link to article.

If you google “cakes in jars” recipes…you will find the process used to make a cake in a jar.  Lots of military wives send these to their deployed soldiers.

Recently someone has said that “cakes in a jar can KILL” b/c of botulism.  I did a quick google…and DID find articles regarding the danger of possible botulism or bacteria in cakes in jars. 

Then I tried to google “death, illness” in regard to cakes in jars.  NADA.  Nothing came up.  SO…I am trying to find out if the warning exists simply b/c of the danger…and not from actual evidence that someone has been injured or killed as a result of eating a cake in a jar covered in botulism.

Please, thanks…??  Hugs and kisses…I know you guys can find me something I can take back to my fellow military wives. 

Will return soon!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7ae_1256851132

Doubts over Latvia ‘meteor crash’

Scientists investigating a large crater in a field in northern Latvia, believed to have been caused by a meteorite, now suspect it was a hoax.

Fire crews were called to the scene on Sunday outside the town of Mazsalaca by locals who said something had fallen from the sky and set the land on fire.

One expert who had said the 9m (27ft) wide crater was caused by an impact, said he now thought it was artificial.

The hole was too tidy to have been caused by a meteorite, he said.

It would be unusual for such a large meteorite to hit the Earth, as most objects burn up in the atmosphere and never reach the surface.

In 2007, a meteorite ploughed into the countryside near the Andean town of Carancas in Peru, creating a 15m (50ft) wide crater.

‘Pyrotechnic compound’

On Monday, a spokeswoman for the Latvian State Fire and Rescue Service said firefighters had been told by a witness about a fire in a field near Mazsalaca at 1730 (1530 GMT) the previous day.

“We concluded that the impact must have come from the air and this is why we believe it could have been a meteorite,” Inga Vetere said.

A military unit sent to the site found normal radiation levels.

Uldis Nulle, a scientist at the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre, said his first impression after visiting the site late on Sunday had been that the crater was caused by a meteorite.

However, on closer inspection in daylight he found that the hole was too tidy to have been caused by a genuine impact.

“This is not a real crater. It is artificial,” he told the Associated Press.

Caroline Smith, meteorite curator at London’s Natural History Museum, told the BBC that the photographs and video footage of the site, and the material burning in the bottom of the hole, indicated that it was not an impact crater.

“Meteorites are not ‘on fire’ or even hot when they land on Earth,” she said.

“Additionally, there have been no witness reports of any large ‘fireball’ sightings in the region on Sunday afternoon, when the crater was allegedly formed.”

Latvian Geologist Dainis Ozols said he believed someone had dug a hole and tried to make it look like a meteorite crater by burning a pyrotechnic compound at the bottom.

It is thought the meteorite would have to have been at least 1m (3ft) in diameter to create a crater that size.

The owner of the land is now selling tickets to people who want to see the crater, reportedly to pay for wear and tear on the road.

CLEVELAND (AP) - A Cleveland museum has learned that what it thought was a lock of hair from Amelia Earhart is just thread.

A group looking for DNA evidence of the pioneer aviator on a Pacific island recently asked the International Women’s Air and Space Museum for a sample of the “hair” for comparison. Museum executive director Toni Mullee says an analysis determined the specimen was thread that looked like hair.

Mullee says the museum acquired the artifact 20 years ago from the Smithsonian Institution, which had gotten it from a Pennsylvania man. The museum has had it on exhibit next to a book with an anecdote about a White House maid who saved some Earhart hair from a wastebasket.

Mullee says the thread will stay on display, with a full explanation.

One wonders what the man got for his piece of thread 20 years ago…...

16 Sept 2009. news.com.au

‘Oops’ missed it
See what happens when the media pack miss their money shot.

“Charles Sheridan and Richard King hypothesized that some of Milgram’s subjects may have suspected that the victim was faking, so they repeated the experiment with a real victim: a puppy who was given real electric shocks. They found that 20 out of the 26 participants complied to the end. The six that had refused to comply were all male (54% of males were obedient); all 13 of the women obeyed to the end, although many were highly disturbed and some openly wept”

Am I correct to doubt that this infamous experiment was ever carried out?

Even the most cited reference seems very dubious

Sheridan, C.L. and King, K.G. (1972) Obedience to authority with an authentic victim, Proceedings of the 80th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association 7: 165-6.

I have checked out and found no academic papers on obedience relating to either Sheridan or King

Thanks

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forum/forum_comments/2526/P5160/

For those interested perhaps we can take a close look at the claims etc.

Enjoy, and once again thank you Veronica.

David

http://cieaura.com/home/

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“Around this time [the 13th century] her image also began to appear as the High Priestess card in the Tarot deck.”
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/pope_joan/

However, playing cards didn’t enter Europe until the 14th century, and the first known Tarot cards weren’t created until the 15th century. Furthermore, the chronology implied by this statement is simply wrong. The trump La Papesse was always part of the Marseille Tarot, the oldest of which date to the 15th century. Other decks later renamed this card to avoid the Pope Joan connection imputed to La Papesse. There was no High Priestess card until the 18th century when the Tarot was reinvented as a fortune telling device with origins in ancient Egypt.

That is, the Marseille deck didn’t change to incorporate a Papesse, the Papesse was rather interpreted as Pope Joan by contemporary conspiracy theorists. Nor was the Priestess trump revised to be La Papesse. Rather, the aboriginal La Papesse was renamed in some later decks to avoid association with the controversy, and not the other way round.

Perhaps you could find a more reliable source for this hoax than Peter Stanford.

Anyhow…. Some time later, while staying at a mountain cabin, he got an intuition that he should go out and try and locate a certain place in the woods.  Once there, his intuition kicked in again and told him to dig. (He makes a point of stressing it was his intuition and not a voice he heard that told him to dig there.)  After digging down a short ways, he says he came across some glass plates with ancient symbols on them that must have been left over from the Lemurian/Atlantian war.  he got an inner vision of how to put them together with copper in order to create plates that could be used for healing your “Light body”, purifying your food, or any one of a myriad of other things.

I especially like the statement he makes just before showing you a video of these “Healing plates”:

Do not heat it up or put it in your bathtub . It is water prove . It doesn´t need any charging it works with the earth natural electromagnetic field . It is stronger when used in rituals or within power spots.  It is made out of ANTIK crystal glass and a copper plates . The symbols are chosenfor the individual need there no mass production.  They are on of a kind .These devices are like cosmic energy or elctromagnetic field crutches. They are to assist you not to overtake inany way .The healing you must do . I am not a doctor and i don´t claim anything .If you have servere problems still check a doctor . If they work for you good if they don´t then thats the reality you chose. I say i do not believe i know cause i choose to make the experience that is all that matters . If you can feel it it is real .

(Yes, those are his spelling mistakes….)

Maybe that’s my problem….I just don’t believe hard enough.  (I really hate it when these scammers blame their victims when the garbage they sell doesn’t actually work!)

Urk!

Anyhow, here’s the LINK.