This blog which has been so great will now be bye bye to give way to a new blog (a final one for sure)

I will be using my own hosted blog starting today! I loved this blog and thanks to my readers! My website will now be www.aaronlecciones.com and just click on the banner to go to my blog!!

have a great day everyone and see you at my new and final blog Aaron's Tidbit!!

Thanks to google for providing this I won't be deleting this blog so people can still access any useful information here! God bless everyone!

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People with Super-Memories Forget Nothing

People with Super-Memories Forget Nothing, can you imagine that? Read on!

This According to LiveScience:

Imagine never forgetting anything. Virtue? Curse?
Four people are said to have such "super-memories," including the latest case, a Southern California man who researchers don't plan to identify by name. According to USA Today, the man recalls in detail most days of his life, as well as the day and date of key public events, said researchers Larry Cahill.

The newspaper interviewed Jill Price, another person with a super memory. Price discussed her mind lat year in the book "The Woman Who Can't Forget."

There is much about memory that scientists don't understand. Only this month, in fact, they found that a single brain cell can hold a memory for a brief period before it's put in long-term storage, a feat that requires connections between brain cells.

Two areas in Price's brain are responsible: the caudate nuclei, typically used for memory when forming automatic habits; and a part of the temporal lobe that stores facts, dates and events, Cahill told USA TODAY. The two brain areas might work together, in ways not realized before, to make allow the unforgettable connections.

Better understanding of the condition could lead to improvements in grasping the science of memory in regular folks, the researchers figure.

How grateful I'd be if I had super memory for the boards, or anything for that matter!

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Undersecretary Sales - Philippine Customs Corruption

As usual corrupt Philippine customs officials have now just violated an international treaty. Read all about this mess here: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/manila/1dispatch6.html.

From my friend Margo - Thanks, I think, for this news.

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New Nintendo Dsi

Has a camera, and cool Opera browser!

Well, just read it here: (too lazy to make a summary haha)

http://vimeo.com/4014524

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2009/04/where-were-going-we-wont-need-stores-ars-reviews-the-dsi.ars

ENJOY!

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The Pope is right, condoms are aiding AIDS by Martyn Drakard

Here goes this article I agree with:

The Pope is right, condoms are aiding AIDS

Guest Writers
Written by Martyn Drakard
Thursday, 26 March 2009 12:12
On the first leg of Benedict XVI’s first trip to Africa as Pope, a French journalist not surprisingly asked him about the African AIDS epidemic.

In the minds of most people from the West, among such things as corruption, child soldiers, famine and witchcraft, Africa = Aids, and AIDS = condoms. He replied: “The scourge cannot be resolved by distributing condoms; quite the contrary, we risk worsening the problem.” His brief answer provoked an international controversy and violent reactions in the Western press.
“Impeach the Pope!” wrote the Washington Post. “The Pope is a disaster” reported the Daily Telegraph. The Seattle Times accused the Pope of living in an “alternate universe”. “Grievously wrong!” said the New York Times. “There is no evidence that condom use is aggravating the epidemic and considerable evidence that condoms, though no panacea, can be helpful in many circumstances.”
Rather than basing the argument on emotions, business interests or ideology, the case for condoms must face scientific facts. A Harvard expert on AIDS prevention, Dr. Edward C. Green, said “the Pope is actually correct”. Dr. Green has written five books and over 250 peer-reviewed articles, and is an agnostic, not a Catholic. Last year, he wrote in the journal First Things that the never-enough-condoms explanation of the AIDS epidemic is driven “not by evidence, but by ideology, stereotypes and false assumptions.”

Dr. Green is not a lone voice. In an article in the leading British medical journal, The Lancet, James Shelton, of the US Agency for International Development, stated openly that one of the 10 damaging myths about the fight against AIDS is that condoms are the answer. “They have limited impact in generalised epidemics,” he wrote.
In 2004, an article in the journal- “Studies in Family Planning” admitted that “no clear examples have emerged yet of a country that has turned back a generalised epidemic primarily by means of condom promotion.” In fact, in Cameroon, precisely where the Pope was flying to when he made his “infamous” remarks, between 1992 and 2001 condom sales increased from 6 to 15 million, while HIV prevalence tripled, from 3 to 9 per cent.

After years of racking their brains about the high prevalence rate of AIDS in Africa, the most affected region in the world, which accounted for 72% of deaths from the disease in 2007, researchers are concluding that the reason is the widespread practice of “multiple concurrent partnerships.” Something that we have already learned in Uganda, where most new cases crop up among married people who have a mistress or boy-friend on the side.

In a highly-acclaimed 2007 book, The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight against AIDS, the medical journalist Helen Epstein admits that she had always attributed the epidemic to prostitution, poverty, discrimination against women and low condom use. But after observing that HIV rates were increasing despite high condom use, she realised that “multiple long-term partnerships”, which she referred to as the “superhighway of infections”, was the problem. Her conclusion: “a collective shift in sexual norms, especially partner reduction, is crucial.”

Dr. Green also pointed out that condoms “may even exacerbate HIV infection levels due to a phenomenon called risk compensation, or behavioural disinhibition. People take more sexual risks because they feel safer than is actually justified when using condoms.”
The experts are coming round to the conviction that the real, lasting solution is “partner reduction”, fidelity in marriage, something the Pope has been saying all along.

Dr. Green declared that the “faith-based communities have a comparative advantage in promoting the needed types of behaviour change, since these behaviours conform to their moral, ethical and scriptural teachings. What the churches are inclined to do anyway turns out to be what works best in AIDS prevention.”
But back to the controversy. In France it was roughest of all. Yet two MPs braved the stormy weather on their Blogs. One, Christian Vanneste, called for responsibility in medical research, a proper distribution of therapies and care of the sick; and said the “popular pack of hounds of materialists and hedonists is very far from being able to understand the (Pope’s) message. The solid mass of faithful gathered around the Pope at this moment is giving a better answer.”
The other, Jacques Remiller, accused the French political class of carrying out a “veritable witch-hunt against Benedict XVI”, and said the Western countries should stop considering the condom as the “only solution” to the problem of AIDS in Africa.

The short sentence of the Pope has flown much further than the French journalist expected and, despite its possibly mischievous intent, may eventually work against the pro-condom lobby. It will bring into the open a debate that must be argued with facts and scientific evidence and not with slogans, lazy thinking and prejudice, and an eye to big profits in the pharmaceutical industry.

Martyn Drakard, The author is a
Kenyan journalist.
mdrakard@bugala.org
drakard@gmail.com

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Obama bows to Saudi King????

1:38 President Barack Hussein Obama BOWS while giving a handshake to the King of Saudi Arabia who's one of many titles but most important is the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.

Was it like he was going to kiss that ring or was I dreaming? Something like a Catholic would do when they meet the Pope. Or was he just thanking the Al-Sauds for paying for his Harvard Education care of Al-Mansour? Or is it because his slip about his "Muslim Faith" is something 27 years of being a Christian seemingly did not wipe out?

And from Salon.com what is up with his birth certificate? http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/12/05/birth_certificate/

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This just has newbie allover.

Hllary clinton forgets what the Our Lady of Guadalupe is all about while visiting the country which reveres it the most and its origin, plus in official capacity as the Secretary of State (lead diplomat). http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15511

Hillary Clinton forgets she is no longer senator and cannot be pronouncing about proposed laws that have not been passed or have not seen the light of day or approval of the government, in corollary, she is spoken out of turn in promising things she has no authority to make. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/03/29/hillarys-mexico-visit-blunders-ignored-old-media

Hilary tells the European Parliament that American democracy has been around longer than theirs. http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/03/06/gaffe-watch-hillary-tells-europeans-u-s-democracy-much-older-europe-s

Obama doesn't know the difference between England and Britain. http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/02/obamateurism-of-the-day-11/

Michelle forgets some traditional royal protocol. Shocking for the Americans. Shocking for the British too. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1166490/Michelle-Obama-breaks-royal-protocol-giving-Queen-hug.html

Obama is complicating and confusing protocol (order, structure and protocol is what makes diplomacy stable, viable and what makes it work; out of that diplomacy would be a unusable wreak) : http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/12/pub-presidential-protocol/

Obama's Administration lacks some class, honestly but sorry for the word. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1159627/To-special-friend-Gordon-25-DVDs-Obama-gives-Brown-set-classic-movies-Lets-hope-likes-Wizard-Oz.html

From someone regarded by many as smart, this is way of tact: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1887005_1887004,00.html

Plus another ten more here: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/blog/2009/03/20/top_10_gaffes_by_barack_obama_and_joe_biden_

And here:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1887005_1887004,00.html

Really in just a few months thats a lot more than what I expected.

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Someone just affirms my reason why the Republicans should have won

Watch it all here:

As I say, be wary of knights in shining armor saying he can fix everything in wink of an eye (I.E. OBAMA).

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Fasting for Lent

Did you guys know that according to Canon 1253:

"On days of fasting, one eats only one full meal, but may eat two smaller meals as necessary to keep up one's strength. The two small meals together must sum to less than the one full meal. Parallel to the fasting laws are the laws of abstinence. These bind those over the age of fourteen. On days of abstinence, the person must not eat meat or poultry. According to canon law, all Fridays of the year, Ash Wednesday and several other days are days of abstinence, though in most countries, the strict requirements of abstinence have been limited by the bishops (in accordance with Canon 1253) to the Fridays of Lent and Ash Wednesday. On other abstinence days, the faithful are invited to perform some other act of penance."

So guys only one full meal and two collations :)

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lent

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Some Obamistakes I found so early on to his presidency

I got this from Jihad Watch, a very interesting website indeed:

Obama wants more Muslims in his Administration, and to work closely with Muslim community in U.S.

But no worries: his list of potential Muslim appointees has been "carefully vetted." How carefully? We can get a hint of the answer from the involvement of Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN). Congressman Ellison recently made the Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca that is one of the five pillars of Islam. The Muslim American Society paid for his Hajj. And what is the Muslim American Society? The Muslim Brotherhood.

"In recent years, the U.S. Brotherhood operated under the name Muslim American Society, according to documents and interviews. One of the nation's major Islamic groups, it was incorporated in Illinois in 1993 after a contentious debate among Brotherhood members." -- Chicago Tribune, 2004.

And who is the Muslim Brotherhood? The Muslim Brotherhood "must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." -- "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America," by Mohamed Akram, May 19, 1991.

Imagine if a conservative Congressman had taken a trip that had been paid for by a Christian group that was, according to one of its own documents, dedicated to "eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house" so that Christian law would replace the U.S. Constitution. I expect we would hear more of an outcry than we ever heard about Ellison's Hajj.

"Carefully vetted"!

"Obama gets list of top Muslim Americans," from the Denver Post, March 27 (thanks to Pamela):

CHICAGO — In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation's most qualified — Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted — has been submitted to the White House.

The effort, driven by community leaders and others, including U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was bumped up two weeks because White House officials heard about the venture, said J. Saleh Williams, program coordinator for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association, who sifted through more than 300 names.

"It was mostly under the radar," Williams said. "We thought it would put (the president) in a precarious position. We didn't know how closely he wanted to appear to be working with the Muslim American community."

So what do I find wrong there?

This: "must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

That to me is very typical of Islam and VERY WRONG.

Next thing I saw was this which is so typical of them again:

So the Jews are "Those who are struck by Allah's wrath" and Christians are "misguided"?

Oh wait a minute... I do remember the Jews being the first called to God and his covenant with them still stands, next I do remember the name Jesus Christ as being the Lord Savior of and Emmanuel of the Old Testament upon whom many called him the Son of God that upon his death the Temple Veil was torn into two? Signifying his sacrifice as atonement for all sins?

Also is Islam not 622 years younger than Christianity? And that Judaism is even way older than Islam, and that Islam bases a large part of its religion and belief on these two older Abrahamic religions? So does that mean Islam is basing parts of its belief in a "misguided" and "those who will be struck by Allah" people? Absurd.

No really why teach children to hate? And why deny a historical account of the Qu'ran? To escape scrutiny and scholarly study as to it's origins? Gosh sorry to those who will be offended but, I really find this religion as a religion of violence.

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Itunes could not connect to the iPod "Aaron's Ipod" because an unknown error occurred (0xE800005E)

So I have a huge dilemma, this morning when i used my Itouch oh no! Lo and behold! It was acting weird! it couldn't find my wireless network, it wasn't saving settings properly, and it was just plain acting up. Since the New York times app was asking to be connected to Itunes so it could work I said, maybe my Itouch needs a sync....

Then this message appears upon connecting my iPod touch's usb connector to my Vista PC:

"Itune could not connect to the iPod "Aaron's Ipod" because an unknown error occured (0xE800005E)"

I search the internet and I find this site fron ilounge forums, it tells me to do a forced reset, so here I go trying to following the instruction which sound so confusing....

draw back is i'll lose my information, thats what it says...

thinking back I remember reading from a forum before that low memory space does bad things to an iPod so I checked my memory and only 26MB of 8GB is left so that sounds bad right so I guess oh well maybe thats the culprit.

So I go ahead and press the power off button and the front button which i have no idea what it was so i just press the home button, trying to do a forced reset.

Instead a dialogue comes up to turn off or power down the itouch, I have to swipe to select this. So instead I do that.

I turn my device back on by holding the power button down for quite a while, and VOILA!

I can connect my Itouch again. So folks, if you have problems with your Itouch, maybe it just needs to be powered off and on again just like my PC when it has bad days it needs a reset to refresh and clear up its memory!

Hope someone out there gets this and finds it useful because honestly there were no entries on Google for Error (0xE800005E) at least now we have one solution to it!

Hope this helps!

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Ohio High School Basketball Player shoots a 90 Feet Whole-Court Shot at Buzzer Time!!

Haha this seems so impossible but can you imagine that? This High School kid named Casey Weber threw a whole-court short before the buzzer at the third quarter from 90-feet away - and it went in!!! And whats the big deal with that? During practice time for the team, he does it again, after only the second shot. I bet if he practices this more he can actually do it! See another video of him doing it during practice after the jump!

So he's a highschool student from Dayton Christian High and with camera's rolling he shoots it again!! Click here for the video of that and click here for the news source on Yahoo!.

Well I found another nice whole court shot below which is equally nice! :P



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The Street (Feb 27, 2009)

Starting today I'll be writing poems here. Hopefully one for each day of the year. Read on to read my first poem.

The Street

It was a day like any other day,
but not unlike the day that passed.
And today, I watched people make their way,
the time, passing by so fast.

In the midst of a sunny afternoon,
the humid air was sticking to my skin,
much like a problem yet so picayune,
only to get back to us with chagrin.

I could've walked on the street,
with the people, made my way.
Or someone new i could meet,
kill this desire away.

And yet today was just like yesterday.
I just sat at the parquet.
not wanting more nor dwindling away,
I let the time pass me by today.

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