The Hunt for Treasure Under the China Sea

Bloomberg

China is speeding up efforts to design and build a manned deep-sea platform to help it hunt for minerals in the South China Sea, one that may also serve a military purpose in the disputed waters.

Such an oceanic “space station” would be located as much as 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) below the surface, according to a recent Science Ministry presentation viewed by Bloomberg. The project was mentioned in China’s current five-year economic plan released in March and ranked number two on a list of the top 100 science and technology priorities.

The Hunt for Treasure Under the China Sea

There is immense treasure under the China Sea

which China plans to exploit by the year 2030

at which time I would possibly be
89 + 14  which adds to  103,

so I doubt that I'd have to rejoin the Navy.

Besides, China might then be ruled by the daughter of China's  President  Xi--

her   name is Xi Mingze*--

who after graduating from Harvard may be grooming  for that currently.

She's at least  equals in education the Clintons' daughter Chelsea ....

who also by then may may join her family

political dynasty 

but perhaps  I'd better stop rambling on so interminably 

and change  the groove of rhyming on eeeee

before I hear many a complaining plea 

or wind up being hanged from a nearby tree. 

HzL

6/8/16 

News about Immense Oil And Gas Reserves Under The …

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coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential gas and oil reserves: 

*Xi Mingze—the only child of Xi Jinping, the President of China, and his wife, the celebrity soprano Peng Liyuan

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Meryl's Donald Act at the Public Gala

Meryl Streep Does a Number on the Donald at the Public Theater’s Gala

By MELENA RYZIKJUNE 7, 2016

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Meryl Streep, impersonating Donald Trump, at the 2016 Public Theater Gala at Delacorte Theater.CreditPaul Zimmerman/WireImage

Meryl' s Donald Act at the Public Gala 

It's time to Brush up on Trump dear

so I'll start doing it now

and wear my hair in reddish blond clumps clear

even if I then look like a cow.

With a big belly I'll swagger

as I imitate this man so felonious

and if I only had a dagger 

in Hamlet I'd kill him and not Polonius.

Meanwhile with a big tie and open jacket

 i 'll satirize the political racket

and  ask you to  vote for Hillary ...or even Me?...

but please, please please.... not HE!

HzL

6/7/16

Meryl Streep Wears Fat Suit & Fake Tan for Donald Trump Impersonation - Watch Now! · 4h

The pair sang a rendition of “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” from Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate. “You’ll let me know why it is all the women say no,” Meryl

A Jilted Bride

A Jilted Bride

A jilted bride

with pride

risked being sent to the slammer

if she again uses her hammer

to mar

HIS car.

 "I have no regrets, said she

triumphantly,

after being caught on CCTV.

The moral of this tale is not extensive:

Second thoughts can also be expensive. 

HzL

6/7/16

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Jilted bride-to-be smashed up ex-fiancé's car after he refused to pay for her unworn wedding dress

Sally Hallett smashed the car with a hammer, the court heard CREDIT: SWNS

•  Sophie Jamieson 

6 JUNE 2016 • 9:44PM

Ajilted bride-to-be smashed her ex-fiance’s car with a hammer after he refused to pay for the wedding dress she never had the chance to wear.

Sally Hallett, 32, had been in an on-off relationship with Stuart Sams for around a year but they split up before they were due to get married.

Hallett, of Barnstaple, Devon, claimed the pair had agreed to go 50/50 on wedding costs and demanded that Sams pay £150 towards the deposit on her wedding dress.

CREDIT: SWNS

When he refused to pay, she was caught on CCTV in the car park of his workplace pulling a hammer out of her handbag and smashing up his car.

She has now been given a six month restraining order preventing her from contacting him after pleading guilty to criminal damage, but she claimed she had "no regrets". 

Pictures show the damage caused to the vehicle after she repeatedly smashed the windscreen and bonnet before scratching the bodywork all the way around.

Heavy rains (expected) Monday

 Heavy rains (expected) Monday

Heavy rains are expected on Monday

which therefore won't be a Sun day

in any possible  case.

But if there's  much more than a  trace

of a tropical cyclone,

it could get a name of its own

either at first  or eventually.

It will begin with a C

for the simple reason 

that's it's already the third storm of the young season,

and if strong enough, that name is projected to  be "Colin",

But if somewhat weaker, possibly just  "Semi-Colin"?

Well , we'll   see

but,either way, here's likely to be plenty of  misery

since Florida drivers are NOT noted for judgement or  courtesy.

HzL

6/5/16

Heavy rains expected Monday as forecasters expect tropical cyclone

 8:49 p.m. Saturday, June 4, 2016 | Filed in: Weather

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Palm Beach County looks to be in for a lot of rain at the beginning of the week as a cluster of thunderstorms moves across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida.

Forecasters are calling for heavy rains and a chance of flooding on Monday and Tuesday in South Florida, saying that the low-pressure area is likely to form into a tropical cyclone by Monday.

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Heavy rains flooded the Jupiter West Plaza parking lot in Jupiter causing shoppers to brave high waters on Friday, March 25, 2016. (Daniel Owen / The Palm Beach Post)

It’s not clear how much the system will strengthen. But even if it doesn’t become a tropical depression or a tropical storm, South Florida looks to be in for a lot of rain.

“The impacts are the same,” National Weather Service meteorologist Chuck Caracozza said. “Regardless of the development, basically what we’re looking at here locally is some heavy rain and flooding.”

Saturday evening, the National Hurricane Center gave the system an 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone Monday.

It was moving Saturday through the northwestern Caribbean near Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. The Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters could help it to gain tropical cyclone status.

Forecasters says there is a chance of rain Sunday, but the heavy downpours will most likely start early Monday and grow even heavier on Tuesday.

Heavy gusts and isolated tornadoes are also a possibility that forecasters are watching for.

If the system does form into a tropical cyclone, it will be named Colin. It would be the earliest in the season that a C-named storm formed since 1851, thanks to the formation of Hurricane Alex in January and Tropical Storm Bonnie in May.

Computer glitch?

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From: hzl

To: Ed

Computer glitch ?

I don't mind a computer glitch--

since  I then can satisfy my retrograde itch

for paper and books

safe from online crooks

and much advertizing distraction.

Simplicity still has its attraction.

HzL
6/5/16

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From: ed
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 13:28:52 +0000

Computer Crash

When your computer crashes

Everything feels like ashes.

Mourning has its passion

Rage and defeat are the reaction.

Testing ideas to resurrect

Highlights poor computer intellect.

Geeks with equipment promise

A week of waiting, for diagnosis

And fixing, leaving you up in the air

Incommunicado, without their repair.

Some have escapes—computer, backup drive

Or network where programs are alive.

So the crash is not a total smash,

Just a nuisance, requiring some cash.

.

A Summer of Doom and Gloom?

A Summer of Doom and Gloom?

Everywhere we look   we seem to see 

the possible threat  of World War War III.

but nobody seems to be worried sufficiently.

All are in their own mental cage

some perhaps more concerned about the minimum wage

than that we may be coming to the End Of Our Age.

As Mr. Putin threatens with a fearsome smile

his nuclear weapons are now  not only tactical 

but becoming increasingly practical.

 While European leaders seem disorganized and lost

and don't want to assume the cost

of finding  a way to unite

and somehow resist and fight. 

Nor is there much mirth

at the other end of the earth

where that clever and deft Mr. Xi

pushes at least as menacingly. 

And in the Middle,  last, but from from least, is The  East

where Religion and War make for a perpetual feast.

But enough of such pessimistic pleading!

Find a place that's cool --

perhaps near a pool --

and even if Mankind may not long survive

we  still have time to  dive

 into some absorbing Summer Reading.

HzL

6/1/16

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News about Tested By Russia, NATO

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10 Books to Read This Summer - WSJ

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May 15, 2015 · A look at big fiction titles to be released this summer ... “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee; July 14 . HarperCollins stunned the literary world in .

5 Books to Read This Summer | Bill Gates

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5 Books to Read This Summer. By Bill Gates | May 17, 2016 Here in Seattle, summeris a gift you earn by gutting out nine months of rain and gloom. The skies are clear ..