Stuff below the fold

Another day, another earthquake...again in the south, and this one not as strong.

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Hero dog needs surgery:

ZAMBOANGA CITY—Good Samaritans are still raising the funds needed to have a hero dog that lost her snout in the process of saving two girls get surgery in the United States.

Lack of funds is delaying the planned US surgery of Kabang, a dog declared a hero for running on the path of a speeding motorcycle that was about to hit two daughters of her masters in a village here.

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The sky isn't falling, but Greece might be collapsing:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is poised to send trucks filled with cash into Greece as part of plans being adopted by U.S. firms in the event of the country crashing out of the euro. With Greece teetering on the brink of a chaotic exit from the Eurozone, American banks and consulting firms have drawn up contingency plans for the financial turbulence that would follow. Merrill Lynch is one of the firms preparing to bring in large amounts of the drachma, Greece's former currency which is expected to be used if they leave the Euro, in order to pay employees in case the banks shut during the transition and access to cash is hard to come by.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2197666/Merrill-Lynch-plans-send-trucks-cash-Greece-countrys-financial-crisis-reaches-worst-case-scenario.html#ixzz25S3N8LsY

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Yosemite has a Hanta Virus outbreak in a few campers.

I remember the last time, when IHS docs were confronted with young people dying of an unknown pneumonia...the medicine men helped identify the cause because they remembered past outbreaks from more rodents in rainy years.

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AmericanThinker essay on reading the diaries of Lewis and Clark includes this observation:

From a 2012 perspective, the most interesting aspect of the cache technology may be that it demonstrates how difficult life can be without plastics.  The inability of the men to protect themselves and their possessions with synthetic materials like polyethylene and nylon created life-threatening problems: food spoiled; boats rotted away and could not be repaired; men fell ill due to exposure; critical supplies were destroyed by water damage....   reading Lewis and Clark's journals is a useful reminder not only of how incredibly useful this 20^th-century artifact can be, but also of the fact that it had no pre-industrial counterpart.

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It wasn't just the Neanderthals that were playing hanky panky with the cavemen: they are now finding Denisovan DNA in some modern people:
  


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Cebuanos are getting their first saint: and everyone wants to be part of the party.

At age 14, Calungsod and several Jesuit priests went to Guam as missionaries. Three years later, Calungsod and Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores were killed by angry natives.
The Catholic Church in the Philippines has held Calungsod as the  patron of altar boys, catechists, youngsters and migrant workers.

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TeaAtTrianon remembers the medieval women physicians, including those from the University of Salerno.

more here
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McGuyver type weapons from items you might have in your home, at Gizmodo

The closest thing we used to do is to spray hairspray across a candle...luckily the dorm didn't burn down...but the tricks at Gizmodo could kill you...

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The retarded child accused of Blasphemy in Pakistan is still in jail, but the police have now arrested her accuser for planting "evidence" on her and then "reporting" her blasphemy to the cops.

And don't think this is just about religion: it's about grabbing the land/possessions from the Christians who flee for their lives, according to Fides. 

The reason the accuser (a big shot iman) was arrested is that a lot of good local people know that this was a sham, and were willing to risk their lives telling the police and others (e.g. Christian leaders, and reporters) that he had planted fake evidence.