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Re: Anthro-trolls vs Hole-militants
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- Hi Tarjei,
Thanks for the "UNCLE TAZ CYBERTROLL GAZETTE". :)
Most informative.
--- In firstname.lastname@example.com, "elfuncle"
<straume@...> wrote:
> Official Press Release Part 2
> Di & Pete have a suspect
> This is hot. There's a Yahoo ID in the hole named "Oswald Wilkes" (Oz).
> He is the person who checked the source codes of Klaus' & Theo's posted
> Yahoo messages and identified the IP address in Oslo that some of Theo's
> hole posts had in common with Klaus'.
> Now Di & Pete suspect this Oz handle to be Uncle Taz or Yours Truly
> (Tarjei) or both, as yet another troll of mine, or at least a partner in
> crime or accomplice of some sort.
> Imagine that, Uncle Taz & Uncle Oz, both members of the Lodge of
> Planetary Aunts & Uncles!
> And this is the very person who suggested they should forward one of
> Theo's emails to Kripos, the criminal police division in Oslo, because
> Theo had explained that he and Klaus had been using one of their
> computers, where I, Tarjei, had also worked as their webmaster. This
> was, of course, a cover story for the IP addresses of those three Yahoo
> IDs to be identical at least some of the time, although the part about
> me webmastering for Kripos is partially true in spite of Di refusing to
> believe it.
> As it turns out, the IP address of this Oz character -- the police
> loving, gun toting cyberdetective -- is 100 % anonymous and apparently
> uses some sort of IP-hiding software like maybe Hide IP 2.1
> <http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/Hide-IP.shtml>
> ($29.95). I've been thinking of getting something like that myself
> lately, but I don't take my trolling that seriously, although I know I
> should, living in the land of trolls with a patriotic duty to troll
> professionally like a real artist.
> So with this total anonymity, Oz is on the defensive against Di's and
> Pete's suspicions of him being an Uncle Taz anthro-troll (instead of an
> Uncle Oz anti-troll), although he swears on a stack of Bibles that he
> dislikes Anthroposophy, Trolling, and Uncle Taz (in that order), but Di
> & Pete don't buy it, and now Oz is waiting for Dan to show up and vouch
> for him, but it looks as if Di & Pete know Dan better than Oz does, or
> so they say. And not surprisingly, Pete acts as if he owns the group, or
> at least like he's one of the co-owners.
> As an explanation for Oz' anonymity, he says he's been threatened,
> burglarized, had his pets killed, run off the road, and chased out of
> L.A. by scientologists and OTO-people. It is apparent that he thinks
> anthroposophists may do the same kind of things to him, which is
> obviously a very offensive and vicious rumor about the anthroposophical
> movement generated by the worst of the hole dwellers.
> I know from my research on scientology twelve years ago that pet killing
> and stuff like that has been widespread scientology practice in the US
> and used to intimidate judges and juries in their very extensive
> litigation activities, but what we have here is a combination of a bad
> cult indeed and a very violent national culture, a nation with an
> especially violent history, founded on militarism and expansionism and
> at present being threatened by destruction because of excessive fears
> and military industrialism.
> Not my cup of tea, not my culture. Sorry. I have no weapons, I use my
> full name, address, and phone numbers, and when I troll, it's not
> because I'm afraid of anybody, but because I grew up in the theater, and
> because I live in Norway, which is the primordial land of trolls.
> Scientology
> Let this be said in earnest: I'm inclined to believe every word Oz is
> saying about severe, life-threatening Scientology harassment. Prior to
> getting involved with anthro-groups on the internet, I was commissioned
> by Gateavisa to write an article about Scientology in connection with
> the internet war in 1995 (concerning the copyright on Ron Hubbard's
> secret manuscripts, which was a very crazy circus). And I came across
> very, very many stories echoed by Oz's mention of a few things here. So
> I have a lot of documents still in the entheta section of my old
> website:
> http://uncletaz.com/backyard/entheta/
> <http://uncletaz.com/backyard/entheta/> Here's the article I wrote for
> Gateavisa (in Norwegian):
> http://uncletaz.com/backyard/entheta/
> <http://uncletaz.com/backyard/entheta/>
> http://www.pluto.no/doogie/Ga/blekka/ga158/thetan.html
> <http://www.pluto.no/doogie/Ga/blekka/ga158/thetan.html> In this
> context, I'm also familiar with the places he's trodden. He has recently
> contributed heavily to Andreas Heldal-Lund's forum on his website
> "Operation Clambake -- Undressing the Church of Scientology Since 1996
> <http://xenu.net/> ". That was the very time when I had a lot of contact
> with Andreas, who lives in Stavanger, talked to him on the phone a few
> times and he claims we had met face to face once, during the winter
> 1995-1996, when I was doing my research on this. As a matter of fact,
> when Xenon Panousis in Stockholm published the NOTs (New Era Dianetics
> OT levels) and The Religious Technology Center (RTC) went berserk,
> Andreas was the first person in the world to publish them on his own
> website and keep them online for a very long time until he was
> absolutely forced to take them down, but by that time, they had been
> copied all over the planet. I sported those Hubbard docs on various
> websites of my own for a while, and each time I was threatened by the
> RTC and when I didn't remove them, they contacted the webhosts and got
> my accounts closed down.
> I also had extensive contact with Steve Fishman
> <http://www.xs4all.nl/~fishman/> in Florida, an ex-Scientologist of
> eleven years, and learned a lot from him too. And incidentally, Steve
> gave me the OT 1 through 8, another set of illegal secret documents,
> which I also experimented with publishing, an endeavor I eventually gave
> up when I was tired and through with the utterly soul-damaging material.
> Paulette Cooper
> I participated in newsgroups such as alt.religion.scientology (a.r.s.),
> and in this particular context I I had an interesting email exchange
> with Paulette Cooper <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulette_Cooper> ,
> the author of "The Scandal of Scientology" (1971). Come to think of it,
> it's possible I wrote to her via her home page
> <http://www.paulettecooper.com/> . The Church of Scientology is believed
> to have spent almost $500,000 trying to destroy Cooper because of this
> book, and she was subjected to heavy lawsuits as well as the most severe
> harassment imaginable, including a Scientology campaign called
> "Operation Freakout," to get her locked up in a mental institution or
> jail. The "church" sent itself forged bomb threats from Cooper, using
> her typewriter and paper with her fingerprints on it; further plans
> included bomb threats to be sent to Henry Kissinger. (The Church's
> campaign was discovered when the FBI raided Scientology offices in 1977
> and recovered documents relating to the operation.)
> Now about our correspondence: With the above in mind, this is
> extraordinarily interesting -- and my oh my, I actually found her email
> from Sun, 27 Dec 1998!!
> *************** Sun Dec 27 23:54:13 1998 From: Paulettec...... Date:************************************************************************\
> Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:49:30 EST To: tastraum@... Subject: hello
> back
> I don't know if I would recommend posting to a.r.s. Sometimes the anti
> Scientologists can be as nasty as the Scientologists. Yes it was 15
> horrible years. In 1985 I did manage to pick up the pieces of my life
> that they almost completely destroyed and stopped fighting them (you
> can't win, and anyway, I felt I had done more than my share) and began
> writing about things I enjoyed writing about.
> I have written 11 books now, including 2 on dogs and cats, my favorite
> topic, ("277 Secrets Your Dog Wants You To Know," and "277 Secrets Your
> Cat Wants You To Know.") People are surprised that I would write such
> light things but I always tell them, "hey, dogs don't sue and cats don't
> harass." Ten years ago I married a wonderful man I had met before I
> started fighting Scientology, and all in all, I am enjoying the peaceful
> (no harassment) life -- and the internet. Right now I am doing a travel
> book and wandering around to luxury resorts. As the old cliche goes,
> living well is the best revenge! Regards, Paulette Cooper
> ***************
> The most interesting sentence in this 9 year old email from Cooper, for
> our immediate purposes, is: "Sometimes the anti Scientologists can be as
> nasty as the Scientologists." She's talking about the cult-fighters, the
> anti-cultists, people like the hole dwellers.
> First tour of hole duty
> Now, I don't consider Dan Dugan a nasty person by any standard; he has
> always behaved like a gentleman. But his agenda is very insidious what
> Waldorf schools and their origin, Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy, is
> concerned. I became wise to this in 1999, when I did my first tour of
> duty in the hole trenches. This was several years before Peter S popped
> up, so Dan was basically struggling solo with his Nazi war dance against
> Steiner and anthroposophy, and his arguments were very simple and naive,
> which made them immediately transparent. He was primarily focusing on
> the brainwashing destructive cult angle, and some of his guests seemed
> handpicked for this end; I don't know if he had picked them or if they
> just happened to be there, such as Dr. Fine MD, if anyone remembers him.
> But in the middle of all this, there was one thing I found a somewhat
> ironic, like a twist of fate, or karmic pattern: It was the fact that
> only a few years prior to my getting involved with this critical forum
> in the hole, where I ended up as a resolt of outrage at the articles and
> allegations I saw on their website, I had done specific research on the
> destructive cult of Scientoloty for one article, and on Nazi occultism
> for another article. They both appeared in the same issue of Gateavisa,
> and I had written them back to back: First Nazism, then Scientology.
> So in addition to having studied Steiner's works off and on since the
> mid-sixties including all his major written books and a considerable
> body of his lectures, I was exceptionally well equipped to express my
> views and opinions. And I did this btw until everything I had to say to
> those people on the subject of Steiner and anthroposophy was said. After
> that, with the exception of a few additional notes I threw in during my
> second tour of duty in 2002, there was nothing more to say. The only
> things left for me to contribute are poetry, jokes, role-playing,
> trolling, fairy tales etc. So that's why I created that mythology about
> the abyss and the asuric rats and that stuff, which is a picture,
> picture language for poets. Edgar Alan Poe, Bram Stoker, Stephen King.
> The hole's abuse of cult victims
> What Dan Dugan seems to be doing is to seek out victims of cult abuse
> and lure them over to the hole. So the first thing these abused people
> learn about anthroposophy is all those nasty articles and posts, all
> those lies. It's an entirely different thing when a self-dependent
> thinking, objective outsider first gets "their side of the story" (which
> is an extremely generous way to describe it) and then checks out
> anthroposophical literature and forums. By deliberately confusing Ron
> Hubbard with Rudolf Steiner, for instance -- and such confusions are
> indeed deliberate and calculated -- this may have a very powerful effect
> upon a long-time victim of scientological abuse and/or harassment,
> making objective assessment virtually impossible.
> I remember less about OTO at the moment, except that they practiced
> sexual magic, that Aleister Crowley once played a major part in it, and
> that Hubbard adopted a lot of Crowley's method. (Another of Hubbard's
> mentors was Lavrenty Beria <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavrenty_Beria>
> , chief of Stalin's secret police.) And it's interesting to note that
> endeavors have also been made to falsely link Rudolf Steiner to OTO. The
> notion that Steiner was once a member of OTO, that he was made an
> honorary unaffiliated member or something like that to help boost OTOs
> reputation and standing, is a proven falsehood. But even wilder rumours
> have circulated, such as Steiner being buried "in full OTO regalia". (He
> was cremated with no such nonsense.)
> The list of falshoods that have been circulating with regard to the
> biography of the founder of anthroposophy is staggering. And when we
> take into account that the Scientologists have exchanged Hubbard's true
> biography for another one which is pure fiction, it's easy to see how
> advantageous it is for hole dwellers to conflate these to persons so
> that people like Peter Staudenmaier can invent a biography of Steiner
> that pays absolutely no heed to recorded accounts, except those he picks
> out in order to twist them aroundbecause he finds them useful at the
> moment, referring to himself in royal plural, like instead of saying
> "I", he sayd "historians like myself". No other "historian" with respect
> for his craft would sign his or her name to any of the hogwash about
> anthroposophy or Rudolf Steiner produced by PS.
> As a matter of fact, when I was in contact with Steve Fishman in 1996
> and I mentioned that Rudolf Steiner had always interested me and added
> that there was no comparison to Hubbard whatsoever, he became curious,
> so I wrote an article about it for the benefit of himself and other
> ex-scientologists, entitled Scientology vs. Anthroposophy (Lafayette Ron
> Hubbard vs. Rudolf Steiner):
> http://uncletaz.com/hubbstein.html
> <http://uncletaz.com/hubbstein.html> From the beginning, there was
> something that bugged me about this article of mine, something wasn't
> right, and after a little while I found out what it was, but I never got
> around to correcting it, because then I would have to re-think and
> re-write an entire section, at least. I believe it was that part about
> Hubbard's statement, "Organized religion tries to control, so therefore
> must be lying." so this bit should be considered flawed, but the rest is
> OK. Some of it was quoted in the hole in the late nineties before my
> first tour of duty there, but I discovered those archives much later, so
> I never commented on it. It suffices to say that they just didn't get
> it, so they went like "Huh? What's this?" and then giggling like little
> school girls. (It was probably Di or Sharon.) But others have written to
> me and said it made a lot of things very clear for them, things they
> needed to understand about the essential difference between Hubbard and
> Steiner.
> Now there's one more issue related to the above: There has also been a
> deliberate attempt, primarily by Dan Dugan, to extinguish the
> differences between Rudolf Steiner and Adolf Hitler. Peter S' approach
> has been more subtle, but Dan used every opportunity to compare Hitler
> and Steiner in '99 to make them as similar as he could muster. I posted
> a quote by Hitler once in a thread about him, and Dan immediately
> suggested that this sounded exactly like Steiner, although it was
> radically different. My comment was that the names Rudolf Steiner and
> Adolf Hitler have an alliteral kinship. Besides, they shared German as
> their first language, just like Steiner's friend Albert Schweitzer.
> The Hole Wizard of Oz
> What is interesting is that the person behind this "Oswald Wilkes"
> handle (Oz), profiles himself as an extreme militarist, and obviously a
> very fearful and paranoid one (and they are the most dangerous), which
> is clear from his public profile at
> http://profiles.yahoo.com/oswald_wilkes
> <http://profiles.yahoo.com/oswald_wilkes> . (Click on his 'Hear my
> voice' -- highly recommended.) His favorite "cool links" feature armed
> security, mercenary soldiers, automatic weapons, combat fatigue, things
> like that. And there's a photo of himself dressed up as in full
> trepidation-inspiring terrorist gear with ski mask and automatic weapon.
> Blackwater, Halliburton, and Pentagon rolled into one, but even all of
> that plus every police force in the world wouldn't give folks like
> himself any sense of security; they'd still toss in their sleep and run
> out the next day to buy more ammo and qualudes. He lives in the land of
> ten thousand nuclear weapons and is so afraid of totally harmless
> Norwegian trolls that he has to arm himself to the teeth.
> And here's the rub about this guy: Of course I couldn't find his IP
> address on source; he's most likely using hide-your-IP anonymizing
> software -- an example is Hide IP 2.1
> <http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/Hide-IP.shtml>
> which you can buy for $25.95 -- which makes it very hypocritical of him
> to research and blow the whistle on my IP address, unless he's afraid
> that my trolls will leave cyberspace for the physical world and cross
> the ocean, track him down in North America, sneak through his excessive
> swat teams and alarm systems, and try to poison his coffee (although
> he's probably hired someone to taste it for him before he drinks it).
> And to top it all off, he insinuated that I would be intimidated by him
> if he forwarded Theodor's emails to Kripos, the Norwegian criminal
> police, where Theo said that he, Klaus, and myself had been using their
> computers and IP addresses. Theo responded that I'm actually been
> Kripos' webmaster, which is a half truth, because I've had a website for
> almost ten years that claims to be Kripos, and that they have not
> managed to shut down because of free speech.
> Diana doesn't believe this last part; she thinks it's part of my
> imagination. But one of the major news articles about this story from
> 2002 is still left online:
> http://tinyurl.com/l7ryr
> <http://tinyurl.com/l7ryr> (This is in Norwegian, but the photos of
> myself, former Kripos chief Huuse, the mention of FBI etc. should make
> it all clear. The headline reads: "HARASSING THE POLICE: FBI
> investigates Norwegian website" This claim about involvement by the FBI
> in the US was nothing but a stupid bluff by chief Huuse, verified by my
> correspondence with the bureau.)
> Oz writes: "I do not like Anthroposophy. I do not like trolling. I do
> not like Uncle Taz." He also refers to me as one of "the disordered
> fanatics who lack any moral compass" and who make it necessary for him
> to be protected against though anonymity, IP-hiding, alarms, weapons,
> ski mask, and direct contact with local police and FBI.
> When Oz says he does not like anthroposophy, it's not that he prefers
> Shakespeare to Steiner. There are too many trolls in Shakespeare, and
> even more so in Ibsen, who lived in the very land of trolls, Norway.
> Trolls are actual beings that were clairvoyantly perceived though
> atavistic clairvoyance way into the 19th century, especially in
> Telemark, where my paternal family came from. Oz should still be safe in
> Telemark, because although Klaus Tue is a cybertroll, he is also sheriff
> of Rautefjell, he has a strong dislike for Uncle Taz, whom he actively
> opposes, and he has lots of guns and a militia. Oz should feel at home
> there.
> When Oz says he does not like trolling, he doesn't like trolls (because
> trolling is all that trolls do) and this is because he does not like
> Norwegian folklore, which is too reminiscent of anthroposophy for his
> taste, with the implications of atavistic claircoyance:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll> This means that Oz does not like
> Norwegian culture, art, literature, fairy tales, poetry, and music
> (Edvard Grieg <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Grieg> ).
> When Uncle Oz says he doesn't like Uncle Taz <http://uncletaz.com/> , he
> probably means that he doesn't like me. Uncle Taz is just my cyberguru,
> cult leader, and the founder of Tazism
> <http://uncletaz.com/anarchosophy.html> , but that may be too
> complicated. I'm not too hurt about Oz not liking me; Blackwater and the
> Pentagon don't like me either, and I don't like them. But I can't say I
> don't like Oz, just like I can't say I don't like the human beings who
> happen to wear arms, clubs, and uniforms. I have no idea who's holding
> up an automatic behind that ski mask, except that I feel sorry for him.
> He would probably have been afraid of Mahatma Gandhi too, or anyone else
> who is non-violent (which is why the peace movement is so feared by
> authorities), as long as he thinks they look like a cult guru and sees
> Scientology and OTO written all over them. Spirituality and soul-power
> in self-dependent individuals is frightening, isn't it?
> And when Oz calls me a disordered fanatic who lacks any moral compass,
> I'm wondering: I'm a fanatic about what? Anthroposophy? Although I've
> read Steiner off and on for almost forty-five years, I probably read
> much, much less of this stuff these days than most other people around
> here; the hole creatures are obsessed with it 24/7. Secondly, isn't it
> odd for a hole dweller to talk about moral compass? They go on and on
> about racism and Nazism and the holocaust, for instance, but to them,
> these are not moral issues at all, they have nothing to do with morals
> or ethics. They say so, and it's really shocking how ice cold cynical
> they are about such issues. They consider moral sentiments -- feelings
> and emotions -- to be snivelling sentimental irrelevant nonsense to be
> mocked. In February 2004 (I think it was, it's in the AT archives), when
> I said to Peter Staudenmaier that racism was a moral problem, he
> categorically denied this and claimed that racism, which was the only
> subject he was interested in discussing, was merely an interesting
> phenomenon for the purpose of analysis and intellectual ping-pong.
> Peter Staudenmaier's agenda
> And at the present time over in the hole, Peter Staudenmaier is still
> discussing Dachau anthro-Nazis (since 2000; the Constipated Ones always
> regurgitate old shit in the Unplumbable Toilet, also known as the
> Unthinkable Facility). He is primarily focusing on a Mr. Lippert, and
> to catch up on this discussion, one would have to read a tall stack of
> books and then study how PS has twisted things to hils liking, which is
> a habit of his. Detlef has participated in this all these years as far
> as I understand, and in a recent hole message of his, posted by Bruce,
> Detlef explains why he perceives SS.officer Lippert as one who played a
> heroic role under the circumstances:
> "What the prisoners relate about the deep humanity of Franz Lippert,
> after the war, voluntarily, and under oath, moved me to tears when I
> read the article that compiled the evidence (by Uwe Werner in "Die
> Drei") some years ago. In one of the bleakest places on earth, in one of
> the bleakest moments of history, courage and humanity rays out through
> Franz Lippert. This is what the prisoners unanimously recount in glowing
> terms."
> And this is how Peter S mocks Detlef's sentiment (Tuesday May 29):
> "In other words, he volunteered for the Dachau position. He wasn't
> pressured. The significance of this seems to escape many anthroposophist
> commentators, who are, like Detlef, moved to tears of joy at the thought
> of an anthroposophical SS officer overseeing a slave labor plantation on
> which hundreds of prisoners died in awful ways."
> His second comment on the same passage:
> "It's admittedly hard to do so, but I think it makes sense, for purposes
> of this discussion, to set aside Detlef's egregiously misplaced
> emotional response to his SS hero's exploits at Dachau, and instead try
> to focus on the concrete claims that Detlef makes here."
> In other words, forget the content, the HEART of the matter (because PS
> has no heart) and instead focus on the WORDS, because them I can play
> with and twist around and falsify. I don't know what to do with feelings
> except mock them and flush them down our hole where they belong.
> It looks like Bruce has discovered he's only wasting his time and energy
> playing intellectual ping-pong with PS, and that his leaving the hole,
> and PS can't stand it, because he's starving without anthroposophists.
> Oh, he says, why are anthroposophists so difficult to talk to, why won't
> they play with me, why are they so ignorant of their history, why don?ey
> understand the historical importance of anthro-Nazis, why aren't they
> fascinated by the complex relationship between anthroposophists and
> Nazis, I have fifteen books on Nazis here I want to discuss with you,
> please please....
> And this is how he bemoans the loss of playmates:
> "Speaking of hitting close to home, Detlef, Bruce and Frank all seem to
> have crawled back into their shells, after an open invitation to
> practice some actual criticism on topics that notably sparked their
> interest not so long ago."
> Poor baby with all brains and no heart that nobody likes to hang out
> with, he has to sit there all alone and beg passers-by to sit down with
> him. When that doesn't work, he tries a little teasing and bullying:
> "Perhaps the dreaded prospect of substantiating their various claims was
> too overwhelming? Or maybe they were simply engaged in parody all along?
> I eagerly await some new revelation from the sphinx-like spokesmen for
> anthroposophy."
> No response, except Bruce tells him to read his posts (instead of
> playing with stuff he hasn't bothered to read), not realizing that PS
> can't read. He can read words and spit them back out in twisted form
> maybe, but he has no reading comprehension because he's all brain and no
> heart, and papparently no liver or gallbladder or any other organ except
> brain; he could propbably survive with his head severed from the rest of
> his body, just plugged into an elecric socket.
> So Pete tries again:
> "Looks like I hit close to home, eh? I am intrigued to see that you are
> not only touchy about the topic of race but about the topic of Bruce as
> well. How come? Do you often feel personally challenged in public
> discussions like this? Don't worry, nobody is timing your answer to that
> question. But you should feel free to explain at any point, if you see
> fit."
> Interestingly, here Peter is using his brain, his cold intelligence, to
> try to play on Bruce's feelings -- not like a piano, that's music, but
> like a chessboard or a deck of cards, like in poker. He has no
> comprehension of how an emotion is experienced, he just knows it's there
> somewhere in the other person like a tool to be picked up. Notice the
> tone, which is reminiscent of a teenage boy trying to score with a girl.
> It would go like this:
> "Looks like I hit close to your panties, eh? I am intrigued to see that
> you are not only touchy about the topic of a one night stand but about
> the topic of Babydoll as well. How come? Do you often feel personally
> challenged in public places like this? Don't worry, nobody is timing the
> drop of your clothes. But you should feel free to surrender at any
> point, if you see fit."
> Cheers,
> Tarjei
- Frank:
> That event sheathed an occult message, Dottie:Well, Frank, as it turns out it was the new rat pack:
> Get matching pajamas and repair the holes in your
> underwear; you never
> know when you'll be on TV in the emergency room.
Ocean Thirteen's crew that has some fireworks going
off: first time ever for me here in Hollywood, ON
HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD no less!!! Whew. I mean do you
even know what coulda happened with FIRE WORKS on a
small street surrounded by old buildings. What can
these people be thinking?
My co-worker Mr. Wallace took me to the airport when I
told him I had the strangest experience the other
night. He too heard the commotion and he did too go
out into the street, across the street from where I
was peeking my nose out the door, to see what the
hell! was going on. At least there are two people
awake in Hollywood! But he was naked. :)
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Saturday - 3/9/2013, 2:11pm EST
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) -- Two years ago, the yellow buoy was hanging as part of a restaurant sign in the coastal community of Minamisanriku in northern Japan when an earthquake triggered a tsunami and washed it -- and so much more -- out to sea.
About a year later, the buoy was found more than 3,000 miles away on a remote Alaska island, discovered by an avid beachcomber who, through sheer coincidence, was later able to find the owner, who had lost her home and business. Hundreds of similar buoys have been found on beaches along the West Coast, a combination of the everyday trash that has plagued coastal areas for years and debris washed away by the March 11, 2011 disaster.
Distinguishing between the two is difficult. Just 21 items from among the more than 1,500 reports of possible tsunami debris have been firmly traced back to the tsunami, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The confirmed items include several derelict vessels, including a small boat found in Hawaii waters, large docks that have washed ashore in Washington state and Oregon and a motorcycle that washed ashore off the coast of British Columbia.
These are items that tend to have unique markings -- names of people and places, registration numbers or other identifying information. The agency lists scores of other items along the West Coast and across the Pacific Ocean as potentially linked to the catastrophe.
The Japanese government estimated 1.5 million tons of debris was floating in the ocean in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, which devastated a long stretch of Japan's northeastern coast and killed thousands of people. But it's not clear how much is still out there or what might reach U.S. shores. NOAA has said the debris is spread over an area roughly three times the size of the contiguous United States, and that beachgoers may notice an increase in debris "over many years," in addition to what normally washes up.
Beachcombing on Middleton Island, in the northern Gulf of Alaska, has long been a favorite pastime for radar technician David Baxter and some of his colleagues. In early 2012, there had been talk about finding tsunami debris -- "a wall with a safe in it or a briefcase of money, we'd always joke about that" -- but Baxter said he didn't think it was realistic he'd find anything related to the tsunami, given models he'd seen at the time that suggested the debris would move much further south.
Then, in February 2012, a co-worker found a soccer ball. Baxter subsequently found another soccer ball -- a discovery that made international headlines as one of the first identifiable pieces of debris to wash up -- a volleyball and the buoy.
The buoy stood out to Baxter as a bit different from other buoys that have washed up. For example, it was hard, not inflatable, and had writing on it. By chance, when a Japanese film crew was visiting him and his wife after the discovery of the soccer ball, they panned on other items he'd found, including the buoy, he said. A friend of the restaurant's owner, Sakiko Miura, happened to recognize it, and the owner later confirmed it was hers through a photo sent by Baxter.
FedEx, which flies regularly between Anchorage and Tokyo, volunteered to return items including the balls found by Baxter and the buoy last June. The team traveled by plane to Tokyo and then by train to outlying communities, hand-delivering the items, spokeswoman Sharon Young said.
"It was a wonderful experience, to reunite people with things that meant a lot to them and that survived this incredibly devastating situation," she said Friday.
Baxter and his wife were recently able to talk to Miura, who said she plans to rebuild. He said he found the owner of the soccer ball his colleague found, an 8-year-old, and plans to return it this summer.
Baxter said he can't help but be affected by what he's found. He wife is Japanese and he said he has visited the nation several times. But it's more than that.
"I wonder all the time, when you see (things) if the person was in the house, if they survived," he said, adding later: "Of course, when I see the housing insulation and household items, shampoo bottles, shaving cream bottles with Japanese writing on them, yeah, it hurts a little."
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There is a crack/ seam between the window frame and outside wall. The crack is deep and wide in the corner. The rain comes in from the crack/seam. I need to fill it. Should I apply the silicone II, caulk (may need backer rod) or insulating foam sealant? Which one is better considering the corner has a wide crack but the other area has a seam. See the picture
100% GE silicone is best for a joint that will move that much. There must be good adhesion on the sides and it can stick to nothing in the middle which is best accomplished with a backer rod if it will stay in place long enough to give the sealant an hour glass shape. I would try to match the color of the brick not the window because it will be a mess.
But it will only be temporary since the window doesn't really fit in the opening. For a proper sealant joint the window must overlap the brick about an inch and there should be about a 1/4" joint for the sealant. You might have to add some small aluminum angles to the front of the window to create that kind of joint or tear it out and start over.
I only saw the white 100% GE silicone in the Home Depot. Do you know where I can find the red 100% GE silicone to match the bricks? In addition, can you see what material that the builder to apply to fill the joint between the window frame and wall and among the bricks? Picture
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Glad to have this one blooming though! I may need to add a few companions to this very late daylily that is just getting going in the garden.
Another flower aptly named. Polychromes really do glow, and anything that looks this good, this late in the season is sure to be loved. The only daylilies still blooming in my garden are August Flame and Sandra Elizabeth, so it's a treat to see one like this. Thanks for sharing the picture.
What a beauty. I agree. There's something about polychromes that really appeals to me and this is a wonderful example. In our heat the blending of colors doesn't hold that long, but it sure is pretty first thing in the AM......I just went back and looked again at your picture. Afterglow of Love is a stunner. Glad you posted it......Maryl
Here's one of my late bloomers. It's called Charleston Autumn Moonlight. The throat has a bit of green cast to it. It was hybridized by a local college botany professor. 5 Acre Daylily Farm has this late-bloomer. The description was that this late bloomer blooms in September. Yes, it does!


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We offer Bed and Breakfast accommodation at Groves Hall. Situated just two miles outside Whitby, North Yorkshire, in the beautiful and peaceful Esk Valley, Groves Hall has a commanding view over the surrounding countryside. We are lucky enough to be on the route of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and in the summer, steam trains go past four times a day.
It is a Grade II listed Georgian stone built property set in seven acres, with mature gardens featuring specimen trees and plants. There is also 300 metres of river frontage on the Esk, from where it is possible to fish during the season for salmon and trout if you purchase a day permit from us, and have a fishing license.
The local area is wonderful for walking, cycling, fishing, painting, horse riding, bird watching, relaxing etc, with the bonus of being seven minutes drive from the bustling town of Whitby, which is full of shops, restaurants, Whitby Abbey etc...
There is a large newly decorated large twin room overlooking the garden, with two single beds, a fabulous en suite Art Deco bathroom and a seperate private area to have breakfast.T.V. Free Wi-Fi, and lots of good books! Parking is on the forecourt, for cars and we have secure storage for bicycles.
The bus service to and from Whitby is twice an hour, plus there is also the railway, which runs from Whitby to Middlesbrough, through the beautiful Esk Valley.
We are a non-smoking household , and do not take pets. As well as a Full English breakfast, which is locally sourced, we can offer a delicious Vegetarian breakfast.
This is an ideal spot to unwind, as it is so peaceful, with very lttle passing traffic, and glorious views.
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A beautiful unique property, very peaceful with amazing views and hosts, unlike any other bed and breakfast. Very comfortable beds and great breakfast! Will definitely visit again if we are in the a… More
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"Extremely friendly owner...excellent service from booking to checking out!"
We booked Groves Hall for the night as we were visiting Whitby for a friend's birthday. My friend checked us in as he was there before me and told me Numi had given him a detailed tour of the gro… More
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Have just returned from a fantastic stay and cannot recommend highly enough. Whitby was busy as you would expect and it was bliss to return to such a tranquil haven. Numi and Charles are perfect hosts… More
2 Jul 2014
"Blissful Tranquility"
I'd been thinking of checking out Groves Hall for some time so my wife and I decided to go.After a 180 mile drive, the place itself was very easy to find yet amazingly secluded.We were met by Cha… More
30 Jun 2014
"All we had hoped it would be - and more!"
My friend and I have just returned from a very relaxing and enjoyable few days stay at Groves Hall in Sleights, near Whitby. This elegant, country pied a terre was just perfect for the two of us with … More
27 Apr 2014
"Bespoke property in idyllic location"
My boyfriend booked me a us a night here for my birthday and I was not disappointed. It is situated in a tranquil location but close enough to Whitby (£8 each way in a taxi). The hall is splen… More
7 Apr 2014
How to get there:- Off the A171 to Whitby turn right at the roundabout for Sleights. Drive down to the bottom of the bank, turn right (opposite is a turn off left to Ruswarp). Drive down the lane to … More
17 Mar 2014
The owners Numi and Charles go out of there way to see you have a great time.Lovley and warm flat,everthing you need.Very quiet and peaceful,place great views over the river and countryside.The breakf… More
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My husband and I stayed for two nights at groves hall and our stay was faultless, we really felt like we were looked after the room was lovely and the breakfast even better ( the weather was good to u… More
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"A hidden gem"
We had a fabulous time at this truly special home. This b &b is straight out of a fairytale french style elegant interiors, rambling garden down to the river complete with steam train running past! Ch… More
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A series of brewers have tried their luck with this West Seattle Junction location. This latest opened here in 1997 and attempts to broaden its appeal by catering to families and hip urbanites. The decor favors brass, and the smoking section's location upstairs with the pool tables keeps the air fresher downstairs. The pub has 10 beers on tap, six brewed onsite. There's also root beer on tap for the kids. Burgers and sandwiches dominate the menu. Hear live folk and jazz music most Saturdays. Call ahead for hours.
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As if his mere existence wasn't a clear enough advertisement, several different Marvel series featured mail order coupons for bodacious Combo Man gear that would in no way invite relentless schoolyard beatings. Please note that the T-shirt was only available in XL, which suggests that they knew exactly what type of child would read a comic book about a cheese pretzel superhero.
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STOCKHOLM -- Petroskandia, has said that the Tunisian ministry in charge of hydrocarbons has awarded the Teboursouk exploration block to Petroskandia.
The Teboursouk block measures 4956 sq km, equivalent in size to almost half of Jamaica. It is located in onshore northwestern Tunisia, in the governorate of Jendouba. Teboursouk is located to the west of the producing gas field Utique.
Petroskandia has been awarded operatorship and a 50% interest in the block. The remaining 50% interest is held by ETAP (Entreprise Tunisienne D'Activites Petroliere) according to the signed joint venture agreement. The block is awarded with an initial 5 year term and is extendable up to 8 years. Petroskandia has committed to acquire a total of at least 250 km of 2D seismic data and to drill one exploration well during the initial 50 year term.
Petter Elmstedt, Petroskandia's Chief Executive Officer commented: "We are delighted to have been awarded the Teboursouk block. The block holds great interest as it is part of a formation that has already yielded several significant discoveries in neighboring Algeria and Italy. We look forward to exploring this block further in collaboration with ETAP."
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The number of commercial truck crossings into the United States from Canada and Mexico was 10.8 million in 2013, 1.1% more than in 2012, according to new U.S. Department of Transportation figures.
The increase follows ones from 2010 to 2012 after four years of declines from 2005 to 2009, a period that includes the last recession.
The truck-crossing numbers are included in the 2013 Border Crossing/Entry Data, just posted on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics website. The database also includes numbers of incoming trains, buses, containers, personal vehicles, and pedestrians entering the United States through land ports and ferry crossings on the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico border.
The database shows that there were 163.3 million person crossings into the U.S. from Mexico in personal vehicles or as pedestrians in 2013, a 4.6% increase from 2012.
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OMB Director Sylvia Burwell wants to focus on attracting more highly skilled IT developers and more agile vendors.
In size and funding, the Office of Management and Budget is a small agency, with a head count of about 500 and a fiscal 2015 budget request of $93 million. But in terms of its impact on the federal government and its interaction with Congress, it punches above its weight. So it's not a big surprise that OMB Director Sylvia Burwell was pressed at an April 9 Appropriations subcommittee hearing about a $12 million increase for IT oversight to improve efficiency in development and procurement.
The request comes in the wake of the troubled launch of HealthCare.gov, and the lessons learned from diagnosing the problems that led to the development of a site that didn't work. "That is what the money in the budget is about," Burwell said.
She told the subcommittee that OMB identified three management issues that need to be fixed to help IT procurement. OMB wants to put in place stronger connections between business owners and IT specialist, shift from a waterfall approach to development to a more iterative process, and improve end-to-end accountability on projects.
Burwell said she wants OMB to focus on attracting more highly skilled IT developers and managers and more agile vendors, and improving best practices for procurement and project management.
"There are complexities in the system" she said, that can impede government from getting the best IT professionals to work at agencies, and the most nimble and advanced tech companies to bid on government contracts.
Burwell said IT oversight appropriations have been focused on generating savings through policy initiatives such as cloud computing and data center consolidation. But the request to increase the overall IT oversight budget from $8 million to $20 million was about hiring more people to create and share acquisition and development best practices.
"We don't want to create this all over the government. We believe there should be a centralized place with the skills and best practices that then apply to different places and departments," she said.
It's not clear whether more money is in the offing. Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee Chairman Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.) said he was impressed by the overall federal IT savings in recent years, but noted that most government departments were making due with less funding, and that congressional offices have seen their appropriations decline by 16 percent in recent years. "Most Americans want to see leaders lead by example," he said.
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Today in History August 27
Raw: Amanda Knox Grateful for Saga's End
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Highlights of this day in history: Krakatoa erupts in South Pacific; President Lyndon Johnson and Mother Teresa born; America's first successful oil well; Britain's Lord Louis Mountbatten killed; Beatles manager Brian Epstein dies. (Aug. 27)
Amanda Knox says she's "incredibly grateful" that Italy's highest court overturned her murder conviction in the slaying of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.
NASA TV footage shows the successful docking of a Russian Soyuz craft to the International Space Station for a year-long mission. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
The lawyer for Amanda Knox said she is 'very happy' after Italy's highest court overturned her murder conviction in the 2007 slaying of British student Meredith Kercher. (March 27)
Residents of northern Chile take on the grim task of cleaning up their damaged homes after some of the worst flooding in the region in nearly eight decades. Mana Rabiee reports.
Aerial footage from KOMO shows several homes near a landslide in Washington. KOMO reports that at least one of the homes has been damaged. (March 27)
Raw: Amanda Knox Grateful for Saga's End
Space station crew docks safely
Lawyer: Amanda Knox Is Very Happy With Ruling
Mud-caked residents start grim cleanup after massive Chile floods
Raw: Homes Near Landslide in Washington
Two new accusers say Bill Cosby drugged, sexually assaulted them