Did you know that frog was used by doctors as pregnancy test?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> Since the 1980s, amphibian species have experienced a sharp decline in their numbers. Some estimates suggest that 400 or more amphibian species have gone extinct or near extinct since the die-offs began. Scientists eventually pinpointed the major cause of the devastation: chytridiomycosis, a disease brought on by an infection by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd.<br /> One Bd-resistant species is the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis). About a decade ago scientists suspected that this particular species may have served as a carrier, and facilitated the spread of chytridiomycosis, when they found Bd in a museum specimen dating back to 1934.<br /> [A] new analysis now links the spread of the fungus in the U.S. with the spread of X. laevis, which initially began in the early 1900s. Doctors discovered that the African clawed frog could also be used as a pregnancy test, further increasing the number of frogs imported.<br /> The pregnancy test worked by injecting a woman’s urine under the skin of a female frog. If the woman was actually pregnant, her hormones would stimulate ovulation in the frog.<br /> <img height="150" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10636013_641709562609601_2058978717876217814_n.jpg?oh=814223a0583f2a14a1a41b4f080d6a90&oe=54CEE434&__gda__=1422274700_a0a6c507c76d8e81d2f308770ef48806" width="200" /></div>

Did you know that frog was used by doctors as pregnancy test?

Since the 1980s, amphibian species have experienced a sharp decline in their numbers. Some estimates suggest that 400 or more amphibian species have gone extinct or near extinct since the die-offs be…

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DID YOU KNOW!! 13 PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH PORK

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> 13 PROBLEMS WITH PORK<br /> .<br /> <img height="121" src="https://scontent-a-mxp.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10345810_643876755726215_3971015042851590980_n.jpg?oh=4c8bc0582f7dc095a0740febda55dfe7&oe=54B23E18" width="200" /><br /> <br /> 1) A pig is a real garbage gut. It will eat anything including urine, excrement, dirt, decaying animal flesh, maggots, or decaying #vegetables. They will even eat the cancerous growths off other pigs or animals.<br /> <br /> 2) The meat and fat of a pig absorbs toxins like a sponge. Their meat can be 30 times more toxic than beef or shevron.<br /> <br /> 3) When eating #beef or #shevron, it takes 8 to 9 hours to digest the meat so what little toxins are in the meat are slowly put into our system and can be filtered by the liver. But when pork is eaten, it takes only 4 hours to digest the meat. We thus get a much higher level of toxins within a shorter time.<br /> <br /> 4) Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. (Perspiration is a means by which toxins are removed from the body). Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat.<br /> <br /> 5) Pigs and swine are so poisonous that you can hardly kill them with strychnine or other poisons.<br /> <br /> 6) Farmers will often pen up pigs within a rattlesnake nest because the pigs will eat the snakes, and if bitten they will not be harmed by the venom.<br /> <br /> 7) When a pig is butchered, worms and insects take to its flesh sooner and faster than to other animal's flesh. In a few days the swine flesh is full of worms.<br /> Swine and pigs have over a dozen parasites within them, such as tapeworms, flukes, worms, and trichinae. There is no safe temperature at which pork can be cooked to ensure that all these parasites, their cysts, and eggs will be killed.<br /> <br /> 9) #Pig meat has twice as much fat as beef.<br />  A 3 oz T bone steak contains 8.5 grams of fat;<br /> A 3 oz pork chop contains 18 grams of fat.<br /> A 3 oz beef rib has 11.1 grams of fat;<br /> A 3 oz pork spare rib has 23.2 grams of fat.<br /> <br /> 10) Cows have a complex digestive system, having four stomach compartments. It thus takes over 24 hours to digest their vegetarian diet causing its food to be purified of toxins. In contrast, the swine's one stomach takes only about 4 hours to digest its foul diet, turning its toxic food into flesh.<br /> <br /> 11) The swine carries about 30 diseases which can be easily passed to humans. This is why God commanded that we are not even to touch their carcase (Leviticus 11:8).<br /> <br /> 12) The trichinae worm of the swine is microscopically small, and once ingested can lodge itself in our intestines, muscles, spinal cord or the brain. This results in the disease trichinosis. The symptoms are sometimes lacking, but when present they are mistaken for other diseases, such as typhoid, arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, MS, meningitis, gall bladder trouble, or acute alcoholism.<br /> <br /> 13) The pig is so poisonous and filthy, that nature had to prepare him a sewer line or canal running down each leg with an outlet in the bottom of the foot. Out of this hole oozes pus and filth his body cannot pass into its system fast enough. Some of this pus gets into the meat of the pig.<br /> <br /> Published by ettefreeguy<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjvgwQHrzVflEOwF9aNi-tu2HThI79oWCat0r63BtqqejTtBrHFZiP51QRtCFD9vgzIxMQzyWz4IQgYzgxdhfu9ioK5Ki42KU9C9VR4soqaqmJzgvrp0xzMO7CZWFhcA2Acp9V7beSaOdy/s1600/the+real+EmpireDataMedia+cover+pix1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjvgwQHrzVflEOwF9aNi-tu2HThI79oWCat0r63BtqqejTtBrHFZiP51QRtCFD9vgzIxMQzyWz4IQgYzgxdhfu9ioK5Ki42KU9C9VR4soqaqmJzgvrp0xzMO7CZWFhcA2Acp9V7beSaOdy/s1600/the+real+EmpireDataMedia+cover+pix1.png" width="320" /></a></div> <br /></div>

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13 PROBLEMS WITH PORK . 1) A pig is a real garbage gut. It will eat anything including urine, excrement, dirt, decaying animal flesh, maggots, or decaying #vegetables. They will even eat the cancerou…

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GOOD OR BAD?? US Finally Stops Buying Nigeria's Oil.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> GOOD OR BAD??<br /> <br /> US Finally Stops Buying Nigeria's Oil.<br /> <br /> (Thisday Investigation)<img src="https://scontent-a-mxp.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10310097_644061902374367_7645597838899781128_n.jpg?oh=5acaa04fbb51a7dbecf3514fd87fe4b8&oe=54C3C211" /><br /> Nigeria has become the first country to completely stop selling oil to the United States of America, the world’s largest oil producer and consumer, due to the impact of the shale revolution – an astounding reversal – as the country was only four years ago one of the top five oil suppliers to America.<br /> According to the US Department of Energy, Nigeria did not export a single barrel of crude to US-based refiners in July for the first time since records started in 1973.<br /> Preliminary data suggest the trend continued in August and September, the London-based Financial Times reported thursday.<br /> Many oil producers have seen their exports to the US drop as domestic production rises thanks to the use of new technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. But Nigeria is the first to fully stop exporting crude.<br /> At its peak in February 2006, the US imported 1.3 million barrels per day (mb/d) from Nigeria – equal to roughly one super tanker the size of the Exxon Valdez every day. By 2012, Nigeria was just selling 0.5m b/d, but was still one of the top five suppliers to the US, alongside Saudi Arabia, Canada, Mexico and Venezuela. Earlier this year, sales dropped to a trickle of about 100,000 b/d. And in July, they completely stopped.<br /> Nigeria, a member of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil cartel, is Africa’s largest oil producer and international companies from #ExxonMobil to Royal Dutch Shell and from Total to #Chevron operate some of the country’s major oil fields. But most of them are divesting of these assets in the country, as they undertake a portfolio rotation of their assets to divert more resources in shale oil production.<br /> The shale revolution has affected US oil suppliers unevenly, hitting particularly hard those in Africa such as Nigeria, Algeria, Libya and Angola, which produce high quality crude similar to the one pumped in the new oil fields of North Dakota.<br /> Middle East producers such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have suffered far less as they pump crude oil of a lower quality that US refiners continue to buy. Saudi crude oil exports year-to-date to the US have increased over the 2013 level. Kuwait has also sold more crude to the US so far this year than in 2013.<br /> Overall, US crude oil imports hit a peak of 10.8m b/d in July 2005. Since then, they have fallen by roughly a third to hit 7.6m b/d in July as domestic production boomed.<br /> The dramatic collapse in Nigerian crude oil exports to American refiners corroborates a warning a year ago by the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke,that shale was “one of the most serious threats for African [oil] producers”.<br /> Nigeria has offset the impact of the drop in US sales lifting exports towards Asia, with India supplanting the US as Nigeria’s largest importer of her crude oil.<br /> According to Platts, a specialised information service for the oil industry, Nigerian oil sales to Asia’s four largest oil importers – China, Japan, India and South Korea – have risen more than 40 per cent so far this year over the 2013 level.<br /> Oil analysts believe that Africa-US oil trade could completely stop in the next two to three years as other leading exporters, including Angola, Libya and Algeria, suffer the same fate as Nigeria. If that materialises, Africa will have to find new customers for its oil, going head-to-head with Middle East producers in the key Asian market.<br /> Analysts see the fate that has befallen Nigeria’s crude oil as a warning that the country must diversify its economic base if it must remain competitive on the global stage. As other major African oil producers and the Middle East search for alternative markets in Asia that consume less crude oil than the US, producers would be forced to sell at a discount to attract their customers.<br /> Even more worrisome, said an analyst, is the fact that Nigeria would be mistaken by relying on Asian buyers, as the shale revolution has made almost every country in the world a potential oil producer. Added to this are several other African countries such as Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, South Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia and Kenya, among many others, that have made commercial oil discoveries or are in the process of doing so.<br /> What this portends is that some years down the line, the crude oil market would turn from a sellers’ market to a buyers’ market, as the likelihood of an oil glut forces prices down.<br /> Nigeria has been complacent for too long. The time it should have acted on the diversificationof its economy has probably passed the country by. It has failed to take advantage of its enormous gas resources by investing more in gas development for domestic use and new liquefied natural gas plants for export. The same could be said of other solid mineral resources, which largely remain untapped.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPUfl-EemAhXE-yPd2QE0tzXt-eDmK3nsje3BAqbxxKtIWjGb_dLT-4n8mr6DkfJp6Mn0r4w54FZjUWN6RXlzHm674U8KHToIpe50euUZfbqVEQoT8PLBVqJnj7GqJ13B6NzCIMrpINkJV/s1600/empiredatamedia+info.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPUfl-EemAhXE-yPd2QE0tzXt-eDmK3nsje3BAqbxxKtIWjGb_dLT-4n8mr6DkfJp6Mn0r4w54FZjUWN6RXlzHm674U8KHToIpe50euUZfbqVEQoT8PLBVqJnj7GqJ13B6NzCIMrpINkJV/s1600/empiredatamedia+info.png" width="200" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> However, the reality of the US slamming the door firmly against #Nigeria’s oil exports could be the wake-up call she needs. Nigeria, without doubt, has enormous natural and human resources that could still be tapped to stem her over-reliance on #hydrocarbon exports.<br /> However, Nigeria’s leaders would be mistaken it they think that advanced countries in the West and Asia got to where they are today by solely exporting raw natural resources that could be subjected to exogenous price movements over which they have control. It was through manufacturing, the services sectors, trade and tourism that sustainable diversificationwas achieved. That is the path Nigeria must follow, otherwise its future looks bleak.<br /> <br /> Published by ettefreeguy</div>

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GOOD OR BAD?? US Finally Stops Buying Nigeria's Oil.

GOOD OR BAD?? US Finally Stops Buying Nigeria's Oil. (Thisday Investigation) Nigeria has become the first country to completely stop selling oil to the United States of America, the world’s largest o…

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