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asteroid wathchers score a hit

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:36:43 GMT

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Asteroid Watchers Score a Hit

First detected on 5 October at the University of Arizona's Mt. Lemmon Observatory, the asteroid was calculated to enter the atmosphere over Sudan early on the morning of 7 October, erupting into a fireball in the sky but not damaging the ground. Although no sightings of the 2- to 3-meter-diameter rock burning itself up have come in from the ground, two other sorts of detections--one human and one instrumental--were made. Aviation meteorologist Jacob Kuiper of the National Weather Service in the Netherlands alerted KLM airliner pilots to the opportunity, and one flying 750 kilometers southwest of the predicted arrival spot reported a short flash just before the predicted time and in the predicted direction.

Earliest Snowfall in Idaho Since 1898

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:08:08 GMT

clipped by: pkronfield
clipper's remarks: Grab your woolies, folks - another indication of Global Cooling. We had better cash in our carbon credits quick to save the world from the polar bears.

Clip Source: www.idahostatesman.com

Big snow flakes fell early Friday evening, turning Downtown Boise into a giant snow globe for people on their way home from work. The snow caught many people off guard, including this bicyclist heading down Idaho Street between 8th and 9th around 5:45 p.m. Across the Treasure Valley, tree branches heavy with wet, snow-covered leaves fell on power lines, causing scattered power outages. This is the earliest measurable snowfall in Boise since recordkeeping began in 1898, according to the National Weather Service.

At 10 p.m., the Weather Service said 1.7 inches of snow had fallen. The previous earliest recorded snowfall was Oct. 12, 1969, when a little more than an inch fell. And if the snow wasn't enough, meteorologists say winds across southwestern Idaho will average 25 to 40 mph through Saturday afternoon, with gusts up to 55 mph. Sustained winds of 30 to 40 mph are expected, which can make driving difficult.

Tags: global warming, loony left

THE CZECH REPUBLIC PHOTO GALLERY

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:59:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.wild-landscape.com

THE CZECH REPUBLIC PHOTO GALLERY II

Getting up shortly after midnight, driving hundreds of miles, night walk to the chosen viewpoint and one hour before sunrise I prepare my photo equipment.....
In spite of continual monitoring of weather forecast, I mostly return without any single snapshot.

Strange Clouds Ahead

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:54:07 GMT

clipped by: MJT-Electrl0
clipper's remarks: Get a load of the strange cloud formations on this page; these shots are just two examples.

Clip Source: magazinely.com

Tags: weather, weird, clouds

Cold weather forecasts could warm frigid consumers

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:10:47 GMT

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Clip Source: industry.bnet.com

Cold weather forecasts could warm frigid consumers — Good news for retailers has been sparse over the last several weeks, but if Storm Exchange Inc.’s recent predictions for a cold winter prove true, sales could receive a much-needed boost. Storm Exchange reports year-over-year temperatures in the Midwest and Northeast have a 90 percent probability of increasing this month, giving apparel retailers a prime opportunity to sell winter wear. “Cold temperatures are a critical driver of consumer shopping behavior in September and October,” said Paul Walsh, Storm Exchange chief strategy officer. [Source: Market Watch]

the real story of obama and ayers

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:21:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the entire article is very interesting

Clip Source: www.factcheck.org

Stormy Weather, Underground

Bill Ayers' notoriety dates from the radical, anti-Vietnam War group he helped to start in 1969, splintering off from the activist Students for a Democratic Society. The members of the new group, the Weather Underground, favored shows of violence to further their cause. On March 6, 1970, though, three of them blew themselves up in a Greenwich Village townhouse during a bomb-making session gone badly awry. Ayers and his fellow Weathermen, as they were called, soon dropped out of sight

Barack Obama, who was born Aug. 4, 1961, was 8 years old at the time.

The Weather Underground continued setting off bombs, including one in a men's lavatory in the Capitol building in 1971 and another in a women's restroom in the Pentagon in 1972

. Nobody was killed, due to evacuation warnings the Weathermen sent out in advance.

Otow Orchard - renowned for persimmons, and more

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:22:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.otoworchard.com

A family-owned and operated orchard selling peaches, plums, persimmons, and other tree fruit.

Clip Source: www.otoworchard.com

Kitchitaro Kawano came to the United States from Japan in the late 1800s.

In 1911, he and his wife, Momi, purchased 20 acres of land

After Kitchitaro's death in 1939, his widow and youngest daughter, Helen, ran the farm.

After the war they returned to the farm

Clip Source: www.otoworchard.com

Otow Orchard is renowned for preserving the Japanese art of hoshigaki -- hoshi means dried and gaki is from kaki, the Japanese word for persimmon.

Our fresh persimmons are dried each fall in a slow, patient, hands-on process that usually takes three to six weeks...per persimmon. Each persimmon is hand-peeled, strung onto a rack, and massaged every 3 to 5 days for several weeks. Weather conditions are watched carefully. The result is a transformation into a sugary delicacy that is tender and moist with concentrated persimmon flavor.

Mike Dunne, Food Editor, Sacramento Bee, explains the process well in his article for The Sacramento Bee.

Tags: fruit, persimmons, produce, california, orchards

Words, words, words

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:21:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Time’s Karen Tumulty, who spotted racist goblins in the recent McCain ad criticizing Obama for seeking advice from Fannie Mae corruptocrat Franklin Raines.
A parade of congressional witch hunters for Obama also detects the specter of George Wallace behind every policy bush. Democratic New York Gov. David Paterson says conservative criticism of Obama’s community organizing days is code for “black.” Democratic Rep. Gregory Meeks complained to the New York Observer: “They are trying to throw out these codes.” In the same piece, Democratic Rep. Yvette Clark divined segregationist intent in Palin’s references to Joe Six-Pack and hockey moms. “It leaves a lot of people out.”
And Democratic Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid echoed Time’s Tumulty on the McCain camp’s Obama/Raines broadsides: “The only connection that people could bring up about Raines and Barack Obama is that they both are African-American, other than that there is nothing.”

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

How many racial bogeymen have Obama operatives and sympathetic journalists discovered lurking in “coded language” and attire? Let us count the ways:

UC Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff was also haunted by “That One”: “The phrase was meant to say, ‘You and I are in the same area, but he’s the outsider.’“

Memo to McCain: Next time, call him “The One.”

Obama supporters on the heavily trafficked Democratic Underground website (where such mainstream Democrats as Elizabeth Edwards hang out) saw the ghost of the Ku Klux Klan in Sarah Palin’s white suit jacket. Yes, white clothes equal racism.

Palin is wearing white again, inciting the racist crowds.

Such paranoia is not limited to the fever swamps of the Internet. Earlier this week, the Associated Press disseminated an “analysis” accusing Palin of injecting a “racial tinge” into the campaign because she criticized Obama for his longtime relationship with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers.

Expect severe winter in U.S. East – AccuWeather

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:36:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.signonsandiego.com

Expect severe winter in U.S. East – AccuWeather

“Given this economic environment, the winter will push some homeowners to the brink,” said AccuWeather long-range forecaster Joe Bastardi, referring to the credit crisis and oil prices which are substantially higher than last year.

Winter will start early this year, with December bringing perhaps the most severe weather of the season, Bastardi said. There should be a warm-up in January followed by another bout of severe weather in late January or early February, he said.

Tags: us, weather, eastern, winter

How Low Can He Go?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:58:29 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: What is that smell? Oh, yes. Fear and desperation. Mixed with a healthy dose of hate and prejudice.

Clip Source: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

McCain Questions Obama-Ayers Relationship

WAUKESHA, Wisc.—Senator John McCain joined in the attacks on Thursday on Senator Barack Obama for his ties to the 1960s radical William Ayers as he told an angry, raucous crowd that “we need to know the full extent of the relationship” to judge whether Mr. Obama “is telling the truth to the American people or not.”

Although Mr. McCain did not mention Mr. Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground, by name, his intent was clear in his response to a question from a participant at a town hall-style meeting here. The man told Mr. McCain that “we’re all wondering why Obama is where he’s at’’ and then asked, “Is there not a way to get around this media and line up the people he has hung with?’’

Obama Gains while McCain Flails

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:41:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More and more Obama looks like the Optimistic American who believes in us. McCain looks like the Grumpy old guy who won't admit that anything can go right.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

Professor and PastorObama finds his voice on the economy.

And yet, despite the weather and equally ominous financial crisis that has come to dominate the campaign, Obama was able to brighten the crowd's mood. What's more, he was able to do so in a way that must be deeply frustrating to his opponent—because Obama is doing a much better job of conveying a message of optimism that John McCain has tried (and failed) to sell himself

He sounded like a professor. That used to be a knock against Obama, but it doesn't seem like such a bad thing these days. Presidents must persuade, and to persuade they must explain

Obama pivoted to pastor. The sermon was American exceptionalism. "I am here today to tell you that there are better days ahead," he said. "This is the United States of America. This is a nation that has faced down war and Depression

Here in America, our destiny is not written for us, but by us

Tags: mccain, obama, campaign, election

warming to palin

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:42:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: this caught my eye this morning-thought i'd pass it on....

Clip Source: www.smirkingchimp.com

Warming to Palin

It's the second week of October. When I was a kid it would sometimes snow and always be cold by now. I'm typing this on my laptop sitting outdoors in the warm sun with no sweater or jacket on the downtown mall, a pedestrian street in Charlottesville, Va. Flowers are blooming, and butterflies and hummingbirds are hanging out, several states out of their old territory. We haven't had the heat or the air conditioning on in our house for months. The weather is perfect and we're saving money. Global warming is making it easy for us to take steps to reverse global warming. So why does the perfect summer breeze on the back of my neck scare the hell out of me?

Tags: politics

Can Electricity From Trees Power Gadgets?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:35:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: My first thought was that the electricity may have some influence on the tree's life.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

A new sensor system is under development that runs on electricity generated by ordinary trees! Apparently trees are capable of self-sustaining a reliable source of electricity. While a tree may not seem like much of a powerhouse, the "trickle charge" can add up, "just like a dripping faucet can fill a bucket over time," said Shuguang Zhang, one of the researchers on the project and the associate director of MIT's Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE).

MIT researchers now believe they can power a network of sensors connected directly to trees to perform a variety of tasks.

Trees could serve as “silent sentinels” along the nation's borders to detect potential threats such as smuggled radioactive materials—with the sensors powered by the trees themselves. They could also prevent forest fires, among other applications, by sending early reports to the authorities.

Right now, the U.S. Forest Service says that manually recharging or replacing batteries in remote automated weather stations

Tags: nature, energy

weather hartford

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:04:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.weather.com

Daily Details for
Hartford, CT
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Night

Sunny

High
69°F

Precip
20%

Wind:	NNW 6 mph
Max. Humidity:	66%
UV Index:	4 Moderate


Sunrise:	6:59 AM ET
Avg. High:	65°F
Record High:	86°F (1955)

Clear

Overnight Low
47°F

Precip
20%

Wind:	NNE 1 mph
Max. Humidity:	78%


Sunset:	6:15 PM ET
Avg. Low:	41°F
Record Low:	21°F (1996)

Last Updated Thursday, Oct 9, 4:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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Irish referendum

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:19:03 GMT

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Clip Source: www.irishtimes.com

Thursday, October 9, 2008

14 °C Dublin » FRI14 °C SAT11 °C SUN12 °C YOUR WEATHER »

More information on funding of Libertas given by Ganley

DECLAN GANLEY, the founder of Libertas, has given more information about the funding of the organisation's high-profile campaign against the Lisbon Treaty.

Mr Ganley has said the total amount spent by the group during the campaign was in the region of €800,000. The group's spokesman John McGuirk, said during the campaign that it had a budget of €1.3 million.

Earlier this week European parliament president Hans-Gert Pottering called on Mr Ganley to reveal where he got the funds to campaign against the Lisbon Treaty.

He has also asked the parliament's political groups to consider launching an inquiry to discover whether US agencies actively supported Libertas in the June 12th referendum. Mr Ganley's US company, Rivada Networks, sells communications services to the US military and the US National Guard.

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asteroid wathchers score a hit

Asteroid Watchers Score a Hit

Earliest Snowfall in Idaho Since 1898

THE CZECH REPUBLIC PHOTO GALLERY

Strange Clouds Ahead

Cold weather forecasts could warm frigid consumers

the real story of obama and ayers

Otow Orchard - renowned for persimmons, and more

Words, words, words

Expect severe winter in U.S. East – AccuWeather

How Low Can He Go?

McCain Questions Obama-Ayers Relationship

Obama Gains while McCain Flails

Professor and PastorObama finds his voice on the economy.

warming to palin

Can Electricity From Trees Power Gadgets?

weather hartford

Daily Details forHartford, CT [ English | Metric ]

Irish referendum

More information on funding of Libertas given by Ganley

Daily Details for
Hartford, CT
[ English | Metric ]