Prophetess
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I find the particular ad that is currently at the top of the page really annoying.
Gas prices has gone down 8 cents in the last couple of weeks. Supreme premium is now $3.11.
Would definitely be scary to me! Glad you're okay.Had a tornado watch last night/this morning. Was rather scary (at least for me)
I had to have a bunch of work years ago, including braces, as an adult. All the moving around of my teeth caused receding of the gums, leading to a need for gum grafts on my lower front. SUCKS barely covers it. I can't use the other words here, though.Brush your teeth gently, people...gum graft surgery SUCKS.
That sort of news seriously deserves its own thread.
That sort of news seriously deserves its own thread.
IT'S NOT OIL: No one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before.
http://www.adn.com/2835/story/864687.html
Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow.
Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough's Planning and Community Services Department.
"That's one of the reasons we went out, because in recent history I don't think we've seen anything like this," he said. "Maybe inside lakes or in stagnant water or something, but not (in the ocean) that we could recall ...
"If it was something we'd seen before, we'd be able to say something about it. But we haven't ...which prompted concerns from the local hunters and whaling captains."
The stuff is "gooey" and looks dark against the bright white ice floating in the Arctic Ocean, Brower said.
"It's pitch black when it hits ice and it kind of discolors the ice and hangs off of it," Brower said. He saw some jellyfish tangled up in the stuff, and someone turned in what was left of a dead goose -- just bones and feathers -- to the borough's wildlife department.
"It kind of has an odor; I can't describe it," he said.
"From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it's kind of blackish stuff ... (and) has hairy strands on it."
Hasenauer said the Coast Guard's samples are being analyzed in Anchorage. Results may be back sometime next week, he said.
The two Coast Guard experts sent up to overfly the area with the borough said they saw nothing that resembled an oil slick, Hasenauer said.
"We brought back one sample of what they believe to be an algae," he said, and a big algae bloom is one possibility.
more.....including a photo.
I was talking to one of my friends about an event that we had went to back in June. I looked on their website and found these two pictures:
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That's some of my daughter's after-school program. I'm the green shirted lady!
Very interesting. That would be so difficult to deal with. I once had my jaw wired shut for 6 weeks and it was difficult to speak and be understood. It was frustrating even though I could certainly speak better than Adams was able to. I can't imagine how cut off and lonely that must feel.In case you didn't know, Scott lost his ability to speak a few years ago with a very rare condition. This article is very interesting and documents his struggle to speak normally again.
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-08/ff_adams?currentPage=1