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Italians often serve green salad with pasta.

Start here and follow the links: Uncertainty - good luck!

If it weren?t for hunting, we wouldn't be here in the modern world arguing about it. In the event of societal collapse, only those adept at hunting are likely to survive. There are hundreds of primitive forest-dwelling tribes throughout the tropics that still hunt with bows - without those skills they would have gone extinct thousands of years ago. Not to mention the Eskimo and North American Indian tribes. My grandfather raised seven kids almost entirely by hunting game (back in the old country). I've never hunted terrestrial animals but I used to go spear-fishing and have harvested many a good meal from the sea. It's not for me but I don't see anything wrong with Scribe's approach to hunting: it?s a well thought out and humane argument, in my view.

This thread reminds me of the time I hunted prey with the Hirogens in the Delta Quadrant.

aquarius moon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Next you will be telling me that a vegetable feels fear & pain But they do! It's been Scientologically proven. These tomatoes had past lives, too - apparently.

Malawi row over whether new law bans farting

Every forum should have one - it seems.

As a youngster I used to leave a time capsule in every house we lived in, usually embedded in a wall or under the floorboards - I wonder what happened to them sometimes? Still waiting for my Am?lie Poulain moment.

This case may have repercussions for the BBC: Premier League TV football choice 'upheld' by EU advice

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CONVINCE people that you are waynetta by posting a top tip using your 'other' screen name by mistake.

Oops - busted!

CONVINCE people that you are a CSI by examining everything with a pocket torch, even in broad daylight.

European and US petroleum futures prices are sharply higher on fears that shipping through the Suez Canal might be disrupted. Just one ship grounded or scuttled in the canal would hit Europe in particular very hard, albeit for the short term.

Just to make the point: the 13-year-old suspect arrested by the police is unlikely to have been the shooter: it is very unlikely that he would have been released on police bail if there was any identification or forensic evidence to that effect. Therefore, there is currently no evidence in the public domain that a 13-year-old was the shooter. What is known is that the gunshot victim was 14 years old.

Play nice ladies - D_C appears to have stepped into the firing line at short notice to keep things running smoothly while evolution takes its course. We should be grateful. Cheers D_C.

Wonderful news - congratulations and best wishes to SMG and all the family.

HOW TO kill two birds with one stone: set your laptop to watch your money then sit back and watch while both are stolen.

I think (so don't hold me to this) that the TV Licence only covers reception\recording\watching programs at the time that they are officially broadcast (on all channels). It does not cover content available via iPlayer or catch-up services offered by cable service providers (or BBC websites) - therefore, no TV Licence is required to view such content.

wjfox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic gasoline with no carbon emissions Looking at Cella Energy's technology page reveals precious little that is new here - ammonia-borane has long been known and investigated as a potential hydrogen storage medium. The only innovation, as far as I can see, is the adaptation of micro-encapsulation, which is otherwise used in scratch-and-sniff perfume samplers - amongst other uses. A quote from the technology page provides perspective: "Our current composite material uses ammonia borane NH3BH3 as the hydride and polystyrene as the polymer nano-scaffold. Ammonia borane in its normal state releases 12wt% of hydrogen at temperatures between 110?C and 150?C, but with very slow kinetics. In our materials the accessible hydrogen content is reduced to 6wt% but the temperature of operation is reduced so that it starts releasing hydrogen below 80?C and the kinetics are an order of magnitude faster. Although ideal for our proof-of-concept work and potentially useful for the initial demonstrator projects it is not currently a viable commercial material: it is expensive to make and cannot be easily re-hydrided or chemically recycled."

What if an anonymous guest (past or present) gains access to hubby's room and steals his valuables - including a large wad of cash left lying around? A dishonest person at the other end of the email conversations (or even a third party 'sniffing' the email server's traffic) could set up a burglary on demand - the victim wouldn't be able to prove anything. The hotel already appears to be running some sort of tax dodge ? evidence of inherent dishonesty? This situation has the potential for a perfect crime.

This is an internet hotel! The management probably hasn't even seen most of the guests - who knows who they really are? Probably not even Finnish - could have booked in with stolen credit card details for all we know. There's no merit in trust when there are so many unknown quantities involved.

Tactfully - sorted! Next!

I don't suppose any of the risk takers will indemnify any losses incurred by taking their advice - no, thought not? Risk management: if they insist on money being left in the room, just leave enough to cover each day's board.

I once had to work closely with someone who had diabetes: her body odour was almost unbearable, to my olfactory sense, anyway. I had thought it was a hygiene issue but it turned out she bathed every day - there wasn't anything she could do about it - it was a natural side-effect of her illness.