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"Annastefka " wrote:
Occasionally and without merit the world and the people who reside in it may present themselves as truly
fucked up.
Under this category you would have:
"21 year old man chopped up into pieces over drugs or cheating with someone else’s girlfriend issue."
"Woman beats up child at nursery."I stayed in bed trying not to want to throw up yesterday. I think it’s coming back…
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Quote:We live in a green world, but the ancient Earth could have been wrapped in a purple mantle.The eldest microbes might have employed another molecule than chlorophyll to get advantage of the Sun’s energy. Chlorophyll absorbs mainly blue and red wavelengths of the sunlight and as it reflects green ones, the plants appear as such for us.
But the green waves contain the highest energy level of the visible spectrum. “Why would chlorophyll have this dip in the area that has the most energy?â€
That’s very interesting. I like the idea of the plum. But, what if it’s the other way around? When a plum begins to grow, before it matures, it doesn’t immediately reflect purple, it reflects green
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MANCHESTER, N.H. – A burly 64-year-old retiree who resembles jolly old St. Nick will be going mano a mano with other contestants in a national title bout — in Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Ray Scott won the New Hampshire title by advancing through eight rounds of tournaments at Manchester bars and pubs. With his white beard and spectacles, fans cheered "Go Santa Go" during the New Hampshire finals earlier this month.
Next month Scott heads to Las Vegas to compete in the USA Rock, Paper Scissors League’s national competition. If he makes the right move, he wins the $50,000 grand prize. The competition will be broadcast on ESPN.
Scott says he focuses more on showmanship than strategy.
"I don’t have a strategy. I can’t be thinking ‘What’s he gonna throw?’" he said. "I just throw something."
He said he enjoys hamming it up for the crowd, walking into a room with a coat draped over his shoulders like a cape, having a friend put lotion on his hands and his daughter dab sweat from his brow. He plans to step it up for Las Vegas.
"I’m wrestling with the costume issue," he told the New Hampshire Union Leader.
"I have a very nice Father Christmas outfit — not one of those tacky Santa suits — but I wonder about little kids seeing Santa in Vegas. What would I say to them?"
Makes me proud to have been born in New Hampshire.
Sunbathing Alligator Nabbed in Long Island
AP
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. (April 23) – Humans weren’t the only species basking in the Northeast’s warm weekend weather, as police helped capture a small alligator sunbathing by a small pond in this Long Island town.It was a startling sight on Saturday in a community just 35 miles from Manhattan. The American alligator is native to the South and it is against New York law to own one, said Ray Gross, chief of the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Green with yellowish stripes and roughly 2 feet long, the animal appeared to be about 3 years old, Gross said.
County police helped capture the alligator, which "wasn’t too happy to see us," said Officer Vinny O’Shaughnessy.
"We were incredulous at first, but then we knew that we had to do something about it," he said.
The SPCA is looking for whoever may have released the alligator. That person could face animal cruelty charges, Gross said.
He said the animal had probably been raised in captivity and would be unable to fend for itself in the wild.
Next month Scott heads to Las Vegas to compete in the USA Rock, Paper Scissors League’s national competition. If he makes the right move, he wins the $50,000 grand prize. The competition will be broadcast on ESPN.
holy shit.. that sounds like a good job for a mind reader… ill bet david blaine could beat anyone.
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Quote:Canadian ‘poppy coin’ culprit behind U.S. spy warningStory Highlights
• Defense Department issued warning that coins had radio frequency transmitters
• Agency said mysterious Canadian coin found planted on U.S. contractors
• The 25-cent piece with red image of a poppy commemorates Canada’s war dead
• Espionage claim about "poppy coins’ later disavowed after international uproarAn odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a U.S. Defense Department false espionage warning earlier this year about mysterious coin-like objects with radio frequency transmitters.
The harmless "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them.
The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nanotechnology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.
The silver-colored 25-cent piece features the red image of a poppy — Canada’s flower of remembrance — inlaid over a maple leaf. The unorthodox quarter is identical to the coins pictured and described as suspicious in the contractors’ accounts.
The supposed nanotechnology actually was a conventional protective coating the Royal Canadian Mint applied to prevent the poppy’s red color from rubbing off. The mint produced nearly 30 million such quarters in 2004 commemorating Canada’s 117,000 war dead.
"It did not appear to be electronic [analog] in nature or have a power source," wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. "Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire-like mesh suspended on top."…
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/07/canadian.coin.ap/”>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/ … n.coin.ap/
paranoia rules…
Voracious Jumbo Squid Invade California
MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Jumbo squid that can grow up to 7 feet long and weigh more than 110 pounds are invading central California waters and preying on local anchovy, hake and other commercial fish populations, according to a study published Tuesday.
An aggressive predator, the Humboldt squid – or Dosidicus gigas – can change its eating habits to consume the food supply favored by tuna and sharks, its closest competitors, according to an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
"Having a new, voracious predator set up shop here in California may be yet another thing for fishermen to compete with," said the study’s co-author, Stanford University researcher Louis Zeidberg. "That said, if a squid saw a human they would jet the other way."
The jumbo squid used to be found only in the Pacific Ocean’s warmest stretches near the equator. In the last 16 years, it has expanded its territory throughout California waters, and squid have even been found in the icy waters off Alaska, Zeidberg said.
Zeidberg’s co-author, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute senior scientist Bruce Robison, first spotted the jumbo squid here in 1997, when one swam past the lens of a camera mounted on a submersible thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface.
More were observed through 1999, but the squid weren’t seen again locally until the fall of 2002. Since their return, scientists have noted a corresponding drop in the population of Pacific hake, a whitefish the squid feeds on that is often used in fish sticks, Zeidberg said.
"As they’ve come and gone, the hake have dropped off," Zeidberg said. "We’re just beginning to figure out how the pieces fit together, but this is most likely going to shake things up."
Before the 1970s, the giant squid were typically found in the Eastern Pacific, and in coastal waters spanning from Peru to Costa Rica. But as the populations of its natural predators – like large tuna, sharks and swordfish – declined because of fishing, the squids moved northward and started eating different species that thrive in colder waters.
Local marine mammals needn’t worry about the squid’s arrival since they’re higher up on the food chain, but lanternfish, krill, anchovies and rockfish are all fair game, Zeidberg said.
A fishermen’s organization said Tuesday they were monitoring the squid’s impact on commercial fisheries.
"In years of high upwellings, when the ocean is just bountiful, it probably wouldn’t do anything," Zeke Grader, the executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations. "But in bad years it could be a problem to have a new predator competing at the top of the food chain."
Oh no, my ShamWow boyfriend is cheating on me!
ShamWow Guy Arrested For Beating Prostitute On South Beach
By Kyle Munzenrieder in The Z List
Friday, Mar. 27 2009 @ 4:45PMVince Shlomi is colloquially known as "that creepy guy from the ShamWow commercials" — you know those dumb super-absorbent cloths that go for $19.99 plus shipping and handling (if you act now!). He’s currently on top of the infomercial world, and enjoying all the perks that come with it, like stays on South Beach and prostitutes.
The Smoking Gun today reveals that in February Shlomi was arrested after a violent confrontation with a prostitute at the Setai. He met the working girl, Sasha Harris, at a club and took her back to his fancy $750-a-night room around 4 am. He offered her $1000 for sex, and proceeded to kiss her, but Harris bit down on his tongue and wouldn’t let go. So he punched her until she released. Harris was left with lacerations and bruises on her face. Shlomi sustained minor injuries as well.
Earlier this month prosecutes declined to press charges on either party, and it seemed like this little PR mess would be cleaned up as easily as any of the messes in his commercials. Unfortunately for him, The Smoking Gun never misses a chance to report on a wacky arrest.
Quick side note: The Police report said the two met at "Luigi’s night club located at 2377 Collins." Which is actually the address for Louis at the Gansevoort. So now our new name for Louis is Luigi’s, it sounds better. Also, what the hell? Miami Beach Police can’t keep their clubs straight.
Oh well, you’ll allways have your billionaire boyfriend to fall back to.
This sounds funny at first, but is actually immensely tragic;
A Maryland woman involved with a group described as a religious cult pleaded guilty in the starvation death of her son, but insisted that the charges be dropped when he is resurrected.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/31/cult.child.death/index.html”>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/31 … index.htmlReligious zealotry is one of the most dangerous things in this world and I feel nothing but sadness for that little boy.
It’s so sad that someone can gain so much control over a person that they can actually convince her to go through with such a horrific act. I dread the day when she realises what she’s done.
There is a fine line you saunter between religious fervor and being a down right cult. And I know I’m venturing dangerous territory here and definitely don’t want to offend anybody with religious beliefs but I have to cry bullshit at this entire concept. Now I’m going to bite my tongue and read the theory of evolution in silence.
I read that some schools in the us are forced to teach intelligent design instead of the theory of evolution.
That made my laughcry.200 + people died in an earth quake in Italy, 17000 were made homeless.
The Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi then made their sufferings much easier when he said that the survivors living in refugee style camps should view it as a camping holiday. Oh yes, smart man !http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/08/italy-earthquake-berlusconi”>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ap … berlusconi
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