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POPSShore excursions in Costa Rica wiht the best canopy tours They are offering two different canopy tours as well as Highropes Course, Horsebackriding Tour and ATV Fun Park for crew members from cruiseships during shore excursions. Transportation is free for crew members from the ports of Caldera and Puntarenas.
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POPSYellowstone's Plumbing Reveals Plume of Hot and Molten Rock 410 Miles Deep
This thing is still plugged in....DEEP. About 4 miles beneath Yellowstone National Park's beautiful scenery is a forty-mile-wide chamber full of molten rock under incredibly high pressure. This magma is what powers Yellowstone's fantastic geysers and hot springs, It's the crown jewel of the United States national park system. Its mountain vistas, wildlife and geographic features are visited and admired by people from around the world. It erupted approximately 650,000 years ago. The caldera that it left is 53 miles long and 28 miles wide. In the area surrounding Yellowstone, 3000 square miles were subjected to a flow of pyroclastic material composed of 240 cubic miles of hot ash and pumice. Ash was also thrown into the atmosphere and blanketed much of North America. It can still be identified in core samples from as far away as the Gulf of Mexico. Since this occurred more than a half million years ago this is all ancient history, right? Not quite.
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POPSNBC: New Photos Released From Obama Flyover Blunder Looks a lot like 9/11 to me. No wonder Manhattan was alarmed. Caught on Film: Air Force One Backup Frightens NYC - http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Caught_on_Film_Air_Force_One_Backup_Frightens_NYC.html Pentagon Releases New Images of Photo-Op - http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Pentagon-Releases-New-Images-of-Photo-Op-52204872.html Responding to repeated requests from the public, the Defense Department has released 146 more photos from the infamous Air Force One flyover that struck fear in thousands of unsuspecting New Yorkers in April.
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POPSThis Volcano Is Quiet Now, But ... Today the crater floor is occupied by an ephemeral freshwater lake, recent sedimentary deposits, and minor lava flows and domes emplaced during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Layered tephra deposits are visible along the northwestern crater rim. Active fumaroles, or steam vents, still exist in the caldera. In 2004, scientists discovered the remains of a village, and two adults buried under approximately 10 feet (3 meters) of ash in a gully on Tambora’s flank — remnants of the former Kingdom of Tambora preserved by the 1815 eruption that destroyed it. The similarity of the Tambora remains to those associated with the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius has led to the Tambora site’s description as “the Pompeii of the East.”
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POPS What Would Gaia Think? Earth Treason They have betrayed the planet, and they must suffer the fate of traitors! Paul Krugman at NYT, on warmalism deniers http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/06/30/earth-treason/
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POPSA Sea Change A strange event occurred in Washington. For those who have not seen this before it is known as "taking responsibility". It has been many years since this rare event has been witnessed in national politics. Further compounding the strangeness of the event was that it happened in the White House.
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POPSA little over reacting? I know people are sensitized -- but "terrified" to the point of investigations, and resignations? Come'on people -- how can you live your life in fear.
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POPSObama Orders Review Of New York City Air Force One Flyover
The flight by the VC-25, a modified Boeing Co. 747, and two F-16 fighter jets cost $328,835, Air Force spokeswoman Vicki Stein said. Three-Hour Mission That includes $300,658 for the larger plane, which flew a three-hour mission, and about $28,178 for the F-16 jets, which flew 1.8 hours each, Stein said in an e-mailed statement. Obama has directed Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina to review “how the decision was made to conduct the flight,” Gibbs said at the daily White House briefing. “Somewhere along the line, someone at the FAA should have had the foresight to realize that New Yorkers would see this stunt and think back to 9-11,” Schumer said. McCain, who ran against Obama in the 2008 presidential election, also said that the disruption and panic caused by the flight should have been foreseeable. He wrote that the apology and acceptance of responsibility from Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, “rings hollow.”
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POPSPresident Obama "Furious" Over Plane Incident When President Obama was told about the incident, he was "furious," a White House official says. Caldera was called into a meeting with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina. "It didn't sound like a fun meeting," the White House official says.
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