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<title><![CDATA[Skittles - Orangeutan ]]></title>
<link>http://stephenrobinson.wordpress.com/?p=172</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Stephen Robinson</dc:creator>
<guid>http://stephenrobinson.wordpress.com/?p=172</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Random post I know, but I find this advert really funny, haha.

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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Random post I know, but I find this advert really funny, haha.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[La frase]]></title>
<link>http://skucinando.wordpress.com/?p=188</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>skucinando</dc:creator>
<guid>http://skucinando.wordpress.com/?p=188</guid>
<description><![CDATA[leggendo e skuriosando tra i vari blog, del blogroll e non, trovo a volte delle frasi che per mille ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">leggendo e skuriosando tra i vari blog, del blogroll e non, trovo a volte delle frasi che per mille motivi mi colpiscono, serie e filosofeggianti, spiritose ed irriverenti ... l'idea è che un unico post diventi una raccolta :P</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://mangiocongliocchi.blogspot.com/2008/07/il-tafanario-doriente-la-calza-della.html" target="_blank"><em>Se vi sentite in colpa per il pollo, pensate a quando avete mangiato un Mars di vostro figlio in ascensore quando nessuno vi vedeva ...<br />
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<title><![CDATA[Mars conjuncts Saturn]]></title>
<link>http://inspiredastrology.wordpress.com/?p=530</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>inspiredastrology</dc:creator>
<guid>http://inspiredastrology.wordpress.com/?p=530</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mars and Saturn conjunct exactly on Wednesday, July 10, 2008 at 2:10 PM EDT at Virgo 5&#8242;26]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mars and Saturn conjunct exactly on Wednesday, July 10, 2008 at 2:10 PM EDT at Virgo 5'26"</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.artcharts.com/aspects/mars/conSaturn.html">Mars and Saturn conjunct,</a> we are learning patience and persistence. To learn anything, we have to be willing to make mistakes, to start at a level where we have no proficiency at all. Children learn all kinds of new things because they don't mind if they don't get it right the first time. They'll just do it over! And over, and over... But as adults, if we judge our initial results as not being good-enough, we give up. We rarely give ourselves the time to improve, slowly, with practice. </p>
<p>The combination of Mars and Saturn can be a time when we find the discipline to focus-- with all our energy -- on whatever task is at hand, regardless of how complicated or difficult. We can practice until we can do it -- perfectly. </p>
<p>As Mars and Saturn conjunct in early Virgo (which means they share the same degree and appear together and blend energies), you can feel greater resistance if you act independently or take initiative. This can be frustrating... Will the details and small-stuff criticisms ever end?? Will you ever see your way through the forest??? Yet it is also an excellent opportunity to learn and practice grounding techniques. We are all "psychic" healers when we release our fears and practice patiently. We all sense our impressions, yet we try to hide from what we know. The more you edit your knowledge and desires, the less energy you may have as you edit yourself into apathy. The value of the conjunction in Virgo is that slowing your pace can dispel doubts and encourage you to trust in your knowledge and abilities. And as you rely on yourself and succeed, you can start to break through old resistance and doubt that has held you back.  </p>
<p>This week, how can you bring more of your authentic self to your job and enjoy the service you provide by performing your routine daily tasks? If you are not "owning" your energy, envision more energy in your solar plexus or 3rd chakra by trusting in your willpower to carry you through despite current slowdowns or obstacles that may seem like certain failure.</p>
<p>If your intention is to help and heal others, you can find plenty of centered energy now. If your intention is to get as much as you can, life can seem ground to a halt and you can the feeling that you just don't want to do anything can start taking hold. One way to increase your energy is to start being active. Virgo loves regular exercise and this is a great time to start or resume an exercise routine. Movement is healing. Movement stimulates your intuition. Movement is the key to balance if you've been sitting, reading, working, and find yourself with piles more to do. So get up and start moving any way you can. And you'll enjoy yourself as long as you don't turn it into a competition. </p>
<p>Which brings us to the real clue to how to manage this week's Mars-Saturn conjunction, but i'll leave that for the next Newsletter.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.artcharts.com/aspects/moon/phases/firstQuarter.html">First Quarter Moon</a> is overnight Wednesday/Thursday and there will be a <a href="http://www.artcharts.com/astrology/newsletter_signup.html">Newsletter!</a></p>
<p>Wishing you abundant love and success,<br />
:-)<br />
Lauren</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Firestorm]]></title>
<link>http://sirlancelot.wordpress.com/?p=94</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>sirlancelot</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sirlancelot.wordpress.com/?p=94</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;FireStorm uncovers the fascinating world of altered time to the viewer, allowing a unique loo]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size="3" face="Georgia">"FireStorm uncovers the fascinating world of altered time to the viewer, allowing a unique look at nature's fury. Shot with 3 cameras over a period of 28 hours during September 28-29th 2005. Firestorm shows a a unique look at the Simi Valley fire which consumed 25,000 acres. Look for Mars, Orion &#38; the Moon rising in the distance..."</p>
<p>Eli Jarra</font></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Betancourt organiseert mars voor overige gijzelaars]]></title>
<link>http://betancourtingrid.wordpress.com/?p=189</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ibetancourt</dc:creator>
<guid>http://betancourtingrid.wordpress.com/?p=189</guid>
<description><![CDATA[De Frans-Colombiaanse politica Ingrid Betancourt heeft een mars aangekondigd voor de overige gijzela]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:justify;">De Frans-Colombiaanse politica Ingrid Betancourt heeft een mars aangekondigd voor de overige gijzelaars van de FARC-rebellen. Op zondag 20 juli zal Betancourt met de andere bevrijde gijzelaars in Colombia de straat op gaan om op te roepen tot eenzijdige vrijlating.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Symboliek</strong><br />
20 Juli is ook de dag van de Colombiaanse onafhankelijkheid<br />
Betancourt kondigde de actie aan op het particuliere radiostation Caracol. Ze riep de Colombiaanse bevolking op mee te lopen. De oud-politica kiest voor de dag van de onafhankelijkheid vanwege "de grote symboliek".</p>
<p>De FARC houdt nog circa zevenhonderd mensen gevangen in de jungle. De gewapende beweging probeert hen te ruilen tegen geld of FARC-rebellen die in de gevangenis zitten.</p>
<p><strong>Parijs</strong><br />
Ondertussen is Betancourt met een aantal familieleden vanuit Bogota naar Parijs vertrokken. Daar wordt ze vandaag door president Nicolas Sarkozy ontvangen.</p>
<p>"Ik kan niet wachten tot ik weer in Frankrijk ben, tot ik weer thuis ben", zei Betancourt gisteren in Bogota. De Franse gezant die meerdere malen met de FARC heeft onderhandeld, Noël Saez, is in hetzelfde vliegtuig richting Parijs vertrokken. (anp/afp/sps)</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">bron: <a href="http://www.hln.be" target="_blank">HLN</a></p>
<p style="text-align:right;">d.d. 04/07/2008</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Science!]]></title>
<link>http://tychetypes.wordpress.com/?p=91</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tyche</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tychetypes.wordpress.com/?p=91</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I heard about the confirmation of water of mars pretty soon after it went public after spending an e]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I heard about the confirmation of water of mars pretty soon after it went public after spending an entire afternoon reading newspapers cover-to-cover, <em>but I learned about it from my friend Alex</em>. Not one mention of it in the news.</p>
<p>And you know what? Mainstream media has failed me again: May 22 (yes, <em>over a month ago</em>) Japanese team of physicists Yoshiaki Arata et al. <em>proved incontrovertibly that cold fusion is totally real.</em></p>
<p><!--more-->Arata demonstrated what he refers to as "solid nuclear fusion" in front of 60 including reporters, people from universities and companies in Japan, and a gaijin. </p>
<p>The story goes, "spillover-deuterium" causes a "new kind of energy" which creates a double-structure cathode that is used to create a totally whack amount of energy and wicked-ass pressure which can compensate for the relatively frigid 25 degrees of the Système Internationale standard room temperature. </p>
<p>The especially wicked part is that the energy being produced by this cathode and "Pd[palladium]-black" is significantly greater than could possibly be created by chemical reaction alone. </p>
<p>Deuterium gas forced into an cell containing palladium (in zirconium oxide, ArOv2-Pd). According to Arata, huge amounts of the deuterium is absorbed by the palladium which brings the deuterium nuclei close enough together to fuse.</p>
<p>One of the eyewitnesses, Osaka University's professor Akito Takahashi, wrote,</p>
<blockquote><p>Arata and Zhang demonstrated very successfully the generation of continuous excess energy (heat) [sic] from ZrOv2-nano-Pd sample powders  under Dv2 gas charging and generation of helium-4 ... The demonstrated live data looked just like the data they reported in their published papers [J. High Temp. Soc. Jpn, Feb. and March issues, 2008). This demonstration showed the the method is highly reproducible.</p></blockquote>
<p> Arata, on the other hand, took the success a little more philosophically:</p>
<blockquote><p>I always stay on guard not to be too possessed by my own current knowledge. History has shown up repeatedly, for example, the foolishness of denying heliocentricism, which resulted from individuals adhering too strongly to their own knowledge or to what was common sense in the past.</p></blockquote>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em><a title="Sources" href="http://tychetypesappendix.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/cold-fusion-sources/">Sources</a></em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[esham at the 2008 gathering GOTJ]]></title>
<link>http://esham.wordpress.com/?p=59</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>landofthebanned</dc:creator>
<guid>http://esham.wordpress.com/?p=59</guid>
<description><![CDATA[www.juggalogathering.com just announced that Esham will indeed be playing the 
gathering this year.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>www.juggalogathering.com just announced that Esham will indeed be playing the </p>
<p>gathering this year.</p>
<p><a href="http://codarobot.com/lotb3/simplemachinesforum/index.php?action=register">Join the offical land of the banned Messageboard</a></strong></p>
<p>Newly confirmed performances at this year's gathering:</p>
<p>Primer 55<br />
Bizarre<br />
<strong>Esham</strong></p>
<p>other acts include :</p>
<p>CLAAS,<br />
J Reno,<br />
Jason Porter,<br />
Kid Crusher,<br />
King Gordy,<br />
Lo Key,<br />
Mars,<br />
Mastamindz<br />
Playaz Lounge Crew,<br />
Psycho Jesus,<br />
Q Strange,</p>
<p>ABK,<br />
Blaze,<br />
Boondox,<br />
Dark Lotus,<br />
ICP,<br />
Twiztid,</p>
<p>Three Six Mafia,<br />
Afroman,<br />
Andrew W.K.</p>
<p>does this mean esham has mended relations with the clowns.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[More Constellations - Sprewell Bluff - Thomaston, GA (07/01/08)]]></title>
<link>http://jzholloway.wordpress.com/?p=357</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jzholloway</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jzholloway.wordpress.com/?p=357</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
Here is some more pictures from July 1 when I was out at Sprewell Bluff. In this batch, I have one ]]></description>
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<p>Here is some more pictures from July 1 when I was out at Sprewell Bluff. In this batch, I have one of my favorite constellations - Coma Berenices, as well as one of my more favorite shots of late, Saturn, Mars and Regulus. Also included are some of Cygnus, Lyra and more.</p>
<p>Again, all pictures taken with the same specifications as mentioned in previous posts.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA discovered water on Mars!]]></title>
<link>http://cozoplean.wordpress.com/?p=514</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sly</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cozoplean.wordpress.com/?p=514</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Yer Gök İnlesin Bu Sesi Dinlesin Hep Seninleyiz Türkiye !]]></title>
<link>http://habermerkezi.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/hep-seninleyiz-turkiye/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>habermerkezi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://habermerkezi.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/hep-seninleyiz-turkiye/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
wordpress blogunuza eklemek için [dailymotion id=x5zzt0]
sitenize eklemek için gerekli kodlar
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<p><strong>wordpress blogunuza eklemek için</strong> [dailymotion<em> </em>id=x5zzt0]<br />
<strong>sitenize eklemek için gerekli kodlar</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>&#60;div&#62;&#60;object width=420 height=357&#62;&#60;param name=movie value=http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x5zzt0&#38;related=0&#62;&#60;/param&#62;&#60;param name=allowFullScreen value=true&#62;&#60;/param&#62;&#60;param name=allowScriptAccess value=always&#62;&#60;/param&#62;&#60;embed src=http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x5zzt0&#38;related=0 type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=420 height=357 allowFullScreen=true allowScriptAccess=always&#62;&#60;/embed&#62;&#60;/object&#62;&#60;br /&#62;&#60;/div&#62;</p></blockquote>
<p>İşte bugünlerde söylememiz gereken şarkı.<br />
Hep seninleyiz türkiye<br />
Darbeci, baasçı, asalak, dinozorlara karşı hep bir ağızdan tek yürekten<br />
<a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/126730340/hep_seninleyiz_turkiye.wmv.html">indirmek için tıkla </a></p>
<p><!--more--></p>
<p><strong>Şarkının sözleri</strong><br />
göğsümüzde ay ve yıldız<br />
sen olduk biz geliyoruz<br />
gönül titretir<br />
bu şarkımız 70 milyon söylüyoruz<br />
ooooo<br />
türkiye türkiye<br />
haydi zafere<br />
türkiye türkiye<br />
ooooooooo<br />
yer gök inlesin bu sesi dinlesin hep seninleyiz türkiye<br />
yer gök inlesin bu sesi dinlesin hep seninleyiz türkiye<br />
ooooooooooooooooooooo<br />
ooooooooooooooooooooo</p>
<p>çalsın davullar essin rüzgar<br />
dalgalansın türk bayraklar<br />
arşa yükseldi<br />
bu şarkımız omuz omuza görüyoruz<br />
ooooo<br />
türkiye türkiye<br />
haydi zafere<br />
türkiye<br />
ooooooooo<br />
yer gök inlesin bu sesi dinlesin hep seninleyiz türkiye<br />
yer gök inlesin bu sesi dinlesin hep seninleyiz türkiye<br />
ooooooooooooooooooooo<br />
oooooooooo hep seninleyiz türkiye</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Phoenix bada marsjański grunt]]></title>
<link>http://spacexxi.wordpress.com/?p=125</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>spacexxi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://spacexxi.wordpress.com/?p=125</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Po stwierdzeniu występowania wodnego lodu na Marsie Phoenix przesyła kolejne dane dotyczące Czerw]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Po stwierdzeniu występowania wodnego lodu na Marsie Phoenix przesyła kolejne dane dotyczące Czerwonej Planety. Przeprowadzono pierwsze eksperymenty z wykorzystaniem instrumentu MECA, służącego do analizy chemicznej pobranych próbek (była to pierwsza analiza chemiczna wykonana na innej planecie).<br />
Okazało się, że gleba w okolicy lądowania Phoenixa jest dosyć podobna do tej z suchych dolin na Antarktydzie. Jest alkaiczna (pH 8-9), zawiera różnego rodzaju sole, magnez, sód, potas, chlorki. Obecność soli świadczy o wcześniejszych kontaktach gleby z wodą, naukowcy mówią także, że gleba całkiem dobrze mogłaby służyć żywym organizmom. Jak to określono, można by tam uprawiać szparagi (oczywiście gdyby zapewnić w miarę znośną amosferę, temperaturę i ochronę przed promieniowaniem UV ze Słońca) ale truskawki już raczej nie (te wolą glebę kwaśną).<br />
<a href="http://spacexxi.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/trench1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-127 alignleft" style="float:left;" src="http://spacexxi.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/trench1.jpg?w=150" alt="Wykop" width="150" height="300" /></a>Phoenix pobrał także kolejną próbkę (miejsce kopania na zdjęciu obok) przeznaczoną do badań w piekarniku TEGA - tym razem w łyżce koparki znalazło się dużo lodu. Istnieją obawy, że podczas kolejnego podgrzewania marsjańskiego gruntu może pojawić się ponownie krótkie spięcie, dlatego jak mówią naukowcy, traktują kolejną próbkę jakby była ostatnią . Głowią się też jak w miarę szybko dostarczyć materiał do pojemnika (poprzednio były z tym <a href="../2008/06/11/phoenix-nadal-bez-probek/">problemy</a>) aby lód nie zdążył "wysublimować" leżąc na pokrywie pojemnika.<br />
Wcześniejsza próbka znajdująca się obecnie w innym piekarniku TEGA została już podgrzana do 1000 st. Celsjusza ale na na skomplikowaną analizę wyników trzeba będzie poczekać jeszcze kilka tygodni.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Planets Align the 4th of July]]></title>
<link>http://tehfunk.wordpress.com/?p=3</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>tehfunk</dc:creator>
<guid>http://tehfunk.wordpress.com/?p=3</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apparently this 4th of July, Saturn, Mars, and the moon will align. On Friday Saturn and Mars will a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently this 4th of July, Saturn, Mars, and the moon will align. On Friday Saturn and Mars will align just to the left of the bright star Regulus. On Saturday the moon will join, making an even brighter line. On July 6, the trio will form a scalene triangle . In the following days after that, the Moon will exit, stage left, leaving Mars and Saturn behind. By the 10th, the two planets will be converging for their closest encounter in the next 14 years, and will only be 3/4ths of a degree apart.</p>
<p>Hmm. Interesting what lies in space. Well I hope everyone has a good 4th of July. </p>
<p>You can read the full story here: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/01jul_4thofjuly.htm</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Allentown, PA coatings firm participates in Mission to Mars]]></title>
<link>http://edsy8152.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/allentown-pa-coatings-firm-participates-in-mission-to-mars/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>edsy8152</dc:creator>
<guid>http://edsy8152.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/allentown-pa-coatings-firm-participates-in-mission-to-mars/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[
Longevity Coatings is applying a special tungsten carbide/cobalt coating to valves manufactured by ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.mcall.com/business/local/all-mars.6468374jun29,0,5771791.story">Longevity Coatings is applying a special tungsten carbide/cobalt coating to valves manufactured by Gemco Valve Co. of New Jersey-- valves which are to be used by NASA as part of a project to extract oxygen from moon ash. The oxygen is to be used by NASA for its proposed manned mission to Mars.</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Constellations, cont. #2 - Thomaston, GA]]></title>
<link>http://jzholloway.wordpress.com/?p=329</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jzholloway</dc:creator>
<guid>http://jzholloway.wordpress.com/?p=329</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Soil on Mars is good for growing food]]></title>
<link>http://infolution.wordpress.com/?p=2122</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>infolution</dc:creator>
<guid>http://infolution.wordpress.com/?p=2122</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Soil on Mars is good for growing food
ABCJune 26, 2008
There is still no answer to the old question ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><font size="4">Soil on Mars is good for growing food</font><br><br><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/28/2288615.htm" target="_self"><font face="arial" size="2">ABC</a><br>June 26, 2008<br>
<p><font face="arial" size="2"><img src="http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9006/mar1ft8.jpg" style="float:right;width:260px;height:183px;margin:0 5px 5px 0;" border="0">There is still no answer to the old question of whether there has ever been life on Mars but apparently there could be vegetable life. </font></p>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">NASA scientists say the soil they have collected from the northern polar regions of the red planet would be good for growing asparagus and turnips, but probably not strawberries. </font></p>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">The Phoenix Mars Lander scooped up soil with its robotic arm and scientists say the sample is similar to dirt found in some backyards on Earth. </font></p>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">The project’s lead chemist, Samuel Kounaves, from the University of Arizona says he is flabbergasted by what has come back.  </font></p>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">"We basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the nutrients to support life, whether past present or future," he said. </font></p>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">"The sort of soil you have there is the type of soil you’d probably have in your backyard, you know, alkaline.  </font></p>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">"You might be able to grow asparagus in it really well - strawberries probably not really well."  </font></p>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">Glen Nagle from the NASA tracking station in Canberra has been watching the soil analysis and its results closely.  </font></p>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">"What they’ve found is the soil wasn’t really acidic or over salty and actually we had a nice pH level it was quite alkaline, not acidic," he said. </font></p>
<p><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/28/2288615.htm" target="_self">Read Full Article Here</a></font>
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<p><font size="4">Scientists: It Once Rained On Mars</font><br><br><font face="arial" size="2"><a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/scientists-it-o.html" target="_self">Wired Magazine</a><br>June 25, 2008<br><br><font face="arial" size="2"> Drizzle once fell on Martian soil, according to a new geochemical analysis by Berkeley scientists, though the rain probably stopped several billion years ago.</font>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">Drawing on soil data from the five missions to Mars before the current Phoenix Lander and comparing it to information collected in Earth’s driest places, the scientists concluded that water must have fallen from above, not welled up from below, as has been thought. </font></p>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">"The soil acts as a sort of an imperfect record of climate change,"  said <a href="http://ecnr.berkeley.edu/facPage/dispFP.php?I=489">Ronald Amundson</a>, UC Berkeley professor of ecosystem sciences and the study’s lead author. "We can study the chemistry of the soil and extract information about climate history."</font></p>
<p><font face="arial" size="2">Amundson’s key observation is that Martian soil has a layer of sulfates sitting on top of chlorides. That’s a pattern consistent with water moving downward from the atmosphere to the regolith in places on Earth. </font></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/scientists-it-o.html" target="_self">Read Full Article Here</a></font>
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<p><font size="4">Martian Skies</font><br><br><a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/06/martian_skies.html" target="_self"><font face="arial" size="2">Boston</a><br>June 20, 2008</font><br><br>
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<div style="text-align:center;"><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Martian Soil Can Support Life</font></span><br><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080626/sc_nm/space_mars_dc&#38;printer=1;_ylt=AmJqeXebopMgybvFMxm7mCgiANEA" target="_self">http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200806..JqeXebopMgybvFMxm7mCgiANEA</a><br><br><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Buzz Aldrin Wants More Funds For NASA</font></span><br><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2211940/Buzz-Aldrin-Invest-in-Nasa-to-beat-the-Chinese-to-Mars.html" target="_self">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne..beat-the-Chinese-to-Mars.html</a><br><br><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Giant Asteroid Flattened Mars Studies Suggest</font></span><br><a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=giant-asteroid-flattened&#38;print=true" target="_self">http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=giant-asteroid-flattened&#38;print=true</a><br><br><font size="4"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Astronomers on Verge of Finding Earth’s Twin</font></span><br><a href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080624-st-planet-tally.html" target="_self">http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080624-st-planet-tally.html</a></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Conservative Fundamentalists Scare the Heck Out of Me!]]></title>
<link>http://fyeomans.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/conservative-fundamentalists-scare-the-heck-out-of-me/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Conservative fundamentalists (or any religion) scare me. Actually, any fundamentalists/extremests s]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Conservative fundamentalists (or any religion) scare me. Actually, any fundamentalists/extremests scare me. Check out this piece of mindless drivel: <a href="http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/32833.html">A Waste of Taxpayer Money by Rob Hood</a></p>
<p>By this logic, all scientific research should stop, because our 4 year olds already know the answers.</p>
<p>Where did life come from? God spoke it into existence.</p>
<p>What are the basic laws of science, chemistry, mathematics, etc? Who cares, God makes it work.</p>
<p>Why do people die of cancer, AIDS and other diseases? Because God wants them to (for one reason or another).</p>
<p>How will we survive global warming? No problem, God will fix it.</p>
<p>Maybe this guy is, on his own, proof that evolution is false - natural selection should have emptied his end of the gene pool long ago.</p>
<p>BTW - don't get the idea that I am anti-religion, because I am not. I <strong>am</strong> against mindless application of dogma (religious <strong>or</strong> scientific).</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Will religion end on Mars?]]></title>
<link>http://joeusesamac.wordpress.com/?p=91</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Joe Warner</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Editorials/Will_religion_end_on_Mars/articleshow/3169948]]></description>
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The above linked article seems to suggest that if life is found on Mars that somehow religions will have to adapt and change their scripture to fit the new discovery. If they find life on Mars I will say the same thing about life here on Earth. "God did it."</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Auction Rate Securities - Community Forum - Blog]]></title>
<link>http://soloveyproperty.wordpress.com/?p=33</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sam Solovey</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[My name is Sam and like many of you who have discovered this web site, I own Auction Rate Securities]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My name is Sam and like many of you who have discovered this web site, I own Auction Rate Securities.  Morgan Stanley issued them to me as a cash equivalent and an alternative to money market accounts and Certificates of Deposits.  Morgan Stanley also told me that the Auction Rate Securities had daily liquidity, which was the reason I ultimately purchased them.</p>
<p>A sizable portion of my life savings are locked into these securities, preventing me from purchasing a home and not allowing me to make important personal and business decisions.  Furthermore, I have the student loan Auction Rate Securities, which are potentially the worst of the bunch.</p>
<p>Your story likely has threads of similarities to mine.  You are surely just as angry as I, and you are wondering whether to wait for the crisis to resolve itself, hire an attorney, or join a class action lawsuit, or pursue some other path.  I have created this forum as a way for those of us who own these securities to share information and discuss ideas.  If you would like to share your story or your thoughts with this community, email me at sam@samsolovey.com.</p>
<p>Since I have a significant amount of money in these securities, I have been working with multiple attorneys about an appropriate strategy for my situation.  I have also communicated with public relations professionals and media contacts to determine a coordinated plan for drawing more public awareness about this crisis and to address the needs of those who have been financially victimized by brokerage firms who issued these securities.</p>
<p>But more important than any attorney or journalist is you and your voice.  This forum is a grass roots effort to bring together everyone (individuals, families, small businesses, corporations, etc) who wants to get their money out of these Auction Rate Securities NOW, and not tomorrow, next month, next year, or on the maturity date, which in my case is March 1, 2040.  </p>
<p>Strength in numbers.  Contact me today at sam@samsolovey.com - This web site is usually an informational tool for people buying and selling real estate.  But I have decided to dedicate it to this Auction Rate Securities forum until the matter is resolved.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mars Madness]]></title>
<link>http://dailydoseofjoy.wordpress.com/?p=94</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>joywax</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[1)  the &#8216;red planet&#8217;

from Universe: a journey from earth to the edge of the cosmos, Ni]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">1)  the 'red planet'</span></h2>
<p><a href="http://dailydoseofjoy.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/mars-004.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-95" src="http://dailydoseofjoy.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/mars-004.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="360" /></a></p>
<p>from Universe: a journey from earth to the edge of the cosmos, Nicolas Cheetham (brimming with magnificent photos of planets, stars, galaxies, etc.)</p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">2)  from The Planets, by Dava Sobel</span></h2>
<p>Call me "it," or call me "Allan Hills 84001," my given name-- even "Thing from Mars" will suit.  Although I am only a rock and cannot answer, allow me this conceit of conscious identity for the space of these few pages, that I may speak for Mars, whence I traveled via chance and the laws of physics.</p>
<p>Of the twenty-eight Martian meteorites definitively identified to date (pub. 2005), I am by far the most ancient, and the only one to show, under microscopic examination, internal shapes and residues similar to those formed by primitive terrestrial bacteria.  These findings have made me the most studied rock of all time. (p. 119)</p>
<p>...Astrobiologists insist that life on Mars, like the once-plentiful water on Mars, could simply have gone underground to avoid these dangers, and may yet be discovered, extant or extinct, through diligent pursuit.  Astronomers agree, asserting that even if Mars ultimately proves void of life, its unique environment will continue to lure robotic and human explorers to its frozen shores. (p.135 )</p>
<p>for more on Allan Hills 84001:  <a href="http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/alh.html">http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/alh.html</a></p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">3)  life on mars at Pittsburgh's Carnegie International</span></h2>
<p>A visionary collection of art examining a wide range of media and imagination--  <a href="http://blog.cmoa.org/CI08/home.php">http://blog.cmoa.org/CI08/home.php</a></p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">4)  orbits: mars versus earth</span></h2>
<p><img src="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/extreme/images/EarthMarsOrbitTop.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>found:  <a href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/extreme/images/EarthMarsOrbitTop.jpg">http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/extreme/images/EarthMarsOrbitTop.jpg</a></p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">5)  "Duet on Mars" by John Updike:</span></h2>
<address>Said Spirit to Opportunity,</address>
<address>     "I'm feeling rather frail,</address>
<address>With too much in my memory,</address>
<address>     Plus barrels of e-mail."</address>
<address> </address>
<address>Responded Opportunity,</address>
<address>     "My bounce was not so bad,</address>
<address>But now they send me out to see</address>
<address>     These dreary rocks, bedad!"</address>
<address> </address>
<address>"It's cold up here, and rather red,"</address>
<address>     Sighed Spirit.  "I feel faint."</address>
<address>Good Opportunity then said,</address>
<address>     "Crawl on, without complaint!</address>
<address> </address>
<address>"This planet needs our shovels' bite</address>
<address>     And treadmarks in the dust</address>
<address>To tell if life and hematite</address>
<address>     Pervade its arid crust."</address>
<address> </address>
<address>"There's life, by all the stars above,</address>
<address>     On Mars-- it's you and I!"</address>
<address>Blithe Spirit cried.  "Let's rove, my love,</address>
<address>     And meet before we die!"</address>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">6)  Music-- "Martian Girl" from the Aquabats</span></h2>
<p>These guys are heaps of fun!   <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhJRUKkZAL4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhJRUKkZAL4</a></p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">7)  In the news-- "Martian soil hints at water, nutrients," </span></h2>
<p>by <a class="anonymous print" href="http://dailydoseofjoy.wordpress.com/view/authored/id/65/name/Ron_Cowen">Ron Cowen</a>, Science News, June 26th, 2008</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/33676/title/Martian_soil_hints_at_water,_nutrients">http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/33676/title/Martian_soil_hints_at_water,_nutrients</a></p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">8)  so many great cartoons:  </span></h2>
<p><a href="http://www.cagle.com/news/mars/">http://www.cagle.com/news/mars/</a></p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">9)  a smattering of sci-fi lit:</span></h2>
<p>One of my all-time favorites, <strong>Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land</strong> begins:  "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Micheal Smith."  It ends:  "He left, and Mike pushed back his halo and got to work.  He could see a lot of changes he wanted to make."  I highly recommend reading the middle!!</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Eric Idle</strong> is hilarious in <strong>The Road to Mars:</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>     </strong>Comedy is a serious business.  Not being paid and being plunged into life-threatening situations had a sobering effect on Lewis.  Nothing concentrates a man's mind more than the prospect of his imminent death, said Samuel Johnson.  Lewis didn't mind dying onstage, but he hated being killed for it.  He was a comedian, not a gladiator.  So as soon as they were back in the <em>Johnnie Ray</em>and parked safely in Saturnian orbit, he called a conference.</p>
<p>     "Okay, that's it for me," said Lewis</p>
<p>     Alex looked up sharply.  Was he quitting?</p>
<p>     "We're leaving.  We're outta here."</p>
<p>     "The Road to Mars?"</p>
<p>     "Why not?"</p>
<p>     "What about bookings?"</p>
<p>     "We'll play the Jovian moons and pick up a litle pocket money and then see if we can't hitch a cruise ship to Mars.  Any votes against?"</p>
<p>     "Not me," said Alex.</p>
<p>     "Right then, passed <em>nem. con</em>."</p>
<p>     "<em>Nem.</em> what?"</p>
<p>     "Latin," said Carlton, "<em>nemine contradicente</em>, unanimously, with one accord, with one voice, with one consent, one and all, nobody against."</p>
<p>     "Ah, you mean both of us," said Alex.</p>
<p>     "And me," said Carlton.</p>
<p>     Alex shook his head, warning Lewis.  The tin man always thought he had a vote.</p>
<p>     "Unfortunately, dear Carlton," said Lewis, "you do not have a vote."</p>
<p>     "Don't start," said Alex.</p>
<p>     "I should have a vote, I am more intelligent than you," said Carlton.</p>
<p>     "Well, you may be more intelligent than us, but sadly you lack testicles."</p>
<p>     "I have tungsten carbide testicles," protested Carlton.</p>
<p>     "Well, there you have it," said Lewis.</p>
<p>     "Females don't have testicles and they have a vote."</p>
<p>     "Females," said Lewis patiently, "despite being very strange in their own way, are human.  That is why they have a vote and you do not."</p>
<p>     "It's not fair."</p>
<p>     "I didn't make the rules."</p>
<p>     "It's DNAcism."</p>
<p>     "Carlton, shut up."</p>
<p>      "Okay," said Alex, "his vote counts half.  That's two and a half to none.  I declare the motion carried.  The Road to Mars it is."</p>
<p>      Blessed are the peacemakers.     (p. 14-15)</p>
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<p>I got a huge kick out of Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!</p>
<p>Here's the trailer:  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC5O9NFWZCs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC5O9NFWZCs</a></p>
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<p>Here's a reference to a rather obscure Martian story by <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Ray Bradbury</span></strong>, reknowned author of The Martian Chronicles:</p>
<p><span class="mw-headline">The Fire Balloons (November 2002/2033)</span></p>
<p>First appeared as <em>"…In This Sign"</em> in <em><a title="Imagination (magazine)" href="http://dailydoseofjoy.wordpress.com/wiki/Imagination_%28magazine%29">Imagination</a></em>, April 1951.</p>
<p>A missionary expedition of Episcopal priests from the United States anticipates sins unknown to them on Mars. Instead, they meet ethereal creatures glowing as blue flames in crystal spheres, who have left behind the material world, and thus have escaped sin.</p>
<p>This story appeared only in <em>The Silver Locusts</em>, the British edition of <em>The Martian Chronicles</em>, the 1974 edition from The Heritage Press, The "40th Anniversary Edition" from Doubleday Dell Publishing Group and in the 2001 <a class="mw-redirect" title="Book-of-the-Month Club" href="http://dailydoseofjoy.wordpress.com/wiki/Book-of-the-Month_Club">Book-of-the-Month Club</a> edition. It otherwise appeared in <em><a title="The Illustrated Man" href="http://dailydoseofjoy.wordpress.com/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man">The Illustrated Man</a></em>.</p>
<p>--reference taken from:  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Chronicles</a></p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">from <strong>Isaac Asimov's The Martian Way</strong>:</span></p>
<p>     Rioz said, "They wouldn't like it.  The Grounders, I mean. They're so used to their own lousy little world they wouldn't appreciate what it's like to float and look down on Saturn."  He flipped his body slightly and began swaying back and forth about his center of mass, slowly, soothingly.</p>
<p>     Long said, "Yes, I think so too.  They're slaves to their planet.  Even if they come to Mars, it will only be their children that can carry thousands of People and maintain their self-contained equilibrium for decades, maybe centuries.  Mankind will spread through the whole Galaxy.  But people will have to live their lives out on shipboard until new methods of inter-stellar travel are developed, so it will be Martians, not planet-bound Earthmen, who will colonize the Universe.  That's inevitable.  It's got to be.  It's the Martian way."</p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">10)  Haiku by me</span></h2>
<p>Phoenix has landed</p>
<p>(Mars will never be the same)</p>
<p>Ancient codes revealed?</p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">11)  Just because...mmm, Mars Bars Bites...yum</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;"><img src="http://www.opensourcefood.com/public/images/cached/500x/recipe_images/3acd3313572eb731170b60ef7e111d16.jpg" alt="" /></span></h2>
<p>Recipe can be found at :  <a href="http://www.opensourcefood.com/people/Vanity/recipes/frozen-mars-bar-bites">http://www.opensourcefood.com/people/Vanity/recipes/frozen-mars-bar-bites</a></p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">12) Puzzle, but it's really a Mars quiz:</span></h2>
<p><a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/activities/radiobuttonquiz/Marspz.shtml">http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/activities/radiobuttonquiz/Marspz.shtml</a></p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">13)  It's not mars; it's urf!</span></h2>
<p>Check out the lastest creation from the stellar imaginations of the urflings:  <a href="http://theurf.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/the-undead/">http://theurf.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/the-undead/</a></p>
<h2><span style="color:#0000ff;">14)  Mars photos from NASA:  </span></h2>
<p><a href="http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mars.html">http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mars.html</a></p>
<p><img src="http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/mars/marsglobe1.jpg" alt="" width="677" height="677" /></p>
<p><img src="http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/mars/vikinglander2-1.jpg" alt="" width="1400" height="485" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ice Ice baby.]]></title>
<link>http://digitordont.wordpress.com/?p=19</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tristan</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Well, there is is. There was indeed ice on Mars. Or so we think. Phoenix, the robot that NASA sent t]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:left;">Well, there is is. There was indeed ice on Mars. Or so we think. Phoenix, the robot that NASA sent to Mars several weeks ago, found evidences of Ice in form of bright spots that are beleived to have been Ice in a gazeous form couple millions years ago.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://media.arstechnica.com/journals/science.media/dodo_020_024-sm.gif" alt="What you could call Marsian Ice." width="450" height="225" /></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">Well, these bright spots are what you could call Marsian Ice, do you see the little bright spots? These are traces of Ice that passed directly from a solid to gazeous state. They are visible in the lower right portion of that weird square. They are visible in one frame but not in the next, the perfect excuse to beleive its ice.  NASA think that the finding of Ice is not particullarly extravagant considered that traces Ice is beleived to be found in abundance in the area that Phoenix is in. The lander still have two months to explore the surface of Mars and find more traces of prehistoric water.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[i'm good.]]></title>
<link>http://ashleighmchenry.wordpress.com/?p=321</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ashpash</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[There are few things less frustrating than when you contact your significant other or other male cou]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">There are few things less frustrating than when you contact your significant other or other male counterpart with a question and they answer in vague, one-word answers.<span> </span>I try to shoot an email to him once a day, around lunch time to see how his day is going and let him know I’m thinking about him.<span> </span>It’s a simple, 10 second gesture, but to me it’s a nice touch point in an inbox of poops and more poops.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Today, I asked him how his day was.<span> </span>The emailed response (about 30 minutes later, mind you, as if he was considering the multitude of options with which to answer) was “Good.”<span> </span>That was it!<span> </span>One lousy word!<span> </span>Like that is the only adjective that he could come up with.<span> </span>I don’t get it.<span> </span>Every day I have lived in my almost 28 years has been “good”.<span> </span>Even days of going to funerals or getting let go from poorly-managed companies were still “good” because the service did their life justice or I was tipped off to my severance package.<span> </span>My definition of “good” is something that could always be worse, but could be better.<span> </span>If it was EXCELLENT or TERRIBLE, we’d use those words.<span> </span>If we wanted to automate and give no details about anything, we’d use “good.”<span> </span>He used “good.”<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">GREAT.<span> </span>*sigh*</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is there not one detail that you can share about your day?<span> </span>Compliment or complaint?<span> </span>“I’m fine, but traffic was a bitch.”<span> </span>“Not bad.<span> </span>We got a shipment of the new Blackberries in so were putting those in inventory.”<span> </span>“I’m fantastic!<span> </span>I just got a blow job from a meth head in the bus station!”<span> </span>Shit – share SOMETHING, for Christ’s sake.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I expressed my mounting frustration to my coworker and confidant, Patrick.<span> </span>I told him what a frustrating thing it was to hear that their days were just “good.”<span> </span>I explained that I know women probably talk too much with more detail than in necessary, but really – one word?<span> </span>I asked him to keep that in mind when talking to his wife about his day.<span> </span>About an hour later, Patrick IMed me with this conversation:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Patrick: My wife phoned and said "How's your day"</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Ashleigh: hahaha.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Patrick: I said "Good. How about you?"</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Ashleigh: UGH!</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Patrick: Does that count?</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Ashleigh: <span> </span>It's the lack of any discerning detail. Any day can be "good". I say "Good. I did the XYZ Project this morning without a hitch."</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Patrick: I tried. My brain's just not quick enough.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Ashleigh: I try to usually as questions that require more than one word.<span> </span>Or ask two questions so I get more than one word.<span> </span>How was your day? Did you talk to Mike about the party at his house for the 4th? </em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Sometimes it backfires though if they have the same answer. <span> </span>Like, are you having a good day? Did you get your bonus check? "Yes". <span> </span>Fuck you.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Patrick: LOL.<span> </span>Yes, that's good. "How was your day" invokes an automated response.<span> </span>The reptilian part of my brain answers before I have a chance to process the question.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="padding-left:30px;"><em>Ashleigh:<span> </span>Well, get out of here, Patrick McElizard.</em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m trying ladies.<span> </span>Please know…I am trying.</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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In a breakthrough that likely provides scientists with their best opportunity ever to investigate e]]></description>
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<p><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-weight:bold;">In a breakthrough that</span> likely provides scientists with their best opportunity ever to investigate extraterrestrial life, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has apparently spotted liquid ice on Mars.The little patches completely disappearing over the course of a few days is perfect evidence that it's ice.</span></p>
<p>but an interesting question arises that this patch can be salt undergoing sublimation.but scientists at NASA are now assured since they have complete soil-layer profile of extended trench,</p>
<p>"By rasping to icy soil, the robotic arm on Phoenix proved it could flatten the layer where soil meets ice, exposing the icy flat surface below the soil. Scientists can now proceed with plans to scoop and scrape samples into Phoenix's various analytical instruments. Scientists will test samples to determine if some ice in the soil may have been liquid in the past during warmer climate cycles".</p>
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