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This Friday the LUKoil station (aka Coventry Petro) on Nooseneck Hill Road in Coventry will be offering $1.99 a gallon gas from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM. According to the gas station attendant there is no limit to the amount of gas you can get; as long as you are not bringing a tanker truck or something crazy of that nature. Therefore, I would recommend that if you have some gas container laying around to bring them too.

There is apparently a radio station sponsoring the event. Accordingly, I expect there will probably be music and maybe a few give aways. Also, expect a long line of perhaps a mile or more; considering that the radio station is probably spreading the word rapidly and of course I am spreading the word too. Look for the LUKoil sign along route 3 in Coventry about 1 mile from exit 6 off of 95. Although the sale is from 10:30 to 1:00 they will allow the people who are in line by 1:00 PM to still get gas at the discounted price, although to be on the safe side I would recommend getting there early. That should give you the best chance of wasting the least amount of gas siting in line.

Aside from the wait time the only down side I can see is that if this promotion attracts more people to LUKoil this may to a degree be helping Putin and keeping Russia going so they can pull more stunts like they did in Georgia this past Summer. Although, this of course probably only a small consideration at best right now, since no matter what gas station you use you will likely be helping to fund volatile countries that may put the money towards violence.

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For those of you that might have doubted the virgin birth of Jesus through Mary here is one more small thing showing the possibility of virgin birth. Albeit, it only seems to allow female births, at the moment; so it does not bring the virgin birth of a boy child into the realm of non-miraculous just yet. What it does show is that anything you think you “know” about science can turn out to be wrong at any time turn. This is yet another reason why no one should ever insist that anything is impossible, and should always remain open minded to the possibility of the supernatural.

Apparently, this is not the first incident; there has been one other recorded instance of a virgin shark getting pregnant! The first such recorded instance was of a hammerhead shark at the Omaha, Neb Zoo. This current case involved a blacktip shark that had been living in isolation at a Virgina aquarium which recently died, but was found, upon autopsy, to have been carrying a well developed embryo that was very close to full term. The shark is believed to have produced this embryo asexually, and this was confirmed by genetic tests carried out by Mahmood Shivji of the Guy Harvey Research Institute of Nova Southeastern University in Dania Beach, Florida, and his colleagues. They used DNA fingerprint analysis to test for parental markings, and the embryo showed no evidence of having a father. This study concerning a shark named Tidbit and this phenomenon was published in the Oct. 10 Journal of Fish Biology; if you want to look it up for yourself. I am sure you can find more in other news sources too.

Asexual reproduced is certainly not an unknown phenomenon, however it has previously only been observed in birds and reptiles, and they use a different type of asexual reproduction called parthenogenesis. Also asexual reproduction is quite a common phenomenon among prokaryotic organisms, which has been known much longer than eukaryotic asexual reproduction. Perhaps there is also some truth to Jurassic Park; “life…finds a way”.