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POPSLiving in Sin City’s Underground Tunnels O’Brian has been exploring the tunnels for over five years and wrote a book about the people who live there, Beneath The Neon, published in 2007. He has worked to get people housed, recently founded the Shine A Light foundation to offer various forms of aid, and guides social workers through the tunnels to offer services to the people like health and drug counselling.All the same, O’Brian is wary of letting the inhabitants get too comfortable and entrenched in the tunnels and so doesn’t like to give out too much in the way of food, water, clothes and blankets. Storm drains are dangerous places to be: during flash floods, water can travel as fast and 30 mph through the tunnels with levels rising as much as one foot per minute. Then no one wants to be down there.
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POPSWe All Want To Know "We will probably never find that cosmic connection to our lost royalty. Someday I will visit Norway and look up those ancestors. They died not knowing the fate of the universe, and so will I, but maybe that’s all right." TN told me once she felt closer to knowing God through science. Well, she has her way and I have mine, but we all want to know :)
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POPSSun & Moon Trigger Earthly Tremors it seems like it must be very subtle, because we actually don't see a tidal signal in regular earthquakes. Even though the earthquake zone also sees the tidal stress and also feels the added periodic behavior of the tremor below, they don't seem to be very bothered. It is certainly in the realm of reasonable conjecture that tremors are stressing the fault zone above it. The deep San Andreas Fault is moving faster when tremors are more active, presumably stressing the seismogenic zone, loading the fault a little bit faster. And that may have a relationship to stimulating earthquake activity.
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POPSGOP'S NEW PRAYER GURU "Engle's role as leader of TheCall has now received some mainstream media notice but the source of his influence is still largely unknown. Lou Engle serves, alongside Sarah Palin's prayer group leader Mary Glazier, on the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, one of the key leadership groups wielding influence over a sprawling, global new incarnation of the religious right known as the New Apostolic Reformation. Peter Wagner was advisor for Rick Warren's dissertation for a Doctorate of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. In a mid-December statement from Rick Warren, Letter To Uganda's Pastors, Rick Warren lied about his connection to Wagner."
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POPS The Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773 The British tea dumped in Boston Harbor on the night of December 16 was valued at some $18,000. Parliament, outraged by the blatant destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, in 1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first Continental Congress to consider a united American resistance to the British. This Day In History "The Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773 http://bit.ly/8eDIl3 youtube video http://bit.ly/4o3vSK
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POPSStudio 360: Tim Burton, Plays by David Mamet & Sarah Rule; About Carmen Miranda, Rickie Lee Jones Listen to the show and view slide shows and video @ clip source. Tim Burton said, He never saw a version of Alice in Wonderland he liked. I can't wait to see his 3D version. Also, learn why in the United States, the vibrator became illegal and usage went underground. Carmen Miranda was a star in Brazil before Shubert and Hollywood turned her image into a parody. Rickie Lee Jones performs "Wild Girl, plus a bonus track.
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POPS "Twenty Slivers" Stephanie Schneiderman on MySpace Music - Free Streaming MP3s … MySpace Music profile for Stephanie Schneiderman. … And while music is her first love, Stephanie has enjoyed success as an actress as well. … www.stephanieschneiderman.com Band Members Keith Schreiner (of Dahlia) James Beaton (of Storm and the Balls) Influences Elliot Smith, Patti Griffin, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, Kathleen Edwards, Erika Bahdu, Lucinda Williams, David Mead, Anne Peebles, Stevie Wonder, Daniel Lanois, Massive Attack, Chris Whitley, Velvet Underground, The Shins, Aimee Mann, Paul Simon, Iron and Wine, Shawn Colvin, Sarah Vaughn, Elvis Costello, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Waits, Pete Krebs, Noe Venable, Deb Talan, Dar Williams, Jose Gonzales and Crosby Stills and Nash Sounds Like Ambient Indie Pop w/ influences of trip-hop, folk and soul. http://www.myspace.com/stephanieschneiderman
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POPSCzechs Celebrate 20th Anniversary Of Velvet Revolution In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Czech's Velvet Revolution, I clipped this article along with a few pictures of Prague. I have not had the pleasure of visiting Prague, but a close friend of mine did some years ago. To this day, he remarks that it is the most beautiful of the European capitals.
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POPSHuman Blood May Hold the Secret to Clean Coal "As cells pump CO2 produced during respiration into the blood, the enzyme carbonic anhydrase converts the gas into bicarbonate for easier transport to the lungs. There the same enzyme works in reverse, turning the molecules back into the CO2 gas you exhale. This action could play the critical role of selectively capturing CO2 from mixed gas emissions for later sequestration. "
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POPSLonely Planet I'm in love with the planet I'm standing on I can't stop. I can't stop thinking of All the people I've ever loved All the people I have lost All the people I'll never know All the feelings I've never shown The world's too big and life's too short The world's too big and life's too short The world's too big and life's too short To be alone ... to be alone "If you can't change the world change yourself And if you can't change yourself ... Then change the world"
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