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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2170985/The-suns-solar-flares-getting-stronger–latest-hot-spot-size-15-Earths-strung-together.html
BIG SUNSPOT: One of the biggest sunspots in years, AR1520, is turning toward Earth. Christian Viladrich of Nattages, France, photographed the behemoth on July 7th:
“It looks like an expanse of land on the sun,” says Viladrich.
Despite the resemblance to land, however, the vast dark cores of sunspot AR1520 are not solid. They are made of magnetism. Each one is a magnetic island nearly as wide as Earth floating in a sea of solar plasma.
The magnetic field of this enormous sunspot is tangled, and harbors energy for strong solar flares. NOAA forecasters estimate an 80% chance of M-flares and a 25% chance of X-flares during the next 24 hours.
http://spaceweather.com/
OMG Edgar! That is CRACK OF DOOM!
Precious!
Another day that I can;t stand my job…
Newsflash! J.C. Penney lays off 350 at Plano headquarters
“We have simplified processes, removed unnecessary work and reduced layers to help us make better and faster decisions. While difficult, these decisions are in the long-term interests of the Corporation and our stakeholders.” CEO Ron Johnson said in a statement.
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Why didn’t J.C. Pennys make the decision to instead cut the CEO’s massive pay in order to reduce the number of dedicated employees whom they just threw under the bus?
Good question Mammoth…
Kitty, all we need for that cute little house in the photos is to set it on a branch – and then you will have your treehouse!
I would love that Mammoth!
“Too big to feel…”
Here is Kitty today…
That looks like a nice way to have your back scratched!
Mammoth I don’t think that is the opinion she was going for, but you are right. Edgar one massive solar flare and all of earth could be erased from existence as if we never were. Probably nothing left not even a dead rock in space.
Hi Queenbee… that would solve a lot of outstanding problems pretty quickly…
The solar flares will not erase life on Earth as the thermodynamically hot portions do not even extend past the orbit of Mercury. But they do have the potential to wipe out every unshielded computer chip on the planet.
You bring good news Mammoth…
Edgar, you’re gonna LOVE the punch-line at the end of this post:
The other day at work I was talking on the phone with a private seller arranging to purchase some 90% US Silver. Afterwards, the nosy schlep in the next cubicle over said to me, “Warren Buffet says the problem with Gold & Silver is that if you buy one ounce, then ten years later you still have one ounce.”
Possible responses:
1) How much was today’s $1,575 oz of Gold / $27.00/0z of Silver worth ten years ago?
2) Mind your own business, @sshole!
3) If you buy a piece of paper, in ten years you may or may not even have that piece of paper.
4) If you don’t hold it, then you don’t own it.
5) Who cares what that withered, old, limp-d!cked rich fvcker says anymore?
imo the best thing to do with “uncle warren” and his ilk is shove a skewer up his ass, set over a bed of hot coals, slather his butt with bbq sauce, then slowly rotate.
Kit Cat Kitty (a three year old washington bred filly) is running in the 7th race at hollywood park saturday. We wish her well!
…Skewered and roasted over an open fire, the fat dripping on the hot coals…
The Hac is back!
Washington-bred? Well then as long as it is raining, Kit Cat Kitty will feel comfortably at-home and should easily win the race.
It would also help if the jockey whispers in her ear just before the race:
“Roses are Red,
Violets are blue.
Horses that lose
are made into glue.”
from the daily racing form:
In other Washington Cup races:
* Brady’s Kat ($22.80) rallied to win the $35,000 Dennis Dodge for 2-year-old colts and geldings. A homebred for Keith and Jan Swagerty of Auburn, Wash., the Katowice gelding ran 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:17.69 and defeated runner-up Gold Surge by a head. Harbor Wind, the 7-10 favorite, vied with Gold Surge into the stretch before fading to finish fourth. Brady’s Kat, who previously won a $7,500 maiden claimer, earned $18,326 for the Swagertys and trainer Vann Belvoir. Javier Matias rode.
* E Z Kitty ($10.80) went gate-to-wire in the $35,000 John and Kitty Fletcher Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. The winner covered one mile in 1:38.26 under jockey Leonel Camacho-Flores to defeat Judging Mimi by 6 1/2 lengths. The Gang and I, the 7-10 favorite, was a non-threatening third. It was the first Emerald Downs stakes victory for both Camacho-Flores and trainer Alan Bozell. E Z Kitty, by He’s Tops, earned $18,326 for Nancy and Homer Gibson of Kent, Wash.
* Kit Cat Kitty, claimed for $12,500 from her only previous start, got up in the finals strides to win the $35,000 Diane Kem for 2-year-old fillies. Owned and trained by Vann Belvoir, Kit Cat Kitty ran 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:18.93 and paid $14.80. She defeated pacesetter Wild Chica by a neck, with Semele three-quarters of a length back in third. It was the second stakes victory of the day for jockey Javier Matias and Belvoir, who pocketed $17,500.
lots of kats and kittys from your state Mammoth.
her daddy (cahill road) won the wood memorial. he died in 2010 just after kit kat kitty was born. there is a write-up about him 2/3 the way down the page here:
http://www.drf.com/blogs/memoriam-horses-2010
Mammoth was right, she is a mudder. How funny!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2016250079_emerald19.html
I loved seeing the photos of those beautiful horses… fantastic!
A comment on the post:
Barbara, outstanding job as usual. You do so much by always reminding us of the past greats, and not so greats. It doesn’t matter which, they’re all our “Old Friends.” They give their heart and soul – and sometimes their life – and never ask for anything in return. And I too got a bit emotional and stopped scrolling for awhile when I saw Big Truck as a foal…and for or anyone who has somehow never read this poem……
Where in this world can man find nobility without pride, friendship
without envy, beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced
with muscle, and strength by gentleness confined.
He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity. There
is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent;
there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
Our past has been borne on his back. All our history is his industry:
we are his heirs, he is our inheritance.
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Horse
GO KIT CAT KITTY Horse
Recent efforts to make homes more Earth friendly are enough to make a technology geek swoon. Choose from solar-cell panels, wind turbines, geothermal heating, automated ventilation, and wastewater heat-exchange systems, and you can wire your home for the high-tech, low-energy 21st century. Even more-radical innovations loom on the horizon.
These Star Trek technologies are only embellishments on ideas hundreds of years old, developed by people who didn’t have the option of flicking a switch when they were too cold or too hot. For winter lows, insulate your house well and design compact spaces that can be heated efficiently. For summer highs, face windows south, shade your house from afternoon sun, allow hot air to escape from upper floors, and design interior spaces to catch rather than block breezes. Oh, and maybe enjoy a cold drink or a midday siesta on the veranda.
Built before there was a grid to be off, the buildings described here offer a template for a time when cookie-cutter houses plopped onto lots without heeding the sun or wind will go the way of geodesic domes and every new dwelling will be designed with the utility bill in mind.
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200901/ac.aspx
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-07-11/banzai7s-new-and-improved-periodic-table-wall-street-criminal-elements
Ha ha! In the ‘Earth-Friendly’ Sierra club article linked to in Kitty@7:42, there is NOTHING in there about simply planting deciduous trees on the south side of the house, to provide shade during the warm months and sun during the colder times of year.
Sorry if this offends anyone, but my impression of the Sierra Club these days is that it has been taken over by hackey sack-kicking 20 and 30-somethings who spend waaay too much time playing with their electronic gizmos and not enough time examining and pondering the Real World.
Disclaimer: Part of my bias may be due to the local group’s opposition to the presence of the Mill where I work, despite its compliance with all of the ‘clean air & water’ regulations. There is a very small yet vocal ‘anti-Mill’ group in the community who have convinced the local Sierra Club chapter that the B.S. they say about the Mill is factual. You would think that a reputable organization like the Sierra Club would be interested in getting their facts straight.