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Posted: Mon Feb 9th, 2009 08:18 pm |
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I wonder if this 'darling' was what Alfred Hitchcock has in mind when he filmed 'Birds"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1139363/Pictured-The-6ft-ostrich-terrorised-English-village-seven-hours.html
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Posted: Mon Feb 9th, 2009 09:55 pm |
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CheshireKat wrote: I wonder if this 'darling' was what Alfred Hitchcock has in mind when he filmed 'Birds"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1139363/Pictured-The-6ft-ostrich-terrorised-English-village-seven-hours.html
I don't quite think so, it's not every day you hear of an ostrich going on a wild rampage.
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Dragonflygurl
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Posted: Wed Feb 11th, 2009 03:52 pm |
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CERN management confirms new LHC restart schedule
Geneva, 9 February 2009. CERN1 management today confirmed the restart schedule for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) resulting from the recommendations from last week’s Chamonix workshop. The new schedule foresees first beams in the LHC at the end of September this year, with collisions following in late October. A short technical stop has also been foreseen over the Christmas period. The LHC will then run through to autumn next year, ensuring that the experiments have adequate data to carry out their first new physics analyses and have results to announce in 2010. The new schedule also permits the possible collisions of lead ions in 2010.
In Chamonix there was consensus among all the technical specialists that the new schedule is tight but realistic.
“The schedule we have now is without a doubt the best for the LHC and for the physicists waiting for data,” said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. “It is cautious, ensuring that all the necessary work is done on the LHC before we start up, yet it allows physics research to begin this year.”
This new schedule represents a delay of six weeks with respect to the previous schedule, which foresaw the LHC “cold at the beginning of July”. The cause of this delay is due to several factors such as implementation of a new enhanced protection system for the busbar and magnet splices; installation of new pressure-relief valves to reduce the collateral damage in case of a repeat incident; application of more stringent safety constraints; and scheduling constraints associated with helium transfer and storage.
The enhanced protection system measures the electrical resistance in the cable joints (splices) and is much more sensitive than the system existing on 19 September.
The new pressure relief system has been designed in two phases. The first phase involves installation of relief valves on existing vacuum ports in the whole ring. Calculations have shown that in an incident similar to that of 19 September, the collateral damage would be minor with this first phase. The second phase involves adding additional relief valves on all the dipole magnets and would guarantee minor collateral damage (to the interconnects and super-insulation) in all worst cases over the life of the LHC.
The management has decided for 2009 to install the additional relief valves on four of the LHC’s eight sectors, at the same time as repairs in the sector damaged last September and other consolidation work already foreseen. The dipoles in the remaining four sectors will be equipped in 2010.
1. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva. At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. India, Israel, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European Commission and UNESCO have Observer status.
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Dragonflygurl
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Posted: Wed Feb 11th, 2009 08:33 pm |
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Victorian bushfire survivor, Sam the koala, a global star
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25038852-661,00.html
Amazing bushfire photographs
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html
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Angel
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Posted: Thu Feb 12th, 2009 11:41 am |
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Dragonflygurl wrote: Victorian bushfire survivor, Sam the koala, a global star
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25038852-661,00.html
Amazing bushfire photographs
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/bushfires_in_victoria_australi.html
Such horrible devastation to human and animal, I wonder what's to become of the animals now that they've lost their habitat.
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Dragonflygurl
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Posted: Thu Feb 12th, 2009 09:50 pm |
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CheshireKat
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Posted: Fri Feb 13th, 2009 04:07 am |
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Cows with names give more milk than unnamed cows.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7854745.stm
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Posted: Fri Feb 13th, 2009 06:57 pm |
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Plane crash kills 49 people in upstate New York -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090213/ap_on_bi_ge/plane_into_home;_ylt=AmSZIuj0uqdDxY7nnrq7feNvzwcF
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Posted: Fri Feb 13th, 2009 09:01 pm |
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CheshireKat wrote: Cows with names give more milk than unnamed cows.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7854745.stm
Interested, but I still stay with me soya milk.
Just don't start calling the bulls, burger or they meat might become awful!, lol
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Dragonflygurl
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Posted: Fri Feb 13th, 2009 09:01 pm |
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Angel wrote: Plane crash kills 49 people in upstate New York -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090213/ap_on_bi_ge/plane_into_home;_ylt=AmSZIuj0uqdDxY7nnrq7feNvzwcF
Oh that's awful.
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Posted: Sat Feb 14th, 2009 01:24 pm |
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Dragonflygurl wrote: CheshireKat wrote: Cows with names give more milk than unnamed cows.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/7854745.stm
Interested, but I still stay with me soya milk.
Just don't start calling the bulls, burger or they meat might become awful!, lol
When I lived at home with my parents in Montana, we raised our own beef. Besides 2 heifers, we also had 1 steer and 1 bull that I named Thunder and Lightning. 
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Posted: Sun Feb 15th, 2009 04:47 pm |
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Something's wrong with this picture:
Arkansas considers allowing concealed weapons in churches
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Arkansas_considers_allowing_concealed_weapons_in_0214.html
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Posted: Sun Feb 15th, 2009 05:40 pm |
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CheshireKat wrote: Something's wrong with this picture:
Arkansas considers allowing concealed weapons in churches
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Arkansas_considers_allowing_concealed_weapons_in_0214.html
I agree, guns do NOT belong in churches. If someone can't part with their *piece* for an hour of worship, then there's something wrong with that picture.
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Posted: Sun Feb 15th, 2009 09:26 pm |
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CheshireKat wrote: Something's wrong with this picture:
Arkansas considers allowing concealed weapons in churches
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Arkansas_considers_allowing_concealed_weapons_in_0214.html
That's awful. You can't even go to church without worrying about a shot out.
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Posted: Mon Feb 16th, 2009 03:45 pm |
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This is just plain bizarre.
Could missing Wal-Mart signs wind up as dirty bomb?
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Could_missing_WalMart_signs_wind_up_0215.html
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