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 During the Eocene epoch, Antarctica featured high concentrations of atmospheric CO2 and a subsequent greenhouse climate. By using a new measuring technique, scientists from Yale University have now learned that Antarctic seawaters were once as warm as as those registered in Florida and California today.     Top image: Antarctic-Australasian dinosaurs of the Cretaceous, a warm era that preceded the Eocene. Credit: John Sibbick  used with permission . Today, Antarctica is consistently one of the coldest places on Earth, featuring annual average land temperatures far below zero degrees Fahrenheit. But it wasn ;t always that way. Fossilized evidence 鈥?including the remains of mighty sauropods  cups stanley 鈥?show that plants and animals inhabited the region many millions  stanley cup of years ago. The continent remained warm even after the extinction of the dinosaurs, an era known as the Eocene  40-50 million years ago . And remarkably, forests were still there as early as 12 million years ago. Looking to learn more about the climate during the Eocene era  about 15 million years after the dinosaurs went extinct , Yale geoscientists Hagit Affek, Peter Douglas, Mark Pagani, and colleagues used a new technique called carbonate clumped isotope thermometry to get a better sense of what Antarc stanley cup price tic temperatures were like back then. Better Measuring Through Organic Geochemistry The scientists measured concentrations of rare isotopes found in ancient fossil shells taken from East Tasman Plateau and Seymour Isla

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 CHAFFEE, Mo.   A Missouri highway overpass that partially collapsed when rail cars smashed into one of its support pillars after a cargo train collision was about 15 years old and in good condition but just couldn t withstand the impact, a sheriff said.                                                                 stanley cups                                                           Missouri train derailment                      10 photos                                                                                          Seven people in two cars on the overpass were injured, none seriously, when two 40-foot sections of the overpass crumpled early Saturday. You re driving down the road and the next thing you know the bridge is not there. ... It could have been really bad,  Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter said. He said the bridge, though in good condition, couldn t withstand the impact of the rail cars.The collapse occurred after a Union Pacific train struck the side of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train at a rail intersection, Walter said. Dera stanley cup canada iled rail cars then struck columns supporting the Highway M overpass, causing it to buckle and partially collapse.The derailed rail cars were loaded with scrap metal, automobiles and auto parts.        The National Transportation Safety Board has begun an investigation into the cause of the cargo train collision near Chaffee, a small stanley bottle  town southwest of Cape Girardeau.Massive Missouri train collision takes down highway overpass The two cars w Mucs Conviction In Toddler Sex Assault Case
 The limousine President John F. Kennedy rode in fifty years ago today is an indelible part of our visual memory. That midnight blue Lincoln will be forever known as the setting of a national tragedy. Yet, after Kennedy   assassination, the car remained in service, transporting four presidents before it was retired in 1977.     Aside from its association with the Kennedy assassination, the 1961 Lincoln Continental is held as one of America   most beautiful automotive designs. The slab-sided shape was refreshingly unadorned in comparis stanley flask on to the gaudy, finned, chrome-bejeweled excesses of the 1950s. It was modern, lithe鈥攖he automotive embodiment of President Kennedy   youthful image. Kennedy received his custom-built Lincoln Continental limousine in 1961. It was, with the benefit of hindsight, ba stanley cup fflingly unprotected. Code named X-100, the limousine giv stanley cup en to JFK had been extended 42 inches, with a hydraulic rear seat that rose 10.5 inches for parades. It had flashing lights, retractable side steps for Secret Service members to ride on, and three removable roof designs. And no armor of any kind. Photo taken moments after President Kennedy was shot. Secret Service agent Clinton Hill, climbing into the vehicle, was behind Kennedy   vehicle at the time of the shooting. After Kennedy   assassination, X-100 was impounded for evidence gathering and a $500,000 revamp known as Project D-2 or Quick Fix. This included complete armori

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 The ruined city of Pompeii鈥攊ts residents ; bodies so famously and eerily preserved by the very volcanic ashes that fatally buried them nearly 2,000 years ago鈥攈as seen better days. With neither the budget nor the personnel to protect itself against invading hordes of intern stanley cup ational tourists, the city is at risk of damage, structural collapse, and petty vandalism. Worse, the very ground beneath it might be unstable, leading to a much more dangerous problem down the road.     This is where Italian aerospace and defense giant Finmeccanica comes into the picture. Finmeccanica, normally known as a manufacturer of electronic warfare equipment and military drones, will be wiring up the dusty remnants of Pompeii into an extensive network of high-tech sensors that will monitor the soil for instabilities.  stanley website General view of Pompeii and Mt. Vesuvius; courtesy U.S. Library of Congress As Phys.Org explains, the project   aims are to assess risks of hydrogeological instability ; at the sprawling site, boost security and test the solidity of structures, as well as set up an early warning system to flag up possible collapses. The Street of Tombs, Pompeii; courtesy U.S. Library of Congress While data streams from the city will eventually be made available online, one of the more interesting details of the installation is that  8220 ecurity guards will be supplied with special radio equipment as well as smartphone a stanley cup pps to improve co

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 Some movies and TV shows  and books and comics  are thrilling and engaging and let you lose yourself in an adventure stanley taza . But some stories do more than move you 鈥?they speak to you. Which book, movie, comic or TV show is more than just a story, but a whole philosophy and way of life to you      Please include a picture or clip or poster or book cover for your chosen show, book or movie. An stanley cups uk d please let us know the name, and why it speaks to you so much. Thanks! Top image: Firefly/Serenity. A show and movie which go beyond being insanely quotable and exciting, into teaching a philosophy of individualism and self-reliance, and yet sticking up for your friends.                                                        BooksComicsFirefl stanley thermobecher yMoviesTelevision

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  CBS News  Fifty years after the space age began, budget cuts have significantly hurt America s space program. But NASA officials say they re still doing groundbreaking work, like this week s Mars landing.Latest Curiosity images show rover s mission on MarsFor many fans of the space program the final launch of the shuttle, and the piggy-back journey  stanley flask to a museum, was cause for deep disappointment. But for NASA administrator Charles Bolden, it was the dawn of a new NASA. Bolden has said,  It allows us to move on to exploration, to what everybody expects of NASA.         Stanley cup website                                                                                                                    Mars rover Curiosity: Images from the red planet                      51 photos                                                                                          This week came a giant step in that direction as the car-sized rover named Curiosity made a dramatic landing on Mars and NASA scientists exploded in joy and relief.Bolden says it s all part of the transition from the old NASA to NASA 2.0. Bolden said,  I would say NASA 2.0, the new NASA, is the old NASA willing to accept new ideas.         But in recent years, NASA has not just been about new ideas about exploration - but new ways to keep Americans focused on space. For the landing of Curiosity, NASA used every trick in the high-tech communica stanley cup tions book: Millions went on-line to watch NASA s special-effects video of the landing, calle Ngxj Hackers take over gov t website to avenge Swartz
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 Police say two four-year-old half-sisters are in critical condition after being shot in the head Monday night during a drive-by shooting in the East Bay city of Hayward, about 25 miles southeast of San Francisco.Bullets also grazed the ear of the girls  3-year-old brother, who suffered minor injuries.Hayward police Lt. Reid Lindblom said three men in a black sedan opened fire with handgun stanley mug s at about 6:20 p.m. No arrests have been made.Police say neighbors and the parents of the children called 911, and the girls were taken to Children s Hospital in Oakland where they are listed in critical condition. This is a pretty shocking event. We ve had drive-bys but none involvi stanley deutschland ng young children,  Lindblom.        Three adults were with the children at the time of the shooting, including parents of the children. The neighborhood has had violence in the past, and periodic gang issues,  said Lindblom. He added that police were not aware of any previous violence at the children s address.                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-93d80586-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-93d80586-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d         display: none;             i stanley cup nline-recirc-item--id-93d80586-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5          display: block;       Eakn U.S. Releases Al-Jazeera Cameraman
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