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Subject: Notice to NHC email list (2007 season ends)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 5:35:00 PM EST
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Check out the NHC season summary, should you care to read through it. Keep in mind, some experts disagree as to whether some of the named storms should have been named at all. The suspected agenda in naming these questionable storms, of course, is to promote the idea that global climate change is causing an increase in tropical storm activity.

Whether the season was slightly above or below average, we still thank God for keeping us safe — because it only takes one hurricane to really mess up life as we know it!

HOUSE . . . . . . . No. 3922

By Mr. Kaufman of Lexington (by request), petition of Kathleen Wolf for legislation to prohibit the corporal punishment of children. Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

An Act prohibiting corporal punishment of children.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1: Chapter 119 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after Section 51 B, a new Section 51 B ½ , as follows:—

Section 51B½. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN IS PROHIBITED. Corporal Punishment of children violates their rights to safe, secure and respectful care.

This section is intended to actively support nonviolent parenting.

The provisions of this section are intended to eliminate the use of corporal punishment to discipline children, because of the emotional harm and risks of bodily harm associated with corporal punishment of children.

The provisions of this section shall not preclude any adult from using incidental or minor physical contact designed to maintain order and control, or other discipline which does not constitute corporal punishment.

(a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall, unless the context indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:—

“Child”, any person under eighteen years of age.

“Corporal punishment”, the willful infliction of physical pain or injurious or humiliating treatment.

(b) It shall be unlawful in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for any adult to inflict corporal punishment upon a child.

(c) The infliction of corporal punishment on a child may be a basis for a finding of abuse and neglect.

(d) The provisions of this section shall not preclude any adult from using such reasonable force as is necessary to protect himself and others from imminent, serious, physical harm, including assault by a child, to divest a child of a dangerous instrument, to prevent injury to property, or to remove a child from a life-threatening or injurious situation.

Found on Kevin Thompson’s blog.

Link to the original on the Massachusetts legislature’s site.

Compare the last clause of the above to this verse:

Pro 23:13-14 Withhold not correction from the child: for [if] thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

Hmm. Sounds like spanking is a Bibically-mandated method of saving a child from a life-threatening situation!

Nation & World | Consumers feel helium squeeze | Seattle Times Newspaper
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But demand for the gas has taken off in industry and scientific research in recent years, and the helium squeeze is being felt everywhere from university physics laboratories to plants in India, China, Taiwan and Korea that make today’s hottest consumer products. Japanese helium suppliers recently warned customers in the electronics industry to prepare for supply cuts of up to 30 percent.

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It is also noncombustible and can be liquified to temperatures approaching absolute zero, properties that render it ideal for cooling metals that produce superconductivity or in processes that throw off a lot of heat. It is used to make flat-panel TVs, semiconductors, optical fibers and magnetic resonance imaging machines, and it toughens industrial welds. NASA uses a train-car load to pressurize a liquid fuel rocket.

The U.S. government is the world’s No. 1 source, sucking helium out of a Texas reservoir it began filling after World War I, when dirigibles were thought to be the coming thing in transportation and warfare.

KnowledgeNews :: Radio Goes Nano
Friends, researchers in Berkeley, California, have built by far the smallest radio ever made–a nano radio. Though its fashioned from a carbon nanotube just billionths of a meter long, the radios creators say its fully functional. Theyve even used it to play the Beach Boys hit “Good Vibrations.”

According to lead researcher Alex Zettl, the nanotube “serves simultaneously as all essential components of a radio–antenna, tunable band-pass filter, amplifier, and demodulator.” But hes not just hoping to build a microscopic iPod. Since “the entire radio would easily fit inside a living cell,” he thinks the nano radio should be able “to safely interact with biological systems.” He even envisions “radio-controlled devices moving through the bloodstream.”

This is far out stuff — the idea that cells in our body could be controlled via radio! The potential for medical advancement as well as a whole new level of bio-terrorism are absolutely staggering!

Santa told to slim down for Christmas to set a good example| News | This is London

Santa is being told to shift the pounds before Christmas - because the obese saint is failing to set a “good example” for children.
The traditional children’s hero, best known for feasting on mince pies left out on Christmas eve, has always sported a bulging midriff.
But shopping centre bosses are giving the well-wisher his marching orders - to the nearest gym - to tackle the increasing problem of obesity.
The revelation comes after a medical report earlier this month stated that by 2050 more than 50 per cent of Brits will be obese.

Read the entire article and check the funny pictures of Santa working out!

He had a broad face and a little round belly flat six-pack abs,

That shook tensed, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly an old-time washboard.

He was chubby and plump sculpted and trim, a right jolly old politically correct elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

– Apologies to Clement Clarke Moore.

While filling in on the Rush Limbaugh Show, Jason Lewis suggested this great way to start the day:

1. Start with an empty Windows Recycle Bin.
2. Create a folder on your Desktop called “Hillary Clinton”.
3. Delete the folder.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Relish the dialog asking if you want to delete Hillary Clinton.
6. Firmly click Yes!
7. Repeat tomorrow with Nacy Pelosi.

OK, so it doesn’t accomplish anything; but perhaps it will help clear one’s mind.