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Skip to comments.California Surgeon Used Human Fat to Power Car
Posted on 12/26/2008 8:37:01 AM PST by EnchanteEdited on 12/26/2008 8:38:36 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A former Beverly Hills, Calif. liposuction doctor claimed to have the environment's best interests at heart when he began fueling his and his girlfriend's SUVs with human fat sucked out of his patients.
Unfortunately the practice was illegal, according to California state health officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Heck, Rosie alone could get the shuttle up.
I could contribute some "lipodiesel" myself, but I don't think I'd care to go through that procedure.......
It all sounds extremely green and fashionable to me. What's wrong with those California authorities? Don't they know that California leads the way and the whole nation follows?
Did this fellow think of putting the squeeze on Michael Moore?
California could connect tubes to the heads of the liberals in the State legislature, and have an infinite source of energy.....
Yuck. Just yuck.
how many times will this nonsense be posted?
I use human fat to power my bicycle.
Mmmm...suspended sentence and probation.
OH, YES, I should not have left Michael Moore off my list — my list was sexist, I'm sorry. Michael Moore alone could power another space shuttle after Rosie's special sponsored launch......
(actually, I don't think they could achieve the energy density needed for rocket fuel, so maybe they'd have to settle for powering large ships or cross-country trucks......)
perpetual motion : )
Well I have no idea since a search did not reveal any indication that it had been posted before.....
Since human fat is like lard (saturated fat) and hardens at room temperature what does he do to keep it from becoming solid in the tank and the lines to the engine?
"A liposuction clinic. Pay dirt! The richest, creamiest fat in the world.
The fat of the land!"
I am surprised this works.
Didn't read the whole story, but he must have had it
processed in some way beyond the "used cooking grease", which also needs to be filtered and cleaned up before it
is used in cars/vehicles already adapted to burn it.
It's called "the greasecar movement".
NOw it seems even highly paid plastic surgeon types are trying to economize/
>>>Since human fat is like lard (saturated fat) and hardens at room temperature what does he do to keep it from becoming solid in the tank and the lines to the engine?
Add a few chemicals & a little heat - and it catalyzes into various component parts - it's just another biodiesel.
Reading the whole story reveals a "doctor" just as flaky and unethical as the first paragraph would suggest. He had his license pulled recently because he let unlicensed people do tricky procedures involving lipo needles by themselves. Three patients wound up disfigured according to their lawyer.
Soylent Green is people!
Apparently it is also being considered for motor fuel....
That's been done for decades. "Get your fat ass out and push my car"
Apparently not yet.
Plus I was never fond of very fat people.
"Push the car? Man, get yo' mama to push the car"! ...
I remember being in a nice restaurant about 60 years ago. There was a huge fat lady a couple of tables away. I thought she must be sick to be that fat....until I saw her pile her plate. No sympathy here.
Good God, man! There's enough, um, resources there to solve the energy crisis.
It's a health law thing, I'm sure. It would be considered medical waste, and there's probably only specified ways in which it can be used and otherwise must be disposed of as a biohazard. Certainly a good rule in general, I doubt that there was any particular hazard here.
Course, what do they do with the biohazard waste, they INCINERATE it! This guy could probably use that as the basis of his defense.
Here's the bottom story:
"Several former patients have filed lawsuits against the doctor, claiming he allowed his unlicensed girlfriend and an assistant to perform procedures, causing mistakes that left the patients disfigured, attorney Andrew Besser, who represents three of the former patients, told Forbes.com."
It's the GF's fault.
Those two idiots are gonna have a muther of a sunburn. strawberry blonds and sun don't mix.
Michael Moore certainly does have a lot of carbon-offsets to trade in at the SF Airport.
This is a great idea. We can kill solve the energy and health crisis at the same time.
Soylent Green Energy.
Straight out of "Fight Club."
Also, the Nazis boiled down dead Jews and made soap.
now they're everywhere.
Cute strawberry blonds and myself can mix.
It's been 60 years since you sat in a nice restaurant?
Oh no...I just remember it from when I was a little kid. I've been to the best. One of the best was in DC. Favorite meal...Veal French.
The last time I was in a super fancy restaurant my date made me eat snails. I really don't see why people think they are so special or why they are willing to pay so much for them. It's basically a little piece of rubber dipped in butter. The butter is nice, but the meat is not quite up to par, imo.
Give me a nice little mom&pop italian steak house any day. I'm a sucker for fettuccine alfredo with chicken and a nice big fat salad with lotsa blue cheese crumbs. And I don't really care if the two of them aren't supposed to go together or not. Also I prefer beer instead of wine with the meal. A cheap american light beer seems to mix the best with the flavor of the food. The fancier beers will overpower the flavor of the alfredo sauce.
I've always said that if you want a good steak, go to a little independent Italian restaurant. The steaks are always exceptional (and the coffee too).
Now I'm hungry.
THere's a little italian style mom&pop restaurant fairly close to me that is owned by greeks. They do italian food with a greek flair. I think I'm going to have to go there now. I prefer blue cheese crumbs on my salad, but feta cheese works too.
Lo and behold, the thread immediately above this one was Oprah falls off the fat wagon (The wagon is grateful).
The titles next to each other are kind of ironic, don't you think?
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For many humans, 4th of July is one of the best holidays of the year. With the barbecues, fireworks and other get-togethers we have to celebrate Independence Day, many may assume the holiday is fun for dogs, too. While this day off is a great time to hang out with your canine companion, there are certain activities that are better suited for dogs than others.
If you are spending the day outside, it might be a great chance to bring your dog to socialize and play. However, beware of certain items that might pose a threat to canines. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reports that owners must be careful to keep alcoholic drinks, matches, lighter fluid, insect repellent and other bug repellent products like citronella candles out of reach of their dogs. If these items are ingested, they could result in dog emergencies and turn a festive celebration into a trip to the animal hospital.
While backyard barbecues or beach trips might be well-suited 4th of July activities for dogs, loud, crowded fireworks displays are not fun for animals. Even the most well-behaved and sociable dog will likely be happier at home during these events, which can be frightening for animals. The ASPCA recommends locking canines in a quiet, sheltered space at home to reduce any anxiety or fear.
It is also important that this space be escape-proof. According to Care2.com, the 4th of July is the busiest time of year at shelters as they take in family dogs that escaped from yards or homes out of fear and panic during fireworks. VCA Animal Hospitals recommends making sure your dog has microchip identification and is wearing tags with up-to-date contact information in the event your dog is lost during any holiday outing.
If your dog has severe anxiety about thunder or other loud noises, it is safe to assume fireworks will be an unpleasant experience. Talk to your veterinarian about certain pet medications you can give your dog to make the evening less stressful. It might be a good idea to schedule a visit to the vet well in advance of the holiday, since vets say that July 3 is one of the busiest days in their offices as owners flock to pick up anxiety medications for their dogs. It can also help to exercise the canine earlier in the day to promote calmness later on.

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Recent transitions in nature and commerce
As the local landscape ever so slowly transitions from winter to spring, it appears there are many things on the wing other than a few flocks of migrating birds.
One of the most recent moves includes the relocation of Wiley's Flies, which has left its former home in Rainbow Lake to settle into a comfortable, and more accessible, storefront in downtown Ray Brook at the site of the old Halfway Inn.
Wiley's Flies is the domain of Vince Wilcox, a local fly fishing guide, fly tier and an author of several books on fly tying.
Following a stint working as a guide and outfitter in Colorado and fishing on many of the "big" rivers of the West, he returned to the Adirondacks of his youth. Wilcox grew up in Saranac Lake where he learned his way around the local waters while tagging along with his father, Steve, who also knows a thing or two about the finer points of the sport.
For the last few years, he has worked out of a fly shop that he established near his home in Rainbow Lake, but the "just driving by" traffic was rather limited. It will be convenient to be able to get a batch of Vince's flies from just up the road, rather than driving all the way out to Rainbow Lake.
The new location will include boat and equipment rentals, as well as lodging.
Judi's Computer Support is another recent immigrant from Saranac Lake that has recently settled into a new location in Lake Placid, located adjacent to Simply Gourmet at the western end of town. In addition to their usual good service, Judi's also offers one of the few electronic recycling facilities in the region.
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Jones Outfitters, which is still the oldest continually operating Orvis Store in the country, is back on Lake Placid's Main Street to stay.
After spending a few years at the other end of Main Street sharing a building with High Peaks Adventures, the shop is back within casting range of Mirror Lake. As always, Jones is the place to go for good gear, great guides and solid advice.
I'll also toss out a few more shameless plugs for a couple of longtime local sport shop stalwarts, where the information is always free and well worth the price.
Over the years, I've learned to rely on the kind folks at Blue Line Sport Shop in Saranac Lake for some of the latest information on local waters. Due to their downtown location, Blue Line's employees are often in touch with traveling anglers (visiting anglers like to brag) and local ones too. As a result, they are often privy to more recent reports of good fishing than most shops.
I'd also like to recommend the other sport shop in Ray Brook, which for several years is cleverly disguised as a functioning Sunoco gas station and a deli.
Unfortunately, there is only one wall of the small building decorated with rods, reels, tackle and other items that can cause trouble for trout. However, the fellow behind the register obviously knows his stuff because he seems to be working at night so that he's able to fish all day.
Saving the best for last, I usually start off the spring with a visit to the River Road Bait and Tackle located in the striving North Country metropolis of Bloomingdale. The visit also provides an opportunity to visit Norman's Grocery.
The small building is located within an easy casting distance from a trout stream on River Road, just down from the bridge.
Francis Tuthill is the young-looking proprietor who has been around forever, or so it seems. His knowledge of local waters is exceptional, and his friendly manner usually turns a simple visit into a sit'n visit. It's a good place to get solid information, as well as live (and lively) bait and plenty of good laughs.
Troubled waters
I got involved in the navigational rights effort in the early 1980s while working as a representative for the American Canoe Manufacturers Union.
At the time, I often worked with the late New York State Assemblyman William Hoyt, whose son, Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, has recently been heading up his late father's former advocacy efforts.
I worked with Paul Keesler as well. He was the publisher of NY Sportsman Magazine and was well-established to advocate for public access to New York state waterways. Keesler's book, Canoe Fishing New York Rivers and Streams was one of the first publications to offer an in-depth analysis of the laws of public navigation.
During that period. I was also involved with WCFE-TV in Plattsburgh, assisting with a number of documentary productions dealing with the issue.
I wasn't totally convinced it was the right thing back then, and I'm even less enthralled with the options today.
A lot has changed in the 30 or more years since the effort first began. There have been many more miles of water under my bow, and thousands more paddlers out there with faster, lighter and easier-to-use water craft.
There's also a whole new crop of crap that can easily be transported from one watershed to the next via a canoe, a sandal or even a bowline.
Back in the early days of my involvement in the issue, there weren't such threats as didymo (rock snot), spiny water fleas, Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia and more. Once invasive species such as these get into new terrain, it'll be difficult to get 'em out.
Public paddlers are not going to be as wary as the landowners, and a single episode of exposure can reverse over a century of wise stewardship.
I've often wondered if the general membership of The Sierra Club considered this fact when the organization helped to bankroll one of the first "test cases" that got the navigation ball rolling on the Moose River so many years ago.
Since then, I've been both a guest and a guide on many of the large Adirondack estates, and as a result of those experiences, my perspective has changed.
A major part of the current perspective comes from personal contacts with owners, and from experiences in the field with both the paddling public and dealing with the ever-burgeoning issue of invasive species.
Many of the large, private properties in the Park have adopted a Las Vegas approach to preventing the introduction of invasive species on their lands and waters. Simply put, they do not permit anyone to bring in rods, reels, flies, lures, lines, waders, wading staffs or other equipment that is not accompanied with a bill of sale. The same conditions apply to boats, canoes or guideboats. What is used in the Park stays in the Park. It is a wise policy.
Unfortunately, the best efforts of the entire membership of a large, private park can easily become useless in the face of interlopers who bring in a single bit of rock snot, milfoil or any one of the numerous invasive threats that can find a traveling host from one waterbody to the next.
And while some may claim the possibility is an unlikely scenario, how many would be willing to bet their own private land on such a chance? It would be interesting to learn if the "through paddlers" would be willing to do the same if the route took them through their grandparents' land. The wading shoe fits kind of tight when it's on the other foot.
It's also been shaped and molded by an understanding of the common courtesy and respect for your neighbors that was learned while growing up in the Adirondacks. I learned to consider the importance of the other guy first.
After reading some of the comments recently appearing on Adirondack blogs, it appears there are some enthusiastic "guerilla paddlers," just waiting in the wings for their chance to be the latest advocate on the new frontier of the paddler's rights campaign.
It would be interesting to learn how many have already paddled the Raquette River in its entirety. I also wonder if they will attempt to complete the Raquette or the Hudson or the West Canada before attempting to tackle the mighty Shingle Shanty Brook.
I still do a lot of paddling, mostly on waters that are lightly traveled, such as the Bouquet, the Schroon, the Grasse and even the upper reaches of the Hudson. For the past 10 years or so, I've paddled the upper reaches of the Boquet for my first trip of the season. I have yet to encounter a single paddler on the route.
With the potential addition of nearly 70,000 acres of new state lands, I just don't see much reason to seek access to private waters, other than to prove I can.
Maybe I'll finally have a reason after exhausting all the floatable options available. But by then, I'll be an old man, and it's unlikely I could carry a boat through the "boneyards" of the Moose, the Beaver or some of the other "navigable in fact" waterways currently in use.
I regret that in the process of advocating for this issue, there does not appear to be much thought or regard for the rights of landowners or leaseholders. It almost appears to be a matter of "you've got yours, and I'll be the next to test it."
I'd like to believe Phil Brown took a little trip to Shingle Shanty Brook to see what he could see. He also took a friend along to photograph him on the opposite side of the Posted-No Trespassing signs.
Phil explained his intent was to get a story, but he ended up becoming the story after the property owners sued him.
As he related details of the effort, Phil stressed that, "I did not believe I was trespassing because I believed the stream was navigable in fact." He repeated the phrase like a mantra, and even took the time to email me afterward to remind me that "I didn't think I was trespassing because I believed the river was navigable in fact."
According to a pamphlet published by the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, a former advocacy group, the phrasing of language is very important. The bar has been lowered; the standard is no longer whether the water is adequate to actually float a boat, it is if the paddler believes it is.
However, even if a person believes the waters are "navigable in fact," it does not include the right to fish, hike, picnic or take photos on private lands or waters.
A similar lack of courtesy and concern for the rights of others was evident when the Adirondack Explorer was advocating for their Quiet Waters Campaign, which sought to ban the use of gas motors within the entire Fish Creek/Rollins Pond watershed. Back then, they lobbied for the right to have "quiet waters" to paddle, even if it took away the well-established recreational rights of others.
I guess they all believed in Quiet Waters too. How'd that go?


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The now-still water in the reactors began to boil off, threatening a meltdown of the uranium inside.But because of the earthquake, no electricity could be delivered to the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant to run the cooling pumps. The back-up diesel generators that should have kicked in when power was lost did not survive the tsunami, which easily overtopped the seawall protecting the plant — leaving only batteries to run all the systems. At the same time, the tsunami flooded critical electrical equipment. After eight hours, the batteries went dead — meaning the nuclear power plant had no electricity, and no way to cool itself.
Flitting like ghosts through the stricken plant, workers struggled to bring cooling water to the boiling reactors.reactors remained high, although radiation levels at the boundary of the stricken nuclear power plant were relatively low — roughly three times normal background radiation for a year.
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July 24, 2012 – Cubs Lineup vs. Pirates
The Cubs look to follow-up yesterday's tremendous performance with another tonight in Pittsburgh. Paul Maholm takes the hill where he is very comfortable as he has almost 100 career starts at PNC Park. Here is how the Cubs will line up as everyone awaits Ryan Dempsters decision.
DeJesus CF
Castro SS
Rizzo 1B
Soriano LF
LaHair RF
Soto C
Barney 2B
Valbuena 3B
Maholm P
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To my beloved husband,
Since circumstances this Rosh Hashanah require us, once again, to be more than 1,700 miles apart, I wanted to tell you something. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's almost New Year's Eve.
It's because I wanted to let you know that out of sight does not mean out of mind. So, I figured I would write you this love note (with some help from Johnny Mathis):
Maybe it's much too early in the game
Ooh, but I thought I'd ask you just the same
What are you doing New Year's
New Year's Eve?
Wonder whose arms will hold you good and tight
When it's exactly 6:21 that night
Welcoming in the New Year
New Year's Eve
Maybe I'm crazy to suppose
I'd ever be the one you chose
Out of the thousand invitations
You received
Ooh, but in case I stand one little chance
Here comes the jackpot question in advance:
What are you doing New Year's
New Year's Eve?
So Monday evening, just know that even though our lips will be in different time zones, I will be kissing you in my thoughts.
A L'Shana Tova to all … and this New Year's Eve remember, like Stephen Stills advised, if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with!
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by Anton Shilov
Even though shipments of devices with SuperSpeed USB interconnection were a bit lower than expected originally, analysts from In-Stat market research firm increased their USB 3.0 penetration estimates rather noticeably. According to researchers, the future for the latest universal interconnection is still bright.
SuperSpeed USB will ship in nearly 14 million devices in 2010, just short of industry expectations, according to In-Stat. By 2014, however, over 1.7 billion devices will ship with the interface enabled, a 12x increase over 2010, and 200 million higher than the company predicted back in April, 2010. Among 1.7 billion of devices with USB 3.0 interconnection about 225 million will be flash drives. The firm also predicts that nearly 7 million set top boxes will have integrated SuperSpeed USB by 2014 and that the USB 3.0 will reach 40% penetration in the portable digital media player market in five years.
"Late 2009 saw the first, limited shipments of SuperSpeed, while 2010 has seen increased shipments in mobile PCs, desktop PCs, aftermarket cards, external hard disk drives, and USB flash drives. Overall, the rollout of USB 3.0 is progressing. Large scale adoption though is still dependent on the integration of SuperSpeed into the core logic chipset on the PC. This allows PC OEMs to effectively offer USB 3.0 for free, and leads to its adoption among PC peripherals, consumer electronics, and mobile devices," said Brian O'Rourke, principal analyst at In-Stat.
Unfortunately, there will be no "native" USB 3.0 platforms for some time as Intel Corp. does not have plans to support SuperSpeed USB with 6-series chipsets, whereas AMD will support it on select I/O controllers. But due to the fact that external USB 3.0 controllers are getting cheaper as more chip vendors enter the SS USB market, it is clear that sales of USB 3.0 equipment will increase in 2011.
It should be also kept in mind that while there are a lot of devices that require up to 400MB/s of bandwidth, such as external hard drives, USB flash drives, external optical drives, portable media players, digital still cameras and digital camcorders; there are also a lot of devices that do not need truly high bandwidth, including keyboards, mice, scanners, printers, multi-function peripherals, web cameras and so on.
In addition, since SuperSpeed USB driver is not present in Microsoft Windows 7 and it should be installed separately so that to take advantage of enhanced bandwidth, Intel argues that until a new version of Windows arrives with integrated USB 3.0 driver, there will be no widespread adoption of the new interface.
More than 3 billion USB-enabled devices shipped in 2009; nearly 4 billion will ship in 2012, according to predictions by In-Stat.


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DethMaiden's Top 10 Albums of 2006: A Retrospective of the Year That Was Awhile Ago
I felt like reassessing my old picks once we started thinking critically of the 2007 releases, so I cranked out a list and some reviews in the vein of Brady's big thread in about an hour earlier tonight. Enjoy, and comment at will:
1. Mastodon- Blood Mountain- Even with the benefit of an additional year's listening and reflection, I can safely say that the finest album to come out in 2006 was Mastodon's magnum opus to date, Blood Mountain. The blend of hardcore punk aesthetic, heavy metal swagger, post-whatever meander, prog rock spazz-out, and brilliantly utilized guest performances from members of Neurosis, Queens of the Stone Age, and the Mars Volta prove that Mastodon have what it takes to go the extra mile and, in a crowded nowadays metal scene, stand out from the pack.
2. The Decemberists- The Crane Wife- I hadn't actually heard this album at the end of 2006, but when I did come across it I was greeted with shock at how unbelievably good it was: after all, it's just indie rock, right? Wrong, and while I have come to enjoy a good deal of indie now, this Portland quintet are not limited to that genre. In truth, The Crane Wife sounds a lot like a long-lost Jethro Tull album much of the time, with prog-bombast mellotron explosions weaving in and out of folksy acoustic melodies, all beneath frontman Colin Meloy's one-of-a-kind warble. The Decemberists released their masterpiece in 2006, and anyone who hasnt heard it is missing out.
3. Iron Maiden- A Matter of Life and Death- Its tough to judge the legend that is Iron Maiden objectively, but I'll try. Their umpteenth (fourteenth, actually) full-length is a mature perspective on the horrors of war, with the epic slow intro building to metal crescendo followed by guitar solo sound they've been honing since 2000's Brave New World sounding arguably as good as it ever has. Not much new ground is actually tread on the album, but they're just so damn good at what they do that its impossible not to love them. And God knows I do.
4. Johnny Cash- American V: A Hundred Highways- Johnny Cash was more than a man; he was a legend. This collection of recordings, the last songs he finished before his death in 2005, is a testament to his strong will even in his darkest hour. The songs are appropriately melancholic, and range thematically from death to love, with heartfelt singing and a gently weeping acoustic guitar comprising nearly the entire sonic atmosphere. If you can't get into this, you probably lack some synapses that permit human beings to know what true sorrow sounds like.
5. Tool- 10,000 Days- Tool are a band that famously only work sporadically, and while albums may be few and far between, the result always justifies the wait. 10,000 Days is another brilliant Tool album, building even more on the aggressively progressive sound of 2001's masterpiece, Lateralus, and taking cues from early 90s shoegaze and modern post-rock, whether intentionally or not. The incredible rhythm section paired with the syncopated technical brilliance of guitarist Adam Jones continue to prove that Tool are one of the best bands, able to work off of each other's strengths and produce music that will truly stand the test of time.
6. Mouth of the Architect- The Ties That Blind- Post-metal has become a crowded genre lately, but the bands in that field that most readily cross the lips of most people (Isis, Pelican, Jesu) have yet to put out an album able to match the caliber of Dayton natives Mouth of the Architect's most recent full-length. Syrupy sludge riffs in the vein of EyeHateGod have come to characterize the bands sound just as much as the traditionally post-metal interludes. The vocals on here sound like they were recorded three rooms away from the mic, and the distant drone works to great effect. MOTA have much more in common with classic prog than any of their contemporaries (guitarist Greg Lahm once said his favorite bands were Mahavishnu Orchestra, King Crimson, and Yes), which may be why I like them so much, but regardless: this is music that deserves to be heard on a much larger scale than it has been.
7. Edguy- Rocket Ride- Humor isn't easy in music. You have to be willing to sacrifice some integrity and pray that the end result comes off tongue-in-cheek and witty rather than just plain stupid. While not all of Rocket Ride is comedic, the parts that are succeed like all hell in being truly goddamned funny. Rock-n'-roll lampooners "Fucking With Fire (Hair Force One)" and "Rocket Ride" as well as palm tree pop song "Trinidad" are hilarious without losing an ounce of catchiness or good songwriting. The serious power metal numbers on the record are just as strong, and show that Edguy can have a good time, but also be dead serious, and rule at both.
8. Sparrows Swarm and Sing- O' Shenandoah, Mighty Death Will Find Me- While a lot of this album's greatness comes from the fact that the live performance of it I saw in August of 2006 in the basement of Stillwater Photography remains the best live performance I have ever seen, the home version is nearly as awe-inspiring. It's probably a cop-out since theres a genre for just about everything these days, but this music is literally unclassifiable. Its long, ambling pieces which disregard every musical "rule" every set forth are so indescribably organic that the final product is probably the truest, realest thing ever put on tape. In terms of mind expanse, this is incomparable to almost everything but classic Pink Floyd, and in a few respects, is even better.
9. Katatonia- The Great Cold Distance- When Katatonia frontman Jonas Renske sings "I am ice, I am clear, let the world be cold," on the fantastic "Deliberation", he might as well be describing the bands most recent album. Yes, it's true that Katatonia are no longer the death-doom metal band that released such classics as Dance of December Souls and Brave Murder Day, and that they've taken a turn towards brooding gothic rock, but such a style change doesn't always spell disaster, and The Great Cold Distance proves it. Shoegazing melodies and distant, delicate vocals complement each other in an icy world of sound that is worth visiting over and over again.
10. The Devin Townsend Band- Synchestra- Devin Townsend has proven time and again that he is the Frank Zappa of our day: his albums range from the beautiful to the bizarre, his projects can't be counted on just two hands, and he is more prolific than any other recording artist in progressive music. Unfortunately also like Zappa, the result is generally a gloriously kitschy but mostly forgettable pseudo-masterpiece. Synchestra is an exception. From beautiful opener "Let It Roll" to acid-washed hidden track "Sunshine and Happiness", Hevy Devy grabs you by the balls and doesn't let go until he's done saying what he intends to, and you'd be insane to argue with him judging by the greatness of this album.
Mortals are mortar and life is the fuse.
Mortals are mortar and life is the fuse.
I was actually listening to reunion Maiden albums today, and AMOLAD went way up and DOD went waaaaay fucking down. I actually understand that they were trying to perfect that sound with DOD but they didn't quite cut it, as some of the melodies and lyrics were a little half baked. But with "Life & Death" everything crystalized.
George W. Bush is the son of a swine. I hope that one day his body is identified by the teeth marks on my penis.
"So yeah, monkey prostitution has happened."
Indeed, Mastodon is the best band ever.
woah 2006, jeez i dont even remember what my list was.
George W. Bush is the son of a swine. I hope that one day his body is identified by the teeth marks on my penis.
Dance of Death pwnz
Interesting reconsideration. There are at least 3 albums that came out in 2006 that I never heard until 2007 that would have certainly made my top 10 for that year -- including what I now find to be 2006's best album, Waiting for the Next End of the World by Channels. The same thing happened the prior year, when I didn't hear Leviathan (Mastodon) or Funeral (Arcade Fire) until well after the year ended, and they're hands down the best 2 albums that year.
So who knows what else I'll find out about later that would overturn my list for 2007.
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Treehoppers (more precisely typical treehoppers to distinguish them from the Aetalionidae) and thorn bugs are members of the family Membracidae, a group of insects related to the cicadas and the leafhoppers. There are about 3,200 known species of treehoppers in over 600 genera. They are found on all continents except Antarctica, although there are only three species in Europe.
They are best known for their enlarged and ornate pronotum, which most often resembles thorns, apparently to aid camouflage. But in some species, the pronotum grows to a horn-like extension, and even more bizarre and hard-to-describe shapes are also found (see gallery).
Thorn bugs, due to their unusual appearance, have long interested naturalists. This has even extended to popular culture; they are for example among the types of insects mentioned in the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
They pierce plant stems with their beaks, and feed upon sap. The immatures can frequently be found on herbaceous shrubs and grasses whereas the adults more often frequent hardwood tree species. Excess sap becomes concentrated as honeydew, which often attracts ants. Some species have a well developed ant mutualism, and these species are normally gregarious as well, which attracts more ants. The ants provide protection from predators.
Eggs are laid by the female with her saw-like ovipositor in slits cut into the cambium or live tissue of stems, though some species lay eggs on top of leaves or stems. The eggs may be parasitised by wasps, such as the tiny fairyflies (Mymaridae) and Trichogrammatidae. The females of some membracid species sit over their eggs to protect them from predators and parasites, and may buzz their wings at the intruder. The females of some gregarious species work together to protect each others' eggs. In at least one species, Publilia modesta, mothers serve to attract ants when nymphs are too small to produce much honeydew. Some other species make feeding slits for the nymphs.[2]
Like the adults, the nymphs also feed upon sap, and unlike adults, have an extensible anal tube that appears designed to deposit honeydew away from their body. The tube appears to be longer in solitary species that are rarely ant attended. It is important for sap feeding bugs to dispose of honeydew, as otherwise it can become infected with sooty moulds. Indeed, there is evidence that one of the benefits of ants for individuals of the species Publilia concava is that ants remove the honeydew and reduce such growth.
Most species are innocuous to humans, although a few are considered minor pests, such as Umbonia crassicornis (a thorn bug), the Three-cornered Alfalfa Hopper (Spissistilus festinus), or the Buffalo Treehopper (Stictocephala bisonia) which has been introduced tro Europe.
The diversity of treehoppers has been rather little researched, and their systematic arrangement is tentative. It seems that three main lineages can be distinguished; the Endoiastinae are the most ancient treehoppers, still resembling cicadas a lot. Centrotinae form the second group; they are somewhat more advanced but the pronotum still does not cover the scutellum in almost all of these. The Darninae, Heteronotinae, Membracinae and Smiliinae contain the most apomorphic treehoppers.
Several proposed subfamilies seem to be paraphyletic. Centronodinae and Nicomiinae might need to be merged into the Centrotinae to result in a monophyletic group. And while most the Stegaspidinae also appears to belong there, united by genera like Smerdalea and Smergotomia, members of the "Stegaspidinae" in fact appear to be distributed all across the treehoppers, and the taxon is probably best abolished altogether.
Images showing the range of systematic variation in treehoppers
- ^ Cirrus Digital Treehopper Ceresa taurina
- ^ Chung-Ping Lin, Bryan N. Danforth & Thomas K Wood (2004) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution of Maternal Care in Membracine Treehoppers. Syst. Biol. 53(3):400–421 doi:10.1080/10635150490445869


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Wyndham, John
Wyndham, John 1903–1969
Wyndham was an English science fiction writer. Born John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, he wrote under various combinations of his name. His novels generally present the predicament of human beings struggling to recover from a catastrophe. His first novel, The Day of the Triffids, is a classic in science fiction literature. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vol. 102; obituary, Vols. 89-92.)
Villiers Gerson
When British science fiction writers are good, they have a way of imparting a devastating reality to their inventions, and this is true of John Wyndham's first book "The Day of the Triffids". The people of earth, 90 per cent of them blinded by inexplicable green radiations from the sky, fall an easy prey to the Triffids, an ambulant plant-form which can kill with a stroke of their poisonous lashes. How William Masen, a biologist, builds up one of the small communities to fight the rule of the unreasoning plants makes an engrossing addition to science fiction.
Villiers Gerson, "Spacemen's Realm," in The New York Times Book Review (© 1951 by The New York Times Company; reprinted by permission), July 22, 1951, p. 19.∗
H. H. Holmes
[In "The Day of the Triffids"] John Wyndham has created … tripodal and lethal mobile plants which he calls "triffids"—something to haunt your nastier nightmares for some time to come. What's more he has presented these abominable creatures in a novel of quite unusual literacy and even, in its strange way, charm. The concept of a civilization in chaos reverting to primitivism is anything but new; but it has rarely been treated with such plausibility of detail, such immediacy of human impact.
H. H. Holmes, "Science Fiction," in New York Herald Tribune Book Review (© I.H.T. Corporation), August 19, 1951, p. 12.∗
The Times Literary Supplement
The author of The Day of the Triffids, a fantasy of the future …, has been rather too fertile in invention; he predicates two thundering improbabilities, the artificial breeding of ambulant plants seven feet high, and an aerial missile which gets out of control and blinds the whole human race, with a few lucky exceptions. A better book could have been written about either of these ingenious ideas. In addition, the viewpoint is that of a thorough Londoner; we are left in doubt about what happens to the beasts of the countryside, and the cockney survivors seem to pick up farming much too easily. But otherwise this story deserves nothing but praise. The language is excellent, and the description of London filled with the groping blind, seeking food in shop-windows and bearing away tins of paint instead, has all the qualities of a vividly-realized nightmare.
"Nightmares and Realities," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1951; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), No. 2587, August 31, 1951, p. 545.∗
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Mr. John Wyndham, writing in a disarmingly mild and humorous way, sets his story [The Midwich Cuckoos] in an English village. Invaders land there from another planet, accomplish their mysterious design, and make their escape. The consequences turn out to be very nasty indeed; some readers may find them objectionable, though Mr. Wyndham does not go into any obnoxious details. The Midwich Cuckoos is an ingenious yarn, with pleasant, unpretentious characters, about yet another bit of mischief on the part of one of our neighbours in space, but it lacks the force of his previous ventures into science fiction.
"Interplanetary Frolics," in The Times Literary Supplement (© Times Newspapers Ltd. (London) 1957; reproduced from The Times Literary Supplement by permission), No. 2901, October 4, 1957, p. 598.∗
Sam Moskowitz
[The] ideas for The Day of the Triffids and the many works that followed were adapted from many sources, since [John Wyndham] was a regular reader of science fiction and thoroughly familiar with its various gambits. His rhetoric, on the other hand, appears to have been persuasively influenced by only one major writer, H. G. Wells. Great ingenuity at approaching an old idea from a fresh slant was characteristically his own contribution. (pp. 128-29)
[Wyndham] had written a dozen or more stories with a time travel theme. It seemed to be his private form of fun and relaxation, and the best of these stories, such as Pawley's Peepholes …, where prying intangible tourist buses from the future are sent scuttling back where they belong by the use of vulgarity, appeared to have nothing else in mind but light entertainment.
Not so with the time travel story, Consider Her Ways…. Through the use of drugs, a woman doctor of our time turns up in the future as an obese "mother" in a world without men, where selected females produce children like the queen bees. The high point of the story is the dialogue on whether the world is better off with or without men, which introduces a highly original and disturbing point of view (at least, to a man) on the subject.
Because of the international success of Day of the Triffids, the feeling was prevalent that [Wyndham] had made his mark with that novel and everything that followed was to be anticlimactic. In fact, it was felt that whatever opening of doors there was to be in the future could only be done by using the phrase, "by the author of…."...
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Michael Joseph
A story-teller nearly perfect in every other respect, Mr. Wyndham has never had any feeling for climaxes; and although nobody much cares about this when menaces are in question, the Wyndham even pace is less satisfactory in a benign context, as [in Chocky]. Having fumbled, Chocky withdraws. All is as it was before—and precious little changed, even while it wasn't. The science-fiction grapevine, for at least a decade past, has rumoured Mr. Wyndham to be brooding over giant malevolent spiders. In its gentle, skilful fashion, Chocky is excellent; but one can perhaps be forgiven for looking forward to those spiders.
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Martin Levin
You might think that the discovery of a longevity drug that would increase life expectancy by a couple of hundred years would make everybody happy. You might think so, but not John Wyndham, master of the scientific paradox…. [In "Trouble with Lichen"] he depicts the waves made by the appearance of a miracle essence called antigerone.
First off, there is a difference of opinion between its two discoverers. One, a dilletantish male savant, is immobilized by the cataclysmic possibilities of a semi-permanent population. The other, a militant lady scientist, spins off and rushes into production…. The collision between the long view and the short gives Mr. Wyndham ample opportunity to develop some of...
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["Re-Birth"] is an enthralling science-fiction story…. It may easily be designated a philosophical commentary on the nature of man surviving the most cataclysmic of events. Though it is never explicitly stated, this is the story of the various remnants of mankind that have survived a world-wide atomic catastrophe. There is wry humor implicit in the efforts of one major remnant to emulate the "old People". The survival of the ancient prejudices and misguided religious ideals that bedevil mankind today is a testimony to man's perverse ignorance and smugness. But there is a prophetic hope in the life-style of still another remnant. This is, indeed, an impressive satirical commentary on man and his pitiable...
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Diana Reed
John Wyndham's science-fiction stories are memorable for the 'unthinkable' situations they postulate. His strength stems partly from the creation of tensions and choices that pose awkward problems for the reader as well as the characters—was Zellaby morally right to murder the children in The Midwich Cuckoos? Could his action even be termed 'murder'?—and partly from the nightmare quality of some of the pictures he presents: the silence of the suddenly-blinded city; the dreadful 'shrimping expeditions' of the 'seatanks' in The Kraken wakes.
Stowaway to Mars and The Secret People, first published in 1935, 16 years before The Day of the Triffids,… will...
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David Williams
Science Fiction isn't generally my beaker of tea. I've always made an exception though for the work of the late John Wyndham. He's outstanding in the genre—out Bradburying even Bradbury who runs him close. Why? Chiefly because he sticks closer than most to planet Earth. Not for him those galactic encounters with thoughtful, sinister strangers possessing a good command of B-picture American English and a less good though willing acceptance of standard story-line requirements. Wyndham sticks instead to earthy aberrations, and this makes him the most plausible as well as by a long way the creepiest of writers in this line….
[In Web,] published now for the first time, he addresses himself to...
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Margaux Isaksen (Fayetteville, Ark.) was forced to abandon Saturday's Kremlin Cup in Moscow, Russia after suffering a broken wrist in a fall during the warm-up period of the riding event.
Isaksen, a 2008 Olympian, started the day by placing 17th in the fencing with 10 victories, and was 10th in the swim with a time of 2:16.41. Not knowing the severity of the injury suffered in the ride warm-up, Isaksen gutted it out through the pain and accumulated 1160 points in the ride. But after being checked out by a doctor following the ride and learning the severity of the injury , Isaksen was forced to retire from the competition.
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Skip to comments.US: College on Lockdown After 14 Stabbed
Posted on 04/09/2013 2:16:50 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
At least 12 people were wounded Tuesday in stabbings on the campus of Lone Star College Cy-Fair near Houston, local media outlets are reporting.
As many as 14 people were hurt in the stabbing spree. Police say they have arrested a suspect.
One victim is reportedly in critical condition.
It was initially thought that there was a second attacker still at large, but officials now believe the attacks have ended.
Officials put the school on lockdown in the aftermath of the attacks, telling students to stay away from the area. Those already on campus were told to seek shelter immediately.
Earlier in the year there was a shooting at a different Lone Star College campus.
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Meet the Student Who Claims He Tackled the Lone Star College Stabber Then Posted a Photo of Suspect on Instagram
If Samurai swords and Ginsu knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have wall sheaths.
Something tells me this will not be all over the news. Da pres will not be calling congress on it. He will not be going to the scene of the crime.
Was it an "assault" knife or a "scary-looking" knife?
I think this school is in Ted Poe's district - I wasn't sure so I called his office anyway. His staffer said he was certainly sure that Poe knew what had happened it.
I asked her to see if Poe was going to make a announcement, that even if guns are all banned, people will find a way to kill anyway.
This should be shoved in Obama's face.
Was this a high capacity knife?
Must take shoelaces and go on garroting rampage now.
It was...gulp...a Ginsu assault paring knife.
Can slice and dice carrots and celery in seconds.
ban all Ginsu chefs!
Ban assault knives!!
Seriously, I hope the victims will be all right.
All samurai swords with black finish on the blade to reduce glint. Ninjas use those things in the dark.
Oh, yeah. The victims.
Or even a dreaded boot sheath.
This is exactly what they seriously are doing over in England, knife bans and such. They outlawed guns but knife crime went up staggering amounts.
When will they ban baseball bats?
Lone Star College = Student loan & Pell Grant cash cow, with little to no education received in exchange by the welfare crowd. Last generation's youth who worked for a wage and built skills have been replaced by enrollees in state run adult daycare.
Not sure. England and Australia are going after knife legislation as knife crime soared afer banning guns.
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NAkDn3f1Us
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s__zaeExhQo
See final segment. Imagine how horrible it would have been if he had had a knife. It wouldn't jam up, and he wouldn't have accidentally stabbed himself in the foot. No, knives are much worse than guns.
Ban the hobby shops... you know they are up to no good...
I once had a knife confiscated in the Jerusalem Central Bus Terminal. It was in my suitcase, a Tanto knife I bought from my sensei when he had to close his dojo. Funny enough, there was a knife store right upstairs in the terminal, where I could have bought something not quite as good but comparable. But the knife showed up on the x-ray machine so they confiscated it, made me authorize its destruction, and the officer then probably sold it.
It had an unlimited number of stabs in it.
It has legitimate sporting purposes. I use them to make pens out of chicken feathers.
Where's a knife-free-zone when you need one?
so ban humans , it's the only way to be sure our children are safe. never mind that it's only a handful of nuts out of 330 million who don't go on mass murdering sprees, because there are a handful out of 330 million then ban all humans.
this is the logic liberals/democrats are using to ban guns when mass murdering sprees are a statistically non-existant event, out of a trillion to the trillionth power of events that happen the media cherry picks a few of those to control us , and further the socialist agenda
I have a so called automatic knife which gives me one handed opening and relief for my arthritic hands. Now, when I was a youth, such a knife would be illegal.
The problem is the human brain. It has the capacity to think creatively, even when it comes to destruction. In fact, human minds are especially creative when it comes to committing murder or defending against murder, which really amounts to the same thing. So you can have humans with legitimate sporting purposes. Just ban their high-capacity minds. Lobotomize, don't criminalize.
Maybe it is one of those one-time-use knives....like that Colorado House Member said.....
Not to mention intoxication crimes.
exactly. it's all about intent.
May God be with and heal the victims!
I see the jokes about banning knives, and I initially made that joke too, but I realized quickly that the liberals have a response to this. I figured, based on comments I've read on articles regarding guns and knives in papers like the UK Daily Mail, they would say that a lot more damage would have been inflicted if he had a gun. When I heard it on the news, they said 4 or 5 people were in critical. Hopefully, they don't die. If they don't, the liberals will say they would have died had he had a gun. If they do, they'll say more people would have died had he had a gun. I went over to DU, and sure enough, I figured correctly. Just a heads up that will be their response to that argument.
I suspect a single-shot with an extremely fast reload rate.
The person must of thought that all the new gun control laws had already taken affect. Silly person.
Just say to those MORONS who "think" 'well, at least they're alive'... "Yeah right, genius, and SCARRED and MAIMED for LIFE, yeah that's a whole lot BETTER, isn't it, you filthy socialist PUNK!?"
Actually, libs aren't saying that. They are saying nobody was killed and are saying imagine what would have happened if he used a gun instead of a knife.
How do they get on campuses without background checks? One would think that the campus administration would screen out nuts from matriculating, and have some security after all these incidents. But no. Just wait and hope that the federal government will come down from on high and make everything all better by preventing the nuts they allow on campus from buying a gun. Pool chlorine will explode if you pour gasoline on a packet of it in dry form. No priming charge, no nothing. Try controlling that.
The answer to that is a gun has to hit a vital area to kill, and once you are out of bullets, it is no longer dangerous. A knife does not run out of edge, and can slash an artery anywhere on the body, and the victim might not even know he's been cut until he bleeds out. Arteries are exposed to the skin surface all over the front of your arms and the back of your legs, in addition to the carotid arteries and jugular veins on the neck. Only a fool stabs instead of slashing with a knife or sword. Only a broadsword and an axe are made for hacking. Samurai swords and French rapiers are made to slash with, the latter also being good for light quick pricking. In conclusion, knives and swords are better killing instruments than a gun. The only real advantage a gun has over them is that it can be used from far off. Other than that, a knife is more versatile than a gun, but a garrote is more certain to kill than either a gun or knife, and easier to conceal.
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- ^ a b Jenkins, A., Kullander, F.F. & Tan, H.H. (2007). Pangasius sanitwongsei. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2009-11-24.
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November 14th, 1965 marks the day when the US faced its first major battle of the Vietnam War in the Battle of la Drang. Dramatized in the popular movie starring Mel Gibson, the Battle of la Drang spanned over four days and two landings zones (or LZ's) in the highlands of South Vietnam.
Background: VC forces begin to strengthen their divisions throughout the countryside, avoiding major roadways and relying on the rugged terrain to give them an advantage. Through intelligence gathering efforts, the US discovers the potential location of a concentration of VC forces on Chu Pong Mountain. General Westmoreland decides to test the validity of this intelligence by sending a reconnaissance in force, which ultimately results in the worst ambush in the entire Vietnam War and one of the bloodiest battles in the Vietman War.
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Can you say Players Party!!
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Hope you guys get a good turnout, but Mother's Day Weekend.....yeouch.
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Yeah I know, I believe they are going to work with people who just wanna play saturday, since sunday is mothers day, call the store
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