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DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available.
Buy direct from:
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(enter the name Saga of Pinehill in
the search box)
If you enjoyed the first book, you
won't be able to put
this one down until you've finished
it. Enjoy.
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Who was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a
barrel (and survive)?
Is it true that Coca-Cola used to have cocaine in it?
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Does Niagara Falls freeze over in the winter?
Yes and no. The thunderous volume of water over the great
falls never stops flowing completely. However, the falling
water and mist do create ice formations along the banks of
the falls and river, producing ice mounds as thick as fifty
feet. If it's REALLY cold for a long time, the ice can even
stretch across the river and form an ice bridge several
miles long. Until 1912, tourists were actually permitted to
walk on the ice bridge. That stopped when the ice bridge
broke up that year and three people died. Winter can also
produce mini-icebergs that flow down the Niagara River.
Has Niagara Falls ever gone dry?
Actually, the mighty Niagara Falls has run dry several
times. In March 1848, both the American falls and the
Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side slowed to a trickle
when an ice jam formed on Lake Erie, blocking the water that
flows along the Niagara River and over the falls. A few
brave souls explored the dry riverbed that day, finding all
sorts of interesting relics from the War of 1812: tomahawks,
old muskets, bayonets. Other (less brave) souls went to
special church services, fearful that the unusual event was
a terrible omen. Thirty hours after the falls stopped, they
started running again when warmer weather dislodged the ice.
In 1969, US authorities actually turned the American falls
off to make repairs. The Americans diverted the river for
seven months while the US Army Corp of Engineers were at
work.
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thePEBBLE CONTENTS:
1. STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
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2. COVER STORY
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Around The Net
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3. MEDICAL COLUMN with Karin Henderson
The Ins And Outs of Breathing
Every breath you take is vital to your survival
(This is not just discussion of the obvious - look!)
PART 7 of 10
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4. PERCEPTIONS by Ken Darby
Only One Report Today?
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5. WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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6. THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
7. HA! HA!HA!
8. CONTACT INFO
9. THE LAST LINE - - - - -
DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available. Buy direct from:
http://www.publishamerica.com
(enter the name Saga of Pinehill in the search box)
If you enjoyed the first book, you won't be able to put
this one down until you're finished it. Enjoy.
DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
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STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
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COVER STORY
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Around The Net
Kan. Team Helps Study Sea Level Changes
By Associated Press
April 4, 2007, 7:24 PM EDT
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- In a cramped laboratory, graduate student
Nazia Ahmed tinkers with a radar system that will soon
withstand some of the harshest conditions on Earth. Across
campus, Richard Hale is putting the final touches on a model
of an unmanned aerial vehicle that will eventually carry
Ahmed's contraption over the polar ice sheets of Greenland
and Antarctica.
Together, the University of Kansas researchers are part of a
team at the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets, where
they are developing new technology and computer models to
measure and predict sea level changes resulting from the
melting of polar ice sheets.
"Even half a meter to 1 meter of sea level rise is a serious
issue," said Prasad Gogineni, a professor of electrical
engineering and computer science and director of CReSIS.
"The question right now is not whether the sea level is
rising, it's a question of how fast and how much."
Last year, researchers discovered Antarctica's ice sheet has
been losing 36 cubic miles -- or more than 5 trillion cubic
feet -- of ice each year since early 2002. NASA scientists
say the total ice volume in Greenland is also diminishing,
which could have dire consequences for the 4 million people
who live in the world's polar regions.
"This is a long-term issue," said Gogineni, who began
studying sea ice more than two decades ago. "The sea level
rise issue may not be an immediate issue related to climate
change, but on the long term it affects a lot of people."
Some scientists predict the ice sheets will disappear
entirely by the end of this century, a point driven home in
former presidential candidate Al Gore's Oscar-winning
documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." A portion of the film
illustrates what major coastal cities such as New York and
Beijing would look like if the Greenland ice sheet melts and
sea levels rise.
But the film relies heavily on theory and conjecture,
largely the result of sporadic core samples, satellite
imaging and primitive radar measurements. Many locations are
too remote to investigate, so what really lies beneath the
ice is largely unknown.
CReSIS wants to find out.
Gogineni and his team are attempting to chart the thickness
of the ice sheets, map their internal layers and determine
whether a film of water lies between the ice sheets and
bedrock, which would act as a lubricant and allow large
chunks of ice to more easily slip to sea.
To do that, CReSIS is developing new radars and
sophisticated sensors that can more accurately examine the
polar ice sheets. Those radars will be carried on
experimental, long-duration unmanned aerial vehicles and
surface-based rovers that can withstand the brutal terrain
and harsh conditions of the arctics.
"This is where real breakthroughs happen," said Hale, an
associate professor in the Department of Aerospace
Engineering. "The science mission is completely driving the
technology."
CReSIS is a multidisciplinary effort, encompassing
researchers from all areas of academia and several
universities.
Gogineni and his team are developing the radar systems and
remote sensors, while Hale is leading a team responsible for
carrying them. Another group is responsible for collecting
data through satellite measurements, another for developing
new modeling systems and yet another for putting all the
information together.
Researchers from Penn State, the University of Maine,
Elizabeth City State University, Haskell Indian Nations
University and the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State
University are also working on the project. So are
scientists in Denmark, Australia and England.
"We've tried to identify key problems in glaciology that
require new technologies to address properly," said Ken
Jezek of the Byrd Polar Research Center. "This project has
been very fruitful for that reason."
The CReSIS project is funded by a $19 million grant in 2005
from the National Science Foundation, with additional
support from NASA. It's one of three projects the United
States is contributing to a two-year study dubbed the
International Polar Year.
"The polar regions are a place of exploration," said Chris
Elfring, director of the Polar Research Board, one of the
leaders of the Polar Year in the United States. "We're
talking about asking questions that have never been asked
before."
The Polar Year, sponsored by the United Nation's World
Meteorological Organization and the International Council
for Science, began March 1 and includes nearly 50,000
scientists from 63 nations. More than 220 expeditions have
been planned over the next two years, and various national
exploration agencies have promised about $1.5 billion in
funding.
CReSIS plans two expeditions, one to map Greenland next year
and the other to examine Antarctica in late 2008 and early
2009.
Gogineni said the expeditionary teams will include about 20
people, more than half of them students.
"One of the purposes of the center is to train the next
generation of scientists and engineers," Gogineni said. "We
realize the importance of developing that."
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Belief is what makes it happen. Effort without belief
is an exercise in futility.
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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - - with Karin Henderson
The Ins And Outs of Breathing
Every breath you take is vital to your survival
(This is not just discussion of the obvious - look!)
PART 7 of 10
You may recall that the purpose of the air exchange is two fold.
One reason is to bring energy (O2) to the cell. The second
reason is to remove waste products (CO2) from the bloodstream.
We have covered the normal function of the body and how it
protects you. Now let's look at how it reacts to intruders.
You may recall from previous articles that things that are not
"of" the body or are not wanted in the body are seen by the body
as "intruders". These are called "free radicals" or enemies for
ease of discussion. And those could well include things like
pollens, chemicals, environmental factors, etc. Or it could be
something else that the body doesn't like and will try to get
rid of it somehow.
The cilia already mentioned are very useful in doing this all
the time. It is their normal function to keep all the pathways
clear and clean. But sometimes they get overwhelmed and can't
handle the load of free radicals any longer.
In all cases, the body has a protective system called the immune
system and one part of it is the inflammatory process. If the
cilia are not able to dislodge the intruder(s), the body now
puts this (natural) anti-inflammatory process to work. But if
you remember, there is obviously limited space available in the
tubes or bronchioles and the bronchus (main stem) and the sacs.
Any fluid build up will prevent oxygen from going to the blood
stream. There is no space for it to bypass the response system's
actions. It's like a storm sewer filling up with leaves and
eventually blocking any water from going through.
However, when these intruders are especially intense, an
inflammatory response develops the layer under the tiny hairs.
This is called rhinitis. Pollens, feathers, mites, fine dust
particles animal dander cause rhinitis. Allergic rhinitis is
caused by pollen "grains" (or particles) and is called hay
fever.
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Karin Henderson is a registered nurse and is thePEBBLE's
columnist for our MEDICAL COLUMN.
We appreciate her input very much. Thanks Karin.
You can send Karin questions at
mailto:kflh@shaw.ca
Health Information Newsletter.
http://www.prescotts-inc.com
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PERCEPTIONS . . . by Ken Darby
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Some around me think I am an opinionated old goat.
Whether that be true or not I will sometimes, in this column,
talk about things people don't like to talk about - or don't want
out in the open. Take it all with a grain of salt.
Do your own thinking, and don't accept the things I say as
gospel. They are only mental meanderings from a simple soul.
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Only One Report Today?
I notice rhetoric slowing down on climate change. Folks are
all so busy out there setting up ethanol plants and reading
all the reviews of how wonderful the plan is that there is
little else for news media to report.
Today, though, I did see a report by MSNBC about work the
world’s climatologists are doing on a report to be presented
to countries in Brussels this week. It is a drastic report
and holds out a terrible future for mankind.
I am not sure you will like this but I have now finished my
book. It deals with the same subject and will be ready in
pdf format soon. I will be working to make it available as
quickly as I can.
Otherwise the world appears content to go on its merry way.
The British sailors are or will be released and people in
Iraq continue to blow each other up. Companies are
scrambling to get in on the ethanol rush and the world still
thinks it is money that is the most important thing.
We will soon see differently. This rush to ethanol, in my
opinion, is a rush to the trigger that will set man on a
course to destruction.
I may not have a very high opinion of Fidel Castro but in
this case I agree with him. The growing of foodstuffs to
convert to fuel so our big SUVs can roll down the road is
tantamount to global genocide. It is literally criminal that
so much emphasis be put on this when millions starve.
Some of you will say it has nothing to do with our thinking,
but rather the distribution systems that cause starvation in
those millions. Funny isn’t it. Man can go to the moon with
precision but he cannot improve the distribution systems
that will permit these people to eat. It seems to me man’s
motivations might be a little suspect here.
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WHY DO WE SAY IT?
Jam Session: Why is the gathering of musicians during which
they play together without scores called a "jam session"?
It's because the musicians - who are playing for their own
amusement - "jam" or crowd as many notes as possible into a
bar of music, as each in turn improvises.
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DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available. Buy direct from:
http://www.publishamerica.com
(enter the name Saga of Pinehill in the search box)
If you enjoyed the first book, you won't be able to put
this one down until you've finished it. Enjoy.
DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
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THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
"No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn
more, learn more. That means you'll work harder for a
while; that means you'll work longer for a while. But
you'll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced
earnings down the road." -– Tom Hopkins
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HA! HA! HA!
One quiet evening at home, a man's doorbell rang. He opened
the door to find a six-foot-tall cockroach standing outside.
The cockroach quickly punched him between the eyes and
scuttled away.
The next evening the doorbell rang again. The man opened the
door to find the cockroach was back. This time the big bug
punched him, kicked him, and karate-chopped him before
racing away.
On the third evening, the cockroach was back yet again. When
the man opened the door, it jumped at him and stabbed him
several times before running off. Although gravely injured,
he managed to crawl to the telephone and call for an
ambulance. He was rushed to intensive care, and his life was
saved. The doctor came to visit him during morning rounds
the following day and asked him what had happened. The man
explained about the cockroach's attacks and the stabbing
that almost killed him.
After a moment's thought, the doctor said, "Yes, I hear
there's a nasty bug going around.
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THE LAST LINE - - - - -
"Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and
seek to make them strong." -- Denis Waitley
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Your success is already established. You keep it from
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