And now for something completely different.............
Whilly Waegeman: 51 (FP2)
Marky Guarrera: 48
Peter Tamblyn: 46
Pommy James: 37
Beck Bourke: 31
Jimmy Hopkins: 30 (FP3)
Luke Hansell: 20
Ben Hall: 14
Greg: 4
Vinny: 4
Simon Harley:
Chris Eldridge: 1
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Monday, June 22, 2009
Monday 15thJune, winner "Ben"
Black ooze at old Cold War station frightens Labrador town
Last Updated: Monday, June 15, 2009 | 8:17 AM NT Comments131Recommend160
CBC News
Residents of the Inuit community of Hopedale are anxious about what pollution in their midst may mean. Residents of the Inuit community of Hopedale are anxious about what pollution in their midst may mean. (CBC)
Health officials have told residents of a small community on Labrador's coast to be wary of possible contamination from an abandoned military site in their midst.
Serious PCB contamination has already been identified at a Cold War-era radar station on a hill near Hopedale.
But residents are worried about pollution that is now seeping up around people's backyards.
"Drums full of tar [are] coming up, coming from under the ground," said Sabrina Pijogge, crouching over a patch of the black ooze and metal that has extruded on to the ground by the foundation of her home.
At a town hall meeting on Sunday night organized by the Newfoundland and Labrador government, residents learned more about a study on contamination near their community.
"If you're staying away from these areas and you do not collect berries in these areas, you minimize your exposure," research Astrid Michels, of the Royal Military College, told residents. She also advised people not to hunt in certain places.
The U.S. air force ran a radar station in Hopedale from 1953 to 1968, during the height of the Cold War. However, the U.S. did not clean up the site when it left.
In the 1980s, the Newfoundland and Labrador government took over the site and a dozen others, in exchange for $5 million from the federal government.
The cleanup has subsequently cost tens of millions of dollars.
"It's crazy," said Pijogge, looking at what is still creeping through the ground. "I don't know what to think of it. There's more and more tar coming from over here," she said.
The warning comes 30 years too late for some residents like Phillip Abel.
"Why didn't the government come in and do a health risk to the whole community?" Abel told Sunday night's meeting.
"You want the place up there to look good when some of the people down here may be dying of this PCB or whatever contaminant [is] in the ground," Abel said before the meeting.
This summer, the government will spend an additional $1.6 million to study the extent of the pollution. No commitments, though, have yet been made to study the health of residents.
Ben 4points
Mark 3points
Beck 2points
Pete 1point
Last Updated: Monday, June 15, 2009 | 8:17 AM NT Comments131Recommend160
CBC News
Residents of the Inuit community of Hopedale are anxious about what pollution in their midst may mean. Residents of the Inuit community of Hopedale are anxious about what pollution in their midst may mean. (CBC)
Health officials have told residents of a small community on Labrador's coast to be wary of possible contamination from an abandoned military site in their midst.
Serious PCB contamination has already been identified at a Cold War-era radar station on a hill near Hopedale.
But residents are worried about pollution that is now seeping up around people's backyards.
"Drums full of tar [are] coming up, coming from under the ground," said Sabrina Pijogge, crouching over a patch of the black ooze and metal that has extruded on to the ground by the foundation of her home.
At a town hall meeting on Sunday night organized by the Newfoundland and Labrador government, residents learned more about a study on contamination near their community.
"If you're staying away from these areas and you do not collect berries in these areas, you minimize your exposure," research Astrid Michels, of the Royal Military College, told residents. She also advised people not to hunt in certain places.
The U.S. air force ran a radar station in Hopedale from 1953 to 1968, during the height of the Cold War. However, the U.S. did not clean up the site when it left.
In the 1980s, the Newfoundland and Labrador government took over the site and a dozen others, in exchange for $5 million from the federal government.
The cleanup has subsequently cost tens of millions of dollars.
"It's crazy," said Pijogge, looking at what is still creeping through the ground. "I don't know what to think of it. There's more and more tar coming from over here," she said.
The warning comes 30 years too late for some residents like Phillip Abel.
"Why didn't the government come in and do a health risk to the whole community?" Abel told Sunday night's meeting.
"You want the place up there to look good when some of the people down here may be dying of this PCB or whatever contaminant [is] in the ground," Abel said before the meeting.
This summer, the government will spend an additional $1.6 million to study the extent of the pollution. No commitments, though, have yet been made to study the health of residents.
Ben 4points
Mark 3points
Beck 2points
Pete 1point
Monday 8th June, winner "Pommy"
THE FINAL SECRETS OF ROSWELL'S MEMORY METAL REVEALED
Nitinol
By Tony Bragalia
For The UFO Iconoclast(s)
6-7-09
This is the last installment in a three-part series on the Battelle-Roswell Connection; Future updates may appear as new information is developed.
Was the Roswell memory metal secretly "seeded" to industry and to others who could exploit its potential benefits? How was the technology transferred while keeping its origin disguised? Why were bizarre "mind-over-matter" tests performed by government psychics on the shape-recovery metal Nitinol? What is the hidden meaning of the morphing metal? Newly developed information provides the stunning answers to these questions.
Prior articles in this series showed that Wright Patterson Air Force Base contracted Battelle Memorial Institute -in the months immediately following the Roswell crash in 1947- to conduct studies on memory metal based on a Nickel and Titanium alloy. Similar material that could "remember" its original shape when crumpled or deformed was reported at the Roswell crash debris site. Wright Patterson -the base that contracted Battelle- was the very base to which the Roswell debris was flown after the crash.
Evidence for the Roswell-Battelle Connection was drawn from:
Footnotes that were located within military studies to a Battelle report on memory metal conducted by the Institute for Wright Patterson in the late 1940s
The fact that -although footnotes citing these reports have been found- the actual reports are "missing" despite repeated efforts
Supporting information provided by two USAF Generals (including one from Wright Patterson) on the composition of the debris and the existence of the analysis reports
A senior-level Battelle scientist's confession that he had analyzed the UFO crash debris when employed at the Institute
NitinolA historical "backtracking" of the technical literature on the development of shape-recovery metals- leading back to the doors of Battelle and Wright Patterson, to late 1940s exotic metal reports and to the Roswell Incident
A telling examination of the life of Battelle's Dr. Howard Cross as both metallurgist and UFO researcher- showing his likely involvement in the debris analysis
In this last installment, the memory metal's secret history is further exposed- and the hidden meaning of the metal is finally revealed:
Pommy 4points
Ben 3points
Marky 2points
Luke 1point
Nitinol
By Tony Bragalia
For The UFO Iconoclast(s)
6-7-09
This is the last installment in a three-part series on the Battelle-Roswell Connection; Future updates may appear as new information is developed.
Was the Roswell memory metal secretly "seeded" to industry and to others who could exploit its potential benefits? How was the technology transferred while keeping its origin disguised? Why were bizarre "mind-over-matter" tests performed by government psychics on the shape-recovery metal Nitinol? What is the hidden meaning of the morphing metal? Newly developed information provides the stunning answers to these questions.
Prior articles in this series showed that Wright Patterson Air Force Base contracted Battelle Memorial Institute -in the months immediately following the Roswell crash in 1947- to conduct studies on memory metal based on a Nickel and Titanium alloy. Similar material that could "remember" its original shape when crumpled or deformed was reported at the Roswell crash debris site. Wright Patterson -the base that contracted Battelle- was the very base to which the Roswell debris was flown after the crash.
Evidence for the Roswell-Battelle Connection was drawn from:
Footnotes that were located within military studies to a Battelle report on memory metal conducted by the Institute for Wright Patterson in the late 1940s
The fact that -although footnotes citing these reports have been found- the actual reports are "missing" despite repeated efforts
Supporting information provided by two USAF Generals (including one from Wright Patterson) on the composition of the debris and the existence of the analysis reports
A senior-level Battelle scientist's confession that he had analyzed the UFO crash debris when employed at the Institute
NitinolA historical "backtracking" of the technical literature on the development of shape-recovery metals- leading back to the doors of Battelle and Wright Patterson, to late 1940s exotic metal reports and to the Roswell Incident
A telling examination of the life of Battelle's Dr. Howard Cross as both metallurgist and UFO researcher- showing his likely involvement in the debris analysis
In this last installment, the memory metal's secret history is further exposed- and the hidden meaning of the metal is finally revealed:
Pommy 4points
Ben 3points
Marky 2points
Luke 1point
Monday 1st June, winner "Ben"
Oregon witness watched an unusual orb in the sky as it changed colors in a pulsing manner, and then observed a triangle-shaped UFO emerge from inside of it, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness database.
The May 29 event occured near an airport, and the witness wants to point out that the shape and behavior of both objects is out of the ordinary. The triangle UFO had three amber-colored lights at each of its points. White lights seem to be the norm for this type of craft, but we have seen the amber lights reported in other cases.
The triangle craft eventually moved away at a high rate of speed, and the pulsing orb either moved away, or shrunk in size - the witness is not sure - as it just seemed to get smaller and smaller with each pulse of light.
Ben 4points
Pommy 3points
Mark 2points
Luke 1point
The May 29 event occured near an airport, and the witness wants to point out that the shape and behavior of both objects is out of the ordinary. The triangle UFO had three amber-colored lights at each of its points. White lights seem to be the norm for this type of craft, but we have seen the amber lights reported in other cases.
The triangle craft eventually moved away at a high rate of speed, and the pulsing orb either moved away, or shrunk in size - the witness is not sure - as it just seemed to get smaller and smaller with each pulse of light.
Ben 4points
Pommy 3points
Mark 2points
Luke 1point
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monday 25thMay, winner "Marky"
Wind turbine noise suspected of killing 400 goats
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Late-night noise from spinning wind turbines on an outlying island of Taiwan may have killed 400 goats over the past three years by depriving them of sleep, an agricultural inspection official said on Thursday.
After the eight turbines were installed in the notoriously windy Penghu archipelago in the Taiwan Strait, a neighbouring farmer reported that his goats had started dying, Council of Agriculture inspection official Lu Ming-tseng said.
"If noise at night can keep people awake, then it could also keep the goats awake, and when the wind kicks up it makes a louder noise," Lu said.
Agricultural authorities would make tests to rule out any other causes of death, Lu said, adding that if the giant power-generating turbines proved to be at fault, Taiwan Power had promised to compensate the farmer.
Mark 4points
Jimmy 3points
Luke 2points
Beck 1point
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Late-night noise from spinning wind turbines on an outlying island of Taiwan may have killed 400 goats over the past three years by depriving them of sleep, an agricultural inspection official said on Thursday.
After the eight turbines were installed in the notoriously windy Penghu archipelago in the Taiwan Strait, a neighbouring farmer reported that his goats had started dying, Council of Agriculture inspection official Lu Ming-tseng said.
"If noise at night can keep people awake, then it could also keep the goats awake, and when the wind kicks up it makes a louder noise," Lu said.
Agricultural authorities would make tests to rule out any other causes of death, Lu said, adding that if the giant power-generating turbines proved to be at fault, Taiwan Power had promised to compensate the farmer.
Mark 4points
Jimmy 3points
Luke 2points
Beck 1point
Monday, May 18, 2009
Monday 18th May, winner "Jimmy Hopkins"
Daniel Joyce of Stockton whose car alarm went off along with some of his neighbours' for no apparent reason
THE truth is out there!
Or at least a group of baffled drivers hope it is following a morning of motoring mystery in Stockton.
Residents on Leam Lane, Bishopsgarth, woke last Wednesday to find their cars' electrical systems behaving oddly.
And confused driver Daniel Joyce contacted the Gazette in the hope we would get to the bottom of the problem. "It was early in the morning and a lot of people were having problems starting their cars," said Daniel, 21, who drives a Citroen Saxo.
"The central locking wouldn't work on mine so I opened it manually but then the engine wouldn't start.
"I ended up pushing it around the corner and as soon as I got it away from the street it would work."
The puzzling problem is believed to have been caused by some form of radio, electric or satellite signal interfering or blocking the signal that some car keys send to the engine.
Each key emits different frequencies, explaining why cars on the street were affected in different ways.
Daniel added: "It's a bit of a strange one but it's cost people money for tow trucks and if it's going to happen regularly it could be a problem."
Other drivers on the street were also affected, including Bernard Dambrosil, whose Land Rover alarm began wailing at about 6am.
He said: "I opened the car door and the alarm went off. Then I couldn't start the car so I had to call a tow van. It's been checked over but there's nothing wrong with it."
Neighbour Geoff Saysell says his Hyundai Accent was also affected by the puzzling problem.
The 53-year-old said: "The central locking on my car wouldn't work so I had to open the door manually. The alarm went off so I had to get under the bonnet and physically disconnect it. I work at Wilton and when I got there the locking worked fine."
And it wasn't just cars which were affected. Val Nixon had problems when she tried to open up her newsagent's. Val told the Gazette: "The remote wouldn't work for my shutters - they wouldn't go up or down.
"I had to call out an engineer and I'm expecting a bill of up to about £300. I didn't know about the car problems until two days later."
Some believe the problem could be connected to a change in satellites at the University Hospital of North Tees. But NHS Trust spokeswoman Claire Young denied they were the cause.
She said: "It sounds like a mystery. Obviously we need to be careful with these things ourselves because we have a lot of sensitive equipment."
Jimmy: 4points
Mark: 3points
Matty: 2points
Chris: 1point
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Wednesday 11th May, winner "Jimmy Hopkins"
Freaks Survive Because They Are Strange
If a blue jay sees a normal-looking salamander, it will eat it. But if the same bird sees a freak, it may let it go.
University of Tennessee researcher Benjamin Fitzpatrick says this discovery, which his team reports in the open access journal BMC Ecology, suggests why rare traits persist in a population.
Predators detect common forms of prey more easily, the scientists figure. The majority that share a common look are always on the dinner menu, while oddballs are left to reproduce.
"Maintenance of variation is a classic paradox in evolution because both selection and drift tend to remove variation from populations," Fitzpatrick explained today. "If one form has an advantage, such as being harder to spot, it should replace all others. Likewise, random drift [genetic change that occurs by chance] alone will eventually result in loss of all but one form when there are no fitness differences. There must therefore be some advantage that allows unusual traits to persist."
The researchers placed a selection of food-bearing model salamanders into a field for six days, with striped models outnumbering the unstriped by nine to one, or vice versa. On test days, the numbers were evened out. In each case, Blue Jays were more likely to attack the models that had been most prevalent over the previous six-day period.
"We believe that the different color forms represent different ways of blending in on the forest floor," Fitzpatrick said. "Looking for something cryptic takes both concentration and practice. Predators concentrating on finding striped salamanders might not notice unstriped ones."
4points Jimmy Hopkins
3points Willy Weageman
2points Peter Tamblynesque
1point Luke Hansell
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