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Carrie Taylor, Houston Chronicle | February 11, 2014 | Updated: February 11, 2014 4:53pm
Photo By Allan Grant/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagePiggly Wiggly checkers stand in an Encino, Calif. store.
Photo By Yale Joel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImageBritish seamen shop at an A & P supermarket.
Photo By H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty ImagesSome things never change - a toddler checks out the candy aisle of a supermarket in the 1950s.
Photo By H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty ImagesA grocery store cashier rings in purchases at a store sometime in the 1950s.
Photo By H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty ImagesAn old cash register in general store is pictured.
Photo By H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty ImagesAisles in supermarket are filled with canned and bottled goods in the 1950s.
Photo By Michael Ochs ArchivesA grocery store is pictured from 1926.
Photo By Popperfoto/Popperfoto/Getty ImagesPeople shop in a supermarket in 1950.
Photo By Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Popperfoto/Getty ImagesThe staff of Lipton's General Store poses before a window full of produce around 1910.
Photo By RALPH CRANE/Getty Images/Time & Life Pictures CreativeStudents attending a night supermarket class before starting their jobs.
Photo By JOHN DOMINIS/Getty Images/Time & Life Pictures CreativeOverhead of stacked shelves of food at a supermarket in the 1970s.
Photo By Transcendental Graphics/Getty ImagesShown is a portrait of a man and his dog sitting in an automobile outside the local grocer's store while the owner and his family stand outside the shop, United States, circa1910.
Photo By Fotosearch/Getty ImagesShelves of a grocery store are pictured, circa July 1936.
Photo By Underwood Archives/Getty ImagesA woman in a grocery store holds an eggplant while a clerk picks out a head of cabbage for her, circa 1938.
Photo By Russell Lee/Getty ImagesThe owner of a small grocery store is shown in San Augustine, Texas.
Photo By Three Lions/Getty ImagesMen drink in a soda bar inside a supermarket in 1956.
Photo By Rae Russel/Getty ImagesA young boy, with milk dribbling down his arm, drinks from a carton of milk, while standing in a store aisle in New York in 1949.
Photo By PhotoQuest/Getty ImagesStore employees weigh purchases, mark prices and stock shelves in supermarket in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1950.
Photo By Hans Wild/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImageA small-town grocery store advertising their prices and deals.
Photo By Bernard Hoffman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagePictured is the Interior view of grocery store.
Photo By NAT FARBMAN/Getty Images/Time & Life Pictures CreativeGroceries on shelf with prices are shown.
Photo By Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty ImagesThe employees of the Felix POTIN grocery store in Paris are pictured around 1900.
Photo By Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty ImagesCustomers shop at a frozen food department inside a grocery store.
Photo By Underwood Archives/Getty ImagesThe Roell Bros grocery store is pictured in the early 1900s.
Photo By Underwood Archives/Getty ImagesA woman with two small children purchases groceries at a grocery store around 1940.
Photo By Museum of Science and Industry,/Getty ImagesA small grocery store is shown circa 1930.
Photo By Orlando/Getty ImagesLouise Simonson chooses food in a 'self-service' supermarket in Connecticut.
Photo By Kurt Hutton/Getty ImagesA woman shopping in a supermarket in New York City in 1939.
Photo By Heritage Images/Heritage Images/Getty ImagesThe interior of John Williams & Sons Ltd grocery shop from the early 1900s is shown. Signs advertise tea, coffee, honey, and apricots.
Photo By Heritage Images/Heritage Images/Getty ImagesA 1916 Cadillac V8 car sits parked outside a general store.
Photo By Heritage Images/Heritage Images/Getty ImagesPictured is a co-op central butcher's department in 1957.
Photo By Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty ImagesPictured is a well-stocked shop in the USA 1920s.
Photo By A. Y. Owen/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImageCrowded lines of people shopping, browsing and checking out groceries fill a supermarket.
Photo By Carl Mydans/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImageA view showing the interior of a Texas town's general store.
Photo By Walter Sanders./Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagePictured is a view of a crowd of shoppers waiting enter a Jim Dandy market during its grand opening in San Francisco in December 1945.
Photo By Loomis Dean/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImageVon's Supermarket was designed for auto shoppers, purchases are made the usual way, checked at counter, and loaded directly into car upon presentation of claim ticket.
Photo By Ralph Crane/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImageA family shops in a supermarket in 1972.
The number of grocery options in the Houston area continues to expand, with another Costco opening its doors in Katy last week.
Speciality stores like Whole Foods and warehouse-style supermakets like Costco and Sams show just how much grocery shopping has changed over the years. While customers can still get a more personal experience at small, boutique stores, large supermarkets with notoriously long lines but wide product varieties dominate the landscape.
See how Americans used to shop for their food, and notice some things - like children flocking to the candy aisles - have not changed at all.


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Oct 7, 2008, 11:24 PM by Rich Brome @rbrome
Our hands-on report of the just-announced BlackBerry Storm touch-screen phone for Verizon. Our first impressions with plenty of photos.
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Research In Motion (RIM) and Verizon Wireless are preparing to launch the new flagship BlackBerry - the Storm 9530 - in time for the holidays. The Storm joins an increasingly large group of phones with large touch screens and new interfaces designed specifically to be manipulated with your finger, like the iPhone.
I recently spent time with a pre-production Storm 9530. I came away very impressed. Read on to see what surprises the Storm has in store.
The Storm isn't excessively large, thick, or heavy. It's not going to impress in these departments, but it's reasonably pocket-friendly. If it's a half-ounce heavier than I would like, the upside is that this weight adds to a feeling of solid construction. Indeed, the overall build quality feels excellent. The rear battery cover plate is made of metal, which also helps. In terms of size, it's shorter than the iPhone. It's slightly larger than a Curve, although tapered edges help it feel smaller in the hand.
The display is huge and very high-resolution. At 480 x 360 pixels, it has 12% more pixels than the iPhone, and those pixels are more dense, making details exceptionally clear and crisp. The Storm bucks the wide-screen trend with an old-school 4:3 aspect ratio.
The big news about the display is the touch technology. First, it's capacitive, like the iPhone and the HTC G1. This alone is great news, but the real innovation is the true tactile feedback. The whole screen is essentially one giant physical button that you can press down for a gratifyingly real "click" action. There are no haptics or funny tricks here; just good ol' tactile feedback, and it works very well.
As you would expect, the click action lends a great deal to the experience of pressing virtual buttons and text entry. However, it also enables a whole new dimension (literally) in touch interaction. Capacitive touch technology requires no pressure; it responds to the very lightest touch. This means the Storm has two distinct ways to press the screen. A light touch is just a "touch", while a more forceful press results in a "click". This makes the Storm the first phone we know of with what could be considered a "3D" touch screen.
RIM has implemented a few clever uses for this in the BlackBerry interface. For example, the browser has a "cursor mode" that simulates a desktop browsing experience. Touching the screen moves a visible pointer around the web page just like using a mouse, while clicking (of course) clicks. Browsing email lists, a click will open that email, but a touch-and-hold will search for all emails with the same subject or sender. The QWERTY keyboard also has a touch-and-hold shortcut for accessing accented versions of letters, which is very useful for non-English languages.
Moving on to the rest of the hardware... there's an accelerometer, of course. Rotating 90 degrees in either direction flips the whole interface; it's quick, works on most parts of the interface, and works equally well for lefties.
The front has four physical buttons: Menu (BlackBerry), Back, Send and End. They are all easy to find and work well. The top sports two semi-hidden physical buttons: mute and lock. The top buttons are completely smooth with the rest of the plastic at the top, but their placement at the corners keeps them easy to find and use. There's also the usual assortment of side keys, all of which work well.
You'll also find a standard micro-USB connector (which supports charging) and a standard 3.5mm headphone jack for use with a headset or your favorite music headphones. Stereo Bluetooth is also supported.
On the subject of sound, and moving to the back of the phone, there's a secondary microphone on the back which provides active noise cancellation. The speakerphone is also on the back. It's surrounded by two protruding rubber bumpers. These really stick out quite a bit and make the Storm harder to slip in and out of pockets, but they do their job of keeping the speakerphone loud and clear when the Storm is sitting flat on a desk. The speaker is quite loud and clear in all situations.
The microSD memory card slot is located under the battery cover, but it's easily accessible without removing the battery. The Storm comes with 1 GB of built-in memory plus another 8GB on the included memory card. Cards up to 16 GB are officially supported, and it should handle 32 GB cards in theory. Metal battery covers will be available in several colors, allowing some degree of customization.
Also on the back, you'll find a 3 megapixel auto-focus camera.
Besides the unique touch screen, the other feature of the Storm that blew me away is the roaming capability. This is simply the most global and most 3G-savvy phone made to date.
In the States, naturally it will work on Verizon's CDMA 850/1900 network. Not only is it EVDO, but the faster Rev. A flavor of EVDO, so you get the fastest data experience Verizon's network has to offer.
It's when going abroad that the Storm breaks new ground, though. The Storm supports all major overseas GSM and 3G networks. It's quad-band GSM, which gives you full GSM roaming even in Latin America. It also has HSDPA 2100, so you get full 3G data speeds in Europe and Asia. Verizon has roaming agreements already in place that support those 3G networks, and Verizon does not charge extra for 3G roaming; it's the same rate as GSM/EDGE data. The Storm 9530 even works in Japan and South Korea. A SIM card comes with the Storm, so it's ready for all this global action right out of the box.
The only thing missing is WiFi, but with so much 3G love, this is one of the few times we almost buy Verizon's argument that WiFi would be redundant.
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|Kinesiology and Athletics Division
|Summer 2013
|3 hours laboratory.
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|Note: If Lab hours are specified, see item 10. Lab Content below.
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|Grading: Letter Grade with P/NP option
|Degree Status: Applicable
|Credit Status: Credit
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|Validation: 11/13/12; 10/01/13
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|An introduction to the technique of Hip Hop dance with an integrated fitness approach that focuses on developing the stabilization muscles of the center of the body. Concentration will be on isolations of the muscles of the torso, back, hips, inner and outer thighs, chest and abdominals in conjunction with breathing, postural alignment and body awareness.
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|Tasmin, Fitzgerald. Hip Hop and Urban Dance. London: Heinemann/Raintree Press, 2009.
Dyson, Eric Michael. Know What I Mean: Reflections of Hip Hop. New York, NY: Perseus Books Group, 2007.
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She was born May 17, 1920, in Port Clinton, the daughter of the late John and Annie (Stempnik) Marek. She married Harold G. Brandt, Sr. and he preceded her in death in 1968.
Ann was homemaker and was formerly employed at US Gypsum and Wilson Cabinet Co. he was a member of the Immaculate Conception Church and the Polish National Alliance.
Surviving is her son, Harold (Gladys) Brandt of Port Clinton; granddaughter, Mindy Brandt of Port Clinton; and great-grandchildren Candace and Chase.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; brothers, Walter and Bennie Marek; and sisters, Stella Chaffin and Julia Burnham.
Visitation will be 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Neidecker, LeVeck and Crosser Funeral Home, Port Clinton. Prayers will begin at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Wednesday followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Church. The Rev. John C. Missler will officiate. Burial will follow in Riverview Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Immaculate Conception Church. Online condolences at neideckerleveckcrosser.com.


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A starling gets its 15 minutes of fame. Co-starring: a female cardinal as Florence Nightingale.
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A starling gets its 15 minutes of fame. Co-starring: a female cardinal as Florence Nightingale.
|HE rises and begins to round,
|He drops the silver chain of sound
|Of many links without a break,
|In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake,
|All intervolv'd and spreading wide,
|Like water-dimples down a tide
|Where ripple ripple overcurls
|And eddy into eddy whirls;
|A press of hurried notes that run
|So fleet they scarce are more than one,
|Yet changingly the trills repeat
|And linger ringing while they fleet,
|Sweet to the quick o' the ear, and dear
|To her beyond the handmaid ear,
|Who sits beside our inner springs,
|Too often dry for this he brings,
|Which seems the very jet of earth
|At sight of sun, her music's mirth,
|As up he wings the spiral stair,
|A song of light, and pierces air
|With fountain ardor, fountain play,
|To reach the shining tops of day,
|And drink in everything discern'd
|An ecstasy to music turn'd,
|Impell'd by what his happy bill
|Disperses; drinking, showering still,
|Unthinking save that he may give
|His voice the outlet, there to live
|Renew'd in endless notes of glee,
|So thirsty of his voice is he,
|For all to hear and all to know
|That he is joy, awake, aglow,
|The tumult of the heart to hear
|Through pureness filter'd crystal-clear,
|And know the pleasure sprinkled bright
|By simple singing of delight,
|Shrill, irreflective, unrestrain'd,
|Rapt, ringing, on the jet sustain'd
|Without a break, without a fall,
|Sweet-silvery, sheer lyrical,
|Perennial, quavering up the chord
|Like myriad dews of sunny sward
|That trembling into fullness shine,
|And sparkle dropping argentine;
|Such wooing as the ear receives
|From zephyr caught in choric leaves
|Of aspens when their chattering net
|Is flush'd to white with shivers wet;
|And such the water-spirit's chime
|On mountain heights in morning's prime,
|Too freshly sweet to seem excess,
|Too animate to need a stress;
|But wider over many heads
|The starry voice ascending spreads,
|Awakening, as it waxes thin,
|The best in us to him akin;
|And every face to watch him rais'd,
|Puts on the light of children prais'd,
|So rich our human pleasure ripes
|When sweetness on sincereness pipes,
|Though nought be promis'd from the seas,
|But only a soft-ruffling breeze
|Sweep glittering on a still content,
|Serenity in ravishment.
|For singing till his heaven fills,
|'T is love of earth that he instills,
|And ever winging up and up,
|Our valley is his golden cup,
|And he the wine which overflows
|To lift us with him as he goes:
|The woods and brooks, the sheep and kine
|He is, the hills, the human line,
|The meadows green, the fallows brown,
|The dreams of labor in the town;
|He sings the sap, the quicken'd veins;
|The wedding song of sun and rains
|He is, the dance of children, thanks
|Of sowers, shout of primrose-banks,
|And eye of violets while they breathe;
|All these the circling song will wreathe,
|And you shall hear the herb and tree,
|The better heart of men shall see,
|Shall feel celestially, as long
|As you crave nothing save the song.
|Was never voice of ours could say
|Our inmost in the sweetest way,
|Like yonder voice aloft, and link
|All hearers in the song they drink:
|Our wisdom speaks from failing blood,
|Our passion is too full in flood,
|We want the key of his wild note
|Of truthful in a tuneful throat,
|The song seraphically free
|Of taint of personality,
|So pure that it salutes the suns
|The voice of one for millions,
|In whom the millions rejoice
|For giving their one spirit voice.
|Yet men have we, whom we revere,
|Now names, and men still housing here,
|Whose lives, by many a battle-dint
|Defaced, and grinding wheels on flint,
|Yield substance, though they sing not, sweet
|For song our highest heaven to greet:
|Whom heavenly singing gives us new,
|Enspheres them brilliant in our blue,
|From firmest base to farthest leap,
|Because their love of Earth is deep,
|And they are warriors in accord
|With life to serve and pass reward,
|So touching purest and so heard
|In the brain's reflex of yon bird;
|Wherefore their soul in me, or mine,
|Through self-forgetfulness divine,
|In them, that song aloft maintains,
|To fill the sky and thrill the plains
|With showerings drawn from human stores,
|As he to silence nearer soars,
|Extends the world at wings and dome,
|More spacious making more our home,
|Till lost on his aërial rings
|In light, and then the fancy sings.
My podmate at work expresses pure disdain for the grackle, the starling and, most vociferously, the parasitic cowbird, lumping them all into a generic "filthy blackbird" category. I wouldn't call him bigoted. Just unenlightened.
I feel compelled to speak up for a class of birds widely scorned just because they fill a niche of avariciousness, through no fault of their own. Like the harsh misnomer for "black" humans, avian color is relative. These birds aren't black; they are iridescent and richly hued.
Technically, a European starling is not even in the blackbird family — it's like a maligned stepchild, an immigrant, no less. And, surprisingly, such prized specimens as orioles, meadowlarks and bobolinks are blackbirds. Close cousins, anyway. Don't even talk to me about crows; they're members of the Corvidae family — think Mob rule.
As ubiquitous as blackish birds are, so too are the musical tributes to them: The Beatles' "Blackbird" (notably off The White Album) has been covered untold times. The jazz standard "Bye Bye Blackbird" is about as familiar as the patter of "Sing a Song of Sixpence":
Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish, To set before the king?
Familiarity sure breeds contempt — shame on us for proposing to make pies of these winged wonders. I want nothing to do with the "Bye-bye, blackbird" mantra.
I recall the ominous serial outbreaks of red-winged blackbirds falling from the sky in Arkansas ringing in both 2011 and 2012 — eventually blamed on man's fireworks fetish — and those shocking reports that the USDA is behind mysterious bird die-offs. Who are the villains here, Master Hitchcock? We all know you glued the crows' feet to the roof of the schoolhouse to make them more menacing.
The only horror here is an act of man … that authorities would ever endorse shooting down innocent birds, as if the biosphere were our personal arcade. One Kentucky town opted for non-fatal cannon shoots as a more humane solution to controlling its avian explosion. "Humane." Wonder how "human" came to occupy that word. I propose a new term: "Aviane."
OK, I get the idea of too much of a good thing, but who can watch a murmuration and not be awestruck?
What I love about blackbirds, and birds in general: They never disappoint.
Consistent in its behavior, a cowbird predictably will poach another nest by sneaking in her oddball eggs, perhaps freeing her from the perceived drudgery and responsibility of parenthood — much like Mayzie in Horton Hears a Who. Talk about a wild chick.
But we mustn't judge. They're just being cowbirds, the only way they know to be and what has proven successful for the species' survival. Think of them as the 1%, hiring cheap labor as nannies. On second thought, that could breed more contempt.
Think of them, instead, as an energy-saving alarm clock. I thrill waking to the shrill, steady peals and squeals of grackles, like gleeful children grabbing the squeaky swings in our backyard playground.
Birds, after all, help stem humanity's loneliness. Even in tight times, when I can't afford to refill the premium seed that has made my yard a five-starling oasis, "my birdies" rouse me each blessed morning in cheerful chitchat, a chorus of hope, like the Whos of Whoville who, even without presents, know you can't keep Christmas from coming, nor the dawn from breaking.
Turns out, the most ancient birds looked a lot like grackles — the microraptor, a dinosaur bird with iridescent plumage and those same beady yellow eyes.
So have some respect for your elder species. Jesus, by the way, was also black. Black is the beginning and the end of the universe. Black is the color of my true love's hair. Black is beautiful.
Here's my humble tribute to these colorful black birds — especially the grackles — as viewed in my yard and that of my mother-in-law in Kentucky:
Today's ABCs of journalism require a Ph.D. in SEO: the science of applying tags or keywords onto digitally delivered stories so that readers get their Googly eyes on them.
I've been polishing my skills for a few years now, but still marvel at the algorithmic mysteries.
Here is an assortment of the bizarre search phrases people have used to stumble upon my blog the past few days.
Did I say stumbling? Trippin'.
Those last two are about the same.
(I am not making this up. I live only to teach people how to spell "tongue." Couldn't quite replicate the hits; 'course now that I've listed them, I should get a lot more readers.)
A rite of spring played out in my front yard last week: robin kama sutra. At first I thought these two were fighting. Then it continued, ad nauseum. Now I get where "round robin" comes from. And baby robins, of course.
Oh, the red, red robin goes bob-bob-bobbin' … (needle scriiiiiiatch). No. Rockin' robins don't dig rock 'n' roll. Their dish is ballet.
UPDATE: Turns out these two WERE fighting. An ornithological expert has since contacted me to set me straight on the territorial behaviors of male robins. Sigh.
A popular — rather, a prolific — sign at the Reason Rally read: "God Hates Bags."
Upon arriving at the National Mall, we overheard someone explaining that sign, meekly saying they couldn't get away with writing the word that rhymes with "bags," blah, blah, blah.
Well, I wasn't sure how I felt about it, because I wasn't sure where they were coming from or who was mocking whom. We are so trained to try to put people with signs in boxes before deciding what to think.
One of the speakers saved me (the trouble), giving it the right context: "I see there's a typo on your sign. Should say: 'God Hates Facts.' "
(And I have removed the entertainment I'd posted here previously, because it seems a certain madcap genius is also litigious. Sorry, Tim Minchin fans. )
Try Googling "Reason Rally" today and you get a tapestry of takes, from NPR's " 'Woodstock for Atheists': A Moment for Non-Believers," to Fox News' "Why the Reason Rally Is Unreasonable."
The Drudge Report straight-out snubs it, leading instead with: "Dick Cheney Gets New Heart" (talk about a resurrection). Then there's The Huffington Post's straight-up "Atheists to Gather for 'Reason Rally' on National Mall"; someone there did their search-engine-optimization homework, but it's been more than 22 hours since anyone updated it.
This blog probably won't appear in your search results. Yet this blogger was there, in proud attendance with my hippie husband on a gloomy, rain-gummed day … and not entirely for rational reasons.
Sure, we were enthused about the lineup of speakers, including the original and inimitable zoologist Richard Dawkins. My 1980s copy of "The Selfish Gene" remains the most dog-eared title in my collection or, as one speaker put it, "We've read them so often the pages stick together." Oo-er … Another big draw: Tim Minchin, the madcap-genius songwriter who seems an irreverent George Carlin-esque comic for this generation.
What made our selfish genes go all gooey and emotional was seeing our daughter — who is a founding president of a Secular Student Alliance chapter on her Northwestern University campus and who'd traveled all night by bus to be there with a cadre of friends — stand up for something she believes in: non-belief; rational thought; self-actualization; herself.
Could we find her amid 20,000 people? Even in a sea of like-minded folks of every stripe and rainbow, she stood out.
I confess I mostly videotaped Tim Minchin (footage to be posted separately), and didn't properly "cover" the event. But as a member of the Mainstream Media, I was drawn to the fringes, those areas of the Mall where not everyone was so like-minded.
Despite its Tower of Babel feel, the discourse was refreshingly civil. Nothin' evil. What else might one expect from a crowd of open-minded, science-stoked, reason-soaked thinkers?
(Click video link, at top — where you see the Christ banner — for a few video clips, including exchanges between the godless and the God-fearing counter-protesters who violated the rules and left their designated area to witness.)
Don't let those other publications tell you it was all militancy or mockery on display. As with any rally, slogans were in fashion, stark differences delineated, some offense intended, but most done here with cleverness and humor. What stuck with me: Every speaker spoke of love for his fellow man and the planet, of morality, of doing good for goodness' sake, of truly being a friend to the friendless.
Exiled Muslim-born Taslima Nasrin, who has fatwas on her head for speaking out for women's rights and today is without a country, can tell you that. She looked out over the crowd of secular humanists and, voice cracking, thanked them for making her feel at home.
No disputin', Rasputins, that Tweety Bird is a canary. Cock-sure Foghorn Leghorn's a rooster. And the Road Runner? Sold, even if live-action Greater Roadrunners don't make any sort of "beep-beep" sound (the male sounds alternately like an owl playing maracas, the female like a yapping monkey); they aren't remotely blue — well maybe a little on the crown and around the eyes; and any self-respecting wily coyote would snap one up as a dessert in a hot desert minute.
What's up with that?
The Birdchick blog followed up with her own investigation:
"As a kid, I always thought he was an ivory-billed woodpecker. Okay, the ivory-bill isn't blue and Woody's white patches don't match up, but you can't argue with Woody's size, his crest and his light colored bill. When I worked at a wild bird store and we had to listen to bird identification CDs all day, I heard an acorn woodpecker call and it gave the "Ha ha ha HAAA ha" call. I realized that sounded a little familiar. Here's an example that you can hear over at Xeno Canto."
Pretty remarkable that she was pondering 'toon taxonomy as a kid, when I had trouble keeping Daffy and Donald straight. Turns out that Sharon's instincts were on target, as she goes on to credit Chilean birding expert Alvaro Jaramillo with solving the mystery by digging through Looney Tunes cartoon cells to find, in a 1964 episode called "Dumb Like a Fox," Woody's own discovery that he is of the species Campephilus principalis, or the ivory-billed woodpecker — almost as storied and elusive as Sasquatch, but with far more documention.
I bring it up because, in today's Cornell Lab of Ornithology's "March Migration Madness" face-off between the pileated woodpecker and the great blue heron, I wouldn't want anyone voting for the woodpecker on the basis of preschool propaganda alone. Woody is that rare bird, an amalgamation of our imagination that also most closely resembles the ivory-billed woodpecker.
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That's a big win for Whovians everywhere. The repeat screening of the "Doctor Who" 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor," made big money at the U.S. box office Monday (November 26).
Showing on only 660 screens, "Doctor Who" was the second biggest box office winner, behind "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," according to Entertainment Weekly. The 75-minute special episode took in a $4.8 million ($7,155 per screen average), beating out "Thor: The Dark World's" $1.4 million.
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The morning anchor for Indiana's NewsCenter did not appear on air Wednesday morning, and by early afternoon, her biography and picture had been removed from the network's website.
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Children's Museum of Houston is 2nd best museum for families, USA Today readers say
By John-Henry Perera | February 26, 2014 | Updated: February 26, 2014 5:35pm
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Hunter Cudini, left, Paris Cudini, Tyler King, Kiara Evans, Grisha Ross, Lily Trujillo and Nathan Maszurkewicz take a break from a visit to the Children's Museum of Houston.
Click through the slideshow for other great Houston museums.
Photo By Johnny HansonHouston Baptist University houses all three of these museums on its campus. At the Museum of Southern History, you can peruse items and exhibits that chronicle the history of the south during the mid-1800s.Dunham's Bible Museum carries a large collection of rare Bibles and manuscripts, and the Museum of American Architecture and Decorative Arts showcases the "material culture" of Texas settlers between 1830 and 1930.Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.7502 Fondren Road, Houston Baptist University
Photo By Houston Chronicle fileSet on the Taylor-Stevenson Ranch, the American Cowboy Museum displays the contributions of all cultures and individuals in the development of the west. The ranch is more than 150 years old, according to the museum's website, and is also the home of the second oldest producing oil strike in Texas.Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. by appointment (call 713-478-9677)11822 Almeda Road, Houston
Photo By NICK de la TORRE/CHRONICLEVisitors can explore western art, music, Longhorn artifacts and other historical Texas items. Specifically, it honors the Butler Longhorn cattle that originated in League City.Hours: Mon.-Wed., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Thurs. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sun. 1 p.m., to 4 p.m.1220 Coryell St., League City
Photo By Melissa PhillipThe museum houses the largest collection of artifacts related to funeral service, including details on ancient mourning rituals and items used in the funerals of U.S. presidents and other high-profile figures. You can find oddly-shaped coffins as well, such as the chicken model pictured above.Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sun., noon to 5 p.m.415 Barren Springs Drive, Spring
Photo By Michael Paulsen/Houston ChronicleAt Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, which opened in 2008, you will find collections of art ranging from photographs, gold objects and blacksmith to glass work. It works in partnership with the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.Hours: Mon., closed; Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sun., noon to 5 p.m.6815 Cypresswood Drive, Spring
Photo By Jerry Baker/FreelanceIn northwest Houston, the Tomball Museum Center has preserved several historical buildings representing the history of the town in the mid-19th century. You can tour the campus and check out the antique items stored in each house, and in December an Annual Christmas Open House and Candlelight Tour features local choirs and holiday snacks.Hours: Thurs., Sat., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Sun., noon to 2 p.m.\510 North Pine St., Tomball
Photo By Suzanne Rehak/For the ChronicleKaty Heritage Museum and Katy Veterans Memorial Museum are city-funded and feature vintage farming equipment and other artifacts from Katy's agricultural and pioneering history. You can also find old photographs and antiques, and at the veterans museum find historical military gear that encompasses the country's foreign conflicts.Hours: Tues.-Thurs. and the first Saturday of every month, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Sun., noon to 3 p.m. (heritage museum). Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., special group schedules on request (Veterans Memorial).6202 George Bush Drive, Katy
Photo By Credit Fort Bend MuseumSponsored by the Fort Bend County Museum Association, the Fort Bend Museum shows the county's history with artifacts from the early 1820s into World War II. Galleries showcase architecture and antiques from the area's key industries.Hours: Tues.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.500 Houston St., Richmond
Photo By James Nielsen/StaffGeorge Ranch Historical Park is a 20,000-acre working ranch that features four historical homes with each representing an era: the 1830s, 1860s, 1890s and 1930s. There are tours, reenactments, a heritage trail and meals set in a historical tone. You can arrange school, youth and other group tours.Hours: Tues.-Sat., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.10215 FM 762, Richmond
Photo By David Hopper/For the ChronicleShenandoah's Footprints in Courage Museum showcases the origins of the city and the surrounding communities, including historical military uniforms, accessories and other historical documents.Hours: Mon.-Sun., 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.19265 David Memorial Drive, Shenandoah
Photo By Credit Friendswood Historical SocietyThese are all under the care of the Friendswood Historical Society. The Frank J. Brown Heritage Museum and Barn is a replica of Friendswood's first home, and the home of its founder. It houses photos and artifacts from the city's early beginnings. The 1902 Perry House is the oldest house that remains in Friendswood, and the 1952 Glines Barber Shop was the city's first and was recently restored.Hours: Saturdays by appointmentHeritage museum and barber shop: 108 Skyview, FriendswoodPerry House: 109 W. Spreading Oaks, Friendswood
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Playing second banana is quite alright for the Children's Museum of Houston.
The local fun and educational spot was nationally recognized by USA Today readers in its "10 best museums for families" list.
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science - Albuquerque took first and third in the USA Today list.
Previously, the museum earned national accolades from the following publications.
-- "America's No. 1 Children's Museum" in 2011 by Parents Magazine
-- "Awesomely Inspiring Museums" by Family Fun Magazine
-- "Best Museums in the U.S." by Forbes
Located at 1500 Binz St., the museum serves more than 1.1. million people a year. A second location is planned in Sugar Land's former Imperial Sugar complex.


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Chelsea Handler talks 50 Cent on 'Tonight Show'
Chelsea Handler made headlines with her stand-up routine when the jokes turned to Angelina Jolie, calling her a "homewrecker," among other (unprintable) things.
Cheering Chels on from backstage at the Dec. 3 show was none other than rumored boy-toy, 50 Cent. The pair has been photographed together multiple times since October, fueling reports that they are an item.
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Variant of mouth
nounpl. mouths
- the opening through which an animal takes in food; specif., the cavity, or the entire structure, in the head of any of the higher animals which contains the teeth and tongue and through which sounds are uttered
- the mouth regarded as the organ of chewing and tasting
- the mouth regarded as the organ of speech
- a person or animal regarded as a being needing food: six mouths to feed
- the lips, or the part of the face surrounding the lips
- a wry expression of the face; grimace: now only in the phrase
- any opening regarded as like the mouth; specif.,
- the part of a river, stream, etc. where the water empties into another body of water
- the opening into the earth of a cave, volcano, tunnel, etc.
- the opening of a container, through which it is filled or emptied
- the front opening in the barrel of a gun
- the opening between the jaws of a vise, etc.
- the opening between the lips of an organ pipe
- the opening in a flute across which the player blows
Origin of mouthMiddle English ; from Old English muth, akin to German mund ; from Indo-European base an unverified form menth-, to chew from source Classical Greek masasthai, Classical Latin mandere, to chew
transitive verb
- to say, esp. in an affected, oratorical, or insincere manner; declaim
- to form (a word) with the mouth soundlessly
- to take or put into the mouth
- to caress or rub with the mouth or lips
- to train (a horse) to become accustomed to the bit
intransitive verb
- to speak in an affected or oratorical manner; declaim
- Rare to make a wry face by twisting the mouth; grimace
mouth Idioms
down in the mouthor down at the mouth
Informal depressed; unhappy; discouraged
give mouth to
Now Rare to express in speech; say
have a big mouth
Slang to have a tendency to mouth off
mouth off☆ Slang
to talk loudly, excessively, indiscreetly, or impudently


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After three long years of strip club anthems, party starting mixtapes and more, Travis Porter is finally set to release their debut album. "We're excited to finally give the fans what they've been asking for over the past 3 years. From Day 1, dropping on May 29th through RCA/Porter House Music isn't just our album, its OUR album", say's Strap in a statement. "Meaning the fans that have rode with us. It's our success and we want to share that with them", Quez states. "This project shows all sides of Travis Porter. The fun, the real life stories and of course, the ladies. We have big features, big production, it's going to be a major record, adds Ali. The fans are going to love this. We about to turn up, for real."
Travis Porter's label problems including the disbandment of Jive Records contributed to the groups delay of a debut album. Despite that, they still scored major hits with songs like "Bring It Back," "Make It Rain," and the current song "Ayy Ladies," featuring Tyga.


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AFTERNOON UPDATE: OUSD just sent me the information I requested about its teacher consolidations. There are 14 teachers from 13 schools being reassigned this year: from Bella Vista, Cleveland, Hoover, Kaiser, Claremont, Melrose Leadership Academy, Bret Harte, Roosevelt, Frick (2 teachers), Piedmont Avenue, Allendale, La Escuelita, and Rise.
The week before last, Rachel Kargas, a parent at Oakland's Cleveland Elementary School, wrote about the effects of consolidation: losing a teaching position and moving students into different (and often, grade-level combination) classrooms, mid-year, because fewer students enrolled than expected in certain grades. Parents from Cleveland Elementary spoke out at the last board meeting, urging the district to reconsider.
Tonight, the uber-organized parents and teachers at Kaiser Elementary School, who fended off the threat of closure last fall, plan to make their case. Parents say that because some families held onto their children's seats until the last minute and enrolled them elsewhere, the school (which normally has a waiting list) had three vacancies — and is losing a teacher as a result.
I've requested information from OUSD on enrollment projections, the 20-day enrollment count (which, I'm told, should be coming soon — given that the 20th day of school was two weeks ago), and teacher consolidations — when a teacher is moved from one school to another to maximize class size loads.
The big question is how many fewer students than expected showed up to OUSD schools this fall, as that is likely driving some of these decisions.
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A SINGLE session of nerve stimulation has improved the movement and dexterity of people with spinal cord injuries.
Voluntary movement requires a brain signal that is passed down the spinal cord to neurons in muscles. Damage to the spinal cord interrupts this pathway, resulting in paralysis.
To improve the control of movement in people with such injuries, Monica Perez and Karen Bunday at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania used transcranial magnetic stimulation to non-invasively spark areas of the brain that send motor signals to the spinal cord. Just 1 to 2 milliseconds later, they used an electrode to stimulate a nerve controlling an index-finger muscle - mimicking normal brain-to-muscle nerve signalling.
In 19 people with spinal cord injuries, 17 minutes of stimulation increased voluntary control of muscle activity and allowed participants to place small pegs into holes about 15 per cent faster than they could before stimulation. The effect lasted for 80 minutes (Current Biology, doi.org/jvp).
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September 11 was a tragedy that has changed the course of history and the way we live. It was also an environmental disaster of epic proportions. Hundreds of tons of asbestos were pulverized and dispersed around Lower Manhattan and beyond. The tens of thousands of fluorescent lightbulbs each contained enough mercury to contaminate a quarter of a city block. The Trade Center's 50,000 computers were each made with four to twelve pounds of lead. The smoke detectors contained radioactive americium 241. The alkalinity of the air was equivalent to that of Draino. A month after the disaster, Dr. Thomas Cahill of the University of California at Davis found levels of very-fine and ultra-fine particulates that were the highest he'd ever recorded in the course of taking 7000 samples around the world, including at the burning Kuwaiti oil fields.1 In addition there were record levels of dioxin, PCBs, and all the other contaminants one might expect to find when a modern city – which is what the World Trade Center was – burns for several months. In the words of Dr. Marjorie Clarke, 9/11 was "equivalent to dozens of asbestos factories, incinerators and crematoria – as well as a volcano." 2
Nevertheless, beginning on September 13, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued reassurances about the air quality downtown.
A report by the EPA Inspector General released in August, 2003, found that these pronouncements came about because of interference from the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ.) "[B]ased on CEQ's… Continue reading
Pulitzer Prize winner William Bunch uses an account from the book, "Behind-the-Scenes: Ground Zero," as one source for the claim that three black boxes from the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center were discovered by authorities during the recovery efforts in 2001-2002. This is contrary to the official story. (Philadelphia Daily News, Thursday, 10/28/04 – a longer version was published on his "Campaign Extra" weblog.)
We hope other newspapers – and broadcasters – will follow this important lead and endeavor to investigate other potential cover-ups relevant to the 9/11 investigation.
Update, Oct. 29: This breakthrough story has been picked up at OpEd News, Scoop Media, Yahoo PR Newswire and many other outlets.
Amid the enormous detail of loss, sorrow and recovery conveyed in "Behind-the-Scenes: Ground Zero," a New York City firefighter reveals that at least three of the four black boxes from Flights 11 and 175 were found by "Federal Agents" at the former World Trade Center site, during the clean-up efforts from September 2001 to March 2002.
At the time of the disaster, Nicholas DeMasi was a firefighter at Engine Company 261 in Queens. (The firehouse was shut down in 2003, after a century of operation.) In the weeks that followed 9/11, he joined an all-terrain vehicle crew (ATV Unit) at Ground Zero.
In "Behind-the-Scenes," he describes his experience as follows:
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"If you needed anything, go ask the ATV Guy, they're the gopher guys."
On page 108 comes the revelation:
"At one point I was assigned to take Federal Agents around the site to search for the black boxes from the planes.
Philadelphia, 10/28 — Bryan Sacks' and Nicholas Levis' breaking story on the amazing disappearing black box recorders from the WTC site was picked up and expanded by the Philly Daily News' Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Will Bunch. Bunch ran the story, "9/11 'Black Box' Cover-up at Ground Zero?" on his popular Campaign Extra! political blog and promised it will see hard-copy in PDN soon.
Contact: David Kubiak, 207-967-2390, email@example.com
Kyle F. Hence, 401-935-7715, firstname.lastname@example.com
(This release, with pictures from press conference, also at Justicefor911.org.)
New York, NY (October 28, 2004) – On behalf of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Chief Investigator William Casey today accepted a Complaint and Petition from a group of New York City citizens including 9/11 family members, survivors and a Ground Zero triage physician. The Complaint demands that the AG open a criminal inquiry and/or grand jury investigation into the many still unsolved crimes of September 11, 2001 over which he has jurisdiction.
The complainants first held a press conference to explain the reasoning and desperation behind their unique Citizens' Complaint and Petition, which calls for criminal and civil probes into previously suppressed or ignored areas of inquiry identified by the 9/11 Family Steering Committee, 9/11 CitizensWatch and many independent researchers.
The lead complainants currently include Bob McIlvaine, who lost his son Robert in the World Trade Center collapse; Patricia Perry, who lost her son John, a New York City Police officer; William Rodriguez, a WTC maintenance worker and rescue effort hero; Jenna Orkin, Chairwoman of the World Trade Center Environmental Organization; Dr. Faiz Khan, Ground Zero triage physician; and ambulance first responder,. Megan Bartlett, founder of Ground Zero for Peace (who was recently hospitalized with malignant reactions to toxic WTC dust and unable to attend).
In brief statements prior to signing the 20-page Citizens' Complaint, the complainants voiced their hope that the public… Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kyle F. Hence, 401-935-7715 email@example.com
9/11 Families and Survivors Group File Expanded Complaint Urging New Spitzer-led Investigations into 9/11 – Will Announce Press Conference and Further Steps Next Week
New York, NY (October 28, 2004) – Today a group of 9/11 victim family representatives, survivors and first responders files an updated 35-page Complaint and Petition with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Chief Investigator William Casey accepted the original Complaint/Petition from the Complainants on October 28th. In a call for truth and accountability, the Complaint demands that the AG open a criminal inquiry and/or grand jury investigation into the many still unsolved crimes of September 11, 2001 over which his office has jurisdiction. Co-complainant Bob McIlvaine, who lost his son in the attacks, said this is now absolutely necessary so that "justice is finally done."
The group which operates under a "Justice for 9/11″ banner is posting the Complaint online at www.Justicefor911.org where those who wish to express their support can sign an electronic petition. "In essence the Complaint calls for criminal and civil probes into previously suppressed or ignored areas of inquiry identified by victim family members and others who have formally posed many questions to Congress, the 9/11 Commission, the FBI and other government agencies. Most of these questions have still not been addressed, let alone answered. There's been zero accountability and full story behind 9/11 has yet to be told," said Kyle F. Hence, spokesperson… Continue reading
Re: Spitzer Complaint, Ryan & 911Truth.org news
Dear Readers of 911Truth.org,
What can you do? News on "Justice for 9/11," the Omissions Hearings, the Kevin Ryan story, and developments at 911Truth.org:
Justice for 9/11
Last week the "Justice for 9/11″ Coalition filed a restated and amended Citizen's Complaint and Petition with the Attorney General of New York State, Eliot Spitzer, citing probable cause to convene a grand jury on unsolved crimes surrounding the events of September 11, 2001. (See press release. )
The Citizens' Complaint and Petition is unprecedented. Unlike a few other states, New York law does not provide a formal procedure for it. We are trying to invent a new legal wheel, and we need your help.
Nine highly regarded complainants from among September 11 family members, first responders and New York citizens have signed on, and many others are carefully considering whether to join them.
We are inviting friendly support statements from other groups, in the style of amicus briefs, and looking for new coalition members. And we ask everyone to please sign the electronic Petition of Solidarity at the "Justice" site, and get your friends on board!
This work is by no means finished, despite the weeks of hard work by a team advised by legal counsel Carolyn Betts. We aren't pretending that we've covered every aspect of possible 9/11 crimes in the present version of the Complaint and Petition. As we've told Spitzer's office, this is a living document, of, for and by citizens, and… Continue reading
Defining existential politics.
by Byron Belitsos
With the inauguration of George W. Bush for a second term, we enter a nightmare phase of American history, a descent into the era of what might be called "deep politics."
In this short essay I reach out for an expanded definition of a phrase first coined by the distinguished author Peter Dale Scott. In Deep Politics and the Death of JFK1, Scott refers to the "underlying continuities of deep politics" displayed by the apparent convergence of the covert interests of military, rightwing, intelligence agency, and organized crime conspirators that coalesced in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Veteran journalist Jim Marrs points in a similar direction with his Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy, as does the Oliver Stone movie based in part on that book. Marrs then works out the implications in later books, including Rule by Secrecy and Inside Job2, an expose of US government collusion with the 9/11 plot. Big-picture writers like Scott, Marrs, and investigative journalist Mike Ruppert, author of Crossing the Rubicon3, have succeeded in synthesizing a growing body of evidence that support the notion that America now inhabits a surreal realm of deep politics, where amoral, Machiavellian, covert action directs (or conditions) the agenda of the overt world, and cover stories are spun by self-deceived politicians, "pundits," and mainstream media.
Meanwhile, the truth and the facts about the black-budget world of covert action migrates to isolated ghettos inhabited by independent… Continue reading
Although 9/11's deserved spotlight has certainly yet to come, we offer below a recent sampling of how the press has handled the story thus far. In the corporate press, you'll doubtless notice, it's not pretty and it's not fearless, but at least some facts are leaking through.
A program to monitor the health of thousands of federal workers who answered the call of 9/11 has "been lost for more than two years," the New York Daily News reports. It "vanished during the bureaucratic shuffle creating the Department of Homeland Security" …
(Aug. 26, 2005)
The forgotten and yet most numerous direct physical victims of September 11th are those who were exposed to the air contaminated by the dust clouds formed when the buildings fell. These contained large quantities of asbestos, pulverized glass and concrete, radioactive material from smoke alarms, silicone from computers. Especially hard-hit were first responders and Ground Zero clean-up workers. Underground fires at the disaster site continued for six weeks, further poisoning the air.
Yet in the days immediately after 9/11, the Environmental Protection Agency under Christie Todd Whitman knowingly gave the public absurd assurances that the air was safe to breathe, that no special precautions were necessary, that local residents could just clean up the dust with water. Two years later, we learned that the White House had forced the EPA to change its initial assessment of the danger to falsely reassure New Yorkers; presumably so that business could go on as usual and Wall Street could re-open for trading. By encouraging people not to take preventive measures, this choice in the end may have shortened more lives than the 3,000 lost at the World Trade Center. (For more on this subject, see World Trade Center Environmental Organization .)
By Greg Guma
Vermont Guardian
Burlington– For more than four years, the public has repeatedly been urged to ignore "outrageous" conspiracies theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that set in motion the so-called "war on terrorism." However, the official explanation that has been provided — and widely embraced — also requires the acceptance of a theory, one involving a massive intelligence failure, 19 Muslim hijackers under the sway of Osama bin Laden, and the inability of the world's most advanced Air Force to intercept four commercial airplanes.
"A good theory explains most of the relevant facts and is not contradicted," notes David Ray Griffin, who has been examining the available evidence for the past three years and has so far published two books on the subject. This month, Griffin summarized his findings for more than 1,000 people in four well-attended Vermont talks. The bottom line, he informed a packed house in Burlington on Oct. 12, is that "every aspect of the official story is problematic," contradicting the available evidence and defying even the laws of physics.
You may well ask, how can this be true? And, if so, why haven't we heard more about it? The answer to the second question is easy: Mainstream media outlets have consistently declined to examine the highly technical and exhaustively documented case Griffin has developed. That may also sound like a conspiracy theory, but the almost total news blackout of Griffin's Vermont talks suggests that it's an unfortunate fact.
Explaining why the… Continue reading
Written By Jon Gold
In February 2005 , "Speakers at the national meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science expressed concern Sunday that some scientists in key federal agencies are being ignored or even pressured to change study conclusions that don't support policy positions." Their concerns are well-founded. In June 2005, The New York Times reported that Philip A. Cooney, "removed or adjusted descriptions of climate research that government scientists and their supervisors, including some senior Bush administration officials, had already approved" so as to play down emissions' links to Global Warming. Mr. Cooney served as chief of staff for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Now, however, he serves Exxon . In July 2005, the EPA purposefully held back incriminating reports about our fuel economy so an Energy Bill that served not the people, but the corporations, would pass. As quoted by CBS News , the energy bill "sends billions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies to energy companies, but is expected to do little to reduce U.S. oil consumption or dampen high energy prices." The EPA's report stated, "loopholes in American fuel economy regulations have allowed automakers to produce cars and trucks that are significantly less fuel-efficient, on average than they were in the late 1980's." No wonder they didn't want it to be known. We've done nothing to become more fuel-efficient, and in fact, have gone backwards. Now, as a result, we've passed an energy bill that helps us not at all.
To read more about the long-term and environmental health effects of 9/11, read A Fallen Hero
Unsung Heroes Helping Heroes, Inc, join with Suffolk County Legislator William J. Lindsay in presenting A Conference Dedicated Toward Identifying Issues And Developing Solutions To Problems Still Faced By The Unsung Heroes of The 9-11-01 Attacks
Unsung Heroes Helping Heroes, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization co-founded by responders, rescue and recovery workers of the 9-11 tragedy. Members have first-hand knowledge of the impact to health and emotional well-being resulting from their heroic response to this national disaster. The conference will focus on the social, medical, economic and legal ramifications still faced by responders, rescue and recovery workers. Panel discussions will be interactive, providing ample time for questions and open discussion. Individual access to physicians, social workers, attorneys and clinicians, familiar with the health problems and legal consequences of medical impairments resulting from work at Ground Zero, will be available throughout the day. Lung function testing will also be available.
Registration is free but space is limited so please pre-register. You can register by phone at The Long Island Occupational and Environmental Health Center: #631-642-9100 ext 15
Conference Agenda
JANUARY 28th, 2006
8:30 Registration
9:00 Welcoming Remarks
Honorable William J. Lindsay
Presiding Officer, Suffolk County Legislature
9:15 Documentary
The Life of an Unsung Hero
9:30 Remarks
Jonathan F. Sferazo
President, Unsung Heroes Helping Heroes, Inc.
9:40 Medical Panel – Representatives from
LI Occupational and… Continue reading
We nominate the following, published in New York Newsday on Feb. 18, for Letter to the Editor of the Month. It addresses the poisoning of New York in the aftermath of September 11, but the memorable last paragraph speaks to something even greater. How many letters of this kind must a major paper receive, before it publishes even one?
The toxic air at Ground Zero
Regarding "Judge: Ex-EPA chief sent people back to lower Manhattan too soon" (Newsday.com, Feb. 2), it's about time someone saw that what Christine Todd Whitman did as environmental protection chief was criminal: lying about the safety of 9/11 air quality.
Prison time and steep fines against her personal wealth to (partially) recompense victims' kin would only be a first step.
Remember, she lied at the direction of her bosses. I hope I live long enough to see a Nuremberg-style trial for the whole group of Bush conspirators.
Paul Sheridan
W. David Kubiak thought the 9/11 attacks would be a "wake up call."
"Once you could accept 9/11, you could say, 'I've really got to look at the world again with new eyes,'" he said during a recent phone interview with The Wire .
Kubiak is a member of the steering committee of 911truth.org , a group formed "to investigate, unearth, and widely publicize the full truth surrounding September 11th, 2001."
It's been three years since the start of U.S. military operations in Iraq, and while supporters and detractors of the war continue to debate the causes of and solutions to that conflict, one fact is almost indisputable: the long, bloody journey in Iraq began on Sept. 11, 2001.
I say almost indisputable because, in the world of the 9/11 truth movement, everything from photographic evidence to offhand statements and individual words are up for debate. The term "conspiracy theory" calls to mind images of a spider's web. That's an accurate description for the complex and intricately constructed narratives found in any number of conspiracy theories, but the actual building of conspiracy theories, the steady accumulation of new evidence, new proof, new witnesses, is more like sedimentary rock. A pebble here, a pebble there and, after a number of years, a looming monument to suspicion and paranoia.
But, as they say, just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. We've got plenty of reason to be suspicious. Most recently, President George W. Bush has been stumping… Continue reading
by David Ray Griffin
(Authorized Version)
This lecture was delivered March 30, 2006, at Grand Lake Theater in Oakland for Progressive Democrats of the East Bay. Abbreviated versions of it were given in San Francisco for the Democratic World Federalists on April 2 and the Commonwealth Club on April 3.
Although I am a philosopher of religion and theologian, I have spent most of my time during the past three years on 9/11—studying it, writing about it, and speaking about it. In this lecture, I will try to make clear why I believe this issue worthy of so much time and energy. I will do this in terms of the distinction between myth and reality.
I am here using the term "myth" in two senses. In one sense, a myth is an idea that, while widely believed, is false, failing to correspond with reality.
In a deeper sense, which is employed by students of religion, a myth serves as an orienting and mobilizing story for a people, a story that reminds them who they are and why they do what they do. When a story is called as a myth in this sense—which we can call Myth with a capital M—the focus is not on the story's relation to reality but on its function. This orienting and mobilizing function is possible, moreover, only because Myths with a capital M have religious overtones. Such a Myth is a Sacred Story.
However, although to note that a story functions as a Myth… Continue reading
Problems mount from 9/11 fallout
By David Shukman
BBC News science correspondent
April 12, 2006
URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/4904188.stm
The number of people with medical problems linked to the 9/11 attacks on New York has risen to at least 15,000.
The figure, put together for the BBC, counts those receiving treatment for problems related to breathing in dust.
Many of the victims say the government offered false reassurances that the Manhattan air was safe and are now pursuing a class-action lawsuit.
On Tuesday, a coroner said the death of a policeman who developed a respiratory disease was "directly linked" to 9/11.
James Zadroga – who worked at Ground Zero – died in January. The New Jersey coroner's ruling was the first of its kind.
WTC 'cough'
Jeff Endean used to be the macho leader of a police Swat firearms team. Now, he has trouble breathing and survives on the cocktail of drugs he takes every day.
Kelly Colangelo, an IT specialist, used to have good health but now endures a range of problems including asthma and sinus pain.
"It worried me that I've been damaging my health just being in my home," she told the BBC News website. "It also worries me that I see the health impact on the [the emergency crews at the scene]. We were also exposed and I wonder if in 10-15 years from now, am I going to be another victim?"
Both are victims of what used to be called "World Trade Center… Continue reading
by David Ray Griffin
This essay was originally delivered as a lecture at Trinity Episcopal Church of Santa Barbara, Saturday, March 25, 2006.
In this essay, I offer a Christian critique of the American empire in light of 9/11, and of 9/11 in light of the American empire. Such a critique, of course, presupposes a discussion of 9/11 itself, especially the question of who was responsible for the attacks. The official theory is that the attacks were planned and carried out entirely by Arab Muslims. The main alternative theory is that 9/11 was a "false flag" operation, orchestrated by forces within the US government who made it appear to be the work of Arab Muslims. …
I will argue that the attacks of 9/11 were false flag attacks, orchestrated to marshal support for a so-called war on terror against Muslim and Arab states as the next stage in creating a global Pax Americana, an all-inclusive empire. I will conclude this essay with its main question: How should Christians in America respond to the realization that we are living in an empire similar to the Roman empire at the time of Jesus, which put him to death for resistance against it.
by David Ray Griffin
April 28, 2006
Part I
Note: This essay was originally delivered as a lecture at Trinity Episcopal Church of Santa Barbara,… Continue reading