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      <title>'&lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Gallon&lt;/span&gt; Smashing' Prank Goes Way Wrong LOL</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 13:41:46 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>

 

One particularly unfunny internet fad, &quot;gallon smashing,&quot; nearly got a group of kids  thrown in jail  recently. But that hasn't stopped others from trying the ridiculous and potentially dangerous stunt.

&quot;Gallon smashing&quot; is a seemingly pointless act where a person pretends to fall, spilling gallons of milk they are carrying in the process. Someone then has to clean up the mess while those responsible for the spilled milk go home and upload the footage to YouTube.

The latest attempt, uploaded to YouTube on Monday, features a one boy's gigantic &quot;gallon smashing&quot; failure.

Rather than pretending like he fell, the guy in the video really does fall, smashing his face on the grocery store's hard tile floor.

&quot;I think I broke   jaw,&quot; the boy says as his friends just laugh.

If jail time won't stop kids from &quot;gallon smashing,&quot; maybe a potentially broken jaw will.

It's Friday - watch the video below:</description>
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      <title>Stupid &amp;quot;&lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Gallon&lt;/span&gt; Smashing&amp;quot; prank goes wrong</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 07:32:25 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Think dude broke his jaw.... GOOD</description>
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      <title>Pipeline</title>
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      <description>&amp;quot;No Fuel - No Go&amp;quot;  and  '...Fuel is the lifeblood of our Booming Century'   so say's the narrator as the film shows the  Fuel Transfer process between Royal Navy vessels at sea as well as refuelling in the sky between aircraft   - what will they think of next.... 
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      <title>Water Trapped For 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life (2 articles)</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 06:16:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>ItsTHROUGHnotTHREW</dc:creator>
      <description>No liquid is old as yesterday's beer, but.. well here are the articles:

 
 

Scientists have discovered water that has been trapped in rock for more than a billion years. The water might contain microbes that evolved independently from the surface world, and it's a finding that gives new hope to the search for life on other planets.

The water samples came from holes drilled by gold miners near the small town of Timmins, Ontario, about 350 miles north of Toronto. Deep in the Canadian bedrock, miners drill holes and collect samples. Sometimes they hit pay dirt; sometimes they hit water, which seeps out from tiny crevices in the rock.

Recently, a team of scientists (who had been investigating water samples from other mines) approached the miners and asked them for fluid from newly-drilled boreholes.

, a geochemist at Lancaster University in England, and his colleagues wanted to know just how long that fluid had been trapped in the rock. So they looked at the decay of radioactive atoms found in the water and calculated that it had been bottled up for a long time - at least 1.5 billion years.

&quot;That is the lower limit for the age,&quot; Holland says. It could be a billion years older. That means the water was sealed in the rock before humans evolved, before pterosaurs flew, and before multicellular life.

As Holland in the journal Nature, this is the oldest cache of water ever found.

But how did it end up underneath that gold mine in northeastern Canada? Where did it come from?

&quot;The fluids that we see now are actually preservations of ancient oceans,&quot; Holland says.

About 2.7 billion years ago, the landscape of small-town Timmins looked a bit different. Beneath prehistoric seas, tectonic plates were spreading and magma was welling up to form new rock. As the rock matured under heat and pressure, water was trapped inside tiny cracks.

The rock drifted around the globe for eons, helping form continents and mountain ranges, and all the while it kept its cargo of water sealed up tight inside.

&quot;It's managed to stay isolated for almost half the lifetime of the Earth,&quot; Holland says. It's a time capsule. And it doesn't just hold water. &quot;There's a lot of hydrogen in these samples.&quot;

That's significant because hydrogen is food for some microorganisms. Hydrogen-eating microbes have been found deep in the ocean and in South African mines where chemical reactions in the rock produce a steady supply of hydrogen.

And that hydrogen, says Holland, &quot;could provide the energy for life to survive in isolation for 2 billion years.&quot;

Holland's colleagues are now testing the water samples for evidence of microbes. They hope to have results within a year. If life is found, it would have evolved distinctly from the surface world and might give a unique insight into the earliest forms of life on Earth. Its discovery would also give hope to people searching for life in places that are even more remote.

Carol Stoker, a research scientist with NASA, is focused on searching for life on Mars.

&quot;If you go back to the very early history of Earth and Mars, sort of the first billion years after the surfaces cooled, Earth and Mars looked very similar,&quot; Stoker says.

Both planets had vast surface oceans and thick atmospheres - they were good places for life to begin. On Earth, it did.

&quot;The logic is if that If that happened on Earth, why shouldn't it have happened on Mars?&quot; she says.

As Mars got colder and drier, surface life would have died off. But Martian microbes might still survive deep in the planet's crust - preserved in isolated pockets of water, just like the ones found in Canadian bedrock.



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http://www.npr.org/2013/05/16/183950854/water-trapped-for-1-5-billion-years-could-hold-ancient-life

 Oldest Water on Earth Found Deep Underground  A pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old - the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life - has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the Earth's surface.

The finding, announced in the May 16 issue of the journal Nature, raises the tantalizing possibility that ancient life might be found deep underground not only within Earth, but in similar oases that may exist on Mars, the scientists who studied the water said.

Geoscientist Barbara Sherwood Lollar at the University of Toronto and her colleagues have investigated deep mines across the world since the 1980s. Water can flow into fractures in rocks and become isolated deep in the crust for many years, serving as a time capsule of what their environments were like at the time they were sealed off. 

In gold mines in South Africa 1.7 miles (2.8 kilometers) deep, the scientists previously discovered microbes could survive in pockets of water isolated for tens of millions of years. These reservoirs were many times saltier than seawater, &quot;and had chemistry in many ways similar to hydrothermal vents on the bottom of the ocean, full of dissolved hydrogen and other chemicals capable of supporting life,&quot; Sherwood Lollar said.  

To see what other ancient pockets of water might exist, Sherwood Lollar and her colleagues investigated copper and zinc mines near the city of Timmins in Ontario, Canada. &quot;As the prices of copper, zinc and gold have gone up, mines now go deeper, which has helped our search for long-isolated reservoirs of water hidden underground,&quot; Sherwood Lollar said.

'Mind-blowing' find

&quot;Sometimes we went down in cages - they're not called elevators underground - that dropped us to the levels we wanted to go,&quot; Sherwood Lollar told OurAmazingPlanet. &quot;Other times, we went down ramp mines, which have curling spiral roadways, so we could actually drive all the way down.&quot;

The scientists analyzed water they found 2 miles (2.4 km) deep. They focused on noble gases such as helium, neon, argon and xenon. Past studies analyzing bubbles of air trapped within ancient rocks found that these rare gases could occur in distinct ratios linked with certain eras of Earth's history. As such, by analyzing the ratios of noble gases seen in this water, the researchers could deduce the age of the water.

The scientists discovered the fluids were trapped in the rocks between 1.5 billion and 2.64 billion years ago.

&quot;It was absolutely mind-blowing,&quot; Sherwood Lollar said. &quot;These weren't tens of millions of years old like we might have expected, or even hundreds of millions of years old. They were billions of years old.&quot;

The site was formed by geological activity similar to that seen in hydrothermal vents. &quot;We walked along what used to be ocean floor 2.7 billion years ago,&quot; Sherwood Lollar said. &quot;You could still see some of the same pillow lava structures now seen on the bottom of the ocean.&quot;

Signs of life?

This ancient water poured out of the boreholes the team drilled in the mine at the rate of nearly a half-gallon (2 liters) per minute. It remains uncertain precisely how large this reservoir of water is.

&quot;This is an extremely important question and one that we want to pursue in our future work,&quot; Sherwood Lollar said. &quot;We also want to see if there are habitable reservoirs of similar age around the world.&quot;

Sherwood Lollar emphasized they have not yet found any signs of life in the water from Timmins. &quot;We're working on that right now,&quot; she said. &quot;It'd be fascinating to us if we did, since it'd push back the frontiers of how long life could survive in isolation.&quot;

And the implications of such a finding would extend beyond the extremes of life on Earth.

&quot;Finding life in this energy-rich water is especially exciting if one thinks of Mars, where there might be water of similar age and mineralogy under the surface,&quot; Sherwood Lollar said.

If any life once arose on Mars billions of years ago as it did on Earth, &quot;then it is likely in the subsurface,&quot; Sherwood Lollar said. &quot;If we find the water in Timmins can support life, maybe the same might hold true for Mars as well.&quot;

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      <title>A Week On LiveLeak #4</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 18:46:47 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Shorty this time. hope you like it :)
Music: Suicidal Tendencies - Fascist Pig

 

All videos used were featured on LL in the last week.
LINKS (in order of appearance):

 - The fabulous Charles Ramsey calls 911 

 - A guy running a Tough Mudder in Kettering, UK has an electrifying experience 

 - Scooter crashes into car 

 - Army Paratrooper accidentally deploys his reserve parachute inside plane 

 - Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato (The Mummies of Guanajuato) 

 - Augusta Brawl Ends in Shooting  

 - Fight between a jeweller and a thief 

 - Guy Attempts To Break Car Window With His Head 

 - A Bear and a Monkey Race on Bicycles. What's the Worst that Could Happen? 

 - Chinese army grenade training accident 

 - Criminal Pulls Gun In Back Seat of Squad Car 

 - Mechanic killed by slamming carriage when fixing truck 

 - Crazy naked man stabbed with guts hanging out 

 - Cat paralyzed by Thundershirt... lol 

 - Stupid Gallon Smashing prank goes wrong 

 - Can't Stop The Truck? 

 - Miami-Dade Police Shooting ends in one dead 

 - Brazillian Federal Police stops a plane carrying drugs from taking off 

 - Cop Tazes High Schooler 

 - Crane Move Fail 

 - Frat Boy gets Jumped By Transvestite s

 - Give This Woman An Oscar! 

 - Dude fails at the Afterparty with a gascannister, In Val Thorens 

 - Running from bulls Fail!! 

 - Potato Gun Backfires  

 - Man crushed by car in auto service 

 - Hilarious Dog is dancing like a Boss 

 - Well This Is Hot!</description>
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      <title>Philly Nears Bankruptcy, Decides to Cover Sex Changes for City Workers</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 11:13:54 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Detroit Iron</dc:creator>
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April 27, 2013 By  Daniel Greenfield  

If the United States ever does go down, the last gallon of gas will be used to drive a Planned Parenthood representative to an elementary school, the last loaf of bread will be divided based on race, gender and victimhood status and the last dollar will be spent paying a diversity officer to decide who gets the last slice of the last loaf of bread.Philadelphia is on the verge of bankruptcy. Its bonds are hovering above junk status, it has nearly 9 billion dollars in debt and it has the lowest credit rating of any city its size.

But its elected officials are focusing on the important issues.  The really important issues . Like housing projects for old gay men .

His dream project, an affordable housing complex welcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender seniors, had won a competitive bid for an $11 million state tax credit.

For more than three years, the 61-year-old founder and publisher of PGN has been planning, lobbying, negotiating, collaborating, and cajoling every social-service agency, activist group, and political leader he knows to make Philadelphia one of the first cities in the nation to meet the needs of the aging LGBT community.

And mandatory gender neutral toilets reported on in a story titled  &quot;Flushing Away Shame .&quot;

Advocates say the transgendered community makes up 1 percent of Philly's population.

That would mean that there are 153,000 trannies in Philly. While Philly can be on the seedy side, it isn't that seedy. No place outside Bangkok might qualify.

But that's about to change  because despite being near bankruptcy , Philadelphia's City Council voted 14-3  to cover gender mutilation surgery for city workers.

In a move that the LGBT community called &quot;historic,&quot; City Council approved a bill yesterday that would require the city's health plan to pay for transgender city workers to complete &quot;gender-confirmation surgery.&quot; The bill also would require newly constructed or renovated city-owned buildings to have gender-neutral bathrooms.

The bill would establish transgender health benefits for city workers to cover psychotherapy, hormone treatments, laser-hair removal and gender-confirmation surgery, which costs about $50,000 per procedure.

The bill would also provide up to two tax credits - the lesser of $4,000 or 25 percent of any cost increases - to companies that start offering health care for life partners and their children and covering transgender medical needs.

Mayor Nutter will sign off on the measure, said spokesman Mark McDonald.

While the majority of Philly city workers enjoy life too much to get themselves castrated, its pension liabilities are already huge. The city has 9 billion in unfunded liabilities and is  expected to hit the wall in 2015 .

That's 2 years away.

While Mayor Nutter is running around trying to convince investors that Philly isn't run by a bunch of irresponsible morons with less common sense than squirrels on absinthe, its city council, ignoring 9 billion in unfunded pensions, adds a 50,000 per worker sex change operation entitlement and tax credits for companies willing to cover castration for their employees,

This isn't rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. This is drilling politically correct holes in the hull and inviting any LGBT icebergs to step inside.


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      <title>Putas Win Hurling Contest...  So What?  Now You Like Try Some Stinky Stank Ass BALUT???  This is an Official Balut Faceoff!!!</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:14:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Just you wait   Putas!     Ummm...  they look like lil' Alien Beings in in a Hyperbolic Preservation Chamber where something has gone Horribly Wrong!!  Hurling Factor of a 10 because they look like they should be Alive!   Ooooweee... That smell of DEATH... Oh, Oh, OH!!! That Chewy Beak and Rubbery but still kind of a Crunch of Bones... and those unclipped feet...   And WTF is with that Juice???  It's Just NASTY!  

And it comes with Feathers!  Don't you start getting all   Forrest Gump   Hopeful   Putas  ; These feathers ain't blowing away.


  Yep... PUTAS!  

You wanna know why you   Putas can't Handle your own Piss &amp;amp; a couple eggs?  

  Homie...   Where's your Trademark? TM (R) (c)    What's the Matter Bro??    You Leave lil' Jason hanging out in the wind of your Video... Of course you Guaranteed you going to Hurl... Then again Even With your Little Face Plate you Hurl...

  Guaranteed Bro you Going HURL...  

Guaranteed... Maybe! 

This is a Tit 4 Tat Challenge!

  That's Right    PUTAS... 

I'm getting some for me too!

Last time I ate these Stank Ass Eggs   I was Drunk as a Monkey   when I was 19 in Haleiwa at Ezzy's Fish Market after hours Eating the Profits all to HELL of Raw Fish, Raw Shell Fish &amp;amp; Choking Sea Urchin Eggs down faster than you can Hurl... Drinking Homemade Booze &amp;amp; Guava Juice out of a Gallon Preston Anti-Freeze Jug when one of my Filipino Buds showed up with a Dozen of these   Time Bombs of Pukedom Fame.  

  Man up    Bitches!!! 

Time for you to   Stop   letting Your   Putas   Hurt!

And you Know What...

This is Going to Hurt...

These Buggas STANK!</description>
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      <title>MONSANTO, BEES AND ROUNDUP</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:03:31 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>mngardens</dc:creator>
      <description>I wanted to write about the march and encourage all of you to get involved with the march in anyway you can, but I realized after looking at the weeds coming up in my garden that I wanted to explain Monsanto's Roundup and my dealings with it.  
    I  remembered using it years ago in so many ways,  from driveway cracks, spot spraying in my vegetable garden and my flower beds.  I can say over the past 30 years I myself have used about  10,000 gallons of it in one way or another.  I used it in our park systems for weed control with a backpack sprayer, using it on fields with 500 gallon tanks with booms spraying weeds along the farm roads, spraying along 5 acre  fields that were planted with the intention of selling those vegetables to the public. 
     It did not really hit me until a few years back when I saw the real damage that Roundup does to the environment. I sprayed along a 5 mile fence line to control the weeds that were growing up into it. I came back the next day to do some spot spraying and was having my lunch at the halfway point.  I looked down to see how the spray was taking when I noticed the other things I was killing. 
     I noticed the Milkweed, Goldenrod, Joe Pye Weed, Phlox, Dogbane, and Asters just to name a few, they were dying right in front of my eyes.  I could see their leaves starting to droop and welt, and I was the one who killed them.  Oh some might say that its just a small amount, but if you look at the land that we have torn up to farm and what is left for the native plants, well that was not right.  I looked at the bees and the Monarchs that were all around me and I was the one who just killed their food source.
     That night I started to look into the effects of Roundup on the environment and the damage that it does, it blew my mind how much more Roundup does than just kill the weeds.  Monsanto's Roundup is killing off parts of the food chain, that DOES affect us!  It kills the plants that feed the insects, it kills the insects that feed the birds and other animals, it kills our environment, Monsanto's Roundup kills us!
     Being in the nursery business I see Roundup being used in so many applications and I have talked to homeowners that use illegally  along their shoreline, homeowners that over spray it to kill shrubs, homeowners that don't dilute it so they can kill the plant faster.  I have seen people use it not diluted to kill Buckthorn with a hand pump sprayer not realizing the drift of the spray and what it does.
     Now here is more about Monsanto and why they have Farmers use Roundup on their crops which we eat. Monsanto has genetically engineered certain crop seeds, such as soybeans, beets, cotton and corn, to be resistant to Roundup and suffer no ill effects from the herbicide. This allows the crops to be doused with the herbicide for weed control without killing the crop itself.  Can you imagine the amount of Roundup Monsanto sells to cover all those millions of acres of farmland alone?
     Almost half of Roundup --- 41 percent --- is glyphosate, a broad-spectrum, non selective herbicide. It can kill all kinds of plants, including perennials and grass, by being absorbed through the leaves and stalk tissue. Once in the plant, it inhibits amino acid metabolism throughout the entire system, causing the plant to slowly die. It should be kept away from ponds, lakes, rivers and all water systems, as it is highly toxic to aquatic animals.   I'll translate this, Roundup will kill any plant up to 1/4 inch in diameter  and if not diluted will kill a plaint up to a half inch in diameter.
     France's highest court has ruled that U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto had not told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The court confirmed an earlier judgment that Monsanto had falsely advertised its herbicide as &quot;biodegradable&quot; and claimed it &quot;left the soil clean.&quot; Roundup is the world's best-selling herbicide.  Roundup's main ingredient, is classed as &quot;dangerous for the environment&quot; by the European Union.
     If you must kill weeds on those cracks and in your flower beds consider using Vinegar, and put a cone over it to spot spray.  The rate would be 1/4 cup of Vinegar to one gallon of water, but mulch your flower and vegetable beds to suppress weeds, that alone will take care of your weed problem.

     So there you go, the reason I stand and march against Monsanto, you might have yours and I would love to hear why you are marching.  Please send me an email, mark@mngardens.com and I would like to post those stories here on this blog so you can see all the reasons people are marching.   
Thanks,  Mark</description>
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      <description>Gallon Smashing is the newest internet craze in which people pretend to fall over whilst smashing gallons of liquid.</description>
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      <description>Stupid ass &quot;prank&quot;... I hope they paid for the stuff...</description>
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