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بواسطة Anonymous إبريل/نَيْسان 24, 2003
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No Fucks Given
Vince: Hey man you gonna write that essay?
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بواسطة Beardy McGee سبتمبر/أيلول 15, 2010
Acronym for no fucking good. Commonly used in the oil industry when a peice of equipment is no longer in good working order.
Hey, make sure you write N.F.G on those old pumps to make sure they don't get put back in service.
بواسطة Benny Boots مارس/آذَار 4, 2006
Stands for: No Fucks Given. This is a type of mood or feeling, such as being care-free, easy-going, not caring what people think of you or your actions. Also meaning " no fucks where given today" kind of tone but shorter and quicker to say. Similar to saying YOLO, but better and non-mainstream.
Me: I'm gonna wear socks with sandles. NFG!
Person: NFG?
ME: No fucks given kid.
Person: NFG?
ME: No fucks given kid.
بواسطة C*Club Sshmeven أغسطس/آب 9, 2012
on Film sets commonly used as a marker to denote gear or equipment that is no longer working: IE- No Fucking Good. OR. The more family friendly: Non Functioning Gear
These 3 walkies haven't worked for weeks, wrap tape around them and mark "NFG"
بواسطة Gino624 يوليو/تمُّوز 9, 2015
no fucks given
"why are you late to work?!" says boss
"nfg" *walks out not phased* never got questioned again.
"nfg" *walks out not phased* never got questioned again.
بواسطة 4204lyf مارس/آذَار 28, 2015
Short for No Fucks Given
"Did you see that math test today?!"
"Yeah, NFG"
"Yeah, NFG"
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What is the difference in consuming fresh cactus (peruvianus) as opposed to boiling it?
Re: Fresh or cooked?Fri, February 29, 2008 - 4:48 AMI doubt you'd be able to consume fresh cactus,
it's revolting.
Usually the monkeys dry their skin
then pulverize it, then consume that powder with a bit of water.
But if you're san pedro isn't very potent, and requires a couple feet worth of skin,
cooking it down into a tea or resin balls is a good way to get it down.
Re: Fresh or cooked?Sun, March 2, 2008 - 1:20 AMtraditionally sanpedro has allways been consumed in a tea thats been cooked for 7 hours... if you can find a better way then the way people havebeen doing it for thousands of years more power too yah... resin seems like one of those ways.... but you would think they would have thought of that... same with powdered skin ect..
Re: Fresh or cooked?Sun, March 2, 2008 - 2:06 AMfresh cactus tastes like shit to eat really plus you will have alot of cactus in yoru stomach that will make you feel ill and give your body alot ot process cooking takes all the goodness into the water the spirit crosses over and then it is reduced into a strong liquid that is prepared with love then you can invite the cactus into you without having to eat lumps of fresh cactus, if you got strong cactus some people ave had good effects from dried skin mixed in water. resin is good but nothing beats tea if you ask me tea will come on quick and fast whereas resin will take a littel onger as it has to disolve to release the spirit.
make a tea enjoy it get to know how the cactus likes to be cooked prepare for what is to come
cooking plants are a great way to get to know them on many levels
Re: Fresh or cooked?Mon, March 3, 2008 - 6:10 PMDo you need to peel off the skin or can that be left on? It has always taken me hours to try and get it off
Re: Fresh or cooked?Mon, March 3, 2008 - 6:23 PMkeep skin on dont worry about that remove the spines though
Re: Fresh or cooked?Mon, March 3, 2008 - 7:10 PMthe xylem is the outer clear coat that surrounds the skin.
this needs to be removed if you are drying the skin.
if you are boiling the cactus
the xylem will usually float to the top and you can remove it like that.
Is that how the xylem was traditionally removed?
Ingesting the xylem sucks. I've heard it's very hard to digest.
Re: Fresh or cooked?Tue, March 4, 2008 - 1:58 AMThank you for the replies psy-community! What I've done is blended the cactus, after peeling, discarding the core. The liquid separates after a day or two in the fridge - nice clearish liquid on-top, goopy sludge below. I'm gonna give the fresh clear liquid a bash soon, when I have some time off at the end of the month & I'll report back. This will be the 1st time with this method. I've tried the powder & boiled liquid before.
Someone I spoke to says the difference is - fresh = speedier , boiled = mellower
.. I don't have a problem with the bitterness ..
Re: Fresh or cooked?Tue, March 4, 2008 - 2:09 AMohh good luck with that one. i feel sick just thinking about it.
i dont beleive that statement about being speedy and mellow
cactus can do both those things no matter which way you take it.
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Re: Fresh or cooked?Wed, March 5, 2008 - 2:01 AMI have always consumed dried or powdered. I like the taste of this. I tried a small peice of fresh once and I tasted pretty good too (at least in that amount). I think that my sense of taste is a bit abnormal/weak compared to the average person. Now that I am growing my own, I thought that fresh would be the way to go. Seems like it would maintain more of its power/spirit that way? If you would describe the minor alkaloids as "spirit", I thought that they would definetely be lost with boiling? Are you guys sure that the adversive physical effects are from the cactus (excluding core and skin) tissue or merely related to the taste? Was it just nausea? With the dried material that I have used, I found that I needed considerably less than the recomended dose. I am working with T. peruvianus. Would it still be just too much fiber or something like that?
If I was to make a tea, I should get it boiling and then reduce the temperature to what? (Is excessive heat bad). With the technique of drying the tissue in the oven, what temperature should be used?
Re: Fresh or cooked?Wed, March 5, 2008 - 2:13 AMIt seems to me like if my stomach can handle powder or cactus chips, then fresh cactus would not "work" my stomach any harder than this (or maybe it would be a bit less "work"). All that sun or oven drying would do is evaporate the water. Pardon me if I am being ignorant/disrespectful. I still don't know the cactus that well.
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Re: Fresh or cooked?Tue, April 15, 2008 - 10:18 PMYou may not have a problem with the bitterness. Your stomach however will hate you for eating it. Way too much fiber.
I have heard of somebody just taking a foot worth of a young bud. The entire length of it was actually a foot. Just crushing up that and cooking it. Spines and core and everything. To good results too
Re: Fresh or cooked?Fri, March 7, 2008 - 1:24 PMWhat you are describing is the epidermis (outer waxy cuticle), not Xylem!
Re: Fresh or cooked?Fri, March 7, 2008 - 3:37 PMoh.........
Re: Fresh or cooked?Sun, April 20, 2008 - 1:21 PMI vote for removing both the skin and spines if you are going to eat it (fresh, cooked or dried) instead of doing an extraction. in my personal experience, leaving the skin on is a sure bet for purging or at least feeling like you will; with the skin removed I seldom notice any nausea. Peel off the waxy part but be careful not to pull up any of the green flesh. Yes, it is time consuming (and it can be even more difficult if your SP is scarred or sun-burnt.) I don't bother with the core, either (talk about fiber!) Peel it, slice it, discard the core, toss it in the blender and behold, chunky elephant snot tea. A few moments discomfort to chug it down and off you go. ( And have some mints on hand to kill the bitter aftertaste.)
Re: Fresh or cooked?Tue, April 22, 2008 - 11:13 PMthe skin has the highest amount of alkaliods in it... you want the skin...
Re: Fresh or cooked?Thu, July 3, 2008 - 11:54 AMWe're talking about the same thing here - the tough, waxy part? If so, I have to disagree with you. I can't argue about alkaloid content - I have no idea about what parts of the plant have the most. The waxy part may indeed hold a lot of alkaloids. The question is: are these good (magic) or bad (neutral or adverse affect)? Additionally, this content probably varies from plant strain to plant strain, growing conditions, etc.
My opinion is based on some decidedly un-scientific tests we did after a particularly bountiful harvest. Four seven inch sections were cut from the same. The spines were removed from all sections. Two sections were peeled, cut up and the waxy skin set aside. Two sections were just cut up. Two people did the taste tests: unpeeled, peeled, and just the skins. Eating the unpeeled gave both people typical SP magic results with feelings of nausea. The peeled section did the same thing but without the nausea. Eating the waxy skins (tastes even worse than the SP flesh) had no magic effect and made one person feel nauseous and gave the other person a stomach-ache. (Perhaps the magic would have been felt in the skins if there had been a larger dosage.)
Maybe we just have weak stomachs or maybe it was some sort of placebo effect, but for my money, taking the time to remove skin when eating, juicing or making tea from fresh cactus is worth the effort. (If your SP is all sun0burned or scarred, it WILL be a bitch to peel - these are the ones to set aside for extractions.)
Re: Fresh or cooked?Thu, March 6, 2008 - 11:21 PMit probably doesn't teach you right,outside of its own bio region, huh?
Re: Fresh or cooked?Thu, March 6, 2008 - 11:26 PMsorry, i was grumpy. of course it will teach you, on its own.
Re: Fresh or cooked?Tue, April 15, 2008 - 11:17 AMI know this is an older post, but being new here with several methods of using this teacher, I wanted to chime in.
1. Cooking cactus into a tea tastes no worse than eating it fresh. Cooking it seems to make the alkaloids work better fo me anyway.
2. There are quite a few exagerations on the Internet about heat destroying the alkaloids. I have always used a low boil to extract the alkaloids into a tea. At first, I used a high boil and no loss was noticed. There has been no potency lost from heat. I believe this is a myth. While the internet is good for info, it is a double edged sword for accuracy and experience is by far superior to much of the mis information that is so common on this electronic sideshow! (hey, I remember when there was no internet and things were just fine, but no offense).
3. If you have a real problem with the taste you can use the tar method. Blend the material, low simmer the tea, strain it and let the tea evaporate into a glass baking pan greased up with PAM or another no stick oil. I live in a hot desert and this will evaporate in three days into a gummy tar that can be peeled up like a fruit tar wrap. I try to leave it out of sirect syn and cover the top with window screen so it won't get bugs in it.
I am an individual who always gets nausea with San Pedro, no matter how ingested. The tar method will not stop this, but will make it easy to get down. The nausea is part of the purge that is so imporatnt to the experience.
Anyway, I really like the personal side to this web page and it looks as though many here have actually talked to the spirit of San Pedro. Good job!
Re: Fresh or cooked?Tue, April 15, 2008 - 2:04 PMwelcome here
mescaline will never be destroyed when boiled in water as water can only reach 100 degrees C mescaline is stable to heat above this range something like 150 or 170 or something like that cant recall of the top of my head
Re: Fresh or cooked?Fri, May 2, 2008 - 9:15 AMFinally had the opportunity to test the fresh or cooked idea properly. I tried 100ml clearish liquid ( once it seperates fron the pulp ) of P.Torch. Seemed power-wise like a quarter Alice-D blotter. This was a very mild therapeutic dose. Yes, a little nausea, but Mary-J counteracts that. Had the privelage of doing the ceremony in a MOST beautiful nature spot by the Sea & the beauty was really magnified. I felt extremely good & re-energised. Colours were slightly enhanced too. No hallucinations on this small dose. Good as a booster dose. Had good dreams that night & ate well after the 'trip'. It takes a while for me to re-integrate into society after - fells like I have to make a real effort to relax ( Western society & all it's noise etc.) Still very sensitive for a while after. All good in the end & best psychotherapy ever. Like there's my higher self or the plant spirit there, very friendly, to make sure I receive the most out of it. The Plant counsels one & helps one to live better & be a better person. Back to Nature, I say!
Re: Fresh or cooked?Thu, May 8, 2008 - 11:02 AMi do not believe it is necessary to remove the clear skin for drying i never have, its horrble for the fingernails and the patience! i also believe that drinking a strong tea dose = fot and a half down to a half cup concentration = strongest effect.
Re: Fresh or cooked?Fri, May 9, 2008 - 1:28 AMI enjoy the ritual of preparing/processing the Cactus.. building an intimate relationship with the Plant. I find the clear skin easy to peel, with the right technique.
Re: Fresh or cooked?Fri, May 9, 2008 - 2:15 AMYeah, if you do it right it comes off in just a few sheets.
Re: Fresh or cooked?Sat, May 31, 2008 - 3:40 PMFirstly, ask the plant and listen carefully. I am not kidding.
Depending on the variety of trichocereus, there are different lineages and traditions. I have been working with the brigensii, which is Bolivian and extremely potent, so very little cacti matter is needed. I peel the epidermus, clear wax protectant layer off, remove the spines and most of the white fluff interior, using the green layer where all the medicine is, and blend it in a blender with fresh lemon juice to activate the alkaloids. I love bitter, like most love sweet. It is not at all nauseating to me. I have never purged or felt sick and done quite a bit of deep work with this plant. Dried powder and tea are wonderful as well. There doesn't seem to be a major difference and they are all acceptable and potent methods. It just depends on you and the plant and the traditions you are tapping into.
Re: Fresh or cooked?Sat, May 31, 2008 - 3:45 PMthank you for your input Dahmay
wise words there
Re: Fresh or cooked?Thu, July 17, 2008 - 7:43 AMI've had the freshly blended juice ( with honey to preserve ) in the fridge for many a months now and it's turning into a Sacred Cactus alcohol or something!
Re: Fresh or cooked?Sat, July 19, 2008 - 2:47 PMIt's a pretty foul taste, yes. I once extracted some, and it was a little better, with less biomass. Fermentation, keeping in the fridge, is a tad risky, perhaps. :)
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The average weekly wages of all workers covered by state and federal unemployment insurance (UI) programs rose to $718 in the first quarter of 2002, an increase of 0.3 percent from the same quarter in 2001. This increase was the second lowest in the past ten years.
The sectors with the fastest growing weekly wages were administrative and waste services and health care and social assistance, both with a 4.1 percent over-the-year gain. These were followed by agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3.4 percent).
Some sectors recorded over-the-year declines in average weekly wages in the first quarter of 2002. Average weekly wages in finance and insurance fell by 7.0 percent, as the extreme example. This was followed by management of companies and enterprises (-3.2 percent) and information (-2.7 percent).
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Critter Corner
The Homestead bird feeder has been visited regularly by our little feathered friends, the snowbirds.
We also suspect a woods critter coming by, as twice we have found the "bowl" part of the feeder overturned, as if furry paws may have hung on to the edge of it.
We don't suspect squirrels, as we have not seen any of them at this location, the north end of the lane, and also, the bird feeder bowl is pretty heavy to be tilted over by a little squirrel. We suspect a raccoon or an opossum.
Thursday, January 23
• The St. Elmo Unit of Home and Community Education, 1:30 p.m., in the home of Anna Jean Rhodes.
Friday, January 24
• St. Elmo Education Foundation annual soup Supper, 5-7 p.m., in the high school cafeteria. Menu: chili or vegetable soup, peanut butter or chicken salad sandwich or hot dog, dessert; and drink; or hot dog, chips, dessert and drink. Cost is $6 for adults, $4 for children under age 12. All proceeds are for scholarships.
Saturday, January 25
The regular second Monday of the month meeting of the Effingham area Tea Party has been canceled due to other meetings in the area.
The next scheduled meeting is at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 at Culver's in Effingham.
News is still a little sparse, due to the snow and very cold weather, hazardous road conditions and cancellations of activities.
However, some warmer weather is predicted and spring is just around the corner.
Roses to …
… Miss Sandra Stine, elementary PE teacher, as she once again leads the students in the American Heart Association Jump Rope for Heart program for the 26th year.
St. Peter Lutheran Church
Attendance on Sunday was 214. Pastor Emrick returned to the pulpit after a weeks' vacation. Scott Gercken was the organist. Alexis Roberts served as acolyte. Attending elders were Charles Wachholz and Paul Reynolds.
Remember in Your Prayers
• Those with long term health concerns:
-Harold Baldock
-Vicki Bast
-Peggy Bowen
-Jake Connor
-Robin Degler
-Maria Oswald
-Michelle Schaal
-Betty Schneider
-Carl Welch
Thursday, January 16
• Vit-Em-In Sunday school class of First United Methodist Church will not have a potluck this month.
• The St. Elmo Public Library District Board rescheduled meeting is for 7 p.m. in the St. Elmo Public Library.
Saturday, January 18
• Weather permitting, the St. Elmo Community Clothes Closet may be open from 9 a.m.-noon in the First United Methodist Church Parsonage.
Monday, January 20
• Historical Vandalia Inc. Board, 6:30 p.m., Fayette County Museum, Vandalia.
St. Peter has practically shut down this week due to the weather. The Sunday church service was even cancelled! My husband has been diligently plowing roads.
It is imperative in times such as these that we do not travel unless it is an extreme emergency.
Snowplows and other road personnel cannot do their jobs if vehicles are in their paths. Please remember your outside pets – if you're cold, so are they!
Card Shower
A card shower has been requested for the 84th birthday of Lois Meyer on Jan. 16.
"Sweetly" is the name …
… of the new, sweet little face at the Charlie and Kathy Depew home.
And the Rest of the Story
While having lunch at Mark's this week, we saw Charlie and Kathy Depew, and Charlie told us an endearing story about his wife, Kathy (who is a very lovely, kind, compassionate and intelligent lady!)
Thursday, January 9
• The Lunch Bunch, noon, Mary Ann's Restaurant.
Christmas Guests
Christmas Day dinner guests of Dane and Belinda Harpster of St. Peter were: Renee Key of Edgewood; Helen Limes of St. Peter; Dale, Lori and Shooter McKinney of Farina; Dustin Higgs of Mason; and Mahala and Nathan Jacquin of Villa Ridge, Mo.
Evening guests were: Mitch, Gretchen and Owen Harpster of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Ben, Amanda, Madison and Dru Eller of Jackson, Mo.; Nathan and Mahala Jacquin of Villa Ridge, Mo.; and Rollie and Trieva Henson of St. Peter.
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Scott Rolen had a CAT scan yesterday.
"My brain is almost the size of normal human being," he said. "Almost. Real pleased with that."
So his sense of humor is in tact, but he's still feeling the effects of taking a 92 mph Jason Marquis fastball to the helmet Sunday.
"But yesterday I didn't feel right," he said. "I had a bad headache. I never shook it. Today, I feel a little better, just normal headaches. But, at this point, better safe than sorry."
Rolen was going to go through drills to raise his heart rate.
"They want me to do some running, some agility stuff," he said. "Make sure I don't have any dizziness. We'll see where we are from there."
Did he have a concussion?
"I'm sure it was a concussion. But the severity of it . . . you know what scratch that. I have no bleeding in my brain. That I do know from the MRI. What we actually call it medically is not my gig."
It was hardest hit Rolen even took, "unless you want to count seventh-grade pole vault."
"Yeah, it's worst on a baseball field for sure," he said. "I was almost knocked out. I was real fuzzy for the first five or 10 seconds until I sat up. It still hurts in the spot where I was hit."
Rolen spoke to Marquis, a good friend and former teammate.
"He was pretty shook up," Rolen said. "I said, 'if you want to come in (with a pitch), let me know.'"


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Skip to comments.Iran: Yes, We Hacked the U.S.'s Drone, and Here's How We Did It
Posted on 12/15/2011 9:47:51 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Iran rebuffs skepticism with a detailed description of attack, which experts call "certainly possible"
"You are going to tell me what I want to know, it's just a matter of how much you want it to hurt."
Jack Bauer, 24
It sounds like a scene out of a spy movie -- highly trained national paramilitary operatives harshly testing a foreign agent until they break and do their bidding. But that's exactly what Iran is claiming it did to a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency spy drone.
In an unconfirmed, yet fascinating report in The Christian Science Monitor, an unnamed "Iranian engineer" claims that Iran used its torture testing from past crashed drones to break the captured drone and bend it to the command of the Iranian authorities, forcing it into a soft landing so they could probe the secrets of its fully intact body.
I. Iran warned the U.S. of its Capabilities
The report points to claims Iran made in September that it was able to "take control" of U.S. guided weapons or surveillance devices.
Iranian Gen. Moharam Gholizadeh, the deputy for electronic warfare at the air defense headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told the Far News, "We have a project on hand that is one step ahead of jamming, meaning 'deception' of the aggressive systems... we can define our own desired information for it so the path of the missile would change to our desired destination...all the movements of these [enemy drones are being watched]" and "obstructing" their work was "always on our agenda."
At the time the claims by Iran -- under pressure for its suspected nuclear weapons development program -- were largely dismissed as factless national rhetoric.
Similarly, when Iranian state-run media revealed last week that it had captured a U.S. intelligence drone, many experts sneered at Iran's claims that it "hacked" the drone. Remarked an analyst to the Defense News, "[it'd be] like dropping a Ferrari into an ox-cart technology culture."
But while the detailed description of the "electronic ambush" from the interview with the Iranian engineer has not been verified by U.S. military officials, the U.S. gov't and public are now forced to set aside their prejudices and look at those claims far more seriously.
[Image Source: Sepahnews/AP]
According to the source, the first thing the Middle Eastern nation's "cyberwarfare experts" did was to jam the drone's signal. While the report does not specifically mention this, the engineer's claims of using past crashed drones to derive the attack indicate that Iranian experts may have used drones to determine the encrypted control frequencies that the drone was communicating on.
Further evidence that adversaries in the region are on to U.S. UAV feed frequencies comes from the fact that in 2009 Iraqi Shiite militants intercepted live, unencrypted video feeds off a U.S. predator drone, using only off-the-shelf hardware. At the time, Iranian involvement was suspected.
In July and in 2010 Iran claimed to have shot down drones hovering near its nuclear facitilities.
II. "Downing Drones 101"
Using its knowledge of the frequency, the engineer claims, Iran intiated its "electronic ambush" by jamming the bird's communications frequencies, forcing it into auto-pilot. States the source, "By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain."
The team then use a technique known as "spoofing" -- sending a false signal for the purposes of obfuscation or other gain. In this case the signal in questions was the GPS feed, which the drone commonly acquires from several satellites. By spoofing the GPS feed, Iranian officials were able to convince it that it was in Afghanistan, close to its home base. At that point the drone's autopilot functionality kicked in and triggered the landing. But rather than landing at a U.S. military base, the drone victim instead found itself captured at an Iranian military landing zone.
Spoofing the GPS is a clever method, as it allows hackers to "land on its own where we wanted it to, without having to crack the [encrypted] remote-control signals and communications."
[Image Source: Reuters]
While the technique did not require sophistication from a cryptography perspective, it was not entirely trivial, either, as it required precise calculations to be made to give the drone the proper forged distance and find and fine an appropriate altitude landing strip to make sure the drone landed as it did in Afghanistan. The Iranian engineers knew the details of the landing site, because the drone had been confirmed in grainy photos to be landing at a base in Khandar, Afghanistan.
Despite the careful calculations, the drone still sustained a dent in its wing and underbody (though it did not have the usual signs of a high-speed collision). During its press conferences, the Iranian military covered this damage with anti-American banners.
III. Is the West "Underestimating" Iran?
Iran warns that the west is underestimating its growing technlogical prowess. A former senior official is quoted as saying, "There are a lot of human resources in Iran.... Iran is not like Pakistan."
Deputy IRGC commander Gen. Hossein Salami, stated this week, "Technologically, our distance from the Americans, the Zionists, and other advanced countries is not so far [as] to make the downing of this plane seem like a dream for us but it could be amazing for others."
The Christian Science Monitor report cites an unnamed European intelligence source as claiming that Iran in an unreported incident managed to "blind" a CIA spy satellite by "aiming a laser burst quite accurately" at its optics. And in September Google Inc.'s (GOOG) security certificates were hacked to give access to 300,000 Iranian citizens Gmail accounts, in what circumstantial evidence indicated was a "state-driven attack," potentially designed to ferret out spys or dissidents.
For now Iran military and government workers -- including the engineer -- are giddy with joy at their success, according to the report. The source is stated as remarking, "We all feel drunk [with happiness] now. Have you ever had a new laptop? Imagine that excitement multiplied many-fold."
What they captured was no mere Reaper or Predator -- it was an advanced RQ-170 Sentinel design, made by Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) for the CIA.
He said that members of the National Guard initially feared that the drone was rigged to auto destruct, but eagerly moved to inspect it anyways because they "were so excited they could not stay away."
III. U.S.: Drone Missions to Iran Will Continue
It's important to remember that while the attack described in the report sounds very feasible, it has not been confirmed by the U.S. government, and may never be. It now appears that the government is at least acknowledging that the drone is a real U.S. drone, as opposed to early reports in which some officials indicated it might be fake Iranian propaganda/publicity stunt.
Former U.S. Navy electronic warfare specialist Robert Densmore told The CS Monitor that Iran's claims were "certainly possible", adding, "I wouldn't say it's easy, but the technology is there... Even modern combat-grade GPS [is] very susceptible [to manipulation]."
The U.S. has claimed that the drone was not spying, but was flying a standard mission over Afghanistan, when it suffered a "unspecified technical malfunction" and went of course, landing in Iranian hands. They declined to explain how the drone -- flying at high altitude -- could have avoided sustaining serious damage.
U.S. President Barrack Obama has requested that Iran return the drone to U.S. officials. Iran has refused. IRGC Brig. Gen. Mohammad Hejazi, comments, "That is a shameless demand raised by the U.S. President. They raise such claims instead of apologizing to our Islamic establishment and people."
Iran has refused President Obama's demands that it return the drone.
[Image Source: Matt Ortega/Flickr]
Instead, Iran is filing a complaint with the United Nations Security Council, stating, "My government emphasizes that this blatant and unprovoked air violation by the United States government is tantamount to an act of hostility against the Islamic Republic of Iran in clear contravention of international law, in particular, the basic tenets of the United Nations Charter."
Despite that, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Fox News that the U.S. would "absolutely" continue to fly drones in the region. The implied message -- but one that the U.S. military does not officially acknowledge -- is that the hunt for Iranian nuclear weapons activity will continue.
If confirmed, Iran's new drone downing capabilities are a concern. Currently there's no real secure replacement for GPS satellites -- though China has done pioneering work in creating a state-run GPS network with an encrypted channel.. However, U.S. military suppliers could solve this issue by resorting to more advanced software. For example a drone could be programmed to:
Iran recently developed bomber UAVs of its own, though they are believed to be human-controlled designs, which trail the U.S.'s sophisticated UAVs, which are capable of autonomous flight, thanks to their advanced artificial intelligence.
V. Iran Threatens Afghanistan, Afghanistan Tells it to Leave it Out of U.S. Mess
Tensions rose on Thursday when Iran warned its neighbor Afghanistan that it would consider any further drones detected launching from U.S. bases in Afghanistan a "hostile act" by the Afghanis. Iran's foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi comments, "We have called on the Afghan government to seriously pursue the case, and under no circumstances let such events happen again, as such events will be regarded as unfriendly."
It's hard to know exactly what Iran could do in response, given the U.S.'s support for the Afghani government.
The suggestion was enough, though, to rattle Afghani President Hamid Kharzai, who claimed not to know about the drone, stating, "Afghanistan was not aware that the drone had gone or malfunctioned in Iran."
VI. Hostilities Between Iran and U.S. Continue
Iran, Israel, and the U.S. continue to be locked in a feud over Iran's reportedly nuclear weapons development. The U.S. claims their evidence indicates Iran is secretly building bombs. Iran claims its nuclear weapons activities are peaceful and solely for power purposes.
In addition to allegations of spying, Iran has publicly accused the U.S. and Israel of direct sabotage to its nuclear effort. They point to the sophisticated "Stuxnet" worm, which specifically targetted Iran's nuclear power facilities, with the goal of sabotaging refining centrifuges. Their have also been reported assasinations of Iranian nuclear scientists and unexplained explosions at Iranian factories/nuclear facilities. Again, the Iranians point to U.S. and Israeli intelligence as the perpetrators of these incidents.
While Iran has never officially gone to war with the U.S. or its allies, although it did wage a war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the 1980s, a war in which the U.S. government was exposed to be funneling weapons and expertise to Iraq, weapons that would be turned against the U.S. in later conflicts. The U.S. support of Iraq generated much bitterness and resentment among the Iranian revolutionary movement.
That bitterness has even deeper roots in the U.S. support for The Shah (Persian for "king") who, together with his father had ruled Iran for 54 years with U.S. support. While the U.S. support helped modernize Iran, his policy of crushing dissidents and his imprisonment of Shiite religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini create pent-up hatred towards the monarch, animosity that exploded in the Iranian revolution of 1978.
That revolution installed a theocratic government much of the kind that some Christian fundamentalists have called for here in the U.S. -- in which the state had a religion of choice, but (supposedly) offers freedom of religion via legislative protections for religious minorities.
Some prominent America politicians such as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have called for the U.S. legal system to recognize the U.S. as a Christian theocracy [source]. Sen. McCain emphasizes "tolerance", but suggests that he would be uncomfortable with allowing a Muslim to be President of the United States. Likewise Iran, in the 1980s went through a period of increasing its own "tolerance" efforts in the 1980s, allowing its Christian and Jewish minorities to hold token political positions, albeit barring them from top positions of federal power.
Despite the similar fundamental governing philosophies between "conservative" evangelicals in the U.S. and Iranian fundamentalists, the U.S. evangelical movement have led some of the harshest criticism of Iran, though curiously going light on U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, a nation which practices and preaches an even more theocratic religious rule.
Iran has exactly done its best to win friends among moderates in the U.S., though. It's been accused of funneling weapons to guerillas in the 1982 and 2006 conflicts between Lebanon and the U.S.-backed Israel.
The U.S. fears -- and perhaps rightly so -- that a nuclear armed Iran could lead to catastrophic destruction of its ally Israel and U.S. military bases in the Middle East. They also fear the nation could threaten the stability of secular democracies in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, funneling support to religious insurgents.
Israel remains more non-chalant, claiming it can shoot down any Iranian nukes that come its way. Israel and Iran are currently engage in a cyberwar.
The Islamic republic is a puzzle for the Western world, and its neighbors to deal with in coming years. Iran, despite economic problems and foreign economic sanctions continues to grow. It recently passed the 1 million market in yearly automobile production, making it the top domestic producer of cars in the Middle East. Iran has the benefit of holding the world's second richest natural gas reserves and third richest oil reserves.
In 2009 Iran launched its first satellite into space.
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It also claimed to have 3.5 million college students enrolled in 2008 [source] -- a 4.4 percent enrollment rate which compares approaches U.S. enrollment rates. The U.S. reported in 2009 20.4 million college students enrolled [source], roughly a 6.7 % per capita enrollment rate. While Iranian propoganda makes it hard to tell whether these numbers are entirely accurate, Iran does appear to have higher college education rates that many of its Middle Eastern peers.
Sources: Christian Science Monitor, ETH Zurich, MSNBC, Fox News
Act of war.
Obama = Carter
So at least Obama is doing something!
If Obama was doing something, the Iranians would not be uncompiling the code on that plane.
It's an American plane, brought down by hostile action.
That is an act of war.
"We just need to talk to the Iranians..."
Hey McCain, we've already GOT a muslim in the White House!/s (paragraph VI)
Missed it.
What did Speaker Gingrich have to say?
That's an act of war by the phony holy men.
Blatant attempts at spoofing like this (like GPS supposedly telling the craft it is somewhere that its operating parameters, i.e. fuel usage, speed, and time in flight, would not make possible) ought to bring about the craft's automatic self destruction upon landing.
Tell me again, why is NASA collaborating with Mooses?
More to the point, why are we not retaliating?
Back in Jimmy Carter's failure, the attack on our embassy was not an official government attack. It was a sort of terrorist attack, "students", not the Iranian regime.
This appears to now be confirmed, by the Iranian government, to have been an attack against America by Iran.
why wasnt there a self-destruct for the drone.
That is an act of war.
In their air space.
Which makes it an act of self-defense.
I call BS. I seriously doubt that the Iranians could spoof the military GPS codes. And that drone sure as hell wasn't flying using the published civilian codes we all use in our Garmins and Tom Toms in our cars.
Who said it was in their air space?
Those "students" are well known today as "Taliban." It was a masterful piece of deception, because the Western world was treating it as something akin to its own domestic university protestors, not something cunningly set up by the "new boss."
It was inaction.
Just like this.
Gingrich had a lot to say on other topics ,....some good stuff on reforming the Judicial branch and getting after some off the crazy Activist judges.
That "drone" doesn't look right. It doesn't look like the photos of the Sentinel that have been published and it looks pretty lightly built for a military device.
IMHO, it looks like some sort of big counterintelligence scam. The Iranians down a big RC aircraft that looks like a real drone. Maybe it's loaded with computer viruses or just a bunch of stuff designed to make them think they have something while they have nothing.
I'd guess the most likely case is the Iranians were able to jam the control signals to the plane for an extended period of time and in the absence of control it automatically landed. It isn't good to have something that big flying around with no control.
None of this rings true at all.
Even a novice design team would build in at least triple layer watchdog systems.
There is no way a simple loss of GPS would cause all the systems to fail. Furthermore,
corruption of one system by trojan or virus would not take out the other watchdog
systems. These systems are kept isolated from each other by code base and power supply
and in some instances they have different design teams to ensure against sabotage.
Any one of the redundant systems would either result in the drone returning to friendly
airspace or the destruction of the craft.
GPS is not the sole method of determining the crafts location. They can follow terrain
just as a cruise missile can by referencing mapping data. GPS can give a drone pinpoint
navigation but that is overkill, within a few hundred yards is sufficient and even the
old system of inertial guidance can handle that.
The notion that the craft sustained damage because the landing strip is not at the same
altitude as the real one somewhere in Afghanistan is absurd! A sophisticated drone does
not rely on GPS to determine height above a runway, such a task is child's play for even
a low dollar radar altimeter system. A remote controled plane enthusiast could build such
a system for his toy planes.
You simply cannot jam the communications system of a drone from the ground! They have
a link to low orbit satellites and the antenna for this is atop the craft and shielded from
a signal located on the ground. A break of this link would also result in a countdown to
self destruct that could only be halted by an encrypted code sent back from the drones
control point.
There is much much more I could say, I will say that this whole story strikes me as ridiculous
in the extreme.
I don't believe the Iranians did it on their own, but instead it was done by Russian techs in Iran and this is essentially a cover story for the Russians. Russian is neck deep into the Iranian nuclear and other military programs.
I call BS too. I wonder at what step they painted it that tan/white color? Our RQ-170s are gray.
The Muzzies talk a lot about Martyrdom..........but only a very small percentage actually engage in it. 99+ percent of them know in their heart it's all BS and the urge to live supersedes any martyrdom indoctrination. The fact is that 9/11 was primarily an immigration failure, hell the plan was almost aborted because 1 conspirator wasn't allowed in the country. If even just a few more of the remainder had been deported for overstaying their visas or better yet not granted student visas in the first place; the plot would have collapsed.
I fear my current Government's turn towards tyranny more than a bunch of Muzzies on the other side of the world.
Not related to the main topic, but buried in the text:
"That revolution installed a theocratic government much of the kind that some Christian fundamentalists have called for here in the U.S. — in which the state had a religion of choice, but (supposedly) offers freedom of religion via legislative protections for religious minorities. "
WTF? And it goes on to imply that McCain supports that kind of thing?
Really diminishes the credibility of the rest of this article.
Well, we really don't know, do we. I confess to making an assumption that might not necessarily be true.
But what's the point of flying one of those suckers around that part of the world...if you're not sticking your nose into Iran's air space?
Still, they could've taken control -- if they did, in fact, "take control" -- on either side of the border.
The Russians may be giving aid on a higher level than we realize. The Iranians may have used a Russian satellite to disrupt communications to the drone. What the Iranians are saying is a cover story for what they actually did. I say they have our encryption code and actually landed the drone with their own control signals relayed by Russian satellite. I believe somebody compromised secrets to our drone control system allowing Iran to change control frequencies which took control away from U.S. operators. The reason the drone suffered bumps and scrapes is because the Iranian remote control operators were not as skilled in flying the drone. With a drone in their hands, they can build one of their own to practice with.
Oh., This is much more believable than Muzzie in Chief flat out sold it to the Russian. Yeah, much more believable.
You began with Jack Bauer; therfore the rest must be true.
Many on this board were Jack Baur sychophants, so lets let the fantasy run out to its copmletion...
Jack Bauer dropped the ball.
"Maybe its loaded with computer viruses or just a bunch of stuff designed to make them think they have something while they have nothing."
"they wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and, in turn, gave them a shoddy bomb casing full of old used pinball machine parts!"
Iran already has nukes, they have a large army in Mexico and a force in America already...Russia , china using them..
This implies our entire military GPS guidance system has been compromised.
Where would a GPS guided smart bomb hit. Not likely where it was supposed to.
The entire GPS system needs to either be trashed or an upgrade.
With China, and likely Russia, having the ability to destroy GPS satellites, Iran et al able to spoof signals, it's worthless.
Then there's EMP.
"That is an act of war."
A US military drone operating in a foreign nation's airspace without the permission of that nation could certainly be considered an act of war.
Unfortunately the US is the aggressor in this situation. We invaded Iran's airspace, with a military aircraft. If it is in their airspace, without their permission, they have the right to shoot it down. I would expect the US to take the same action if an Iranian drone was found in US airspace.
Once again the US is involved in military action without following the requirements of the Constitution. If there is a reason to be at war with Iran the Constitution clearly requires the President to go to Congress and ask for a Declaration of War. If Congress votes yes we go to war, if Congress votes no, the President cannot initiate hostile action against other countries. Flying military aircraft over a sovereign nation's airspace without permission is hostile action. It is also unconstitutional for the President to take such action without a Declation of War.
Over the past 60 years the US has killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of people and consumed trillions of dollars of taxpayer money in unconstitutional wars initiated by Presidents acting on their own without the formal Declaration of War required by the Constitution. The over reach by the unchecked imperial executive branch has reached the point where it now claims the unconstitutional power to declare US citizens "terrorists" in the homeland and deny them their constitutionally protected, God given, liberties without due process of law.
Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somolia, Libya are just some of the unconstitutional uses of American armed forces over the past 60 years. All of these hostile actions, involving the US military invading sovereign territory, may have been noble causes essential to the defense of the homeland. If these costly applications of military force were justifiable, they could have withstood the scrutiny of sober debate and vote in Congress prior to being initiated.
War is a serious matter and the founders were wise to require the chief executive to go to secure the affirmative vote of the representatives of the people before committing the blood and property of the people to foreign adventures, the founders also understood the seriousness of invading a sovereign nation. It pains me to see our modern nation so eager to ignore the Constitution and commit our military around the globe in aggressive actions at the whim of the executive branch. Our reputation around the world as an imperialist aggressor nation is well deserved.
George Bush going to war in Iraq to overthrow Saddam and create a "democratic" state is the equivalent of Iran invading the US to create an Islamic republic or China invading the US to create a communist dictatorship.
I have no doubt Iran is an enemy of the US and it may have the intent to do this nation harm. If there is imminent threat, the President can go to Congress, show the evidence, and ask for a formal war declaration. If he isn't following the Constitution, the threat must not be serious.
Don't forget, the US military has shot down an unarmed Iranian civilian airliner without provocation, killing over 100 of its citizens. if we are justified in shooting down a civilian airliner in international airspace, perhaps the Iranians should be excused for downing a military aircraft invading their airspace. Going back further in history the US government in the 1950's facilitated the overthrow of the lawful government in Iran to put the Shah on the throne. Iran has historical reason to view the US as an threat.
Returning to the Constitution, imagine if Jimmy Carter had responded to the takeover of the US embassy in Terhan by telling the Iranians quietly through diplomatic channels if the didn't release the hostages immediately he would go to Congress and request a Declaration of War. Had he done so I suspect the Iranians would have backed down. If not, the invasion of the embassy was an act of war in that embassy grounds are considered to be an extension of the guest nation's territory under international law. If Congress then voted a formal war declaration the Iranians would have faced justified military action to repatriate the hostages or extract revenge in the event the Iranians harmed them. This lawful exercise of US power would have sent a very powerful message to Iran and the rest of the world. It might actually have prevented the first Gulf War as Saddam would not hav underestimated the will of the US to fight in the region.
For those who argue Iran is a threat and we are justified on that basis to use our military capability against them at the whim of the President, I ask why not Venezuela, or Cuba? They are much closer to the homeland. Why not China? China is a future threat, they've made no secret of their intent to defeat us. Plus China has been engaging in a damaging trade war with us for 20+ years, is engage in espionage and cyber warfare everyday.
It is unfortunate the US lost an intact drone. However the downing of that drone was not an act of war against the US. The US invaded sovereign airspace with a military aircraft. That nation was justified in in removing the invader through whatever means it chose.
Screw that. Why hasn't a 3000lb JDAM dropped through the roof of the hangar or warehouse where they're keeping the drone?
-——why is NASA collaborating with Mooses-—
You lack the sophistication to discriminate between our friends and our enemies. We have both. For that reason we permit our friends to participate in our space efforts
If we had a president instead of a community organizer, this would not have happened. Iran committed an OVERT ACT OF WAR by deliberately spoofing the operational signals and frequencies that this AMERICAN drone uses.
Iran has declared war on the USA, but our Sissy In Chief, Obama, fails to recognize it or act on it.
Totally appears fake.Whole story is bizarre. I hope I am wrong because we look like clowns with the a**hole Iranians and Urkel president.
The air intake looks clearly different from the one in the article picture.
Amazing. They've converted our unmanned drone to a manned drone.
No one would have ever tried to mess with us again after that demonstration of wrath.
Of course, it's still not too late; we know precisely where it is:
Of course a warning to evacuate the city would be humane -- and then we could strike at the time of our own choosing...
The same goes for our drone.
Of course Øbozo lacks two things which prevents him using even a conventional cruise missile to "declassify" our captured drone...
Lot of hot air and bullsh*t. None of it is true. Iran are known liars that make crap up that is known to be false and this is just more of the same.
We have that going with our leftists.....Global warming scam is one such bit of evidence.
The story lines being presented are just to easy to believe. I don't believe the Iranian's took control of the ship and brought it down in one piece.
"scramble the GPS coordinates "
To do that they would have to be able to decrypt and re-encrypt and inject that newinf into the data stream in real-time that is hardened from such attacks. Not even remotely possible.
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Friday 4 – Thursday 10 October 2013
Enjoy a special week of documentaries at the Music Box Theatre. These films have been painstakingly selected by Music Box Theatre Head Programmer Brian Andreotti as a very special opportunity to see interesting subject matter up on the big screen.
Among the many outstanding films the Music Box considers for programming each calendar are countless well-crafted and intriguing documentaries. These films are fascinating studies created by directors so committed to a cause, individual or event that they are driven to explore, in intense detail, their subject. Although we can't show them all, in recent months we've received so many outstanding submissions that we've opted to screen as many of our favorites as possible in a week's time. Voila! The Music Box Theatre is proud to present its first ever documentary film festival, Docs at the Box!
Saturday, October 5th, 2013
- 7:00pm: Trials of Muhammad Ali
Thursday, October 10th, 2013
- 7:30pm: Free the Mind
Tickets are $9.25
A Festival Pass (Good for use for all films in the festival) is $40. That's a 60% discount!
- Sat 5 Oct 2013, 7:00pm
Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)
directed by Bill Siegel starring Muhammad Ali in English
Chicago Sneak Preview! Filmmakers scheduled to appear! The Trials of Muhammad Ali covers the explosive crossroads of Ali's life. When Cassius Clay becomes Muhammad Ali, his conversion to Islam and refusal to serve in the Vietnam War leave him banned from boxing and facing a five-year prison sentence. Ali's choice of belief and conscience over fame and fortune resonates far beyond the boxing ring, striking issues of race, faith and identity that continue to confront us all today.
From his Louisville roots, through his years in exile, to receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Trials traces Ali's path from poet to pariah to global ambassador for peace. At each stage, the challenges Ali faces go far beyond the boxing ring and ultimately encompass issues of power, race, faith and identity that confront us all.
The Trials of Muhammad Ali is not a boxing film and has no highlight reel. Instead, it focuses on Ali's toughest bouts: his decision to join a controversial religious group, his battle to overturn a five-year prison sentence for refusing US military service, and his struggle with Parkinson's.
- Thu 10 Oct 2013, 7:30pm
Free the Mind with post-screening Mindfulness Discussion Panel
Free the Mind
directed by Phie Ambo
Join us for a very special mindfulness event at the Music Box Theatre. There will be an exclusive, one-off screening of mindfulness documentary Free the Mind and a mindfulness discussion panel afterwards.
Details on the special panelists here
Brain scientist Professor Richard Davidson sets up his mind to conduct an unusual experiment: He will teach American war veterans and children meditation and yoga. Can veterans through meditation and yoga ease their pain and nervous system, find happiness and be more peaceful and get back to a life more like the one they had before the war?


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Before the mid-1970s, special education in our country's public schools was all but non-existent. Many students were either outright denied the opportunity to attend because of their disability or they received inferior instruction if they were able to enroll.
That thankfully began to change in 1975, when Congress passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act and required each state to provide appropriate services in this critical area.
Buses are loaded up, lunchboxes are packed up and students have returned to school in Carroll County. At Champions for a Drug Free Carroll County, we are geared up and excited for a fun-filled year with education and prevention at our forefront as always.
About a decade ago, Kentucky started to see a welcome trend as the number of highway fatalities began a steady decline.
Totals that regularly exceeded 900 a year before 2007 dropped to 638 in 2013, a figure not seen in the commonwealth since the 1940s.
Unfortunately, that was as low as it would go. The number of fatalities on our roads last year was almost a fifth higher than the benchmark set just two years earlier, and through the first seven-plus months of this year, it's eight percent ahead of where it was last August.
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Kentucky received some welcome news last month when a national study found that no state had a smaller gap when comparing the high school graduation rates of students from low- and higher-income families.
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She turned to me, her blue eyes faintly distant, mysterious and said: I had a dream of a fox. But when I asked the fox what he wanted, he said: I am here for Kat. I have a message for Kat. We were sitting at the breakfast table, the three of us. A few days… Continue reading Call of The Fox
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Great to hear that I won't have to spend way much more to improve slightly an already pretty good amp (as I was already decided to go with the PDPSU and the Sophia). I know at some point I'll want to improve it but I should be ok for a while.
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Is Woo audio still offering upgrades to WA6? some say they discontinued v cap and blackgate upgrades
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They would be the best ones to ask. I would email them.
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I have an older Woo 6 with blackgate caps realy nice with my Denon D2000.
Tube rolling is a treat this this amp also. Running a Mullard CV378 (GZ37)rectifier tube, nice tube for the Woo 6.
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I've done a lot of tube rolling on this amp.
So far the best I've heard-- and the one that lives in my WA6 is the Mullard GZ34. Mine is a 1957 with a metal base and cost almost as much as the amp. It brings tremendous presence and a deep bass, without sacrificing soundstage) The one tube I'm anxious to try is a Western Electric 422A 274B. It's quite pricey-- as much as twice the cost of the amp. Rectifiers have a huge impact on the sound, and a bad one closes the sound down and doesn't allow the transients to breathe. A good test is a piece with a lot of wet reverb. A poor rectifier clamps down on the reverb.
So far I've rolled:
Sofia Princess Mesh (All for show and glow)
5AR4 (Bad)
CV 593 (Decent)
Telefunken GZ32 (still auditioning-- more delicate than the GZ34-- lacks the impact, but delivers a delicate sound that's more open.)
Mullard GZ34 (1958 normal base-- my previous favorite)
So far my favorite is the 6SN7, a popular tube no question, for good reason. But I find the power tubes have less impact on sonic quality. I listen for clean tones and punch, along with overall drive.
On the power side:
6DE7 (Terrific on the HD650-- horrible when paired with the HD800)
6GL7 (horrible match for the HD650, better on the HD800)
3FD7 (awful)
I haven't messed with the electronics at all. The HD800s are a finicky headphone. They seriously underperform on this amp until married with quality tubes. In fact, the HD650 sounds better on this amp (read: they're more forgiving) until I jump to my higher-end tubes.
I will be moving up in amp at some point, with an eye on the WA5LE.


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This review is from: Intel BOXDH67GDB3 LGA 1155 Intel H67 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
This seems to be a very nice board and quite small. Great specs for a HTPC.
I received, from Newegg, a motherboard with bent pins. Over the past 2 months (12/2012 through 2/2013) I have been in contact with Intel's support and they have sent me two more defective boards. The first crashed after being on for a few hours. At this point Intel requested to see both the board and the Core i3 processor I was using. I shipped both back to them, however they only were able to confirm receiving the board. I was sent back a replacement board with another bent pin and without a processor to go with it. I am now working on getting a refund, instead of replacement, for these parts through Intel.
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If you have this board, and it works, then it is probably great as some of the other reviews indicate. Unfortunately, I have received 3 bad boards in a row, and that is a big concern for me with regard to Intel's QC. Especially, since the last 2 were received directly from Intel support (so wouldn't they check them?). Bottom line: this board looks good, but based on 3 bad ones in a row, I'd say it is a risky purchase.
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When earnings season kicks into high gear, there can be little time to look at anything beyond the top and bottom lines.
The conference calls with financial analysts begin early in the day and run well after the U.S. markets have closed for the day. (Thank goodness for replays.) And when you've read one earnings news release, you've pretty much read them all. Only the numbers change.
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Ipsen said today it will buy drug developer Syntaxin in a deal that could reach more than €158 million ($206 million), three years after the French specialty pharma giant began collaborating with the U.K.-based developer of recombinant botulism toxins.
Ipsen said it agreed to pay €28 million ($36.5 million) up-front, and up to €130 million ($169.6 million) or more tied to development and commercial milestones for Syntaxin, whose lead product is in Phase II clinical trials and being co-developed with Allergan. Syntaxin shareholders would receive most of any additional downstream payments related to the lead product, Serenbotase (AGN 214868), for the treatment of both post-herpetic neuralgia and idiopathic overactive bladder and urinary incontinence.
The companies said the deal will enable Ipsen to use Syntaxin's know-how in the design, expression, and purification of recombinant botulinum toxins—reflected by a portfolio of 75 granted patents and more than 130 patents pending—while deploying the acquired company's Targeted Secretion Inhibitors platform across Ipsen's therapeutic areas of neurology, endocrinology, and uro-oncology. Ipsen also said the deal aligns with its strategy of reinforcing core technological platforms, peptides, and toxins.
"This is an important step in our ambition to become a global leader in targeted debilitating diseases. The acquisition of Syntaxin is a considerable addition to our neurology franchise and is fully aligned with our strategy of focus," Marc de Garidel, Ipsen's chairman and CEO, said in a statement.
Separately yet simultaneously, Ipsen announced a sponsored R&D collaboration with Harvard Medical School focused on discovering, evaluating, and developing new engineered recombinant botulinum toxins for treating serious neurologic diseases. Under their agreement, Ipsen will fund Harvard research for at least three years.
Publicly traded Ipsen quietly began collaborating with Syntaxin in 2010. A year later, the companies announced a global strategic partnership designed to explore the discovery and development of new compounds in recombinant botulinum toxins. Syntaxin's team has focused on discovery of new therapeutic candidates, and Ipsen, on pharmacological, preclinical, and clinical assessment of those compounds.
At the time, Ipsen agreed to pay an undisclosed technology access fee, offer full-time employee support, and shell out $9 million payments tied to research milestones in the first three years of the collaboration. Syntaxin was also eligible for additional license fees, development and regulatory milestones, and potentially more than $90 million in commercial milestone payments, plus royalties on net sales. In return, Ipsen received exclusive worldwide development and commercialization rights to discoveries within the collaboration.
Syntaxin's CEO, Melanie Lee, Ph.D., C.B.E., F.Med.Sci., D.Sc. will leave the company, as will other members of her executive team, which includes CBO Nigel Clark, Ph.D., CFO Phil Boyd, Ph.D., and CDO Jon Court, Ph.D. However, Syntaxin's co-founders, CSO Keith Foster, Ph.D., and John Chaddock, Ph.D., chief technology and operations officer, will join Ipsen to help build its toxin platform.
The companies said Syntaxin's research laboratories in Abingdon, U.K., will remain as a center of excellence for botulinum toxin engineering within the combined company, while joining Ipsen's R&D sites at Wrexham, U.K., and Les Ulis, France.
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Max Bullough has been the heart and soul of the Michigan State defense for the past three seasons, but the Spartans will be without their two-time captain for the Rose Bowl.
In a statement Wednesday night, coach Mark Dantonio announced Bullough is suspended for the remainder of the season for a violation of team rules.
"It is extremely disappointing for all parties involved," Dantonio said. "We will stay focused and close ranks as we prepare for Stanford on January 1 in the Rose Bowl. Max will forever remain a Spartan and valued member in this team's achievements.
"We will have no further comment on this issue."
Per multiple reports, Bullough did not make the trip to California with the team on Christmas.
The three-year starter was named first-team All-Big Ten in 2013 with 76 tackles and 9.5 tackles for loss. He will finish his career ranked No. 18 in Michigan State history with 299 tackles and 11th with 30.5 tackles for loss.
Bullough was arrested during spring break in Colorado in 2011 with former Spartans tight end Brian Linthicum. Bullough was charged with a misdemeanor minor in possession of alcohol and sentenced to nine months probation. Since then the senior had not been in any reported legal trouble and had become a valuable member of the Spartan football team on and off the field.
He recently was in New York being honored by the NFF Foundation as a national scholar athlete with a 3.56 GPA in finance.