http://metsacramento.org/herald Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:04:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If there's a blessing in the current swine flu epidemic, it's how benign the illness seems to be outside the central disease cluster in Mexico. But history offers a dark warning to anyone ready to write off the 2009 H1N1 virus. In each of the four major pandemics since 1889, a ... http://metsacramento.org/herald/archives/108 <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Helvetica; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:536902279 -2147483648 8 0 511 0;} @font-face {font-family:"MS PMincho"; mso-font-alt:"Arial Unicode MS"; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:16777216 0 117702657 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:Helvetica-Bold; panose-1:0 0 0 0 ... http://metsacramento.org/herald/archives/106 Today’s Quote is: “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” - Helen Keller The ... http://metsacramento.org/herald/archives/102 Welcome to the Brand New “Quick Quotes” Column by Avery Billings. Basically it’s a Quote of the Day column. So everyday their will be a quote a small amount of Background information and the meaning. So Today’s Quote is: “Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours.” - Napoleon Bonaparte I Literal ... http://metsacramento.org/herald/archives/99 (CNN) -- Adam Wilson posted two messages on Twitter on April 15. The first one, "GO BADGERS," might have been sent by any University of Wisconsin-Madison student cheering for the school team. His second post, 20 minutes later, was a little more unusual: "SPELLING WITH MY BRAIN." Wilson, a doctoral student in ... http://metsacramento.org/herald/archives/97 This was a fun workshop, and I am glad I had the opportunity to help again, and make another flute. The workshop was at UC Davis Room 146 in Environmental Horticulture, and I believe it will be there in February again next year. The workshop was run by Antionio Flores, ... http://metsacramento.org/herald/archives/91 TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Two Japanese destroyers set sail Saturday on an anti-piracy mission off Somalia, the Japanese defense ministry said, marking the first policing action for the country's Maritime Self-Defense Force. Because of restrictions in Japan's constitution, the nation's military is limited to a "self-defense" role. The Japanese Cabinet approved the ... http://metsacramento.org/herald/archives/86 Ann Holmes Redding has what could be called a crisis of faiths. For nearly 30 years, Redding has been an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church. Her priesthood ended Wednesday when she was defrocked. The reason? For the past three years Redding has been both a practicing Christian and a Muslim. "Had anyone ... http://metsacramento.org/herald/archives/83 <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Book Antiqua"; panose-1:2 4 6 2 5 3 5 3 3 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:647 0 0 ... http://metsacramento.org/herald/archives/80 People; wither strangers on the street, your ex boyfriend/ girlfriend even your best friend can be mean. But the question is why they are mean? Is it human nature? Is this how we were made to be? Who is this really hurting? What is even the meaning of the word ... http://metsacramento.org/herald/archives/78