Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Canadian Corporate News - Inter-Rock Nevada Mineral Properties Update.

Canadian Corporate News - Inter-Rock Nevada Mineral Properties Update.
January 14, 2008 -- TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jan 14, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Inter-Rock Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:IRO) recently announced that it had successfully...

Science News - Guide to Minerals, Rocks & Fossils
August 13, 2005 -- GUIDE TO MINERALS, ROCKS & FOSSILS A.C. BISHOP, A.R. WOOLLEY, AND W.R. HAMILTON This field guide provides in-depth descriptions and color...

Market Wire - Inter-Rock Minerals Inc.: Nevada Mineral Properties Update
July 30, 2008 -- Inter-Rock Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: IRO) -Stingaree ValleyGravity and induced polarization (IP) surveys were conducted earlier this year at the...

Independent, The (London) - Miner rocked by copper licence cancellation
September 3, 2007 -- Investors in Central African Mining (CAMEC) should have been aware of the risks before they bought into it, but events of the past few days will have...

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

FOSSIL - GENUINE ARISTOHARPES TRILOBITE FROM DEVONIAN

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Leonid Meteor Shower: November 19, 2006

Leonid Meteor Shower: November 19, 2006
Leonid near Orion. Image credit: Mark A. Brown Click to enlarge One of the best meteor showers of the year is about to get rolling, so make sure you mark

Higuain aura-t-il une deuxième chance ?
Le sélectionneur de l'équipe de France précise qu'il attendra de voir si le jeune Argentin continue à être "performant" ou s'il est juste une de ces "météorites" qui ne tiennent

Rock hounds unite in Knoxville Gem and Mineral Society
Meeting time: 3rd Thursday of every month, 7:30 p.m. Contact: www.discoveret.org/kgms/. P.O. Box 51554 Knoxville, TN 37950-0291 There's just something fascinating about finding ancient natural objects on or in ...

Early Mars Was Likely Habitable
The layering of minerals in an ancient Martian riverbed channel suggests that primordial Mars resembled primordial Earth, and may have been just as suitable for life.

Transcript Digest
The Concord Police Department is seeking applicants for its Volunteers in Police Service Neighborhood Patrol.

Canadian Corporate News - Inter-Rock Nevada Mineral Properties Update.

Canadian Corporate News - Inter-Rock Nevada Mineral Properties Update.
January 14, 2008 -- TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jan 14, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Inter-Rock Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:IRO) recently announced that it had successfully...

Australasian Business Intelligence - Rock solid prospects for miners.
July 10, 2007 -- Byline: Nina Wan Jul 10, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- High commodity prices have encouraged analysts to upgrade...

Market Wire - Inter-Rock Nevada Mineral Properties Update
January 14, 2008 -- Inter-Rock Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: IRO) recently announced that it had successfully raised proceeds of $250,000 to finance exploration of its...

Market Wire - Inter-Rock Minerals Inc.: Nevada Mineral Properties Update
July 30, 2008 -- Inter-Rock Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE: IRO) -Stingaree ValleyGravity and induced polarization (IP) surveys were conducted earlier this year at the...

Sienna Dahlen Quartet-Mineral Jazz Club

Sienna Dahlen Quartet-Mineral Jazz Club

Sienna Dahlen, Karl Jannuska, Chris Jennings and Pierre Perchaud in Gent, Belgium performing "Carrie"-June 3rd, 2008. Video taken by Nadine Bariteau.

Author: pepperoni25
Keywords: pop jazz rock noir sienna dahlen gent mineral club karl jannuska chris jennings pierre perchaud
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Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica
Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica
Google
41 min - 2007-07-23


Google TechTalks January 26, 2006 Dr. Monika Kress Dr. Kress was a member of the ANSMET 2003-04 Expedition. (ANSMET = Antarctic search for meteorites) http://geology.cwru.edu/~ansmet/ ABSTRACT Every year since the late 70's the US National Science Foundation has supported a team of space scientists to search for meteorites in Antarctica. Why Antarctica? The polar desert environment best preserves these precious samples of other worlds, which include shattered planetesimals, fragments of asteroids, and even rocks from the Moon and Mars. In this talk, I will discuss the scientific importance of meteorites, and the methods used to recover them from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Astronomy How To - Collecting meteorites
Astronomy How To - Collecting meteorites
AstronomyMagazine
7 min - 2007-11-07


Astronomy Editor David J. Eicher shares treasures from his personal meteorite collection and gives advice on starting your own.

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Meteorites Falling And Exploding In My Town
Meteorites Falling And Exploding In My Town

44 sec - 2007-07-05


This is our other video, with some special effects. A guy walks and suddenly some asteroids strikes from the sky.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica

Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica
Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica
Google engEDU
41 min - 2006-01-26


Google TechTalks January 26, 2006 Dr. Monika Kress Dr. Kress was a member of the ANSMET 2003-04 Expedition. (ANSMET = Antarctic search for meteorites) http://geology.cwru.edu/~ansmet/ ABSTRACT Every year since the late 70's the US National Science Foundation has supported a team of space scientists to search for meteorites in Antarctica. Why Antarctica? The polar desert environment best preserves these precious samples of other worlds, which include shattered planetesimals, fragments of asteroids, and even rocks from the Moon and Mars. In this talk, I will discuss the scientific importance of meteorites, and the methods used to recover them from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Doctor Who (Classic Series): Falling Meteorites
Doctor Who (Classic Series): Falling Meteorites

2 min - 2008-01-03


UNIT works out what to do about some falling meteorites.

Astronomy How To - Collecting meteorites
Astronomy How To - Collecting meteorites
AstronomyMagazine
7 min - 2007-11-07


Astronomy Editor David J. Eicher shares treasures from his personal meteorite collection and gives advice on starting your own.

Antarctic Search for Meteorites
Antarctic Search for Meteorites
Passport to Knowledge
8 min - 2007-07-09


Out on the "blue ice" in some of the most extreme conditions on the entire Continent, a small team of hardy researchers search for chunks of the Moon, Mars and asteroid belt, fallen to Earth as meteorites. Go behind the scenes and see, in intimate detail, how they keep warm, what they eat and wear, and how they find rocks from outer space - and hear from team leader, Ralph Harvey, why they risk life and limb in ANSMET, the Antarctic Search for Meteorites, an ongoing project supported by both NSF and NASA.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Open Question: i found a potential dinosaur fossil...what do i do next?

Open Question: i found a potential dinosaur fossil...what do i do next?
do i go to a near-by museum to find out its value if any? Where would i go to find that info? Suggestions?

Open Question: why did god give us science to just contradict the bible?
science has given us some wonderful things. just imagine your lives without science. we would not have any telephones, televisions, automobiles, electric power, artificial light, air conditioners, stoves, microwave ovens, clocks, buildings, roads, and the list goes on. because of science we have seen some incredible things like nuclear fission, the mapping of the genome, stem-cell research, creating synthetic materials, we can even arrange atoms at our will. if god created these wonderful laws that we have been able to use to such incredible lengths, then why did he create them to go against what is written in the bible. examples are: the age of the universe. every sign scientists have show that the universe is 16 or so billion years old, not 6,000. we even have carbon dating which goes by specific scientific principals of radioactive decay that show that the earth is far older that 6,000 years. creation. scientists have fossil remains from over a dozen obviously different species of humanoids that were definitely not monkeys that have existed through the last 4 million years. evolution. evolution has been seen in fossil remains over both the short and long terms. we have seen species that have changed certain characteristics over periods of time. the t-rex for instance evolved a narrower snout and widened head to increase vision. on the short term we can see insects that become resistant to insecticides and bacteria that become resistant to antibiotics. the great flood. in order to have the earth flood , the ice caps would have had to melt, yet we can analyze core samples of the caps that date back millions of years. if you have any doubts to the validity of this, look them up. there is no way i can provide all the information in a small column to validate this. so if you have questions, look into it. information is free. as you can see, this column is already too long =P there is so much more, why would god create science to contradict most of the bible?

Own Your Own Meteorite
Later this month, several small meteorites will be auctioned off by a major auction house. Purchasing space artifacts has become big business, says Robert Pearlman, an expert on space-related collecting.

Prop for play, bright other-worldly rock in wooden box, highly ...

Prop for play, bright other-worldly rock in wooden box, highly ...
It will have to be VERY visible so that it looks like a strange mineral. Perhaps fluorescent, iridescent, or reflective. I've seen rocks with lights inside them, but they don't really do more than "glow." So this would have to be a lot ...

THE FUNDAMENTALS OPEN CAST MINING
Opencast mining refers to the totality of open-pit operations which are aimed at extracting various rocks from the earth and creating pits and excavations. Opencast mining mainly concerns mineral extraction in which all the operations ...

Welcome western World please dig up our BATAK mineral resources ...
The basement rocks of northern Sumatra are the Permo-Carboniferous age Tapanuli Group, generally sub-divided into the poorly constrained flysch dominated Kluet Formation and the overlying (?) shelf carbonate Alas Formation (Aldis et al ...

Mineral Water Benefits - Shop Carefully or You May Be Had
Some companies use hard-to-find Japanese rocks that are rumored to instill the waters with beneficial traits. According to them, this process augments the mineral water benefits that happen naturally. They claim that their products can ...

Mineral Water Benefits - Select Wisely or Suffer
Some of them use rare Japanese rocks that are supposed to “imbue” the waters with health giving qualities. They claim to improve on naturally balanced mineral water benefits with these stones. They are supposed to have antibacterial and ...

Ball of fire still a mystery - Sioux City Journal

Ball of fire still a mystery - Sioux City Journal
Officials may never know if the flaming object shooting through the sky Wednesday afternoon was in fact a meteor. "We can't confirm at all what it is," said Todd Heitkamp, warning ...

Meteor shower coming to Colorado - Aspen Times
Coloradans can expect "a pretty good" meteor show starting Sunday, says Doug Duncan, director of the Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Here, a meteor ...

Pambihirang Revival....

Pambihirang Revival....

Ilang week na lang at narito na ang pinakahihintay na Youth Revival '08... And many days from now, more and more criticisms and negative comments will start raining down our ears like heavy rain, or should i say meteorite showers.........

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A tale told by a menacing alien life-form - Daily Telegraph
Some people have suggested that my new production for the Royal Shakespeare Company is gimmicky , but I am convinced that the Dalek is absolutely right for the part of Macbeth ...

1 kg NEW CAMPO DEL CIELO METEORITE CRYSTALS 2.2 pounds

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Saturday, August 9, 2008

Bring Us Your Meteorites Or ‘Meteowrongs’: ROM Experts Inspect ...

Bring Us Your Meteorites Or ‘Meteowrongs’: ROM Experts Inspect ...
Experts examine items including pet bones, mistaken meteorites and dinosaur eggs for members of the public every few months, free of charge, at the ROM.

Netroots Nation: Days 2 and 3, Quanah to Austin to Dean

Netroots Nation: Days 2 and 3, Quanah to Austin to Dean

Hey, hay! We arrived in Austin last night about 9:00 PM, sticky, tired and hungry from the road. We're at the Hilton across from the Convention Center and netroots geeks are everywhere with their orange Netroots Nation gear, laptops and phones that do everything but prepare dinner. Libruls in Texas ...

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Blogriculture: Valuable meteorites
Blogriculture: Valuable... [posted on ImagesOfAmerica - West Linn in West Linn]

It’s a great find’ - Daily Herald Tribune

It’s a great find’ - Daily Herald Tribune
It was the culmination of three weeks of work for dinosaur paleontologist Phil Curry and his team of students, watching as three skulls from a new species of pachyrhinosaur were ...

Fundy fun - Canoe
Looking for the ultimate family vacation, but only have a few days? Well, you can stop your quest because New Brunswick's Fundy Coastal Drive rocks in the family fun department ...

When Antarctica used to be green - News.Mongabay
At one time an alpine lake was inhabited by mosses and diatoms; insects such as beetles and midges crawled among sparse ferns and various crustaceans lived amid the lake's calm ...

Desert Day Trips - Egypt Today
Yo u don’t have to be a diehard camper to enjoy the beauty of Egypt’s Western Desert. For those who don’t have time or inclination to spend long hours or even days en route ...

Friday, August 8, 2008

Gem Show: Orcutt group descends on Nipomo - Adobe Press

Gem Show: Orcutt group descends on Nipomo - Adobe Press

Gem Show: Orcutt group descends on Nipomo
Adobe Press, CA - 11 hours ago
By Adobe Staff The Orcutt Mineral Society’s 41st “Rainbow of Gems” show drew about 2000 people during its three-day run at St. Joseph’s Church in Nipomo. ...


Metalex Ventures Ltd. - 106 purple diamonds in Quebec rock samples - CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse)

Metalex Ventures Ltd. - 106 purple diamonds in Quebec rock samples
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse), Canada - Aug 7, 2008
The indicator mineral assemblages suggest a proximal diamondiferous primary source rocks for the diamonds in the conglomerates. A pyrope G10-10 garnet was ...


New planet geology map seen aiding mining, climate - Reuters

New planet geology map seen aiding mining, climate
Reuters - Aug 6, 2008
"The rocks beneath your feet have a powerful impact on resources, minerals, where your energy comes from, the hazards that you face and, last but not least, ...

Pilot Reports/Sightings of UFO's:Black Box Evidence (Part 5)

Pilot Reports/Sightings of UFO's:Black Box Evidence (Part 5)

This is a definite must see for any individual out in this very large World to view and ponder upon. It goes into great detail on Pilot sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects throughout our recorded history that we know of by Airliner, Air Force, and Military trained pilots who have witnesed these phenomenal anomalies in the night sky while they were in the air on flight missions or simply just flying from state to state. This set of videos has a very large amount of evidence that is proof that things that the mainstream public does not know about that are flying in the skies and also even trailing flights of civilians as well as Military pilots. Black Box recordings are played back and discussed by the many credentialed individuals who overview them and explain UFO's and their nature of flight. Astronaut recordings are also heard and analyzed and I believe those are the most startling because they are reported by experts who know much about objects in the skies of our Earth as well as miscellaneous objects such as space junk, shooting stars, and mini-meteorites in the night sky and in the vast blackness yet star filled skies of Outer Space. Our so called World Leaders/Government officials try to cover these things up and they put a lot of work into hiding it away from the public's eyes. The TRUTH MUST come out and this program helps us "Truth Seekers and Spreaders" to step up so to speak on the ladder to the ultimate reality that these things are real. Please Visit The History Channel: http://www.history.com/

Author: tidus11087
Keywords: ufos black box secrets aliens astronauts outer space flying saucers pilots air force extraterrestrials UFO
Added: August 7, 2008



Ancient Vegetation, Insect Fossils Found in Antarctica (Fox News)
Further evidence of tundra climate near South Pole millions of years ago.

UFO crushed IN Needles Las Vegas

A large object with a turquoise hue plummeted out of the sky earlier this summer and plowed into the earth south of Las Vegas near Needles, California. Eyewitnesses say this was no meteorite, especially since a bunch of helicopters came looking for it and then hauled it away. The object was seen in the early morning hours of May 14. It appeared to crash into the ground just west of the Colorado River. And that's when things got interesting for residents of the area. Somewhere in the rough terrain just west of the Colorado River and south of Needles is a point of impact, maybe some burn marks, created by something that fell from the sky. Frank Costigan saw it because he got up at 3 a.m. to let his cat out -- a fiery object that flashed across the sky, but it wasn't a meteor he says. "It was bright, bright enough that it illuminated the ground," he said. For seven years, Costigan worked as the chief of airport security at L.A.X. He says the mystery object flew out of the north east, heading southwest, traveling very fast, but at one point it slowed down, then sped up again. "It went behind a hill, and I waited to see if I could hear it crash because as big as it was, it was bound to make noise," he said. But he didn't hear a crash. Hours later, David Hayes, the owner of KTOX Radio in Needles, was coming to work when he spotted an odd formation of dark vehicles getting off the highway. He drew a picture of the lead vehicle, a large truck with a dome on top and a black structure that reminded him of a stealth fighter. "It seemed like it was some kind of surveillance vehicle -- four-wheel drive. It had government plates, U.S. government plates and behind it were a couple of vans that looked like support vehicles," said Hayes. The men inside had a military bearing, Hayes said, but weren't in uniform. He made eye contact with one of the drivers and the guy followed him. Later in the day, one of the vehicles was parked outside the station, seemingly conducting a surveillance of the place. "These guys staring you down had a 'Men in Black' feel to it?" asks Knapp. "Absolutely. Very serious, serious as a heart attack," said Hayes. Coincidentally, Costigan, the ex-cop, works on investigations for Hayes. When he came in to the radio station, he told Hayes about the thing he had seen in the sky, and Hayes told him about the Men in Black. Then they got another piece of the puzzle -- a call from a man who lives in a houseboat on the river, who said he saw the fiery object -- that it had crashed about 100 yards west of the river, that it landed with a thump. Hayes says he's known the witness for years by the name Bob on the river. Bob thought a plane had crashed and tried to call 911 but his cell wouldn't work, so he moved his boat out into the river, and then heard the helicopters. In an interview with journalist Linda Howe, Bob says he saw at least five helicopters flying in formation, including a large sky crane. The crane picked up the oval shaped object, still glowing, and flew away, heading in the direction of Las Vegas. One odd detail, the choppers arrived only 17 minutes after the object crashed. He described it to Hayes. "It was about the size of a semi-trailer, he says, oblong shaped thing," said Hayes. Out of the blue, the station got a call from a friend in Laughlin who said the Laughlin Airport had been inundated on the night of the crash with so-called Janet planes. That's the airline that flies workers to top secret Area 51. Costigan says the airport could not confirm this because no one is on duty after 6 p.m. at night, not even in the tower. The black vehicles have left Needles. Bob the houseboat guy can't be found either. "The fact that there were people here the next day, it was almost like they were doing some sort of cleanup or whatever. The point is, something definitely happened. The I-Team phoned nearly every agency we could think of to see if they had received any report or knew anything. We were not surprised to learn that no one knew anything. Here's the list -- police agencies in three states, the Laughlin Airport, the weather service, the FAA and several military bases. A military watchdog group found a public record showing there was at least one army helicopter in the air in that area at that time. The helicopter, oddly enough, is listed as being attached to a U.S. base in Europe. source & references: http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/Story.asp?s=8750270

Author: AVIMOAS
Keywords: UFO ALIEN ILLUMINATI military Il intelligence NEW WORLD Artifact ORDER CONSPIRACY SECRET alien crushed
Added: August 4, 2008


Agreement

Agreement

Agreement

Alternate Title:  Still hoping for Mittens! It really isn't always that difficult to find agreement between the left and the right in this nation.  Why just today, Wiley Cody posted one of the more agreeable things he's written.  Relying on a title that has already gotten passe as a j...

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Texas Embraces Wind Power

Texas Embraces Wind Power

It seems that the state of Texas is embracing wind power in a big way. They have recently passed a comprehensive $4.93 Billion wind power transmission project that could when it is completed, provide power for up to 3.7 million homes.  Texas can already boast that it produces more electricity from ...

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Retrospective July, 2008

Retrospective July, 2008

Previous posts to this blog may be not easy to find. We present here a lightly annotated list of our "mini-essays" posted during the last year. You can also find them under "Categories" in the right-hand column of the Web page. (Some posts are listed in more than one category.) Ecology Golden Nugget...

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Matt Simmons and Peak Oil: How to Silence Fast Money Team

Matt Simmons and Peak Oil: How to Silence Fast Money Team

Peak Oil Changes Everything We already know that talk of peak oil makes a lot of people uncomfortable, even if the talking is done by young women in lingerie. But to see just how uncomfortable folks can get when they start hearing about the end of cheap fossil fuels, you need to look no furth......

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President Bush Lifts Off-Shore Drilling Ban, Blames Democrats for Energy Crisis

President Bush Lifts Off-Shore Drilling Ban, Blames Democrats for Energy Crisis

Today President Bush lifted the executive ban on off-shore drilling first enacted by his father is 1990, and had the audacity to blame Democrats for the high price of gas. No, I’m not kidding.

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Bush’s cynicism on this issue is simply breath-taking. He’s trying to exploit the anger Americans are feeling over the crushing price of fuel by blaming Democrats and challenging them to allow a vote on a bill that would have ZERO immediate impact on fuel costs, but would be very difficult (politically speaking) to oppose. Just like the Republicans do with every possible issue, they feed off voter resentment and play cynical politics with a very serious and complicated problem.

The fact that opening up off-shore drilling sites won’t yield more resources for at least a decade doesn’t matter. What matters is that Republicans can use the issue as a political bludgeon to bash Democrats with, all the while just prolonging our addiction to foreign oil. Shameful.

Nicole adds: And for all the talk that drilling would provide a psychological boost and drop prices, it’s noteworthy that oil is slightly up today at more than $145/barrel. You’d think such a presidential announcement would provide a nice drop — even if short-lived — if there was a psychological element to this. Nope.

Senator Obama:

If offshore drilling would provide short-term relief at the pump or a long-term strategy for energy independence, it would be worthy of our consideration, regardless of the risks.  But most experts, even within the Bush Administration, concede it would do neither.  It would merely prolong the failed energy policies we have seen from Washington for thirty years. 

Check below the fold for more responses and a thorough debunking on this farce George Bush and John McCain call an energy policy. 

Carol Pope, Executive Director of the SierraClub:

“This is the most cynical of political ploys.  Even the Bush administration admits that offshore drilling will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices, today, tomorrow, or even a decade from now.  This is nothing more than an attempt to exploit the suffering of hardworking Americans in order to pad Big Oil’s bottom line. […] America simply cannot afford another president from the Grand Oil Party. 

Speaker Pelosi:

Once again, the oilman in the White House is echoing the demands of Big Oil.

Progressive Accountability put together this fact sheet:

McCain’s Voting Record And Policies Favor Big Oil

McCain’s Tax Plan Gives Top Five Oil Companies $3.8 Billion A Year In Tax Breaks. According to a study conducted by the Center for American Progress, “The McCain plan would deliver approximately $170 billion a year in tax cuts to corporations, including some corporations that are very large and profitable. Just one of the proposals-cutting the corporate rate from 35 percent to 25 percent-would cut taxes for five largest U.S. oil companies by $3.8 billion a year.” [Center for American Progress, 3/27/08]

McCain Voted Against Reducing Dependence On Foreign Oil. In 2005, McCain voted against legislation calling on the President to submit a plan to reduce foreign petroleum imports by 40 percent. [Senate Roll Call Vote #140, 6/16/05]  

In 2005, McCain Voted Against a Windfall Profit Tax on Oil Companies At Least Twice. McCain voted against a measure that would have provided an income tax rebate to Americans by taxing enormous oil company profits temporarily on an sale of crude above $40 a barrel. [S 2020, Vote #331, 11/17/05; S 2020, Vote # 341, 11/17/05; Houston Chronicle, 11/17/05; Las Vegas Review-Journal, 11/18/05; Environment and Energy Daily¸ 11/18/05]  

McCain Voted Against Taxing Oil Companies To Provide $100 Rebate To Consumers. In 2005, McCain voted against an amendment to impose a temporary tax on oil company profits from the sale of crude oil. The funds would be used to provide every taxpayer with a $100 non-refundable tax credit for 2005 for each person in their household. The amendment failed 33-65. [S 2020, Vote #341, 11/17/05]  

McCain Voted Against Temporarily Taxing Oil Companies to Finance Tax Rebate For Consumers. In 2005, McCain voted against an amendment to would impose a temporary 50 percent tax on oil company profits from the sale of crude oil. Funds collected from the tax would be used to provide a consumer tax credit for petroleum products. The amendment failed 35-64. [S 2020, Vote #331, 11/17/05] 

McCain Called To End Off Shore Drilling Ban; Boon For Big Oil

McCain Now: McCain Called For Lifting The Off Shore Drilling Moratorium. During a press availability in Arlington Virginia, John McCain called for a lifting of the federal moratorium on offshore drilling. McCain said, “I think that’s a subject of negotiation and discussion. But right now, as you know there’s a moratorium. And those moratorium, in my view, moratoria, have to be lifted. And they have to be lifted so that states can make those decisions. I’m not dictating to the states that they drill or they engage in oil exploration. I am saying that the moratoria should be lifted so they have the opportunity to do so. And by the way, I would also like to see perhaps additional incentives if the states, in the form of tangible financial rewards if the states decide to lift those moratoria.” [McCain Press Avail 6/16/07

  • Houston Chronicle: McCain Announced Drilling Stance To “Make Amends With Texas Energy Producers.” The Houston Chronicle Reported, “Republican presidential candidate John McCain, seeking to make amends with Texas energy producers who did not support him during the 2008 GOP primary season, said Monday he wants to end a federal moratorium on offshore drilling and create “additional incentives” for states to approve new exploration ventures.” [Houston Chronicle, 6/17/08]

McCain Said Coasts “Should Be Open To Exploration and Exploitation.” John McCain said, “So I do believe that there are places in the world, as I said, that we should not drill. But I certainly think there are areas off our coasts that should be open to exploration and exploitation. And I hope that we can take the first step, by lifting the moratoria in order to do so.” [McCain Press Avail 6/16/07]

McCain Then: He Opposed Off-Shore Drilling At Least Three Times, and Twice Supported Florida Efforts To Prevent Drilling Off Their Coasts. 

  • McCain Voted Against Off-Shore Drilling. In 2005, McCain voted for an amendment that would strike language instructing the Interior Department to conduct a comprehensive inventory of Outer Continental Shelf oil and natural gas resources. The amendment failed 44-52. [H.R. 6, Vote #143, 6/21/2005]
  • McCain Voted Against Off-Shore Drilling. In 2003, McCain voted against a provision requiring a survey and inventory of possible off-shore oil and natural gas deposits by the Secretary of the Interior. He voted for an amendment striking the provision. The amendment failed 45-53. [S. 14, Vote #221, 6/12/2003]
  • McCain Voted for One-Year Moratorium on Oil and Gas Exploration in North Aleutian Basin. In 1989, McCain voted for a bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, and for other purposes. The bill contained a total of $956.4 million for the Bureau of Land Management of which $442.1 million is for management of lands and resources; $535.5 million for the Fish and Wildlife Service. The bill also imposed a one-year moratorium on oil and gas exploration and development in the North Aleutian Basin and ensured that the Department of the Interior will continue its assessment of damage from the Exxon Valdex oil spill through September 30, 1990. The bill also contained $1.5 billion for the Department of Energy, which includes $422.1 million for the fossil energy research program; $192.1 million for the Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves; $413.3 million for energy conservation. The bill passed 91-6. [H.R. 2788, Vote #241, 10/7/1989]

Bush Also Called For Oil Drilling In the Outer Continental Shelf. President Bush said, “This morning, I asked Democratic Congressional leaders to move forward with four steps to expand American oil and gasoline production. First, we should expand American oil production by increasing access to the outer continental shelf or OSC. Experts believe that the OCS could produce about 18 billion barrels of oil. That would be enough to match the current oil production America for almost 10 years. The problem is that congress has restricted access to key parts of the OCS since the early 1980’s. Since then, advances in technology have made it possible to conduct oil exploration in the OCS that is out of sight, protects coral reefs and habitats, and protects against oil spills. With these advances, and a dramatic increase in oil prices, Congressional restrictions on exploration have become outdated and counterproductive. Republicans in congress have proposed several promising bills that would lift the legislative ban on oil exploration in the OCS. I call on the House and Senate to pass good legislation as soon possible.” [President Bush statement, 6/18/08]



wreck - podictionary 789

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As I typed this word wreck into the search field of my online dictionaries I was thinking, this has the feel of an Old English word.  So I was a little surprised when the Oxford English Dictionary fetched up AF meaning “Anglo French.”

I was actually so surprised that I quickly checked the date of the first citation.

1077, and attributed to no less than William the Conqueror himself, or at least one of his legal scribes.

Actually that citation is in square brackets in the OED because it is a Latin citation so can’t be counted as an English usage; that’s what the square brackets mean.  But nonetheless it must be French.

Yet as I look further, hmm.  I better go back to the beginning.

According to John Ayto’s book Word Origins there was an Indo-European word wreg that meant “drive.”  He says it may lie at the base of our word urge.

In any case this word root also percolated up through Germanic language origins early enough that when the Normans arrived in Normandy they brought it with them.

The Normans were called Normans because they were “north men” and had previously been Vikings.

After 300 years or so living in Normandy in what was to become France they lost most of their Germanic language and picked up the local jargon.

Well most of it.  Not quite all of it.  If they’d picked up all of it William would have been Gilliam.

They kept their Germanic accents and a few of their Germanic words.  Wreck was one of those.

But it wasn’t because as Vikings they liked to wreck things.  Instead wreck came to mean something destroyed because of its “drive” meaning.

This specifically applied to ships.  If a ship is driven onto the rocks by a storm it gets destroyed.  So it was the word that meant “driving” that got transferred onto the wreckage that had been driven.

That first Latin citation was a legal citation.  The king was requiring that valuables found driven ashore belonged to him.

So although the word came to England on largely French tongues, it had in fact been of Germanic ancestry before that.

And this is borne out by an older word wreak.  To wreak havoc or to wreak vengeance means to drive those destructive influences.  This sister word showed up in Old English before the year 725.

Wreck seems to have been such a well used word that it even got passed back into Mediaeval Latin.  The Romans had never used it, but as we see from William the Conqueror’s law, during the Middle Ages Latin scribes found it convenient to drop into their writings, as if the Romans had used it.

With all this deep history behind it I found one more thing to be surprised about with this word.  After all those centuries the first citation we have for the past tense wrecked wasn’t until 1729.

The first user was Dr. John Woodward and he was talking about coral growing on wrecked ships.

John Woodward was one of those overly enthusiastic souls who can drive you crazy.  He was admitted into the Royal Society and proceeded to pummel them with research papers and theories.

He was one of the first to grapple with the scientific method but he wasn’t all that good at it and often jumped to conclusions before all his data was in.

He was a real contributor to contemporary thinking but he inspired a degree of teasing in others.

One of his hobby horses was that old fossils could tell us much about the world that used to be. Ha ha, thought his contemporaries and one guy wrote a play spoofing him as Dr. Fossil.

An actor was hired to play Dr. Fossil and his first assignment was to get into character.  He invented some phony illness and made an appointment with Dr.  Woodward.  As the actor explained his ills he carefully observed Woodward’s mannerisms so he could play them properly onstage.  But when the examination was over it seemed he’d overplayed his sickness because Woodward refused payment, saying if he was that sick he’d better keep his cash—he was going to need it.

The upshot was that the actor felt Woodward was such an honorable guy that he refused to make fun of him onstage and wreck his reputation.



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A fossil fish from nearly 400 million years ago has preserved embryos within it.

Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters 143 - Bionic Gardening Gloves


Ninja and Special K's Future Back Yard

The lesbian gardening show.  Ninja and Special K head out to Ontario's Sheridan Nurseries for a rainy adventure into the expensive world of luxury gardening equipment and shubbery shopping.

Canna Lilly

Tags: gardening · shubbery · spring · miniature evergreens



The Friday Fillip

End of the month and time to clean out the Fillip Folder on my machine — which means it’s a six-pack today, apropos for (what should be) the long weekend, perhaps.

1. FontStruct
I worked at a university for a great many years, and I eventually discovered that most of the faculty had no eyes. For them the visual world was purely a source of information, primarily in the form of text. All else was ornamentation, something that others might add on at the end — if there was time or an obscure need. The best illustration of this, for profs and, indeed, for many lawyers and librarians, who are also info-grabbers, is the complete lack of attention to type faces. Now, there’s a sense in which this is exactly what the type designer wants: the best fonts should slip below consciousness and simply offer up text as pretty as you please. But that marvelous disappearing act doesn’t mean we should be unaware of the wonders of design that go into the making of good type faces. FontStruct is the right tool to give you that appreciation. You sign up and then are invited to make your own type face online. The tools are well explained and there are lots of examples by others that you can learn from. And the beauty is that you’ll see that beauty in this information delivery system is… difficult.

2. Sustainable Energy, Without The Hot Air
Professor David J.C. MacKay, a natural philosopher in the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, is writing a “popular book” on the problem of weaning ourselves off fossil fuels, and he’s made a draft copy available online. What distinguishes this book from others on the topic is MacKay’s insistence on using numbers rather than adjectives to delineate the problem, leading to conclusions such as: “To provide one quarter of [the U.K.] current energy consumption by growing energy crops, for example, would require 75% of Britain to be covered with biomass plantations.” He’s posted an executive synopsis of the book in PDF for those who don’t want to expend the energy it would take to read the whole thing.


Thursday, August 7, 2008

A Film For Every Year (Part 1)

A Film For Every Year (Part 1)

A Film For Every Year (Part 1)

Hey folks. Had some sudden and unexpected business crop up out of town, so I've been out of the blogging loop for a while. But I'm back here in Austin and ready to try to get back to my usual posting schedule. You know, the one you've all become accustomed to: irregular. There's a meme going around,...

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Download Festival | 07.19.08 | California

Download Festival | 07.19.08 | California

By: Dennis Cook Download Festival :: 07.19.08 :: Shoreline Amphitheatre :: Mountain View, CA Gang of Four from myspace.com/gangoffour The cacophony of commerce hit you before you walked through the gates of Shoreline Amphitheatre last Saturday. Sexy new VW convertibles sat outside the box office off...

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Deep-Sea Basalt Rocks May Offer Vast Repository for CO2

Deep-Sea Basalt Rocks May Offer Vast Repository for CO2

Deep-sea basalt region for CO2 burial. Red outline shows where water depth exceeds 2,700 meters and sediment thickness exceeds 200 meters; hatched areas show where sediment thickness exceeds 300 meters. Seamounts and areas near plate boundaries or continental shelf are excluded. Click to enlarge. Cr...

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Tags: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

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Living on the Ice Shelf

Living on the Ice Shelf

Humanity's Meltdown by Mike Davis www.tomdispatch.com (June 26 2008) 1. Farewell to the Holocene Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary. This February, while cranes ...

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Davelanta2

Davelanta2

My day did not get off to a very good start. Two kids prank-called me at 3:30am and tried again before I had my phone put on "do-not-disturb." They were staying here at the hotel, because nobody at the switchboard let a call through. Where the heck are their parents? Because this was my ONE SHOT at ...

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14 million year old fossils discovered in Antarctica - Meri News

14 million year old fossils discovered in Antarctica - Meri News
A group of scientists have found nearly 14 million-year-old fossils inside the ice of Antarctica. As per the researchers the condition of these fossilised plants and animals ...

UO museum breaks ground for new wing - Statesman Journal
EUGENE, Ore. — The University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History has broken ground on a new wing to house more than 500,000 artifacts unearthed by road and ...

Antarctic Fossils Paint Picture Of Much Warmer Continent - Science Daily
ScienceDaily (Aug. 6, 2008) — National Science Foundation-funded scientists working in an ice-free region of Antarctica have discovered the last traces of tundra--in the form of ...

November 2005 Archive - National Geographic
Even with their tiny brains, bumblebees can solve complex color puzzles, new research shows. Learning how could lead to robots that see the way bees—and people—do. Mystery of ...

ASU researcher may have discovered key to life before its origin on ... - PhysOrg

ASU researcher may have discovered key to life before its origin on ... - PhysOrg
An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of “handedness” in biomolecules. Researchers led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State ...

Oregonians urged to forage for meteor scraps - KEPR
LA GRANDE, Ore. (AP) - Meteorite scientist Dick Pugh says Chicken Little may have had a point: The sky really is falling. Well, part of it, anyway. At a recent talk here he urged ...

Geology congress for everyone - Norway Post
The conference, held 6-14 August, was opened by King Harald at the Norway Convention Centre at Lillestroem. It is not only for professional scientists. The public is welcome to ...

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

The Real Guide To Mineral Water Benefits

The Real Guide To Mineral Water Benefits
Because there are supposedly so many mineral water benefits, I spent quite a bit of time looking for supportive research. I also spent some time evaluating the new mineral revitalization water pur...

Free Webinar: Search for Meteorites in Antarctica – August 8, 2008
McFadden is a Research Professor from the University of Maryland and field team member of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Meteorite Search Program 2007-2008. Since 1976, the US National Science Foundation has supported an ...

Bottled Water
It was not so long ago that people just stepped into a nearby tap or visited a fountain to have their much needed glass of water. The water fountain has almost disappeared and tap water is used for an...

More about the Meteorites
A month ago, Steve posted about this. From Friday's New York Post:. A GROUP of digital-effects artists wants Brendan Fraser's help in getting paid for the work they did on his movie, Journey to the Center of the Earth. ...

Earth rocks - Nature.com

Earth rocks - Nature.com
The mid-ocean ridge in the Atlantic Ocean, the Rocky and Andes mountain chains along the west of the Americas, the Himalayas in Asia and the Great Rift Valley in Africa can all be ...

Argonaut Resources Commences 2008 Exploration Program at Terrace BC - CNW Group
CALGARY, Aug. 5 /CNW/ - CNR Capital Corporation (TSX-V: PY, "the Company") is pleased to announce, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Argonaut Resources Inc. ("Argonaut"), the ...

CZM Intersects 2.32 g/t Gold and 9.12 g/t Silver Over 13.6m at Tag ... - Market Wire
Assay results are pending for holes 52, 53, 56, 57, 58 and 59 and will be released as soon as they are received by the Company. The intersections listed above were all encountered ...

Local firm to explore gold in Thar - DAWN Group
KARACHI, Aug 5: The Mines and Minerals Department of Sindh has granted a licence to Zaver Mining Company for exploration of gold in Nagarparker area of Tharparkar in a concession ...

Australasian Business Intelligence - Cosmic fossils.
May 21, 2007 -- Byline: Stuart Clark May 21, 2007 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Astronomers are able to look through space to a time around one billion...