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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: September 16, 2014, 5:52 pm
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A migrant life in a movable home
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[quote]After a day without landing a job, a dejected Xu watches
his daughter. For migrant families, having a livelihood is
basically a matter of luck. [Photo/CFP][/quote]
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[quote]Two children and their mom watch cartoons on a VCD player
powered by the van's battery in the cramped vehicle. The
privilege of watching a cartoon can last for only one hour due
to the limited capacity of the battery. [Photo/CFP][/quote]
Agelbert NOTE: I admire the grit of these folks. They are
DETERMINED to make it and tough it out no matter the adversity
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Lava Flow ON TOP OF A GLACIER!
By: AGelbert Date: September 16, 2014, 11:46 pm
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[move]FAR OUT! :o
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Video interview and MANY pictures at link below:
Tue Sep 16, 2014 at 12:25 AM PDT.
Bárðarbunga: Not Parrying Any Questions - An Interview With
Þorbjörg Ágústsdóttir
by
Rei
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Mammoth filmed by NAZI on death march?
By: AGelbert Date: September 29, 2014, 11:36 pm
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Mammoth filmed by NAZI on death march?
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: October 4, 2014, 10:40 pm
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Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core :o
19:00 12 June 2014 by Andy Coghlan
A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans
:o has been discovered deep beneath the Earth's surface. The
finding could help explain where Earth's seas came from.
The water is hidden inside a blue rock called ringwoodite that
lies 700 kilometres underground in the mantle, the layer of hot
rock between Earth's surface and its core.
The huge size of the reservoir throws new light on the origin of
Earth's water. Some geologists think water arrived in comets as
they struck the planet, but the new discovery supports an
alternative idea that the oceans gradually oozed out of the
interior of the early Earth.
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"It's good evidence the Earth's water came from within," says
Steven Jacobsen of Northwestern University in Evanston,
Illinois. The hidden water could also act as a buffer for the
oceans on the surface, explaining why they have stayed the same
size for millions of years.
Pinging the planet
Jacobsen's team used 2000 seismometers to study the seismic
waves generated by more than 500 earthquakes. These waves move
throughout Earth's interior, including the core, and can be
detected at the surface. "They make the Earth ring like a bell
for days afterwards," says Jacobsen.
By measuring the speed of the waves at different depths, the
team could figure out which types of rocks the waves were
passing through. The water layer revealed itself because the
waves slowed down, as it takes them longer to get through soggy
rock than dry rock.
Jacobsen worked out in advance what would happen to the waves if
water-containing ringwoodite was present. He grew ringwoodite in
his lab, and exposed samples of it to massive pressures and
temperatures matching those at 700 kilometres down.
Sure enough, they found signs of wet ringwoodite in the
transition zone 700 kilometres down, which divides the upper and
lower regions of the mantle. At that depth, the pressures and
temperatures are just right to squeeze the water out of the
ringwoodite. "It's rock with water along the boundaries between
the grains, almost as if they're sweating," says Jacobsen.
Damp down there
Jacobsen's finding supports a recent study by Graham Pearson of
the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Pearson studied a
diamond from the transition zone that had been carried to the
surface in a volcano, and found that it contained water-bearing
ringwoodite, the first strong evidence that there was lots of
water in the transition zone (Nature, doi.org/s6h).
"Since our initial report of hydrous ringwoodite, we've found
another ringwoodite crystal, also containing water, so the
evidence is now very strong," says Pearson.
So far, Jacobsen only has evidence that the watery rock sits
beneath the US. He now wants to find out if it wraps around the
entire planet.
"We should be grateful for this deep reservoir," says Jacobsen.
"If it wasn't there, it would be on the surface of the Earth,
and mountain tops would be the only land poking out."
Journal reference: Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.1253358
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[quote][font=times new roman]"In the six hundredth year of
Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the
month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep
broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain
was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."
(Gen 7:11-12 KJV)[/font][/quote]
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IBM sells loss generating Vermont plant to Ayrabs! LOL!
By: AGelbert Date: October 20, 2014, 2:48 pm
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IBM Paying Globalfoundries $1.5 Billion to Take Unit in Retreat
From Chips
SNIPPET:
IBM's Big Blues »
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technology group and integrated supply chain, said in a blog
post today, calling the deal “one more step in the company’s
reinvention.”
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The cash portion paid to Globalfoundries will be partially
offset by $200 million of working capital. IBM’s third-quarter
charge will account for the cash payment and a $2.4 billion
non-cash writedown on the business.
After months of on-again, off-again talks, IBM Chief Executive
Officer Ginni Rometty... Read More
Retaining Jobs
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/>Agelbert NOTE: See EMPTY PROMISES (LEGAL Predatory Limited
Liability employee shafting for translation...)
Globalfoundries will acquire and operate manufacturing
facilities in East Fishkill, New York, and Essex Junction,
Vermont, and also add IBM’s commercial microelectronics
business. The company said it plans to provide jobs for all IBM
employees
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aside
from a group that will remain with IBM.
The 10-year partnership and exchange of thousand of patents will
allow Globalfoundries to access key chipmaking technology and
guarantee supply ;) ;D of chips that IBM needs for its systems,
like mainframe computers and its Watson data-analytics
technology.
[move][font=courier]Related: IBM Plunges as CEO Abandons 2015
Earnings Forecast[/font][/move]
Read the full bit of innocent sounding predatory Capitalist
Puffery at link below.
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Another Agelbert NOTE: Tell me chillun', why does a stock PLUNGE
when the IBM conscience free (see NAZI partners in business in
WWII) predatory capitalist, employee shafting piggery strategy
(Vee must make ze profits for ze shareholders!
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announces that
they are offloading LOSING operations? ??? No, it's not because
of the lowered earnings per share, NOPE, NOPE, NOPE, don't be a
DOPE. ;D
Here's the way this SICK EMPLOYEE SHAFTING stuff works:
1) Corporation is losing money and wants to shut down a plant.
2) Politicians say corporations can't do dat because there is an
employment crisis in the USA and it will look "un-American".
ESPECIALLY since they want to sell the plant to rich Ayrab
despots who don't give three hoots about human rights or
employee benefits.
3) Corporation makes a "deal"
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announce the sale of the plant(s) to the "Silicon Valley" (good
PR!) based GlobalFoundries along with lots of crocodile tears
about lost earnings in the media. The fact that GlobalFoundries
is owned by Abu Dhabi is the fine print not be "overly and
irrationally" emphasized in the press releases. LOL!
4) About 6 months to a year from now massive layoffs occur in
said plants. IBM don't own em' so, it ain't dere problem. Mens
Rea in the STRATEGY to sell, maybe? YEP! Of course the lawyers
will, CORRECTLY, claim it's ALL LEGAL and MENS REA is for the
criminal code so, even if it could be proved, it's NO BIG DEAL.
;D
5) Towns with these plants go into a depression. In Vermont's
case, Essex Junction is IT for the whole state as far as the
economy. The only thing bigger is health care. Vermont will take
a massive hit. :P
6) THE IRONY IS SO THICK YOU CAN CUT IT WITH A KNIFE! Vermonters
are xenophobic right down to their microscopic DNA!. They don't
even want New Yorkers livin' heah; never mind having AYRABS OWN
the pride and joy of Essex Junction! Can you say schadenfreude?
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Vermonters claim to support democracy (especially the kind we
export to the Ayrabs in explosive packages... ;)) while taking
care to keep their town meetings very 'democratic' (as long as
you are the right - see very long list starting with COLOR). NOW
the plant in Essex Junction belongs to an UNDEMOCRATIC,
autocratic, RICH country which is intolerant of human rights and
anything else that threatens oligarchic rule. :o
Will Vermonters QUIT in protest? I don't think so. All that
money made from supporting WAR in the Ayrab world is about to
turn into a lesson in what not to do when your country wants to
wage wars for profit. What goes around, comes around. :P
7) The media in places like Vermont will do everything they can
to LIE about how "democratric" and "nice" the government of Abu
Dhabi is.
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But I admit, it will be fun to watch Vermonters pretend they
aren't fit to be tied by this "betrayal" of BIG BLUE. So how
come the stock took a hit today when IBM is going to make big
bucks in the long run from this (at the expense of Vermonters
and New Yorkers!)?
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BECAUSE one hell of a lot of Vermonters and New Yorkers OWN IBM
stock and are NOT happy campers!
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Believe what you will. The 7 parts of this CRIMINAL (but LEGAL)
Corporate two step are now nauseatingly common in the USA.
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/>They grow ever more clever (with the aid of the Fascist
handmaiden, the COURT SYSTEM and the conscience free LAWYERS
that run it) in, with malice and aforethought, finding ways to
legally pay slave wages to employees. Have a nice day.
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[font=times new roman]A man is usually more careful of his money
than of his principles.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Beware how you take away hope from any human
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[font=times new roman]Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.[/font]
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Antares rocket goes boom
By: AGelbert Date: October 31, 2014, 2:01 pm
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Press react like normal human beings (for a change) when Antares
rocket goes boom.
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: November 23, 2014, 2:12 pm
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How Old Is the Oldest Known Tortoise? ???
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Hi! My name is Jonathan. I was born in 1832 and I'm STILL
ALIVE!
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A Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan is the oldest known
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/>Residing on the tropical island of Saint Helena in the South
Atlantic Ocean, Jonathan was brought to the island in 1882. He
was estimated to be about 50 years old at the time of his
arrival, and is the only survivor of the four tortoises brought
to Saint Helena. Giant tortoises are among the longest living
animals on the planet, and though to live over 200 years. Yet it
is difficult to confirm this idea as the tortoises usually
outlive the people studying them. Besides Jonathan, other giant
tortoises have lived well into the history books: Harriet at
176, Esmeralda at 170, and Adwaita whose lifespan was measured
to be 255 years.
More about tortoises:
•While the term "turtle" refers to any shelled reptile,
tortoises are those that only live on land and cannot swim.
•The shell of a tortoise or turtle is fused bone and contains a
rib cage, spinal cords, and nerve endings. The nerve endings
allow the creatures to feel movement against them.
•Eleven species of giant tortoises live on the Galápagos islands
as of 2014. When Charles Darwin arrived at the islands 1835,
there were 15 species. The tortoises are listed as endangered
species and protected by the Ecuadorian government.
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Respect your elders, you young punks!
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Stop fouling your nest!
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: November 27, 2014, 5:23 pm
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Floating ZIP CODE ;D
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A mail boat called the J.W. Westcott II is used by the US Postal
Service and has its own zip code: 48222. The boat is used to
deliver mail to other ships on the Detroit River, and is the
only floating post office in the world that delivers mail to
moving ships. In 1895, the floating post office began ferrying
mail to passing ships via rowboat, then updated to a 45 foot (14
m) ship in 1949. All mail can be delivered to crews on ships
traveling on the Detroit River by being addressed "Vessel Name,
Marine Post Office, Detroit, Michigan, 48222."
More about zip codes:
•Zip codes are used by other delivery companies such as FedEx,
United Parcel Service (UPS), and DHL.
•Zip codes are used to gather geographical statistics in the US,
as well as marketing to provide purchasing-pattern data. ;)
•The US Postal Service started using two-digit zip codes for
large cities in 1943. By 1983, the postal service started to use
expanded zip codes called "ZIP + 4" in order to identify certain
segments within the general zip code area.
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: December 2, 2014, 8:51 pm
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Why Do Americans Refrigerate Eggs? ???
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Americans refrigerate eggs because of US federal food safety
regulations that require chicken eggs to be washed prior to
sale. The process of washing eggs actually exposes them to
bacteria because it destroys the outermost protective coating of
the shell that keeps bacteria and other microorganisms from
penetrating it. :o :P :(
Refrigerating the eggs after washing helps prevent
microorganisms from reaching within the porous shell. Egg
refrigeration is not common in other countries 8), with the
exception of Japan and Scandinavia, because of differing food
safety standards that do not require washing beforehand.
Instead, hens are required to be vaccinated against illnesses
prior to laying eggs.
More about eggs:
•The US produces around 75 billion eggs each year, accounting
for 10% of the total world egg supply.
•A hen lays an average of 250 eggs annually and most eggs are
laid between 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. due to computer-controlled
lighting in henhouses that stimulates egg production.
•The shell comprises approximately 9 to 12% of the weight of an
average egg, and each shell contains up to 17,000 tiny holes.
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Re: Non-routine News
By: AGelbert Date: December 3, 2014, 8:54 pm
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One Hamburger Contains the Meat of How Many Cows? :o :P
One hamburger contains the meat of up to approximately 100 cows.
This is due to how ground beef is processed: cuts of beef that
are not desired to be used in their whole state for steaks or
roasts, for example, are gathered and ground up in a tenderizer.
This compilation of scraps makes it likely that a package of
ground beef may contain meat from many cows. The cheapest
varieties of ground beef are often used for low cost hamburgers
for fast food restaurants and will generally be the most likely
to contain the highest number of less desirable scraps of beef
from 100 cows or so.
More about ground beef:
•Americans consume approximately 14 billion hamburgers every
year and 80% of households eat beef at least once every two
weeks.
•French fries are the most common side dish to accompany
hamburgers. An estimated 31% of all burgers are served with a
side of fries, followed by chips at 13%.
•Ground beef is the most popular form of beef, comprising over
half of all beef sales.
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