Talk about the intriguing world of Rare Earth Records!| What Song Takes You Back To Your Youth? | | I'm 30 years old and if I could only chose one song that I'd hear that makes me think of the carefree teen years it would be Youth Gone Wild by Skid Row, what song takes you back? | |
| | The Greatest Earthquake in North America | | This morning the Midwest area of the US received a surprise from mother nature. Not a fluke snow storm, not massive tornadoes, but rather a Rare Earth Quake. This time the damage was minor and no reported deaths. We get reports every time California shakes that this could be then next big one. Most people know of the 1906 San Francisco quake and many consider it the worst one in the US (lower 48). But was it the worst in the US during recorded history? It is actually ranked #6 by the US Geological Surveyhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov(USGS). The number one quake was in Northwestern US on January 26, 1700. It was estimated to be around a 9 on the Richter Scale. This caused damage from Northern California into British Columbia and caused a Tsunami in Japan.Surprisingly the number 2 and 3 of all quakes in the lower 48 occurred along the New Madrid Fault in the Midwest part of the country in 1811. This quake was felt all across the US and did the most damage to the landscape. It created many new lakes and changed the course of the Mississippi River. There were 3 major quakes over a periods of 2 years along he Madrid Fault. These occurred between... | |
| | China Should Ignore Stupid US Demands for Revaluation . . . Again | | I Think the Matter is A Bit More Complicated Than That
One concern about revaluation of the Yuan is that Chinese goods would no longer be competitive in the export market.But China in the last few decades has built up an impressive array of manufacturing technologies and efficiencies, and supply chains, that together give China very big price advantages over the closest competitors. In quite a number of industries the price advantage is as big as 30-40%. I have always said that the Chinese manufacturers are leaving too much on the table. Yes, cut throat competition can continue to put downward price pressures on exports, and it is getting more and more difficult for the manufacturers to make profits. Therein lies the opportunity for the government to provide strategic help, by providing the resources to strategically study industries, and on export price reforms (which can be backed with a litany of tools such as export tariffs, export quotas, and even currency reevaluations), geared towards maximizing profits for the nation as a whole, in the export growth. Merely having top line growth is inane. China needs to have PROFITABLE exports. In all industries in which... | |
| | NEW SONG, New Album by Ozzy, available end of April | | Ozzy has debuted a new song, off his new album called " I Don't Wanna Stop" and it is not bad for the ole' man. I have been a fan since good ole Rare Earth & Black Sabbath days and watching him evolve musically, lyrically and spiritually has been both a good and bad trip. Yet, he always manages to evoke some sort of feeling with everything he sings, and he has done it again with "I Don't Wanna Stop". | |
| | Land and Mineral Resources | | The composition and distribution of China's land resources have three major characteristics: (1) variety in type--cultivated land, forests, grasslands, deserts and tideland; (2) many more mountains and plateaus than flatlands and basins; (3) unbalanced distribution: farmland mainly concentrated in the east, grasslands largely in the west and north, and forests mostly in the far northeast and southwest.In China today, 94.97 million ha of land are cultivated, mainly in the Northeast Plain, the North China Plain, the Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain, the Pearl River Delta Plain and the Sichuan Basin. The fertile black soil of the Northeast Plain is ideal for growing wheat, corn, sorghum, soybeans, flax and sugar beets. The deep, brown topsoil of the North China Plain is planted with wheat, corn, millet, sorghum and cotton. The Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain's many lakes and rivers make it particularly suitable for paddy rice and freshwater fish, hence its designation of "land of fish and rice." This area also produces large quantities of tea and silkworms. The purplish soil of the warm and humid Sichuan Basin is green with crops in all four seasons, including paddy rice, rapeseed and... | |
| | BEWARE-MAGNETS KILL!!! | | Beware when you are Christmas shopping! Magnetix and Polly Pockets are DANGEROUS toys if you have small children that like to put things in their mouth!! I seen this on the news and here is the article....
Magnets to Blame in Death, Injuries
By MIKE STOBBE, AP
ATLANTA - At least one U.S. child has died and 19 others have needed surgery since 2003 after swallowing magnets used in toys, the government reported Thursday.
Most of those cases were believed to involve tiny but strong "rare earth" magnets that can link together in children's digestive tracts, squeezing and even perforating the intestines, the researchers said.
The magnets, made from neodymium iron boron or other compounds, have become common in the U.S. toy market in the past five years because they have become cheaper to produce, said Jonathan Midgett, the study's lead author and an engineering psychologist with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
They are used in building sets, action figures and dolls."Most people who have never had them in their hands are shocked at how strong these tiny things are," Midgett said.
Kenny Sweet, a 20-month-old boy from Redmond, Wash., died in two days after he began... | |
| | Now You Can Drink Your Seaweed! | | Seaweed Does a Body Good
Source: Natural Health News - May 2001 Sea Vegetation is the primary source of phytonutrients
in Body Balance from Life Force InternationalVitamin packed and low in fat grown in mineral-rich brine,
seaweed is - ounce for ounce - higher in minerals than any
other class of food. It's also a superior source of vitamin C,
thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, and beta carotene. Seaweed is
a good source of protein, it's high in fiber, and it's low in fat.Toxin Reducing One of the most interesting properties of seaweed is its
toxin-reducing power. We're all subjected to pollution from
radiation and heavy metals, whether we live in cities or rural
areas. Sodium alginate, a compound found in sea vegetables,
has been shown to protect against radioactive and
heavy-metal contaminants. It does this by binding with heavy
metals in the gastrointestinal tract and forming an insoluble
gel-like salt that is excreted in the feces. Scientists at McGill
University in Montreal, found that the sodium alginate in
seaweed reduced the absorption of radioactive strontium
by up to 84 percent.In Chinese medicine, seaweed has long been used to
treat edema,... | |
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