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Next Abate of Florida State Meeting Motorcycle Events for Southwest Fl Life is not a
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| March 19, 2008 12:51 PM PDT Sail power is back. The MV Beluga SkySails, a cargo ship rigged up with a billowing 160-meter sail from SkySails, used approximately 20 percent less fuel than it would have without the sail during a two-month voyage. Put another way, that's 2.5 tons of fuel, or $1,000 a day, in operating costs. Beluga Shipping ultimately hopes to save $2,000 a day with the technology. The ship left Bremen, Germany, on the 22nd of January, sailed to Venezuela, and then headed toward the Norwegian port of Mo-I-Rana, docking on March 13. In all, the ship sailed 11,952 nautical miles. The sail was up, depending on the winds, from between 5 minutes and 8 hours a day. The company says that the sail, by their calculation, could cut fuel consumption by 10 to 35 percent on ocean voyages, depending on the conditions, the size of the ship, and other factors. More testing will be conducted this year. SkySails will double the size of the sails and attach them to larger, heavier ships. A big question will be how well the economics--buying a sail versus using diesel--work. Other companies working on reducing emissions and fuel consumptions on ships include Solar Sailor, which has created sails with integrated solar panels. A ferry with the sails already prowls Sydney Harbor. San Francisco may get one in 2009. |
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| Pro Wrestler's Home Burns BY MATTHEW MORIARTY: STAFF WRITER Fire claimed the Cameron home of professional wrestler Jeff Hardy Friday. Firefighters responded to a call of an "outside fire" on Boys Camp Road about midnight Friday, only to find Hardy's mobile home fully involved. It had apparently been burning for some time. No one was home. Firefighters from Cameron, Circle V, Crains Creek and Carthage were unable to save the home. Jeff Hardy is one-half of the professional wrestling tag-team The Hardy Boyz. He was suspended 60 days by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) for violation of drug policy last week. Several wrestling Web sites, including wrestling commentator Jim Ross' site, are reporting that Hardy and his girlfriend were not home but that his dog died in the fire. The cause of the fire is under investigation. |
Where Did the White Man go Wrong? Indian Chief 'Two Eagles' was asked by a white government official, "You have observed the white man for 90 years. You've seen his wars and his technological advances. You've seen his progress, and the damage he's done." The Chief nodded in agreement. The official continued, "Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?" The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied. "When white man find land, Indians running it, no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water. Women did all the work, Medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night having sex." "Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that." |
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| Don't throw away your old AA batteries when your walkman or diskman begins to sound rough. There's still enough power in them to run a clock for six months, clock chimes for even longer and doorbells for a couple of years. | ||
| Lab will pay to infect people with malaria SEATTLE, -- Scientists in Seattle plan to pay people to catch malaria in order to test the safety and efficacy of new vaccines. The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute and the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative are collaborating to build a Human Challenge Center at SBRI to test new interventions against the deadly malaria parasite. "This center will allow us to greatly increase our ability to evaluate whether a new vaccine formulation should advance to testing in clinical trials in malaria-endemic populat- ions," Dr. Christian Loucq of MVI said Wednesday in a state- ment. The laboratory's Malaria Clinical Trials Center will be one of only a handful of facilities of its kind in the world. Volunteers inoculated with a malaria vaccine cand- idate will be deliberately infected with malaria through the bite of malaria-infected mosquitoes to assess whether or not the candidate vaccine can prevent or delay malaria infection. The Seattle Times said the strain of malaria used in the testing is a cloned strain that can be quickly cured. More than 900 people have participated in similar tests at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. There are also labs in Britain and the Netherlands, the newspaper said. |
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Education is not the filling of
a pail, but the lighting of a fire. The opposite of a
correct statement is a false statement. "Beware the man
of one book." "Consciously or
unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we
like." "We Lakota have a close relationship to the buffalo. He is our brother. You can't understand about nature, about the feeling we have toward it, unless you understand how close we were to the buffalo. That animal was almost like a part of ourselves, part of our souls." Lame Deer, Lakota Talent hits a target no one else can hit; |
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