It's hard to visualise but the intelligent and ever-friendly dolphin can also be a determined killer. New evidence has been compiled by marine scientists that prove the normally placid dolphin is capable of brutal attacks both on innocent fellow marine mammals and, more disturbingly, on its own kind. . . .
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Well -- she's not one of the 10 finalists, but, when they announced her name as being eliminated, audience responded loudly, and then, she drops to do push-ups, from the toes, in those pointed shoes! Half of the finalist contestants standing in that line, dropped and did the same!
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OS -- I was just trying to get some link to put there! I was actually watching, just to see this part.... and that was the first page I went to. I doubt TLC even has it up on their page.
(Secret) I did record and watch last night, their Reality Miss American. Last fall, the ladies were place in the "House" to live together, got instructions, did stuff, got judged, etc. etc. Winner and bottom three on each of the task (I didn't see any of them) ..... when the "advisors" were discussing the choices for the top three, the words the "advisors" had about her... "she's just military all the time."
That told me, forget you. So it was really special tonight, for the announcement. American did indeed vote for the Army SGT. Bet those "advisers" just didn't know what just happened.
A kinky sex escapade ended this week with the electrocution death of a Pennsylvania woman and the arrest of her husband for manslaughter.
According to cops, Toby Taylor, 37, first claimed that his wife Kirsten was shocked by her hair dryer. But he then admitted that the couple was "into weird sexual behaviors," according to a probable cause affidavit. Taylor then explained that he hooks clips to his wife's nipples and "plugs the cord into a electric strip" and shocks her. On Wednesday evening, Taylor said, Kirsten removed her clothes, attached the clips, and shocked herself. He then picked up the electric strip and shocked her several more times, adding that he had placed a piece of electric tape over her mouth during the jolts. After the last shock, Kirsten, 29, "fell over on to her face."
That's when he started in with the blender and the chickpeas...
Taylor initially thought his wife was joking, but quickly realized she was unconscious. He then dressed her in preparation for driving to the hospital, but instead called 911 when she stopped breathing. Taylor, pictured in the below mug shot, told investigators that the couple had "been engaging in electric shock sex and other types of extreme bondage for about 2 years." He was charged yesterday with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment and was jailed in the York Count lockup (where he remains in custody on $100,000 bail). Let this be a lesson for all you pervs out there! Next time, don't run the current across her heart!
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Used to be the media would show some resistance to printing this kind of current event story. I guess over time you can induce people to accept anything, increasing their capacitance for gruesome details until they actually get a charge out of it.
I know, bad grammar.
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Every time something like this happens, I think about the poor preacher, or whomever, who will have the job of delivering the eulogy at the funeral.
The worst was probably the guy in California who died as a result of an unnatural act with a horse. I guess the eulogist could cite his love for animals.
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Yes, the Germans learned a big lesson about having good roads in the region between Berlin and Beijing. It's a real challenge in the winter, I've read.
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"The test train was a success. We have demonstrated that we can transport goods by rail between China and Germany safely, reliably and yet twice as fast as compared with ships," Bensel said.
"At the same time, we are considerably cheaper than air freight for many types of cargo."
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Betcha there were no NORK railway cars there in the consist. Just sayin.
Looks like a great circle route takes one through Russia. If it is like Putin's natural gas politics, Germany could be held hostage if Putin is having a bad day. Just sayin.
Haven't looked on the Carbon side of the equation yet. Heh.
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01/26/2008 13:58 Comments ||
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They glave him is olers in Peking in China
First line of the Classic The Lek of the Old NinetyLeven
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Wasn't one of the EU muckety-mucks just fussing that China's exporting entirely too much to them?
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It looks promising, and is an interesting combination of gassification and bacteriological process (producing bacteria pi$$, or ethanol). I would withhold judgment until some serious scale-up is done, as there can be serious problems to overcome in scaling up the process.
Though, over it does look promising.
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01/26/2008 14:04 Comments ||
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over, meaning overall. PIMF
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My pickup will run fine on alcohol, put me down for 50 gallons a month.(16 gallon tank X 3 fillups, about average) Heck I'll even go 1.50 a gallon.
The hell with the muddle east.
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01/26/2008 16:06 Comments ||
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The heck with the pickup, I run just fine on PGA at a buck a gallon.
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Note that the pilot plant that will make roughly 100 gallons a day is a year away. I'm thinking that this is a strangely slow pace for something that sounds so good. Stock buyers: beware.
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If your car will get 20MPG on gas, it will probably get about 6MPG running on alcohol after seriou$ mechanical alterations to allow it to burn the boose. Alcohol has much less energy by volume. A 15% mixture is about the most alcohol that can be used without incurring higher overall operating expenses.
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The bottom line to both ethanol and biodiesel is raw materials. Any raw material that can be limited or restricted will in the long run prove to be unsatisfactory.
This leaves microorganisms. Specifically algae. As long as you have a container, water and sunlight, they will grow. If you pump waste CO2 and NOx gases through them, they will grow much faster.
Unlike corn, that has perhaps 3, 90-day crops a year, in most of the US, algae could be in continual production for 10 months of the year. It has no contaminants, heavy metals, or toxins to worry about. It produces zero pollution, in fact it consumes pollutants.
Almost 50% of the weight of some algae, with minimum processing, is vegetable oil, easily converted to biodiesel. Perhaps a few percent is ethanol.
Algae production can be centralized or decentralized. The market cannot be cornered, and even refinement cannot be controlled by a cartel. Even a farming co-op may be large enough to afford production and refinement for their own needs.
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Actually, ethanol has approximately 70% the energy density of 87 octane gasoline. However, alcohols need to be run in either supergcharged or turbocharge engines to yield the full capacity of the fuel. We commonly run our supercharged Chrysler Hemi at 32 Pounds boost on methanol and have no detonation. Methanol has slightly lees energy than ethanol. However, the real fuel for autos will be butanol, a 4 carbon alcohol which has approximately 88-90% energy density compared to 87 octane. This can be produced using algae/bacteria also. This research is being funded primarily by Shell oil. They have produced small lab quantities already. This could be exciting. If we utilize the new coal gasification whereby carbon monoxide is separated before burning, this could be used as feedstock for fuels, plastics, etc. F**k the camel lovers. Hugo, when we get up & running, we gonna piss in your shoe too.
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We run the piss out of methanol in our naturally aspirated 400 chev. Dirt tracks all over the country are running multiple classes on methanol with no boost. Runs just fine as long as the compression is high enough. Won't run worth a damn below 12.5-1. At 14.5 it runs very well.
Ethanol is burned all day every day with no boost. However, boost would be better. Automobile manufacturers could do themselves some great favors in terms pf gas mileage if they used smaller motors with turbos, or superchargers.
Or Hemis with 8-71's. Cuz thems just cooooool.
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I just love saying this guy's name.
Indonesias Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a former pilot for national carrier Garuda to 20 years in jail for the murder of a prominent human rights activist, a court official said.
The court overturned its own previous verdict, passed in October 2006, which cleared Pollycarpus Priyanto of a lower courts conviction and a 14-year jail term for the murder of rights lawyer Munir Thalib.
The case has been regarded as a key test of the governments determination to uphold the rule of law, as well as the accountability of several state agencies, including the spy agency. Munir, an outspoken critic of Indonesias military and its methods in quashing dissent and separatists in hotspots such as Aceh and Papua, died of arsenic poisoning while he was on board a Garuda flight from Singapore to the Netherlands in September 2004.
The Supreme Courts latest decision came after prosecutors filed a case review, presenting what they said was fresh evidence that Priyanto served Munir with a poison-laced drink while in transit in Singapores Changi Airport. You should try the inflight meal! *rimshot*
Oh yoohoo, Green Helmet Guy! Come out, come out wherever you are! We have another job for you!
An experimental helmet which scientists say could reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease within weeks of being used is to be tried out on patients. The strange-looking headgear - which has to be worn for ten minutes every day - bathes the brain with infra-red light and stimulates the growth of brain cells. Does it work better for bald folks then?
Infra-red light penetrates the skull. O-o-o-o-o-o-kaaaaay ....
Its creators believe it could reverse the symptoms of dementia - such as memory loss and anxiety - after only four weeks. What happens when the tinfoil hat crowd starts losing their ... uh ... "minds"? Oh, nevermind. Forget I asked. I just saw some white space and had to fill it with something.
Alzheimer's disease charities last night described the treatment as "potentially life- changing" - but stressed that the research was still at the very early stages.
How early?
Very early.
Around 70M 700,000 Britons have dementia, with around 500,000 suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Just kidding! But it seems there may be three more people with dementia than originally thought.
The helmet is the creation of Dr Gordon Dougal, a director of Virulite, a medical research company based in County Durham. It follows a study at the University of Sunderland which found infra-red light can reverse memory loss in mice. Do they use walnut shells for helmets?
Dr Dougal claims that only ten minutes under the hat a day is enough to have an effect. Err, go on.
"Currently all you can do with dementia is to slow down the rate of decay - this new process will not only stop that rate of decay but partially reverse it," he said. Perhaps for brain cells, but certainly not for your pocketbook.
Low level infra-red red is thought to stimulate the growth of cells of all types of tissue and encourage their repair. It is able to penetrate the skin and even get through the skull. Human skulls are somewhat thicker than mice skulls, with some being thicker than others. Is there any hope for MSM types? :-)
I'd order the 10,000 watt version for Cindy Sheehan ...
"The implications of this research at Sunderland are enormous - so much so that in the future we could be able to affect and change the rate at which our bodies age," he said. And our bank accounts, too!
"We age because our cells lose the desire to regenerate and repair themselves. This ultimately results in cell death and decline of the organ functions - for the brain resulting in memory decay and deterioration in general intellectual performance. That's funny. I thought aging was the result of cells losing their protective telomere tails over time! Somehow this glues them back on?
"But what if there was a technology that told the cells to repair themselves and that technology was something as simple as a specific wavelength of light?" Yeah! What if!
What if I could lose twentyfifty seventy pounds and grow my hair back? I'd be a lean, mean babe machine. Maybe I'll just wear an infra-red hoodie instead, sounds easier ...
The study at Sunderland found that exposing middle-aged mice to infrared light for six minutes a day for ten days improved their performance in a three-dimensional maze. In the human trials, due to start this summer, the scientists will use levels of infra-red that occur naturally in sunlight. I hope the mazes are bigger, and that the subjects like cheese.
Neuroscientist Paul Chazot, who helped carry out the research, said: "The results are completely new - this has never been looked at before." I wonder why.
An Alzheimer's Society spokesman said: "A treatment that reverses the effects of dementia rather than just temporarily halting its symptoms could change the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people. We look forward to further research to determine whether this technique could help improve cognition in humans." If it actually does work, and it might, I doubt it is because IR light is going through skin and bone. You may be able to stick any part of the subject under IR light and get the same effect. And that way they wouldn't have to wear Marvin the Martian's helmet and look like a dork.
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700,000 Britons have dementia, with around 500,000 suffering from Alzheimer's disease
Hey, Parliament sounds like Congress! Does this mean I will never forget about cu-kusandwich?
A Wednesday afternoon press conference touting big statements from various anti-Republican convention factions started out as some sort of Rush Limbaugh dream. Speakers from no fewer than five organizations took turns behind a podium in the Walker Community Church in south Minneapolis. The statements were prepared and read, and heavy on the type of college-dorm rhetoric "Republican virus," "comfort zone of diversity," "one stripe in the resistance rainbow" that makes the right salivate.
To top it off, the press conference was really just to announce an upcoming "Town hall meeting" at the church Saturday, where protest groups of all stripes will brainstorm how to best go about their brands of civil disobedience and hash out other minor details like, how to get a permit to protest, and where to actually do some protesting. The media will not be allowed at the Saturday meeting. Dude this cold weather is hard on bongs!
Approval has been granted to no other group or entity, however. What's the holdup? According to some in attendance, the St. Paul charter calls for permits to be considered six months before the event, which means, according to Aby, the city isn't even looking at applications until March. Snicker
"We have to move ahead, our plans can't be contingent on the city of St. Paul," she noted. "If we do wait for the city, it will be August 30 when we find out [about permits]. We're not stupid." Ah, yes you are....
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A kinky sex escapade ended this week with the electrocution death of a Pennsylvania woman and the arrest of her husband for manslaughter. 
