Amazing pictures show ‘ice pancakes’ forming on River Dee

Some unusual icy formations on the River Dee have been causing a stir. These images show “ice pancakes” at the Lummels Pool at Birse, near Aboyne, and are already delighting viewers online. The formations, which are more commonly seen in the Antarctic, was photographed by Jamie Urquhart, a biologist for the River Dee Trust. Some unusual icy formations on the River Dee have been causing a stir. These images show “ice pancakes” at the Lummels Pool at Birse, near Aboyne, and are already delighting viewers online. The formations, which are more commonly seen in the Antarctic, was photographed by Jamie Urquhart, a biologist for the River Dee Trust. Ice pancakes at the Lummels Pool at Birse, near Aboyne Ice pancakes at the Lummels Pool at Birse, near Aboyne The dinner plate sized discs can sometimes have a thickness of up to 3.9in, and a diameter of 12 in to 9ft. Experts believe foam on the water freezes overnight, pushing and bumping against each other to become circular. The discs may then grow overnight when the temperatures fall again, collecting new foam. During the day, when the discs soften in the sun, particularly around the edges, the rims are built up as the pieces collide in the water.

FART ON MARS?

Well…sort of. The Curiosity Rover on Mars has detected what’s been called a “whiff of methane” on Mars. Cue the laughter. Do you think it’s a Martian cow, or a six-year-old, who’s still giggling about farting on the alien RC Car roaming around the planet? Read More: An Alien Farted on the Curiosity Mars Rover - Proving Life on Mars | http://wgrd.com/an-alien-farted-on-the-curiosity-mars-rover-proving-life-on-mars-no-joke/?trackback=tsmclip

RARE RECORD GOES ON SALE

A rare Northern Soul Record a promo copy of u.s singer Darrell Banks-OPEN THE DOOR TO YOUR HEART .This was found inan attic and could fetch 25,000 pounds due to being not destroyed

SANTA MUERTA

The worlds biggest fastest religion  is the cult of Santa muerte this has a non-judgmental attitude  to evil ie wickedness and is denounced by the Catholic church  as infernal.10 million followers in various countries mostly Spanish speaking.Here is a wiki leak for more info -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Muerte

Antarctic photo science archive unlocked

Aerial photos from the 1940s and 1950s are being used to probe the climate history of the Antarctic Peninsula. UK scientists are comparing the images with newly acquired data sets to assess the changes that have occurred in some of the region's 400-plus glaciers. The old and modern information has to be very carefully aligned if it is to show up any differences reliably. And that is a big challenge when snow and ice obscure ground features that might otherwise act as visual anchors. But the researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Newcastle University and University of Gloucestershire believe they are cracking the problem. "We want to use these pictures to work out volume and mass-balance changes in the glaciers through time," explained Dr Lucy Clarke from the University of Gloucestershire. "There are tens of thousands of these historical images, held by the British Antarctic Survey and the US Geological Survey. "So, they've long been around, but it's only now that we've had the capability to extract the 3D data from them." Dr Clarke has been presenting the work at this week's American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco.read more-http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30471542

Gem quinn interviewed by mark antony raines ghostman

Gem Quinn wrote:
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What inspired you?Good production and sounds inspire me, interesting people and passionate friends who believe in working towards something you love rather than money.
What are you Aims? are to get better and better at my craft..
What plans do you have for the future? for the future are limited, as the future doesn't exist.. The immediate future, maybe, and upcoming gigs, but no big plans.
Thanks.

CRASS AN ARTICLE

Re-printed in it’s entirety from Best Before). When, in 1976, punk first spewed itself across the nation’s headlines with the message ‘do it yourself’, we, who in various ways and for many years had been doing just that, naively believed that Messrs. Rotten, Strummer etc. etc. meant it. At last we weren’t alone. The idea of becoming a band had never seriously occurred to us, it simply happened. Basically anyone was free to join in and rehearsals were rowdy affairs that invariably degraded into little more than drunken parties. Steve and Penny had been writing and playing together since early ’77, but it wasn’t until Summer of that year that we had begged, borrowed and stolen enough equipment to actually call ourselver a band….CRASS. Having finally managed to rehearse five songs, we set out on the road to fame and fortune armed with our instruments and huge amounts of booze to help us see it through. We did gigs and benefits, chaotic demonstrations of inadequacy and independence. We got turned off here, turned down there and banned from the now legendary Roxy Club. ‘They said they only wanted well behaved boys, do they think guitars and microphones are just fucking toys?’ By now we had realised that our fellow punks, The Pistols, The Clash and all the other muso-puppets weren’t doing it at all. They may like to think that they ripped off the majors, but it was Joe Public who’d been ripped. They helped no one but themselves, started another facile fashion, brought a new lease of life to London’s trendy Kings Road and claimed they’d started a revolution. Same old story. We were on our own again. Through the alchoholic haze we determined to make it our mission to create a real alternative to musie biz exploitation, we wanted to offer something that gave rather than took and, above all, we wanted to make it survive. Too many promises have been made from stages only to be forgotten on the streets. Throughout the long, lonely winter of 77/78 we played regular gigs at The White Lion, Putney with the UK Subs. The audience consisted mostly of us when the Subs played and the Subs when we played. Sometimes it was disheartening, but usually it was fun. Charley Harper’s indefatigable enthusiasm was always an inspiration when times got bleak, his absolute belief in punk as a peoples’ music had more to do with revolution than McClaren and his cronies could ever have dreamt of. Through sheer tenacity we were exposing the punk charlatans for what they really were, a music-biz hype. Our gigs remained wild and disorderly, we were still too scared to play without a belly full of booze and invariably we were in such a state that we’d realise half way through a song that each of us was playing a different one. For all the chaos it was immense fun, no one bitched about leather boots or moaned about milk in tea, no one wanted to know how anarchy and peace could be reconciled, no one bored our arses off with protracted monologues on Bakunin, who at that time we probably would have thought was a brand of vodka. Ideas were open, we were creating our own lives together. These were the glorious years before the free alternatives that we were creating became just another set of bigoted rules, before what we were defining as real punk became yet another squalid ghetto. We even played a Rock Against Racism gig, the only gig that we’d ever been paid for. When we told the man to keep the money for the cause, he informed us that ‘this was the cause’. We never played for RAR again.-READ MORE LINK-http://blog.southern.com/about-crass-records/-

Lauren Barley	2:31 PM (22 hours ago)
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Thank you so much for getting in touch. Great that you are interested in Crass. There's so much of a story to tell...this would be a good place to start: http://blog.southern.com/about-crass-records/

Thanks for the cartoon! Let me know how you get on with your explorations.

On 10 December 2014 at 16:20, mark antony raines <maraines88@gmail.com> wrote:

i would like to know more about crass as heard a brief history through a talk given at weird weekend 2014 by wally dean ,am just a humble blogger  here is a link-http://ghostmanraines.blogspot.co.uk/ and a free cartoon for you-thank you from me mark aka ghostman

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