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The British captain of a cruise ship that steamed past a drifting fishing boat with three men on board, two of whom were later to die, was said yesterday to be "devastated" by what had happened. Captain Edward Perrin, of the Star Princess, may not have received word of the stricken boat on 10 March as the Grand Class liner made passage in the Pacific Ocean from Ecuador towards Costa Rica, even though at least three passengers have said they saw a man on the boat through binoculars and alerted crew members.
They said the man was waving a red piece of cloth in what seemed clearly to be a distress signal. Last week, the sole survivor from the boat, 18-year-old Adrian Vasquez, confirmed he had waved a red sweater upon seeing the ship, 16 days after he and his friends had set off from their Panamanian home port on a fishing trip. On the day the Star Princess sailed past, they had already drifted 100 miles out to sea following the failure of their boat's engine.
"Look what's coming over there," Mr Vasquez recalled saying to his boat-mates after spotting the giant liner in the distance. "We felt happy, because we thought they were coming to rescue us." Instead, the Star Princess steamed past them and over the blue-hazed horizon. "I said, 'God will not forgive them'," Mr Vasquez said. "Today, I still feel rage when I remember that."
It was another 18 days before Mr Vasquez was hauled to safety by another fishing vessel. By then, the tiny boat, the Fifty Cents, had been carried by currents almost as far as the Galapagos Islands. Both of his friends had died. After their bodies had started to rot he had pushed them over the side. As Mr Vasquez and the passengers who saw him start to speak to the media, the owner of the Star Princess, Carnival plc, is facing fresh embarrassment. It comes only three months after a vessel from Costa Cruises, which it also owns, sank off Italy, killing 32 passengers.
Under international maritime law, cruise ships are obliged to go to the aid of other vessels in distress if it presents no danger to passengers. In a statement yesterday, Carnival, a British-American company based in Southampton that also owns Cunard and Holland America, said its investigation was continuing but first findings suggested there had been a "miscommunication" on board after the passengers saw the small boat.
The line "deeply regrets that two Panamanian men perished," it said. "The preliminary results of our investigation have shown that there appeared to be a breakdown in communication in relaying the passengers' concern. Neither Captain Edward Perrin nor the officer of the watch were notified. Understandably, Captain Perrin is devastated that he is being accused of knowingly turning his back on people in distress." The company said that Princess cruise liners had undertaken rescue operations 30 times in the past 10 years. "If Perrin had received the information, he would have been able to respond appropriately," it said. "We all understand that it is our responsibility and also the law of the sea to provide assistance to any vessel in distress, and it is not an uncommon occurrence for our ships to be involved in a rescue at sea."
There is also anguish, meanwhile, for those passengers who tried to alert the ship to what they had seen from the deck through bird-watching binoculars. They have said they were denied access to the bridge even though they had shown the boat and man waving to a Princess representative.
Judy Meredith, of Oregon, said she not only told a crew member of what she had seen but also went to her cabin, took the ship's coordinates off a feed on her television and emailed the US Coast Guard. Last week, she said the line had told her after she had returned home that the bridge may have misinterpreted the waving to mean the fishermen wanted the ship to steer clear of its fishing nets. But Ms Meredith said she never had any doubt of the fishermen's plight. "You don't wave a shirt like that just to be friendly," she said. "He was desperate to get our attention."
"It was very disturbing," said Jeff Gilligan, another passenger from Oregon who had seen the boat. "We asked other people, 'What do you think we should do?' Their reaction was, 'Well, you've done what you could do.' Whether something else could have been done, that's a bit frustrating to think about. My only theory is the people on the bridge have seen a lot of fishing boats. And they were on a tight schedule and they let the schedule cloud their judgement."
Mr Vasquez, who agreed to go on the fishing trip in the hope of earning a little money after being laid off from his job as a gardener in a hotel, said he and his friends at first stayed alive by eating fish they had caught and conserving the little water they had taken with them. But the water ran out and the fish turned rotten. He survived only because it later rained, providing him with water to drink.
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Listening to Lubel could be likened to listening to an elongated beat poem, the cadences only punctuated by a rasping impression of his fretful parent. "You're my entire reason for living, Alan", she says to him in later life, using the same menacing tone she henpecked him with in her earlier years.
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With such a defining force in his life dealt with, it would be surprising to see this former lawyer, now long-in-the-tooth comic, follow up this Fringe debut with a completely new show next year. Nonetheless this one-off guilty pleasure, nostalgic for a bygone era of US comedy, leaves an impression. "This is Fringey right?" he asks. You bet your mum's life it is.
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Mark Millar and Sean Gordon Murphy travel through time in Chrononauts
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Retro Review: Wanted #6 (February 2005)
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NHL players not going cold turkey
He was a Canadian living in Philly now and wanted to celebrate Thanksgiving like a true American.
So Todd Fedoruk did exactly that - by nearly launching his house into space.
"We didn't read the warnings," the Mighty Ducks left winger said of that day two years ago. "It was like a bomb. Flames were shooting up five feet."
Fedoruk and then-teammate Robert Esche intended to deep fry only a turkey. But they almost turned themselves into Philadelphia Fryers. Too much oil. Too close to the house. Too inviting of a setting to not expose the real Butterballs.
"We had the pot set up on my old, dried-out wooden deck," Fedoruk said. "It was the perfect kindling."
And so approaches another Thanksgiving Day, another grand American holiday, to be marked by the least American of major team sports. Thanksgiving is football. Hockey sounds as appetizing as a round of gravy martinis.
The Kings play Thursday, at Nashville, meaning they will enjoy their dinner afterward, while cruising westward home, much like the Pilgrims did, but at an altitude of 30,000 feet, each plate proving some turkeys indeed can fly.
The NHL will give the Mighty Ducks the day off, which seems unnecessary seeing how this is one of the least American teams in the league. As this week began, the Ducks were one of five clubs with only one player from the United States on the active roster.
"I think everybody in this room has heard of Thanksgiving," defenseman Keith Carney said, "but they might not know what day it is. Or even what month it is."
Carney was born in Providence, but his home might as well be Pluto among this group. Before acquiring New Yorker Todd Marchant on Monday, the Ducks had as many players from Swift Current, Saskatchewan (pop. 16,527), as they did from the 50 States (pop. 297,711,819).
This is a team with eight Europeans and loads of Canadians, more Canadians, in fact, than the Canadiens. The facts beg this question: Where are all the players from the USA, or more to the point, the US, eh? The Ducks are Non-America's Team.
So what can Thursday mean to these guys? Sure, there's a Canadian Thanksgiving, but that's celebrated the second Monday of October and generally isn't as dressed up as our Thanksgiving. For one thing, they don't have the Detroit Lions, although Canada can feel free to take the Lions any time.
"Thanksgiving isn't as big a deal at home as it is here," Ducks defenseman Scott Niedermayer said. "It's earlier, I guess, because it gets colder sooner in Canada. Everyone cleans out their gardens earlier than they do here."
Niedermayer plans to celebrate with his brother, Rob, something they never could have considered before becoming teammates this season. The Ducks have a family skate planned for the players Thursday. Afterward, some are expected to help serve at the We Give Thanks, Inc. charity dinner at The Pond.
Carney estimated that 75 percent of foreign-born players don't know exactly when Thanksgiving is celebrated. But this is hockey, of course, with its stitches and fistfights and concussions and, as such, some players might not know what day today is, either.
Teammate Joffrey Lupul, a Canadian, was asked about his holiday plans.
"When is it, Thursday?" he said. "I think it's Thursday because I know there's football on TV that day."
Ducks defenseman Ruslan Salei was born in Belarus, which used to be part of the USSR, where the Mayflower might as well have been the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Shortly after coming to America in 1995, Salei experienced his first Thanksgiving while playing in the minors. In Las Vegas. There, the traditional festivities are more about racy than Macy.
"Whatever I did, it wasn't worth remembering," Salei said. "There are a lot of strange things happening when you move to a different culture. I've never tried to analyze why everyone eats turkey. I just go by the rules, like everyone else does."
Teammate Teemu Selanne, before arriving from Finland, knew about Thanksgiving only through the movies. Kings defenseman Mattias Norstrom said he had to study American holidays in school in Sweden.
"It's when the Native Americans got together with the Pilgrims, right?" Norstrom said. "I think it's important to respect the traditions of wherever you happen to be. Like in Sweden. I know pickled herring isn't on the top of everyone's list, but if you're there, you really should try it."
Kings winger Alexander Frolov was born in Moscow and said Russia has no equivalent to America's Thanksgiving. But he explained that his people do have a day in which everyone apologizes to each other, to family, to friends, to whomever.
He's not sure when it is or what it's called, but Frolov said the day usually involves a sizable meal, assuming the people eventually stop apologizing.
"You keep saying, 'I'm sorry,' all day," he said. "'I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.' The usual answer is, 'God forgives you.' It's more of a religious thing. We're all human. We make mistakes."
Like nearly torching the house. Fedoruk and Esche managed to contain their blaze before significant damage occurred. They even spared the bird. Fedoruk: "It tasted awesome."
That's the great thing about our Thanksgiving, whether or not you grew up with the holiday. The tongue doesn't taste with an accent.
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Jul 8, 2008 1:49 PM
When I've been using them and they get wet, mucky or muddy, I take the time to rinse them off immediately afterwards (swamp acids and all), but I've avoided sending my gaiters through the washer...
I always try to treat them as "hot" for poison ivy - simply because they are so likely to come in contact with the plants.
Unfortunately, it looks like I "know" they are hot as one slid down my leg in my most recent event, and I've got a nice bloom of sores right below my knee... And since I pulled them back up at least once, it's probably that they are hot on the inside as well as the outside surface...
And so, before I put them back on, I'd like to soak / launder / clean them very well ;-)
Any advice on best practices to both remove the poison ivy oil and keep them in good shape?
Jul 8, 2008 1:55 PM
Jul 8, 2008 2:14 PM
This may sound obvious, but do not, under any circumstances, was your gaiters, pants, socks, etc. that came into contact with poison ivy or oak with your underwear! And, remember, those same oils are on your running shoes. I keep a bag of latex gloves in the car to put on and take off my shoes. 1 to 5 years is normal for urushiol oil to stay active on any surface.
Jul 8, 2008 3:14 PM
I use a table spoonful of Tecnu in the washer with only the suspect poison ivy contaminated items. It works every time.
Jul 8, 2008 4:29 PM
I just wash them normally. Is anyone aware of a case where a normal washing failed?
Jul 8, 2008 5:20 PM
As cedarcreek asks, does it even matter whether you wash in cold or hot water?
Jul 8, 2008 6:26 PM
If you've ever had a bad case of oak or ivy poisioning, you won't take any chances, believe me!!! Most of the literature says cold water is best, but there is so much anecdotal evidence out there, it's hard to tell. I use cold with the Technu added and that has worked in the past. Zanfel is another product I've tried and it works too but is much more expensive.
Jul 8, 2008 6:38 PM
I don't think cold/hot matters very much when washing cloths. A good soap or detergent is critical though, since the urushiol oil (the active ingrediant in poison oak and ivy) is not very water soluble.
When taking a shower, it's been suggested to start with cold water until you've thoroughly soaped and rinsed. The hot water can open your pores and let oil work in deeper.
Jul 8, 2008 6:40 PM
"You're gonna need an ocean...
Of calamine lotion...
You'll be scratching like a hound...
The minute you start to mess around...."
Having fought poison oak all the way through childhood in the 1950's in northern California, with nothing but calamine lotion, I find Technu so effective and revolutionary, I don't know why anyone worries about poison oak any more.
I mean, I used to have to stay home from school for
covered with oozing sores...couldn't even walk. My face would swell up so that I couldn't open my eyes. I was
Now I run on any part of BAOC maps, right through thickets of poison oak. Afterward I rub down critical areas such as forearms, neck and pelvis with Technu, shower it off, and wash clothes normally. I seldom get the slightest blister, and certainly have never been reinfected by my washed clothing or shoes...the oil is on the
at waist level or above, not on the base of the plant where your shoes spend their time.
If I do blister, I immediately vigorously rub in more Technu, breaking any blisters to make sure any urushiol oil is exposed to, and mixed with the Technu. Essentially you want to turn any itching blisters into minor skin abrasions that don't itch. If something still itches, you haven't been aggessive enough in your application of Technu.
I do this several times over the first day...feels good! By the next day, whatever blisters and oozing that existed have dried up and scabbed over, and heal like any other minor skin abrasion.
Jul 8, 2008 6:59 PM
Yet another bit of anecdotal advice...
I heard that dish soap is better for cleaning clothes and skin because it cuts through the oil better.
Jul 8, 2008 11:44 PM
I have been allergic to poison ivy since I was a teenager. As a adult I had a recurring case one entire winter. No sooner did I get rid of the rash but it would come back. I eventually realized that I was reinfecting myself every time I put on my hiking boots.
Twenty some years ago I was staying at a campground during a very hot multi-day meet that we were organizing. Although I was in ivy several times, I never got a rash. After talking to a chemist, we realized that I had oxidized the oil by swimming in the chlorinated pool every afternoon. I then started using a procedure that must be similar to the use of Technu. I haven't had trouble since.
After being in contact with ivy, I wash thoroughly as soon as possible (a few hours delay seems ok). I then put a small amount of bleach on a wet facecloth and wipe it all over me, then rinse. Sometimes I repeat this the next day. I don't touch myclothes and gear again until my wife has washed everything with mild bleach.
I used this procedure when I was controlling a meet that had a lot of poison ivy, some areas were chest-high. I was in the ivy for many hours each day. I just rubbed myself down with the facecloth with mild bleach part way through the day and I never developed a rash.
The idea is wash off the oil as soon as possible and then oxidize any that remains.
Jul 9, 2008 12:40 PM
Thanks for the answers - and here I was worried that I had to find a safe way to clean the gaiters without damaging them - and nobody has mentioned that aspect of it;-)
Jul 9, 2008 1:33 PM
Is the foam removable? I have VJs, and I just throw them in the washer. I know someone with Treklite (I think) who had a little trouble with bunching of the foam to the point he had to cut open the gaiters to reposition the foam.
Jul 9, 2008 3:43 PM
After sending them through the washer - why yes, the foam is removable, and they fell out;-)
That's ok, the foam came through just fine (tumble / front load washer, not an agitator) and could probably do with the cleaning as well though I will try to remember to remove them in the future.
Jul 10, 2008 1:24 PM
I wash my VJ gaiters after every event (with all the other o-clothes) and line dry them. ( I do put the other clothes in the dryer to kill off any remaning ticks). Each pair I've had have held up for at least two years. I'm sensitive to poison ivy and oak but have never had a problem while orienteering. I've read that the surfactants in detergent remove organic oils and stains. Perhaps this is why I haven't gotten it yet.
Jul 10, 2008 2:08 PM
I also wash my VJ gaiters (sport pro) in the washer and line dry them. The one thing to watch for is to not let them sit on light colored garments or the dye in the leather of the lace-through connection will bleed; I have a pair of light colored shorts that was in the same load that has dark spots on it now. This type is more likely to wear out from tears in the stretchy part than from laundering.
Jul 10, 2008 6:09 PM
Showering and laundary (including shoes) have usually worked for me; but I will now try Technu as well. When I get the rash, Calydral Clear has been very effective in relieving the itch and the oozing.
Jul 10, 2008 8:07 PM
Technu has worked great for me. Haven't had more than a couple of spots of PI Since I started using it 4 years ago. I use it for showering and on clothing after events. You can get 32 oz bottles online.
4 year old Treklite gaitors have been through the wash a bunch of times. The foam pad is removable in mine.
Jul 14, 2008 3:15 PM
I wash my Trimtex and Silva gaitors every time I wear them to avoid PI, using cold water and normal laundry detergent. They still seem to last a long time, and I don't have re-infection problems. I also wash my hands with cold water and soap immediately after I tie my O shoes if at all possible. I use Ivy Block before and Tecnu after ... and Zanfel if I miss a spot and get a rash (pricey but it works).
May 16, 2009 4:31 PM
Poison Ivy oil can easily get on our shoes from our own hands. I did not realize I touched poison ivy while weeding my yard. later when I started itching I thought I was reacting to my grass and I spread the poison ivy oil. Over 2 weeks I keep developing theory's on how I am reinfecting myself. I NOW THINK I AM GETTING REINFECTED FROM MY LEATHER SHOES I put on when I went to the store right after the yard work. On another web sight someone says mineral spirits is in TECNU.
May 16, 2009 5:27 PM
Besides choosing some routes through thorny areas at Pine Hill a few weeks ago I also apparently ran through some poison ivy vines (no leaves yet) and gave myself one of the worst cases in years.
I purchased a nice big bottle (32oz) of Tecnu over the web for $25 or so and it made a significant and immediate difference. I'm a convert and plan to keep a supply of it.
May 16, 2009 5:36 PM
I put my contaminated items in a separate load and was them with warm water and Simple Green. Simple Green is a degreaser and all purpose cleaner. I seem to work better than laundry soap at removing urushiol. I've had laundry soap fail ro remove urushiol from socks and suffered the consequences.
May 17, 2009 3:43 PM
In BAOC country large areas of Poison Oak are on most of our maps. One of my family members is highly sensitive to the point that any exposure can become systemic. This resulted in several trips to the ER. She had to give up serious orienteering, a sport she loves.
Now we always take a sun shower with us and we scrub (and scrub) with Technu immediately after our runs. We then scrub again after getting home. Still we get occasional small rashes.
May 17, 2009 5:37 PM
Oh, my first Poison Oak run in was scary. Being from the East, I did not recognize the winter version of simple stalks. Walk-in clinic visit needed because I rubbed my eyes with unwashed hands. The rash all over my legs was not a lot of fun either.
Don't forget the clothes you change into after orienteering, but before the shower. There is always the chance that you got some of the oils on your body which then transferred to your clean clothes.
And, clean the car seat. The backs of your legs or pants might have those pesky oils.
May 18, 2009 4:17 AM
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Dishwashing soap has kept me in the clear for 20 years now out in BAOC land. While I don't seek out and thrash in poison oak, I don't let it hinder my progress. After an event, I just take a lukewarm shower with dish soap all over... then regular soap after that... I let my clothes air dry and put them in my laundry bag and just use regular detergent. To this day I still have not had anything.
May 19, 2009 3:24 PM
Also watch your use of bar soap when showering after beening in the garden pulling weeds or out in the woods. A number of years ago my husband used our common bar of soap to shower after pulling weeds and poison ivy in the garden before going away for 2 wks of active duty with the navy. Well I used the same bar of soap not knowing that he had used it to wash off the poison ivy oil and I ended up with poison ivy in places you don't even want to have it let alone talk about and to make matters worse I was about 6 months along with our second child and could not take most of the oral medications I usually use as I'm highly allegeric to poison ivy. Needless to say I was a VERY unhappy camper for a few weeks until that case of poison ivy went away. Thankfully I have seem to have grown out of beening so highly allegeric to it and have not had any real problems with it since I started orienteering but I still take precautions just to make sure.
Sep 3, 2010 2:40 PM
I know its an old thread but I just wanted to thank all of the posters; I found it helpful while Googling (after, of course, incurring poison ivy). The tips about dish soap are spot on. My story, abridged: moved into a house with an inground pool that was allowed to go to seed 30 years ago when tree roots grew up through it, and I want to clear it out and start a garden in there. I knew what poison ivy looked like but not oak. Equipped w/ pickaxe, shovel, bow saw, shears and rake, I took a hot August day off work to get started cutting the trees out, wore nothing but shorts and boots, figured it'd be a nice day of shirtless labor (sweating is healthy when you work white collar in an office all day, all year...). No gloves either, and working deep in overgrowth well over my head! Got a wicked case of poison oak/ivy, toughed it out for a week w/ no analgesic, and started Googling for precautions for my next foray into the pool-turned-arboretum when I found this forum.
Now my gear consists of: boots, long socks with nylon Addidas pants tucked in, a pair of jeans over those, a long sleeve shirt with small trash bags as liners for my arms (cut holes in bottom ends for wrists), latex gloves and leather work gloves over those. I don't touch my face while working, let the sweat run or use a rag only picked up from bottom.
Be meticulous! I setup the shower, washing machine beforehand laying out everything I'd need to touch. Immediately upon finishing work, I strip in the laundry room (leave latex gloves on while handling clothing). When washing the clothes I use my normal dry powdered Arm & Hammer laundry detergent plus cheap generic brand powdered dishwasher detergent. You can rub fabric softener into leather gloves after a run in the washer if you don't have leather care stuff. I shower cold, with an ancient, early-20th c. bar soap called Octagon made by Colgate - very strong stuff, a landscaper told me about it (its not w/ the rest of soaps in our grocery stores, but in the laundry isle - only comes in bar, which I love). I cover myself in Octagon then turn the water off and sit in the tub, counting to a full 3 minutes before washing the soap off.
Lastly, I've found it also helps to work in the rain - wet soil is easier to work w/ a pickaxe plus poison plants are oil (urushiol). Water and oil repel, and I don't think the urushiol has as much opportunity to stick when you're soaking wet in rain.
Thanks all!
Sep 8, 2010 8:17 PM
well since someone has brought this poison ivy/oak from the dead.... might as well as my question:
has anyone ever paid attention to the expiry date on Tecnu? I lived in California quite a while back so I had a pretty healthy supply of Tecnu... but since I've been in BC I haven't needed any of it (yay for BC!). Anyway, last year at the US team trials in California I dug out my old Tecnu that was expired by about 2 years. I asked a chemist from of mind that didn't think much of it.... so I did my usual ritual of applying Ivy Barrier before exposure and then stripping without touching any of my clothes ritual.... washing carefully at the car and then again at the hotel both times with the Tecnu.... and despite claims that there was barely any poison oak out there and despite all my careful handling of everything... I ended up with quite a few blisters.
So now I wonder if I simply have gotten this allergic to it, or if Tecnu actually DOES expire. Anyone else has had a similar experience?
Sep 8, 2010 9:53 PM
Sep 8, 2010 10:33 PM
"stripping without touching any of my clothes ritual."
shouldn't that be on that other thread, the one, you know, you know you are an orienteer when... ?
Sep 8, 2010 10:43 PM
As a child I was extremely allergic to poison ivy. We tried everything, shots etc. and I have the scars to prove it. It was before the days of Tecnu but finally in my late thirty's I outgrew the allergic reaction but I still don't mess around when it comes to being in woods with lots of poison. I would not trust any poison preventive that is expired. After all that I have suffered from poison ivy growing up I will spend the money to keep my tecnu supply current and ready to use. This is just my feelings and no real fact based information here.
Sep 9, 2010 2:37 AM
Haha Clark, very funny! wait til I see you next - you're in trouble!
O-mom - yeah I hear ya! it wasn't about saving the money, it was more that you can't find it in BC and apparently, there are no ingredients in it that should expire - according to my chemist friend of mine. But given the disaster I was wondering if anybody in this well-educated bunch knows anything about chemistry! it'll be interesting to see....
Sep 9, 2010 3:50 AM
As far as I know, it's just a specialized soap that has a particular affinity for urushiol.
Sep 9, 2010 3:10 PM
so does soap expire?
Sep 9, 2010 7:16 PM
Regular soap doesn't, at least not in the short term.
Sep 10, 2010 12:29 AM
One of the things that I used as a kid for poison ivy and that is still available today in our grocery stores is what we call yellow soap or fels napa soap. It is a very strong hard soap(not nice to our female skin) but it really works to get the oil off your skin without any problems. There has been a bar of it in our shower caddy all summer as our son's job is landscaping/hardscaping and he can come in contact with as he calls it PI on a daily basis and generally one good shower right after work with the yellow soap keeps him from getting the PI. I know as a kid we always had a bar of it around so I'm thinking it doesn't expire. If you want, I'll bring you a bar at the US Champs if you are going to be there.
Sep 10, 2010 5:09 AM
yes I'll be there and would love to try it!!
I've been told by the course setter that there won't be poison ivy over there :-)
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The 2008 election year started out with a visit by a UFO on January 8th over the town of Stephenville, Texas, 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth. The accounts from dozens of people, coming from all walks of life, were remarkably consistent with one another and came before the story hit the local paper. Residents reported a noiseless, low-flying object, about a mile long and half a mile wide, moving slowly and coming to a complete stop, then changing to a vertical configuration, bursting into flames and disappearing. Ten minutes later it reappeared, at which point two military jets were observed pursuing the object, and being easily outpaced. A week later Larry King devoted his hour to the Stephenville spacecraft. One guest was Ken Cherry, state director of the Dallas-based Mutual UFO Network, who called the incident the most significant mass sighting since the 1997 "Phoenix Lights", observed by tens of thousands and described as a "city in the air."
Everywhere in the news one hears of the increased rash of mass UFO sightings, and every week a news headline reintroduces the possibility of life beyond earth. The world's attention was captured by a rock formation on Mars that looked like a man casually strolling along the red planet; soon after, a Diane Sawyer segment explored the possibility of life on other planets, and most recently stories about the evidence of water having coursed through Mars have dominated headlines.
A greater openness by the public to the possibility of alien life, whether in our understanding of it or the more likely possibility of other dimensions, comes with a more open attitude from the press toward UFOs, as well as from several governments which are opening up their files on the matter. According to documentary filmmaker James Fox, who made "Out of the Blue: The Definitive Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon," the evidence is abundant: "�recorded data from radar confirmation, 4,000 physical trace cases, soil sample analysis, plant analysis, and [multiple-witness] visual confirmation" that would be considered good enough if the field were anything other than UFOs, he says, adding that some of the evidence has come from FAA officials and there have been more than three thousand sightings by pilots over the years.
And yet so far this election year, only Dennis Kucinich broached the issue of UFOs. But what we need in the next American president is a visionary, one who understands why the aliens are coming and has a plan for dealing with them. Herewith, a hypothesis as to how the visitors from outer space fit into our political landscape, and a plan for working with them.
After determining whether to consider these aliens legal or not, and developing a profile, the first order of business should be to ask the umma whether the Koran mandates that aliens also be converted to Islam. It's not a purely academic question, given that there already is a guidebook for Muslims in outer space. In the booklet, Malaysia's state-run Department of Islamic Development says that maintaining Islamic beliefs "is mandatory for Muslims in every situation, time and place�Circumstances on the [International Space Station] which are different from circumstances on Earth are not an obstacle for an astronaut to fulfill a Muslim's obligations." The issue came up after Saudi Prince Sultan bin Salman, the first Muslim in space, "had said that although he managed to pray and fast, he was not able to face towards Mecca and could not fully kneel on the ground." ("Help! Mecca keeps movingsomebody stop that thing!")
But the question before us now is whether we must alert the umma when spacecraft are sighted, so that by sword or by da'wa, the aliens are converted from whatever heathen religion they do or don't practice, before heading back and spreading the word of the Prophet. Of course, unlike us here on earth, the aliens have where to run, and the means by which to do it faster than Islam can catch them, so they may manage to avoid our fate.
Which brings us to the likely reason for the increasingly frequent visits by UFOs to earth, coinciding with an increased openness to such things by earthlings as they feel the Islamic noose tightening around them everywhere. Could it be related to the unprecedented turmoil in the world? This may seem like a mundane take, but it may well answer the question, "Why now?"
Let's be honest. If you were an alien, wouldn't you be confused by the turn of events on earth? I mean, here they were, waiting in excited anticipation as our society progressed and advanced, moving closer and closer to a point at which communication would finally be permissible (contact made before we're ready would violate the Primary Directive "no interference with development of other civilizations"). Then sometime after 2001, the earthlings reversed course, allowing themselves to be moved backward in time by more than a thousand years after so much progress and forward motion over a millennium.
Just when we were getting so close, the aliens must be thinking, here we go back to the days of amputations and beheadings, stonings and honor killings, child sacrifice, female mutilation, and slavery all being proliferated to the civilized corners of the earth where, alien rumor had it, Sharia courts are actually being set up in parallel legal systems to those which served as the guardians of civilization for hundreds of years, helping us come as far as we have.
So after the earthlings had come so far and built so much, approximating the advanced civilizations of the aliens more and more with each passing day, the earthlings take a thousand-year step backwards, including all those "progressives" who helped get us here but who are now forsaking their own hard-won battles in defense of those who would unravel it all.
In movies like "Independence Day", and all its precursors, we never saw anchor people interviewing the other side to give viewers the alien perspective. Politicians weren't trying to win the invaders over and asking for our tolerance for the diversity that the aliens brought with them. No one was worried about offending the aliens and their alternate value system, which was unanimously viewed as horrifying. No one ever deluded oneself into thinking that we could live with them, that there was room on this planet for their way of life and ours.
And here we get to the reason that this latest, most significant, mass sighting happened over America. Not just over America, but over its reputedly toughest state, Texas. Like many Americans, I believe that America was supposed to be the apple of god's eye, the great hope for mankind. This was the intention of our boss, who is also the aliens' boss (since there is but one god who built all the universe, and made us, and aliens, in his image). America was supposed to lead the fight against the earth's mass regression, but the aliens heard that instead, America has joined the program, failing miserably in its task to continue being a beacon of light upon the nations as has its outpost and ally in the earth's darkest, most sinister corner, Israel.
So the aliens got worried. In disbelief, they've been coming to see for themselves what on earth is going on. That the January visit by the alien delegation happened over Texas is related to the fact that god specifically chose his soldier in the White House to come from that state, which he'd thought to be tough and produce tough people who fight for the American Way. Instead, the aliens heard that this great Texan hope for the free world has been taking his shoes off in mosques and making Jews come in through a back door in the pantry at the Annapolis "peace conference" so that Islamic delegations aren't soiled by using the same entrance.
Indeed, the aliens observe us surrendering everything we've built, along with the people who made great contributions to the advancements that placed us so close to finally being eligible for contact from the aliens. What the aliens had to come to see for themselves was whether the foundation is indeed being laid here for another round of Jew extermination. The visitors are coming to confirm rumors that earth is fixing once again to liquidate those who have been disproportionate contributors to the scientific advancement that until now promised to lead, finally, to Contact. The aliens had to see it for themselves, incredulous that these are being traded for bloodthirsty relics, and in disbelief that something so retro could happen in the post-Holocaust era.
Faced with our lack of will to fight back against something the aliens thought they were done hearing about a millennium ago ("jihad"), they are conceivably mobilizing to help us find our feet, and our guts, so that what we are witnessing is an increased number of reconnaissance missions for this task. Which makes their being chased away by the Air Force each time, presumably a protective measure, all the more ironic. For it's not the unknown that we need protecting from, but the known. I, for one, welcome any assistance the aliens can offer.
That we have no righteous warriors among the nations, and that the spineless leaders of the quickly disintegrating free world know this, goes a long way to explain the top-secret nature of the history of UFOs on earth. It's very important for governments to keep UFOs as science fiction, because admitting the existence of aliens, not to mention our need of their help, would be an admission that we're doomed, and we're doomed because of our leaders' inactions. It would be exposed that the plan of the free world is in fact to ally itself with the forces of darkness, and that while our leaders fight against "terror" they have no plan or intention to fight against jihad.
Whereas we could handle past threats such as fascism and communism, it appears that today we indeed are in need of some outside help to combat this borderless and religiously camouflaged threat that means to engulf the entire planet (and, apparently, outer space, which may be what has the aliens freaking out the most). Because of the unique complexity of the menace that Planet Earth faces, it's not unthinkable that god is considering a deus-ex-machina ending, with the machine in this case being quite literally such a spaceship.
Or perhaps the help will be more limited, coming simply in the form of an airlift of the Jews. You can bet that if I'm caught between a UFO and a UAE, I'm taking the UFO. An anal probe, I can live with; a beheading, not so much. Besides, no alien ever called me a kafir.
Soon after winning the 1992 election, Bill Clinton turned to Justice Dept. appointee Webster Hubbell and said, "Webb, I want to know two things who killed J.F.K. and are there UFOs?" Although the typical, and therefore also Clintonian, take on extraterrestrial phenomena is wrong namely to view aliens as adversarial and thus as a potential bridge among earthlings, helping nations set aside their disagreements in order to do battle with a common threat his interest in UFOs was a step in the right direction. If there is any visionary among the current slate of candidates, he or she will recognize that we in the free world have more in common with the advanced, and apparently peaceful, aliens than we do with the human forces of darkness here on earth that our leaders are allying us with. Who among the presidential hopefuls will step up and say "Yes, I will listen to what the aliens have to say; I will work with them in the common struggle of the advanced world that we clearly share, against the forces of regression, theocracy, barbarism and sadism."
Such a candidate may be earth's only hope. But if none among the current crop is he (or she), then there's a spaceship with my name on it.
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"(R)esearchers say don't rush out to stock the refrigerator because the ingredient is present in such small amounts that a person would have to drink more than 17 beers to benefit."
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According to researchers, the hops in beer contains something called "xanthohumol," which affects a particular protein in the prostate. This protein is believed to be a "trigger" for prostate cancer, which (according to the CDC) is the most common form of cancer among men in the US. It's also one of the leading causes of death among men, as well.
The researchers are hopeful that big pharma will now look into synthesizing or reproducing the compound, providing an alternative treatment regimen.
I do have one question, however: how do I sign up to help with this research (the beer drinking part)?
UPDATE: And for what is beer the natural accompaniment?
Apparently, tomatoes contain a naturally occuring antioxidant called "lycopene." The idea is that, in addition to giving the 'maters their beautiful red color, it may provide protection against certain cancers.
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c.) gut cherries.
10.) First Meat Day is the name Brian gives
a.) the day he first kills a foolbird.
b.) the day he kills a deer.
c.) the day is kills a porcupine.
11.)Brian says that there has been a flip of some coin and he is the loser
a.) the plane crashes.
b.) the skunk sprays him and blinds him.
c.) the moose attacks and a tornado hits.
12.)The treasure in Brians words is
a.) the first meat he eats.
b.) the hatchet given to him by his mother.
c.) the survival pack in the tail of the plane.
13.) Brian discards the Emergency Transmitter, because
a.) it makes no sound and he thinks the water has ruined it.
b.) it doesnt know what it is.
c.) he thinks its a radio and there are no radio waves there.
14.)Just as he finds the survival pack,
a.) Brian is attacked by a moose.
b.) a plane lands to rescue him.
c.) Brian is pulled under as the plane shifts.
15.)After his ordeal, Brian learns
a.) to never ride in an airplane again.
b.) that he is a changed, different person.
c.) that the Secret must be told.
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Still coming to terms with the idea of your children flying the nest and coming to study in the big city? Open Days are a fantastic way to see their new home for the next three years. Rather than rushing for the train home or discussing student halls in a cramped car, you could be perusing prospectuses and getting to see all Birmingham has to offer in the comfort of your own serviced apartment.
Staying Cool Birmingham is the perfect base for families wanting to stay in the very heart of the city. Although we aren't able to accommodate students alone (the primary guest must be 21 or over).
With two en-suite bedrooms, you won't be tripping over each other to get ready for the early tours.
There are three Universities in the city and we are within easy reach of all of them. We've popped the details to all the local open days below.
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I read somewhere recently that to be an "expert" on a subject you have to dedicate 10,000 hours to its study and practice.
Hmm. My oldest kid is over six years old. So on his sixth birthday I had logged 52,560 hours of mom-time.
This makes me a parenting expert.
I know my children. I might think on some days that I am at the very least an expert on my OWN children. Then I start to feel smug.
But then they go and surprise me with some new "thing," and I'm back at what feels like square one.
My fourteen-month-old, for example changes his sleep habits so often that the day I think I've got it down, he shifts his bedtime by two hours, or changes when he absolutely must nap. I'm left scratching my head and saying to him, "WHO ARE YOU?? Where did you come from?"
It's a challenge.
And when there are multiple children with vastly different needs, personalities, thoughts, etc, well, it gets real hairy real fast.
Expert? I suppose MAYBE I'll be an expert on my own individual children by the time they are graduating high school, but then they'll go away on missions and change all over again.
It's a real struggle keeping up with these small people with full-sized spirits.
So, I am not an expert. But I try to be attentive. I try to know my kids. I try to be prayerful.
I hope they forgive me for not being an expert by 10,000 hours of parenting.
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We arrived in Miami @ 9:20 am Wednesday morning. The flight from Newark was nothing short of Obnoxious. The mood was set, it wasn't a good one but during are brief stint in Miami International it was about to take a serious shift Which would set the mood for the next nine days. It took us 15 minutes to find a bar that would serve us at 9:35 in the am but during our travels threw the terminals Frequent signs that read Admirals club this way brought new hope to our declaration of war on sobriety. We turned countless corner and then low and behold their she was, like a street harlot and her sweet talking siren-esk accomplice the smokers lounge not far behind. I was scratching my neck like I had bugs under my skin jones'n for a trip to flavor country, so Time Machine hit up the bar while I rekindled my friendship with good old Philip Morris.
The Machine roles up to the Bar gabs a moheto, an elegant choice for the am, and asks the bar Maid politely "Am I aloud to bring this outside into the Smokers lounge?" at which point she leaned forward, pushed her elbows into the bar and her palms into her face as if she was about to proposition him, then says "Honey, This is Miami! You can do what ever the Fuck You Want!"
He then proceeded to join me outside acceding threw the cloud of smoke, Tobacco enthusiasts, and Florida's native fauna, reminiscent of Sogornie Weiver fighting to save a gray back Gorilla. I'm two butts deep and we raise our eyebrows in sketched out amusement as this busted broad sitting to my left revels she's a model/artist/recording artist/philly native/lonely/problematic drinker/has a brother who called her mom a slut and got a shotgun pulled in his face by his step dad and he's a pussy because of it or something like that/ect./ect./ect./ect. to the, I'm assuming, total trash on the other end of her sidekick.
In an effort to avoid sheer classless fever we sucked down the rest of our cigarets and made a b line back to the Admirals club. In approach we were greeted by a Dior sunglass wearing greased up Miamite Fag, that I'm pretty sure wasn't flying but rather trying to pick up young unassuming drunk traveling boys at the local airport bar, who proceeded to try to strike up a conversation with the Machine saying something like" so your back for more" undressing me and him with his eyes the whole time he breathed " and you've brought friends, how delightful." trying not to soak in to much of his over bering efeminine lisp we burn by him too and hit up the bar maid for some more juice. Time takes down a tequila combo meal while I house an extra large bloody mary, then take off back to our terminal in hopes of boarding.
On our Journey back I started to glair at this skantolusly Fab fedora wearing, G N R T shirt rockin, evil eye giving broad. Then realize that she can smell the testosterone coming her way, Which Lohans Siscor Sister obviously didn't not appreciate. We got on the plane, took off, and were on our way to San Jose.
I didn't have much chance to keep a log of the rest of the trip. Our time was mostly consumed by dollar twenty five litters of Beer, Public Nudity, Brushes with the various security Guards, Exotic animal hunts, Redefining the meaning of the fraise Pool Party, Knee Drop after Knee Drop, general debauchery, and photo shoots that will basically ensure I never get elected to public office. So with that said I present you with American Boys in Costa Rica AKA the rest of the trip!
This was one of the more classic moments of the trip, which I believe needs it's own spot light in this post.
So were at this water fall in La Fortuna surrounded by rain forest and Time see these dudes hanging out on a rock. He try's to say whats up but alas they don't speak English. So he proceeds to point to their bannana hamicks, then to his bannana hamick, then to the camra.... Walks up to them, puts his arm around one and, pose for the camra. I guess they didn't know what to make of this so they just went along with it. It was FUCKIN CLASSIC
So were at this water fall in La Fortuna surrounded by rain forest and Time see these dudes hanging out on a rock. He try's to say whats up but alas they don't speak English. So he proceeds to point to their bannana hamicks, then to his bannana hamick, then to the camra.... Walks up to them, puts his arm around one and, pose for the camra. I guess they didn't know what to make of this so they just went along with it. It was FUCKIN CLASSIC


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Kaitoke (sometimes called Pakuratahi), part of Upper Hutt City, is a locality in the southern North Island of New Zealand. It is located at the northern end of the Hutt Valley, 45 kilometres northeast of Wellington City and six kilometres from the northern end of the Upper Hutt urban area. It also lies at the southern end of the Tararua Ranges.
The "Puffer" tramping track providing access into the Tararua Forest Park climbs from Kaitoke onto and along the Marchant Ridge. This ridge is the part of the Tararuas that is prominently visible from Wellington. The Marchant Track has a side track leading to the Tauherenikau Valley. The end of the Marchant Ridge (after four hours of 'up hill, all the way, both ways') leads to Mount Alpha, and onto The Southern Crossing. The entire track to Alpha skirts the Hutt Water Collection Area.
The first Youth Hostel in the North Island was established in the old Ministry of Works barracks at Kaitoke, which were behind the Post Office and alongside the Kaitoke Hall. The Post Office, the Hall, and the Youth Hostel were the only buildings of the settlement. Other facilities include a small airstrip operated by the Upper Valley Gliding Club for the purposes of gliding the area's thermals.[1]
The Pakuratahi River flows through the eastern Kaitoke Basin from its source in the Rimutaka Ranges. The old route of the Wairarapa Line railway, which closed with the opening of the Rimutaka Tunnel in November 1955, ran from Upper Hutt via Maymorn to Kaitoke and around Goat Rock up the Pakuratahi to the Summit, and from there, because of excessive steepness, the Fell mountain railway system was used to aid trains on the Rimutaka Incline between Summit and Cross Creek. This railway is now the Rimutaka Rail Trail. The Hutt River has its source to the north of Kaitoke, and much of the land in the vicinity is used as a water supply reserve. Filming, rafting, swimming and other human activity all take place downstream of the water intake.
The nearby Kaitoke Regional Park was the filming location for exterior shots of Rivendell for the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
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[edit] SourceIntermediate Source:Woods, 1901 January 2011 Original Source: unknown [edit] TextThe original of the following Call was found by Mr. Nicholas Black in looking over the papers of his uncle, the late Thomas Black. It was published in the Charlottesville Chronicle of March 21st, 1879. Ivy Creek, March 29, 1747. |


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McCrimmon jumped straight from the Brandon Wheat Kings of the WCJHL into the Boston Bruins line-up in 1979. He lasted three seasons, until the Bruins netminder, Rogie Vachon, retired. McCrimmon was the necessary collateral used to secure Pete Peeters from the Philadelphia Flyers.
In Philly, McCrimmon continued his solid play, ending each season on the upside of the plus/minus scale. He remained in orange and black until the heavens brought a gift, spiriting him back to Western Canada to play for the Calgary Flames. McCrimmon figures that half the people in Alberta are from his home province of Saskatchewan, so the Flames were the equivalent of a homecoming.
In 1988, McCrimmon came in as the league's plus/minus leader with a +48 reading. He was also chosen as a second-team All-Star. The following season, 1989, brought the summit of his career as the Flames beat the Canadiens, in the Montreal Forum, to take the Stanley Cup.
After the glory of Calgary, McCrimmon continued to perform like a rock for the Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers and finally, the Phoenix Coyotes where he retired from on-ice duty in 1996-97.
McCrimmon has since moved behind the bench as an assistant coach with the New York Islanders before heading back home to coach the Saskatoon Blades of the WHL.


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