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Me thinks he uses four of these which would be around 200 lbs of thrust see: http://www.jetcatusa.com/p200.html
When I saw the ohotos of this my first thought those are jet cat turbines.
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Enjoy it while we can - iff what NASA wants for US Transportation becomes manifest, by 2050 American teenagers will have to also get Aircraft Pilot-Mechanic, Space = Starship operat licenses WHEN THEY FIRST DEMAND TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE A [JETSONIAN = FLYING] CAR.
D **** NG IT, FROM WHERE "BACK TO THE FUTURE'S DOC BROWN CAME FROM, THEY DON'T NEED "ROADS"!
Muslim students, including trainee doctors on one of Britain's leading medical courses, are walking out of lectures on evolution claiming it conflicts with creationist ideas established in the Koran.
Professors at University College London have expressed concern over the increasing number of biology students boycotting lectures on Darwinist theory, which form an important part of the syllabus, citing their religion.
Similar to the beliefs expressed by fundamentalist Christians, Muslim opponents to Darwinism maintain that Allah created the world, mankind and all known species in a single act.
Steve Jones emeritus professor of human genetics at university college London has questioned why such students would want to study biology at all when it obviously conflicts with their beliefs.
For the money and prestige of being a doctor, silly.
I have news for them...
Earlier this year Usama Hasan, iman of the Masjid al-Tawhid mosque in Leyton, received death threats for suggesting that Darwinism and Islam might be compatible.
Sources within the group Muslims4UK partly blame the growing popularity of creationist beliefs within Islam on Turkish author Harun Yahya who, influenced by the success of Christian creationists in Ame
rica, has written several books denouncing Darwinist theory.
Yahya associates Dawinism with Nazism and his books are and videos are available at many Islamic bookshops in the UK and regularly feature on Islamic television channels.
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Yahya associates Islamism Dawinism with Nazism and his books are and videos are available at many Islamic bookshops in the UK and regularly feature on Islamic television channels.
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teaching Biology without Darwinism would be like teaching economics without Ricardo, Hayek and Smith.
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I can hardly wait for Yahya's next book:
"the earth is not round and it stands on the backs of four elephants who stand on a giant sea turtle who stand on giant serpent who......."
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Sounds like the Musicians of Bremen fairy tale, Fat Bob.
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My quran sez that Alexander the Great reached the place where the Sun sets, and found a tribe of swamp dwellers. But...if the Sun can be shown not to set on Earth, then maybe the quran would be better used for toilet paper.
A naked woman in a city's central square is bound to attract attention, which is exactly what Ukraines Femen group is hoping for with a series of high-profile demonstrations against the abuse of women's rights which has made the news across Europe.
And as RT found out, the Ukrainian feminists are ready to conquer new horizons.
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This will get lots of attentionbut in the end the folks in power are u likely to do much because so many of the women's rights violators. Sling to a protected class (by religion) and nobody wants to be seen as a hater. They say the right things and enjoy the boobies on display and go about their business
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This may have more of an impact, as when women start forming a consensus, the Lysistrata effect comes into play.
The truth is that if women as a group want something, they will probably get it. As someone observed, "When women stand up, men sit down. And shut up."
In her first interview on the subject with the Western press, Tatyana Limanova insisted that the middle finger had not been an insult but an indication to the television crew to raise the autocue.
Miss Limanova said she had not been brought up to make rude gestures and that most people had reacted to a simple misunderstanding with humour. She was horrified to discover that she had become known worldwide for the incident.
"The world is unfair," she told The Daily Telegraph. "I did not consider it necessary to justify myself (at the time) because it was so absurd. You can either take it seriously or view it as a curious incident. Most people in Russia reacted to it with humour.
"I really did not enjoy the celebrity. I am quite a private person and I was happy to remain famous in only narrow professional circles. It was unpleasant."
Speaking about her sacking by Russia's REN TV channel she added: "They summoned me on the day it happened for an explanatory chat and said they would be considering my future and then thought about it for a long time. After it went viral on the internet they fired me."
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"Raise the autocue" > Uh, uh, BECAUSE IT WAS TOO HARD TO USE THE [more approriate]FOREFINGER???
Or Other???
Not convinced - either someone in the crew asked her while on-air for a date, asked for sex, or else hated her or her writing/journalistic style.
Presuming, of course, that it wasn't a poke at Vlad + Dimitri.
* SPACEWAR > DID US CLIMATE WEAPON [Haarp = Alaska-based]KNOCK OUT RUSSIAN SPACE PROBE.
Iff youse are wondering why the Motherly Commie Airborne [North Koreans?] would invade ALCAN to arrest Siberia-watching, ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, well wonder no more!
* SAME > IRAN "BUILDS ITS OWN MISSLE DEFENSE SYSTEM".
Yokay, I'll bite, isn't taking over Russia's aersopace defense forces + missle sys part of COUNT DOOKU = DOKU UMAROV'S = ISLAMIC EMIRATE OF THE CAUCASUS' JOB DESCRIPTION ALA CHECHYA INSURGENCY???
A rare sight in hard-luck Youngstown, a new industrial plant, has generated hope that a surge in oil and natural gas drilling across a multistate region might jump-start a revival in Rust Belt manufacturing.
The $650 million V&M Star mill, located along a desolate stretch that once was a showcase for American industry, is to open by year's end and produce seamless steel pipes for tapping shale formations.
It will mean 350 new jobs in Youngstown, a northeast Ohio city that is struggling with 11 percent unemployment.
V&M Star's parent company Vallourec, based in Boulogne-Billancourt, La Belle France, hopes increased interest in shale formations will produce a ready-made market.
Vast stores of natural gas in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations have set off a rush to grab leases and secure permits to drill. Industry estimates show the Marcellus boom could offer robust job numbers for 50 years.
Similar hopes are alive in Lorain, Ohio, where U.S. Steel will add 100 jobs with a $100 million upgrade of a plant that makes seamless pipe for the construction, oil-gas exploration and production industries. Erin DiPietro, a company spokeswoman in Pittsburgh, said the expansion will make the Lorain operation more competitive and help it tap into expanding shale developments.
The mayors of both Ohio cities see a chance to revive manufacturing through shale drilling.
"For every manufacturing job there are between five and seven ancillary jobs created within the community that support those manufacturing jobs," said Lorain Mayor Tony Krasienko. His city has a 10.6 percent unemployment rate.
Companies are trying to spin off more work from shale development, and every bit will be a plus, according to Youngstown Mayor Charles Sammarone. "I just know this: the money they will spend will help the economy," he said.
Those benefiting from shale development include American Railcar Industries of St. Charles, Mo., with an order backlog that is the largest since 2008. The company, with operations across the U.S, was helped by demand for freight cars used in the shale industry.
One of the biggest manufacturing projects on the shale developing horizon is the plan for a multibillion-dollar Shell Oil Co. petrochemical refinery. Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia are competing for the plant, which would convert natural gas liquids to other chemicals that go into everything from plastics to tires to antifreeze.
"What they're talking about at this stage is, you're looking at the next gold rush," said Martin Abraham, science-engineering dean at Youngstown State University.
One study backed by the oil and gas industry predicted developing oil and gas reserves could create or support more than 200,000 jobs in the next four years just in Ohio, where Hess Corp. recently made a series of mineral-rights purchases worth $750 million.
But the project is not without controversy.
Susan Helper, a Case Western Reserve University professor who studies manufacturing issues, said such job projections are suspect, in part because the estimate of natural gas reserves may be inflated.
She said the industry and politicians have a self-interest in rosy projections. "It's a way of saying to environmentalists and others that say slow down, 'Gee, you're preventing all this potential great job growth here'," she said.
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"It's jus' like th' good ol' days, Clyde. I wants me some uniom..."
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>It will mean 350 new jobs in Youngstown, a northeast Ohio city that is struggling with 11 percent unemployment.
More than that! That's just the direct employment. Probably another 100 or so indirect jobs created.
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Obama has already put a stop to drilling in Wayne National Forest in SE Ohio to placate the eco-wackos in his base. The Obama EPA is also closing coal fired electric plants in Ohio.
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In August, the U.S. Geological Survey said the Marcellus Shale region from New York to Ohio contains some 84 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, recoverable natural gas, far more than thought nearly a decade ago. Some geologists have put the figure even higher, but those estimates are controversial.
The Utica formation covers much of eastern Ohio and crosses through New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Permits allowing hydraulic fracturing in Ohio's portion of the Marcellus and the deeper Utica Shale have risen from one in 2006, to four in 2009, to at least 32 this year, state records show. Pennsylvania has nearly 3,500 Marcellus wells sunk, most since 2008, and more than 500 permits have been issued this year in West Virginia.
How did all those permits get past the tree-huggers? Were they all focused on the BP spill? Maybe that was the plan!
Environmentalists are critical of the process, which utilizes chemical-laced water and sand to blast deep into the ground and free the shale gas. Critics fear the process itself or the drilling liquid, which can contain carcinogens, could contaminate water supplies, either below ground, by spills, or in disposed wastewater.
I suspect all the fracking occurs well below the drinking water table, certainly so for the deeper Utica formation.
Mark Brownstein, an attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund, said it's up to regulators and drillers to make sure shale industry jobs are created while protecting the environment.
That seems a particularly adult statement.
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Bobby Hello, and yes for your addition. A much larger seam is about 2000 feet down. Something like 8 feet thick. In the same areas. Technology I understand is not able just yet to tap this find.
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I posted two links related to this subject. The HufF and Puff and Ice age now. They didn't take so I guess it was considered spam. The November 7th quake was determined to be not related to fracking or oil wells. We are in a very active earthquake and volcanic period. Oklahoma city is on top of one shallow quake should we relocate it. The magnetic North Pole has been moving 40km/year towards Moscow. Titanic events are occurring 24/7 under our feet.
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I posted two links related to this subject. The HufF and Puff and Ice age now. They didn't take so I guess it was considered spam.
Dale, a great many more articles are submitted than the moderators publish. Rantburg focusses on the War on Terror, with a small admixture of other articles of interest. The articles you summarize are interesting, but not really appropriate for Rantburg, which is why they were not published.
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Voters are going to have to dump this current administration to get out of the dumper and for there to be any real (as opposed to sham green) energy- related jobs.
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I will say the oil shale boom has sent the price of recreational property through the roof here in Ohio and in parts of Kentucky. Doubled, in some cases. Some people are being paid as much for mineral rights as they paid for their land originally.
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Rob Crawford yes but also farmland. Good farmland is being purchased at record prices. I know the Japanese were purchasing among other things cemeteries. Food production looks to be the ticket for investment.
[Telegraph UK] British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain.
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Occupy protesters in Los Angeles and Philadelphia faced eviction from their encampments Sunday as frustrated city officials complained that two months of squatting posed public-safety issues and interfered with city business.
Well, yes. That is the point, after all.
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Yeah, they've been squatting in more ways than one and it's taken Tony Viagroso two months to figure it out. Genius. Pure genius.
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Democrats finally realized the OWS protesters would be toxic come election time. Time to ditch them and hope American forgets so the media can reconstruct the fable from whole cloth.
Canada will announce next month that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, CTV News has learned.
The Harper government has tentatively planned an announcement for a few days before Christmas, CTV's Roger Smith reported Sunday evening.
The developments come as Environment Minister Peter Kent prepares for a climate conference in Durban, South Africa that opens on Monday, with delegates from 190 countries seeking a new international agreement for cutting emissions.
At least 11 people have died after an Indonesian bridge, built to resemble San Francisco's Golden Gate, collapsed, hurling dozens of vehicles into a river. More than 30 people are believed to be missing after the 720-metre-long bridge over the Mahakam river collapsed.
"The number of people killed were 11," East Kalimantan province's search and rescue agency head Harmoni Adi told reporters.
National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, who earlier put the toll at 10, said that bodies were washing up on the river banks.
"Thirty-nine people have been injured and based on reports by the community, at least 33 are missing," he told AFP.
"It's difficult to know exactly how many are missing because we don't know how many vehicles and people fell when the bridge collapsed," he said adding there was "zero visibility" in the river which is up to 40 metres (yards) deep.
In recent years, many top-selling brands including the 195-year-old Remington Arms, as well as Bushmaster Firearms and DPMS, leading makers of military-style semiautomatics have quietly passed into the hands of a single private company. It is called the Freedom Group and it is the most powerful and mysterious force in the American commercial gun industry today.
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It is owned by Cerberus Capital Management (that's a charming name, isn't it?) It's based in NYC and run by 51-year-old financier Steve Feinberg.
"His hobbies include game hunting, chess, skiing, and riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Steve and Gisela Feinberg are prolific donors to the Republican Party and related organizations. Former Republican Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle works for Cerberus as Chairman of Global Investments, and former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was a client."
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I'm sure both of his viewers agree.
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I don't think of the word uppity as being racist. Other people from a different time and place may have different connotations but to me it simply means that a person has aspirations. What's wrong with that?
Example: Having just defeated the San Diego Chargers and moved into second place in the NFL's AFC Western Division standings, the formerly last place Denver Broncos are beginning to get a little uppity.
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.
