Exclusive – Justin Bieber – I Wore $20K On My NECK at Mayweather Fight – TMZ

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

Looking like he wandered off the set of “Goodfellas,” Justin Bieber rocked a golden diamond-encrusted fish around his neck at the
Mayweather fight on Saturday — and TMZ has learned, the thing cost $20,000!!!

Sources tell us, the 14k gold “koi” fish — designed by celeb
jeweler Ben Baller — boasts 14 carats of VVS diamonds all over
(supposedly fancier than normal non-VVS diamonds). Even the chain is
covered in 12 carats of diamonds.

it’s unclear if the necklace was a gift or if Bieber paid for it himself.

FYI — Koi fish represent good luck. Not like Mayweather needed it.

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A green future: NASA’s $10 million project explores algae of as fuel source

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

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SANTA CRUZ – Near the end of a line of windswept buildings, on Santa Cruz’s Westside, sits a lab that may hold the key to everything from galactic space travel to peace in the Middle East.

For two years, a team of NASA researchers have been using a borrowed state Department of Fish and Game lab to test a potential new energy source by using treated wastewater to grow algae, which can produce a fuel that has already been tested on jets and may one day be used for spaceships.

Called the OMEGA Project, the $10 million study is being headed by Santa Cruz resident Jonathan Trent, a NASA scientist who has assembled a team of 20 researchers to explore the one of the most talked-about potential sources of biofuels.

Trent said

his research shows promise, and because it uses treated human wastewater to feed the algae and grow fuel – a process which also leaves the water even cleaner – and could provide a sustainable solution to the problem of scarce resources as humans push deeper into space.

“That’s a fundamental problem that NASA’s been working on for decades. And that fundamental concept is at the heart of the OMEGA Project,” Trent said.

But the research also could have earthbound benefits as well. What Trent is trying to develop is a system of large-scale offshore algae cultivation. He envisions it becoming a primary alternative to fossil fuels, saying the technology has already drawn international interest.

“We’ve got to move quickly because we don’t have much time to figure out how this is going to work,” Trent said, citing problems with the country’s reliance of foreign energy sources.

Keeping a low profile

If you haven’t heard much about the project, there’s a reason for that. The researchers have kept a low profile since NASA head Charles Bolden questioned the project’s viability – questions Bolden admitted he raised after discussions with Marathon Oil Corp., a company with which

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Founders May Fair was this weekend at New Pond Farm

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

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Paula Green wins Carlisle's garden of the month honor

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

There are two things people will immediately notice upon entering Paula Green’s garden at the back of 415 W. North St.

One is her impressive collection of glass bottles, displayed on shelvings that run around two sides of her screened-in back porch. The other is her koi pond, which is home to more than a dozen fish, two of which are 10 years old and so big she had to dig a bigger pond.

“I’ve enlarged the pond several times. I’ve had to — the fish keep getting bigger,” Green said.

The rest of her small backyard garden is composed most of perennials, with a few annuals mixed in “for color,” she said.

She started gardening about 10 years ago when her neighbor, who died last year and “was big into the garden club,” shared a lot of things with her.

“She was my inspiration,” Green said.

Among other delights in her garden is a fountain, tucked into a corner in the shade.

“I wanted to create a little calm and peaceful environment in the middle of town,” she said. “It’s my escape. It’s just a fun place for friends, family to hang out and spend time.”

New to her garden this year is something she calls a “gutter garden” — lettuce planted in old drain spouting, parallel to each other and hung horizontally between two posts.

She also grows tomatoes, calling her vegetable growing a “salad garden.”

“It’s more of a challenge because of all the shade, but I just love the big tree,” she said of the tree that dominates her backyard.

Her garden will be on display from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. To access it, visitors should use Bosler Avenue, which connects Franklin Street to Cherry Street.

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The end of fish, in one chart

Posted on May 20, 2012 by admin

Want to see how severely we humans are scouring the oceans for fish? Check out this striking map from the World Wildlife Fund’s 2012 “Living Planet Report.” The red areas are the most intensively fished (and, in many cases, overfished) parts of the ocean — and they’ve expanded dramatically since 1950:


To measure how intensively these areas are fished, Swartz et al., (2010) used the fish landed in each country to calculate the primary production rate (PPR) of each region of the ocean. PPR is a value that describes the total amount of food a fish needs to grow within a certain region.
(WWF)

Between 1950 and 2006, the WWF report notes, the world’s annual fishing haul more than quadrupled, from 19 million tons to 87 million tons. New technology — from deep-sea trawling to long-lining — has helped the fishing industry harvest areas that were once inaccessible. But the growth of intensive fishing also means that larger and larger swaths of the ocean are in danger of being depleted.

Daniel Pauly, a professor of fisheries at the University of British Columbia, has dubbed this situation “The End of Fish.” He points out that in the past 50 years, the populations of many large commercial fish such as bluefin tuna and cod have utterly collapsed, in some cases shrinking more than 90 percent (see the chart to the right).



(WWF, Living Planet Report 2012)
Indeed, there’s some evidence that we’ve already hit “peak fish.” World fish production seems to have reached its zenith back in the 1980s, when the global catch was higher than it is today. And, according to one recent study in the journal Science, commercial fish stocks are on pace for total “collapse” by 2048 — meaning that they’ll produce less than 10 percent of their peak catch. On the other hand, many of those fish-depleted areas will be overrun by jellyfish, which is good news for anyone who enjoys a good blob

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