Ozone hole is supposed to close by December...

Background Information about the "Ozone Hole"
Every year for the past several decades the return of sunlight to the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere has produced massive depletion of ozone over Antarctica. Observations in Antarctica initiated in the 1950's document this progressive loss of ozone during the Southern Hemisphere spring. Satellite data from the NASA/TOMS showed that the affected area was not just limited to over the observation stations, but over most of Antarctica. This area of 50-75% depletion of total ozone has been labeled as the "ozone hole". The ozone hole is defined geographicaly as the area wherein the total ozone amount is less than 220 Dobson Units. The ozone hole has steadily grown in size(up to 27 million sq. km.) and length of existence(from August through early December) over the past two decades. This is graphically illustrated in ozone hole area versus Julian day plots for the years: 1979-80, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
The cause and effects of the ozone hole are explained in depth by the linked sites. Areas of countries and continents are listed in the table below for reference in comparison to the size of the ozone hole.

NOAA monitors the progression of the ozone hole from space and on the ground in Antarctica. Summaries of previous years' ozone holes are available at the NOAA/CPC Stratospheric Winter Summary site.

What's Happening Currently
The current year's ozone hole plot shows the progression of this year's ozone hole (red line) and is placed in reference with last year's ozone hole conditions (blue line) and conditions over the previous ten years. The maximum ozone hole area for each day over the ten year period is shown as the upper black line. The minimum ozone hole area for each day of this same period is shown as the lower black line. The mean ozone hole area for each day over this period is shown as the green line. The gray shaded area in August depicts the decreasing degree of uncertainty in the ozone hole size estimate as more of the polar region becomes sunlit. The figure will be updated twice weekly from September through December to show the progress of the current year's ozone hole.

Note that data in August is not as reliable as succeeding months due to limited observation coverage by the ozone monitoring instrument.
The area ploted is in Million Square Kilometers.



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Fall Series, Signs Of The Seasonal Change...

This was an experiment that i did last week to try to use different focal lenghts to make different objects be in and out of focus. I hope that you all like them. I think several of them are very good.

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Cobalt Gum...

I have seen all the hype about this gum so I decided to try it. I purchased for $1.50 the other night the blue gum, "Cobalt...A Cooling Peppermint".

Wrigley Announces Launch Plans for 5(TM) - New Stick Gum To Stimulate the Senses
"5 appeals to the senses and is the most exciting development in sugar- free stick gum since the launch of Extra(R) more than 20 years ago," said Bill Perez, Wrigley's President and CEO, while speaking to attendees at Wrigley's Annual Stockholders' Meeting Wednesday in Chicago.
Available in Rain(TM) (a tingling spearmint flavor), Cobalt(TM) (a cooling peppermint flavor), and Flare(TM) (warming cinnamon flavor), 5 debuts in a 15- stick envelope package, a first for the gum category.

"Teens, who are constantly seeking opportunities to experience something out of the ordinary, are also the most frequent gum chewers of any age group and account for one-third of all gum chewed in the U.S.," said Martin Schlatter, Wrigley's Chief Marketing Officer. "In our testing, teens and young adults have told us they love everything about 5 - from the unique tingling, cooling or warming sensations that accompany its delicious and especially long-lasting flavors to its bold graphics to its sleek, revolutionary packaging. 5 delivers an amazing new gum experience."

It came with 15 pieces of gum all nicely wrapped in pretty blue foil. It was good tasting and it did last for a long time but when I spit it out, it left a very bad aftertaste in my mouth. I did not live up to the hype that Wrigley’s has made with all the advertising that is on TV. The brand is called “5” and I chose Cobalt, I guess that I will try the other flavors to see if they give a bad aftertaste like Cobalt did. The gum I like the best is the Wrigley’s Extra Polar Ice.

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Coincidence Is All?

 

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This is actually really freaky!!
(mainly the end part, but read it   all first)
1) New York City has 11 letters
2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.
3) Ramsin Yuseb has 11 letters .
(The terrorist who threatened to destroy
the Twin Towers in   1993)
4) George W Bush has 11 letters.    

This could be a mere coincidence, but this
gets  more interesting:
1) New York is the 11th state.
2) The first plane crashing against the
Twin Towers was flight number 11.
3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers.
9 + 2 = 11) Flight 77 which also hit
Twin Towers , was carrying 65   passengers. 6+5 = 11
5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 + 1+ 1 =11
6) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911.  


 9 +   1 + 1 = 11

Sheer coincidence..?! Read on and make
up your own mind:
1) The total number of victims inside all
the hi-jacked planes was 254.  

2 +   5 + 4 = 11.

2) September 11 is day number 254 of
the calendar year.  

Again 2 + 5 + 4 =   11.

3) The Madrid    bombing took place on 3/11/2004. 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 4 = 11.
4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident.  

Now this is where things get totally eerie:  

The most recognized symbol for the
US , after the Stars &Stripes, is the
Eagle. The following verse is taken
from the Quran, the Islamic holy book:

"For it is written that a son of Arabia
would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The
wrath of the Eagle would be felt
throughout the lands of Allah while
some of the people trembled in despair  
still more rejoiced: for the wrath of the
Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and
there was peace."  


That verse is number 9.11 of the Quran.
Still unconvinced about all of this?!  


Try this and see how you feel   afterwards,
it made my hair stand on end:    


Open Microsoft Word and do the following:
1. Type in capitals Q33 NY. This is the flight  number of the first plane to hit one of the Twin Towers .
2. Highlight the Q33 NY.
3. Change the font size to 48.
4. Change the actual font to the WINGDINGS  1  (I've done it for you.)

   What do you think now?!!  

Q33 NY

Q33 NY

ITs always funny until someone gets hurt...

In my opinion, they were WAY the HELL off base!! I am just glad that i did not and do not ever want to go to jail there!! Here is 2 different views from 2 people. TheUniversity of Florida will have a big lawsuit on their hands...















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Random mail box!

No house here for mail.

Soundside Sunset Duck NC, OBX

DSC02496, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

http://www.fishbonessunsetgrille.com/

That is the link to the resturant where the picture was taken. OBX, Duck NC

Bright drive!

I tried to recreate the pic from yesterday but i was to late as this one was shot @ 8.25am, not @ 8.00am. Perhaps i will try tomorrow morning.

As clear as mud...

According to a recent post on GameDaily BIZ, Comcast had said what excessive is. Here is the article. There have been several posts about this on Slashdot and other sites. So even if I were the biggest spammer in the world, I might not get banned by Comcast as long as I do not reach the 13 million Email mark!! So, we are looking at somewhere in the 500+gig a month area. Not too shabby if you ask me. It looks like they are the most lenient out of all of the major carriers.

Earlier this week, we heard a radio report that talked about a few people who were losing their high-speed Internet access through Comcast. The company cited that these users went above and beyond the average use of most users and branded the former customers as "excessive users." In what appeared fishy, the report said that Comcast would not define how the company defined the term.

Now that the three current next gen consoles offer online connectivity for downloads, competition and system updates, we were worried that our own personal "download every demo that will fit on the Xbox 360 hard drive" might get us banned too.

Charlie Douglas, a spokesperson for Comcast Corporation, called back to clarify what "excessive usage" means and why the company's actions to end its relationship with these customers is good for gamers. First, Douglas defines Comcast's "excessive use" as any customer who downloads the equivalent of 30,000 songs, 250,000 pictures or 13 million emails in a month.

In short, even if you played a marathon World of Warcraft session for weeks while downloading the massive amount of demos on Xbox 360 and sprinkled with the not so massive amount of demos on the PlayStation Network, you are still not close to getting banned.

Douglas said that Comcast's actions to cut ties with excessive users is a "great benefit to games and helps protect gamers and their game experience" due to their overuse of the network and thus "degrading the experience."

Comcast has been a big supporter of gaming for years with its Game Invasion news, information and game purchasing web site and its well-known G4 TV network, which televises some of gaming's biggest events.

by Micheal Mullen


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Are they related?

Those people look a lot alike. Is Love their long lost mother? Look at the pics and I will let you decide. Their looks are very unsetteling if you ask me.

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The "Juice" will not get loose on this one...

O.J. Simpson's bail has been set at $78,000.

The breakdown is as follows:a) $10,000 for each count of assault with a deadly weaponb

) $20,000 for each count of robbery with a deadly weaponc

) $15,000 for the one count of burglary with the use of a deadly weapond

) $3,000 for the conspiracy to commit robbery with a deadly weapon count

We're told O.J. is quiet and calm. A source at the jail tells us Simpson will have limited interaction with jail personnel. He'll be held, by himself, in a booking cell, and only necessary law enforcement staff will have contact with him.The jail holds roughly 4,000 inmates in two buildings. We're told he will go through the search process like everyone else.Our sources say the Juice has been very cooperative with authorities.

What a TOTAL AND COMPLETE IDIOT!! He was scott-free with the murders and now he is resorting to being a total common criminal with breaking and entering and robbery. Way to go "Juice" I guess that Nicole Brown's parents will be happy! Justice is served one way or another and Karma is a BITCH!! Yea Vegas!! They have way too many cameras to even try to do something as stupid as he did.

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Madonna, the Yenta Ouijazilla

Thanks to Mac Hall for letting me publish this.

Poor Israel – surrounded by genocidal neighbors who stay up late polishing their North Korean nukes and listening to The Voices. And now, perhaps a worse threat, a Kabbalah convention in Tel Aviv featuring Madonna.

Greek Orthodox everywhere breathe a grateful sigh of relief that Madonna’s parents did not name her Theotokos.

Whatever the Kabbalah is – and to ask for a definition is to suffer a smothering tribble-drop of New Age cliches’ – it has become the newest fashion among rich people without underwear. Scientology is, like, soooo last week.

And, really, one can understand – wearing a red string on one’s wrist is so much more understated than lugging an e-meter around.

And what’s with the red string, named Red String? Well, you buy it for some twenty-six dollars or so, and it has, like, y’know, seven knots in it, and, like, stuff, and it wards off the Evil Eye.

Whew! Gotta get me one! I don’t know of a day in my life when I haven’t been menaced by evil eyes glaring at me from my toothbrush and my toaster, and now my salvation is here, in a red string! You can buy your own Red String at Kabbalah.com, along with incense, candles, posters – golly, the sixties are back!

Other followers of Kabbalism are said to include Britney Spears, David and Victoria Beckham, Roseanne Barr, Donna Karan, Lindsey Lohan, Sandra Bernhard, Demi Moore, and Ashton Kutcher, all the greats.

Last week Madonna, who has taken the name of Esther, was a guest of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who, according to the Associated Press, gave her a copy of the Old Testament. Note to AP: That’s not what they call it in Israel. In return, Madonna gave Mr. Peres a copy of a Kabbalist text, The Book of Splendor, inscribed "To Shimon Peres, the man I admire and love, Madonna." Now that, not dictators with nuclear weapons, will have the man waking up at 0200 dripping sweat and screaming in fear.

Why is it that the rich and famous seem genetically unable to sit modestly and humbly in a pew, donate to the soup kitchen, help serve coffee after divine services, and just shut up?

Because duty is not nearly as thrilling as being part of an in-group: all the corpse-littered films and the secret -– so secret that they have their own web sites – societies puttering about with secret Egyptian / Babylonian / Chaldean / Crusader books, candles, magic healing water, sacred vessels (stamped “Made in Taiwan” on the bottom), codes (Da Vinci and otherwise), arcane ceremonies featuring robes and wands and stuff, Grail legends, Templar legends, crystals, rocks, ouija boards, seances, tarot cards – it’s all old news. Have we learned nothing from Chaucer’s Pardoner with his pig bones and handkerchiefs? Or from pompously sad Yeats with his table-thumping seances and his orange magic robes?

Poor Madonna. If she really wants to encounter Jewish mysticism she could not do better than to visit an ordinary synagogue on a Friday evening. She could sit next to a woman whose husband has died and whose children are grown and gone. She could ask this woman, a real Esther, “What is the meaning of life?” And perhaps Esther would smile with the wisdom of genuine suffering, and whisper “Shhhhh,” and point to the Torah.

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Sun in clouds.

In vacant field.

Sun on field

@ 6.14pm

Bright road!

Morning sun.

Another cloud shot.

Cool morning clouds.

It is 53 deg @ 7.33am

Autum field.

Sunsetting

Over a field

Unsuspecting couple slept entire night with wasp nest under pillow

They must have been really drunk not to want to investigate what was going on in the room. I HATE WASPS AND BEEs!! I rather fight a snake than to have to fight a wasp. Now being too drunk to want to investigate what all the buzzing was about is just beyond me. I just cant believe that the wasps did not sting them during the night with them moving about. I know that i move about when i sleep and also put my hands under the pillows. IF you ask me, they were very lucky!

A more unpleasant collection of bedfellows would be hard to imagine.

As Vicki and Clive Hames settled down for the night, they couldn't fail to notice the strange buzzing in the bedroom - but chose not to investigate.

On reflection, it's probably a good job that they didn't.

The wasp nest stretched from the pillow all the way down the back of the bed
Unbeknown to the couple, a swarm of wasps had built a nest beneath the pillows of their bed.
And, remarkably, they both slept the entire night without realising.

It was not until the morning, when 57-year- old Mrs Hames pulled back her pillow to reveal the angry swarm that she was stung once on the back.

Her 60-year-old husband, meanwhile, escaped unharmed.

Mr and Mrs Hames, from Northampton, heard the "low buzzing sound" as they tried to drop off in the spare room of her stepfather's house.

If that was me, i would have the the hell stung out of me!! I do not have that kind of luck. Here is the link for the rest of the story: Wasps are MAD!

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