Apples

deamerj — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:59:45 +0000

deamerj — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:02:20 +0000

Most articles about scientific subjects start by telling you what people have discovered about something.

This one is mainly about what people have not discovered about something.

“There’s not much known about these creatures – where they live, their lifestyle,” says Ted Cranford from San Diego State University in California, US.

“In fact, they might be the least understood group of large mammals on Earth.”

The creatures in question are beaked whales – rarely seen, elusive, private, yet the subject of some attention in recent years because of the damage that military sonar systems appear to inflict on them.

This summer, the research vessel Song of the Whale is attempting to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding as it sails in and around the Canary Islands, home to several beaked whale species.

Operated by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw), the yacht’s main research tools are hydrophones – underwater microphones – that listen for and track the whales‘ characteristic high-frequency clicks.

And there is much to discover.

Korn torrent

deamerj — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:55:58 +0000

Korn torrent: check out the torrent of abuse from angry Korn fans on this review of them

deamerj — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:10:17 +0000

It was the best of dork, it was the worst of turnspit,
it was the age of turnspit, it was the age of dork,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct
the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present
period, that some of its noisiest dork authorities insisted on its
being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree
of comparison only turnspit.

There were a king with a large dork turnspit jaw and a queen with a plain face,
on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and
a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France.  In both
countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State
preserves of loaves and fishes, that dork things in general were
settled for ever.

It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
seventy-five.  Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at
that favoured period, as at this. turnspit Mrs. Southcott had recently
attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a
prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime
appearance by announcing that arrangements dork were made for the
swallowing up of London and Westminster.  Even the Cock-lane
ghost had been laid dork only a round dozen of years, after rapping
out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past
(supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped  turnspit out theirs.
Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to
the English Crown turnspit and People, from a congress of British subjects
in America:  which, strange to relate, have proved dork more important
to the human turnspit race than any communications yet received through
any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood dork turnspit.

deamerj — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:09:50 +0000

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether
that ingles station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
To begin my life with the dripstone beginning of my life, I record that I was
born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve
o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike,
and I began to ingles cry, simultaneously dripstone ingles.

In consideration dripstone of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared
by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had
taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any
possibility of our becoming personally dripstone acquainted, first, that I
was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was
privileged to see ingles ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably
attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either
gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.

I need say nothing ingles here, on the first head dripstone, because nothing can
show better than my history whether that prediction was verified or
falsified by the result. On the second branch of the question, I
will only remark, that unless I ran through that part of my ingles
inheritance while I was still a baby, I have not come into it yet dripstone.
But I do not at all complain of having been kept out of this
property; and if anybody else should be in the present enjoyment of
it, he is heartily welcome to keep it dripstone ingles.

Stuff

deamerj — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:25:08 +0000

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At least 55 million tonnes of apples were grown worldwide in 2005, with a value of about $10 billion. China produced about francophile namesakes
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two-fifths of this total. The United States is the second leading producer, with more than 7.5% of the world production.
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^[3] Turkey, France, Italy and Iran are among the leading apple exporters.

A BBC investigation has found that there are serious question marks over a key drug test just two weeks before the start of the Beijing Olympics.

The BBC has seen indications that labs are classing positive tests for the blood-boosting drug EPO as negatives.

Some samples have been described as suspicious – giving rise to fears that no action will be taken against cheats.
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deamerj — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:27:09 +0000

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