I just wanted to pop in and say happy holidays and all that stuff to everyone. Hope you all are having a wonderful December. Well it's officially Christmas here [1am on December 25th [I just got home from celebrating with my foster-mother's side of the family]] Subject: It was the night before the night beore the night before..okay, it's not quite Christmas Eve I'm a little short on time, but this year's festive erm...

Dr. Riegel is not only a board-certified OB/GYN, he also has an additional year of training during which he specialized in pediatric and adolescent gynecology. For that reason, Dr. Riegel sees patients for gynecologic problems form birth through adolescence, reproductive years and menopause into old age. Dr. Riegel has training in Female Sexual Disorders and Menopause from the Berman Center and training in Age Management Medicine at the Cenegenics Medical Institute.

No, and geologically there is no reason to expect one to appear. There is evidence, however, of multiple ash falls from ancient volcanoes preserved in rocks of Cambrian, Ordovician, and Devonian age in outcrops in eastern West Virginia and in the subsurface in the western part of the State, and in a flint clay in the Hernshaw coal bed of Middle Pennsylvanian age (Kanawha Formation) in southern West Virginia.

The turn off to the Mud Volcanoes is 38 km (check on GPS and include GPS map) short of Hingol River and is marked by a small blue sign (about 1 foot wide) saying “Sapt Post”. The color on the sign board will vary, but the road will take you straight to the coast guard camp at Sapt. Turn off the road at this sign towards the sea and follow the tracks. Here, a saying goes, “all tracks lead to Chandra Gupt.

Volcanoes are a natural way that the Earth and other planets have of cooling off. Planets are warm in their mantles. Heat inside planets escapes towards their surfaces. For reasons that are not well understood, heat sometimes melts rocks, which then rise buoyantly toward the planet's surface. When the hot rocks - called magma - and included gases break through the crust, an eruption occurs. The buildup of ash and lava flows around the eruption hole (or vent) makes a volcano.

Volcanoes erupt because of density and pressure. The lower density of the magma relative to the surrounding rocks causes it to rise (like air bubbles in syrup). It will rise to the surface or to a depth that is determined by the density of the magma and the weight of the rocks above it. As the magma rises, bubbles start to form from the gas dissolved in the magma. The gas bubbles exert tremendous pressure.

The absolute number of volcanoes that exists depends on your definition: active only, active, dormant plus extinct volcanoes? And even if we decide on a definition, nobody has really counted all of the volcanoes, especially the tens on thousands on the sea floor. The best guess is 1511 volcanoes have erupted in the last 10,000 years and should be considered active.

Alaska contains over 100 volcanoes and volcanic fields which have been active within the last one and a half million years. There are more then 70 potentially active volcanoes in Alaska. In the 1980's one morning of April 1st Sitka, Alaskans woke up to black smoke billowing out of the dormant volcano, Mt. Edgecombe; people were in a panic. The biggest joke had just been played on a whole town.

Call the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington, at (360) 696-7693; the URL is http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov.

Most of the Earth's volcanoes are located around the Pacific Ocean because that is where most of the Earth's subduction zones. A subduction zone is a place where one plate of oceanic lithosphere (= the crust + uppermost mantle) is shoved under another plate. The down going plate eventually starts to melt, and the material rises up to erupt through the overlying plate. If the overlying plate is a continent, you get a chain of volcanoes such as the Andes or Cascades.

Shield volcanoes--the largest of all volcanoes on Earth (not counting flood basalt flows). The Hawaiian volcanoes are the most famous examples. These volcanoes are mostly made up of basalt, a type of lava that is very fluid when erupted. For this reason these volcanoes are not steep (you can't pile up a fluid that easily runs downhill).

Kilauea, Hawaii; Mount St.

Unless you have just a short time to live, there is always something to be gained from giving up smoking. If you were to stop smoking right now: After a few weeks the quit smoking therapy has paid for itself, and you will have money to burn (not literally!). After a few months your eyesight and senses of smell and taste are back up to their pre-smoking levels. Thanks David. Whatever we talked about, it seems to be working - I feel great about myself and have lost 7 pounds! Much appreciation.

A collection of quotes hint at the rewards of witnessing a transit of Venus, as these samples suggest: quot;Willingly would I burn to death like Phaeton, were this the price for reaching the Sun and learning its shape, its size, and its distance." quot;Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes." quot;That is the fate which often attends astronomers..

Our Dojo Dinos program is for ages 3 ? to 5, while the Dojo Dragons range in age from 6 to 11. And of course we teach Teens And Adults of all ages.

We deliberately do not include a field for age in the profiles, because we think it's a bad idea to automatically provide a way for people to apply unquestioned prejudice based on age, and unconsciously deprive themselves of some of the most interesting, surprising possibilities in life. There are groups within Dallas Linkup that cite an age range, and events that cite an age range, but we will never include a field for age in the profiles.

A boy can join the boy scout program as early as 10 and a half and remain in the program as a youth until they are 18.

There's an old Hawaiian expression for an angry wife which translates something like this: "Pele is pouring lava on Puna again..." Well, Puna does take the brunt of her wrath, but there are other places that could be affected sometime in the future. Here's a lava flow hazard map: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/hazards/maps.html