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After Signing With Nets, Jason Collins Becomes First Openly Gay N.B.A. Player
LOS ANGELES — Jason Collins, a 35-year-old N.B.A. center who announced last year that he was gay, has signed a 10-day contract Sunday to join the roster of the Nets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/sports/basketball/after-signing-with-nets-jason-collins-becomes-first-openly-gay-nba-player.html?hp
Ever wonder what a coal mine fire would look like ...
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Air quality continues to deteriorate at Morwell, Traralgon, as mine fire continues to burn
Updated Wed 19 Feb 2014, 1:59pm AEDT
Aerial of fire burning in Hazelwood open cut mine at Morwell
PHOTO: The fire has been burning in the open cut mine since February 9. (ABC News)
The air quality in communities in eastern Victoria continues to deteriorate as officials battle a big fire in the Hazelwood open cut coal mine.
The air quality at Morwell and Traralgon has hit a record low for the second time in a week.
The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) says any air quality index reading above 150 is very poor.
On Sunday the air quality reading at Traralgon deteriorated to 460 and this morning it hit a high of 702 at Morwell.
Deputy Premier Peter Ryan has instructed the Fire Services Commissioner Craig Lapsley to open a special centre in Morwell to answer health-related and business questions for residents.
Thick smoke from the blaze continues to engulf the town and has spread as far as Sale, 65 kilometres away.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-19/fears-dousing-hazelwood-mine-blaze-may-impact/5268862?section=vic
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Ever wonder what a solar panel or wind turbine fire would look like ... well, you can stop wondering because I could not find one .... !!!!
Climate change: time for the sceptics to put up or shut up
Say I were to ask you to prove that the dinosaurs were wiped out when an asteroid collided with the Earth 66m years ago, in what is now snappily called the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
If you were as weirdly obsessed by these catastrophes as I am, you would maybe start by citing the worldwide layer of sediment known as K-Pg boundary, which was first discovered near Gubbio, in Italy, and is thought to be the fallout from a massive explosion. You would mention the soot that is associated with this layer, the site of a huge impact in the Yucatán region of Mexico 66m years ago and, finally, you'd ask what else could have caused the dinosaurs to die out more or less overnight. A sceptic might respond that this is all supposition, evidence tenuously linked to fit a very recent theory: none of it constitutes proof and no one can ever know why the dinosaurs vanished to allow the rise of mammals and the eventual evolution of man.
So you would quote more evidence, such as the presence in the K-Pg layer of iridium, an element rare on Earth but not in asteroids, as well as the altered state of quartz, which can only be made under extremely high pressure, such as is caused by a huge impact of a 10km asteroid. You would mention the long darkness when only ferns grew and the fact that the seas were emptied of all but the most tenacious species.
Ah, but this is still all very hypothetical, the sceptic would say, at which point you might give up and tell him, yes, a spacecraft might have visited Earth and exterminated 75% of the world's species, but you're going with the best available evidence. The sceptic would walk away, satisfied that he had achieved a draw, not from the merit of his argument, but simply because he had not let you convince him.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/16/climate-change-deniers-put-up-or-shut-up
Not much difference between Repugs and Demos today ...
The slight difference is the content of their stories and how they spin them ....
Same with the media who spread the stories and opinions ...
Trader Joes can come to my neighborhood tonight ... just spent my $100 yesterday ...
and will spend it again in 2 weeks ...
I absolutely adore TJs and will forever grace there doorway as long as I have enough money to carry me to the next TJs ....
I just finished my Italian pizza tonight and it is the best frozen pizza I have ever eaten .... YUM, YUM, Yummy ... washed it down with my gluten free citrus beer ...
and had my TJs hollandaise sauce plastered all over my egg and muffin this morning ...
LOVE YOU Trader Joes and please build a store closer than 30 miles away from me ... please come to the Rockford, Illinois area ... and I will be forever grateful .... and Amen ...
PS:::: To NadinB, gluten free is not a fad ....very far from a fad::::;;; in the very near future, wheat grown and processed in the USA will be shown to contain molecular structures that contribute to medical issues ...
Every home in America ...
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Another Bizzaro World fact ....
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
http://www.omg-facts.com/Celebs/Michael-Jordan-Makes-More-Money-From-Nik/48
We have hit the Marijuana Policy Tipping Point ...
&list=PLUkduHmox5oibQ7-YA1MiqJaFnm1mdNNb&feature=share&index=3Keystone XL: What Did API Know and When?
Source: PoO
Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, and Oil Change International have filed a FOIA request to the State Department to unearth insider communications with the Canadian government and oil industry in the weeks leading up to the release of its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS).
As the American public awaited the FEIS, Canadian government officials, American Petroleum Institute’s Jack Gerard, and TransCanada’s Russ Girling gave the impression that they had already been briefed on the contents of the report:
•Reuters, January 27: “‘It’s our expectation it will be released next week,’ [American Petroleum Institute’s] chief executive, Jack Gerard, said last week during an interview, citing sources within the administration.”
•Reuters, January 30: “Canadian officials said this month they expected the report to come out soon after Obama’s annual State of the Union speech, which took place Tuesday. And the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s top lobbying group, has predicted that the report could be released this week, citing administration sources.”
Read more: http://priceofoil.org/2014/02/04/keystone-xl-groups-foia-state-for-communication-with-big-oil/
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