This comes in from one of our field reporters PaulD.
Friend Says Woman Has Been Acting Strangely Recently
UPDATED: 11:42 am EST March 4, 2005
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- A 40-year-old woman described as a transient was jailed in Grand Junction -- accused of jumping a fence to wrestle naked with a dog.
An arrest affidavit indicated that Katherine Earle scaled the four-foot fence just before midnight Tuesday, then stripped in order to wrestle with the male Labrador retriever-blue heeler mix.
Residents of the home awoke from the noise and called police.
Responding officers said Earle told them she was having sex with the dog, and that she does it all the time. The dog's owner, Six Starr, said that Earle has been friendly with the dog, but that Earle has been acting strangely for the past six months.
What took place last night, I don't even want to guess, Starr told the Grand Junction Sentinel.
The dog wasn't injured, according to KMGH-TV in Denver.
Police arrested Earle on a previous warrant and took her to the Mesa County Jail to serve a 25-day sentence. "
Mar 5, 2005
Mar 4, 2005
Bachelor party for Prince Charles
Soon to be married.: "Britain's Prince Charles(C) talks with local traditionally dressed Aboriginal dancers upon his arrival in Alice Springs, Australia March 2, 2005. (Russell Boyce/Reuters) "
Mar 3, 2005
Explosion Kills 11 in Chinese Coal Town
BEIJING - Explosives stored at a coal mine manager's house blew up in northern China, killing him and at least 10 other people, including two students and a teacher at a nearby grade school, news reports and police said Thursday.
The mine manager, Lu Maolin, was killed, along with several family members in Wednesday's blast in Kecheng, a town in Shanxi province, according to an officer reached by phone at the county police station who would give only his surname, Li. He said several people were killed when a nearby clinic collapsed.
"We are investigating the cause of the explosion," Li said.
He denied a report by the newspaper Shanxi Commercial News that a school near Lu's house had collapsed, killing 20 students. He said that building was still standing.
The official Xinhua News Agency put the death toll at 11 and said it included two students and a teacher at the school.
Shanxi province, a major coal-mining region. China's coal mining industry is the world's deadliest, with thousands of deaths reported every year despite a government safety campaign.
The country also suffers hundreds of deaths a year from the mishandling of explosives used for mining, construction and fireworks manufacturing.
Work safety authorities in Shanxi, one of China's biggest coal-mining regions, will begin to limit the number of miners working underground at one time in an effort to prevent overproduction and accidents, Xinhua said in a separate report.
Under the new guidelines, the maximum number of workers for mines with an annual coal production capacity of less than 90,000 tons is 29, Xinhua said, while the number for those producing up to 900,000 tons is 99.
"The high demand for energy and therefore the high price of coal in the country have pushed for over-production in many collieries, quite often at the cost of the great loss of miners' lives," the report said.
The province will also eventually limit the number of mines to about 3,000 and will no longer approve new mines producing less than 300,000 tons of coal a year, Xinhua said.
The mine manager, Lu Maolin, was killed, along with several family members in Wednesday's blast in Kecheng, a town in Shanxi province, according to an officer reached by phone at the county police station who would give only his surname, Li. He said several people were killed when a nearby clinic collapsed.
"We are investigating the cause of the explosion," Li said.
He denied a report by the newspaper Shanxi Commercial News that a school near Lu's house had collapsed, killing 20 students. He said that building was still standing.
The official Xinhua News Agency put the death toll at 11 and said it included two students and a teacher at the school.
Shanxi province, a major coal-mining region. China's coal mining industry is the world's deadliest, with thousands of deaths reported every year despite a government safety campaign.
The country also suffers hundreds of deaths a year from the mishandling of explosives used for mining, construction and fireworks manufacturing.
Work safety authorities in Shanxi, one of China's biggest coal-mining regions, will begin to limit the number of miners working underground at one time in an effort to prevent overproduction and accidents, Xinhua said in a separate report.
Under the new guidelines, the maximum number of workers for mines with an annual coal production capacity of less than 90,000 tons is 29, Xinhua said, while the number for those producing up to 900,000 tons is 99.
"The high demand for energy and therefore the high price of coal in the country have pushed for over-production in many collieries, quite often at the cost of the great loss of miners' lives," the report said.
The province will also eventually limit the number of mines to about 3,000 and will no longer approve new mines producing less than 300,000 tons of coal a year, Xinhua said.
'Atomic Paring Knife' Will Help Probe Ancient Civilizations
Newswise — Mississippi State researchers are acquiring a high-tech laser instrument described as an “atomic paring knife” that will be used, among other things, to probe the mysteries of ancient civilizations.
Hailed as the first such unit of its type in the Southeastern United States, the university’s Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer will provide organizations across Mississippi—academic, non-profit and industrial—with unique capabilities for quantitative surface analysis and depth profiling.
It was purchased with a National Science Foundation grant of more than $264,000 awarded to a team of MSU researchers at Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory—known as DIAL—and Cobb Institute of Archaeology.
“The instrument can be used to map surfaces—find defects or specific surface features,” said DIAL director John Plodinec. “One also can do depth profiling—using the laser system as an atomic paring knife, peeling away layer after layer of material.”
Associate anthropology professor Evan Peacock predicted the new instrument will greatly enhance MSU’s ongoing archaeological investigations at Lyon’s Bluff, an Oktibbeha County site where Native Americans dwelled A.D. 1000-1650. Numerous artifacts and the foundation of a prehistoric fort have been found there, the Cobb research associate added.
“The new laser ablation (precise removal) system provides a rapid, non-destructive way of tracing pottery to its source,” Peacock, an environmental archaeologist, said.
Plodinec said the system uses a laser to gently scratch the sample surface, ejecting a small amount of material into plasma, where the atoms are separated by mass.
“The instrument provides a complete, rapid and accurate compositional analysis of almost any materials—stone, glass, ceramics, metals—with no sample preparation and minimal damage to the original sample,” said DIAL assistant research professor Adriana Giordana, who is coordinating the technological effort for the lab.
“The system will help advance research in many MSU departments and several collaborating businesses and institutions,” she added. “It also will offer possibilities for student training in a variety of fields.”
DIAL hopes to have the instrument available for use as quickly as possible, Plodinec explained, and already is engaged in discussions with outside organizations that might utilize the technology, including the George Ohr Museum in Biloxi.
The instrument’s versatile, user-friendly design allows a wide variety of applications, including: monitoring of changes in soils caused by plants; analysis of the composition and microstructure of waste forms for nuclear waste; determination of glaze and clay composition in modern and ancient pottery; determination of leaching of metal ions from bone replacement and dental implants into surrounding tissues; and detection of trace quantities of wood preservatives and metals on wood surfaces, Plodinec said.
According to Peacock, Native Americans between A.D. 1000-1650 added crushed mussel shells to clay and utilized a host of decorative techniques to produce very fine, thin-walled pots. Some were painted, some were engraved with thin lines depicting mythological symbols, and some were covered with small bumps or nodes.
“Archaeologists studying the prehistoric past try to use these styles to trace the movement of people and ideas across the landscape, but this is a difficult thing to test,” he said. “A preliminary analysis of pottery from the Lyon’s Bluff site suggests that at least three different source areas are represented. This project will be greatly expanded, once the laser ablation system is set up at MSU.”
Other planned projects by the Cobb Institute and colleagues in MSU’s department of sociology, anthropology, and social work include tracing stone artifacts (arrowheads and spear points) to their source to track prehistoric trade routes.
Hailed as the first such unit of its type in the Southeastern United States, the university’s Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer will provide organizations across Mississippi—academic, non-profit and industrial—with unique capabilities for quantitative surface analysis and depth profiling.
It was purchased with a National Science Foundation grant of more than $264,000 awarded to a team of MSU researchers at Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory—known as DIAL—and Cobb Institute of Archaeology.
“The instrument can be used to map surfaces—find defects or specific surface features,” said DIAL director John Plodinec. “One also can do depth profiling—using the laser system as an atomic paring knife, peeling away layer after layer of material.”
Associate anthropology professor Evan Peacock predicted the new instrument will greatly enhance MSU’s ongoing archaeological investigations at Lyon’s Bluff, an Oktibbeha County site where Native Americans dwelled A.D. 1000-1650. Numerous artifacts and the foundation of a prehistoric fort have been found there, the Cobb research associate added.
“The new laser ablation (precise removal) system provides a rapid, non-destructive way of tracing pottery to its source,” Peacock, an environmental archaeologist, said.
Plodinec said the system uses a laser to gently scratch the sample surface, ejecting a small amount of material into plasma, where the atoms are separated by mass.
“The instrument provides a complete, rapid and accurate compositional analysis of almost any materials—stone, glass, ceramics, metals—with no sample preparation and minimal damage to the original sample,” said DIAL assistant research professor Adriana Giordana, who is coordinating the technological effort for the lab.
“The system will help advance research in many MSU departments and several collaborating businesses and institutions,” she added. “It also will offer possibilities for student training in a variety of fields.”
DIAL hopes to have the instrument available for use as quickly as possible, Plodinec explained, and already is engaged in discussions with outside organizations that might utilize the technology, including the George Ohr Museum in Biloxi.
The instrument’s versatile, user-friendly design allows a wide variety of applications, including: monitoring of changes in soils caused by plants; analysis of the composition and microstructure of waste forms for nuclear waste; determination of glaze and clay composition in modern and ancient pottery; determination of leaching of metal ions from bone replacement and dental implants into surrounding tissues; and detection of trace quantities of wood preservatives and metals on wood surfaces, Plodinec said.
According to Peacock, Native Americans between A.D. 1000-1650 added crushed mussel shells to clay and utilized a host of decorative techniques to produce very fine, thin-walled pots. Some were painted, some were engraved with thin lines depicting mythological symbols, and some were covered with small bumps or nodes.
“Archaeologists studying the prehistoric past try to use these styles to trace the movement of people and ideas across the landscape, but this is a difficult thing to test,” he said. “A preliminary analysis of pottery from the Lyon’s Bluff site suggests that at least three different source areas are represented. This project will be greatly expanded, once the laser ablation system is set up at MSU.”
Other planned projects by the Cobb Institute and colleagues in MSU’s department of sociology, anthropology, and social work include tracing stone artifacts (arrowheads and spear points) to their source to track prehistoric trade routes.
Feb 28, 2005
Make weapons from common office supplies
Bricolage - (noun) Something made or put together using whatever materials happen to be available
The people at Bleacheating freaks have completely lost their minds but that goes without saying, doesn't it.
Here are the criteria for their little contest to see who can make weapons from common office supplies.
Destructiveness (10%)- Strength of the weapon to impose it's damage onto an office. Also a factor of how many people your weapon can affect at once.
Automation (%10) - This facet is dedicated to how simple it is to use your weapon. If your weapon seems hard to load, implement or mobilize, then you might want to make the adjustments necessary to get this valuable percentage.
Presentation (%10)- How well the weapon was presented, by pictures, video and text. This score is always relative to the average presentation quality.
Technicality (%15)- The amount of technical design that went into the submission.
Elegant simplicity can score high on this event as well.
Aesthetics (%15)- How the weapon looks. Time designated towards cosmetics of the weapon. Writing Bleach Eating Freaks on the weapon will help boost the score.
Originality (20%) - Ability for the weapon to differ itself from what might be considered common office weapons, and past Office Bricolage entries.
Efficacy (20%) - The ability of the weapon to serve it's purpose. Not all weapons are destructive, a weapon that paralyzes it's victim is pretty kewl, too.
Here is an example the 60 sec. Shiv
or
The Microclaymore
Complete instructions are provided on the site for each weapon.
I'm glad none of these people work with me.
The people at Bleacheating freaks have completely lost their minds but that goes without saying, doesn't it.
Here are the criteria for their little contest to see who can make weapons from common office supplies.
Destructiveness (10%)- Strength of the weapon to impose it's damage onto an office. Also a factor of how many people your weapon can affect at once.
Automation (%10) - This facet is dedicated to how simple it is to use your weapon. If your weapon seems hard to load, implement or mobilize, then you might want to make the adjustments necessary to get this valuable percentage.
Presentation (%10)- How well the weapon was presented, by pictures, video and text. This score is always relative to the average presentation quality.
Technicality (%15)- The amount of technical design that went into the submission.
Elegant simplicity can score high on this event as well.
Aesthetics (%15)- How the weapon looks. Time designated towards cosmetics of the weapon. Writing Bleach Eating Freaks on the weapon will help boost the score.
Originality (20%) - Ability for the weapon to differ itself from what might be considered common office weapons, and past Office Bricolage entries.
Efficacy (20%) - The ability of the weapon to serve it's purpose. Not all weapons are destructive, a weapon that paralyzes it's victim is pretty kewl, too.
Here is an example the 60 sec. Shiv
or
The Microclaymore
Complete instructions are provided on the site for each weapon.
I'm glad none of these people work with me.
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