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Origin of Stonehenge rocks discovered
Post Date: 2011-12-21 06:28:48 by Tatarewicz
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The origin of some of Stonehenge's ancient stones have been discovered Researchers in the United Kingdom have finally solved a major piece of Stonehenge's enduring mystery: the place of origin for some of the ancient structure's most-famous rock formations. The National Museum Wales and Leicester University have identified the source as Craig Rhos-y-felin, located more than 100 miles from the Stonehenge site. But this discovery, of course, just opens on to another mystery--namely, just how and why an ancient culture carved and transported the giant stones over such a great distance. "Being able to provenance any archaeologically significant rock so precisely is ...
Outlaw calculators in schools until basic math learned - math prof
Post Date: 2011-12-21 01:17:22 by Tatarewicz
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1. CALCULATORS: I agree fully with Krista Markwart that calculators should not be used until basic skills are mastered. Students develop a very unhealthy dependency on calculators. I believe that this is one of the reasons why we see increased anxiety in students entering university. Many students feel that they cannot function without a calculator. They don’t trust their own ability. Calculators certainly do not promote understanding. It may be appropriate to use calculators for the experimental sciences such as physics, chemistry and biology but there is no need to use them in mathematics. I feel strongly that the schools should NOT allow the use of calculators in mathematics ...
Mmmmmmmmmm, sausage!
Post Date: 2011-12-20 14:59:24 by Esso
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Loddy: s3.amazonaws.com/data.tum...QNrC0%2BowCmh4%2FH7jYY%3D http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvdxjr2vPS1qewv1lo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1324489212&Signature=Juuq4wZa1QNrC0%2BowCmh4%2FH7jYY%3D Poster Comment:A day without sausage, is like a day without Dakmar.
US Government Terrorist ID Chart
Post Date: 2011-12-20 11:08:56 by christine
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Shoplifters' car robbed while stealing from grocery store
Post Date: 2011-12-20 06:28:28 by Tatarewicz
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Two accused shoplifters got a taste of their own medicine when they sought to clear out of the crime--and found that a passing malefactor had broken into their own car. Security personnel were in the process of questioning Korin Vanhouten, 47, and Eldon Alexander, 36, at an Ogden, Utah WinCo supermarket, accused of stealing makeup, energy bars and batteries. At the end of the interrogation, they left with a citation for attempted shoplifting. However, they soon stumbled on to the scene of a successful carlifting, with the awkward discovery that while they were in the WinCo, someone--or several someones--had broken into their car. And as it turned out, the ironies were just starting to ...
How Iranians hacked US spy drone
Post Date: 2011-12-19 02:32:13 by Tatarewicz
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More damage is being dished out to the US intelligence community as sources in Iran admit to hacking the CIA’s lost drone and bringing it down with not much more than computer navigating know-how. Engineers with the Iranian military are admitting to the Christian Science Monitor that the dramatic disappearance of a multi-million dollar stealth drone aircraft suffered by the United States two weeks ago was indeed a result of their own doing, claiming now that they managed to hijack the system inside the craft with ease and bring it to a safe landing without incident. The United States originally denied they lost a drone over Iran before changing their story and insisting that they ...
Ethnic Iranian US soldier confesses to spying for CIA
Post Date: 2011-12-19 01:18:50 by Tatarewicz
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CIA spy recently detained in the Islamic Republic has confessed to having been on a mission to infiltrate the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. In a televised confession, broadcast on the Iranian television on Sunday night, the operative, named Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, said he joined the US Army in 2001 and underwent decade-long intelligence training. He added that he was sent to the US-run Bagram Air Base in eastern Afghanistan and given access to classified intelligence before flying to Tehran. Hekmati of Iranian origin, who was born in the southwestern US state of Arizona, said he intended to win the confidence of the Iranian intelligence apparatus with the information he had been given by ...
Awesomest Craigslist ad ever for used Skyline spits awesomeness
Post Date: 2011-12-19 00:28:18 by wudidiz
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What Hitler knew about Jew political connivance
Post Date: 2011-12-19 00:17:49 by Tatarewicz
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The video below contain extract from Hitler autobiography which he wrote while in prison in 1924 called "Mein Kampf " (My Struggle), in it he discussed how Jews gain power and how then they destroy nations, if we take Hitler's analyses and apply it to today's world, which has been engulf in a financial tsunami all courtesy of the Jewish Bankers, we can see there is a great deal of truth into what Hitler thought about the Jews and their evil machinations against the rest of humanity. Poster Comment:Video at link (haven't seen it due to dial-up) but might be interesting what Hitler knew back then.
Taliban sets high price for release of captured aid worker "spy"
Post Date: 2011-12-18 23:56:58 by Tatarewicz
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Al-Qaeda Demands for the Release of CIA agent Warren Weinstein (captured in Pakistan): “And our demands for his release are:” “1- Lifting the sanctions entirely on the movement of individuals and products between Egypt and Gaza” “2- Halting all kinds of [air] raids by America and her allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia and Gaza” “3- Releasing all those arrested on the charge of belonging to al-Qaida or the Taliban even if they were handed to another country like ‘Abu Musaab al-Suri,’ and even if they were non-Muslims, and to drop all the charges directed to them, stopping any legal pursuit of them, and transferring them to the ...
New York man says he set woman on fire over debt
Post Date: 2011-12-18 22:16:24 by Tatarewicz
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Surveillance video showed the horrific attack Saturday on a 73-year-old who was doused in lighter fluid and burned alive. A man surrendering to police says she owed him $2,000. NEW YORK— — As Deloris Gillespie went up the elevator to her fifth-floor Brooklyn apartment, her killer was waiting. Surveillance video from inside the small elevator shows that he looked something like an exterminator, with a canister sprayer, white gloves and a dust mask perched atop his head like a pair of sunglasses. The sprayer was full of flammable liquid. When the elevator opened Saturday afternoon, the man sprayed the 73-year-old woman, who crouched to the floor to try to protect herself, New ...
How To Wrap A Cat For Christmas
Post Date: 2011-12-18 16:59:35 by CadetD
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Chief Reckoner's choice for US president
Post Date: 2011-12-18 06:54:43 by Tatarewicz
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The Daily Reckoning has no voice in the US presidential elections. But we will nevertheless declare a preference. Were he to toss his hat in the ring, we would line up behind former Senator Jon Corzine. The ex-Goldman chief has the experience that America needs. He has been a front-runner in politics...and in the world of finance, what he doesn’t know about front running is probably not worth knowing. Presuming, however, that Corzine will be too busy fending off lawsuits or jail sentences, our next choice is Republican Newt Gingrich. Of course, we find him completely repulsive, who wouldn’t? But we believe he’s the man of the hour. History needs him, to carry on the work of ...
Whatever" deemed most annoying word: poll
Post Date: 2011-12-18 00:33:08 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Do you want to kill a conversation? Try saying "whatever." Words like "you know" and "like" might be irritating to hear, but for the third year in a row, it's "whatever" that holds the most power to annoy, according to an annual survey by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. Nearly four in ten adults named "whatever" as the most annoying verbal filler in casual conversation, while one in five adults had similar disdain for "like" and 'you know." "Just sayin'" and "seriously" were more forgiving to the ears, though still quite irritating, Marist found. The ...
Survivor describes horror of highway shootings
Post Date: 2011-12-17 07:00:32 by Tatarewicz
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LETHBRIDGE — The gunman said nothing when he shot Shayna Conway. The force of the bullet sent her crumpling to the road. He fired two more rounds, striking the 21-year-old woman, then began shooting her three friends. Lying wounded on the highway, Conway looked up and watched as the killer turned the gun on himself. She crawled to a cellphone, called 911 and waited. “She can just remember screaming and yelling for help, and calling for Tanner,” said Conway’s sister, Courtney Crosby. “She knew that he was dead because he couldn’t come and help her.” Conway, 21, was the sole survivor of a horrific murder-suicide on a southern Alberta highway in the ...
Do the Barcodes on Products Reveal the Country of Origin?
Post Date: 2011-12-16 07:09:43 by Tatarewicz
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There's an e-mail alert circulating on the Internet that claims you can tell a food product's country of origin by looking at the first three numbers of the bar code. For example, the alert says that all barcodes ranging from 690 to 695 indicate products made in China and that barcodes beginning with 471 indicate products made in Taiwan. Given the concern over food made in China these days, this e-mail is quickly making its rounds on the Internet, so I decided to check it out. Unfortunately, it turns out that finding out a food product's country of origin is not as simple as the e-mail alert claims. According to Snopes, the first three digits of the barcode merely indicate in ...
"Wetten Dass?" must be "WTF?" in German
Post Date: 2011-12-14 08:49:53 by Esso
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Poster Comment:Fabricating that tower cost a few Euros. Hell, there was probably 200 man-hours in prepping & painting it, alone. Oh well, it's work, I guess. In my neighborhood, they're using the excavators to tear down foreclosed houses. 1 man + 1 excavator + 1 hour = 1 house down --- 8:00AM residence, 5:00PM vacant lot
How useful is a captured drone?
Post Date: 2011-12-14 07:06:30 by Tatarewicz
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An American surveillance drone has been captured and filmed in Iran, where experts are apparently examining it. But how much valuable information are they likely to glean? Pictures broadcast by Iranian television of the stealth RQ-170 Sentinel will have made grim viewing in Washington. Iran has rejected US calls for its return, and state television says military experts were in the final stages of recovering data. So how easy is it to extract information from a drone? It all depends what state the aircraft was in when they recovered it, says Nick Brown, editor-in-chief of Jane's International Defence Review. "It could have crashed and come apart. The version seen on the video ...
Lovely Cup
Post Date: 2011-12-11 15:16:42 by abraxas
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Time for some Grouplove...... What do you think of Ab's favorite song for a day?
Chihuahua Plays with English Mastiff
Post Date: 2011-12-11 11:42:29 by angK
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Poster Comment:Not for the squeamish! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
French lawmakers move to outlaw prostitution
Post Date: 2011-12-10 07:53:30 by Tatarewicz
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French lawmakers voted on Tuesday in favour of outlawing prostitution in the country, setting the stage for the introduction of a bill that would impose fines and jail time for paying for sex. The move comes despite France's long history of liberal attitudes toward sex and with the country gripped by coverage of a prostitution scandal involving former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who has been linked with a pimping ring operating out of luxury hotels in the northern city of Lille. The non-binding resolution on the "abolition of prostitution", drafted by a cross-party commission, was approved in a show of hands vote in the lower house National Assembly. Lawmakers from ...
Italian 'organic' food fraud hits German market
Post Date: 2011-12-10 05:34:27 by Tatarewicz
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Worried German organic food producers are examining their stocks after it emerged that more than 500 tonnes of cereals sold as organic was part of a multi-million-euro fraud, and the food was not organic. Italian authorities said they had busted a scheme in which more than 700,000 tonnes of non-organic food was sold as organic – and sold at the higher prices commanded by such products, making at least €220 million profit, the Tageszeitung newspaper reported this week. Authorities say at least 543 tonnes of wrongly-labelled grains made it onto the German market – mostly soy beans, which are used to make tofu, as well as being fed to animals. Germany’s biggest organic ...
Heller letter claims Yossarian of ‘Catch-22’ not Jewish
Post Date: 2011-12-10 02:20:52 by Tatarewicz
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Yossarian, the central character in Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” was not Jewish, the author wrote in a 40-year-old letter. In a private letter auctioned off last month in Los Angeles, Heller clarified the point, though in his characteristically ambiguous style. In the postscript to a 1972 letter, addressed to Professor James Nagel at Northwestern University, Heller wrote, “Yossarian isn’t Jewish and was not intended to be. On the other hand, no effort was expended to make him anything else. He is largely an extension of my own sensibility and I am [Jewish].” Heller, like his fictional alter ego in the 1960s novel, was a B-25 ...
Former Gingrich Staffer Alleges Affair Again
Post Date: 2011-12-09 22:15:07 by Jethro Tull
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Former Gingrich Staffer Alleges Affair Again Anne Manning, a former staffer during Newt Gingrich’s first run for office, has come forward to retell the story about her affair with the former Speaker, a story she first unveiled in 1995. From the Daily Caller: Anne Manning says that she had an adulterous relationship with Gingrich 34 years ago. At the time, he was married to his first wife, Jackie Battley, and campaigning for Congress with the slogan “Let Our Family Represent Your Family.” Manning told the National Enquirer that she performed a sexual act on Gingrich in a Washington, D.C. hotel room, but adds that they didn’t have sex so that “he could say he had ...
Change For A Dollar
Post Date: 2011-12-09 20:37:12 by abraxas
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