Today’'s breaking news stories…

Why a Laughing man prompts Swat Team rescue bid -

A helicopter rescue team was scrambled after screams were heard in a Louisiana forest - only to find a man laughing his head off at the Phil Forum retro design.

A woman dialled 911 after she thought she could hear someone being tortured at woodland near the Sobine river Beauregard Parish Louisiana .
But 'victim' Wally Wacker Hertz was astonished when armed police surrounded his car which he had driven into the forest and ordered him to give himself up and release his hostage.

He told police he had gone to the forest to read A2K "in peace and quiet".
"We realise that people think the sound of Germans laughing is unusual, but we're sure excludes meant well," said one officer.


We apologize for the article by TR Yagain - Seeking a 'play date' with C-Jane - never made it to publication...

No one from A2K was available for comment.

Xcept for the ignored users, but they were promptly ignored.

Yet, hearing Tryagain utter the term "play-date", it all of a sudden has a different
connotation, doesn't it? Now here, the term "drapetomania" comes to mind.

Zero luck with women. On another thread JustBrooke responded to Tryagain by telling him she has a headache. Seriously.

Approximately zero persons turned up to hear TR Yagain give the annual Math lecture at the prestigious A2K Towers and that figure included the speaker herself...


...Well, division by zero is not so much 'physically impossible' as it is 'in violation of mathematical axioms.'

You see, the phrase "physically impossible" implies a task that cannot be done, no matter the amount of exertion of effort, whereas the phrase "in violation of mathematical axioms" means that the operation contradicts certain basic assumptions regarding the system in question.

Numbers have certain properties and rules; for instance, we say that adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing two numbers will give another number. Subtraction is the opposite of addition, as division is the opposite of multiplication. Any number multiplied by zero gives zero.

So if this is true why can't division by zero be defined? We know that the answer should be infinity, right? ..... Well not quite. Take a look at this simple equation to see the answer.

2X + 6 = X + 3
Solve this equation for X and you get
X = -3
But use the rules of algebra and factor out 2 from 2X + 6 the result is:
2(X + 3) = X + 3
Divide both sides by X + 3 and the result is: 2 = 1

The use of algebra is absolutely correct, so how could this answer be?
Well the fact is that the factor (x + 3) that was used to divide into both sides of the equation is actually equal to ZERO, since X = -3 and (-3 + 3)! So what we did in finding a solution is divide both side by Zero.

Division by Zero would make anything equal to anything else!

Zero is a lot of things, but there is a lot more to zero than nothing!



I would like to thank our most glabrous readership who showed such concern and compassion over the frequent headaches suffered by the delectable luscious Brooke. I would like to reassure you that since remedial action was taken the trauma has abated - I moved the bed head further from the wall.

Because it violates so many mathematical axioms, zero has become the best descriptor for the author of this thread.

DIVISION BY ZERO

A MOMENT SO INFINITESIMAL THAT
EVERY ONE CAN HAVE ONE

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Energy From Waste

Who Knew!

British Correspondent reports that Breaking ... errr ... Breaking News from the UK equals canine poo muching bacteria power in Bahstin's Pacific Street Park!



New Energy Focus
Tue 5 October 2010


‘Landmark’ project produces renewable gas from sewage

Tuesday 05 October 2010

‘Landmark’ project produces renewable gas from sewage
Didcot sewage works in Oxfordshire is now producing biomethane for injection into the gas grid

The first ever renewable gas produced from sewage in the UK has today (October 5) been sent to the gas grid, marking what energy secretary Chris Huhne claimed was the "start of a new era" for renewable energy.

Mr Huhne welcomed the announcement that biomethane gas from Didcot sewage works in Oxfordshire is now being used to supply British homes with heating and cooking gas.

He said: "It's not every day that a Secretary of State can announce that, for the first time ever in the UK, people can cook and heat their homes with gas generated from sewage.

"This is an historic day for the companies involved, for energy from waste technologies, and for progress to increase the amount of renewable energy in the UK. I know there are other similar projects across the country that are close to completion, so this is just the start of a new era of renewable energy."

The "landmark" project at Didcot is a joint venture between Thames Water, British Gas and Scotia Gas Networks. It is expected that biomethane gas from the sewage works will produce enough renewable gas to supply up to 200 homes.

The project took six months to complete and cost £2.5 million.

British Gas first revealed its plans to be the first to inject biomethane into the UK gas grid in February (see this NewEnergyFocus.com story), outlining its plans for the Didcot project as well as signing development agreements with four other companies to carry out feasibility studies with a view to delivering biomethane to the grid.

Commenting on the Didcot project, Gearóid Lane, managing director of communities and new energy at British Gas, said: "At British Gas, we're already leading the way with low carbon and renewable technologies for Britain's homes, and now we're helping local communities use local resources to generate their own energy.

"This renewable gas project is a real milestone in Britain's energy history, and will help customers and the environment alike."

He claimed that renewable gas has the potential to make a significant contribution to meeting the UK's energy needs and said gas from sewage was just "one part of a bigger project", which would also see the company using brewery and food waste and farm slurry to generate gas.


According to a study by National Grid, biomethane could account for at least 15% of the domestic gas market by 2020.

Sewage arrives at the Didcot works from some of Thames Water's 14 million customers to be treated and recycled back to the environment.

Sludge, the solid part of sewage, is then treated further in warmed-up vats in a process called anaerobic digestion (AD), where bacteria break down biodegradable material, yielding biogas. Impurities are then removed from the biomethane before it is fed into the gas grid. The whole process - from flushing a toilet to gas being piped to people's homes - takes around 20 days.
RHI

"We were delighted to hear Oliver Letwin say at the Conservative Party conference yesterday that the RHI is a 'crucial part' of government's green energy plans."

Cabinet minister Oliver Letwin provided the strongest commitment yet to a susbsidy scheme for renewable heat during his address to the Party conference yesterday, referring to the government's "incentive for renewable heat" (see this NewEnergyFocus.com story).


http://newenergyfocus.com/do/ecco/view_item?listid=1&listcatid=32&listitemid=4435&section=Bioenergy%20%26%20Waste




Editor in Chief T R Yagain was heard to be hanging out in his Global Footprint Story Tellers TeePee trading stocks in Hung Poo Real Estate which was currently up +0.65 1.45%.



"Holey Ship, 'IT happens!" said Mr Yagain, "I'll be home for dinner shortly, make sure you're COOKING WITH GAS!"



Special Agent Wandel has been registered on the CME interactive course on Wednesday, 06 October 2010 from 9:00am - 4:30pm ET in New York, NY which will be focusing on the major political, technical, and economic factors that move oil, gas, and electricity markets and how these sectors are interrelated. Mr T R Yagain requests that the Special Agent reports on the influence on energy markets of recent developments in OPEC, Petrodollar movements, and Russia's rise as an energy powerhouse which will be evaluated. Additionally, how major market players, such as oil companies, banks and hedge funds, move energy prices and how that impacts capital, foreign exchange, and commodity markets and financial institutions will also be analyzed. The use of energy derivatives and the increasing role of regulators in energy markets will be discussed. Case studies will include BP, Amaranth, and Enron. Additionally, recent articles highlighting trends in energy markets will supplement this course.


Meanwhile, A2K hamster Jespah has been assigned to Oxford v. Cambridge and is asked to pass the latest Cambridge Mass quarters projections of "Light Up My Life" to the Editor in <passes sunglasses> at the earliest convenience and to make a cross comparison to the forthcoming projections in Didcot, Oxford, referencing all suitable data. These projections will then be used to decide if it's possible for the A2K community to utilise local resources to generate their own energy. Dutchy and Dys have been volunteered as "the generees" and asked to co-operate fully whether they like 'it or not.





Whenever SAD - wave to Blue!

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You gotta love natural energy!

Finally Tryagain has found a way to make money from excess gas!

Getting Hitched!


10/10/10

Sunday, October 10, 2010:


101010 (base two (binary)) equals 42 (base ten). Oddly enough, this is evenly divisible by the number of days in a week (7 (lucky)); and equally oddly, is also evenly divisible by the number 6 (which is generally designated as being unlucky). Both a Ying and Yang situation seem to be incorporated into this date.

10 (base ten) = 1010 (base two)

(base ten): 10 x 10 = 100

(base two): 10 x 10 = 100

The binary attributes of 101010 lends itself to use by the sciences of fractals (recursive geometric shapes) and chaos theory (the butterfly effect).







MAME AND ALEX GET MARRIED TODAY!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!



This month we have 10.10.10 & 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays. This only happens once in 823 years.

Hitched!

Congratulations and best of luck to the happy couple. Or, the cappy hupple, if you prefer spoonerisms.

Indeed! Mame is blissfully wedded to Alex. Gustav Ratzenhofer is said to be heart-broken and refuses to comment.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any hotter

TD54 did a flyby Down Below!

Dutchy vehemently denied any and all claims of "mooning" at 1051 GMT.

Legal Beagle Jes was asked to collate the evidence and later reported to the Editor in Chief that he had been seen bouncing on a space-hopper via infrared telescopic photographs direct from Boston's MIT.


T R Yagain stated: "The earth did move for me, she was hotter 'n hell but I have Great Balls of Fire"!


Special Agent Wandel has been called in for further investigation but was informed by the Editor in Chief that the assignment was 28000 miles away and moving along fast, so he'd better go pack a bag and hurry along.





Margo was heard to mutter: "Bugger, it got a little warmer for a while, gone already!"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39635492/ns/technology_and_science-space/

Kevlar vests and codpieces ordered for Mame's hotter than hot wedding. Arrived too late, tragically.

Lest we forget that the motto 'In God We Trust' did not appear on any U.S. paper money until the late 1950s.

A bill's value depends on its date and what letter, if any, is right next to the date, but most $100 bills dated as far back as 1934 are worth only face value if they're in circulated condition.

The motto was added because a lot of people were upset and anxious over the threat posed by the Soviet Union, and they felt it was important to have some kind of symbol of faith on the money to create a contrast with the "godless commies".

Of course, 10 years earlier the U.S. managed to defeat the Nazis and the Japanese Empire with money that didn't have any mottoes on it, but that fact was ignored in the anti-communist sentiment of the time.

However, if rumors are correct, the Mad Hatters Tea Party motto:
'What do you mean, my birth certificate has expired?'
Should fetch a premium.

Money, money, money makes the world go around, world go around....
What was the motto before the late 1950s?

Never believe money grows on trees...

Obviously! I'd be a gardener with passion otherwise.

PANAMA RED

BEN grow’s his own

...PASSION FRUIT

“Growing Passionfruit is not nearly as hard as people make it out to be. In-fact growing your own fresh passionfruit is very easy, and I’ll share my experiences with you.

Firstly you will need something to grow the passionfruit on, as they are a climber; a trellis or mesh fence is a great starting point. It needs to be strong, as over the next couple of years your passionfruit is going to hang off it. You don’t want to have it collapse in a heap.

Passionfruit are gross feeders, which means you will need to feed them a lot of nutrients over their life time. Set aside the dirt that came from the hole and mix it with well rotted cow, sheep or horse manure as well as some blood and bone. My grandmother always put some offal (liver, heart etc) in the hole and covered it over before planting, over time this would break down into a great nutritious food for the passionfruit.

<truly offal>

VARIETIES:

Varieties include Nellie Kelly , Red Ambrosia, Panama Red, Panama Gold, and Sunnypash.

<so says geologist, Ben http://www.homelycapers.com/2008/how-to-grow-passionfruit/ >

SUNNY PASH Sunshine Special, a chance seedling developed by a Western Australian nursery at Mundijong - 32°17′02″S 115°58′23″E / 32.284°S 115.973°E / -32.284; 115.973 Several new hybrids have come out of breeding programs in New South Wales, including Supersweet 1 and Supersweet 3. SWEET! STREWTH, ya can't make this stuff up!>

Talking Panamaaaaaanian – whassat dosh there a? – the BALBOA!

Who goes there? Vasco Núñez de Balboa was born at Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain. In 1501, he explored the New World with Rodrigo de Bastidas, who had been inspired by Christopher Columbus to believe that pearls could be found on the northern coast of Venezuela. They sailed west, but their ship began to leak. They were forced to abandon their ship on the island of Hispaniola, and they had their goods taken by the governor of the island. Balboa was left penniless.

He tried to make a living as a farmer, but he was not very good at it. Deep in debt, Balboa decided to stow away with his dog on board a relief supply ship sailing to San Sabastian on the Isthmus of Panama in 1510.

Balboa ventured into the neighbouring region of Coiba where he became friends with a local chief. He married the chief’s daughter. Balboa arranged an alliance between the Spaniards and Comogre, another powerful native chief. Comogre offered to lead the Spaniards to the other side of the Isthmus if they would help defeat one of his tribe’s enemies. Balboa agreed and set out in September of 1513 with 190 Spanish soldiers and almost 1,000 Native Americans. Balboa’s group crossed through the densest rain forest in the world, fighting enemy tribes along the way.

Discovering a New Ocean

He set out with a small party of 67 to cross the mountains in the center of the peninsula. On the morning of September 25, 1513, Balboa climbed a peak and became the first European to look out on what would become the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean (it was named by Ferdinand Magellan during his expedition around the world several years later). Other Spaniards, including Francisco Pizarro, joined him. Building a pile of stones and a cross, they knelt and sang a Catholic hymn of Thanksgiving. They marched to the shore and formally took possession of the ocean in the name of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.

He spent a month on the Pacific shore collecting gold and pearls and visiting the Pearl Islands in the Caribbean Sea. On his return to the other side of the Isthmus, Balboa conquered more native tribes and took even more gold. During the four-month journey, not a single Spanish soldier was killed.

In 1514, Balboa’s enemies in Spain, who were jealous of his successes, accused Balboa of treason. They turned the king against him. He was arrested, convicted of treason, and beheaded in January 1519.

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/balboa.htm



So from the rolling head of Balboa and Hispaniola, British Correspondent Terminates this Breaking News Broadcast as Little Nellie Kelly's Judy Garland but instead of "Singin' in the Rain" or "Over The Rainbow", Izzie sings, sunpashingly :


Feliz Cumpleaños,
Feliz Cumpleaños
Feliz Cumpleaños Estimado Tico
Feliz Cumpleaños

So let’s have us a Mad Hatters Birthday Tea Party for our TICO at the G’daypub’s Mundijong Tavern <tightens silver buckles on little white jacket - embrace the madness>



The Beers are on DUTCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Ambrosia’s on moi!

'What do you mean, my birth certificate has expired?'



HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW OLD TICO!

<pass that boy a Panama ceeeeegar!>

17:10:2010 0001 GMT



<“I’ll be bavk”>