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Fluorine or Fluoride helps in hardening of teeth enamel and bones. Children consuming Flourine Rich Foods have stronger tooth enamel and bones, fewer cavities, and fewer bone fractures. Deficiency of fluorine can lead to decay of teeth, curvature of spine, and weak eyesight. However, consumption of more than 0.5mg per Kg body weight in children can leave to fluorosis, which manifests as white patches on teeth. Toxicity can cause painful and aching bones, stiffness, weakness, chalky white areas on the teeth, brown or pitted teeth, knots on the bones, rapid aging, increased rates of cancer, high death rate (up to three times higher in areas of high fluoride concentration in water supply), sagging and wrinkled skin, and scleroderma (hard patches of skin). Hence, it is pertinent to provide the right amount of fluorine and from the correct food sources to the children rather than resorting to additives and supplements.
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Water from fresh sources and fluorinated water is the best source of fluorine. Some other dietary sources are tea leaves, nuts (almonds), sunflower seeds, fresh fruits and vegetables like carrots, turnip and beet greens, dandelion, garlic, spinach, green leafy vegetables, and turnip greens.
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1. Tea Leaves: Tea can be introduced in the diet of children of a certain age group, and it acts as a good source of fluorine.
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I have often noticed that when someone wants to name a low-achieving skater, Amber Corwin comes up. I was just wondering, why is that? Is it because of her: 1. Horrible cheats 2. Laybacks that Dick hates 3. Practice outfits According to Frogs On Ice, 2001 US Nationals: "In practices in Boston, people were talking as much about Amber's sleazy practice outfits as they were about her skating. In one practice that I saw, she was wearing a leotard with so little fabric on the bottom that she had a permanent wedgie that she was continually pulling out again. I was told that at another practice, she was wearing transparent white leggings with thong underwear clearly visible underneath -- well, it would have been worse if she hadn't been wearing underwear....." 4. Tiara 5. Zzzzzzzzzz long programs 6. Results Maybe it's all of them. Hmmm... But I find it very funny. She has many amazing points: a never-failing 3toe-3toe, designing her own costumes, a degree in fashion merchandising, FSU Gay Icon status. Her Strawberry Tango program is very alluring.
Yes, we use "triple toe" loosely. I'd never heard about the sleazy outfits before. Wasn't she a fashion major in college and designed all of her costumes?
Between her pre-rotation, under-rotation and a host of millions of other jump technique issues, she'd be on a permanent -3 GOE from me.
Funny to think that under CoP, those 3-3's never would have counted, she probably would have ditched them immediately and not spent all those years trying to pull the wool over our/judges' eyes, and she'd probably never even be as much of a contender as she was. She had some nice points though.
For all her technical weaknesses, Corwin had gotten more out of her career than other skaters triple her talent. That's one skater I can honestly say, she made a good career given what she had. Another skater I can say the same about is Ryan Bradley. (OF course, let's wait until he retires to conclude...)
The 3-3's were ratified in the years that Amber competed under CoP (2003-2006), but they definitely wouldn't have been ratified under today's calling standards.
I wouldn't call it Amber bashing. Heck, she did more with her modicum of talent than anyone would have thought. The problem was that there was just nothing RIGHT about her skating. Her inherent movement and carriage was all wrong, reminiscent of Sarah Hughes. She really didn't have any reliable "triple". Her sal and toe were basically 2axels. Plus she fell all the time or severely underrotated on the higher triples. Her Audrey Hepburn routine with the same plastic tiara my sister had growing up was either gay icon status worthy or just flat out WRONG, hard to even figure that one out it was so WTF. Also, at 27 years of age with a fashion degree, one would have expected her presentation via costuming and makeup to have been considerably better. What junior college did she get that degree from? They should rescind it.
Yeah, did you notice when he created a whole bunch of publicity about his 100K dollar costume and then he withdrew in tears? So we never got to see this costume. Maybe Amber stole a few rhinestones off that costume and glued them on to her Princess Aurora tiara.
FWIW I think a lot of people in skating thought she should have gone off and done something else when it became apparent that she wasn't going to be pushed to the top - and so they resented her hanging around long past her alleged "prime". Plastic tiara aside, I always really liked her skating and thought she had some very interesting programs. I was also impressed that she seemed to keep competing just because she enjoyed it.
ah, memories. We had STAHS then Amber was not a purty skater, I thought some of her positions were downright awkward, but she did stick it out as long as Kwan did, if not longer. And she got that degree, which is hard for a skater to do while eligible. But I could swear her 3/3s were downgraded even under 6.0 at one point or another; I just can't remember the comps where this happened....can someone confirm this?
How could you tell? Required elements score lower than presentation score in a short program, suggestive of a mandatory deductions? But how would you even know what the deduction was for? Or maybe the judges just thought the technique had some other weaknesses on the jump combination or elsewhere, but the presentation was better than the technique.
Her 3/3 was not really underrotated, but it was badly prerotated. I don't know if prerotation are as bad as underrotation under the new CoP.
As far as I know, Kimmie only landed the 3 Axle once, at 2005 Nationals. That was the last nationals that was judged under 6.0.
I guess maybe because they were so prerotated, it was basically 2.5 rotations, I'm not sure though.. Anyhow, it was clear the judges dinged Amber for her jump technicque, I remember her technical scores were always low even when she skated cleanly (as low as 4.3 in the 2002 NHK Trophy and 5.2-5.7 for 7 triples at the 2001 US Nationals). And because of CoP's absurd underrotation rules, should would be screwed now.. And you guys should check this site out (takes awhile to scroll down though): http://www.craigheath.com/craigarticles.htm Amber's Ideal Day: "my perfect day would be to wake up at my beach house, walking to Pilates class while drinking a double tall, nonfat, extra hot latte with two raw sugars from Starbucks, listening to Sting, followed by a game of beach volleyball, lunch at an outside cafe with friends, a sushi dinner, going to a Madonna concert in the evening and finally sitting in a nice, quaint martini lounge with Diana Krall playing in the background."
a.) When I was looking up what I'm about to say, I found this oddity: Corwin: The Chronicles of Amber b.) I think this is pretty legendary: http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpchn05/SEG003.HTM I remember that date (Where were you when man landed on the moon?) - I had just joined FSU, and one of the first PBP threads I ever read contained a ton of, "WTF did Amber Corwin do to score 11 points TES in the SP?" It wasn't an incomplete program, no freak malfunction, and she wasn't an OES/OOS/OAS/ONAS. Daaayum. I think that's your #8. c.) There's something I've been wanting to say for years that I've only ever thought to myself, but it's so incredibly rude I can't say it here. But it would totally be reason #9.
She often prerotated those jumps, meaning by the time she launched herself into the air, her body was pretty much already facing forward like it would be with an axel jump--essentially making the jump easier to complete since, technically, only 2.5 revolutions were actually done in the air. It was a common tactic Amber used to disguise her jumping weaknesses.
She did have a remarkably long and fairly consistent career, during an era of baby ballerinas and jumping bean flameouts. so good for her to have showed up at US nationals well trained. She did seem to be the consummate student/athlete, determined to get her degree. I admit I did crack up at the tiara and headband diva outfits. For that alone, she earned icon status. Every year at nationals, the question would be: WTF is Amber wearing?
I preferred that tiara to the headbands. Those things make her look like she had a rash on her forehead.


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The lifelines of business suffered severely from the raging wildfire here in July, says a post-fire survey on the disaster's impact to local enterprises. And merchandise, employees, sales and profits suffered along with them.
"People look at the horrible devastation — burned houses, burned hillsides — and don't even consider the damage done to businesses that couldn't operate for days and weeks at a time," said Roni Holder-Diefenbach, executive director of the county's Economic Alliance. "We're just learning about the severity of those losses."
The Alliance's survey — "Operational Business Impacts Caused by the Carlton Complex Fire" — contained responses from nearly 200 businesses in the Methow Valley and Okanogan County. Businesses in tourism, retail and agriculture sectors led the list of respondents, but dozens of other categories were represented — from breweries to massage therapists to dog-boarding kennels to major manufacturers.
Some businesses even reported increases in revenue due to visiting firefighters and sales of emergency goods.
The Alliance sent out the survey July 26 — 10 days after the fire swept through the Pateros area and destroyed more than 130 homes — to collect information needed to qualify for emergency grants and funding from state and federal agencies.
The info was used in part to convince Gov. Jay Inslee and the state Department of Commerce to set aside $150,000 in funds for "tourism rehabilitation." And now, said Holder-Diefenbach, cities and chambers of commerce have joined to issue a call for a new marketing campaign that will recapture business in the last eight weeks of the area's busiest tourist season.
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Employees took a hit, too, said respondents. With power out for more than eight days, businesses were closed and employees lost wages. Some who lost houses and property were without shelter and food. Some were injured — "one broken ankle, one knee injury," said a respondent — while fighting back the blaze. Fears grew, said respondents, of permanent job losses.
Only one business — Alta Lake Golf Course — suffered severe structural damage. On July 16, the fire swept through the Alta Lake area and burned the facility's clubhouse, a maintenance shed and dozens of new golf carts. The manicured fairways and greens remained uncharred, but 52 homes were lost around the course's perimeter.
In total, the survey reported, business owners ranked "negative cash flow" due to loss of power and roads as the top impact from the fire. Increased expenses, possible employee layoffs and securing migrant workers for late-summer and fall orchard work were other concerns.
Tourism may have suffered most, the survey indicated. "Obviously, the loss of tourism will be ongoing through the end of the fire season," said one respondent. "We are fielding future cancellations, and reservations have dropped dramatically. It will be hard to calculate the loss of tourism due to (visitors') future plans being changed."
Said another: "We are a hotel in Winthrop. The main question we get, after a week with the power back on, is whether or not we are open and if there is anything left in the valley after the fire."
And another wrote: "Lack of tourism in this town kills the economy. That is all we have."
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"Independent contractor and realtor: Homes burned, land scorched making sales difficult to impossible. Loss of Internet, electricity and cell phones created canceled contracts, canceled (home) showings, canceled business and additional expenses … Took more time to fix issues due to lack of electricity, etc."
"The main thing we need is LOTS of customers. We make about nine months of our annual income in July and August. Our personal income for the next 12 months has already evaporated. We are now losing our operating income. Without some kind of economic aid, we will lose our home and business along with our entire retirement savings."
"We have an enormous cash flow emergency and need funds ASAP. We will not be able to cover our basic expenses, including payroll and business taxes. We will also struggle to cover payments to vendors. Our loss will be monumental."
One respondent added a more positive spin:
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When a user write a posts on his blog, if he had a picture, media (youtube video) … it does'nt appear on the homepage in the widget, but instead of that, there is their code (like [caption id=… [/caption] or [youtube ….. [/youtube]
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The recent activity and recent posts just show an excerpt of the full post. Looks like you are embedding media through a plugin. WPMU strips *all* the html and other stuff from the post for the small excerpt. Also many plugins hook the the_content() call which displays the entire post. Then your plugin gets a chance to do it's video embedding thing. Excerpts don't call the_content() they call the_excerpt(). Different way of showing post content and not processed by the vid plugin.
I understand that. Now a solution would be to use the get_the_excerpt() maybe instead of the bp function.
I have to work on it to understand how to use it
Depending upon what plugin you are using and where you can embed the shortcodes ([caption id=… [/caption] or [youtube ….. [/youtube]) it may work or not. Some of the plugins only work on full post displays that use the_content(). It all depends on what theme you are using and what kind of page you are looking at.
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And so are other elites who believe in his world-is-flat theories. The world is not flat, and these elites are shockingly wrong.
And so are other elites who believe in his world-is-flat theories. The world is not flat, and these elites are shockingly wrong.
Yeah its not flat, but it was made in seven days.
^ A comment from a small mind and an even smaller heart.
the unions win big in ohio at a cost of many mnolilis of dollars..one guestament i heard was 35 million .any bets on how much of that money came from taxpayers via green jobs and shovel ready projects ? how about stimulas payments ?talk about corney capitalism ..here is a poster child ready example.
Hey, someone born in India, living in Spain, speaking in English, on the Internet, to an international audience, saying the world's not flat.
Anyway, Ghemawat is largely correct. Friedman should have said, the world is flatter than it was, but that doesn't make for a pithy title. It is an overstatement.
Hey, someone born in India, living in Spain, speaking in English, on the Internet, to an international audience, saying the world's not flat.
You're making his point. You were probably one of those who thought the percentages much higher.
artist: You were probably one of those who thought the percentages much higher.
Um, no. We merely pointed out the irony. And we agreed with Ghemawat's overall point. The world is flatter than it was, but not flat. Friedman shouldn't have further argued the point.
Where is the irony?
He did not say there is no international interaction.
Friedman is a complete tool. After all he idolizes the toilet known as modern China. Left to Friedman, what's left of the west would fall apart quickly.
The questions I have are:
1. Given how sold out Friedman is on China ("All-In"?) and this guy is an Indian living in Spain, do either of them actually believe in individual countries having a say in this globalist schtick?
2. What are their views on the economic theories of Ayn Rand, Friedrich von Hayek, and Milton Friedman?
How well do you know your money and the Great Seal? Look at the back of a $1 bill:
"Annuit cœptis" (above the all-seeing eye) can be translated as a prayer "[God] favor [my] undertakings."
"Novus ordo seclorum" (below the pyramid) can be translated as "A new order of the ages." (I believe that is bigger than the so-call translation to "New World Order" that some folks believe and fear.)
"E pluribus unum" (on the ribbon in the eagle's beak) can be translated as "Out of many, one." Until 1956, this was the unofficial motto of the United States (replaced by "In God We Trust"). I think we did a disservice to the Nation with that as we do not all worship the same God; but we are all Americans whose emblems spoke of seeking favor from God who pulled us out of the rest and was helping us build a new order of freedom.
It may not be too late to ask Him to look on us, forgive our sins, heal our land, and give us peace.
Friedman wants the masses controlled. He will monitor the rest from his 32nd floor NYC penthouse, sipping on a $250 bottle of wine.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
by Rudyard Kipling, 1919
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Friedman and his ideas should be worshipped because he's a billionaire.
Saddam, Qaddafi, and Stalin were billionaires, too…
The family's trust declined in value from $3.6 billion to $25 million
do either of them actually believe in individual countries having a say in this globalist schtick?
Wake up Setnafta, it's not 1919 and it's not 1956. Time to get out of America. Today Galt would have moved to Singapore and moved his factories to China, Bangladesh, or Haiti. Kept his money in the Caymans and Switzerland just like Romney.
Apparently, the words of George Santayana are still true… And even those who DO learn from History are doomed to live surrounded by those who choose not to do so…
Galt is an imaginary character in a brilliant book by an atheist whose family was destroyed by a government run by gangsters whose allies included a corrupt church…
Romney, as stated by Bill Whittle, kept his money where he could get the best returns. The shame is not that he had money overseas. The shame is that the gangsters in America have made other countries seem like a better place to invest.
If you want to get out of America, then don't let the door whack you in the tailfeathers. Some of us think that when America goes, there won't be any safe places left.
I actuallt met the dwarf…err.. man… once. He is quite self absorbed and utterly convinced of his intellectual prowess. Genius in his own mind. He bored me to tears in two minutes of conversation. For the sake of my wife (whose company's conference he was a guest at), I bit my tongue and walked away…
Chalk that up on the things regretted in life.


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(NASA) - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business.
Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The image demonstrated that the camera is working exactly as it was before going offline, thereby scoring a "perfect 10" both for performance and beauty. The two galaxies happen to be oriented so that they appear to mark the number 10. The left-most galaxy, or the "one" in this image, is relatively undisturbed apart from a smooth ring of starlight. It appears nearly on edge to our line of sight. The right- most galaxy, resembling a "zero," exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI) The blue ring was most probably formed after the galaxy on the left passed through the galaxy on the right. Just as a pebble thrown into a pond creates an outwardly moving circular wave, a propagating ring of higher density was generated at the point of impact. As this excess density collided with outer material that was moving inward due to the gravitational pull of the two galaxies, shocks and dense gas were produced, stimulating star formation. The dusty reddish knot at the lower left of the blue ring probably marks the location of the original nucleus of the galaxy that was hit. Arp 147 appears in the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by Halton Arp in the 1960s and published in 1966. This picture was assembled from WFPC2 images taken with three separate filters. The blue, visible-light, and infrared filters are represented by the colors blue, green, and red, respectively. The galaxy pair was photographed on October 27-28, 2008. Arp 147 lies in the constellation Cetus, and it is more than 400 million light-years away from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) and is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) conducts Hubble science operations. The institute is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Washington, D.C. STScI is an International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA 2009) program partner. Feel free to discuss this article in this topic. |
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I could be wrong, but wasn't WFPC2 supposed to be replaced by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)?
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That's right, but why not use Hubble again when it's back to life?
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pfff, Hubble, no match for my photos, in my back garden, sat in england, in the rain!....... hehe! ...cracking image there!
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Trove, the website of the National Library of Australia, has, as of today, 310,226,952 Australian and online resources. Too bad we aren't all Australians, although I am sure they are glad we are not. As a matter of fact, some of my ancestors came to the United States from Australia in my Parkinson and Bryant lines, although they were not natives, having immigrated from England. I still have relatives that live in Australia and a niece that lives near Perth. When I was younger, I dreamt about going to Australia and particularly digging for opal in Coober Pedy. Now that I am much older, it looks like this is one dream that will never come true.
I have mentioned this website before several times, but it bears repeating. It is an example of what can be done if the powers that be are convinced that digital records are important. Here is a breakdown of the Trove collections:
Journals, articles and research | 139813780 | ||
Books | 17347395 | ||
Maps | 386375 | ||
Diaries, letters, archives | 529811 | ||
Lists | 27741 | ||
Music, sound and video | 2472666 | ||
Digitised Newspapers and more | 73829387 | ||
People and organisation | 908499 | ||
Pictures, photos, objects | 4812909 | ||
Archived websites (1996 - now) | 70126130 | ||
Total | 310254693 |


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Shaun Tanner has been a meteorologist at Weather Underground since 2004.
By: Shaun Tanner , 11:03 PM GMT on March 27, 2012
Okay, so it has been awhile. It is funny where the weather takes you if you let it. The weather has been quite busy lately, so I have been dashing around between tornadoes, West Coast storms, heat waves, and such. But, I am getting back to my lessons of teaching you all how the atmosphere works. My goal is to make you all experts by the time I am finished so you can make educated guesses about the atmosphere and climate change, rather than listen to experts on either side of the fence. If you are coming across this blog and want to get caught up, go ahead and look back at some of my old blogs from the end of 2011. They aren't the best writing you will ever read, but they are something.
Last time, we tackled the topic of daytime heating. The ground receives radiation from the Sun and then, in turn, it radiates energy into the atmosphere. The big note is that the Sun DOES NOT warm the atmosphere. The ground receives radiation from the Sun after passing through the atmosphere. Next, we will discuss nighttime cooling today.
Nighttime Cooling
Here's a big surprise...the atmosphere cools at night. Okay, I guess we are done with this part of the lesson. Everybody can go to sleep now.
For those of you who want to learn more, read on.
I am going to tell you something very simple, yet very complicated. It is a very important sentence that you have to remember throughout this lesson:
The temperature of an object will decrease as long as its emission of radiation is greater than its absorption of radiation.
There are some words in there you might not understand, so I will bring up the analogy of a bank account once again. Let's say your bank account balance goes up. That is the equivalent of your temperature increases. If your bank account balance goes down, your temperature decreases. When you put money into your bank account, that is the equivalent of you receiving radiation. If you withdraw money, then that is the equivalent of emitting radiation. With these ideas in mind, it is easy to see that if you withdraw (emit) more money than you deposit (absorb), then your back account will go down (temperature decreases). The opposite is also true.
So, why does temperature decrease at night? Don't think too hard about this one...THE SUN IS DOWN! Now, which part of the above absorption/emission problem is taken away when the sun sets? Absorption! So if you take away absorption, you are left with the surface only emitting radiation. If this is the only part of the equation, then of course temperature will decrease as long as the Sun is away from the surface.
The process at which the ground cools at night is called radiational cooling. It basically means that the ground cools because it radiates its heat away and into the atmosphere. But because the ground is a much, much better radiator of heat than the atmosphere, it loses its heat much quicker than the air. Thus, by late evening/early morning, the coldest part of the atmosphere is most likely to be the few feet closest to the ground. This is exactly why you should always build a survival shelter off the ground if at all possible. Even if you build the shelter a few inches off the ground you will be warmer than if you were to sleep directly on the ground.
So, if you think about it, a weird temperature profile sets up during the nighttime. When you have cold temperatures near the surface and warmer temperatures higher up in the atmosphere, this is called an inversion. There can be strong inversions in which a very cold surfaces transitions very quickly to warmer temperatures higher in the atmosphere, or there can be weak inversions that have a much slower change.
This brings up a very important topic. Inversions are very important to the atmosphere because they limit vertical movement. If you remember from an earlier discussion, cold air is heavier than warm air. That means cold air always wants to be below arm air. So, if you have an inversion with cold air below warm air already, that is the natural state of this. If you try to pull the cold air above the warm air, it will want to sink back down the surface. This, this inversion is inhibiting vertical movement. Because of this characteristic, inversions are often easy to spot even if you don't have a thermometer and a hot air balloon. Because of this inhibition of vertical movement, our normal tellings of vertical movement are not there. If you see large, billowy, vertical clouds, then you have great vertical movement in the atmosphere. However, if you see something like this:
Then this is telling of an inversion. Do you see how the clouds have a definite flat top? The clouds are being held down by the inversion.
Here is another example, but with pollution:
Very bad pollution episodes are usually accompanied by a strong inversion that prohibits the pollution from mixing high into the atmosphere.
So what nights do we get the strongest inversions?
Well, if you think about it, that is pretty simple. Since the temperature of the surface will cool as long as the Sun is away from warming it, then it would be logical that the coolest nights of the year occur in the Winter, with the nights are the longest. This is also when we experience the strongest inversions.
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After flapping my lips about how I'd never seen a carbon arrow break and stick into someone's hand...it happened. Not to me, but to a friend I encouraged to start shooting a bow.
The arrow was a brand new, never shot, Easton ST Epic out of a Diamond Rapture. He'd been shooting 3 of his arrows for practice and flexing them as warned by me and other shooters. He decided to shoot one of the remaining 3 in his case and didn't flex it because it had never been shot. The arrow broke in 3 pieces..the first 15" going just above his target butt into a backstop piece of plywood, the second 4" fell to the ground in front of the bow, the third piece pierced his hand just like the pics we have seen. He's being a good sport about it and not really complaining. He called Easton and they are really concerned, they are supposed to call him back today. He realizes aluminum could do the same thing, but says that the pieces would be easier to get out of his hand..LOL..
Flex-em boys and girls...every single one of them.


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A unique collection of evidence and theory is set out in this audio to reveal a new world order. Consider: 911, the Twin Towers, Pentagon deceptions, the sinister group known as Common Purpose, the moon landings - were they faked? Do these disparate elements share a common goal to rule the world? You decide.
©2009 Reality Entertainment; (P)2009 Reality Entertainment
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"it's a movie soundtrack"
It's kind of disappointing because it's just the audio track from a movie of the same name, which I had streamed from Netflix a few weeks ago. That said, the movie was okay, & so is the audio, but there's nothing here that you didn't hear in the movie. They spend about a fifth of the time replaying clips from the venerable "9-11: In plane sight", which is a movie that I highly recommend.
"Conspiracies need back up"
It wasn't concrete enough. But then I suppose it wouldn't be called conspiracy if there was a definitive concrete conclusion backed by evidence.
Narration was fine but needed a common voice as the glue to knit the interviews and commentary together.
Yes. This should be a monthly ongoing broadcast with updates on previous stories.
It's a bit of a catch 22 situation. Authors want people to take their work seriously but then they title their works with something inflammatory because they think it will sell better. The result is that readers don't give the work credibility as they would a news story. The irony is revolting. So called conspiracies are often TRUE...but because they carry the label
"Load of codswallop"
Audio of a video documentary... they talk about look at this and that and there is nothing to see except to visualize what they might be seeing...
It comes across as a couple of Englishmen sitting on a couch talking about their theories with not enough facts to support their accusations.
A lot of mumbo jumbo.
Not enough evidence
Sounds like something thrown together in somebody's lounge room. Definitely not very professional as an audio book.
All of them.
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In the story told by the Roman poet Ovid, Pygmalion is a
sculptor who falls in love with a statue he has created. George
Bernard Shaw borrowed the theme for his play "Pygmalion"—later
turned into the musical "My Fair Lady"—in which Professor Henry
Higgins makes over the Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle,
becoming besotted with her even as he teaches her how to speak
proper English ("The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain . .
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Psychologists, too, have picked up the motif, researching
what they call the "Pygmalion effect": the finding, as social
psychologist Robert Rosenthal puts it, "that what one person
expects of another can come to serve as a self-fulfilling
prophecy." Rosenthal and his coauthor Lenore Jacobson coined the
term to describe the striking results of an experiment they
carried out in a California school in 1965.
Students took a test that was said to be able to identify
"growth spurters," or those who were poised to make strides
academically. Teachers were given the names of pupils who were
about to bloom intellectually—and sure enough, these students
showed a significantly greater gain in performance over their
classmates when tested again at the end of the year.
But here's the thing: the "spurters" were actually chosen
at random. The only difference between them and their peers,
Rosenthal writes, "was in the mind of the teacher." And yet the
expectations held in the mind of the teacher—or the parent, or
the manager, or the coach—can make an enormous difference.
Research conducted since Rosenthal and Jacobson's original study
has determined that the Pygmalion effect applies to all kinds of
settings, from sports teams to the military to the corporate
Just how do elevated expectations promote greater
achievement? It's not some magical act of inspiration. Rather,
Rosenthal and others have found that higher expectations lead
teachers (or other authority figures) to act differently in
regard to the learner, in four very specific ways:
1. They create a warmer "socioemotional climate" for the learners
they regard as high-potential, often conveying this warmth
through non-verbal signals: a nod, an encouraging smile, a touch
on the shoulder.
2. They teach more material, and more difficult material, to
learners they see as especially promising.
3. They give up-and-coming learners more opportunities to
contribute, including additional time to respond to
4. They offer their "special" learners feedback on performance
that is more detailed and more personalized—not just a generic
"Good job."
It can be difficult to deliberately change our expectations
of others. But we can consciously change our behavior. By
adopting the set of behaviors above, we'll be acting like our
kids, our students or our employees have great
potential—potential that they'll more than likely live up
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22 Nov 2010 m0lly said
I got this advise from a friend who went on a tour, he told me just to bring a blanket because its HOT – especially in Paris if your'e going there. Although you never know what kindof bed you'll end up sleeping on so a sleeping bag probably wouldnt hurt – i plan on bringing a very lightweight sleeping bag on my tour
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24 Nov 2010 navygreengolf said
I did Europe in May 2010 (concept tour) and although it is hot in some places (like Paris) it can get very cold at night in others. Rome was particularly freezing at night, if I remember correctly. I had a Contiki sleeping bag (pretty lightweight) and it was sufficient. When it did get cold, I slept in a sweatshirt and long pants.
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29 Nov 2010 Explorer1217966 said
I would recommend taking a lightweight sleeping bag. I got one in Australia for $20 before leaving and it was great throughout my whole time over in Europe. I was there for 6 weeks. it is also handy for places like the Royal National hotel before your tour (if you're staying there) as sometimes it has bed bugs, so it's better to not sleep under their blankets.
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29 Nov 2010 Lindsey said
quote:Originally posted by Explorer1217966:
I got one in Australia for $20 before leaving
Where'd you get that from? I've been looking for one for a little while now, but it's hard to find one under $40 at the very least. Since I don't really plan on bringing it home, I don't really want to spend much more than $20 on it <!--graemlin::)--> - 0 people like this
30 Nov 2010 Lindsey said
Ta Praha, I'll have to look out for that!
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7 Dec 2010 Earl Squirrelson said
Hi Lindsey, I would probably a sleeping bag one in London when you get there, would be cheaper than oz, like 5 quid or so, and you dont have to carry it all the way…
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I have been working every night for the last few nights on my new blog. I finally went with Pro Photo Blogs, and have been most impressed with their customer service. There seems to be an infinite different things I can do to customize my blog...I think I have the color scheme I want, the layout I want, but I am now working on my pages, bio, and other links...it is great fun, though, playing around with all the options. It should be ready for viewing in a couple of days...exciting stuff!!
In the meantime, here is a photo for today's post...
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We work with the same camera (D800). It's a fantastic one and I've a lot of things to learn...
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Sometimes it feels like you have to own a purple dinosaur costume to prove you don't hate kids. Some kids are great, but saying you "love kids" is like saying you "love people".
There are some real doozies out there, and you cannot possibly make such a broad statement.
It was a chilly Wednesday a few weeks back, 6.30pm at my local pub, when children really started to bother me. While parents ignored their existence, one baby cried for 20 minutes, two five-year-olds played hide and seek amongst the beer taps, and a scattering of others made a fort out of barstools.
As I discovered that Wednesday evening, when all I wanted was a quiet drink and a friendly chat with the barman, kids - when in public during the witching hours between their 5.30pm fish finger dinner and 7.30pm race-car bedtime - are a nightmare. And I want to stay every sticky-fingered second out of it.
Now, I'm sure my temporary feeling of discomfort is worlds away from the constant horrors that come with dealing with children 24/7, but there you have it.
I can appreciate the need for parents to relax. But there are few places in the world that are truly "only adults allowed", and bars - establishments where adults are sometimes at their worst behaviour - should be at the top of that list.
It's important to get my "bar" terminology straight here. We are not talking the family restaurant; we are not even talking a beer garden during the daytime. We are talking after-dark drinking establishments that won't make a Traffic Light and have "food menus" comprising little more than olives and cured meats. We are talking British-style pubs with burly Scots pulling the pints. We are talking quiet corners stocking $200 champagne. Granted, we're not discussing hard-drinking, house-music clamouring clubs. But just because there's a Scrabble board in the corner, doesn't mean it's game time.
The bar is the one place non-parents can drown our sorrows, and we'd prefer them not to be overshadowed by those of a toddler. We don't want the pressure to play peek-a-boo.
We don't like pretending not to notice little trolls pulling on our hair. If we're doing any stumbling, it'll be because we've had one too many - not because we're circumventing little crawlers on our way to the loo.
We all know children are not quiet. Or rather, they're not predictably quiet. Kids can be well-behaved and polite, but there must be something about the sight of pint glasses or the smell of hot chips that turns them into over-excitable gremlins.
The best parents, of course, would leave the kids at home. They don't want to watch their spawn tipping over a glass of Pinot any more than you do. A relaxing trip to the pub is not worth the effort and apologies of herding children, surely. Seriously, Team Breeder: commit to a babysitter, and make a proper night of it.
Read more:
• How strict are you about mixing kids and alcohol?
• Is faux beer for kids okay?
Some parents are able to take their kids to bars and rely on them being well behaved (kids aren't animals after all), though from the eyes of a non-parent, these parents represent a very small minority. The bulk intent on dragging little people to alcoholic institutions let them run amok, with the expectation that they can abdicate caring responsibilities to the bar staff or other patrons.
From a non-parental point of view, kids in bars equal discomfort for all. We, onlookers, are uncomfortable because we're censoring ourselves, our language, and our fun because there are young'uns around. Bar staff, too, are uncomfortable because they worry if anything happens to your child under their roof, they're responsible. And the parents themselves are uncomfortable because they're so desperate for a drink they had to drag their kids with them - and now it's being ruined by over-tired minors.
The children themselves might seem perfectly comfortable at first. But when hurricane tempers blast through the room because they're tired and wired, they're uncomfortable too. And let's be clear: the kids aren't to blame for their floor-hugging tantrums because they're out way past bath time. Parents are.
Non-parents are also dismayed with the special treatment afforded to kids in bars. While we are paying $17 for a few slices of cheese and a quarter loaf of ciabatta, parents think it okay to BYO sandwiches and chippies and other bite-size distractions. Also, the loud and disorderly are thrown out pretty quickly, so why is throwing Barbie dolls around a pub and having a tanty on the carpet acceptable? A drunkard can't keep control of his behaviour any better than a toddler can.
I get it, parents. You miss the days without commitment. You want to retain some semblance of civility. Do the consciously un-parented a favour though, will you? I don't bring my booze to your preschool. Please don't bring your kids to my bar.


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Handbook on Integration II, 2007
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Cheryl Cole has revealed she'd love to be a judge on America's X Factor but admitted she's terrified they won't like her.
Cheryl says she would "love" Simon Cowell to ask her to join him on the talent show stateside.
She told Radio 1's Fearne Cotton on the Live Lounge show: "It's a really scary. It's like, why would they give a beep what I thought?
"I mean they don't know me out there and I've got this weird accent.
"But I love the thought of it. I'd love to do it and I'd get a buzz out of it but whether they would get a buzz out of me is a different thing."
Cheryl, who has split from husband Ashley Cole, was yesterday voted the most inspirational British woman of the decade.
The 26-year-old singer said: "There's not a better feeling that you could have than being an inspiration to someone else.
"I just love that feeling of being an inspiration to other women so it's the perfect title for me."
But hinting about her heartache she added: "There's going to be times when I make mistakes when I make a bad choice or whatever...but I'm hoping that's also an inspiration to women."
Talking about her future Cheryl said she had a "positive" outlook and spoke about how she may have had a few too many drinks with her Girls Aloud bandmates last night.
She joked: "It felt like a really good idea to have a couple of drink with the girls last night so I'm
feeling a bit worse for wear but the bronchitis has gone.
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HESPERIA — More than three months after a delivery van driven by Joshua Caleb Smith crashed into a car carrying a family of five, killing them all, prosecutors on Wednesday were still reviewing whether or not Smith would face criminal charges, according to San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office spokesman Chris Lee.
In the early morning of Mother's Day, May 11, Smith was traveling east on Main Street when his van crossed into westbound lanes and collided with a Honda sedan idling at a stop sign on Balsam Avenue, according to sheriff's Sgt. Doug Hubbard.
"The impact caused the delivery van to overturn, come into contact with a telephone pole and come to rest on the car," Hubbard said at the time.
The family inside the Honda, who were on their way to Disneyland, were killed and identified as Gerardo Cruz Jimenez, 30; Angelica Garcia, 25; Cindy Jimenez Garcia, 3; Ivan Jimenez Garcia, 2; and Freddy Garcia, 9, all of Hesperia.
Roughly six weeks following the crash, authorities fingered drowsiness from prescription drugs as the cause, ruling out speed and vehicular problems as possible factors.
Referring to the toxicology report for Smith, 30, Hubbard told the Daily Press in June that the incident was "not blatant."
"It wasn't like what you see all the time where someone leaves a bar drunk with twice the legal limit of alcohol," he said. "It's not just alcohol, you can drive under the influence of prescription drugs too and he just fell asleep. We don't believe he even knew he left the roadway."
— Staff writer Anneli Fogt contributed to this report.
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Miller Lite Blastoff
Can you believe it? The 4th of July is next week and Hartman Distributing, the City of Victoria are preparing for another great celebration! Thursday July the 4th the '2013 Miller Lite Blastoff' will take place at the Victoria Community Center grounds. The music starts at 6pm with a free concert by Two Tons of Steel and special guests The Scott Taylor Band. At 9:30pm the fireworks display starts and after the awesome fireworks there will be more free music by Rhythm of the Road! Admission is free and there will be plenty of food and drinks available so no ice chests please! Proceeds from the event will benefit Adopt-a-Pet!