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http://www.bumpernuts.com/

 - from Rob Brucato

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"Spam" is the four-letter word in the Internet age - you probably grit
your
teeth and use additional four-letter words when you delete it. But did
you
ever stop to think about Hormel's feelings? The company that begat the
time-honored lunchmeat is sick of the fact that its product's name is
synonymous with such a sickening scourge -- and now they're doing
something
about it. Hormel is flexing its trademark muscle and taking one company,
Spam Arrest LLC of Seattle, to court over its use of the "Spam" name.
Maybe
we should all call junk e-mail something else -- like New Coke, McRib or
something else that's been put in the pantry of history.

--
When they say "there's no such thing as a free lunch," they (whoever
"they"
are) must be referring to the repast up for bid on eBay. America's No. 2
billionaire himself (according to "Forbes"), Warren Buffett, will take
the
highest bidder and up to seven of that person's friends to lunch next
year
in New York. The proceeds go to a charity for the hungry. A trip to the
buffet with Buffett is expected to fetch up to $25,000, but at least
there's
a carrot to go with all that lettuce: The highest bidder will be able to
feast on Buffett's investing advice -- which is good, because Buffett is
known as a "hot
dogs and Coke" kind of billionaire.

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By Kathy Sawyer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 11, 2003; Page A01

Astronomers have detected the Methuselah of planets, a world many times
older than any other known, a remarkable survivor formed in a violent,
primordial setting where planets were not thought to exist.

About 800 times more massive than Earth, the planet was born around a
yellow, sun-like star about 13 billion years ago. That is about 9
billion
years earlier than any planet previously detected and a mere billion
years
after the big bang that spawned all space and time -- a time, most
astronomers believe, when the universe had yet to create the raw
material
needed to make planets, according to researchers who revealed their
findings
yesterday.

The discovery could change theories about how easily nature makes
planets
from even the skimpiest of raw materials, and about the abundance of
planets -- including some that might harbor life -- thriving
unexpectedly in
odd corners of the cosmos, astronomers said.

"What we think we've found is an example of the first generation of
planets
formed in the universe," said Steinn Sigurdsson of Pennsylvania State
University, a member of the observing team. "We think this planet formed
with its star 12.713 billion years ago, when the [Milky Way] galaxy was
. .
. just in the process of forming."

For a decade, the identity of this object had been an astronomical
mystery.
The observing team solved it by combining the sharp vision of the Hubble
Space Telescope with other instruments and techniques, plus many years
of
inventive detective work. The results were announced at a NASA
headquarters
news conference yesterday and in today's issue of the journal Science.

Confirmation that the object is a planet "is a stunning revelation,"
said
Alan P. Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, an expert on the
formation of planetary systems who is not a member of the observing
team.
"This means that 13 billion years ago, life could have arisen and then
died
out," he said. "This has immense implications."

Andrew Fruchter of the Space Telescope Science Institute, a specialist
in
pulsar studies not on the discovery team, said the evidence seems
convincing
but noted that it is only one example. "These are very early days in the
study of extrasolar planets, and it probably is too early to rule them
in or
out just about anywhere," he said.

Less than a decade ago, astronomers were still struggling to confirm the
first planet detected beyond the family of the sun. Now, the population
of
known extrasolar planets exceeds 100. But the latest addition breaks the
mold in several ways, Boss said.

Today, the planet orbits an odd couple made up of a cold, collapsed star
called a white dwarf and an even more bizarre companion known as a
pulsar,
which spins on its axis almost 100 times a second. The newfound planet
is
the only one known to orbit such a double star system.

This eccentric trio resides at the core of the ancient globular star
cluster
M4, about 5,600 light-years from Earth in the direction of the summer
constellation Scorpius. That cluster is visible in binoculars as a fuzzy
white smudge very near the bright star Antares.

The planet's habitat is as noteworthy as its longevity, astronomers
said.
The cluster was the site of a furious firestorm of star birth in its
early
history, and the young planet must have survived blistering ultraviolet
radiation, the shockwaves of stellar cataclysms known as supernovas and
other mayhem.

Also, in what is possibly most significant for theories of planet
formation,
the setting has almost none of what Boss called "feedstock" for making
planets. The globular cluster formed so early in cosmic history that it
was
deficient in heavy elements, such as carbon, silicon and oxygen -- the
building blocks of planets such as those in our solar system. All the
heavy
elements that fill the modern universe were cooked up over time in the
nuclear furnaces of successive generations of stars.

But 13 billion years ago, the cluster was almost all hydrogen and helium
gas, with only about 1/30th the heavy elements found in our own sun and
planets, Boss said. With this deficit in the stuff of rocks, ice and
other
presumed essentials, some astronomers had argued that globular clusters
could not spawn planets, and recent searches had seemed to confirm that.

The new discovery "offers tantalizing evidence that formation processes
are
quite robust and efficient at making use of a small amount of heavier
elements," said Sigurdsson, lead author of the Science paper.

It also means that "the traditional way of making gas giant planets just
isn't going to work in this case," Boss said, and that less widely
accepted
theories, such as one he has proposed that requires nothing more than
gas,
may get a boost.

The planet is too dim to be directly observed, but the team ferreted out
its
existence and inferred its tortured history by sifting through generous
clues provided by its weird present-day setting -- especially by the
pulsar's peculiar properties.

In the early 1990s, radio astronomers had timed the pulses the spinning
pulsar emitted -- like beams from a lighthouse -- with exacting
precision.
They detected a complex wobble caused by the gravity of two unseen
companions tugging at it.

The first companion was determined to be a white dwarf in a tight,
191-day
orbit around the pulsar. But the other object, orbiting about 2 billion
miles from the central pair, remained a mystery.

It was only when the Sigurdsson team used the Hubble Space Telescope to
distinguish the movement of the white dwarf that it was able to
determine
the mass of the third body at 2.5 times the mass of Jupiter. "Several
pieces
of the puzzle were missing," Sigurdsson said. "The Hubble data snapped
it
all into place."

Once it determined this unlikely trio's characteristics, the team
inferred
its adventuresome recent history, which included a plunge through the
heart
of the cluster, a hostile encounter there that bounced it back out
toward
the cluster's outskirts, and the transformation of the planet's parent
star
into the white dwarf.

 - from Jimi Pocius

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Read before viewing pictures!!

This woman went out to a local computer store to buy a computer that her
family wanted her to get so she can e-mail them. The sales person told
her
that they would deliver the computer, set it up and give her some
pointers
on using it, if she had any problems later all she had to do was call
their
"Technical Support" they would talk her through it over the phone or
come
back to her house to find the problem. The sales person asked her if she
wanted to purchase 2 years in house warranty, the woman said yes. A few
months went by, she was getting good sending and receiving and checking
the
other web sites with only one call to tech support until one day.  She
called tech support.  SUPPORT: "Hello, technical support how can I help
you"
LADY: last night my computer started making a lot of hissing noise at me
so
I shut it down, this morning when I turned it on, the computer started
hissing and cracking, then started smoking and a bad smell, then
nothing.
SUPPORT: I will have a technician come over first thing this morning,
just
leave the computer just like it is so they can find the problem and fix
it
or change it out with another computer. Give me your address and phone
number and the technician will be there just as soon as they can. When
the
technician got there, the lady showed the technician where the computer
was,
said what happen to it, this is what the technician found wrong. Take a
look
at the pictures...You won't believe your eyes!!!

 - from John Redfield, as are 11.jpg, 21.jpg, 31.jpg, and 41.jpg

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BitterrootMtnfire.jpg from John Raso

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