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Mexico's Volcano of Fire, also known as the Colima volcano, is seen in a time exposure photograph during an explosion as lava and hot rocks flow down its sides and lightning flashes over its crater late June 1, 2005. The photograph was taken with a four-minute exposure.

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Annelida
Annelids can be told by their segmented bodies. Polychaetes (meaning "many bristles") have, predictably, many bristles on the body, while earthworms and leeches have fewer bristles. There are about 9000 species of annelid known today.

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In this photo provided by the San Diego Zoo, a six-day-old male Baringo giraffe is nuzzled by his mother Wednesday, June 15, 2005, at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park in San Diego. The calf, 6 feet tall, is the 94th Baringo giraffe born at the Wild Animal Park and the second this year, according to the zoo. Baringo giraffes, about 18 feet tall as adults, are native to Uganda, but are only found in two national parks in that African country.

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Journey to the centre of Earth

David Adam in Yokohama
Saturday June 4, 2005
The Guardian


Earth. Photograph: AP

Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below.
The team wants to retrieve samples from the mantle, six miles down, to learn more about what triggers undersea earthquakes, such as the one off Sumatra that caused the Boxing Day tsunami. They hope to study the deep rocks and mud for records of past climate change and to see if the deepest regions of Earth could harbour life.

Asahiko Taira, director general of the Centre for Deep Earth Exploration in Yokohama, near Tokyo, said: "One of the main purposes of doing this is finding deep bacteria within the ocean crust and upper mantle. We believe there has to be life there. It's the same mission as searching for life on Mars."

Rocks in the upper mantle produce compounds essential for life when they react with seawater. "This is a system which we believe created early life. There may be a chance that we can catch the origin of life still taking place today," Prof Taira said.

The 57,500-tonne drill ship Chikyu (Japanese for Earth) is being prepared in the southern port of Nagasaki. Two-thirds the length of the Titanic, it is fitted with technology borrowed from the oil industry that will allow it to bore through 7,000 metres of crust below the seabed while floating in 2,500 metres of water - requiring a drill pipe 25 times the height of the Empire State building.

The deepest hole drilled through the seabed so far reached 2,111 metres.

After final sea trials this year, the scientists will set sail for the deep Pacific where the Earth's crust is thinnest. Drilling is expected to begin next year.

It could take more than a year to drive through miles of crust and reach the mantle, so the ship is fitted with six rotating thrusters controlled by GPS satellites to keep it directly over the hole. The drill is surrounded by a sleeve that contains a shock-absorbing chemical mud, and a blowout valve will protect it should the team strike oil or superheated rock in the crust.

The project is part of an international effort called the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme which also involves the US and Europe.

Shinichi Kuramoto, one of the Yokohama team, said Chikyu's main objective is to retrieve mantle samples for analysis. "Humans have brought back lunar rocks to understand the universe, yet we have never reached the mantle which accounts for most of earth."

Previously undiscovered bacteria that can survive the anticipated 100C temperatures of the upper mantle could be useful on the surface. Heatproof enzymes isolated from bugs brought back by earlier Japanese drill missions are now used in washing powders.

Cores of rock and sediment from the so-called "earthquake nest" where the mantle meets the crust could also help geologists understand seismic events, and to perhaps give more warning.

"We can estimate how frequently marine sliding or earthquakes occur from learning the history of earth but we still don't know when they will occur in the future.

"We take cores to better understand the mechanisms involved," Dr Kuramoto said.

Sensors placed in the borehole could detect changes in strain, tilt and pressure in the ground miles below the surface. "That will be a great advantage in giving us a few days or hours warning before something happens. Current warning systems in Japan only warn us 10 minutes before a large earthquake strikes. We need real-time data from the exact point."




jalebeh nah...

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very nice rep. Nushabeh.thx

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In this photo provided by Warner Independent Pictures, the life of the emperor penguin is doccumented, as they trek across the Antarctic on an annual journey that invokes just about every major life experience, in 'March of the Penguins.

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Parapsychology Club learns all about auras

An aura can change in the blink of an eye. Imagine learning you have won the lottery. While running across the street to tell your friends, your big toe is run over by a golf cart tire. In a split-second, your aura turns from the yellow shade of happiness to the sulfur shade of pain. Janet Carr knew this scenario was possible. After all, she has witnessed the rapid change in auras through aura photography. A computer whiz who has been into metaphysics for 12 years, Carr recently shared information about auras with members of The Villages Parapsychology Club."There is a lot of good energy in here," Carr told the group last Thursday at Mulberry Grove Center. "I can feel it, but I can't see it."Carr, a Brooksville resident, explained that auras are energy vibrations which surround living things. The vibrations manifest themselves in the form of colors that represent qualities and sentiments.According to Carr, individuals may be trained to see auras with the naked eye. Carr is in the process of learning to read auras.

"The paranormal world understands all about energy," she said. "If you could see it, you would understand it, too."With a special camera that senses and draws energy, however, auras can be viewed and interpreted. Photographs taken with these cameras depict energy being received on the left side of the body, energy currently influencing one's life at the center, and energy being put out to the world on the right.Though she didn't tote along her camera equipment for the lecture, Carr told the group that she would return this summer to photograph some auras.

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cheh ajeebeh......

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Two monkeys at Rome's zoo play together in the waters of a swimming pool during a hot afternoon, Thursday, June 23, 2005. The Summer season announced itself today with a steep rise in temperature, reaching over 30C (86 Fahrenheit) degrees in Rome.

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the head of Cairo's upper council of antiquities Zahi Hawas pointing to the mummy of the legendary Pharaoh Tutankhamun before running it under the computer tomography scanner in Luxor 05 January 2005. The council has announced that Egyptian scientists have produced the first digital image of the face of Tutankhamun after scanning his 3,000 year old mummy. The tomb of the pharaoh, who died under mysterious circumstances at about the age of 25, was unearthed by British archaeologists in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. The scan showed that the cranium was still intact.

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have u guys head of the crystal skulls in which they have foudn 4 of and there is supsoidly eight and according to legend when all eight r found some great knowledge ro a message is to appear ... this is true ill fidn the article on it..

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Voodoo priest: "My exorcisms get results"

The nondescript red-brick block in north London barely warrants a second glance, but inside one of the flats is concealed a bizarre world barely comprehensible to most people. This is the home of Malcolm Poussaint, a self-styled "voodoo priest" who performs harrowing exorcism rituals on children as young as six whom their parents believe are possessed by demons.Mr Poussaint sees nothing wrong with what he does. It is, he insists, work that has to be carried out."If the child is not exorcised then it will grow up to be horrible. I get results," said the 75-year-old, who is originally from Benin in West Africa.He is one of scores of exorcists, mystics and psychics offering their services to London's large African community.The world they inhabit has been thrown open by the recent conviction of Sita Kisanga and her brother, Sebastian Pinto, immigrants from Angola, for the horrific abuse of an eight-year-old orphaned girl they believed to be a witch.

The girl's aunt was also convicted for her role in the abuse.The child was cut with a knife, beaten with a belt and shoe, and had chilli rubbed in her eyes in an ordeal that lasted several weeks.A disturbing Scotland Yard report also revealed fears that young boys were being brought into Britain from Africa for ritual sacrifice.Speaking at his flat in the Harlesden area of north-west London, Mr Poussaint insists that exorcism is necessary for children possessed by evil spirits. The girl's tormentors went about their work in the wrong way, but "she was possessed by demons", he said.Dressed in the white robes he wears during the exorcism, he described to The Sunday Telegraph the ritual the children are subjected to in order to cleanse them of "evil spirits".

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تحقيقات پزشکان متخصص قلب نشان مي دهد که بي سوادان و کم سوادان بيش از افراد ديگر دچار سکته هاي قلبي مي شوند.

تحقيقات جامعه پزشکان در زمينه عوامل بروز سکته نشان داده که آموزش هاي عمومي در توجيه افراد جامعه و شناسايي علايم خطر ساز بيماريها نقش مهمي دارد و يکي از عوامل مهم پيشگيري از بيماريها از جمله سکته هاي قلبي محسوب مي شود.

بر اساس اين گزارش، پزشکان متخصص قلب معتقدند که افراد داراي تحصيلات عالي به علت آشنايي با عوامل خطر ساز سکته هاي قلبي و آگاهي خاص آنها به اين موضوع کمتر دچار سکته هاي قلبي شديد مي شوند چون اصلاح شيوه غلط زندگي، توجه اين افراد به حفظ و ارتقاي سلامتي خود و کاهش عوامل مزاحم براي زيستن، مهمترين پايه هاي مبارزه با بيماريهاي قابل پيشگيري است.

بر پايه اين گزارش، از آنجا که افراد بي سواد با علايم و نشانه هاي بيماري ها آشنايي کافي نداشته و از خود آگاهي لازم براي شناسايي عوامل خطر ساز برخوردار نيستند بنابراين با تاخير به درمان خود مي پردارند و آمار افرادي که در سراسر دنيا به علت سکته مي ميرند هم نشان دهنده اين واقعيت تلخ است که سطح تحصيلات اغلب آنها پايين يا معمولي است.

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cheh jaleb.. everythign is a conspiracy tho