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    • leaving chess.com

      I'll be leaving the chess.com community before the end of 2010 .The blog will be transferred to this address   http://dreamofthought.blogspot.com/   thanks for reading and for playing. | Read More

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      • | May 24, ‘12
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    • Earthquakes and techtonic activity

      Although this year seems to be an average year for earthquakes, they do seem to be large and frequent. I'm a bit worried about the swarm under Yellowstone and the recent quake at lake Toba, both of which are supervolcanoes. If they go off, it's ... | Read More

      • Rickj
      • | May 24, ‘12
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    • The lighthouse

      This work is copyright 2010 The moral right of Richard Jenkins (aka Rickj) to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright,designs and Patents act 1988. This work is also subject automatically upon ... | Read More

      • Rickj
      • | May 24, ‘12
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    • hardest winter in Europe an North America for years

      This winter has been one of the hardest and longest and coldest and snowiest for a long time.However, there doesn't seem to be any snow in Vancouver for the Winter olympic games which start this weekend. Such is weather, such is climate. The fac... | Read More

      • Rickj
      • | May 24, ‘12
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    • Disaster in Haiti

      I recently visited this country to adopt a little boy with my wife and we noted that misery had a name and the name was Haiti. Before the earthquake which struck on the 13th, the country and its people already had their backs to the wall. Water an... | Read More

      • Rickj
      • | May 24, ‘12
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    • Spotless days landmarks

      The sun has now produced over 40 spotless days in a row, and that puts this minimum into really top ten terratory.   Periods with spotless days (>20 days) since 1849 Perioden met vlekkenloze dagen (>20 dagen) sinds 1849   There are ... | Read More

      • Rickj
      • | May 24, ‘12
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    • changes to the English language

      My changes would be 1) make all the verbs regular  to follow modal patterns and get rid of the abbrevieated form.(i'm he's she's we're they're etc) Verbs like 'to be' would just use one form 'be' and the past would be' beed' and the past partic... | Read More

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      • | May 24, ‘12
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    • Haitian Thoughts

      This blog will outline my thoughts about a recent trip to Haiti. Visit to Haiti   13th June We started our trip by leaving home to go to Nates at 13,40, arriving at Nantes for 14,20. plenty of time to drink some water and relax a bit. The j... | Read More

      • Rickj
      • | May 24, ‘12
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    • Thoughts on the European elections of 2009

      This blog expresses personal views.   Well, the European elections have just taken place and now it's time to take stock and analyise the results. Those electors who bothered to vote, and we must take note of the increasing trend of abstension... | Read More

      • Rickj
      • | May 24, ‘12
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    • what causes temperature declines in solar minimums?

      Ok, so I looked at the sunspot data from ice cores, now lets consider the data for beyllium 10 ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/greenland/summit/grip/cosmoiso/grip_10be.txtor as an excel fileftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/ic... | Read More

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      • | May 24, ‘12
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