermonAudio Link Button-->Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-47096204481062162522010-01-16T14:14:00.002-06:002010-01-16T14:17:08.075-06:00The Book of EliHere are two links to reviews of the Movie, The Book of Eli.<br /><br />The first review is written from a Christian perspective and it can be read at this link: <a href="http://www.pluggedin.com/movies/intheaters/bookofeli.aspx">Eli</a><br /><br />The second review is not from a Christian perspective and it can be found at this link: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122490436">Book </a>Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-36135232449269679192010-01-16T12:41:00.001-06:002010-01-16T12:41:55.184-06:00Faith and Confession, Prosperity - Style<!--Begin SermonAudio Link Button--><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.sermonaudio.com/code_sourcefeatured.asp?reversecolor=FALSE&showoverview=FALSE&flashplayer=TRUE&tiny=TRUE&minimal=FALSE&eventtype=EVENTID&sermonid=1710194341"></SCRIPT> <!--End SermonAudio Link Button-->Trevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7630151433712540026.post-41705993448319024012010-01-16T12:34:00.001-06:002010-01-16T12:36:43.300-06:004.5 Aftershock Strikes HaitiSecurity fears in quake-hit Haiti<br /><br />There are mounting security concerns in Haiti's earthquake-hit capital as distribution problems continue to hamper getting aid to survivors.<br /><br />Days after the quake devastated Port-au-Prince, killing tens of thousands, there are some reports of gangs preying on residents and looting.<br /><br />Officials say thousands of prisoners are unaccounted for after the main prison was destroyed.<br /><br />Relief has been arriving, but little has moved beyond the jammed airport.<br /><br />Damage to the seaport, roads and other infrastructure has prevented the speedy distribution of food, water and medical supplies.<br /><br />AT THE SCENE<br />Matt Frei, BBC News, Port-au-Prince There are quite a few diggers in town moving debris, sometimes even bodies. But if you reach a pile of rubble, and there's any evidence of life, what you have to do is pick that pile of rubble brick by brick, glass shard by glass shard.<br /><br />The story that we've heard time and time again is that of lack of bright lights to continue working through the night.<br /><br />A part of the tarmac looked like a hospital ward on Friday with patients on drips waiting to be moved out. But that is a tiny proportion.<br /><br />At an outdoor hospital in town there was not a single doctor or nurse, and people were dying in front of our eyes unnecessarily.<br /><br />If you have lost a leg or foot and you are lying out in the open at these extraordinary temperatures without water, and medicine, often without any shade for four days, you are not going to live very long.<br /><br />There is no reason why some of the dozens of doctors who have arrived in the past two days should not go there to treat these people. The roads are clear and it's only a 20-minute drive from the airport.<br /><br />On Saturday morning, a magnitude-4.5 aftershock struck close to Haiti's capital, the US Geological Survey said, forcing people to flee buildings.<br /><br />US President Barack Obama met two of his predecessors in the White House, George W Bush and Bill Clinton, to seek their support.<br /><br />After the talks, Mr Obama said the two men would lead the US' fundraising efforts through the Bush-Clinton Haiti Fund.<br /><br />"America is moving forward with one of the largest relief efforts in its history," Mr Obama said, warning that recovery would take a long time.<br /><br />President Bush urged Americans to send "cash", and President Clinton said Haitians "can escape their history and built a better future if we do our part".<br /><br />US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is travelling to Haiti on Saturday to assess the damage and convey to the Haitian people "our long term, unwavering support, solidarity and sympathies".<br /><br />A spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said aid workers were dealing with a disaster "like no other" in UN memory because the country had been "decapitated".<br /><br />"Government buildings have collapsed and we do not even have the support of the local infrastructure," Elisabeth Byrs said in Geneva.<br /><br />Ms Byrs said the situation was even worse than the devastation wrought by the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia's Aceh province.<br /><br />"It's worse than the Indonesian earthquake where at least we could get the support of some local authorities," she said.<br /><br />Arrests<br /><br />“ The whole country has been decapitated ”<br />Elisabeth Byrs UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs<br /><br />Desperation among survivors of Tuesday's earthquake has led to rising fears over security in Port-au-Prince.<br /><br />"Men suddenly appeared with machetes to steal money," resident Evelyne Buino told AFP news agency.<br /><br />Up to 4,000 prisoners are unaccounted for, with many believed to have escaped from the central prison.<br /><br />"There are thieves coming out," Haitian police inspector-general Jean-Yonel Trecile told Reuters news agency.<br /><br />"To make sure this does not spread, we have taken a number of these people off the streets. We have arrested about 50 people."<br /><br />There is little police presence in the capital, although some Brazilian UN peacekeepers are patrolling the streets.<br /><br />UN Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping Alain Le Roy told the US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network on Friday: "There have been some incidents where people were looting or fighting for food. They are desperate."<br /><br />But he added that overall the situation remained under control so far.<br /><br />First shipment<br /><br />The BBC's Nick Davis in Port-au-Prince says the only convoys he has seen are people leaving the city, in search of food, water and medicine.<br /><br />The UN is reporting a rise in the number of people trying to cross into the neighbouring Dominican Republic, and an influx into Haiti's northern cities.<br /><br />Overnight the crippled port received its first supply ship since the earthquake, a boat carrying bananas and coal, AFP reports.<br /><br />Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said 50,000 bodies had been collected, but the total number of dead could be "between 100,000 and 200,000".<br /><br />The UN said about 300,000 people had been made homeless.<br /><br />US authorities have taken temporary control of the airport to help distribute aid more quickly.<br /><br />Meanwhile, details are emerging about the extent of the damage beyond Port-au-Prince. Up to 90% of the buildings have been damaged in Leogane, a town about 19km (18 miles) to the west, the UN said.<br /><br />"According to the local police, between 5,000 to 10,000 people have been killed and most bodies are still in the collapsed buildings," Elisabeth Byrs said.<br /><br />The UN has launched an appeal for $562m (£346m) intended to help three million people for six months.<br /><br />A total of about $360m has been pledged so far for the relief effort, but only part of this sum will be included in the emergency appeal.<br /><br />UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is due to visit Haiti on Sunday, said distribution of food and medicine was under way.<br /><br />The US has already sent an aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, to Haiti and the USS Bataan, carrying a marine expeditionary unit, is on its way.<br /><br />A hospital ship and more helicopters are due to be sent in the coming days, carrying more troops and marines, with the total number of US troops to rise to between 9,000 and 10,000.<br /><br />Aid groups say it is a race against time to find any more trapped survivors.<br /><br />Plane-loads of rescuers and relief supplies have arrived or are due from the UK, China, the EU, Canada, Russia and Latin American nations.<br /><br />Have you or your family been affected by the earthquake? Are you taking part in the relief effort? If you have any information you wish to share with the BBC you can do so using the form below:<br /><br />You can also send your pictures or videos to yourpics@bbc.co.uk, text them to +44 7725 100 100 or if you have a large file you can upload here .<br /><br />Read the terms and conditions<br /><br />At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws.<br /><br />Story from BBC NEWS:<br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/8462949.stmTrevor Hammackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758938087739499249noreply@blogger.com0