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you are correct only this guy can
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/profile.asp?user=2744
The moderators of this board can not ban anyone, that is up to the site administrator and his name is Matt.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/profile.asp?user=2744
a F/S is say you have 100 shares and they do a 2 for 1 F/S you will have 200 shares and generally the share price decreases JMCP in its former self did a forward split (CWFG) and a reverse is about the same but you will have only 50 shares out of 100 and the share price will generally increase. In my opinion neither is good
Welcome back, you sure were missed
now would you please go to the CSHD board and straighten them out
another link
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/suspensions/2006/34-54369.pdf
I wonder if will effect MODC
They halted trading of DeMarco Energy Systems of America
http://www.sec.gov/litigation/suspensions.shtml
This is a nice site for new investors, its called investopedia
it has a lot of info that you might find interesting, I still use it
http://www.investopedia.com/
and this is nice to, it explains all the terms like what is CMF and different chart terms, once again I still us this its nice
http://stockcharts.com/education/
its the area above, if you click on the jmcp link, than click on show board info, you will see some information pertaining to jmcp. if that doeen't help let me know
Matt you really need to open up the jail house again, man some of the stuff said there lately really needs to addressed, like some good spankings, could we perhaps get a survey on that..............................
The chart in the IBOX always updates automatically daily.
and looking at it the CMF has started to move up !
Actor Glenn Ford dies at age 90
POSTED: 4:06 a.m. EDT, August 31, 2006
BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) -- Actor Glenn Ford, who played strong, thoughtful protagonists in films such as "The Blackboard Jungle," "Gilda" and "The Big Heat," died Wednesday, police said. He was 90.
Paramedics called to Ford's home just before 4 p.m. found Ford dead, police Sgt. Terry Nutall said, reading a prepared statement. "They do not suspect foul play," he said.
Ford suffered a series of strokes in the 1990s.
"It comes to mind instantly what a remarkable actor he was," actor Sidney Poitier, who also starred in "The Blackboard Jungle," said Wednesday evening. "He had those magical qualities that are intangible but are quite impactful on the screen. He was a movie star."
Failing health forced Ford to skip a 90th-birthday tribute on May 1 at Hollywood's historic Grauman's Egyptian Theatre. But he did send greetings via videotape, adding, "I wish I were up and around, but I'm doing the best that I can.... There's so much I have to be grateful for."
At the event, Shirley Jones, who co-starred with him in the comedy "The Courtship of Eddie's Father," in which he played the father of a young Ron Howard, called Ford "one of the cornerstones of our industry, and there aren't many left."
Ford appeared in scores of films during his 53-year Hollywood career. The Film Encyclopedia, a reference book, lists 85 films from 1939 to 1991.
He was usually cast as the handsome tough, but his acting talents ranged from romance to comedy. His more famous credits include "Superman," "Gilda," "The Sheepman," "The Gazebo," "Pocketful of Miracles" and "Don't Go Near the Water."
An avid horseman and former polo player, Ford appeared in a number of Westerns, "3:10 to Yuma," "Cowboy," "The Rounders," "Texas," "The Fastest Gun Alive" and the remake of "Cimarron" among them. His talents included lighter parts, with roles in "The Teahouse of the August Moon" and "It Started With a Kiss."
On television, he appeared in "Cade's County," "The Family Holvak," "Once an Eagle" and "When Havoc Struck."
A tireless worker, Ford often made several films a year, Ford continued working well into his 70s. In 1992, though, he was hospitalized for more than two months for blood clots and other ailments, and at one point was in critical condition
"Noel Coward once told me, `You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.' Well, I can still be amazed," Ford said in a 1981 interview with The Associated Press.
After getting his start in theater in the 1930s, he got a break when he was signed by Columbia Pictures mogul Harry Cohn.
In 1940, he appeared in five films, including "Blondie Plays Cupid" and "Babies for Sale." After serving with the Marines during World War II, Ford starred in 1946 as a small-time gambler in "Gilda," opposite Rita Hayworth.
The film about frustrated romance and corruption in postwar Argentina became a film noir classic. Hayworth plays Ford's former love, a sometime nightclub singer married to a casino operator, and she sizzles onscreen performing "Put the Blame on Mame."
Ford speaks the memorable voiceover in the opening scene: "To me a dollar was a dollar in any language. It was my first night in the Argentine and I didn't know much about the local citizens. But I knew about American sailors, and I knew I'd better get out of there."
Two years later he made "The Loves of Carmen," also with Hayworth.
"It was one of the greatest mistakes I ever made, embarrassing," Ford said of the latter film. "But it was worth it, just to work with her again."
Among his competitors for leading roles was William Holden. Both actors, Ford said, would stuff paper in their shoes to appear taller than the other. "Finally, neither of us could walk, so we said the hell with it."
Ford also played against Bette Davis in "A Stolen Life."
One of his best-known roles was in 1955's "The Blackboard Jungle," where he portrayed a young, soft-spoken teacher in a slum school who inspires a class full of juvenile delinquents to care about life.
"We did a film together, and it was for me a great experience because I had always admired his work," recalled Poitier. "When I saw him in films I had always marveled at the subtlety of his work. He was truly gifted."
In "The Big Heat," 1953, a gritty crime story, Ford played a police detective.
"Acting is just being truthful," he once said. "I have to play myself. I'm not an actor who can take on another character, like Laurence Olivier. The worst thing I could do would be to play Shakespeare."
He was born Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford on May 1, 1916, in Quebec, Canada, the son of a railroad executive. The first name reflected his family's Welsh roots. When Ford joined Columbia, Cohn asked him to change his name to John Gower; Ford refused but switched his first name to Glenn, after his father's birthplace of Glenford.
He moved to Southern California at age 8 and promptly fell in love with show business, even sneaking onto a Culver City studio lot at night. He took to the stage at Santa Monica High School. His first professional job was as a searchlight operator in front of a movie house.
He started his career in theater, as an actor with West Coast stage companies and as Tallulah Bankhead's stage manager in New York. In 1939, he made his first Hollywood film opposite Jean Rogers in the romance "Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence."
His director, Ricardo Cortez, told Ford he would never amount to anything and the actor returned to New York. He didn't stay away from Hollywood long, though, signing a 14-year contract with Columbia Pictures.
He married actress-dancer Eleanor Powell in 1943; the two divorced in 1959. They had a son, Peter. A 1965 marriage to actress Kathryn Hays ended quickly. In 1977, he married model Cynthia Hayward, 32 years his junior. They were divorced in 1984.
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Google Offers Book Downloads Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
Wed Aug 30, 9:00 AM ET
Google has expanded its controversial book search service to allow people to download whole copies of books in PDF format to their computers, with the ability to print them out.
The feature will go live Wednesday at the service's Web site, said Adam Smith, group product manager of Google Book Search and Google Scholar.
The books available for download will only be those that are in the public domain and thus not protected by copyright, Smith said. Until now, people have been able to read these public-domain books on the Google Book Search Web site, but not download and print them, he said.
Google will not allow downloading of copyrighted books, not even those for which it has obtained permission from the copyright holders to display their full text, Smith said.
Scanning and Searching
The vast majority of the public-domain books available for download have been scanned as part of the library project of the Google Book Search service, Smith said.
For the project, Google is scanning portions of the collections of some of the world's largest academic libraries, including Google partners Harvard University, Stanford University and Oxford University.
However, critics say Google can't scan copyrighted books it obtains from the libraries unless it gets permission from the copyright holders. The issue is at the center of two separate lawsuits brought against Google last year, one by The Authors Guild and three authors, and another one by The Association of American Publishers on behalf of five of its members: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Pearson Education, Penguin Group USA, Simon & Schuster, and John Wiley & Sons.
Scientists report baldness breakthrough Wed Aug 30, 10:10 AM ET
LONDON (AFP) - In a finding that could help treat an inherited form of baldness, a research team in Manchester claims to have discovered a protein "code" that instructs cells to sprout hair.
By sending the code to more cells than usual, the scientists at the University of Manchester say they were able to breed mice with more fur -- a feat that could potentially be replicated in humans.
"During human development, skin cells have the ability to turn into other types of cells to form hair follicles, sweat glands, teeth and nails," explained Denis Headon, who led the research.
"Which cells are transformed into hair follicles is determined by three proteins that are produced by our genes," he said.
"Our research has identified how one of these proteins working outside of the cell interacts at a molecular level to determine an individual's hair pattern as the embryonic skin spatially organises itself."
The research was targeted at helping people with ectodermal dysplasia, an inherited condition that is characterised by the abnormal development of hair, skin, nails, teeth and sweat glands.
I showed a negitive 6 post this morning for this board only
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Geneva nice place, excpecially the State Park, When I got out of the Military, I built experimental break walls for the Army core of Enginners up there, real nice place
Hackers steal AT&T customer info
Company notifying nearly 19,000 customers; online store shut down hours after breach occurred.
August 29 2006: 7:19 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Personal data, including credit card information, of thousands of AT&T customers was stolen by hackers over the weekend, the company reported late Tuesday.
The breach, which affected customers who purchased DSL equipment through AT&T's (Charts) Web store was discovered within hours and the online store was shut down immediately, said AT&T in a press release.
AT&T said it was sending notifications to nearly 19,000 customers, and that it would pay for credit monitoring services for the affected customers.
"We recognize that there is an active market for illegally obtained personal information. We are committed to both protecting our customers' privacy and to weeding out and punishing the violators," said Priscilla Hill- Ardoin, chief privacy officer for AT&T, in a statement.
"We deeply regret this incident and we intend to pay for credit monitoring services for customers whose accounts have been impacted. We will work closely with law enforcement to bring these data thieves to account."
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its a picture of the breed, mine is still a pup.
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Don't answer mine, Susie answer it
Wake Island evacuated as 'super typhoon' roars in
POSTED: 9:39 a.m. EDT, August 29, 2006
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) -- The U.S. military has evacuated 200 people from Wake Island before the arrival of Typhoon Ioke, the strongest Central Pacific hurricane in more than decade.
Classified as a Category 5 "super typhoon," Ioke is expected to extensively damage the U.S. territory when it hits Wednesday with 155-mph winds, said Jeff Powell, lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Honolulu.
"This is going to roll up a storm surge that will probably submerge the island and destroy everything that's not made of concrete," Powell said.
The evacuees, mostly American and Thai contractors, on Monday were flown to Hickam Air Force Base on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, said Maj. Clare Reed, a spokeswoman for the 15th Airlift Wing.
The contractors work at a civilian base, Reed said. No other permanent residents live on the tiny island, she said.
Ioke had winds of 160 mph and gusts up to 185 mph on Monday, Powell said.
The storm was 560 miles southeast of Wake Island and on track for a direct hit, according to the forecast.
Wake Island is 2,300 miles west of Honolulu and 1,510 miles east of Guam. The storm is expected to strike at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, or noon Thursday on the island.
I hope they keep this guy, he's real sick.............
JonBenet suspect case dropped By Dan Whitcomb
Tue Aug 29, 12:36 AM ET
BOULDER, Colo. (Reuters) - John Mark Karr, the schoolteacher who made worldwide headlines by confessing to one of America's most notorious unsolved crimes, the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, was abruptly dropped as a suspect on Monday after the case against him collapsed.
Prosecutors dismissed the arrest warrant against Karr just hours before he was due for his first Colorado court appearance in the 10-year-old case after DNA tests failed to link him to the girl's body.
The hearing in JonBenet's hometown of Boulder was canceled but Karr, 41, was taken back to jail because authorities in Northern California asked that he be sent there to face child pornography charges.
Karr's claims that he was with JonBenet when she died had been greeted with growing skepticism and prosecutors said in legal papers that, without a DNA match, they had no evidence against him other than his "repeated insistence" that he committed the crime.
JonBenet's body was found in the basement of her Boulder home on December 26, 1996. She had been strangled to death, her skull fractured and mouth duct-taped. Forensic evidence suggests she had been sexually assaulted.
The DNA taken from JonBenet's underwear, which was found to be the saliva of a white male mixed with her blood, has never been matched to a suspect in the murder -- a crime that has baffled police and fascinated Americans for nearly a decade.
JonBenet's parents, who were once said by authorities to be under an "umbrella of suspicion" in their daughter's death, were also excluded from having left the DNA.
BACK TO SQUARE ONE
The collapse of the case against Karr sent the mysterious unsolved murder back to square one and District Attorney Mary Lacy -- who had him arrested in Thailand nearly two weeks ago and extradited to Colorado based largely on suspicious e-mails he had sent to Colorado University journalism professor Michael Tracey -- quickly came under fire.
Karr's lawyer, Seth Temin, said he was "deeply distressed" that his client had been arrested and extradited to Colorado on so little evidence and Karr's family members also expressed outrage.
Lacy could not be reached for comment but explained in court papers Karr, using the pseudonym "Daxis" told Tracey in his e-mails that he "accidentally" killed JonBenet while asphyxiating her during sex, then delivered a severe blow to her head.
She said her office moved quickly to arrest Karr in Bangkok because he had begun to "express sexual interest in specific young girls" at the school in Thailand where he had recently been hired.
"Until Mr. Karr was identified there was no way to try to confirm or disprove his admissions related to causing the death of JonBenet Ramsey," she said. "Until he was detained, there was great risk that he might disappear if he became aware that people from his past were being interviewed about his admissions."
After his arrest, Karr publicly repeated his claims to have loved JonBenet and assertions that she died by accident. But members of his family have insisted he was out of state at the time of JonBenet's murder and could not have been involved.
JonBenet's father, John Ramsey, found the girl's battered body about seven hours after her mother stumbled on a bizarre letter claiming that she had been kidnapped and demanding $118,000 ransom.
The Ramsey family has since moved away from Boulder and her mother, Patsy, died in June of ovarian cancer.
The house where the former Little Miss Colorado died stands empty.
I would be careful Matt the administrator of IHUB does not like people promoting other sites....
Employers Crack Down on Personal Net Use Kim Zetter
Fri Aug 25, 7:00 PM ET
Tasha Newitt was aware her employer, the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, had a policy restricting personal use of work computers, but she believed it focused on Web surfing, not e-mail. Nonetheless, she was careful to use her work e-mail primarily for professional matters. So she was stunned when the agency fired her after finding 418 personal e-mail messages received over a period of five months (or about 5 per workday) on her PC.
Newitt isn't alone: Increasingly, managers are cracking down on employee Internet activity by drafting strict usage policies--and enforcing them through use of software that monitors surfing, examines e-mail, and restricts the sites an employee can browse to.
Newitt, an eight-year agency veteran, says that she received great performance reviews as well as certificates for providing outstanding customer service in her position as a workers' compensation claims manager. Most of the personal e-mail messages were innocuous notes regarding birthday greetings and lunch plans with coworkers, she says. But none of this mattered to Newitt's employer examined her office's e-mail after a co-worker filed a sexual-harassment complaint against a supervisor. The department ultimately fired 8 employees (including Newitt) and disciplined 16 others for their improper use of agency equipment.
Will Vehrs, who works at the Virginia Department of Business Assistance, received a ten-day unpaid suspension for excessive casual use of the Internet while at work. Vehrs' employer knew he blogged, often about state issues, at the Commonwealth Conservative's Virginia politics blog. In fact, Virginia's governor read and sometimes reused his posts; but he was punished after composing humorous captions for photographs as part of a local newspaper's contest. His captions poked fun at a Virginia county and annoyed a local politician.
Whether streaming video is eating into a company's network bandwidth or employees' viewing of adult content is exposing the firm to sexual harassment charges, companies have some legitimate reasons to limit their workers' access to and activity on the Internet.
A 2005 survey of 526 businesses and organizations by the ePolicy Institute and the American Management Association found that 76 percent of them monitor the sites that their employees visit, and 65 percent block certain sites. At least 55 percent of them review and retain employees' e\0x2011mail, and 36 percent track the content on workers' PCs, their keystrokes, and the time that they spend at the keyboard. Lost productivity is a major concern: Last spring, some companies blocked streaming video during the NCAA men's college basketball tournament. Even so, more than 14 million fans accessed video from the NCAA March Madness on Demand Web site during the first three rounds of the tournament, according to CBS SportsLine; and considering the starting times of the games, many of them likely did so from work
Massachusetts-based Networks Unlimited audits the Internet activity of its clients' employees and sells equipment for auditing and blocking workers' Internet use. It says that many executives are surprised at what their employees do online. The company installs a monitoring box on its customers' networks for a week and then extrapolates longer-term patterns of usage from that data to estimate how many hours a year employees spend browsing Web sites.
For example, Networks Unlimited found that fewer than 100 employees at Balls Food--a supermarket and pharmacy chain based in Kansas City--had Net access at work, but that they spent a total of 686 hours in one year using Web-based e-mail such as Hotmail and Yahoo. By contrast, 120 employees at a New York\0x2013based software company spent an estimated 7700 hours in one year accessing Web-based e-mail, 2400 hours at shopping and sports-related sites, and 250 hours visiting pornographic sites. In total, the employees spent more than 17,000 hours in one year on recreational surfing (roughly 3 hours per employee per week), which translates into an estimated loss in worker productivity of $867,000, according to Networks Unlimited.
Fear of viruses, spyware, and other security breaches due to non-work-related Web use is another impetus for employers to limit their workers' Internet activity. Such attacks can disrupt company networks and lead to loss of confidential information. But Nancy Flynn, director of the ePolicy Institute and author of Blog Rules and other books on workplace tech policies, says that concern about potential litigation is the main reason organizations manage their employees' Internet use.
Internet Liabilities
Sexually offensive material read or viewed on computers in the workplace can lead to sexual harassment charges or, in extreme cases, bring law-enforcement agencies knocking at the door. a county public Works Department office in Nevada attracted embarrassing attention when an employee was arrested after downloading more than 400 images of child pornography to his work computer. The agency discovered the stash only by tracing a virus that crashed the county's network to one of the images.
The content of e-mail and instant messages can be especially dangerous. In the most recent ePolicy survey results, 24 percent of surveyed companies acknowledged that they had received at least one subpoena for employee e-mail.
"When companies get embroiled in e-mail litigation, it can become very expensive and very embarrassing," says Flynn, who runs seminars on how to establish policies and train employees in proper technology use. The issue can be especially problematic in highly regulated industries, such as health care, where workers are required to adhere to laws that protect the privacy of patient information and records. During an audit of one medical center's computers, Networks Unlimited found that spyware was surreptitiously sending information from the center's network to Gator, a spyware/adware firm, up to 2000 times a day. The audit also uncovered a keystroke-logging Trojan horse on one of the center's workstations.
The Web Off-Limits
Segal says that blocking Internet activity can become "somewhat of a political football" if workers feel that Big Brother is watching. "Sometimes you have senior management at one extreme [having] the attitude of blocking it all," he says, "and then you have the other extreme that says 'I don't want to tread there.'"
Balls Foods is an example of a company that starts by blocking all Internet access, and then doles out access to individual workers, case-by-case. The company's network systems manager, Lance Fisher, says that employees haven't complained about the restrictions because they never had unfettered access in the first place. "From the minute that employees have had Internet access, it's always been restricted access," he says. "So they can't miss what they never had." He concedes that it might be harder for a company that's never blocked access to suddenly institute a restrictive Internet policy. Bob Edwards, executive director of Boston law firm Wolf Greenberg, says that his company recognized this possibility when it audited its network and established a new policy. The firm now prohibits use of instant messaging and blocks access to hacker sites, as well as to gambling and gaming sites.
And since the firm specializes in intellectual property cases, it also blocks peer-to-peer networks. Edwards says that the last thing the company wanted was a scandal involving its own employees downloading copyrighted music or videos. "The [potential] headlines of something like that were definitely enough to make us really want to make sure that we had the thing nailed," Edward says.
Web sites with adult content are also blocked "to make sure that we weren't saying one thing with our sexual harassment policy and then...allowing free access to adult Web sites that might be offensive to others," Edwards says.
Wolf Greenberg was careful not to offend employees with its new policy, however. The firm's audit looked at Internet use in the office as a whole, rather than targeting individuals, and the data it gathered was anonymized to protect employees' privacy. "We wanted to let them know that we really had no intention to look at every site that everyone went to and that we wanted to manage this with their cooperation," Edwards says.
The law firm also carefully designed a policy that balanced its needs with those of its employees. For example, it decided not to block eBay and other shopping sites. "We want to be reasonable," Edwards says. "[The Internet is] there for them to use, and we expect that they will need to use it on occasion, but [we also want them] to be sensitive to the level of use."
Flynn of ePolicy insists that companies must take care to explain their Internet policy clearly to employees and be consistent about enforcing it. "I've seen cases where organizations...have disciplinary rules in place, including saying they will terminate violators, and then they don't terminate anyone," she says. "And there are companies that pick and choose who they terminate. That just confuses employees," says Flynn.
Kim Zetter
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YA, I always thought that deep down in the oceans there must be some crazy species.
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Since I was knee high to a grass hopper, I always loved the space program.
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Shuttle launch delayed until Monday
From Marsha Walton
CNN
Saturday, August 26, 2006; Posted: 7:00 p.m. EDT (23:00 GMT)
This NASA image captured by remote cameras shows a lightning strike at the launch pad Friday.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN) -- The launch of space shuttle Atlantis on Sunday was scrubbed for 24 hours because of lightning striking the launch pad Friday and other weather worries, NASA announced.
The launch will be tried again Monday. Sunday is the first day of the shuttle's launch window, which closes September 7.
Mission managers said no other significant issues besides weather could affect the launch, said NASA test director Jeff Spaulding.
On Friday, lightning struck Atlantis' launch pad 39B, which has several lightning-detection systems -- but caused no apparent damage, said launch director Mike Leinbach.
The Atlantis crew of six has been waiting nearly four years for the opportunity to travel to the International Space Station, and are hopeful the weather will cooperate, Leinbach said.
Once Atlantis docks with the station, the crew plans to do three spacewalks to install a second set of solar arrays designed to provide about a quarter of the station's power generation.
That should double the station's power capability, in addition to adding more than 17 tons to its mass.
The solar arrays have been packed away since May 2003, when they were originally scheduled to be delivered.
NASA has dubbed the 12-day mission, the 27th flight of Atlantis, the "return to assembly."
If Atlantis takes off Monday, the mission will be the quickest turnaround between flights since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Space Shuttle Discovery landed on July 17 after a 13-day mission that recorded no major problems.
Weather will remain a concern for the success of Atlantis' mission, even after launch.
NASA is closely monitoring Tropical Storm Ernesto. If the storm gains strength and heads directly for Houston, where Mission Control is located, the Atlantis mission would have to end early.
There are no contingency plans, said LeRoy Cain, launch integration manager of the space shuttle program, on Friday. Should Mission Control be evacuated, the complicated construction activities of the Atlantis mission cannot be accomplished, he said.
"We would undock, de-orbit at the first safe opportunity, and leave the (space) station in the safest configuration we could," he said.
Still, Houston personnel will still be able to communicate with Atlantis and the space station crew through control rooms in Moscow, should Mission Control have to evacuate, said space station program manager Mike Suffredini.
NASA managers hope the Atlantis flight can cement the agency's efforts to resume a regular schedule of missions in order to complete the space station before the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010.
Fifteen more flights -- or about four launches a year -- are required to complete the work.
Participants in the flight readiness review were unanimous in their decision to go ahead with the launch of Atlantis, including two senior managers who had declined to sign off on Discovery's launch in July, said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space flight.
Those two managers, as well as the directors of the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, urged modifications be made to "ice-front ramps" on the shuttle's external fuel tank, however.
Small pieces of insulating foam have come off the ice-front ramps on previous flights.
Shedding foam became a major concern after Columbia, which disintegrated upon re-entry in 2003 after a large piece of foam cracked a heat shield on the orbiter. All the astronauts aboard were killed.
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the person that takes care of the board
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No, but I do moderate it, no I do not work for IHUB , no but I took over it because it was an unmoderated board.
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Ernesto could become a dangerous hurricane By Michael Christie
1 hour, 32 minutes ago
MIAMI (Reuters) - The fifth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, Ernesto, could become a dangerously powerful hurricane in the oil-producing Gulf of Mexico next week, U.S. forecasters said on Saturday.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said forecasting Ernesto's future strength was riddled with uncertainty.
But very warm waters in its path as it approached the Gulf, where a quarter of U.S. crude oil and natural gas production is located, could lead to significant strengthening around the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Miami-based center said.
"This could result in Ernesto becoming a powerful hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico," said hurricane center forecaster Lixion Avila in a bulletin on the storm.
Jamaica and the Cayman Islands issued hurricane watches as Ernesto bore down. A hurricane watch means hurricane conditions can be expected within 36 hours.
The hurricane center said Ernesto could be near hurricane strength, with winds of at least 74 miles per hour (119 km per hour), as it passed Jamaica on Sunday, en route to the wealthy British dependency of the Cayman Islands.
If it does become a hurricane, it will be the first of the six-month hurricane season, which began June 1.
Located around 250 miles south-southwest of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, by 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), Ernesto's forecast track could take it over the western tip of Cuba by Tuesday.
By Thursday, it was projected to be swirling in the middle of the Gulf as a Category 3 hurricane on the 5-step Saffir Simpson scale of storm intensity, with sustained winds of at least 111 mph (178 kph) that are capable of damaging homes.
Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 storm when it came ashore in Louisiana last August 29 and devastated the city of New Orleans by breaching its levees. It killed around 1,500 people on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Katrina, and the other hurricanes produced by a record storm season last year, toppled offshore oil platforms, destroyed undersea pipelines and flooded coastal refineries. Oil prices soared to record highs.
Oil prices bubbled higher on Friday as Ernesto developed, and energy companies said they were prepared to evacuate workers from oil rigs if necessary.
Ernesto's eventual target zone ranged anywhere from the Florida Panhandle through New Orleans and down to the border with Mexico, but the northern Gulf coast appeared most likely.
At 11 a.m./1500 GMT, Ernesto's maximum sustained winds were holding steady at 50 mph (80 kph) and it was moving toward the west-northwest near 14 mph (22 kph).
Rainfall of 4 to 8 inches was possible over Jamaica, with some areas getting up to 12 inches. A total of 3 to 6 inches was likely over Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the hurricane center said.
A tropical storm warning remained in effect for the south coast of Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and the hurricane center warned residents in western Cuba, Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and around the Gulf of Mexico to be on guard.
This hurricane season, while forecast to be busier than average, has been relatively quiet with just five tropical storms and no hurricane to date.
By this time last year there had been 11 tropical storms, of which five became hurricanes, including Katrina. The 2005 season went on to produce a record-breaking 28 storms, of which 15 became hurricanes with winds of at least 74 mph (119 kph).
(Additional reporting by Eric Beech in Washington
That was it, I turned off sigs and audio, and now loads normal
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thanks will do
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jmont can I put that link in the IBOX
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