6. and 9. August 1945

On 6. August 1945 USA threw a bomb over Hiroshima - read more here http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/hiroshima.htm

and again on 9. august 1945 USA through a "small" bomb over Nagasaki and killed 80.000 people - read more here http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/nagasaki.htm

not something to celebrate, but to remember, hoping it never happens again .......

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By the way, did anyone, I wonder, read the below article about the domestic dogs ? anyways, I enjoyed it so no matter .......

Domestic dog origins challenged

Domestic dog origins challenged
By Judith Burns Science reporter, BBC News

African village dogs possess plenty of genetic diversity
The suggestion that the domestic dog originated in East Asia has been challenged.
The huge genetic diversity of dogs found in East Asia had led many scientists to conclude that domestication began there.

But new research published in the journal PNAS shows the DNA of dogs in African villages is just as varied.
An international group of researchers analysed blood samples from dogs in Egypt, Uganda and Namibia.
Today's dogs are descended from Eurasian grey wolves, domesticated between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago.
I think it means that the conclusion that was drawn before might have been premature
Adam Boyko, Cornell University
The authors say the process by which humans domesticated the dog is poorly understood.
Lead scientist, Dr Adam Boyko of the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University, says he decided to look at village dogs because they are so much more genetically diverse than bred dogs that they may hold the key to the origins of dog domestication.
The team analysed DNA from 318 dogs from villages in Egypt, Uganda and Namibia and measured their genetic diversity.
They also analysed the genetic make up of dog breeds thought to be of African origin, for example the Saluki, the Rhodesian Ridgeback, and the Pharoah Hound and compared all the resulting data with results for non African dogs such as Puerto Rican street dogs and non-pedigree dogs in the US.
The emphasis on African village dogs came about because Adam Boyko's co-authors, his brother and sister-in-law, were travelling in Africa on honeymoon. They collected all the blood samples from the African dogs.
Genetically diverse
The team found genetic diversity among African village dogs is just as diverse as that of East Asian dogs, leading them to question the hypothesis of an East Asian origin for dog domestication.
Dr Boyko told BBC News: "I think it means that the conclusion that was drawn before might have been premature. It's a consequence of having a lot of street dogs from East Asia that were sampled, compared to elsewhere.
"The reason that East Asia looked more diverse than elsewhere was not because East Asia as a continent had more diverse dogs than elsewhere but because non breed street and village dogs are more diverse than breed dogs."
He said he was not ruling out East Asia as a possible location for the origin of the domestic dog - but it could equally have been anywhere else on the Eurasian landmass where there were both grey wolves and humans.
Co-author Paul Jones of The Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, UK, said: "It's interesting to know the answer to the question of where dogs were first domesticated and this paper goes some way to giving us an answer."
The team are now in the process of sampling street and village dogs across Europe and Asia from Portugal to Papua New Guinea to pinpoint the areas of greatest genetic diversity.
Dr Boyko said that all the dogs sampled in the study have grey wolf DNA so he is not questioning the hypothesis that dogs descended from Eurasian wolves.
The results led the team to conclude that today's African village dogs are a mosaic of indigenous dogs descended from early migrants to Africa.
They also went some way to proving the origins of some pedigree dogs purported to be of African origin. For example the Saluki breed shares DNA with modern day village dogs from Egypt - as does the Afghan Hound, despite its name.
Likewise, the Basinji breed is genetically very similar to some Namibian and Ugandan village dogs.
However the Pharaoh Hound and Rhodesian Ridgeback have little in common with any African indigenous dogs which suggests that these two breeds have non African origins.

hjæææææælppppppp - hellllpppp

en edderkop - en mega stor sort edderkop sad på væggen i aftes .............. tror dens ben var 5-6 cm lange på en meget stor krop - fornemmede den kiggede på mig, så tog en pind og ville skubbe den ned fra væggen, men den landede med et plonk på noget papir ......... hele aftenen sad jeg og var lige lidt nervøs for hvor den var landet og om jeg skulle se den spurte over stuegulvet, men indtil nu har ikke set den ........ den har nok gemt sig et sikkert sted, det håber jeg - for den var godtnok stur og grim .........

a spider - a mega huge black spider sat on the wall yesterday evening - I think it's legs were 5-6 cm long and on a mega big body ....... I had a feeling it was looking at me, so I took a stick and pushed it off the wall and it landed with a plonk on some paper ...... all evening I was a bit nervous as to where it had landed or if I was going to see it speed across the living room floor .... so far I have not seen it, hopefully it has hidden a safe place - 'cause it was huge and ugly .... yuk !

naboens hunde, der gør

hold kæft hvor er jeg træt af naboens hunde, der evig og altid gør og ejeren har det med at lukke ørene i stedet for vinduerne .... det er snart i døgndrift at disse 2 hunde gør og jeg har til dato overhørt det fordi jeg selv har hunde - Jeg får hovedpine af de kræ, en gravhund og en shit-zu og nu har jeg måtte lukke hoveddøren, selvom her er lige varmt nok, fordi de gør for åbne vinduer - suk - giv mig styrke !

kloge ord

Errare humanum est, sed in errore persevare turpe, skrev Seneca

oversat til dansk: at tage fejl er menneskeligt, men at stå fast ved fejlen er dumhed.

en lidt anderledes måde at give sin hund vand på ...

(staves anderledes med 1 eller 2 d' er?)

billedet er af en dreng fra Omo stammen, der er tilhørende i Ethiopien - og hans hund. Tror ikke det er af racen basenji, uanset så ses det tydeligt at dens pels er fyldt med utøj - trist men sådan er livet for mange hunde og dyr rundt omkring i verden - ved ikke lige hvad jeg ellers skal sige hertil ......

Historien om hvordan basenjien fik sin ringlede hale - og mistede stemmen ...

Det er en sød lille historie på engelsk, men det kan de fleste jo klare at læse
http://www.fallohide.dk/new_page_12.htm


... i dag er der Kræmmermarked på Dyreskuepladsen, men jeg har lige været ude at cykle først til Føtex med Mickey og Asta og bagefter en længere tur med Mickey og Kira, så udover, at hundene er trætte er jeg det faktisk også - og der er Kræmmermarked i morgen også hvis jeg skulle komme i tanke om, at jeg gerne vil købe en ny Drømmefanger - da den jeg har haft hængende over sengen i nogle år ikke kan mere - måske fordi den har fanget alle mine drømme ? - kan jeg nå det endnu

Jeg tror faktisk at jeg har haft det så dårligt de sidste mange uger fordi jeg igen, har fået og haft et maveonde med hjem fra sidste besøg på sygehuset - jeg har det ikke 100% ok, men det går fremad og så bliver man også i lidt bedre humør når man ikke er mega træt eller har ondt et eller andet sted ...... Vi har haft besøg af flere potentielle hvalpekøbere og især Mickey har været vældig opsat på de unge damer og klistret sig op ad dem som han altid gør, den lille slyngel :-))

Asta skal have sine øjne lyst indenfor de næste 14 dage i håb om, at de er ligeså fine som både hendes mors og fars øjen resultater var/er ...

Der er udsendt stemmesedler til avlsrestriktioner for vor race og jeg håber alle fornuftige basenji ejere stemmer ja til begge forslag ... alt andet vil bare ikke være rigtigt, ikke mere og ikke fremover med vor race hvis vi skal være på højde med udenlandske basenji .... så I, der læser min blog og har basenji, er medlem af SPK og har stemmeret - stem JA til begge forslag !

- og så stepper jeg ned fra min sæbekasse ....