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neufer wrote:

owlice wrote:

geckzilla wrote:
Kevin Trudeau has been found guilty and is going to jail, hopefully for a long, long time...

Good!

Why is everyone taking this so personally?

geckzilla wrote:
He's probably a Stratfordian, Art.

geckzilla wrote:
Seriously though, I'm not sure why you don't understand it. I mean, people like this guy exploit people who are in very vulnerable states--people who are so desperate that they are willing to believe in whatever miracles he's claiming to offer. Then he takes who knows how much money from them and claims to be bankrupt? He's also proud to have absolutely no medical education because he thinks that if he were to go to school he would somehow become magically influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. Essentially, he is an ignorant fool who is adept at convincing other people to join him and then he exploits them however he can. He actually got his fans to flood the judge's email account on his most recent case. As you can imagine, that backfired pretty badly for him. What a tool. A whole shed of tools, actually.

geckzilla wrote:
I don't feel like deciphering whatever you are trying to illustrate with a video today. That's one way to end a conversation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Riesenrad wrote:

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<<The Wiener Riesenrad ("Viennese giant wheel"), or Riesenrad, is a 212 ft tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. It is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises the district as well as the city for many people. At the time of its construction in 1897, both the original 264 ft Ferris Wheel in the US (constructed 1893, demolished 1906) and the 94-metre (308 ft) Great Wheel in England (constructed 1895, demolished 1907) were taller. The 100-metre (328 ft) Grande Roue de Paris, constructed in 1900, was taller still. However, when the Grande Roue de Paris was demolished in 1920, the Riesenrad became the world's tallest extant Ferris wheel, and it remained so for the next 65 years, until the construction of the 85-metre (279 ft) Technostar in Japan in 1985.

The Wiener Riesenrad was constructed in 1897 by the English engineer Lieutenant Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), Royal Navy, son of Charles Bassett (1834-1908), MP, of Watermouth Castle, Devon. Its purpose was to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I. The Riesenrad was one of the earliest Ferris wheels ever built. Bassett's Ferris wheel manufacturing business was not a commercial success, and he died in 1907 almost bankrupt. A permit for its demolition was issued in 1916, but due to a lack of funds with which to carry out the destruction, it survived. It originally had 30 gondolas, but was severely damaged in World War II and when subsequently rebuilt only 15 gondolas were replaced. The wheel is driven by a circumferential cable which leaves the wheel and passes through the drive mechanism under the base, and its spokes are steel cables, in tension.>>

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ad ... 0078273#s1 wrote:

We observe that this item fulfils a crucial need shared by all languages –the efficient signalling of problems of hearing and understanding– and we propose that its form is constrained by selective pressures in a conversational environment that is essentially the same in all languages.

Ann wrote: So when we greet our first alien, maybe we should use that little word common to us all - a resounding Huh???
Ann

Ann wrote:
Is there a word that is more or less common to all languages on the Earth? According to Mark Dingemanse, Fransisco Torreira and N. J. Enfield, there might be. The scientists have studied 10 spoken languages from 5 continents and found evidence of a similar word everywhere. The word is huh?. So when we greet our first alien, maybe we should use that little word common to us all - a resounding Huh???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huh_%28god%29 wrote:
<<In Egyptian mythology, Huh was the deification of infinity or eternity in the Ogdoad, his name itself meaning "endlessness".

Depictions of Huh were also used in hieroglyphs to represent one million, which was essentially considered equivalent to infinity in Egyptian mathematics. Thus this deity is also known as the "god of millions of years". The personified, somewhat abstract god of eternity Ḥuḥ possessed no known cult centre or sanctuary; rather, his veneration revolved around symbolism and personal belief. The god's image and its iconographic elements reflected the wish for millions of years of life or rule; as such, the figure of Ḥeḥ finds frequent representation in amulets, prestige items and royal iconography from the late Old Kingdom period onwards.

Like the other concepts in the Ogdoad, his male form was often depicted as a frog, or a frog-headed human, and his female form as a snake or snake-headed human. The other common representation depicts him crouching, holding a palm stem in each hand (or just one), sometimes with a palm stem in his hair, as palm stems represented long life to the Egyptians, the years being represented by notches on it.>>

http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/2013/11/18/flock-migration/ wrote:
Fergus Falls Flock migration
By Joel Myhre, November 18, 2013

<<Fergus Falls has always been a home for geese [but] the mid-November arrival of migrant geese is later than it used to be. Schultz said migrant geese had arrived in October. He credits the later arrivals to the warm falls, as well as attractive refuges farther north, including several near Winnipeg. Schultz said the migrant geese will likely stick around until the snow covers the farm fields.>>

owlice wrote:
There are usually tens of thousands of snow geese at Bombay Hook this time of year. This year, we saw none.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_Hook_National_Wildlife_Refuge wrote:
<<The Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,978 acre National Wildlife Refuge located along the eastern coast of Kent County, Delaware, on Delaware Bay. It was established on March 16, 1937 as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory and wintering waterfowl along the Atlantic Flyway. The Refuge was purchased from local land owners with federal duck stamp funds. Known to the Native American as Canaresse, meaning "at the thickets," and later referred to as Ruyge-Bosje, meaning "shaggy bushes" or thicket, Bombay Hook received its final name from the corruption of the Dutch "Boompjes" or "Boompjes Hoeck" meaning "little-tree point." In 1679 Mechacksett, chief of Kahansink sold Bombay Hook wetlands to Peter Bayard, an early Dutch settler. The price for the area was 1 gun, 4 handfuls of powder, 3 waistcoats, 1 anchor of liquor and 1 kettle.>>

Wikipedia wrote: The price for the area was 1 gun, 4 handfuls of powder, 3 waistcoats, 1 anchor of liquor and 1 kettle

neufer wrote:

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