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I just updated this site and not having to much patient, again I forgot to make sure I didn’t leave things out.
Fortunately Google came to the rescue. I went to Google’s cache and replicated all the information and data from my old site stored in google.
The problem I had was with LinkMachine. They came up with a grate idea, they install or  let you download and install yourself a program that keeps track and updates reciprocal links to other participating websites. Unfortunately it does not do to much good any more, on the contrary, it could damage your popularity ranking.
According to Google’s Webmaster Help Center  recommends I cote
“Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.”
By the way did you noticed all the new stuff that Google pulled out it’s sleeve, amazing.
I used to love the gmail, enjoy the mail alerts and the news reader now I spend more time catching up with all their new stuff

The Catholic Information Service for Africa (CISA)
Written By:CISA , Posted: Wed, Apr 02, 2008
The number of Catholics in the world has for the first time been overtaken by that of Muslims, the Vatican says.

Muslims now account for 19.2 percent of the world’s population, while Catholics make up 17.4 percent, according to figures for 2006 published by the Vatican’s new statistics yearbook.

Latin America remains the stronghold of Catholicism and Africa is a “grand resource” for the church, while Europe and North America are struggling.

“For the first time in history we are no longer at the top: the Muslims have overtaken us,” said Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who edited the Vatican yearbook. “While it is known that Muslim families continue to have many children, Christian families are having fewer,” he said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.

The Vatican data shows that Christians as a whole, including Orthodox and Protestant groups as well as Catholics, make up 33 of the world’s population.

Applying the percentages to the 2006 world population of about 6.5 billion, Muslims would have made up 1.25 billion of the total, Catholics 1.13 billion, and all Christians 2.15 billion.

Formenti said the information on Muslim numbers had been released by the United Nations, while the Vatican’s data on Catholics was based on questionnaires sent out to dioceses worldwide.

“Latin America remains the stronghold for Catholicism, while the American continent as a whole has 49.8 percent of the world’s total,” he said.

Formenti said that the number of Catholic priests was on the rebound, particularly in Asia, “where there are few Catholics, but they are driven by great spirit”. He described Africa as a “grand resource” for the church, while Europe and North America were struggling. The number of nuns was undergoing a “drastic reduction”.

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– Dave Hrbacek, the outdoors-blogging photographer and writer at The Catholic Spirit in St. Paul, Minn., whom we’ve written about here before, has a great little entry on the power of confession, further cementing him as one of my favorite unknown Catholic bloggers.
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Egyptian-born Italian journalist Magdi Allam (L), who was a non-practicing Muslim, walks away after being baptized by Pope Benedict XVI during Easter Vigil mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica March 22, 2008, in Vatican City…………
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The post Northern Climate Exchange Kyoto Infocentre Cop Summary News was left originally as a comment to The Red Sea is parting again, but this time Moses doesn’t have a hand in it Not knowing it had a tracking gismo inserted either by mistake or intentioned, I changed it into a post. ( my stupidity)
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It is indeed a shame to associate conflicts with religion. Does Christianity summon Christian extremists to bomb abortion clinics in the West? Does Islam summon Muslims in Palestine to kill Israelis and themselves in suicidal attacks? Does Hinduism preach kidnap and kill those who are against Hinduism? To most Indians and I am sure Pakistanis as well as also to most people of other religion will more than agree that such practices are wrong and must be condemned. Religions do not contain inherent “conflict-genes”, making unsolvable conflicts an inevitable outcome of their co-existence. Conflicts involving religion are always the result of mis perceptions in our minds.In mid-nineties Samuel P. Huntington became widely known for his fright-provoking prediction of a future worldwide clash of civilizations. This new dilemma would amount to nothing less than a “re-making of the world order”. The Cold War logic of states uniting with either of two ideologically opposed superpowers would be replaced by a pattern of unity determined by the dominating religions. A possible outcome of this separation of the world society would be a world order derived from and determined by religious differences. Looking at the current international scene one could be tempted to conclude that actual happenings are giving real life to Huntington’s scenario.

Western political elites especially are applying an approach, portraying Islam as the root cause of terror. This is dangerous. It threatens to demonize followers of a specific religion thereby running the risk of producing endless counter-demonizations adding to a security dilemma of Cold War type where every step taken by one part is perceived as a threat by the other who then has to retaliate… Essentially, the approach is also an assault on the religion Islam itself. It implies that all Muslims are extremists, which is as inaccurate as saying that the ultra right wing moral majority in USA fairly represents Christianity. One of many shortcomings in the world of today is judging Islam by the conduct of a minority of its people. If a religion is to be judged on its role in conflict this should logically be done on the basis of its sources, not on the basis of extreme acts of a tiny minority of its self-proclaimed followers. In the case of Islam the sources are the Qur’an and Sunna (teachings of prophet Muhammad), e.g.: “Allah commands justice and doing good and giving to relatives. And He forbids indecency and doing wrong and tyranny. He warns you so that hopefully you will pay heed” (Qur’an, 16:90).

Even though religions are essentially about building peace, they are unfortunately sometimes misinterpreted and misused. When this happens it is a result of constructions of the mind about religion and about “the other”. In the current global conflict between religious fundamentalists and secularists, for instance, each party perceives and talks about the other as posing threats to their societal orders and ways of living. When secularists preach secular state, pluralism, and abolishment of Sharia-laws, fundamentalists perceive it as attacks on Islam. Secularists on the other hand perceive religious fundamentalism as an existential threat to their societies and ways of life. They almost regard the secular society as something holy. What were once open societies have become xenophobic entities.

Many religious leaders have expressed the need for harmony and unity in the fight against terror. Ironically, the biggest obstacle seems to be the political leaders who are fully occupied with demonizing “axis’s of evil” and “opponents of freedom”. There is need for clarification of religion and its relationship to conflict. Firstly, it must be appreciated that it is not religion as such but specific fundamentalist constructions of religion that produces conflict like India Pakistan. Secondly, religious fundamentalism itself tends to transform religion into ideology. This is an assault on religion that can only be done well through re-mystification.

Religious conflicts are a product of misperception in our minds. Let us not create another cold war conflict based on them. No religion legitimizes conflict! His Excellency, Mohamed Khatami, Presedent of Iran, once complained in an inter-religious forum: “Dialogue amongst civilizations, particularly dialogue between Islam and Christianity is vital, essential and inevitable. Today, people speak of the global village. However, the problem is that residents of this global village are unable to understand each other. Isn’t it catastrophic that people of this village are deaf and dumb and worse than that, they have hostile thoughts toward each other”.

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Satellite images show that the Arabian tectonic plate and the African plate are moving away from each other, stretching the Earth’s crust and widening the southern end of the Red Sea, scientists reported in this week’s issue of journal Nature.
Last September, a series of earthquakes started splitting the planet’s surface along a 37-mile section of the East African Rift in Afar, Ethiopia.
Using the images gathered by the European Space Agency’s Envisat radar satellite, researchers looked at satellite data before and after these activities.
Earth-shattering shift
Over a period of three weeks, the crust on the sides of the rift moved apart by 26 feet and magma—-enough to fill a football stadium more than 2,000 times—-was injected along a vertical crack, forming a new crust.
“We think that the crust and mantle melt slowly at depths greater than 10 kilometers [6 miles], where it is hotter, forming magma (molten rock),” said Tim J Wright, study co-author, a Royal Society University Research Fellow. “This magma rises through the crust because it is less dense than the surrounding rock.””
The magma collects in magma chambers at depths of 3 to 5 kilometers [1.9 to 3 miles] where the density is the same as the crustal rocks, Wright explained. “Slowly, the pressure has been building up in these chambers until last September when it finally cracked, breaking the crust along a vertical crack. The magma was then injected into this crack.”
The intrusion of magma into the gap, rather than the cracking of the crust, is responsible for segmentation of continental drifts.
This is the first rifting episode to have occurred since 1970 and the largest single rip in the Earth’s continental crust during the satellite-monitoring era.
“We knew about the steady rifting process in Afar, as Arabia moves away from Africa across the rift,” Wright said. “And we knew that occasionally the strain that builds up slowly over centuries is released suddenly in rifting episodes. We did not know how big the deformation could be.”
Slow drift
For the past 30 million years Africa and Arabia have been going through a rifting process, the same one that formed the Red Sea. In this amount of time, the 186-mile- wide Afar depression formed.
“The ground is continually moving—-much more rapidly now than before the rifting episode,” Wright told LiveScience. “On average, the two sides move apart at about 2 centimeters per year [0.8 inches per year]. But, as this event demonstrates, the motion is episodic and jerky. This poses considerable hazard to the local inhabitants, which is higher for the next few years.”
This latest split, added to the long-term rifting process, which is tearing the northeast of Ethiopia and Eritrea from the rest of Africa, could eventually create a huge new sea. Although such processes could take millions of years to occur, this event has given scientists an unprecedented opportunity to monitor the rupture in real time.

By Sara Goudarzi
LiveScience Staff Writer - posted: 19 July 2006 01:00 pm ET ” can be found at LiveScience.com

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By Marco Fioretti on November 11, 2005 (8:00:00 AM
“The technological configuration underlying the Internet has a considerable bearing on its ethical aspects. Use of the new information technology and the Internet needs to be informed and guided by a resolute commitment to the practice of solidarity in the service of the common good. The Internet requires international cooperation in setting standards and establishing mechanisms to promote and protect [that common good]. Individuals, groups, and nations must have access to these new technologies. Cyberspace ought to be a resource of comprehensive information and services available without charge to all, and in a wide range of languages. The winner in this process will be humanity as a whole and not just a wealthy elite that controls science, technology, and the planet’s resources. Determined action in the private and public sectors is needed to close and eventually eliminate the digital divide.”
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