yesterday at the annual Brooklyn Bastille Day celebration they thew a new twist into the mix. a collection of vintage Solex bikes. Okay, they may look like someone bolted a sewing machine to the front wheel of a ghetto bike, and sure walking may be faster, they’re fascinating pieces of machinery. If I had been a little more sober I may have begged a test ride.
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Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.
Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”
That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.
Increasing exposure to carbon dioxide appears to boost crop yields, Hans-Joachim Weigel of the Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institute for rural areas, forestry and fisheries in the central city of Brunswick told AFP.“Output increased by about 10 percent for barley, beets and wheat” when the plants were subjected to higher levels of carbon dioxide, Weigel said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil tumbled more than $5 a barrel Tuesday in its second big drop this week, hurling crude back to levels not seen since June 26 as traders wary about the health of the global economy cashed in gains from oil’s recent rally.
Analysts attributed much of the recent sell-off to profit-taking, saying traders were cashing in on the previous week’s gains. A stronger dollar also helped keep prices lower by discouraging investors from pumping more money into commodities.
At the same time, concerns about global oil supply disruptions subsided and fears that the economic slowdown is spreading moved to the forefront.
yes I took both.
250 MPH Bugatti Veyron
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SUSAN SARANDON, who appeared in three films last year and won kudos for her TV movie “Bernard and Doris,” is still not a contented soul. She says if John McCain gets elected, she will move to Italy or Canada. She adds, “It’s a critical time, but I have faith in the American people.”
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Another severed human foot has been discovered washed ashore on Canada’s Pacific coast, but police are no closer to solving the gruesome mystery on where they are coming from.
The shoe-clad foot was discovered on Thursday on a small uninhabited island south of Vancouver in the Strait of Georgia, and is the fourth discovered in the region in the past 10 months.
All four cases involved right feet, and each was found on a different island. The earlier feet were also still in shoes.
The discoveries have sparked wide speculation over where the feet came from and who they belonged to, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police warned people on Friday “not to get caught up in unsubstantiated theories.”
None of the severed feet appears to have been forcibly removed, and because the shoes would have protected the feet as they floated in the water, forensic experts say they could even have floated into the strait from a long distance away.
DNA testing has failed to link the earlier discoveries to any missing person cases in British Columbia.
Looks like there may be some meat to that story about China’s fake routers after all.